Review: What’s a Witch to Do? by Jennifer Harlow

Format read: Trade Paperback
Series: A Midnight Magic Mystery (#1)
Genre: Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Number of pages: 336 pages
Publisher: Midnight Ink
Formats available: ebook, trade paperback
Purchasing Info:  Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)

Book Blurb:

A suspenseful brew with a dash of passion

High Priestess might sound like an ’80s hair band, but its Mona McGregor’s life. She runs the Midnight Magic shop in Goodnight, Virginia, and leads a large coven. She’s also raising two nieces and hasn’t been with a man for fifteen years…until a handsome doctor takes an interest in her. But Mona’s life really heats up when Adam Blue, a sexy werewolf, arrives at her door. Adam informs her that someone wants her dead and he is there to protect her. Hell’s bells! When …

Bookish Rants and Raves:Desperately finishing a book

How desperate have you been to finish a book?

Have you been late for work? Late for school? Late for a date?

How about late for a flight?

Recently I read The Casual Vacancy by J.K Rowling. I happened to be about to finish it on a Friday, the same Friday I needed to get on a plane to New Zealand, for a wedding. I was 40 pages out from finishing. In the morning before work I knocked over 36 pages, bad luck and potential lateness (again) left me with 4 pages to go. I was already running on a favour from my boss letting me leave early, which is why I couldn’t risk being late. I didn’t take lunch that day so I couldn’t finish it at work, but I took my book anyway.

At the risk of losing my job I subtly read two more pages at my desk when I was …

Review: Bolted by Meg Benjamin

Format read: ebook copy provided by the author for review
Series: Book #2 in the Promise Harbor Wedding series
Release Date: 2 April 2013
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Number of pages: 272 pages
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Samhain, Read an excerpt

Blurb:

Sometimes you have to get lost before you can find yourself.

The Promise Harbor Wedding, Book 2

Greta Brewster McBain in a bind. Two, if she’s really counting. First there’s the can-barely-breathe, bridesmaid’s dress from hell. Second, the stranger who just carried her “perfect” brother’s fiancée out the church door has made it impossible to tell her own mother about her own divorce.

Rather than confirm her reputation as the family screw-up, Greta takes a drive to clear her head.

Trapped in a hole and unable to reach his cell phone, Hank Mitchell is resigned to becoming a permanent part of his own archeological dig when help arrives—in the form of …

Review: A Note of Madness by Tabitha Suzuma

Format read: paperback
Genre: Contemporary
Release Date: 15 February 2007
Length: 305 pages
Publisher: Definitions
Formats available: Hardcover, paperback, ebook
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Book Blurb:

Why is this happening to me? he asked himself desperately. What is wrong with me?

Life as a student is good for Flynn. As one of the top pianists at the Royal College of Music, he has been put forward for an important concert, the opportunity of a lifetime. But beneath the surface, things are changing. On a good day he feels full of energy and life, but on a bad day being alive is worse than being dead. Sometimes he wants to compose and practice all night, at other times he can’t get out of bed. With the pressure of the …

Guest post by Hayson Manning + Giveaway

What we all wouldn’t give to work on a tropical island, or even just to fly there for a few days to unwind and soak up the sun… *sighs* But if you can’t do that right now, do the next best thing: grab a copy of Wife in Name Only, the freshly released debut novel of contemporary romance author Hayson Manning and a glass of chilled margarita and escape to this faraway paradise. But before you do that, join us as Hayson stops by to talk a bit about her novel and its connection to dream jobs… and of course you could even win a copy of Wife in Name Only! 😉 

Dream Jobs

Tonga vista

When I was writing Wife in Name Only, I thought Zoe’s job of running a boutique honeymoon resort on a small island in Tonga was a dream job! Living on a Pacific …

Review: Lush by Lauren Dane

Format Read: Print Galley provided by the author
Number of Pages: 352 pages
Release Date: April 2nd 2013
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Series: Delicious #3
Genre: Contemporary Erotic Romance
Formats Available: Paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK) | Author Website | Goodreads

Book Blurb:

USA Today bestselling author Lauren Dane delivers a second serving of sexy in her new Delicious novel, in which taste and temptation make up a sweet recipe…

Mary Whaley has her hands full running a successful catering company and overseeing her supper club. She has everything she ever wanted—or so she thought. When she meets ridiculously hot and very dirty rock star Damien Hurley at her friend’s engagement party, the attraction she feels is overpowering—and she isn’t about to deny herself.

Damien is used to a hard and fast life. He …

New Releases: April 22-28, 2013

Title: The River of No Return
Author: Bee Ridgway
Genre: paranormal, historical, time-travel
Release date: April 23, 2013 by Dutton Adult

Description:

“You are now a member of the Guild. There is no return.” Two hundred years after he was about to die on a Napoleonic battlefield, Nick Falcott, soldier and aristocrat, wakes up in a hospital bed in modern London. The Guild, an entity that controls time travel, showers him with life’s advantages. But Nick yearns for home and for one brown-eyed girl, lost now down the centuries. Then the Guild asks him to break its own rule. It needs Nick to go back to 1815 to fight the Guild’s enemies and to find something called the Talisman.

In 1815, Julia Percy mourns the death of her beloved grandfather, an earl who could play with time. On his deathbed he whispers in her ear: “Pretend!” Pretend what? When Nick returns home as …