Tactical Strike by Kaylea Cross (Bagram Special Ops #2) March 11, 2013 Military Romantic Suspense Carina Press Reviewed by Mandi I like military romance and really enjoyed Deadly Descent (among other military romances) from Kaylea Cross last year. Tactical Strike features our heroine, Gunship pilot Captain Candace Bradford who is very hard working, very serious and doesn’t have time for the lusty glances that Combat Controller, Staff Sergeant Ryan Wentworth throws her way. Part Continue Reading
Review: How Beauty Saved the Beast by Jax Garren
How Beauty Saved the Beast by Jax Garren (tales of the Underlight #2) February 11, 2013 Paranormal Romance Carina Press I’m a sucker for an ugly hero, so when part one came out a few months ago I had to gobble it up. You can read the review here. This book picks up a few months later. Hauk was burned badly, leaving massive scarring on his body. He is blamed for the deaths of fellow soldiers, and has now taken refuge in Austin’s Underlight, a group of people that live Continue Reading
Review: The Impetuous Amazon by Sandy James
The Impetuous Amazon by Sandy James (Alliance of the Amazons #2) Paranormal Romance January 14, 2013 Carina Press Megan Feurer is an Amazon, a warrior woman whose job is to kill threats to humanity, including revenants, zombie like creatures that come out at night to hunt. Megan’s gift is fire, and as a fire elemental she is pretty strong. She is also quick tempered and doesn’t quite have the full extent of her power under control. So she is often walking around with sparks flying Continue Reading
Review: Breath on Embers Anne Calhoun
Breath on Embers by Anne Calhoun Erotic Contemporary Novella December 3, 2012 Carina Press Reviewed by Mandi This book isn’t your standard, feel good holiday romance. Don’t misunderstand, there is a happy ever after, although I may have sniffled my way through it and it is very well done. Thea Moretti has been grieving her husband for two years. Deeply grieving, where she has left her home state of Ohio, and moved to New York City. The city is a third character in this book. Continue Reading
Review: Romancing the Holiday Anthology
Romancing the Holiday Anthology December 3, 2012 Contemporary Romance Carina Press Reviewed by Mandi I always look forward to Carina Press’s holiday anthologies. This one is well done and also note, each story can also be purchased separately We’ll Be Home for Christmas by HelenKay Dimon Lila has decided to move to a small town in West Virginia and take over her uncle’s Mountain View resort. The problem is when she gets to this ‘resort’ it’s actually a campground in poor Continue Reading
Review: Running in the Dark by Regan Summers
Running in the Dark by Regan Summers (Night Runner #1) October 29, 2012 Urban Fantasy Carina Press Reviewed by Mandi First let me start by saying I didn’t realize this is the second book, or maybe it’s better to say the first full book in this series. Don’t Bite the Messenger is a previous novella and I think if I had read it, I might have understood this world a little better. There is a lot of info dumping at the beginning of this book as the author sets up the world. It made it Continue Reading
Review: All He Ever Desired by Shannon Stacey
All He Ever Desired by Shannon Stacey (Kowalski Family #5) Contemporary Romance Released: November 12, 2012 Carina Press Reviewed by Mandi Favorite Quote: “Coffee?” Lauren pressed a hand to her stomach, cursing the butterflies. “I think I’ll have decaf.” “They have that effect on women.” “Coffees?” “Kowalskis.” Why does Shannon Stacey write such adorable books? Her Kowalski series has quickly gone to one of my most anticipated series. In this book we get a hero who was so Continue Reading
Review: How Beauty Met the Beast by Jax Garren
How Beauty Met the Beast by Jax Garren (Tales of the Underlight #1) Paranormal Romantic Suspense Released: November 19, 2012 Carina Press Reviewed by Mandi I’m a sucker for a beauty and the beast trope. Wesley Hauk has third degree burns over 80% of his body and is missing a leg due to an explosion when he was in the military in the middle east. He was the only person to survive that explosion, and later gets blamed for it. He deserts and ends up in a place called the Underlight, Continue Reading
Review: Yesterday’s Heroes by Heather Long
Yesterday’s Heroes Heather Long Paranormal (Superhero) Romance Released: September 17, 2012 Carina Press Reviewed by May Favorite Quote: Pain-stiffened muscles slowed her, but she had spent too long training, too many hours preparing for danger to be caught with her pants down. Despite not having any pants on. Michael Hunter and his team were sent back in time, sent to prevent events that caused their world to become one without super heroes. One without hope. A world not worth Continue Reading
Review: How to Date a Henchman by Mari Fee
How to Date a Henchman by Mari Fee Paranormal/Superhero Romance Released: September 3, 2012 Carina Press Reviewed by May Superheroes. They were as addictive as celebrities, and like celebrities, most of them failed to venture into Canada. Canada passed laws against vigilantism rather than reinterpreting the existing Criminal Code to allow exceptions for the exceptional, and as a result there weren’t many superheroes operating north of the Fourty-Nineth. Privately Gina thought it had Continue Reading