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Review: The Seduction Hypothesis by Delphyne Dryden
Format Read:e-arc provided from NetGalley for review
Release Date:May 6th 2013
Publisher:Carina Press
Series: The Science of Temptation, #2
Formats Available: ebook, Kindle Edition
Purchasing Info: Goodreads | Publisher | Amazon | Kobo | B&N
Book Blurb:
Wildlife biologist Lindsey thought attending a fan convention with her new boyfriend Ben was a great idea—until their relationship fizzled. Lindsey still lusts after her ex—but if he wants her, he’s going to have to prove it.
Ben will do anything to win Lindsey back, and when he sees her in her skimpy black vinyl convention get-up, he realizes what she’s been craving all along. And he is inspired to finally give in to his own dark desire to take complete sexual control…
Lindsey is surprised by her reaction to Ben’s kinky new seduction techniques, and suddenly sees the brilliant but uptight code guru in a different light. After several erotic encounters in hotel rooms …
2 Stars,Delphine Dryden,featured,Review,The Coffee Lover 
3 May 2013
2 comments
Review: Hammer of Angels by G.T. Almasi
Format Read: eARC from Netgalley.
Number of Pages: 352.
Release Date: March 26, 2013.
Series: Shadowstorm #2.
Genre: Urban Fantasy.
Publisher: Del Ray Books.
Formats Available: ebook, mass market paperback.
Purchasing Info: Amazon, Book Depository, Goodreads.
Book Blurb:
In G. T. Almasi’s thrilling alternate reality, the United States, the USSR, and the Republic of China share a fragile balance of power with Greater Germany, which emerged from World War II in control of Europe and half of the Middle East. To avoid nuclear Armageddon, the four superpowers pursue their ambitions with elite spies known as Levels, who are modified with mechanical and chemical enhancements.
Nineteen-year-old Alix Nico, code-named Scarlet, is a kick-ass superheroine with killer Mods and an attitude to match. She’s considered one of America’s top Levels, even though her last mission nearly precipitated World War III. So now Scarlet and her new partner, Darwin, have been sent to Greater Germany to help sow the seeds …
2 Stars,Draconismoi,featured,Review 27 Mar 2013
0 comment
Review: Pleasures of Winter by Evie Hunter
Format Read:e-ARC provided by the publisher
Number of Pages:400 pages
Release Date:November 1st 2012
Publisher:Penguin Ireland
Formats Available: Paperback, Kindle Edition
Purchasing Info: Goodreads | Publisher’s Website | Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)
Book Blurb:
The Pleasures of Winter is a steamy erotic story of romantic obsession and explosive sexual chemistry for fans of Fifty Shades of Grey and Bared to You.
When reporter Abbie Marshall needs to escape Honduras, a private jet carrying a Hollywood A-lister is her only way out. She has a ride home with Irish actor Jack Winter – notorious womanizer and all round bad boy. Abbie is shaken to the core by Winter’s blazing beauty and provocative mind.
After the plane’s nose-dive into the remote rainforest forces them to fight for survival, Abbie catches tantalizing glimpses of …
2 Stars,featured,Review,The Coffee Lover 22 Jan 2013
2 comments
Review: Blaze of Winter by Elisabeth Barrett
Format Read: ebook provided by NetGalley
Number of Pages: 310 pages
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Publisher: Loveswept
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Series: Star Harbor #2
Formats Available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Author’s Website | Publisher’s Website
Book Blurb:
Frustrated with her job in Boston, social worker Avery Newbridge welcomes the opportunity to reassess her life when family asks her to help manage the Star Harbor Inn. Trying to figure out her future is overwhelming enough, but she doesn’t count on distraction in the form of one Theo Grayson, the gorgeous, green-eyed author who she knows is trouble from the moment he saunters into the inn.
Not only does he have a talent for writing swashbuckling adventures, but Theo also has a soft spot for big-hearted damsels in distress, especially a woman who’s great at helping …
2 Stars,Elisabeth Barrett,featured,Review,The Rocket Lover 14 Nov 2012
3 comments
Review: The Killing Dance by Laurell K. Hamilton
Format read: paperback
Genre: Horror
Release Date: 4 April 2006
Length: 387 pages
Publisher: Berkley
Formats available: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)
Book Blurb:
The dead obey her, The undead fear her. Anita Blake, animator and vampire hunter, lives a dual life.
My Thoughts:
I will be honest, the events of The Killing Dance nearly had me walk away from this series and not look back.
Anita has a price on her head, considering how many people she has ticked off in the previous books, that isn’t difficult to comprehend. She calls in Edward, one of her only friends and one of the greatest hitmen around to help find out who wants her her dead so badly.
Anita’s character for me in The Killing Dance took a nosedive. …
2 Stars,Laurell K Hamilton,Review,The Winged Lover 8 Nov 2012
6 comments
Dual Review: A Hero Rising by Aubrie Dionne
Format Read: ebook provided by Publisher
Number of Pages: 167 pages
Release Date: 7th of February 2012
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Series: A New Dawn #3
Genre: Sci Fi Romance
Purchase Links: Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Goodreads | Author’s site | Publisher’s website – FREE on Amazon right now
Blurb:
After watching his love leave on a colony ship, James Wilfred must save those left behind from a planetary apocalypse. Their salvation lies in an unfinished ship tucked away in a secret government base, and only James can break in and pilot him and his people to freedom on a nearby space station.
Skye O’Connor’s boyfriend never returns after his gang attempts an assassination of the Governor, and the State Building is destroyed. Worse, crazed moonshiners addicted to the chemical Morpheus have stormed the city, and she must find a safe place for her and her boyfriend’s daughter. When …
Review: The Most Improper Miss Sophie Valentine by Jayne Fresina
Format Read: ebook from NetGalley
Number of Pages: 384 p.
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Genre: Regency Romance
Formats Available: Mass market paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Author’s Website, Publisher’s Website, Book Depository
Book Blurb:
“Wanted: one husband, not too particular. Small dowry, several books, sundry furnishings, and elderly aunt included. Idlers, time-wasters, and gentlemen with other attachments need not apply.”
Scarred in a childhood accident, Sophia Valentine doesn’t expect any takers on her ad for a husband in the Farmer’s Gazette, until the mysterious Lazarus Kane shows up at her door. To Sophia, he is an exciting, enigmatic stranger. But Lazarus has known Sophia for years and has come a long way to find her. Things are about to get complicated for the mischievous Miss Valentine.
My Thoughts:
Once upon a time, Miss Sophie Valentine did something very, very improper. She and her fiancé, the …
2 Stars,featured,Jayne Fresina,Review,The Rocket Lover 13 Jun 2012
3 comments
Review: Breathing Room by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Format Read:Paperback copy purchased by reviewer
Number of Pages:400 pages
Release Date:April 29th 2003
Publisher:Avon
Formats Available: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle Edition, Audio
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Book Depository
Book Blurb:
She’s Dr. Isabel Favor, America’s diva of self-help.
He’s Ren Gage, Hollywood’s favorite bad guy.
Sometimes you just know that God has a sense of humor.
She’s lost her money to an unscrupulous accountant, her fiance to a frumpy older woman, and her reputation to headlines denouncing her as a fraud. Lately it seems Dr. Isabel, America’s favorite self-help guru, can fix everyone’s life but her own. Even the shelter of a simple stone farmhouse nestled in an olive grove can’t provide Isabel with the refuge she needs–not when the townspeople are scheming to drive her away, her plan to restore her good name has come up empty… and a movie star villain with a …
Review: Urban Shaman by C.E. Murphy
Format read: ebook from library
Genre: urban fantasy
Series: Walker Papers, #1
Release Date: June 1, 2009 (reprint edition; original edition published June 1, 2005)
Number of pages: 416 pages
Publisher: Luna
Formats available: ebook, paperback, audiobook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Books-a-Million, Barnes & Noble, Book Depository
Book Blurb:
Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt.
No worries. No pressure. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing herself from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams.
And if all that’s not bad enough, in the three years Joanne’s been a cop, she’s never seen a dead body–but she’s just come across her second in three days.
It’s been a bitch of a week.
And it isn’t over yet.
My Thoughts:
I’d been looking forward to trying this UF series for quite some time. As far as urban fantasy institutions …
2 Stars,C.E. Murphy,featured,Review,The Needy Lover 16 Apr 2012
10 comments
Review: Love Story by Jennifer Echols
Format read: paperback
Genre: young adult romance
Release Date: Julyy 19th, 2011
Number of pages: 241 pages
Publisher: MTV books
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Book Depository (UK), Book Depository (US)
Book Blurb:
SHE’S WRITING ABOUT HIM. HE’S WRITING ABOUT HER. AND EVERYBODY IS READING BETWEEN THE LINES.
For Erin Blackwell, majoring in creative writing at the New York City college of her dreams is more than a chance to fulfil her ambitions – it’s her ticket away from the tragic memories that shadow her family’s racehorse farm in Kentucky. But when she refuses to major in business and take over the farm herself someday, her grandmother gives Erin’s college tuition and promised inheritance to their maddeningly handsome stable boy, Hunter Allen. Now Erin has to win an internship and work late nights at a local coffee shop to make her own dreams a reality. She should despise Hunter…so why …
2 Stars,Jennifer Echols,Review,The Winged Lover 21 Mar 2012
2 comments
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