Ash’s review of Visions of Magic (The Awakening Series, Book 1) by Regan Hastings Paranormal Romance published by Signet Eclipse 01 Feb 11 Visions of Magic is everything I usually hate to read. I am not a huge witch fan and I hate reincarnated story lines; however, I found it really hard to put this [...]

Sandy M’s review of Open Country (Blood Rose Trilogy, Book 2) by Kaki Warner Western Historical Romance published by Berkley Trade 1 Jun 10 I’ve once again found a new author whom I’m going to enjoy immensely with every book I read. Ms. Warner has given readers characters who are real, charming, desperate, and oh-so-human, [...]

Liviania’s review of Bespelling Jane Austen by Mary Balogh, Colleen Gleason, Susan Krinard, and Janet Mullany Paranormal Romance published by HQN 28 Sep 10 I feel like I should love mash-ups since I love classic literature and horror stories. So far I’ve been disappointed by most of the ones I’ve read. The four authors in [...]

Sandy M’s review of Blood on Silk (Awakened by Blood, Book 1) by Marie Treanor Urban Fantasy published by NAL Trade 7 Sep 10 I’ve finally found that good vampire story I’ve been looking for lately. I’ve been putting vampire book after vampire book aside, they just didn’t pique my interest. But after receiving a [...]

Gwen’s review of Shadowfever (Fever Series, Book 5) by Karen Marie Moning Urban fantasy hardcover released by Delacorte Press 18 Jan 2011 Well, well, well.  Here we are.  Finally at the end of this innovative and addictive series.  I started reading it because I love Moning’s historical/time-traveling romances.  I thought I’d see how one of [...]

Hopefully you’ve read Julia Justiss’ Guest Blog with us today where she gives you some insight into Greville Anders, society’s most disreputable gentleman who has turned a new leaf after eight harrowing months with the Royal Navy, something those high born never experience. He now looks at nearly everything in life differently, even the enticing [...]

Life Changes and Insistent Characters Writing is an odd occupation.  You start with an idea, or a germ of an idea, or in my case, usually with a character facing some crisis.  You ask yourself why and how they got there, what they really want, what keeps them from achieving it.  Sometimes you can’t figure [...]

Wendy the Super Librarian‘s review of Society’s Most Disreputable Gentleman (Wellingfords #6) by Julia Justiss Historical romance published by Harlequin Historical 18 Jan 11 One of the reasons I spend entirely too much time online is that I like chatting with fellow romance readers.  And when I chat with them?  I manage to also get [...]

Liviania’s review of Dreams of a Dark Warrior (Immortals After Dark, Book 11) by Kresley Cole Paranormal romance published by Pocket 15 Feb 11 Kresley Cole introduced the story of Regin and Aiden at the beginning of her Immortals After Dark series, so I had a number of expectations when I started Dreams of a [...]

C2’s review of Animal Magnetism by Jill Shalvis Contemporary Romance published by Berkley 1 Feb 11 You know those times you are in the mood for a good, straight-up contemporary romance?  No paranormal creatures lurking around, no crazy spies doing stealthy stuff, no serial killers, ax in hand – just a good story between two [...]

Liviania’s Quick Quack Reviews of one science fiction romance and three urban fantasy novels by Cameron Haley, Ilona Andrews, Katherine Allred, and Phaedra Weldon.

LynneC’s review of Claimed: The Pregnant Heiress by Day Leclaire Contemporary Romance published by Silhouette Desire 4 Jan 11 I’m a big fan of Day Leclaire’s Dante’s Inferno books, so I looked forward to reading her entry to  The Takeover series for Desire. I wasn’t disappointed. I had a great time with this book. Even [...]

Sandy M’s review of Highland Hellcat (Highlander Series, Book 1) by Mary Wine Historical Romance published by Sourcebooks Casablanca 1 Oct 10 I’ve been wonderfully surprised with these Highlander books by Mary Wine. These are the first of her books I’ve read, and now I’d like to pick up others from her backlist. She has [...]

Three stories in one book. How can you go wrong with that? You can’t. Especially because of the way Leigh Michaels has written her characters, including the house that brings them all together one way or another. An earl buys a house next door to his own home for the convenience of his trysts, which [...]

When I started writing the story which became The Mistress’ House, I was coming out of a bad case of burnout (writing 80 books in 20 years will do that to you), and I thought this was going to be a short story. In fact, I remember telling my critique partner it was a short [...]