Just One Night by Lauren Layne (Sex, Love and Stiletto #3) Released: April 22, 2014 Contemporary Romance Loveswept Reviewed by May Favorite quote: "This is not happening," Riley muttered, glancing at the ceiling. "My mother is not telling me my spanking article lacked passion." Riley is a famed sex columnist for Stiletto magazine where she works alongside her two best friends. She's dated scores of men in Manhattan and she has the art of flirting down. The thing is... she's not the Continue Reading
Review: Plain Jayne by Laura Drewry
Plain Jayne by Laura Drewry Contemporary Romance Released: April 8, 2014 Loveswept Reviewed by Mandi I don't mind reading books where the hero or heroine has lost a spouse. What I do mind is when the dead spouse is disrespected or just plain dumped on. There are a lot of factors that come into play, but I for one do believe a hero or heroine can fall in love again after their spouse dies, even when they truly loved the deceased person. The deceased person does not have to be bitchy, or Continue Reading
Giveaway Time from Loveswept and Bantam!
Today I have three recently released books to giveaway and some excerpts to share with you. Five months have passed since Gladie Burger came to Cannes, California, to join her eccentric Grandma Zelda in the family matchmaking business, and Gladie is quickly mastering the rules of attraction. Her latest fix-up is still going strong and Gladie’s bank account is back in the black—until a rival matchmaker arrives in town and has both Gladie and Zelda seeing red. Not only is Continue Reading
Review: Live by Mary Ann Rivers
Live by Mary Ann Rivers (Burnside #1) Released: January 21, 2014 Contemporary Romance Loveswept Reviewed by Mandi Reading this book made me think of a cloudy day. The romance in this book is super hot, and the characters and the storyline in general are composed in such a way – a Mary Ann Rivers type way. Such care is taken to craft the characters lives, and the words she uses make me just want to roll around with my Kindle. But this isn’t your normal, small town happy, happy Continue Reading
Guest Review: Ruined by Tracy Wolff
Ruined by Tracy Wolf (Ethan Frost #1) Released: January 7, 2014 Erotic Romance Loveswept Reviewed by Lea – you can find Lea blogging at Happy Ever After. Favorite Quote: “Having finally finished her last toe, Tori gets up to follow me. But since she’s worried about smudging the polish, she kind of waddles on her heels, toes in the air. With her hair dyed race-car yellow and cut short and spiky, she looks a little like a top-heavy duck.” College student Chloe Girard lands Continue Reading
Review: Love the One You’re With by Lauren Layne
Love the One You’re With by Lauren Layne (Sex, Love & Stiletto #2) Contemporary Romance Released: December 9, 2013 Loveswept Reviewed by May Favorite Quote: Watch out for that one, Grace 2.0 whispered. That smile will have you tucking your heart into your panties and handing the whole shebang over before he even buys you a drink. Blurb: As a leading columnist for Stiletto, Grace Brighton has built a career warning women about rotten, cheating liars. She just never suspected her Continue Reading
Review: What Not to Bare by Megan Frampton
What Not to Bare by Megan Frampton Released: October 14, 2013 Historical Loveswept Reviewed by May On her third season and with no prospects in sight, Charlotte is an heiress who longs to be free of her mother and to be able to make her own choices. Is it so much to ask that she be able to do what she wants now and then? That she not have to be scrutinized by the Ton every time she steps out her front door? Charlotte has a solution of sorts – she dresses exactly as she pleases in bold 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: Heating up the Holidays Anthology
Heating up the Holidays Anthology Released: October 28, 2013 Contemporary Romance Loveswept Reviewed by Mandi Play With Me by Lisa Renee Jones I DNF’d this story. Hero is this cold businessman. Heroine is hired as his assistant. I did not like at all. I wish this story wasn’t the first in the anthology. Oh well. Snowfall by Mary Ann Rivers. Blurb: Jenny Wright can’t get enough of her erotic conversations with someone she knows only as “C.” Flirting online helps Jenny Continue Reading
Review: After the Kiss by Lauren Layne
After the Kiss by Lauren Layne (Sex, Love & Stiletto #1) Released: August 26, 2013 Contemporary Romance LoveSwept Reviewed by May Here was a short-term kind of girl begging for a long-term relationship from a long-term kind of guy who wanted a fling. It was movie-worthy. It was laughable. Julie Greene doesn’t do relationships. She is all about the first date. The parties. The glamour. The high off of a first kiss or being so enticing to a man he just must have that second date. What Continue Reading