The Darkest Torment by Gena Showalter Series: Lords of the Underworld (LOTU), #12 Paranormal Romance May 31, 2016 Harlequin Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “...I’m a girl and girls are made of...” “Sugar and spice,” he interjected, remembering the rhyme. “Wrong. Girls are made of vodka and ice. The two combined increase our tolerance for masculine nonsense.” Driven to his death by the demon of Distrust, Baden spent centuries in purgatory. Now he's back, but at what cost? Continue Reading
Review: Marrying Winterborne by Lisa Kleypas
Marrying Winterborne by Lisa Kleypas (The Ravenels #2) Released: May 31, 2016 Historical Romance Avon Reviewed by Mandi I enjoyed this book more than book one, so yay for that! We meet Rhys and Helen in book (although this can be read as a standalone). They fall in love in book one, they get engaged in book one. What's left for this book, right? Well, at the end of book one (omg I'll stop saying "book one") they have a fight and they break up. This is where book two starts. Rhys was Continue Reading
Review: Torn by Cynthia Eden
Torn by Cynthia Eden Series: LOST, #4 Romance Suspense May 31, 2016 Avon Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “If I have you...I have everything.” PARTNERS . . . FRIENDS . . . Forensic anthropologist Victoria Palmer has always been better with the dead than the living. Shutting down her emotions, she lets few people in. But then Victoria’s latest investigation takes her and agent Wade Monroe to Savannah, Georgia. Handsome, dangerous, and more than ready to play dirty on any case, Continue Reading
Review: Deep Dark by Laura Griffin
Deep Dark by Laura Griffin (Tracers #10) Romantic Suspense Released: May 24, 2016 Pocket Books Reviewed by Mandi I'll say it again - I love this romantic suspense series by Laura Griffin. So well done. Deep Dark has a thirty-nine year old homicide detective hero and a twenty-four year old cybercrime hacker - and their chemistry is soooo good. When a girl who was just starting out in life is found horribly murdered in her home, police want to find the murderer fast. But there is no Continue Reading
Review: Showmance by L.H. Cosway
Showmance by L.H. Cosway Romance Contemporary May 16, 2016 Self Published Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to just love and be loved in return.” Fans are sure to notice the deviation in plot and characterization that Cosway takes in her latest endeavor. Showmance is a sweet, sexy, mildly angst driven romance that perfectly showcases the allure of opposite attraction by slowing building a relationship between an introvert and a romantic. Mild Continue Reading
Review: Midnight Quest by Lisa Marie Rice
Midnight Quest by Lisa Marie Rice (Men of Midnight #4.5) Released: April 19, 2016 Novella Self Published Reviewed by Mandi This is a follow-up novella to Midnight Vengeance, so the couple has already had their HEA. I've read Midnight Vengeance, but I don't remember it, and this still read really easy as a stand-alone. I love Lisa Marie Rice books. They always have super alpha, over-protective heroes who are obsessively in love with the heroine. Over the top in love - it's fun. Jacko Continue Reading
Review: Divine Descendant by Jenna Black
Divine Descendant by Jenna Black Series: Nikki Glass #4 Urban Fantasy May 16, 2016 Pocket Star Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I’m surrounded by the dead in the middle of the night hoping to pull a previously unknown power out of my ass. What could possibly go wrong?” Private Investigator and immortal descendant of Artemis, Nikki Glass, learns a very valuable lesson in vengeance when a group of fertility goddesses decide to strike. The lives and loves of the gods and goddesses Continue Reading
Review: The Rule Book by Jennifer Blackwood
The Rule Book by Jennifer Blackwood (The Rule Breakers #1) Released: May 9, 2016 Contemporary Romance Entangled Reviewed by Mandi Favorite Quote: "Screw the rule book. Maybe he could even smack your ass with it." What a cute book! Lainey Taylor is fresh out of college and starting her first job as a second-assistant to Brogan Starr, CEO of Starr Media - a company that manages social media platforms for the rich and famous. Besides the mundane errands of getting coffee and filing, she Continue Reading
Review: The Devil You Know by Jo Goodman
The Devil You Know by Jo Goodman (McKenna Brothers #2) Released: May 3, 2016 Western Historical Berkley Reviewed by Mandi I really enjoyed the previous book in this series (both are stand alones) so I was excited to pick this one up. Jo Goodman writes very well-developed characters, and Willa and Israel carried this story. I'll start by saying, this is not an action-packed book. There are some secrets, a little intrigue, and some scuffles with neighbors, but otherwise, not a lot Continue Reading
Review: The Voodoo Killings by Kristi Charish
The Voodoo Killings by Kristi Charish Series: A Kincade Strange Novel, #1 Urban Fantasy May 10, 2016 Vintage Canada Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Look kid, I’m not raising a zombie so you can send it to buy beer.” Kincade Strange is a 27-year-old freelance voodoo practitioner living in Seattle, WA. Hard-pressed for funds and pulling seances for bored, rich kids, Kincade finds herself in the middle of a mystery when she happens upon a zombie who was a famous artist while alive Continue Reading