REVIEW: After the Storm by Maya Banks
Sandy M’s review of After the Storm (KGI, Book Eight) by Maya Banks
Contemporary Romance published by Berkley 7 Jan 14
I’m sure like me a lot of fans of this series have been very anxiously awaiting Donovan’s book. He may be called the geek of the family, but a geek with muscle, a hard hero body, and who can wield a gun with the same fierceness as his brothers? And he’s a champion for children and women? Well, sexiness never sounded so darned good.
REVIEW: The Holiday Survival Guide by Jane O’Reilly
LynneC’s review of The Holiday Survival Guide by Jane O’Reilly
Contemporary Romance novella ebook published by Harlequin Escape 1 Jan 14
This novella is about a man running from his problems and a woman who assuages her own guilt by wrecking other people’s marriages. It does tackle controversial issues like abortion but in a half-hearted way that feels like an ad-on to the main story.
REVIEW: Born Wild by Julie Ann Walker
Stevie‘s review of Born Wild (Black Knights Inc., Book 5) by Julie Ann Walker
Contemporary Romantic Suspense published by Sourcebooks Casablanca 05 Nov 13
Finally: a book in a continuing series that I can read without prior knowledge and without running up against characters from every single previous book clamouring for a piece of my attention. And that’s in spite of the fact that the main couple in this one have appeared in at least one previous book in the series. Not only that, but this appears to be a series chockfull of alphas who don’t actually take themselves too seriously – and neither does the series: I can’t stand the trend in books, if not in TV series, for covert extra-governmental organisations to act as if the world of popular culture hasn’t been wittering on about the potential existence of such activities for, oh, about a century at least.
REVIEW: The Lion and The Rose by Kate Quinn
Veena’s review of The Lion and The Rose (A Novel of the Borgias) by Kate Quinn
Historical Romance published by Berkley 07 Jan 14
Who hasn’t heard of the Borgias? There’s even a TV series for those who don’t like to read, and I’m sure there’s a Horrible Histories version for children as well. Bottom line: they’re a well-known family, especially in the use of murder to fulfill their desires. In this series the author weaves truth with fiction so masterfully that it’s hard to tell one from the other. The end result is an extremely powerful story that sweeps the reader into becoming a part of it. read more…
EXCERPT: More Than a Touch by Alexis Morgan
I always enjoy reading about characters from small-town America. Maybe because I’m from a small town – born, raised, and currently living in one. Where everyone knows your name, your business, your family and heaven knows what else. As far as I’m concerned, that’s the best way to live, because even though those folks may know more than you’d like, they’d also do anything for you, give you the shirt off their backs if that’s what it ever came to.
Leif and Zoe discover just that in Snowberry Creek, which is just what they need when it comes to finding each other and what they want and need out of life as it now is for them, despite hopes that it might be different. But change is slow in small towns, so what you hope for and what you end up with may be so very different by the time all is said and done.
So take a few minutes to get to know Leif and Zoe and Snowberry Creek. I think you’ll be glad you did.
GUEST BLOG: One Character, Multiple Roles . . . by Alexis Morgan
Let me start off by saying I love Leif Brevik, the hero in my latest Snowberry Creek book. I confess that I fall a little bit in love with the hero in every book I write. After all, I spend a lot of time in their company over the months it takes to tell their stories. If I didn’t like them and find them attractive, I’d never be able to bring them to life on the page. Having said that, some heroes are just special, and Leif is one of them.
REVIEW: More Than a Touch by Alexis Morgan
Sandy M’s review of More Than a Touch (Snowberry Creek, Book 2) by Alexis Morgan
Contemporary Romance published by Signet 7 Jan 14
I enjoyed the majority of this second book in Alexis Morgan’s Snowberry Creek series. A small town where her characters are making their homes after finding love. A place where everything is possible, even when they think it’s not. Though this particular story is much slower in pace than the first, you’re right in the middle of everything these folks are going through.
There’s just one thing that doesn’t work for me.
REVIEW: Blue Forever by Nina Bruhns
Sandy M’s review of Blue Forever (Men in Uniform, Book 3) by Nina Bruhns
Romantic Suspense published by Berkley 3 Sep 13
I love a man in uniform. Doesn’t matter what branch of our armed services, a hero like Kiptyn Llowell keeps me reading well into the night. Add an intelligent and witty heroine like DeAnne Lovejoy, it’s early morning hours before I’m forced to turn the light out. And then they’re rolling through my head, and I’m left wondering what in the heck is going to happen next, I can’t wait to get back to all the goings-on in their world.
DUCK CHAT: Espionage the Romance Way with Alyssa Alexander
Despite being a native Michigander, Alyssa Alexander is pretty certain she belongs somewhere sunny. And tropical. Where drinks are served with little paper umbrellas. In the meantime, she’s inviting us to take a ride with her into Regency England where Julian Travers, Earl of Langford, fights the battle between love and espionage in her debut novel The Smuggler Wore Silk.
Now join us in our first chat with Alyssa.
REVIEW: The Smuggler Wore Silk by Alyssa Alexander
Veena’s review of The Smuggler Wore Silk (A Spy in the Ton, Book 1) by Alyssa Alexander
Regency Romance published by Berkley 07 Jan 14
There are many books written about titled gentlemen who use their positions to spy for their country. In at least a few that I’ve read, they find their comeuppance while chasing down traitors amongst the smugglers operating on the coast in Devon or Cornwall. In The Smuggler Wore Silk, Alyssa Alexander takes the bones of what came before and paints it in her own unique style and color to make this theme new and different. read more…
