When I got the review request for A Game of Sins, I knew this was my chance to get my sister Cori -- Resident Sexpert of my now defunct podcast, Romance Romp -- to write her first romance review. As she notes in her bio, she is into the "kinky kinks", so I hoped this book would be up her alley. Take it away, Cori! CW: explicit sex, blasphemy I was more than happy to see what Zurie Brunelle’s Game of Sins brought to the Priest sex game, especially since I’ve recently read Sierra Simone’s Continue Reading
Review: A Little Harmless Obsession by Melissa Schroeder
A Little Harmless Obsession by Melissa Schroeder Contemporary Romance, BDSM September 21, 2010 E-Book, Novel length Samhain Reviewed by Mandi Favorite Quote: He leaned in and took her mouth in a quick, hard kiss. Even the brief contact had both of them breathing heavily. “You think about that for the next two nights.” He walked away, knowing he was damn sure he would too. May Aiona, a restaurant manager has had a healthy string of boyfriends, but no one has ever rocked her Continue Reading
Guest Review: Unbound by Kay Danella
Unbound by Kay Danella Erotic/Futuristic Romance October 5, 2010 Trade Paperback, 320 Pages Berkley Trade Today I’m happy to have Lynette from Lynette’s Two Cents guest reviewing!! LYNETTE'S TWO CENTS: Back in January of this year, my local Waldenbooks aka Borders was going out of business so all their trade paperbacks were 60% off. I used that opportunity to stock up on trade paperbacks of author's I hadn't read before but whose stories caught my eye. Ms. Danella's previous Continue Reading
Review: Game,Set,Match By Nana Malone
Game, Set, Match by Nana Malone Contemporary Romance August 12, 2010 Paperback/E-Book, 354 Pages The Wild Rose Press Reviewed by Mandi Izzy Conners has been raising the now teenage Nick, pretty much his whole life. Although not his birth mother, he has lived with her and she has cared and loved him as if he was her own. Sabrina, Nick’s biological mother has issues of drug abuse and dropping off the face of the Earth at convenient times. Izzy is acting currently as a foster Continue Reading
Review: Grave Witch by Kalayna Price
Grave Witch by Kalayna Price October 5, 2010 Urban Fantasy Paperback, 325 Pages Roc Reviewed by Mandi Alex Craft is a private investigator for Tongues for the Dead. She is a grave witch – someone who can raise shades from the dead. These shades can then speak to family members or police - those needing answers that only they can provide. Alex has a lot going on in her life all of a sudden. She is desperate for work so she can pay her bills and feed her beloved dog, PC. Continue Reading
Review: Last To Die by Kate Brady
Last To Die (Sheridan #2) by Kate Brady Romantic Suspense August 31, 2010 Paperback, 432 Pages Piatkus Books Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: ”Pick your battles baby, pick your battles.” Detective Dani Cole just buried her father but before she can grieve she is called back to work on a murder case. This case hits close to home because Dani had once helped the victim out of a rough situation. As more bodies are found; Dani realizes she has a serial killer loose in her city. Continue Reading
Review: Crave by J.R. Ward
Crave by J.R. Ward October 5, 2010 Paranormal Romance Paperback, 480 Pages Signet Reviewed by Mandi As started in the first book in this series Covet, angel Jim Heron is the pawn between good and evil. After seven battles, where seven people’s soul is at stake, the world will know if evil or goodness has prevailed. In Crave, we see battle number two. Isaac Rothe is a former XOps member, an extremely secretive organization that runs on intel and murder. No one leaves XOps without a bullet Continue Reading
Review and Giveaway: Primal Pleasure by Sydney Somers
Primal Pleasure by Sydney Somers (Pendragon Gargoyles #3) Paranormal Romance August 24, 2010 E-Book Samhain Reviewed by Mandi Favorite Quote: “And if you’re stupid enough to let that sorceress curse you again, just know that I’ll be using your stone ass to hang my lingerie on.” Emma finds herself handcuffed to a gargoyle – but this isn’t any normal gargoyle and Emma isn’t any normal human. The half fae is happy that this gargoyle is in his stone form, and not the viscous cat form he could Continue Reading
Review: Taken by Midnight by Lara Adrian
By Midnight (A Midnight Breed Novel #8) by Lara Adrian Paranormal Romance September 28, 2010 Paperback, 400 Pages Dell Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I may grow to like being a cyborg.” When ex police officer Jenna Darrow first awakes, she doesn’t remember much of what happened except for an unspeakable horror who kept repeating the same sentence over and over to her, “Do you choose life or death?” Though she is alive, she has been changed in ways she cannot even begin to Continue Reading
Review: Forbidden by Christina Phillips
Forbidden by Christina Phillips Historical Paranormal Romance September 7, 2010 Trade Paperback, 324 Pages Berkley Heat Reviewed by Mandi Favorite Quote: Gods, if he didn’t get relief soon, his balls would explode. Carys, a powerful Druid can’t help herself as she watches a very sexy Roman centurion, her enemy, bathe in a waterfall. She is mesmerized by him, although she she thinks she is being sly hiding, he discovers her watching. It is lust at first sight for both of them, Continue Reading