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ARC Review: Stainless: A Modern Romance by Todd Grimson
Format read: Uncorrected print proof provided by the publisher
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Number of Pages: 225 pages
Publisher: Schaffner Press
Formats Available: paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Schaffner Press, Barnes & Noble, Independent Publishers Group
Blurb:
Resurrecting a horrifying and romantic narrative that broke fresh ground for its genre, this soon to be re-released novel sets a vampire story in contemporary Los Angeles—the pleasure dome of late 1990s sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll culture. Unlike the vampires that came before her, Justine does not shun crosses, she watches horror movies on television, and she sets upon her prey in an almost apologetic way, never killing her victims but leaving them unconscious instead. She soon finds herself entwined in a very human sexual relationship with Keith, a down-on-his-luck rock guitarist whose hands have recently been mangled by a gang of drug dealers. Justine nurtures Keith out of …
3 Stars,featured,Marlene,Todd Grimson 
3 Feb 2012
6 comments
Review: Shut Out by Kody Keplinger
Format Read: Hardcover, provided by the publisher
Release Date: September 5, 2011
Publisher: Poppy
Formats Available: Hardcover, Kindle, ebook, audiobook
Purchasing Info: Amazon, Book Depository, Chapters, Hachette Canada, Author’s Website, Goodreads
Book Blurb:
Most high school sports teams have rivalries with other schools. At Hamilton High, it’s a civil war: the football team versus the soccer team. And for her part,Lissa is sick of it. Her quarterback boyfriend, Randy, is always ditching her to go pick a fight with the soccer team or to prank their locker room. And on three separate occasions Randy’s car has been egged while he and Lissa were inside, making out. She is done competing with a bunch of sweaty boys for her own boyfriend’s attention
Then Lissa decides to end the rivalry once and for all: She and the other players’ girlfriends go on a hookup strike. The boys won’t get any action from them …
3 Stars,Kody Keplinger,Review,The Quirky Lover 19 Jan 2012
4 comments
Review: The Bodyguards’ Princess by Ann Mayburn
Format read: ebook copy provided by author
Release Date: 30 July 2011
Number of pages: 132 pages
Publisher: Liquid Silver Books
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon
Blurb:
Lalita Chetana, daughter of a United Nations Diplomat, survives an attempted kidnapping by a terrorist group known as the anarchists. She has a difficult time with her recovery, and her father hires two bodyguards, ex-Marines Asher Epson and Kent Warne, to keep her safe and give her time to heal. Unfortunately, even their skills can’t save her from an enemy determined to destroy her.
Hypnotized into stealing UN secrets, she is framed by the anarchists. As part of their plan to humiliate and break her father, they plant a hypnotic trigger that anytime she hears the word “bitch” she will become aroused to the point of pain. She is forced to flee and go into hiding with Asher and Kent. The …
3 Stars,Ann Mayburn,Review,The Latin Lover 5 Jan 2012
10 comments
Review: Wild Lilly by Ann Mayburn
Format read: ARC provided by the author
Release Date: 11 Nov 2011
Publisher: Decadent Publishing
Length: 258 pages
Formats available: ebook,
Series:Willow Creek #1
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Decadent Publishing
Book Blurb:
When Connecticut socialite Lilly Brooks inherits land in Caldwell, Kansas, she finally has the chance to break free from the gilded cage of Victorian society and chase after her dreams of excitement and romance in the Wild West. Excitement arrives with angry Indians, smelly dogs, and drunken cowboys who won’t take no for an answer. Romance comes in the form of a ruggedly handsome rancher named Paul McGregor. Too bad he calls her a whore within the first minute of their acquaintance.
Paul has spent the last three years trying to hold his family and ranch together after the death of his parents. When he saves a stunning blonde, who he thinks …
3 Bookies,3 Stars,Ann Mayburn,Review,The Geeky Lover 10 Nov 2011
6 comments
Review: Spell Bound by Stephanie Julian
Format Read: ebook provided by Author for review
Series: Darkly Enchanted #1
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Length: 279 pages
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Publisher: Moonlit Night Publishing
Formats Available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Kindle
Book Blurb:
Shea Tedaldi is the only thing standing between her six-year-old brother and the men who killed their parents. Descendents of the ancient Etruscan magical race, Shea and her brother keep powerful secrets that make them the targets of the evil Malandante. They’ve been looking for a safe haven but the bad guys are gaining on them and Shea needs a hero, a guardian who won’t falter in the face of danger…
He’s looking for the key to break the spell… Gabriel Borelli is a warrior born to protect the Etruscan witches living under a curse. He’s dedicated to breaking the spell …
3 Bookies,3 Stars,Review,Stephanie Julian,The Geeky Lover 19 Oct 2011
1 comment
Review: Paradise 21 by Aubrie Dionne
Format Read: ebookNumber of Pages: 247Release Date: August 2, 2011Publisher: Entangled Publishing LLCFormats Available: Paperback, ebookPurchasing Info: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Diesel ebook store, Books On Board, Goodreads, Author’s website
Book Blurb:
Aries has lived her entire life aboard mankind’s last hope, the New Dawn, a spaceship traveling toward a planet where humanity can begin anew-a planet that won’t be reached in Aries’ lifetime. As one of the last genetically desirable women in the universe, she must marry her designated genetic match and produce the next generation for this centuries-long voyage.But Aries has other plans.When her desperate escape from the New Dawn strands her on a desert planet, Aries discovers the rumors about pirates-humans who escaped Earth before its demise-are true. Handsome, genetically imperfect Striker possesses the freedom Aries envies, and the two connect on a level …
3 Bookies,3 Stars,Aubrie Dionne,Review,The Smutty Lover 2 Sep 2011
0 comment
Review: Comfort Food by Kitty Thomas
Format Read: HardcoverNumber of Pages: 186Release Date: 21 March 2010Publisher: Burlesque PressFormats Available: Harcover, EbookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon
Book Blurb:
Emily Vargas has been taken captive. As part of his conditioning methods, her captor refuses to speak to her, knowing how much she craves human contact.
He’s far too beautiful to be a monster. Her attraction to him and his lack of violence has her walking a fine line on the edge of sanity.
Told in the first person from Emily’s perspective, Comfort Food explores what happens when all expectations of please and pain are turned upside down. As whips become comfort, and chicken soup becomes punishment.
My Thoughts:
Comfort Food was a powerful read, but it didn’t truly touch me in the ways I was expecting.
Emily is a captive of a …
3 Bookies,3 Stars,Kitty Thomas,Review,The Winged Lover 11 Aug 2011
1 comment
Review: Craving Perfect by Liz Fichera
Format Read: eBookRelease Date: 27 June 2011Formats available: eBookPublisher: Carina PressSource: review copy provided by publisher via NetGalleyPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Carina PressBook Blurb:
A Life Less…Hers
Grace Mills craves being perfect almost as much as she craves raspberry scones. In fact, her life would be perfect if only she could lose ten more pounds, if only the pastry café she co-owns with her sister would turn a profit, if only the hottest guy at the gym would look her way…
And then “if only” comes true. Grace is suddenly straddling two lives: an alternate reality where she’s a size two, weathergirl celebrity and being chased by the hot guy. Only Mr. Gorgeous isn’t very nice.In her other life, she’s starting to realize her sister is less than happy running the family café, and hunky Carlos, …
3 Bookies,3 Stars,Liz Fichera,Review,The Geeky Lover 25 Jul 2011
1 comment
Review: "Black Ties and Lullabies" by Jane Graves
Format Read: Paperback submitted by Hatchett Book Group (Forever Romance) for review
Length: 432 pages
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Publisher: Forever, Hatchett Book Group
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, Kindle, Nook
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Powells, Chapters, Kindle, Nook,
Book Blurb:
A good girl can be bad for one night . . .
Bernadette Hogan doesn’t make mistakes. Not when it comes to caring for her mother, and not at her job protecting Texas’s most eligible—and infuriating—bachelor. Maybe that’s why she’s overcome with guilt after one tiny indiscretion: a passionate fling with her boss that’s left her confused, intrigued . . . and pregnant.
but can a bad boy be good for a lifetime?
To self-made millionaire Jeremy Bridges, women are like fine wine: if held for too …
3 Bookies,3 Stars,Jane Graves,Review,The Danger Lover 7 Jul 2011
13 comments
Review: Seduction & Scandal by Charlotte Featherstone
Format read: eARC provided by publisher through NetGalleySeries: Book #1 in The Brethren Guardians seriesNumber of pages: 384 pages Publisher: HQN BooksFormats available: paperback, ebookRelease Date: 1 July 2011 Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Kindle store, Book Depository
Blurb:
With the scandalous nature of her birth to live down, Isabella Fairmont dreams of a proper marriage—even if a passionless one. She saves her deepest desires for the novel she dares to pen, wherein a handsome lord with dark powers seduces her. But then her courtship with an appropriate suitor is threatened by the sudden attentions of the reclusive Earl of Black…whose pale blue eyes and brooding sensuality are exactly as she described in her book.
Isabella tries to resist the mysterious Earl of Black.
Yet as he pursues her, with inexplicable knowledge of her past …
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