I was so impressed with Kelley Armstrong’s debut book, Bitten, that I did something I’ve never done before: I ordered the sequel, Stolen, from another country. I just couldn’t wait until the book came to the good old U. S. of A. to read what happens next. What happens next is somewhat complicated. Those readers…
I very much enjoyed Nancy Warren’s 2002 Blaze, Whisper; for me it was one of last year’s buried treasure reads. So I jumped at the chance to review her newest, but Hot off the Press doesn’t offer the same reading experience as that earlier release. Tess Elliot and Mike Grundel are rival movie critics in…
If alpha males came in a supersize package (“I’d like mine Extra-Virile, please!”), Christina Dodd’s usual heroes would be toting an extra-large drink as they rolled into town. So if you don’t enjoy reading sex scenes with a struggle for power and men who act and behave like men, you most likely will not enjoy…
I was won over several years ago by the strange and fascinating world of Christine Feehan’s Carpathian race. Dark Symphony intersects the Carpathians with the Scarletti family, introduced in the melodramatic Gothic romance The Scarletti Curse. While this book, the 10th full-length romance of the Dark series, isn’t my favorite, it’s also not my least…
Lori Herter is a name well-known by many readers for the series of erotic vampire stories she wrote in the 1980’s. While I’d read and enjoyed several of the series titles she wrote for Silhouette’s Yours Truly line (particularly Listen Up, Lover), Heat of the Moment, her first for the Blaze line, was my first…
This was a tough book for me to grade because I think there are two types of romance fans who will pick up this novel and your reading experience with The Perfect Lover will likely depend on your previous acquaintance with Laurens’s series of Cynster novels. For Cynster followers like myself, this book delivers the…
Kristin Hardy combines an energetic writing style, snappy dialogue, and sizzling love scenes to make Scoring a major league hit. This book follows Hardy’s debut, another Blaze title Hardy published last year. My Sexiest Mistake received a highly favorable review from AAR’s Nora Armstrong. Having read Scoring, I see just what Nora was talking about….
I’ve been a fan of Alexis Harrington for many years. A Light for My Love was my first Harrington read, and I fell in love with Jake Chastain and his story of unrequited love (later “requited,” of course!). Other favorites include A Taste of Heaven and Harper’s Bride. I was hoping The Irish Bride would…
Into Temptation is a very smoothly-written book, with a flawed but likable heroine and a lot of emotional complexity. Unfortunately, the dynamic that arises between the hero and the heroine set my teeth on edge. Julian Rexley, Earl of Wolfram, is infuriated to learn that his sister Letitia has run away from home and taken…
I want to start off with the positive here. Wendy Burge is a talented writer with a real knack for telling an emotional and involving story. But, regretfully, in While You Slept her deft writerly hand is completely overwhelmed by a melodramatic plot, a hero who exhibits an unnatural patience that takes him completely out…
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