Reviews by Caroline Russomanno
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You MUST NOT read this book review if you intend to read Raider and Gambler (books one and two in the Coalition Rebellion: Ziem series) because it has spoilers for those books, and they are best read in sequence.Iolana Davorin married Torstan Davorin and gave birth to four children, including Dr ...
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Justine Davis’s Coalition Rebellion series sucked me in when AAR ran a retro review of Lord of the Storm. Her first three Coalition books involve interconnected couples fighting for the independence of their homeworlds, Trios and Arellia, with a strong plot thread of Coalition slavery. In Raider, ...
Seressia Glass’s The Love Con indicated the author is someone who gets geek culture, so I was curious to see how she’d do as the author of an urban fantasy series. Shadow Blade is quite competent, with dashes of excellence.Kira Solomon is a Shadowchaser, dedicated to fighting forces of Shado ...
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I took a chance on Gillian Archer’s Build because it was in Kindle Unlimited - and I loved it. Fortunately, for just 99 cents, you can try right along with me whether or not you have KU. You won’t be sorry you did.Austin Burns is hiding at his buddy’s Lake Tahoe house drinking away the kno ...
Good Girl Complex is a contemporary cross-class romance which is weighed down by its formula, and while the author gives an excellent view of her working-class hero, she doesn’t deliver on the heroine’s wealthy side of the class divide.Mackenzie - Mac - Cabot is just one of the many filthy-r ...
SF romance fans, your next great read is here! I got the ARC for Jessie Mihalik’s Hunt the Stars back in summer 2021, and it’s been KILLING me to have to sit on this review for SIX MONTHS before I could share it with you. If you like space adventure, action, intrigue, plot twists, and hot humano ...
Mona Shroff’s The Five Day Reunion is about a divorced couple pretending to be married for the duration of the hero’s sister’s wedding so as not to shock his recently-ill grandfather or provide fodder for his Indian aunts to criticize his mother. I didn’t see enough reason for the couple to ...
I reviewed Jayci Lee’s Harlequin debut Temporary Wife Temptation, and while it didn’t quite meet my expectations, Lee has released a lot of books in the meantime, so I thought perhaps practice had made perfect. In th case of her latest book, A Song of Secrets, the answer is, sadly, no.Angie ...
Juliana Ross’s set of interconnected Victorian erotic stories starts out a bit shaky but gets better with each tale.Improper Relations
Grade: B-
Hannah witnesses her late husband’s cousin Leo in an encounter with a maid and falls into sexual education with him. There are a lot of tropes ...
Note: The sensuality rating of these stories ranges from Kisses to BurningIf you liked the movie Love Actually but wished more of the characters had gotten happy endings, Amor Actually, which re-imagines every plot thread from the movie, might be the anthology for you. Like the original, the c ...