Deadly Beauty by M.K. Eliot Paranormal/Erotic f/f Novella Warwick House Press Jill Sorenson is back to guest review. I’m going to start with a rant. I’ve complained about the lack of quality f/f romance before so skip ahead if you’ve heard this already. Hardly anyone I know reads it. Established authors don’t write it. Most publishers don’t offer it. How am I supposed to find good stuff? I follow LVLM’s blog but our tastes don’t always mesh. I’ve spent hours doing random searches Continue Reading
Review: The Prophet by Amanda Stevens
The Prophet (Graveyard Queen #3) by Amanda Stevens Paranormal Horror April 24, 2012 Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Never bargain with the dead. We have nothing to lose. “ Amelia Gray has come back to Charleston on the heels of a text supposedly sent by the man she loves, Detective John Devlin, telling her he needs her. She returns only to find him in the arms of another woman. Amelia feels betrayed but knows she has no rights to Devlin since she was the one who pushed him away and Continue Reading
Review: The Proposal by Mary Balogh
The Proposal by Mary Balogh May 1, 2012 Historical Romance Hardcover Reviewed by Mandi Lord Trentham or Hugo, has been home from the Napoleonic War for a few years now. But he didn’t come home unscathed, much like many other soldiers. The Duke of Stanbrook who lost his son in the war, and eventually lost his wife due to her grief, has opened up his home to Hugo and six other wounded former soldiers (one is not a soldier, but a widow whose husband was tortured and then shot, which she Continue Reading
Review: The Fireman Who Loved Me by Jennifer Bernard
The Fireman Who Loved Me by Jennifer Bernard (The Bachelor Firemen of San Gabriel #1) Contemporary Romance April 23, 2012 Reviewed by Mandi Melissa McGuire is a television news producer who left her big time gig in LA after her now ex-boyfriend screwed her over. With her elderly (yet very feisty) grandmother having some health issues, Melissa moves in with her and takes a job with a smaller television station. Her grandmother wants her to get married, and takes it upon herself to drag Continue Reading
Review: Temptation Rising by A.C. Arthur
Temptation Rising by A.C. Arthur (The Shadow Shifters #1) Paranormal Romance March 27, 2012 St. Martin’s Reviewed by Mandi For the past two years, Kalina Harper has been dreaming about a terrifying night she lived through. Caught in an alley in Washington, DC with a man about to do her harm, a huge cat comes to her rescue, killing the man and allowing Kalina to run free. Thinking a huge cat saving her is bizarre, she has tried to live her life not thinking about that night. Working Continue Reading
Guest Review: Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright by Justine Saracen
Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright by Justine Saracen Historical/Gay & Lesbian March 13, 2012 Bold Strokes Books Guest Reviewed by Jill Sorenson. I requested this book from NetGalley because the description included the words “lesbian” and “romance.” What I found in the pages was so much more than I expected, but I came away feeling unsatisfied. Katja Sommers, the heroine, is a young lady who works on a film crew in Nazi Germany. The crew is collecting war propaganda footage for Continue Reading
Review: Table For One by Ros Clarke
Table For One by Ros Clarke Contemporary Romance February 2012 E-book, novella Entangled Publishing Reviewed by Helyce Claudia Thomas certainly did not expect to be eating alone at Ward’s, a new, very trendy restaurant in London; but that is exactly where she finds herself when her boyfriend breaks up with her on Valentine’s Day. While it’s the last place she wants to be, she really has no choice. Her job as a food critic was the reason she had the reservation in the first Continue Reading
Review: Fortune Hunter by Ava March
Fortune Hunter by Ava March (Brook Street #2) Historical M/M Romance April 9, 2012 Carina Press Reviewed by Mandi Julian Parker has spent the last 10 years in Philadelphia. Born into the "other" Parker family, his parents were not the wealthy, socially acceptable Parkers that the London ton loves and adores. His family had problems with scandal and debt, and escaped overseas when he was a young man. All Julian wants is to marry a wealthy heiress so he can be in society's Continue Reading
Review: Ocean’s Touch by Denise Townsend
Ocean’s Touch by Denise Townsend Erotic Paranormal Romance December 27, 2011 Samhain Reviewed by Mandi Meredith finds herself in a rut, lost after her husband’s death. A very wealthy professor, after he dies of lupus, she is left to run the very many charities he was a part of. Meredith is not sure of who she is anymore. She wears unfashionable clothes, keeps to herself, and is quite lonely. But all that starts to change when a mysterious man walks up to her on the beach one night. Continue Reading
Review: White Witch by Trish Milburn
White Witch by Trish Milburn YA Paranormal March 1, 2012 Bell Bridge Books Reviewed by Tori Jax Pherson is a sixteen year old witch. Born into a powerful dark magic coven led by her father, Jax watched her mother die when she tried to leave. From that day on, she saved and plotted until she was able to escape the coven. Now hiding in North Carolina, Jax is going to school under an assumed name and making friends. All she has to do is deny the calling of the dark power inside of her Continue Reading