10. I love shoes, but I need a shirt that says, I <3 Books, Booze and Boys with Tattoos. Ha! But THIS shirt is awesome. 9. The cover is now out for K.A. Mitchell’s August release, But My Boyfriend Is. No blurb yet and yes I know August is so far away. This is #4 in her Florida series – which can be read as stand alones, but I adore this series and if you haven’t read it yet, get going! I suggest starting with Collision Course (book #2), then read No Souvenirs, and then go back to book #1, Continue Reading
Review: Temptation Rising by A.C. Arthur
Temptation Rising by A.C. Arthur (The Shadow Shifters #1) Paranormal Romance March 27, 2012 St. Martin’s Reviewed by Mandi For the past two years, Kalina Harper has been dreaming about a terrifying night she lived through. Caught in an alley in Washington, DC with a man about to do her harm, a huge cat comes to her rescue, killing the man and allowing Kalina to run free. Thinking a huge cat saving her is bizarre, she has tried to live her life not thinking about that night. Working Continue Reading
Guest Review: Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright by Justine Saracen
Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright by Justine Saracen Historical/Gay & Lesbian March 13, 2012 Bold Strokes Books Guest Reviewed by Jill Sorenson. I requested this book from NetGalley because the description included the words “lesbian” and “romance.” What I found in the pages was so much more than I expected, but I came away feeling unsatisfied. Katja Sommers, the heroine, is a young lady who works on a film crew in Nazi Germany. The crew is collecting war propaganda footage for Continue Reading
Revenge Sex and Romance
I've read two books in a row this week that features revenge sex – where the heroine feels jilted by the hero for a past wrong deed and decides to get revenge by sleeping with him, and then dumping him once he falls in love. But of course, she sleeps with him and she falls in love, making things very complicated, yet not really feeling very revengeful. I’ve come to realize, I just don’t like this set-up. It’s fun at first because the heroine gets that evil glint in her eye. She is super pissed Continue Reading
Review: Playing For Keeps by Liz Matis
Playing for Keeps by Liz Matis Contemporary Romance November 30, 2011 Self Published Reviewed by Mandi Samantha Jameson has had a crush on Ryan Terell for a long time. Through college, she kept the football star in her sights, but nothing ever came of her attraction to him. Samantha starts her post-college life as a hard-core journalist, traveling to the middle east to cover the war. After a brutal time, where she is kidnapped for three days she is now back in the states, and has Continue Reading
Review: Fortune Hunter by Ava March
Fortune Hunter by Ava March (Brook Street #2) Historical M/M Romance April 9, 2012 Carina Press Reviewed by Mandi Julian Parker has spent the last 10 years in Philadelphia. Born into the "other" Parker family, his parents were not the wealthy, socially acceptable Parkers that the London ton loves and adores. His family had problems with scandal and debt, and escaped overseas when he was a young man. All Julian wants is to marry a wealthy heiress so he can be in society's Continue Reading
Giveaway: Shadow Visions by Gabriella Hewitt
A shadow warrior on a mission, Manuel must track down a demon who is sacrificing women marked with hummingbird tattoos. He is in danger of losing his humanity to his eagle spirit until he comes across Ixa Reyes, a beautiful San Diego detective working on the same case, who also bears the mark of the Aztec sun god. She is his salvation and redemption from a past filled with failure. Only she wants nothing to do with him or her heritage. When a demon kidnaps her grandfather, the wind god, they Continue Reading
AAD Spotlight: Mia Watts
Our Authors After Dark 2012 Spotlight continues with the irreplaceable and incorrigible Mia Watts. Mia Watts. Ms. Watts likes to walk on the wild side with her very sexy and highly charged erotic MM romances that encompass all aspects of erotic sexual play. Mia makes her home in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she divides her time between a job and spying on people. Mia enjoys long walks in the park, daisies, dancing in the snow...(Delete prior sentence, meant for personal ad)...Forever searching Continue Reading
Review: Ocean’s Touch by Denise Townsend
Ocean’s Touch by Denise Townsend Erotic Paranormal Romance December 27, 2011 Samhain Reviewed by Mandi Meredith finds herself in a rut, lost after her husband’s death. A very wealthy professor, after he dies of lupus, she is left to run the very many charities he was a part of. Meredith is not sure of who she is anymore. She wears unfashionable clothes, keeps to herself, and is quite lonely. But all that starts to change when a mysterious man walks up to her on the beach one night. Continue Reading
Review: Twisted by Laura Griffin
Twisted by Laura Griffin (Tracers #5) Romantic Suspense April 17, 2012 Pocket Reviewed by Mandi After a gruesome murder in the small town of Waynesboro, Texas, detective Allison Doyle is very disturbed. Things like this don’t happen in her town. At the age of 27, she is young to have made detective, whether it is because she is one of the few females on the police force or her brains, she doesn’t worry about it too much. All signs point to the ex-boyfriend, who had been served with a Continue Reading