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: Blaze
June 29, 2011 | Wednesday | 2 Comments
This RITA® Reader Challenge review was written by Cassandra. This story finaled in the Best Novella category.
ETA: I also have a review from Alyssa, who gave this novella a B.
Plot Summary: Permanently injured on a black-ops mission, Cord Madden is furious at the world. Then Lexi McGowen reappears in his life to nurse him back to health. Little does he guess that she’s about to reveal a whole new world to him, one touch at a time.
And here is Cassandra’s review:
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April 20, 2011 | Wednesday | 20 Comments
I usually love O’Reilly’s heroes, and this one was no exception, but my disappointment rested on the heroine’s character, and the unfinished business between them, and of the hero’s past as well. Despite my disappointment in this story, I so love O’Reilly’s characters that I’ll pick up her next book without hesitation. Edie is moonlighting for a night as a cab driver when she picks up Tyler at the airport. He’s a highly-trained surgeon who specializes in cardiology and is in New York City for a short stay while he competes for a fellowship at a local hospital. He’s competing…
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April 14, 2011 | Thursday | 108 Comments
I will state upfront that I had an ulterior motive for reading this book. I read it for the anal. Yup, you read that right. Blazing anal. Blazing the Hershey highway. Firing up the backdoor action. Hot poop chute lovin’. Avast me hearties, there be anal in this novel. While at RT, I heard about this book from Andrew Schaeffer, who reviews the Blaze line for RT Book Reviews. You should have seen my face. I absolutely did not believe him. But no, there is anal. He even says so in his review. I was hoping to like the story,…
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July 17, 2010 | Saturday | 30 Comments
Ana writes: Cover: Showed a guy (tall, dark, handsome) holding the heroines arm stopping her from escaping. She was on a horse so I am assuming he was chasing her. The heroine had long red hair and was wearing a red dress. Hero: Name was Blaze (I think) and had to be a lord. Setting: Historical Romance, somewhere in Britain. Some other nation had taken over(I believe scotts or Irish) and Blaze had taken over another lords castle. Heroine: I cant remember her name, she was an illegitimate child to the lord and she closely resembled the original lords daughter.…
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May 18, 2010 | Tuesday | 59 Comments
Since I’m reading on a Kindle I have no idea what page I’m on, but I’m estimating that I’m 1/10th of the way through this book, and I don’t want to continue. The WTFery is piled so high, I can’t see my way to the end. Jillian Brightman purchased a big ol’ house with her sisters, and they’ve teamed up to turn it into an inn. Jillian, according to the cover synopsis, has a secret fantasy that comes to life when she meets Ian, who isn’t who he says he is. I was curious about this book from the synopsis,…
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February 02, 2010 | Tuesday | 18 Comments
I mentioned this book during a giveaway last week: it’s a light and fun contemporary that’s sexy and poignant at some moments. Amanda Bauer is a pilot for her uncle’s small private aviation firm, and when a client cancels at the last minute, she has a flight of one instead of five from Pittsburgh to Chicago. It’s Halloween, and the client who cancels is one of her favorite people - an older lady who told her she had to dress in costume. So Amanda’s standing on the tarmac in a vintage flight attendant’s costume from the early 70s, complete with…
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January 27, 2010 | Wednesday | 4 Comments
Hooray: ten lucky winners are going to indulge like holy whoa with a copy of The Blaze Collection. Woo!
The winners as chosen by the Random.org integer generator are:
MelB
Kelsey
Nadia
Morgan M.
Kathleen
jarant
henofthewoods
Jessica L
The Queen B
And the grand prize winner: Peggy P.
Please email me at sarahATsmartbitchestrashybooksDOTcom with your mailing addresses asap so we can get your books out. Special awesomeness: they’ll be signed by the authors.
Thanks to Leslie Kelly and to all 300+ of you who made me want chocolate, fireplaces, and bathtubs, all in the same place.
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January 25, 2010 | Monday | 328 Comments
I have a really fun giveaway today, so set fire to your pants, it’s Blaze Trilogy time! This Valentine’s Day, Harlequin put together a trade-sized 3-in-1 of brand new Blaze romances: The Blaze Collection. It includes three new novels: Her Sexy Valentine by Stephanie Bond, Play with Me by Leslie Kelly, and The Charmer by Kate Hoffmann. Note: I’ve read Play With Me and liked it a lot - very light and quite hot. So winning a copy along with two other new books? Boo to the Yah with a side of Hells Yeah. So I’ve got 10 copies to…
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December 16, 2009 | Wednesday | 5 Comments
Featuring every Harlequin author ever! Even the ones no longer on this mortal plain! Just kidding: but there’s an absolutely massive party going on tonight at the Harlequin community. There are chats going on all day to accommodate the authors in more awesome timezones (you know, the ones where it’s always happy hour THERE and not HERE), but tonight at 7pm EST the live chats begin at http://chat.eharlequin.com/ with different Harlequin authors joining in at various times. The schedule is: 7-8pm EST: Home & Family / Teen & TRU: American, SuperRomance, Special Edition, Harlequin Teen & Kimani TRU 8-9pm EST:…
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November 30, 2009 | Monday | 13 Comments
You know my theory - you never forget the first romance you ever read. Paige is looking for hers: So I’ve recently become nostalgic for the first romance I ever read, but unfortunately, when my mom found it hidden under my bed many years ago, she confiscated it and got rid of is, so I was hoping you romance aficionados would help me out and be able to pull a title from somewhere so I could find it and read it again. Here’s what I remember: It was a Harlequin published sometime between 2000-2003; and I’m pretty sure it was…
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November 02, 2009 | Monday | 10 Comments
Jane recommended this book to me when I was looking for a contemporary category to read after a streak of lukewarm, unexciting historicals. On one hand, it was a great suggestion because holy cow did I enjoy it. It’s a book that evolves with so much humor and warmth, you smile while you read it. But on the other hand, whatever comes next has a lot to live up to. Hailey has just moved home to her family’s beachfront bed and breakfast in San Diego after three failed engagements and a life built on escaping the same employment she’s just…
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October 31, 2009 | Saturday | 3 Comments
Harlequin is having a big ol’ 31% off sale today over at eHarlequin *Applies to regularly priced print books, excludes eBooks & Theme Collections (sob, sniffle, sniffle).
I’m posting the review tomorrow, but if you’re looking for a spiffy contemporary to read, you can get Jill Monroe’s SEALed and Delivered with this sale for only $3.45 US.
Note: when I tested out the sale, the 31% price only showed up in the shopping cart, so double check there if you’re going shopping. Happy reading!
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September 17, 2009 | Thursday | 31 Comments
Once, long ago, I had a guy friend ask me out to dinner. Now, we were pretty much “just friends”, but I thought he was sweet and cute and I enjoyed his company, so I happily agreed to what sounded rather date-like (especially since he told me to dress “nice”). Off we went, with him telling me that where we were going was a “surprise”. Then we pulled up in front of a church. I asked him why we were stopping and he said he needed to run in really quick and asked if I would mind coming along. Once…
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September 16, 2009 | Wednesday | 8 Comments
Ms. Match was my first book by Jo Leigh, and cliche upon cliche, it won’t be my last. My experience with Harlequin’s Blaze line is largely hit-and-miss. I’ve followed it sporadically since the line’s inception (2004-ish?) and have cringed over the tepid sex-centered plots and characters who definitely were not “hip” (God I hate that word) or modern. Despite my so-so experience, I continue to give Blaze a chance because fun and sexy contemporary romances are difficult to come by. When Harlequin offered each Test Driver $25 to splurge on HQN titles, I went immediately to the Blaze’s, figuring that…
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September 15, 2009 | Tuesday | 22 Comments
As Harlequin very generously offered a book voucher as part of the Sony e-Reader test drive, I decided to use it to break out of my preferred romance genre (long historicals) and try some short contemporaries. I hadn’t read a contemporary in years, so I figured the best way to re-introduce myself to the genre was to try some random compendiums and the Blaze series seemed to be about the furthest away from my usual preferences as possible. For the most part, they were enjoyable, but fairly forgettable (kind of like the McDonalds of romantic fiction really). However, there was…
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