It is fun when Mary Balogh has a new series out because they usually all come out within a couple of months of each other. I loved the first book in the series so much, First Comes Marriage, that I just went right on to the second.Baron Montford, Jasper to his friends and well known rake, makes a wager one drunken night - he will seduce and bed Miss Katherine Huxtable. He figured it would be more challenging to seduce an innocent virgin, and he really couldn't think of another wager that he Continue Reading
Archives for April 2009
Sneak Peek at True Blood Season Two
One of my favorite shows on TV, True Blood on HBO, based on Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series, starts up again June 14th. Here is a little preview. I've only read the first three books in the series but I am definitely going to finish it before season two starts. As with any book that is turned into a television series or movie, things are changed but I think they did a pretty good job with sticking to the overall plot with the first season. I'm pretty sure I know what hunts down Continue Reading
First Comes Marriage
Viscount Lyngate, also known as Elliott Wallace, finds himself at a country assembly in the small town of Throckbridge, where he has caught the attention of every single girl in town. Of course he wants none of it, he wants to get along with his business and back to fashionable society as soon as possible. Vanessa Huxtable, second oldest of four siblings, and recently widowed decides Viscount Lyngate is most disagreeable, and somewhat of a snob, but she makes the best of it when she is forced Continue Reading
Immortal Warrior
Immortal Warrior - Lisa HendrixBook one in Immortal Brotherhood SeriesBook summary:Ivar Graycloak is a brave warrior, a man known for his strength and integrity. He is also a man with a terrible secret. Long ago he was part of a Viking crew cursed by an evil sorceress to live for eternity as were-creatures. An eagle by day and a man by night, Ivar has lived a solitary existence for over two centuries. Then the king orders him to marry.Lady Alaida is everything a man could want in a Continue Reading
Win an ARC of Branded by Fire!
Go to Nalini Singh's web journal for a chance to win an ARC of Branded By Fire! I am so excited for this book. This will be book six in her Psy/Changeling series - featuring Mercy and Riley...both shape shifters - one a leopard, one a wolf. She is one of my absolute favorite authors..this book can not get here soon enough! Continue Reading
Passion Unleashed Giveaway
Head on over to Yankee Romance Reviewers to have a chance to win Passion Unleashed - Larissa Ione. Book blurb:Serena Kelley is an archaeologist and treasure hunter-and a woman with a secret. Since she was seven, she's been the keeper of a powerful charm that grants her health and immortality . . . as long as she stays a virgin. But Serena isn't all that innocent. And when a dangerously handsome stranger brings her to the brink of ecstasy, she wonders if she's finally met the one man she cannot Continue Reading
New Lover Avenged Review
All About Romance has just put their review up of JR Ward's Lover Avenged.Err...Chandler Bing? uh oh :) Continue Reading
Once Bitten – Kalayna Price
This book came highly recommended from J. Kaye's Book Blog. I am always looking for new authors to read, and this is the very first book by Kalayna Price.Kita Nekai, a shape shifter (her form - calico cat) from the realm of Firth finds herself in a town called Haven after being on the run from Firth for the past five years. Hunters have been dispersed to bring her home and after nearly dying at the hands of one, she wakes up underground - turned to a vampire. The man that finds her and changes Continue Reading
Got Milk?
The new "Got Milk" campaign just got verra verra smexy. Continue Reading
Quick Lisa Kleypas Note
Lisa Kleypas has a new interview up with BordersMedia talking about her latest book Smooth Talking Strangers. This is a contemporary romance of hers. I have yet to read one...I have Blue-Eyed Devil in my tbr pile. I LOVE her historical romances, especially the Wallflowers and her latest series, the Hathaways. Seduce Me At Sunrise, the second in the Hathaway series has just been nominated for a RITA and is one of my favorite books. I really loved Kev and Win - when he came and "kidnapped" her Continue Reading