Close Enough to Touch by Victoria Dahl August 28, 2012 Contemporary Romance Harlequin Reviewed by Mandi I read this book and then let it sit for a few days before I wrote the review because I just couldn’t figure out my feelings for this one. Victoria Dahl gives us a very prickly heroine. Grace is a make-up artist from Hollywood. After getting fired while on set of a movie, and then having a very bad break up with a boyfriend that literally leaves her penniless, she gets in the Continue Reading
Review: Temptation’s Edge by Eve Berlin
Temptation’s Edge by Eve Berlin Erotic Contemporary Romance August 7, 2012 Berkley Reviewed by Helyce Mischa Kennon is a beautiful, talented woman who learned at a very young age that if she wanted to survive, the only person she could count on was herself. She’s proud of her accomplishments; her tattoo shop, Thirteen Roses is successful and she’s also an erotica author. She’s thinking about expanding her shop and heads up to Seattle to meet with her friend Greyson who she is Continue Reading
Review: Rough Play by Keri Ford
Rough Play by Keri Ford (The Roughnecks #2) Erotic Contemporary Romance Released: August 15, 2012 Turquoise Morning Press Reviewed by Mandi Jacob Iverson is in the small town of Apple Trail, Arkansas to help his brothers with rebuilding a house. It is here that he meets the gorgeous Flora. When he first realizes this pretty lady is a plumber, he is taken back. But Flora halts his sexist thinking right then and there. Yes she is a plumber and proud of it. She also works part time at Continue Reading
Review: By Surprise by Alyssa Turner
By Surprise by Alyssa Turner March 2, 2012 M/M/F Contemporary Etopia Press Reviewed by Mandi Paxton and Nicholas have been in a committed relationship for six years, and legally married for two. They have a very strong relationship, Paxton always knowing exactly what Nicholas needs and vice versa. Nicholas knows Paxton used to date women and considers himself bi-sexual but in the years he has been with him, the issue of women has never come up. That is until Nicholas finds a box of Continue Reading
Review: When You Wish Upon a Duke by Isabella Bradford
When You Wish Upon a Duke by Isabella Bradford (Wylder Sisters #1) July 31, 2012 Historical Romance Ballantine Reviewed by May In the Dorset countryside lives the beautiful Lady Charlotte Wylder. After her father (an Earl) passed away her mother took her three daughters off to the country and raised them there. That is, until one fateful night when a carriage rolls up with news of Charlotte’s fiancé the Duke of Marchbourne, and how he wishes her to come to London so that they may Continue Reading
Review: Blackstone’s Bride by Kate Moore
Blackstone’s Bride by Kate Moore August 7, 2012 Historical Romance Berkley Reviewed by May Favorite quote: He was born to be a connoisseur of erections. He knew them all, the ones like slow bread dough rising, or those like wild Congreve rockets soaring, or others like a water douser’s stick pointing straight at the source. When called upon to do his duty by a woman, he had taught himself to coax an erection out of the thinnest wisp of sexual stimulation. But that skill had come later Continue Reading
Review: A Girl Like You by Maria Geraci
A Girl Like You by Maria Geraci Chick-Lit August 7, 2012 Berkley Reviewed by May As this book opens we meet Emma Frazier and her boss Ben, who she has been crushing on since he started working with her at Florida! Magazine. Thing is in an order to impress him she overstated her relationship with a NASCAR superstar Trip (whom she went to high school with) and promised an exclusive interview. Now she’s got to head back to the small town of Catfish Cove on the Florida panhandle and track Continue Reading
Review: The Burning Star By Jessie Lane
The Burning Star by Jessie Lane YA Fantasy May 24, 2012 Pub It Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “...just book me a train to crazyville, because apparently that’s where we are headed. “ Seventeen year old Kay is living under a death sentence. Diagnosed with cancer, she has been given six months to live. Her mother moves them to Asheville, NC, hoping to find a miracle. Instead Kay finds her life turned upside down when she meets the insanely gorgeous Ryan and learns she is a real life Continue Reading
Review: Wilder by Christina Dodd
Wilder by Christina Dodd (The Chosen Ones #5) Paranormal Romance August 7, 2012 Berkley Reviewed by May “For centuries, every seven years, a new group of seven Chosen Ones are drafted to continue the fight against a new group of seven Others. The battle goes on…” Several years ago the current batch of Chosen Ones lost a member (Aleksandr Wilder). Disappeared without a trace, and with no contact or sightings they fear the worst and hope that he is still alive somewhere. The truth is that Continue Reading
Review: Indelibly Intimate by Regina Cole
Indelibly Intimate by Regina Cole Erotic Contemporary Romance July 13, 2012 Ellora’s Cave Reviewed by Mandi Favorite Quote: “Good. I want you too,” he said seriously, holding her ass for dear life. Quinn LaBrea is coming out of a relationship, not only with a jerk of an ex-boyfriend, but also with his name tattooed on her leg. And it is an ugly tattoo at that. She saves up money to get the tattoo covered up, only to have the shop she was going to have gone out of business. Her Continue Reading