**SPOILERS** **SPOILERS** **SPOILERS**I'm talking about it all - here and in comments..so please don't read if you have not read this book!I couldn't decide if I should talk spoilers or not, but Karen Moning has a big spoiler thread going on her message boards, so I decided to let it spill. But this is your final warning!!First of all - I loved the book. We got some answers, and of course lots of questions remain!! Let me just say that my favorite line from the entire series, which is in this Continue Reading
The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker – Leanna Renee Hieber Review
The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker - Leanna Renee Hieber August 25, 2009 Paperback, 320 pages Leisure Books Leanna Renee Hieber and I have something in common - a love for the smexy Alan Rickman. I have a picture of him here on my blog, as one of my smexy men, and when she saw it, she knew this book was for me. She emailed me and said the hero of her book, Alexi Rychman, is intentionally Rickman-esque, she even dedicated the book to him. Of course, this excited me greatly - Continue Reading
Passionate – Anthea Lawson
(Don't even get me started - this book deserves a cover rich and exotic, not standard naked man. Trust me, just turn the page and start reading:)Passionate - Anthea LawsonOctober 1, 2008Historical Romance320 pages, paperbackZebraJames Huntingdon does not have a great fortune, being left little when his father died and was taken in by his uncle. His grandfather had made an important botanical discovery in Tunisia but was unable to bring back a specimen. In his will he states that whichever Continue Reading
The Sweet Scent of Blood – Suzanne McLeod
(Nice sophisticated cover!)Genny works for Spellcrackers.com, an agency owned by witches that literally cracks the unwanted spells for their clients. Genny is Fae, she is able to absorb any spell, but she is unable to cast even the easiest of spells. She is also part vampire and she struggles with her bloodlust. Witches and vampires are mortal enemies so she must keep her vampire side a secret.She works with Finn, another fae, a satyr to be more precise (he even comes with smexy horns) and he Continue Reading
Branded by Fire – Nalini Singh
(I think this is one of the better covers in this series.) Branded by Fire - Nalini SinghJuly 7, 2009Paperback, 368 pagesBerkleyParanormal RomanceRiley Kincaid is the Snowdancer's most senior lieutenant. He is calm, practical, but very dominant. He has spent most of his life raising his younger brother and sister after his parents died. His younger sister Brenna, who was the heroine in Caressed by Ice, was kidnapped by a Psy and almost killed before being rescued by himself and fellow shifters. Continue Reading
Eve of Destruction – S.J. Day
Eve of Destruction - S.J. DayJune 2, 2009Paperback, 432 pagesTor BooksUrban FantasyWhile I enjoyed the first book in the series, Eve of Darkness, this second book in the series is where S.J. Day hits her stride.The book starts with Eve waking up after her terrifying ordeal at the end of book one. In summary, she fought an infernal dragon and lost. Thankfully, when you have Cain and Abel on your side, you get a second chance.Eve gets sent to a Mark boot camp so she can have official training with Continue Reading
Somebody Killed His Editor – Josh Lanyon
(These dudes need to hit a tanning bed and Josh Lanyon's name needs to be BIGGER)Christopher Holmes, a 40 yr old writer who had early success in his career has recently been told his "Miss Butterwith Mystery Series", featuring an elderly sleuth and her cat, has reached it's prime and it is time to switch it up. His agent, Rachael, sends him to a writing convention to meet with his editor, Stephen Krass, to pitch him new ideas for a series, ideas he has yet to come up with. He starts his Continue Reading
The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie – Jennifer Ashley
The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie - Jennifer AshleyApril 28, 2009Paperback, 320 pagesHistorical RomanceLord Ian Mackenzie has spent his teenage years in an insane asylum. He never looks you straight in the eye. He is prone to fit of rages, does not know how to joke, everything must be spoken literal. He remembers everything with incredible accuracy. Sounds like your dream guy, right? No? Keep reading...The moment he sees Beth Ackerly he wants her. Plain and simple. There are no illusions. He Continue Reading
Street Magic – Caitlin Kittredge
(This is not how I picture Jack and Pete in my head..just sayin')Street Magic - Caitlin KittredgeJune 2, 2009Paperback, 352 pagesMy Rating: 8When Pete Caldecott was sixteen years old, she watched her sister's boyfriend, Jack Winter, conjure up a demon and die at the hands of it. Many years later, Jack comes back to life. Ok, he really didn't die that fateful day, although that is what Pete has believed. Yes, Pete is a girl, her full name I am not going to tell you. I will give you a hint, her Continue Reading
Wicked Lovely – Melissa Marr
Wow. That is really the only coherent word my brain can come up with to describe this book. I am now a Melissa Marr fangirl. Keenan, The Summer King and head of all of the summer fey, needs to find his match, the Summer Queen. For centuries he has been searching for her to help bring warmth and summer back to all the faeries that belong to him. Keenan's mother is the Winter Queen, a cold hearted ruler that is stronger than Keenan and as a result her coldness has been slowly integrating into Continue Reading