I started reading this novella on an unusually cool spring day in Los Angeles when it was actually overcast and spitting rain—pretty much as close to Christmas weather as you can get in that part of the country. I made tea, curled up on the couch with my iPad and everything was lovely. Then life intervened (like, twenty minutes later, as it does), we moved three hundred and fifty miles north and I’m finally getting … Continue reading A Yorkshire Christmas by Kate Hewitt→
NB: Heather T. saw this book among yesterday’s cover snark and said, “I think I need to read this.” For science, I presume. Whatever the reason, we’re grateful! Welcome, Heather! The cover of this little missive showed up on the Bitchery because the cover and the concept were just So Fucking Funny. The cover showed this guy wearing nothing but glasses and a huge bejeweled codpiece. A MAGIC BEJEWELED CODPIECE. I volunteered to take one for the team and … Continue reading Guest Review: Emily’s Magical Bejeweled Codpiece by B. Snow→
This is a hard review to write. I read this book several weeks ago. It had the misfortune of coming to the top of my TBR list at a time when I was crazy busy at work and could only read in fits and starts. I would get through only a few paragraphs at a time before keeling over in exhaustion. So I felt like I never got any momentum going and the book didn’t … Continue reading Midnight Action by Elle Kennedy→
First time reviewer hoping to give back to the community. As a reader, I will pick up any book off the shelf (or download into my Kindle) without regard to the author or the book’s placement in a series. So I am looking for books that will hold my interest without too much referencing of previous books in a series and authors with whom I would be happy to visit again. The book starts with … Continue reading You’re Not Safe by Mary Burton→
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Romantic suspense is my favorite genre. However, I am usually drawn to books with International Espionage or Military/Black Ops scenarios that are heavy on romance. That being said, Mary Burton’s You’re Not Safe could be described as suspense with romantic elements. While I hoped that the relationship between our hero and heroine would be more integral to the story, the author nevertheless kept me engaged and guessing from beginning to end. The prologue certainly set the … Continue reading You’re Not Safe by Mary Burton→
I almost stopped reading when I got to the end of Chapter One and found out the Heroine is half Arapaho and has Magic Native American healing powers. Magic Indian! I took a deep breath and gave it the benefit of the doubt. There are a lot of non-Magic-Indian paranormal elements in other novels, so it’s not always Magic Indians. In fact, the team leader Zane (the hero of Book 1 in this series) is … Continue reading Forged in Ash by Trish McCallan→
I really wanted to like this book. I generally like romantic suspense in general, and I think it can be one of the more difficult branches of the genre to write in. There is so much balancing to do, with making the heroine vulnerable and yet feisty but not too stupid to live; the hero commanding but not crossing the line into domineering, the problem to be solved realistically suspenseful but not crossing into extreme … Continue reading Forged in Ash by Trish McCallan→
Before I start this review, let me make it clear that I am not a music person. I can’t play an instrument, I can’t read notes, I just know what I like. As a result, a lot of the scenes that used music as the catalyst for expressing emotions didn’t ring the bell with me that they might with someone who knows more about the subject. When I saw the title, I thought Fever Pitch … Continue reading Fever Pitch by Heidi Cullinan→
“Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.” It all began three years ago. Futzing around on Tumblr (as one does), I happened across a teaser/conceptual trailer from the Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon. Familiar as I was with their work from their very enjoyable first film The Secret of Kells, I gave it a … Continue reading Guest Squee: Song of the Sea→
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. – Lord Byron Tyler Connelly made Dr. Evelyn Rhoades laugh … even as she tended to his wounds from driving a stolen jet ski into a dock. Fate delivered her to the emergency room in the same hospital as her plastic surgery office, bringing Bell Harbor’s newest doc in contact with the town’s bad boy (or so she thinks). Tyler saw past Eve’s professional approach and … Continue reading The Best Medicine by Tracy Brogan→
I adore Jane Graves. I loved the first book in her Rainbow Valley series. Her characters walk off the page, and her style of writing puts me in the center of her stories. It’s why I gravitated towards writing this piece in the first place. I also know that it’s hard to pull together a series, especially one with the kind of cool and quirky concept like the one the Rainbow Valley series is based … Continue reading Baby It’s You by Jane Graves→
