Galley Talk

Brianna Yamashita, PR manager, Dorchester Books

by Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 5/15/2006

During my tenure as a PW reviews editor, I witnessed a handful of romance authors "graduate" from paperback to hardcover—some more successfully than others. Kenyon's previous paranormal romances have had strong showings, but people are sure to wonder whether her paperback fans will storm stores for her hardcover debut, Dark Side of the Moon (St. Martin's, June). Anyone who's read Kenyon's romances featuring her vampire-slaying Dark-Hunter heroes knows the answer is "yes." Dark Side of the Moon is one of those rare books that will leave you spouting clichés— "It's a real page-turner!"; "I read it in one sitting!"—and, in my case, make my friends wonder how I ever got a job in publishing with language so eloquent. While paranormal romances are a hot ticket now, with authors like Kenyon, Christine Feehan and Marjorie M. Liu crowding the bestseller charts, Kenyon's larger-than-life characters and vivid world-building spell "success" for Dark Side of the Moon. It was fun, fast and very entertaining.