Y’all, this is going to be a review with several part: I’m putting the basic plot summary and analysis up top, and then there shall be semi-spoilery THOUGHTS. Our main characters are Willa Fairchild and Finn Conrad. Willa is a single mom and private nurse who is travelling from Phoenix to Marietta this Christmas at the behest of a former patient of hers who died and left her a minor inheritance. Willa’s son Scout is six years … Continue reading A Bramble House Christmas by CJ Carmichael →
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 →
Funny story. Due to lots of unforeseen travel in the last month – Shepherding the Dread Pirate Robert’s cataract surgery (You scheduled it for when? What you mean I don’t need to be there? It’s so cute that you think that, Dad) and moving my goddaughter to Ohio (What do you mean what time am I getting there? We’re doing what this weekend? Didn’t we just get her potty trained last year?), I was not … Continue reading Midnight’s Kiss by Thea Harrison →
FINALLY! That is my reaction to this book. I have been sitting through three books to get to this story and it was totally worth it! The book follows Chelsea as she draws up the list for her perfect man and the characteristics that he will possess. None of them are physical traits – it’s more about lifestyle and personal beliefs that concern Chelsea. She doesn’t want someone with a crazy-ex, works nights or weekends, … Continue reading Love After All by Jaci Burton →
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 →
Barefoot with a Bodyguard by Roxanne St. Claire is made of my own personal catnip all over the place. Bodyguard crush? Check. Sweet hero with a dark and troubled past he’s trying to escape? Check. Damsel who refuses to stay distressed? Check. Two people who aren’t romantically involved going undercover as a couple? Check. The list goes on and every trope was extremely well written. The basic set-up is that Kate Kingston is fresh out … Continue reading Barefoot with a Bodyguard by Roxanne St. Claire →
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 →
London 1885 : A young woman stands apart watching her bleeding body on the ground and the thugs who cut her throat being beaten away by two lovely, properly dressed young women who appeared armed with sword and baton. Eliza had just docked in London hours ago from Boston, fleeing the ugly things she had done there to survive after her family had died, and with the fervent hope of finding her distant relatives in … Continue reading Soulbound by Kristen Callihan →
Trigger warning for violence and attempted rape. My friendly local bookstore clerk introduced me to Thea Harrison when I had just about despaired of finding any new authors of urban fantasy/paranormal romance that tickled my fancy. Harrison’s Elder Races books contained neither polite Canadian vampires nor humorous workarounds for vampire/shifter handicaps nor TSTL heroines who nevertheless triumph over all evil-doers. I totally fell in love with Pia and Dragos Cuelebre and gobbled up the rest … Continue reading Midnight’s Kiss by Thea Harrison →
Given how much I disliked Barefoot with a Bodyguard, one might be surprised to see that I am reviewing the next installment in the Barefoot Bay Undercover series. Why, do you ask? Because I liked all the other Barefoot Bay books except Barefoot with a Bodyguard and I thought I’d like this one more than I did. What attracted me to this book? I liked Francesca Rossi in the previous books. Malcolm Harris is a wounded … Continue reading Barefoot with a Stranger by Roxanne St. Claire →
