I usually have no problem leaving Bad Boys anthologies on the shelf. The titles generally sound salacious and a little embarrassing, and I figure the bad boys are usually policemen or cowboys. But British Bad Boys? That’s another story. I grabbed this one and dove right in. While I wasn’t quite what I expected, in…
Ménage books are becoming increasingly popular in e-book land, and thus increasingly prominent. In my (admittedly far from complete) experience, M/M/F groupings are becoming the new “it” couple in the sub-genre. However, the stories do come with their own special brand of problems. First, the group dynamics have to be handled very carefully, else the…
Isn’t it great to come across a really erotic book with wonderfully real characters? Even when…um, the book is essentially a fairy tale. Though Holly sets up a semi-complicated mythology involving a demon race of superior creatures living in a remote area discovered by humans during the Victorian era, the truth is that she could…
Swept Away reads easily, but overall is rather underwhelming. I enjoyed the author’s writing style, but in the end, it was not satisfying. And, readers looking for Erotic Romance – because, after all, this is published as part of Avon’s Erotic Romance imprint – will undoubtedly be disappointed. Swept Away opens with a teenage Kat…
Can an erotic romance have too much sex? I didn’t used to think so, but I do now. Sin has so much sex and so little plot that it went from arousing to boring, the death knell of any erotic novel. The impetus for the non-sexual action in Sin comes from Lydia Harcourt, a Harriet…
Though each of the stories here is constructed around screamingly improbable premises, Helen Kay Dimon keeps Brava’s successful Bad Boys franchise moving along nicely with a trio of pleasant stories. All three stories take place in the same imaginary hotel and casino in Las Vegas and a power loss features in each of the entries.
Secrets anthologies feature erotic and romantic short stories. The quality varies from volume to volume as well as from author to author. Unfortunately, I can recommend only one out of the four entries in this latest Secrets volume, while the other three range from below average to downright silly.
No matter how deliciously erotic the love scenes might be, the simple truth is that they’re not-so-erotic when the characters who feature in them are brats. Make that spoiled, immature brats. The author’s style is so appealing, quite frankly, that writing this review isn’t a pleasure. But, regretfully, hero, Marcus, Lord Eldridge, and Elizabeth, Lady…
In Sharon Page’s Regency-set A Gentleman Seduced, Diana is about to marry Stephen, a gentleman to be sure, but a seemingly passionless one. He’s never even tried to kiss Diana on the mouth. So before settling into dull, staid respectability, Diana wants one sensual adventure. Luckily for her (and the story), Diana’s secret half-sister Ivory…
AAR doesn’t usually review Vanity press books; we have too many books from mainstream publishers and too few reviewers to review them to do so. But every once in a while, something completely different will come along and pique someone’s interest. So it was with Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander, subtitled A Bisexual Regency…
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