This anthology starts quite strongly with two well-written novellas that manage to feel complete despite the brevity of the stories. The last novella would have been much better as a novel, or perhaps as part of a different anthology. It just didn’t quite fit. Despite this, I enjoyed Bad Boys with Red Roses.
Beg Me is not a book for the fainthearted. It involves issues that can be offensive and make readers uncomfortable. That said, if you think you can handle the subject matter, the book is a good example of suspense melding with erotica, each without overpowering the other. After the violent and inexplicable death of her…
Some books are like car accidents. You stop, look, and continue on your way, but deep down you really want to know what happens next. Colette Gale’s new interpretation of The Phantom of the Opera goes way beyond morbid fascination and straight into revulsion. I can only imagine that Gaston Leroux is spinning in his…
Dead Right is the third and final book in a compelling trilogy. This last installment is fantastically written. Ms. Novak will take you on a suspenseful journey, unraveling a mystery that is sure to keep you on edge of your seat. The disappearance of her father, a well-respected minister, in the small, sleepy town of…
The seventh book in Harris’s Southern Vampire Mysteries series, All Together Dead, wasn’t altogether great. The book started off with human telepath Sookie Stackhouse attending a meeting of vampires. It wasn’t the most thrilling way to start a book, especially one of Harris’, because those meeting were basically catching everyone up on their forthcoming summit….
About the best thing I can say about Tempted at Every Turn is that it starts out badly and gets better. Improving from uber-lame to just average is not exactly something to write home about, but it’s better than the alternative – staring out as average and then taking a spectacular nosedive. Willow Mabsen is…
Witch Fire, Anya Bast’s first book with her new publisher, is the starting point to a new series about elemental witches. Readers should know that this book is not romantica, like her Ellora’s Cave releases, but more mainstream, if still very hot, paranormal romance. The novel began well, and I settled down to a pleasant…
Night Hunter is a paranormal romance that isn’t perfect by any means, but among the hoards of vampires, were-animals and shape changers, it is refreshingly original. The monster in the book is named Cadamus and he is a creature that looks like a gargoyle and has a life cycle similar to that of a cicada….
I’m always delighted to find romance written by men, as I feel that there is a slightly different perception of how the relationship develops, or at least I like to read them to see if I can detect a difference. One such romance is Wayne Jordan’s One Gentle Knight, the first installment of the Knight…
I should point out straight away that I have been a Stephanie Plum fan from day one and that I have read all of the books in the series with an almost equal degree of enjoyment. I don’t mind the similarities and comparative lack of development, and while I did want the love triangle resolved…
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