Wolf at the Door by NJ Walters (Salvation Pack #1) Released: April 15, 2014 Paranormal Romance Samhain Reviewed by May When Gwendolyn Jones inherits a Tennessee cabin from a great aunt she never knew, she quits her job and follows her dream to write full time. Meeting a stranger in a local cemetery isn't a risk she normally takes, but she needs the information on his flash drive for an article she's writing on werewolves. Later that night, when two honest-to-God werewolves come knocking Continue Reading
Review: Secure Target by Rebecca Crowley
Secure Target by Rebecca Crowley Released: March 4, 2014 Romantic Suspense Samhain Reviewed by Mandi Blurb: South African hostage rescue operative Bronnik Mason has been chasing a serial killer around the globe for over a year. Four women have already died, and has sworn there won't be a fifth. Even if, this time, he has to offer up more than a few pints of his own blood. But when it comes to safeguarding the killer s next target, Bronnik realizes this case could put his professional Continue Reading
Review: Working It by Kendall Ryan
Working It (Love by Designs, #1) by Kendall Ryan NA/Contemporary Romance E books, 352 pages November 11, 2014 Atria Books Reviewed by Tori Emily Clarke, a young woman from Tennessee, comes to New York when she lands her dream job as an assistant for a top modeling agency. Though her boss is a pill, she is more than compensated by being surrounded by some of the most gorgeous faces and bodies in the modeling world. Especially Ben Shaw. Quite a job perk. Ben Shaw is gorgeous, rich, and one of the Continue Reading
Review: Simply Irresistible by Lisa Plumley
So Irresistible by Lisa Plumley Contemporary Romance Released: December 3, 2013 Zebra Reviewed by May Blurb: Tantalizing. Hot. Mouthwateringly delicious. The pizzas at the Portland restaurant chain Shane Maresca is secretly priming for takeover are all that and more. Unfortunately for him, so is Gabriella Grimani, the business owner’s daughter. He had no idea who she was when they had their first X-rated one night stand. Now she’s all he can think about. For someone whose career hinges on Continue Reading
Review (maybe more of a rant): Yours to Keep by Serena Bell
Yours to Keep by Serena Bell Released: November 11, 2013 Contemporary Romance Loveswept Reviewed by Mandi I’m pretty disappointed with this one. The quick set-up is that the hero Ethan is a widower with a teenage son and they don’t have a great relationship. He is a pediatrician and he realizes he needs a spanish tutor for his son. Enter the heroine. Ana is an illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic. She came over at the age of seven on her father’s work visa, but then her Continue Reading
Review: The Mountain’s Shadow by Cecilia Dominic
The Mountain’s Shadow by Cecilia Dominic (The Lycanthropy Files #1) Released: October 1, 2013 Urban Fantasy Samhain Reviewed by May Blurb: First it was ADD. Then pediatric bipolar. Now the hot behavioral disorder in children is CLS, or Chronic Lycanthropy Syndrome. Public health researcher Joanie Fisher was closing in on the cause in hopes of finding a treatment until a lab fire and an affair with her boss left her without a job. When her grandfather leaves her his Continue Reading
Review: The Runaway Duchess by Jillian Eaton
The Runaway Duchess by Jillian Eaton Released: July 2013 Historical Romance Self Published Reviewed by May In re-reading the blurb I was sent about this book I can see why I was so eager to read it. Marriage of convenience, commoner hero, free spirited heroine – heck I want to read it again just thinking about the set up. The problem is that in every possible way, this book was a fail for me. It was very nearly a DNF but I was curious enough about some aspects that I muddled through it. Continue Reading
DNF Review: Rush by Maya Banks
Rush by Maya Banks (Breathless #1) Erotic Contemporary February 5, 2013 Berkley Reviewed by Mandi Maya Banks has a new trilogy releasing following three billionaires who run swanky hotels. Although I’m a little tired of the billionaire hero, the blurbs intrigued me so I thought I’d give book one, Rush a try. Let me say this – sometimes having an asshole hero can be fun. Take Tack for example (Motorcycle Man by Kristen Ashley). He is initially rude to the heroine, arrogant, Continue Reading
Review: Kept by Shawntelle Madison
Kept by Shawntelle Madison (Coveted #2) Urban Fantasy November 27, 2012 Ballantine Reviewed by May Kept is book #2 in the Coveted series, and it takes off shortly after the first book ended. Given the content and pacing of Kept, I believe most readers would find themselves rather lost and book 1 should be read first. Nat lives with her friend in a small New Jersey town where she works at an antique shop, and is just newly back in her family after being estranged for years. Nat has Continue Reading
Review: How To Be Death by Amber Benson
How To Be Death (Calliope Reaper-Jones #4) by Amber Benson Urban Fantasy Feb 28, 2012 Ace Reviewed by Tori How To Be Death is the fourth book in Amber Benson’s Calliope Reaper-Jones series. A lightweight urban fantasy about a scatterbrained young lady who inadvertently becomes the head of death. Calliope Jones is the current Grim Reaper. Death incarnate. Madam Death. The “girl who can wish you dead.” Not a job she wanted but after her father’s murder and her sister’s attempted Continue Reading