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 3.73 average, which I’m interpreting as a B+. Sarah wrote: …The storyline in this started out okay, then it lost me a bit. I found the pace quite slow, and I really lost interest for a while. It did pick up a … Continue reading Forget Tomorrow by Pintip Dunn →
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 3.78 average, which I’m interpreting as a B+. And here are the review quotes, linked to the original sources: Sybil aka Lala wrote: …I loved the way the book was written. From the start you’re thrown right into all the confusion and you’re … Continue reading Altered by Marnee Blake →
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 →
I started No Better Man with high hopes. Chapter 1 was great. And that was it. Actually, I’d made it about 72% of the way through sometime back in April, then put the book aside when I couldn’t deal with it anymore. Besides, I had a lot of cereal boxes to read. With the RITA Reader Challenge deadline fast approaching, it became a point of pride to resume reading and do my duty. Unfortunately, doing … Continue reading No Better Man by Sara Richardson →
I chose this book under ‘Best First Book’ rather than ‘Best Paranormal Romance,’ and that pretty well summarises some of the more technical problems I had with it. The pacing problems, jarring (often unnecessary) exposition, inconsistency of voice, and slightly clumsy ending sequence that I experienced here are, in my experience, pretty typical first-book problems. But this book also bugged me in several ways that I’m less sanguine about. First, though, let’s talk about the … Continue reading Viking Warrior Rising by Asa Maria Bradley →
My review takes a quasi-newspaper article type format, with each section being worth a point. Who/Why Lady Miranda Hawthorne, our heroine, has been repressed all her young life by her mother’s well-intentioned “lady lessons.” The reader is reminded, frequently, how Miranda can’t do this or that thing because such behavior’s deemed unfitting of a lady. Quite a bit of Miranda’s internal monologue is dedicated to this theme, which is irritating, for one, but also kept … Continue reading A Noble Masquerade by Kristi Ann Hunter →
Lunges, pivots, turns, spins, Salchows, loops, flips, Lutz jumps, axel jumps, singles, doubles, and triples. It’s okay if these terms don’t mean a whole hell of a lot to you. I’d consider myself a casual fan of ice skating. When I see a skating competition on television, I definitely watch. Plus, watching The Cutting Edge throughout the ‘90s was a formative romantic and figure skating touch-point—as it was for the earlier SBTB reviewer, and our author, … Continue reading Pairing Off by Elizabeth Harmon →
This book was nominated in two categories – Best First Book and Inspirational. I’ll admit that I signed up to review it in Best First Book before I realized it was an Inspirational. As I am not religious, and as I have had some unfortunate experiences with Inspirationals that were heavy-handed in force-feeding religion at every turn, I had my doubts. However, I decided that getting out of my comfort zone would be a good … Continue reading A Noble Masquerade by Kristi Ann Hunter →
