By Midnight (A Midnight Breed Novel #8) by Lara Adrian Paranormal Romance September 28, 2010 Paperback, 400 Pages Dell Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I may grow to like being a cyborg.” When ex police officer Jenna Darrow first awakes, she doesn’t remember much of what happened except for an unspeakable horror who kept repeating the same sentence over and over to her, “Do you choose life or death?” Though she is alive, she has been changed in ways she cannot even begin to Continue Reading
Review: Forbidden by Christina Phillips
Forbidden by Christina Phillips Historical Paranormal Romance September 7, 2010 Trade Paperback, 324 Pages Berkley Heat Reviewed by Mandi Favorite Quote: Gods, if he didn’t get relief soon, his balls would explode. Carys, a powerful Druid can’t help herself as she watches a very sexy Roman centurion, her enemy, bathe in a waterfall. She is mesmerized by him, although she she thinks she is being sly hiding, he discovers her watching. It is lust at first sight for both of them, Continue Reading
Review: Iron and Hemlock by Autumn Dawn
Iron and Hemlock (Gargoyle Series) by Autumn Dawn July 26, 2010 Paranormal Romance E-Book Note: This book is also part of The Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance Anthology. Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: He moved closer as he spoke, trailing the rose over Jordan’s calf, “I’ve been very naughty.” Jordon was just minding her own business when in the blink of an eye a car attempts to run her down and lightening strikes to send her back in time. Trapped in the past being pursued by a Continue Reading
Review: Healer’s Choice by Jory Strong
Healer’s Choice by Jory Strong (Ghostland #3) Urban Fantasy September 7, 2010 Trade Paperback, 384 Pages Berkley Trade Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I’ll be your first. And your last.” Rebekka is a healer who lives in the red zone; a district filled with shape shifter brothels. Having grown up in this violent and oppressive atmosphere, her life has never been easy but she cannot abandon the outcasts who ply their trade with often disastrous results. With just a Continue Reading
Review: Wildthorn by Jane Eagland
Wildthorn by Jane Eagland YA Historical Fiction September 6, 2010 Hardcover, 359 Pages Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: "The light goes out in the room. I’m in the dark again. The fear is waiting.” Louisa never imagined that a simple trip to her new position as a governess would end with her institutionalized against her will. As she is stripped of her possessions and identity, Louisa attempts to maintain her sanity all while trying to Continue Reading
Review: Cross Your Heart by Michele Bardsley
Cross Your Heart (A Broken Heart Novel #7) by Michele Bardsley Paranormal Romance September 7, 2010 Paperback, 320 Pages Signet Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: "Jesus. That vocabulary of yours makes me hot...but that snooty tone of yours is what really gets me hard." While Elizabeth Bretton didn't expect to live forever; she did expect to live for awhile. After her husband’s death, she comes home to the family estate in Broken Heart, Oklahoma only to be Continue Reading
Review: Fallen Embers Lauri J. Owen
Fallen Embers (Book 1 of the Ember Series) by Lauri J. Owen Urban Fantasy September 1, 2010 Paperback, 384 Pages Pearlsong Press Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: "Fury consumed her, comforted her, caressed her. The fire was her heart and it was burning. She wanted to strike out, ease her fear... but she couldn't seem to remember anything but the rage." A violent attack leaves a young attorney and her nephew in an alternate time ruled by a class of decadent Continue Reading
Review: Naked by Megan Hart
Naked by Megan Hart August 1, 2010 Contemporary Romance Paperback, 384 Pages Spice Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “And yes, I was staring at his ass, because, please God, never let knowing it’s stupid get in the way of ogling a fine rear end.” Olivia Hart is at a party that her gay ex fiancée is throwing with his lover. When she spies Alex Kennedy across the room she never imagines that beautiful sensual man could be hers. When her ex, Patrick, warns her off Alex saying, Continue Reading
Review: Chosen by Jeanne C. Stein
Chosen (Anna Strong #6) by Jeanne C. Stein Urban Fantasy August 31, 2010 Paperback, 304 Pages Ace Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: A part of me is devastated by what I am capable of. At what I’ve done. A part of me knows my true nature. I can’t fight it. I’m not sure I want to anymore. It's been a year since bounty hunter Anna Strong became a vampire, but she is about to discover that her greatest powers have yet to be unleashed. Though Anna has become use to the idea of Continue Reading
Review: Married with Zombies by Jesse Petersen
Married With Zombies by Jesse Petersen September 1, 2010 Urban Fantasy Paperback, 241 Pages Orbit Reviewed by Mandi I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – I like zombie books so when I saw this available at BookExpo America, I picked it up right away. Many don’t share my opinion – or at least don’t like it when the hero or heroine is a zombie. I mean, if vital parts fall off, the romance is kind of over, yes? But Married With Zombies gives us two very mortal protagonists Continue Reading