The Valkyrie’s Guardian by Moriah Densley Paranormal Romance Released: October 22, 2012 Crimson Romance Reviewed by May I feel like a freak show. It’s definitely not that, baby. More like a princess on a ship with a bunch of horny pirates. Cassie is special, and yet she’s also weak. Not being immortal combined with no super strong powers makes her an extra-sentient that needs protecting. Jack descended from an ancient line of kilt-wearing, bagpipe-playing, Gaelic-speaking Scottish Continue Reading
Review: Kissing Under the Mistletoe by Marina Adair
Kissing Under the Mistletoe by Marina Adair (St. Helena Vineyard #1) Holiday Romance Released: October 16, 2012 Montlake Reviewed by May This book opens with Regan Martin starting (yet another) new job, and seeing the man who has made it his mission in life to ruin her career for the last six years – Gabe DeLuca. She vandalizes his car – throwing the town’s Christmas figurines at it, breaking windows, and smearing a gallon of Rocky Road ice cream all over Gabe and his Hummer. Gabe Continue Reading
Review: Lord of Temptation by Lorraine Heath
Lord of Temptation by Lorraine Heath (The Lost Lords of Pembrook #2) Released: September 25, 2012 Historical Romance Avon Reviewed by May He didn’t want to be here. He didn’t’ want this. The captain’s huge paw of a hand landed on his shoulder with enough weight to jar him. “I’m called Marlow Have you a name, lad?” “Lo-“ He stopped. He couldn’t tell anyone that he was Lord Tristan Easton, second in line for the dukedom of Keswick. Until they reclaimed their birthright he was only Continue Reading
Review: Better than Chocolate by Sheila Roberts
Better than Chocolate by Sheila Roberts Released: September 25, 2012 Contemporary Romance Harlequin Reviewed by May This is the story of how the owners of Sweet Dreams chocolate company saved it after their new step-father was chosen to run the company, then promptly ran it into the ground in record time. Now the man is dead, and the wake of his financial responsibility is left to Samantha – the eldest sister. With a bank manager demanding payment on her loan and angry unpaid Continue Reading
Review: Howl For It by Shelly Laurenston and Cynthia Eden
Released: August 28, 2012 Paranormal Romance Brava Reviewed by May A pair of paranormal romance novellas, each around 150 pages long and each features a wolf shifter, finding true love, and of course trouble with humans. For me the reading experience was very uneven - I adored the one story and merely tolerated the other. Like a Wolf With a Bone by Shelly Laurenston “Are you talking about condoms?” Lord, he looked absolutely mortified. “Yeah. Condoms.” “It’s ok to mention Continue Reading
Review: Return of the Viscount by Gayle Callen
Released: July 31, 2012 Historical Romance Avon Reviewed by May After her father’s death Cecilia Mallory is left to care for her brother (the new Earl), manage the vast estate, and is unable to access her funds for several more years – unless she marries and can be free of her guardian. Desperate for a solution, and unwilling to sacrifice her freedom or put her funds or fate into a man’s hands, she proposes to Sergeant Michael Blackthorne. He is a man she knows only through letters, a Continue Reading
Review: Together for Christmas by Lisa Plumley
Together For Christmas by Lisa Plumley Released: October 2, 2012 Contemporary Romance Zebra Reviewed by May Kismet: a place that promised candlelit ice-skating sessions, and official Christmas parade, a fanciful holiday-light house tour, sleigh rides with genuine jingle bells, a Santa Claus-lookalike contest (in the town square, right next to the community’s fifty-foot decorated Noble fir tree), and a weekly cookie-decorating get together and jamboree. It was all so flipping wholesome Continue Reading
Review: Yesterday’s Heroes by Heather Long
Yesterday’s Heroes Heather Long Paranormal (Superhero) Romance Released: September 17, 2012 Carina Press Reviewed by May Favorite Quote: Pain-stiffened muscles slowed her, but she had spent too long training, too many hours preparing for danger to be caught with her pants down. Despite not having any pants on. Michael Hunter and his team were sent back in time, sent to prevent events that caused their world to become one without super heroes. One without hope. A world not worth Continue Reading
[May’s] smexy top 10 – October 5
Yeah that's right. May here, I'm taking over for Mandi this week because she's off drinking and riding roller coasters. Or so she says. I have theories floating that she's actually taken off (greedy whoreo that she is) on the back of Tack's motorcycle, or perhaps she's down in NOLA working on the new Magic Mike bar with Channy... Whatever she's up to - you know it's durty and fun - but don't worry. I've got you covered with this week's top 10. 10. Golden balls (aka Beckham) was out Continue Reading
Review: Mate Claimed by Jennifer Ashley
Mate Claimed by Jennifer Ashley (Shifters Unbound #4) Paranormal Romance Released: October 2, 2012 Berkley Reviewed by May Favorite quote: His cock rose with delighted memory, and Eric gave it a calming stroke. Iona is a half shifter living without a collar that is reaching her maturity, aka the time when she’s in heat and is going to want to find a guy to nonstop mate with. Eric is the alpha of the local shifter town, he can smell the heat on her, and he’d like to get on that. Iona has Continue Reading