Warning: This review contains some spoilers. I really enjoyed reading this book. I had never read this author before, but I was interested after hearing the author on the podcast with Elyse. This book was action-packed! It was an adrenaline-fueled read with lots of drama. A times it was almost too dramatic and really very dark. I am always a little surprised at how dark so many books and series that fold into the romance … Continue reading Facing Fire by HelenKay Dimon→
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 4.03 average, which I’m interpreting as an A-. Meli Mel *Ty and Zane’s Creeper* wrote: …This was the first book I have read where the dominant in this bdsm relationship is a woman. I wasn’t sure how I would feel about it, but … Continue reading Break Me Down by Roni Loren→
This book should have been my catnip. Brooding Egyptologist hero! Well-travelled curator heroine! Manorial espionage and mystery! I was there for that like you wouldn’t believe. Unfortunately, the book wasn’t really there with me. This is, again, a part of a series—the fourth installment by all appearances. The framing narrative is the presentation to a young woman of unspeakably judgmental shoes (they only fit if she’s worthy of true love?!) by a professional matchmaker (fairy … Continue reading Bella and the Beast by Olivia Drake→
Plot Summary: Ruby Wetherspoon is in Paris for New Year’s Eve. She gets separated from her friends (which seem to all be imaginary, save one) and ends up losing any way to contact them. She’s plucked from a crowd and stands on a wall with the mysterious Alex. They kiss—with fireworks—they eat food, they fall in love with each other in an hour or two. Then, a man in black emerges from a crowd, whispers … Continue reading The Prince She Never Forgot by Scarlet Wilson→
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 4.60 average, which I’m interpreting as an A. Julie wrote: …This story is one of the edgiest novels by Dana Marton I’ve read. It has all the elements that romantic suspense enthusiast, love- such as a hot ex-SEAL hero, a kick – … Continue reading Flash Fire by Dana Marton→
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 4.24 average, which I’m interpreting as an A-. ♥Rachel♥ wrote: …In the Waning Light was a second chance romance between soul mates, but front and center was the riveting mystery that will keep you guessing, and on the edge! Oh, the secrets held … Continue reading In the Waning Light by Loreth Anne White→
Oof. You guys. I apparently did not know what I was doing when I was picking my RITA review books. I honestly probably would have DNFed it, but I’d already DNFed my other pick and I was feeling weirdly self-conscious that the Bitchery would judge me for not being able to finish a book. So I pushed through. And now I just feel depressed and negative. Earls Just Want to Have Fun was never going … Continue reading Earls Just Want to Have Fun by Shana Galen→
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 3.95 average, which I’m interpreting as a B+. Rachael wrote: This was my first read by this author, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It follows a lady who came from a long line of midwives. She wished to become a doctor so … Continue reading The Mountain Midwife by Laurie Alice Eakes→
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’ve grown tired of the BDSM, sex clubs, and alpha males that so dominate erotica today. But Three Little Mistakes has all of those things and you know what? I loved it. I just loved this book. Why you ask? What changed my mind when I was so dead set against the three things that were the primary basis for the plot? Well, I’ll tell you why – because it was so well written. This book … Continue reading Three Little Mistakes by Nikki Sloane→
Oh man, this was so good. I first read it a while ago, and my plan was to just skim it again to write this review…and whoops, there went two days of my life under the spell of this book (again). In case it might be helpful to anyone who is hesitant about the BDSM theme, I want to reassure you. I was a bit nervous myself (not being a habitual reader of “that sort … Continue reading For Real: A Spires Story by Alexis Hall→
Warning: mild spoilers ahoy I loved this book. Like, had to seriously think hard to come up with anything to discuss that I didn’t love about it. And this is coming from a person who’s been in a serious fiction-reading drought lately (if we don’t count fanfiction, which some people don’t). For whatever reason, I’ve been finding it harder to get into novel-length stories lately and easier to just let myself bask in the wonder … Continue reading For Real: A Spires Story by Alexis Hall→
Before diving into the review, I want to give a trigger warning. This book is about spousal abuse and the emotional recovery from such abuse. There are vivid descriptions throughout the book and the heroine’s past history of abuse is so interwoven into the plot, there’s no way to avoid it. A week after finishing this book, I still haven’t made my mind up about it. I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t love it. … Continue reading Love Somebody Like You by Susan Fox→
Reading Tiffany Girl, I discovered pretty quickly that I’m not the audience for this book. This came as an unfortunate surprise. I was promised women with cool jobs, turn-of-the-century New York, the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition that anyone who’s read The Devil in White City knows all the (literally) gory details about, plus romance? Yes, please, I love all of those things! Alas, it did not deliver on these premises in the way I was … Continue reading Tiffany Girl by Deeanne Gist→
At its core, this book deals with serious issues: the aftermath of domestic violence, the terror that stalking can create, and the challenges a woman has in reclaiming her body after abuse. If you find any of these triggering, this is not the series for you, as recovery from domestic violence is a thread that weaves throughout the novels. Scarlett Cole works very hard to treat these issues with the intensity and seriousness they deserve. … Continue reading The Strongest Steel by Scarlett Cole→
I jumped at this book with grabby hands because of this sentence in the summary: Back in college she tied this former frat boy to the bed with her argyle socks! I mean, male bondage! Argyle socks! It’s an irresistibly charming and random combination. How could this not be fun? Unfortunately, what I got was a cliché-laden good girl-bad boy romance that is drowning in sexism. (As well as several other – isms, but let’s … Continue reading Once Kissed by Cecy Robson→
Sunny shine, a field of gold, cows walking up the pasture. The storybook setting for The Rescued by Marta Perry is beautiful, but don’t be fooled, for this everyday Amish family is dealing with, gasp, family problems. Okay, so let’s ease up on the horse’s reins and slow this cart down. We are introduced to the main heroine Judith Wegler. She is a peaceful girl who likes to help others and worries terribly when she … Continue reading The Rescued by Marta Perry→
