Lady Scandal by Larissa Lyons Historical Romance April 7, 2011 E Book Literary Madness Reviewed by Tori Juliet Ashland was forced at a young age into marriage with a much older man who was unable to fulfill his marriage bed obligations or much else. When he passes away she is left holding the bag so to speak on lands and a home that need serious repair. Her father threatens to marry her off again but Juliet has decided this time it will be her choice. So she devises a scandalcious Continue Reading
Review: Burning Down the Spouse by Dakota Cassidy
Burning Down The Spouse (Ex Trophy Wife #2) by Dakota Cassidy Contemporary Romance July 5, 2011 Trade Paperback Berkley Trade Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote:” Wow, I sound like one of those commercials where everything is gray and dreary until you take a Xanax, or in this case, a Maxine, whatever it is, and poof, it magically makes your world go all bright with shiny colors again. Well, except for those nagging side effects like anal weeping and eyeball leakage. “ World...meet Continue Reading
Review: Feast by Merrie Destefano
Feast (Harvest Of Dreams, #1) by Merrie Destefano Fantasy Paperback June 28, 2011 Harper Voyager Favorite Quote: ”Rest, my sweet. Save you dreams for me. For no one but me.” Madeline MacFadden (Mad Mac to her fans) spent her summers growing up in Ticonderoga Falls. When her marriage falls apart she brings her son back to this idyllic village in hopes of recapturing the peace it once brought her. But Maddie doesn’t remember everything about Ticonderoga Falls. She doesn’t remember Continue Reading
Review and Giveaway: Dead Iron by Devon Monk
Dead Iron (The Age Of Steam #1) by Devon Monk Steampunk Fantasy July 5, 2011 Paperback Roc Trade Favorite Quote: “I mean to find his killer. And there is nothing that will stand in my way.” Cedar Hunt and his brother Will were cursed with lycanthropy by a Pawnee God to hunt the Strange. Settling in the small town of Hallelujah, Cedar does some small time bounty hunting, haunted with the loss of his humanity and guilt of his brother’s death. When a small boy is stolen in the dead Continue Reading
Review: Spectyr by Philippa Ballantine
Spectyr (Book of the Order #2) by Philippa Ballantine Urban Fantasy June 28th, 2011 Paperback Ace Favorite Quote: “I am inside you. My Sight is yours no matter where I am.” Deacon Sorcha Faris is one of the most powerful deacons in the order. When a message comes to her through the bond she shares with her shape shifting lover, Raed Rossin-Pretender to the Throne, showing him to be in danger, Sorcha jumps at the chance to visit the city of Orithal where she knows he is heading. Continue Reading
Tori’s Top Ten for Friday
10. Since Mandi is on vacation this week; basking in the sun, drinking fruity little drinks with umbrellas, and staring at sexy moobs and I’m stuck here in the rain with no fruity drinks… no sexy moobs… *sigh* I am doing this Friday’s Top Ten. 9. Chloe Neill has posted the first chapter of Drink Deep. SQUEEEE!!! Hard Bitten left us with a HUGE “ I wanna kick someone’s arse” cliffhanger. Clouds are brewing over Cadogan House, and Merit the vampire can't tell if this is Continue Reading
Review: Everdark by Elle Jasper
Everdark (Dark Ink Chronicles #2) by Elle Jasper Urban Fantasy June 7, 2011 Paperback Signet Reviewed by Tori Elle Jasper’s Everdark, the second book in her Dark Ink Chronicles, picks up right where Afterlife leaves off. Riley has been rescued from the Romanian vampire brothers, Victorian and Valerian Acros, but not before she was bitten. She, along with her vampire boyfriend Eli and friends, have been on a secluded island as her body processes the strigoi vampire poison her body Continue Reading
Review: Cold Touch by Leslie Parrish
Cold Touch (Extra Sensory Agents #2) by Leslie Parrish Paranormal Romantic Suspense July 5, 2011 Paperback Signet Eclipse Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Can you take out the angry eyes, Mrs. Potato Head, and just let me talk to you?" When a child’s bones are found boarded up in the wall of a bar, Olivia Wainwright instinctively knows that these are the bones of a child who saved her life 12 years ago. Olivia was kidnapped out of her home and tortured when she was 15 Continue Reading
Review: Beg For Mercy by Jami Alden
Beg For Mercy by Jami Alden June 1, 2011 Romantic Suspense Paperback Forever Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I’ve done everything I can possibly think of to help you in the last 3 years, so the least you can do is give me the god-damned time of day before you let them kill you.” Beg For Mercy revolves around three people bound together by fate-Megan Flynn, Cole Williams and Sean Flynn. Social worker Megan Flynn thought she had met the man of her dreams-Detective Cole Williams. Continue Reading
Review: The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong
The Gathering (Darkness Rising #1) by Kelley Armstrong YA Paranormal Hardback April 12, 2011 Harper Collins Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Oh my God. What are you guys? Twelve?” “No. Just really, really, immature.” This is my first time reading Kelley Armstrong’s YA. Completely character driven, we watch and learn with our protagonist, Maya, about the small research town she lives in and the slow unraveling of it’s secrets. Maya is a great heroine in that she is Continue Reading