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The Awakening is the second book in Armstrong’s Darkest Powers trilogy. This is an incredibly fun young adult series featuring a young necromancer and her supernatural friends. If you haven’t read the first book, you should stop reading here, because there’s really no way to talk about what happens in this book without revealing spoilers…
I heartily disliked How to Seduce a Texan, and find it pretty difficult to imagine anyone else enjoying it either. It sounded like it could be good: Professional football player hides out on his family’s ranch in the aftermath of a break-up, reporter heroine goes undercover to get the scoop on his social life. It…
As I heard many complimentary things said about Lauren Dane’s book Undercover, I was quite excited to read Relentless. I was shocked to find that not only is the writing quite shabby, but the characters are undeveloped, and the love scenes are flat-out boring. Why must erotica so often preclude romance? Since the first settlers…
You don’t have to look much farther than a calendar shop to realize that women think firefighters are sexy. Bella Andre fully understands the attraction to firefighters in Wild Heat and creates a truly delicious hero, but missteps in a few other areas. Arson investigator Maya Jackson has been surrounded by firefighters her whole life…
Kept is part of The Gemini Men series which is about brothers who run a security/bodyguard firm. While this is a story I usually love, I can’t say I liked this book much. I found the characters unpleasant and the plot kicked in too late to engage me. Derek Taggert and his brothers own Gemini,…
Memory does play funny tricks on you. I bought Across a Moonlit Sea at a UBS because I remembered loving it a few years ago. After reading it, I realised that, although it was still really good, something had changed and it sure as hell wasn’t the book. Mind you, it’s still a wonderful Elizabethan…
Since I really like paranormals, I’ve been meaning to get into Kelley Armstrong’s Women of the Otherworld series for quite some time. However, my first taste of her paranormal works came from The Summoning, the first book in her young adult trilogy. I got it from the library in preparation for reviewing the second book…
McAlistair’s Fortune is such a mild story that I was surprised to find an unpleasant surprise when I was six pages from finishing the entire book. Unfortunately, it was at this point that a side of the hero was revealed that was so shockingly repugnant to me that it sent the grade of the book…
With a smart and very engaging heroine and interesting world-building, Eve of Darkness came very close to being a winning read for me. However, my frustrations with the men in Eve’s life and with having too many important questions either left unanswered or simply glossed over made this one that I cannot quite recommend. Evangeline…
Gotcha! is billed as “sexy, humorous romantic suspense.” I found it lacking in all these qualities, and not recommendable in any way. Macy Tucker is a recently divorced law student who delivers pizzas to pay the bills. Her brother Billy is a convict in the local prison, who angers murderer and fellow inmate David Tanks…
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