The Perfect Match (Blue Heron, #2) by Kristan Higgins Romance Contemporary Releasing: October 29 , 2013 Harlequin HQN Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “This was...what was the word for it? Hell. Yes. This was hell.” Honor Holland has been in love with her best friend Brogan since high school. Her best friend with benefits. When her gynecologist makes some off hand remarks about her age, motherhood, and the fact her eggs aren’t getting in younger, she makes the decision to ask her Continue Reading
Review: Winning the Boss’s Heart by Hayson Manning
Winning the Boss’s Heart by Hayson Manning Released: September 9, 2013 Contemporary Romance Entangled Publishing Reviewed by Mandi This book has a super broody hero and a heroine who likes to give him a hard time. The author executes it quite nicely. Mason’s infant daughter died years ago, devastating him and ending his marriage. He has never quite recovered from the guilt he felt and has submerged himself in work. He flips houses into retreats for high-end clients and his next Continue Reading
Review: The Naughty Corner by Jasmine Haynes
The Naughty Corner by Jasmine Haynes Erotic Romance/Contemporary Paperback, 320 pages October 1, 2013 Berkley Trade Reviewed by Tori Lola Cook never expected to spend her summer watching her nephews while their mother vacations in Europe. Busy with her career, Lola decides to sign them up for football camp in order to get a few hours of peace and quiet every day. Gray Barnett, CEO and divorced father, teaches summer football camp as a way to give back to the community and rebuild Continue Reading
Review: After the Kiss by Lauren Layne
After the Kiss by Lauren Layne (Sex, Love & Stiletto #1) Released: August 26, 2013 Contemporary Romance LoveSwept Reviewed by May Here was a short-term kind of girl begging for a long-term relationship from a long-term kind of guy who wanted a fling. It was movie-worthy. It was laughable. Julie Greene doesn’t do relationships. She is all about the first date. The parties. The glamour. The high off of a first kiss or being so enticing to a man he just must have that second date. What Continue Reading
Review: Sweet by Erin McCarthy
Sweet (True Believers #2) by Erin McCarthy NA Romantic Contemporary October 15, 2013 Intermix Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Never ask someone to tell you who you are. You tell them.” Jessica Sweet doesn’t want to go home to her uber religious parents for the summer but her sublet won’t be available for her to move into for a week. When she is unable to stay with a friend, her nemesis, the sexy cocky Riley Mann, offers her a place to stay with him. Riley has enough going on with Continue Reading
Review: Unbound by Cara McKenna
Unbound by Cara McKenna Released: October 16, 2013 Contemporary Romance Penguin Reviewed by Mandi I’ve said this countless times on this blog but I love Cara McKenna’s voice. She always gives me something different in her stories, and many times they are filled with characters who are not super rich or have wealthy backgrounds or families. They are just people, usually one of them struggling with something quite dark, and we get to see them fall in love and realize what they are Continue Reading
Review: Secret Unleashed by Sierra Dean
Secret Unleashed (Secret McQueen, #6) by Sierra Dean Urban Fantasy E book, 343 pages October 15, 2013 Samhain Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “If I wanted questions going unanswered, I could just watch Lost.” Never has a book been so aptly titled than Secret Unleashed. Number six in Sierra Dean’s dark and wickedly sexy urban fantasy Secret McQueen series. In this installment, Secret learns some secrets that will leave her and readers reeling from the implications. Recap from book Continue Reading
Review: Red Hill by Jamie McGuire
Red Hill by Jamie McGuire Fiction Contemporary/Horror October 1, 2013 Simon & Schuster Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “We were surviving, but everyday felt less like living .” A virus is sweeping the nation, pitting man against man. When a small group of people find themselves at the same abandoned farm house, their fates become intertwined and their survival depends on one another. A woman looking for her daughters, a man trying to protect his only child, and a teenager and her Continue Reading
Review: Deception Cove by Jayne Castle
Deception Cove (Harmony #10/Rainshadow #2) by Jayne Castle Paranormal Romance Paperback, 368 pages August 27, 2013 Jove Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “A second honeymoon on a damned island. What could possibly go wrong?” As a light-talent, Alice North has the rare ability to make things disappear, including herself—a gift that comes in handy during her magic act with her dust bunny Houdini. Business mogul Drake Sebastian is day-blind, since his sight was nearly destroyed in Continue Reading
Review: A Puppy For Christmas by Carole Mortimer, Myrna Mackenzie, and Nikki Logan
A Puppy for Christmas by Carole Mortimer, Myrna Mackenzie, and Nikki Logan Released: October 1, 2013 Contemporary Romance Harlequin Reviewed by May I couldn’t believe that stories with puppies and romance and Christmas had all been combined into one anthology. Happy? Oh yes, it made me very giddy. Overall this is a strong set of stories. While I did not read one, the other two are strong enough for me personally that I still recommend this. In fact, what had me on edge about the first Continue Reading