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: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson Memoir /Humor April 12, 2012 Putnan Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!“ Everyone who is anyone, well, anyone who appreciates insane, questionable, depraved humor, knows who Jenny Lawson is. She is the voice behind The Bloggess, a blog that crosses all lines, pokes all chickens, and usually leaves me laughing so hard I have found it’s in my best interest to get dressed on AFTER I have read her latest post. Continue Reading
Revenge Sex and Romance
I've read two books in a row this week that features revenge sex – where the heroine feels jilted by the hero for a past wrong deed and decides to get revenge by sleeping with him, and then dumping him once he falls in love. But of course, she sleeps with him and she falls in love, making things very complicated, yet not really feeling very revengeful. I’ve come to realize, I just don’t like this set-up. It’s fun at first because the heroine gets that evil glint in her eye. She is super pissed Continue Reading
Review: Playing For Keeps by Liz Matis
Playing for Keeps by Liz Matis Contemporary Romance November 30, 2011 Self Published Reviewed by Mandi Samantha Jameson has had a crush on Ryan Terell for a long time. Through college, she kept the football star in her sights, but nothing ever came of her attraction to him. Samantha starts her post-college life as a hard-core journalist, traveling to the middle east to cover the war. After a brutal time, where she is kidnapped for three days she is now back in the states, and has 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
Giveaway: Shadow Visions by Gabriella Hewitt
A shadow warrior on a mission, Manuel must track down a demon who is sacrificing women marked with hummingbird tattoos. He is in danger of losing his humanity to his eagle spirit until he comes across Ixa Reyes, a beautiful San Diego detective working on the same case, who also bears the mark of the Aztec sun god. She is his salvation and redemption from a past filled with failure. Only she wants nothing to do with him or her heritage. When a demon kidnaps her grandfather, the wind god, they Continue Reading
Review: The Witness by Nora Roberts
The Witness by Nora Roberts April 17, 2012 Contemporary Romance/Suspense Hardcover Reviewed by May Wanting a child to raise and mold in her likeness, Dr. Susan L. Fitch researched and chose her ideal sperm donor, had herself inseminated, delivered a baby girl via C-section at an appointed time, and set about the business of scheduling everything from education to appropriate acquaintances to meals for the child. The summer before her 17th birthday, her daughter Elizabeth Continue Reading
AAD Spotlight: Mia Watts
Our Authors After Dark 2012 Spotlight continues with the irreplaceable and incorrigible Mia Watts. Mia Watts. Ms. Watts likes to walk on the wild side with her very sexy and highly charged erotic MM romances that encompass all aspects of erotic sexual play. Mia makes her home in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she divides her time between a job and spying on people. Mia enjoys long walks in the park, daisies, dancing in the snow...(Delete prior sentence, meant for personal ad)...Forever searching Continue Reading