Warning: This review contains some spoilers. I really enjoyed reading this book. I had never read this author before, but I was interested after hearing the author on the podcast with Elyse. This book was action-packed! It was an adrenaline-fueled read with lots of drama. A times it was almost too dramatic and really very dark. I am always a little surprised at how dark so many books and series that fold into the romance … Continue reading Facing Fire by HelenKay Dimon →
I didn’t receive a 2016 RITA® Reader Challenge review for this book, so I’m compiling quotes from reviews online and using the grade average from Goodreads as a substitute. This book has a 4.60 average, which I’m interpreting as an A. Julie wrote: …This story is one of the edgiest novels by Dana Marton I’ve read. It has all the elements that romantic suspense enthusiast, love- such as a hot ex-SEAL hero, a kick – … Continue reading Flash Fire by Dana Marton →
I didn’t receive a 2016 RITA® Reader Challenge review for this book, so I’m compiling quotes from reviews online and using the grade average from Goodreads as a substitute. This book has a 4.24 average, which I’m interpreting as an A-. ♥Rachel♥ wrote: …In the Waning Light was a second chance romance between soul mates, but front and center was the riveting mystery that will keep you guessing, and on the edge! Oh, the secrets held … Continue reading In the Waning Light by Loreth Anne White →
At its core, this book deals with serious issues: the aftermath of domestic violence, the terror that stalking can create, and the challenges a woman has in reclaiming her body after abuse. If you find any of these triggering, this is not the series for you, as recovery from domestic violence is a thread that weaves throughout the novels. Scarlett Cole works very hard to treat these issues with the intensity and seriousness they deserve. … Continue reading The Strongest Steel by Scarlett Cole →
So military romances. Eh. Kinda burned out on them. All those super secret black ops teams that not even the government knows about? After a while they started making my skin crawl, because borderline criminal behavior and a license to kill with no over sight what-so-ever? NOT SEXY. Don’t get me wrong – I’ve read my fair share, or more, of these books, but reality kept nudging in and now? Nope nopenopenope. Set that quibble … Continue reading Target Engaged by M. L. Buchman →
I picked this book because it’s rare that I strike out with the first in a series and keep going with another installment. Once bitten, twice shy, you know? But while I didn’t enjoy the first book, I have enjoyed a couple of the author’s novellas, so I thought this would be a perfect opportunity for an experiment: giving series with a disappointing first book another shot. I am a firm believer in ditching books … Continue reading Facing Fire by HelenKay Dimon →
I was not familiar with the Fatal series or Marie Force going into this, but the description looked like it had a bunch of my personal catnip: ass-kicking lead woman, romantic thriller, political elements. (I love reading/watching totally off-the-rails versions of DC. Except House of Cards. Don’t get me started on how much I hate House of Cards.) Anyway, the book opens in medias res, as it were, and it’s immediately obvious that some serious … Continue reading Fatal Frenzy by Marie Force →
Francesca “Chessie” Rossi always has a plan. Though she works as an investigator at Guardian Angelinos, her family’s security and investigation business, she stays behind her computer in Boston. She doesn’t do field work. But children can’t be loaded onto laptops. So when she finds evidence that her brother Gabe’s lover bore him a child before dying on the run in Cuba, Chessie knows someone will have to investigate in person. Malcolm “Mal” Harris is … Continue reading Barefoot with a Stranger by Roxanne St. Claire →
Trigger warning for torture and attempted rape. Night Hush is a romantic suspense by Leslie Jones. It takes place in the fictional country of Azakistan. A terrorist group has taken an a female American service member hostage, and special forces group Delta Force runs across her in the course of their operations. Heather Langstrom has been tortured and badly injured, but has managed to escape captivity through her own intelligence and skills. Her rescuer, Jace … Continue reading Night Hush by Leslie Jones →
This one is going to be much harder to write than my previous review, because I didn’t like this book as much. I actually wonder if I would have kept going if I hadn’t signed up to write this review. I’m glad I did, because there were some aspects of the book I greatly enjoyed. There were other aspects that drove me bonkers. I’ll start with what I did like, since I have the social … Continue reading Fatal Frenzy by Marie Force →
Staff Sergeant First Class Carla Anderson is the first woman to receive orders of selection for “The Unit,” more commonly known as Delta Force. Being the only woman in a previously all-male bastion is only one of the challenges ahead. She is determined to excel and her biggest competition is Sergeant First Class Kyle Reeves. Mutual respect becomes mutual attraction as they make their way through the assessment phase. There’s no time for romance during assessment, … Continue reading Target Engaged by M.L. Buchman →
