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
Review: Getting Rowdy by Lori Foster
Getting Rowdy by Lori Foster Love Undercover #3 Contemporary Romance September 24, 2013 Harlequin Reviewed by Helyce Charismatic bar owner Rowdy Yates isn't the kind of man women say no to. So when he approaches waitress Avery Mullins, he fully expects to get her number. However, the elusive beauty has her reasons for keeping her distance-including a past that might come back to haunt them both. Avery spends her nights working for tips...and trying to forget the secret Rowdy is Continue Reading
Review: Uncommon Passion by Anne Calhoun
Uncommon Passion by Anne Calhoun Released: September 3, 2013 Erotic Contemporary Romance Berkley Reviewed by Mandi Favorite Quote: “What is this?” she asked. She wanted to rub up against him. She wanted to see him, touch his bare skin. She wanted… He gave a low laugh she felt rumble in his chest as much as heard in her ears. “Chemistry,” he said, and lifted his head to look at her. “This is some kind of wicked chemistry.” This is a book about a woman who wants to feel and a Continue Reading
Review: The Protected by Shiloh Walker and Giveaway
The Protected Sept. 3 2013 AN ASSIGNMENT SHE CAN’T REFUSE Agent Vaughnne MacMeans would do anything to avoid setting foot in Orlando again. But her new assignment, keeping tabs on a psychic kid who may or may not be in danger, is forcing her right back to the city where her sister was murdered. And the Special Agent in Charge isn’t taking no for an answer. AN ATTRACTION HE CAN’T DENY Protecting the boy Alex is a priority for Gus. Gus may not understand the boy’s “gift” but he Continue Reading
Review: Styxx by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Styxx (Dark Hunter #23) by Sherrilyn Kenyon Paranormal Romance September 3, 2013 St. Martin's Press Reviewed by Tori Just when you thought doomsday was over... Centuries ago Acheron saved the human race by imprisoning an ancient evil bent on absolute destruction. Now that evil has been unleashed and it is out for revenge. As the twin to Acheron, Styxx hasn’t always been on his brother’s side. They’ve spent more centuries going at each other’s throats than protecting their backs. Continue Reading