In The Cat, Jean Johnson builds upon the world created in her earlier Sons of Destiny books and delivers the tale of the fifth of the eight brothers creating the kingdom of Nightfall. Though Johnson’s world-building is unique and shows promise, the characters feel a little hackneyed and the result is a rather ordinary paranormal…
Hellbent & Heartfirst sounded interesting since it features a heroine who works with Katrina victims. While I still think such a plot could be interesting, it wasn’t, as executed in this book. Worse yet, I didn’t care about the hero or heroine, or even like them. <!– var browName = navigator.appName; var SiteID = 1;…
I picked Fiancé at Her Fingertips to review because it seemed to have a clever plot device. Sadly, while I liked said plot device well enough, I disliked almost everything else about the book. Thanks to her mother’s incessant matchmaking, Debra Daniels has been on a string of awful dates, and she is desperate to…
Though the Immortals After Dark series is classified as paranormal, I’d say Dark Desires After Dusk seems more like fantasy to me, which is fast becoming my favorite sub-genre. Along with the usual vampires and werewolves, you’ve got demons, Valkyrie, sorcerers, witches, phantoms, zombies, and other interesting characters in an alternate world called The Lore…
These Boots Were Made for Stomping features three short stories, in which women order boots (or shoes) from more than just your usual online store. Overseen by the goddess Shoestra, hiheelia.com provides women with more than just kick-ass footwear, it gives women exactly what they need and want.
I selected These Boots Were Made for Strutting because I have very much enjoyed Lisa Cach’s short stories in the past and had heard good stuff about Melanie Jackson. Ironically enough, of the three stories here, the Gemma Halliday contribution is the strongest. All three stories here feature footwear acquired from a mysterious website, hiheelia.com…
The premise of Through the Veil is a promising one: A woman raised as human actually comes from a supernatural race. Unfortunately, the story never truly takes off and a combination of lackluster plotting and an odd lack of chemistry between the hero and heroine doomed this romance for me. Lee Ross has little knowledge…
During the same week that I read Nora Roberts’ The Hollow, I happened to be listening to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows while at work and listening to J.D. Robb’s (Roberts’s alter ego) Survivor in Death while working in my home office. I had unknowingly created a literary theme for the week: stopping evil…
I haven’t read any of the previous books in Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark series and let me tell you – well, let me double, triple tell you – that Dark Needs at Night’s Edge isn’t the place to start. To be honest, I think this whole series thing is just completely out of hand…
Vampires and witches and ghosts, oh my! 50 Ways to Hex Your Lover by Linda Wisdom has them all. The vampire is Nick Gregory, a private investigator on the trail of missing vampires. He believes that the vampires are being lured by the promise of a return to humanity but then they are never seen…
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