Ripped by Sarah Morgan (Miller Sisters #1) Released: November 26, 2013 Contemporary Novella Harlequin Reviewed by Mandi Favorite Quote: Buttons skittered and bounced over the pale wooden floor, but I was too busy looking at the smooth, powerful contours of his chest through the shadowing of dark hair. Oh, Santa, Santa, what have you brought me this year…. Man I love this book. It’s a quick read but has a perfect blend of sexual tension, laugh out loud scenes and romance. Continue Reading
Review: Rocky Mountain Freedom by Vivian Arend
Rocky Mountain Freedom (Six Pack Ranch #6) Contemporary Romance (m/m/f) Released: November 19, 2013 Samhain Reviewed by Helyce Let us first take a moment to drool over this fantastic cover! This is truly cowboy perfection. I began my stalking campaign for an ARC of this book almost as soon as I heard that book 6 of the Six Pack Ranch series was to be Travis’ book. You see, this author, over the course of the previous 5 books has hinted at things only to suddenly throw in a wrench and Continue Reading
Review: The Tin Box by Kim Fielding
The Tin Box by Kim Fielding Romance Contemporary/ MM E book, 210 pages September 20, 2013 Dreamspinner Press Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “But if I were cured I would not love you any longer, would not long for your voice and your touch. And that is a loss I can bear much less than the loss of my freedom.” William Lyon has spent his entire life bending to the demands of others. When he can no longer keep up the facade, he finds himself divorce and in the small town of Jelley Continue Reading
Review: Sleigh Bells in the Snow by Sarah Morgan
Sleigh Bells in the Snow by Sarah Morgan (O'Neil Brothers #1) Released: October 29, 2013 Contemporary Romance Harlequin Reviewed by May Snow Crystal, Vermont is the quintessential Vermont small town that I imagine when I think of that beautiful state. It boasts breathtaking fall scenery, skiing, and a small caring community who loves calling it home. The problem is, the resort is losing money and it won’t be long before the O’Neil family loses their businesses and family Continue Reading
Review: Ethan in Gold by Amy Lane
Ethan in Gold by Amy Lane (Johnnies #3) M/M Contemporary Romance Released: October 4, 2013 Dreamspinner Press Reviewed by Helyce When Evan (Ethan) Costa was a little boy, he was the victim of a sex act that changed everything that he’d known up until that point in his young life. His mother, unable to accept or deal with the incident, becomes a cold, unloving woman, and Evan’s siblings not knowing any better follow her example. Evan grows up, hungry for human touch and as he enters Continue Reading
Review: Heating up the Holidays Anthology
Heating up the Holidays Anthology Released: October 28, 2013 Contemporary Romance Loveswept Reviewed by Mandi Play With Me by Lisa Renee Jones I DNF’d this story. Hero is this cold businessman. Heroine is hired as his assistant. I did not like at all. I wish this story wasn’t the first in the anthology. Oh well. Snowfall by Mary Ann Rivers. Blurb: Jenny Wright can’t get enough of her erotic conversations with someone she knows only as “C.” Flirting online helps Jenny Continue Reading
Review: The Wicked Wallflower by Maya Rodale
The Wicked Wallflower by Maya Rodale (Bad Boys and Wallflowers #1) Released: October 29, 2013 Historical Avon Reviewed by May This story opens as Lady Emma is coming out into society and discovering that London society is just as cruel as her finishing school. The girl who bullied her there is on the scene and making sure her nickname “the buxom bluestocking” is known to everyone, as well as making sure Emma and her friends quickly get placed as the least likely girls. To get in Continue Reading
Review: Archangel’s Legion by Nalini Singh
Archangel’s Legion (Guild Hunter #6) by Nalini Singh PNR Releases: October 29, 2013 Jove Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “As you dream, know that you are loved.” When angels begin falling from the sky and supposedly disease immune vampires are dying, the archangel of Manhattan and his consort race to find out who or what is attacking their city and why. The stage is set for war as angelic powers evolve and one unknown enemy’s goal to subjugate Raphael and all whom he holds Continue Reading
Mandi’s New Favorite Book–The Last Hour of Gann by R. Lee Smith
It was her last chance: Amber Bierce had nothing left except her sister and two tickets on Earth’s first colony-ship. She entered her Sleeper with a five-year contract and the promise of a better life, but awakened in wreckage on an unknown world. For the survivors, there is no rescue, no way home and no hope until they are found by Meoraq—a holy warrior more deadly than any hungering beast on this hostile new world…but whose eyes show a different sort of hunger when he looks at her. It was Continue Reading
Review: Darkness Rises by Dianne Duvall
Darkness Rises by Diane Duvall (Immortal Guardians #4) Paranormal Romance October 1, 2013 Zebra Reviewed by Helyce Krysta has been hunting vampires for over six years. Her special ability to read the aura of a vampire gives her the upper hand when fighting. She’s got it down, playing the victim, drawing the vamps in and then turning the tables and fighting to the death. But one night, when she is over powered, a handsome stranger comes to her rescue. She’s sure he’s a vampire, but Continue Reading