Burn for Me opens with Eve, an Intrepid Reporter who has gone undercover to investigate Genesis Labs. The company experiments on paranormals who have supposedly volunteered to help Science, but Eve suspects that Genesis and its research isn’t as ethical as advertised. She meets Cain—our hero and a stock Brooding Alpha Asshole—when he is chained up and about to be experimented on. As soon as they’re in the same room, the only thing they can … Continue reading Burn for Me by Cynthia Eden →
I didn’t plan on liking this book. Seriously. Despite a crazy schedule, I signed up to review five books for the RITA® Reader Challenge–and then I signed up to take an intense college course so I could finish my degree early. Yeah. I thought about dropping this book from my list as it seemed the least appealing to me, but I decided that I made a commitment and that I could manage. Of course, life has … Continue reading Bitter Spirits by Jenn Bennett →
Long back story shortish: Many millennia ago a group of warriors stole the dim Ouniak from the gods of the Greek variety and opened it. Why did they do this? To teach said gods a lesson – because that always turns out well. Their widdle feelings got hurt when a female warrior was picked to guard the box – that would be Pandora. Pride, as they say, goeth before a fall and now, I believe, … Continue reading The Darkest Touch by Gena Showalter →
This is the 11th book in Gena Showalter’s Lords of the Underworld series but the first that I’ve read. I’d heard good reviews for her earlier books in this series so I was eager to read one and I’m sad to say that I was underwhelmed. Maybe I got my hopes too high but it didn’t knock me out of the park. The reader is dropped into the middle of the plot. Torin, the hero, … Continue reading The Darkest Touch by Gena Showalter →
What a delight! I’m not a fan of paranormals with demons and werewolves, but give me a time-travel and I’m all over it. The problem I usually have with time-travels, though, is the believability in how the time travel happens. This book is refreshingly funny, with a great twist on the usual time travel devices. Tensley, against her better judgement, visits a psychic who offers her a chance for a do-over, to correct her greatest … Continue reading Be Careful What You Kiss For by Jane Lynne Daniels →
My review takes a quasi-newspaper article type format, with each section being worth a point. Who/Why Tensley Tanner-Starbrook is a (relatively) successful gal who works for her (domineering bitch of a) mom. Tensley (still) harbors a deep love for high school boyfriend, Max Hunter, and a violent hatred of the gal who (seemed) to have stolen him, Rhonda-the-Skank (it’s got a ring to it, right?). Tensley and Max split after Ten caught him locking lips … Continue reading Be Careful What You Kiss For by Jane Lynne Daniels →
This review contains spoilers. Some I have tried to hide, and others will be revealed. You have been warned. I haven’t read the previous books in this trilogy (this being the third of the Private Justice series), but I have read books by the author before. I really enjoyed the author’s Heroes of Quantico trilogy, to which there was a nice reference to the RITA-Winning Award third book of that trilogy: In Harm’s Way. I don’t … Continue reading Deceived by Irene Hannon →
NB: Patty Blount and I are both Members of LIRW chapter 160. Here’s the thing. As a general rule, I love to pull interesting threads out of books when I review. It’s wonderful to be able to talk about the books I adore through the lens of the world I live in. Some Boys is the kind of book that defeats that reviewing technique, mostly because the entire book is wonderfully crafted around an issue. … Continue reading Some Boys by Patty Blount →
The Gentleman Rogue is a book that uses multiple romance novel tropes and clichés throughout the book but to my surprise does so rather successfully. When we’re introduced to the characters in a tavern (though the heroine would object to it being called as such!) where she is a waitress and he a patron, I got false expectations that it would turn out to be historical without the balls and the soirees, the earls and the … Continue reading The Gentleman Rogue by Margaret McPhee →
The Widow’s Suitor is a quick and easy read, a sweet and simple inspirational romance with a straightforward plot, some drama and excitement, and easily recognizable character types and conflicts. Ultimately, though, it wasn’t for me. Our heroine, Cora Anderson, is a young (twenty-something) widow living on a South Dakota homestead with her mother in law Bertha. Cora’s husband Hank (Bertha’s son) has died some seven or eight months before, and the two women are … Continue reading The Widow’s Suitor by Rose Ross Zediker →
My reading taste sits squarely in the historical capital city of Almackistan. I don’t read contemporaries and I’ve never been interested in buying one. But when I saw Caitie Quinn’s Worth The Fall needed a reviewer, I decided to get a little out of my comfort zone. I figured that, given my distaste for contemporaries, I could give it the sort of distanced, intellectual review that a blog like Smart Bitches, Trashy Books deserves. Sorry, … Continue reading Worth the Fall by Caitie Quinn →
