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ARC Review: Thief of Shadows by Elizabeth Hoyt
Format read: ebook provided by publisher through NetGalley
Series: Book #4 in the Maiden Lane series
Release Date: June 26th 2012
Number of pages: 384 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Book Depository
Blurb:
A MASKED MAN . . .
Winter Makepeace lives a double life. By day he’s the stoic headmaster of a home for foundling children. But the night brings out a darker side of Winter. As the moon rises, so does the Ghost of St. Giles-protector, judge, fugitive. When the Ghost, beaten and wounded, is rescued by a beautiful aristocrat, Winter has no idea that his two worlds are about to collide.A DANGEROUS WOMAN . . .
Lady Isabel Beckinhall enjoys nothing more than a challenge. Yet when she’s asked to tutor the Home’s dour manager in the ways of society-flirtation, double-entendres, and scandalous liaisons-Isabel can’t help wondering why his …
4 1/2 Stars,Elizabeth Hoyt,featured,Review,The HEA Lover 
20 Jun 2012
16 comments
Review: Untouched by Jus Accardo
Format read: ebook
Release Date: 28 March 2012
Number of pages: 79
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon
Blurb:
Until he met Dez, Kale’s days were filled with violence and death. He was used as a weapon of destruction by the power hungry men of Denazen. He’s a Six. A person with an abnormal ability. Some people call them gifts, but not Kale. Kale’s touch means instant death to anyone.
But now there’s Dez, the girl he can touch, and they’re hunting down Sixes and warning them about Denazen. Kale is learning about the world outside captivity and trying to put his dark past behind him. But they underestimated how badly Denazen wanted him back.
When Dez sacrifices herself to save the new Six they rescued from falling into the corp’s hands, Kale is lost. Denazen has brought out its best to get the job done. Samsen, …
featured,Jus Accardo,Review,The Winged Lover 19 Jun 2012
2 comments
Review: My Fair Concubine by Jeannie Lin
Format read: ebook provided by publisher through NetGalley
Series: Book #3 in the Tang Dynasty series, but the novels are standalone stories
Release Date: 22 May 2012
Number of pages: 280 pages
Publisher: Harlequin
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Book Depository
Blurb:
The Nobleman Who Turned a Tea Girl Into a Princess…
Yan Ling tries hard to be servile—it’s what’s expected of a girl of her class. Being intelligent and strong-minded, she finds it a constant battle.
Proud Fei Long is unimpressed by her spirit—until he realizes she’s the answer to his problems. He has to deliver the emperor a “princess.” In two months can he train a tea girl to pass as a noblewoman?
Yet it’s hard to teach good etiquette when all Fei Long wants to do is break it, by taking this tea girl for …
5 Stars,featured,Jeannie Lin,Review,The Latin Lover 15 Jun 2012
7 comments
Review: Taste by Kate Evangelista
Format Read: e-book provided by the author
Number of Pages: 259 pages
Release Date: April 30th 2012
Publisher: Crescent Moon Press
Formats Available: Paperback, Kindle
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Kindle, B&N, Book Depository
Book Blurb:
At Barinkoff Academy, there’s only one rule: no students on campus after curfew. Phoenix McKay soon finds out why when she is left behind at sunset. A group calling themselves night students threaten to taste her flesh until she is saved by a mysterious, alluring boy. With his pale skin, dark eyes, and mesmerizing voice, Demitri is both irresistible and impenetrable. He warns her to stay away from his dangerous world of flesh eaters. Unfortunately, the gorgeous and playful Luka has other plans.
When Phoenix is caught between her physical and her emotional attraction, she becomes the keeper of a deadly secret that will rock the foundations of an ancient civilization living beneath Barinkoff …
5 Stars,featured,Kate Evangelista,Review,The Coffee Lover 14 Jun 2012
9 comments
Review: The Most Improper Miss Sophie Valentine by Jayne Fresina
Format Read: ebook from NetGalley
Number of Pages: 384 p.
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Genre: Regency Romance
Formats Available: Mass market paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Author’s Website, Publisher’s Website, Book Depository
Book Blurb:
“Wanted: one husband, not too particular. Small dowry, several books, sundry furnishings, and elderly aunt included. Idlers, time-wasters, and gentlemen with other attachments need not apply.”
Scarred in a childhood accident, Sophia Valentine doesn’t expect any takers on her ad for a husband in the Farmer’s Gazette, until the mysterious Lazarus Kane shows up at her door. To Sophia, he is an exciting, enigmatic stranger. But Lazarus has known Sophia for years and has come a long way to find her. Things are about to get complicated for the mischievous Miss Valentine.
My Thoughts:
Once upon a time, Miss Sophie Valentine did something very, very improper. She and her fiancé, the …
2 Stars,featured,Jayne Fresina,Review,The Rocket Lover 13 Jun 2012
3 comments
Review: Alien Revealed by Lilly Cain
Format read: ebook provided by publisher through NetGalley
Series: Book #1 in the Confederacy Treaty series
Release Date: 26 May 2010
Number of pages: 108 pages
Publisher: Carina Press
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Carina Press
Blurb:
Inarrii agent Alinna Gaerrii was tasked with observing the Starforce base on Earth. Crash landing her observation pod onto the base was not part of her mission briefing. Neither was making “m’ittar”–mind contact–with Major David Brown, the human who discovered her amongst the wreckage.
David thinks she’s a psychologist sent to evaluate his Special Forces team, and Alinna goes along with his misconception, seizing the opportunity to observe humans up close. But their daily contact has unexpected side effects, and Alinna soon invades David’s dreams. Through their intimate mental connection she allows him to express his forbidden physical desires.
Alinna delights in the sensory exploration …
4 Stars,featured,Lilly Cain,Review,The Latin Lover 12 Jun 2012
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Review: Divinely Ruined by Diane Alberts
Format Read: ebook
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Genre: paranormal romance
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Formats Available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author, Publisher, Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Book Blurb:
She finally meets a decent man–after she’s oath-bound never to touch men again!
Rebecca’s life sucked before she became an angel. Crappy apartment, awful jobs, abusive boyfriends–it was no wonder she jumped at the chance to escape it all and become a real live angel. The problem is Rebecca’s not very angelic, and she’ll have to do more to earn her wings than end her love affair with the word f–er, frick.
Especially when she’s assigned to save single father Tony Weis, whose less-than-pure thoughts wreak hell on a telepathic angel’s nerves. It’s all Rebecca can do to keep her hands off him…but when she loses her memory injuring herself to save Tony’s daughter, now it’s …
5 Stars,Diane Alberts,featured,Review,The Needy Lover 11 Jun 2012
9 comments
Review: Three Weddings and a Murder by Tessa Dare, Leigh LaValle, Courtney Milan, Carey Baldwin
Format read: ebook
Release Date: 22 May 2012
Publisher: self-published – Limited edition, will only be available during Summer 2012!
Formats available: ebook
Contributing authors: Tessa Dare, Leigh LaValle, Courtney Milan, Carey Baldwin
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, B&N, All Romance, Team page
Blurb:
The pleasure of your company is requested…
…at the most thrilling, sexy, event of the year.Four delicious, dangerous tales of love…
“The Scandalous, Dissolute, No-Good Mr. Wright” by Tessa Dare
Because of a foolish mistake in her youth, Miss Eliza Cade is not allowed “out” in Society until her three older sisters are wed. But while she’s trying to be good, Eliza keeps bumping elbows—and lips—with the notorious rake Harry Wright. The passions he stirs in her are so wrong…but she just can’t resist Mr. Wright.
“The …
Review: Someone Else’s Fairytale by E.M. Tippetts
Format read: ebook
Release Date: 6 December 2011
Number of pages: 310 pages
Publisher: self-published
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Smashwords
Blurb:
Jason Vanderholt, Hollywood’s hottest actor, falls head over heels for everygirl, Chloe Winters, who hasn’t gotten around to watching most of his movies. She becomes the woman every other woman in America is dying to be, but it just isn’t her fairytale.
My Thoughts: Someone Else’s Fairytale by E.M. Tippetts is every girl’s secret fantasy: a gorgeous and celebrated sexy Hollywood actor meets and falls in love with an ordinary girl next door and sweeps her off her feet to their happily ever after, except that in this story Chloe, the heroine not only does not want to be part of any sweeping but she doesn’t even like the hero at the beginning! *gasp* Jason Vanderholt is a fictional Henry …
3 1/2 Stars,E.M. Tippetts,featured,Review,The Latin Lover 7 Jun 2012
1 comment
Review: The Magician of Wall Street by Minta Hall + Giveaway
Format Read: ebook from publisher
Number of Pages: 138 p.
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Formats Available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Author’s Website, Publisher’s Website
Book Blurb:
Oliver Pendragon’s days as the Magician of Wall Street are legendary. When he finds a way to get everything he’s ever wanted—including Abby Daltry—of course he can’t refuse, even though there will be hell to pay if ever Abby found out. But when he discovers his old business partner is out for Abby’s blood, Oliver will do anything to protect her…and win her heart.
New Age bookstore owner Abby is perfectly happy with her life the way it is—the independence, the quirky clientele, and even the occasional tarot card reading—are all part of the charm. But when the cards reveal Oliver is back and bringing danger along with him, she refuses to heed the warning …
3 Stars,featured,Giveaways,Minta Hall,Review,The Rocket Lover 6 Jun 2012
7 comments
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