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Review: The Prophet by Amanda Stevens
Format read: ebook via netgalley
Series: The Graveyard Queen, #3
Genre: urban fantasy
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Number of pages: 352 pages
Publisher: Mira
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Book Depository, Amazon Kindle
Book Blurb:
My name is Amelia Gray.
I am the Graveyard Queen, a cemetery restorer who sees ghosts. My father passed down four rules to keep me safe and I’ve broken every last one. A door has opened and evil wants me back.
In order to protect myself, I’ve vowed to return to those rules. But the ghost of a murdered cop needs my help to find his killer. The clues lead me to the dark side of Charleston—where witchcraft, root doctors and black magic still flourish—and back to John Devlin, a haunted police detective I should only love from afar. Now I’m faced with a terrible choice: follow the rules or follow my heart.
My Thoughts:
This series is …
4 1/2 Stars,Amanda Stevens,featured,Review,The Needy Lover 
26 Apr 2012
4 comments
ARC Review: The Saint Who Stole My Heart: by Stefanie Sloane
Format read: egalley from NetGalley
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Number of Pages: 304
Genre: regency romance, historical romance
Series: Regency Rogues #4
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Formats Available: paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon , Barnes & Noble,
Blurb:
Desire, danger, intrigue, and steamy seduction unite a sexy spymaster and an intrepid bluestocking as Stefanie Sloane’s luscious new series continues.
Possessed of a brilliant mind and a love for puzzles, Dashiell Matthews, Viscount Carrington, is a crucial member of the elite Young Corinthians spy league. Assuming the façade of an addle-brained Adonis, he hunts for a notorious London murderer known as the Bishop. When fate causes him to cross paths with Miss Elena Barnes, Dash discovers an enigma that will prove delightfully intoxicating to unravel: a voluptuous beauty as intelligent as she is fearless.
Only the lure of a collection of rare books bequeathed to her family by Dash’s late father could tempt Elena from …
3 1/2 Stars,Marlene,Review,Stefanie Sloane 25 Apr 2012
4 comments
Review: Somebody to Love by Kristan Higgins
Format Read: Ebook ARC through Netgalley
Number of Pages: 425 pages
Release Date: April 24th 2012
Publisher: HQN Books
Formats Available: Paperback, Kindle Edition, e-book
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s website, Amazon , Book Depository
Book Blurb:
After her father loses the family fortune in an insider-trading scheme, single mom Parker Welles is faced with some hard decisions. First order of business: go to Gideon’s Cove, Maine, to sell the only thing she now owns—a decrepit house in need of some serious flipping. When her father’s wingman, James Cahill, asks to go with her, she’s not thrilled — even if he is fairly gorgeous and knows his way around a toolbox.Having to fend for herself financially for the first time in her life, Parker signs on as a florist’s assistant and starts to find out who she really is. Maybe James isn’t the glib lawyer she always thought he …
Kristan Higgins,Review,The HEA Lover 25 Apr 2012
9 comments
Review: Claiming Colleen by Beth Kery
Claiming Colleen
Format Read: e-ARC provided courtesy of Author for Review
Length: 218 Pages
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Series: Home To Harbor Town Book III
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Publisher: Harlequin Special Edition
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, Kindle, Nook
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Amazon, Books-A-Milliion, Powell’s,
5 Stars,Beth Kery,featured,Review,The Danger Lover 23 Apr 2012
3 comments
Review: Silver-Tongued Devil by Sabina Kane
Format Read:Paperback copy purchased by reviewer
Number of Pages:405 pages
Release Date:January 5th 2012
Publisher:Orbit
Series: Sabina Kane Book 4
Formats Available: Paperback, Kindle Edition, e-book
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s website, Amazon, Barnes&Noble, Book Depository
Book Blurb:
Now that the threat of war has passed, Sabina Kane is ready to focus on the future. Her relationship with Adam Lazarus is getting stronger and she’s helping her sister, Maisie, overcome the trauma of her captivity in New Orleans. Even Giguhl is managing to stay out of trouble thanks to the arrival of Pussy Willow and his new roller derby team. But as much as Sabina wants to feel hopeful about the future, part of her doesn’t trust that peace is possible.
Her suspicions are confirmed when a string of sadistic murders threaten to stall treaty negotiations between the mages and the vampires. Sabina pitches in to find the killer, but her investigation soon …
4 1/2 Stars,featured,Jaye Wells,Review,The Coffee Lover 20 Apr 2012
5 comments
Review: Caught in the Act by Jill Sorenson
Format read: ebook provided by publisher through netgalley
Genre: romantic suspense
Release Date: March 27th, 2012
Number of pages: 400 pages
Publisher: Bantam
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Book Depository (UK), Book Depository (US)
Book Blurb:
Some desires are too dangerous to embrace.
As the owner of a flourishing Latin American crafts boutique, Karina Strauss should be basking in her success. Instead she’s worried about her troubled sister, the girlfriend—and prisoner—of drug lord Carlos Moreno. Kari wants no part of that life, but when she helps a friend cross into the United States illegally, two men on opposite sides of the law take notice: Moreno and Adam Cortez, the handsome border protection officer who lets Kari off the hook. It’s not just Kari’s tantalizing flash of skin that catches Adam’s attention—her drug cartel connections bring back the demons of his past.
Moreno demands that Kari smuggle a package for him …
4 1/2 Stars,featured,Jill Sorenson,Review,The Geeky Lover 19 Apr 2012
8 comments
ARC Review: The MineFields by Steven C. Eisner
Format read: hardcover from publicist
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Number of Pages: 311
Genre: business fiction, autobiographical fiction
Publisher: When Words Count Press, LLC
Formats Available: hardcover, ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon , Barnes & Noble,
Blurb:
From an early age, Sam Spiegel single-mindedly pursued an entrepreneurial path that prepared him to transform a small-time ad agency into a regional powerhouse with national ambitions. A couple decades later, Sam had achieved almost everything he ever dreamed possible as the ad agency’s rainmaker, fountainhead, and unflappable pursuer of success. One final goal remained: To consolidate his gains by attracting an international advertising conglomerate and cash out. That’s when the nation is hit with the most unthinkable tragedy, and Sam begins to take stock of his own life, finding that he is growing weary of the relentless hunt. Unsatisfied in his marriage and embroiled in a mind-boggling professional crisis, everything Sam had …
3 1/2 Stars,featured,Marlene,Review 19 Apr 2012
3 comments
Review: Table for One by Ros Clarke
Format read: ebook
Genre: Romance
Release Date: 14 February 2012
Number of pages: 52 pages
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Publisher’s Website, Amazon
Book Blurb:
When food critic Claudia Thomas gets dumped on Valentine’s Day, she finds herself occupying a table for one at London’s hottest new restaurant. If her job wasn’t on the line, she’d skip the whole affair, but her editor’s waiting for a review—and with luck, an interview with sexy chef Ward Nicholls.
Ward, intrigued by the single woman in a restaurant full of couples, sets out to tease her palate. Claudia has never tasted anything so luscious as the special meal Ward prepares for her, but when the seduction moves from the restaurant to his bedroom, Claudia discovers the only thing more tempting than his food is the chef himself.
Their connection is instantaneous, sizzling, and spicy—until Claudia comes clean about her job, reopening a wound Ward had thought long-healed. Could one accidental …
4 Stars,featured,Review,Ros Clarke,The Quirky Lover 18 Apr 2012
4 comments
Dual Review: The Runaway Countess by Leigh LaValle
Format Read:e-book provided courtesy of the author
Number of Pages:408 pages
Release Date:March 6th 2012
Publisher:Samhain
Formats Available: e-book, Kindle Edition
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s website, Amazon, Barnes&Noble, Kobo
Book Blurb:
Her heart longs for justice, but her body clamors for sin.
Once the darling of high society, Mazie Chetwyn knows firsthand how quickly the rich and powerful turn their backs on the less fortunate. Orphaned, penniless and determined to defy their ruthless whims, she joins forces with a local highwayman who steals from the rich to give to the poor.
Then the pawn broker snitches, and Mazie is captured by the Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire. A man who is far too handsome, far too observant…and surely as corrupt as his father once was.
Sensible, rule-driven Trent Carthwick, twelfth Earl of Radford, is certain the threat of the gallows will prompt the villagers’ beloved Angel of Kindness to reveal the highwayman’s identity. …
Review: Urban Shaman by C.E. Murphy
Format read: ebook from library
Genre: urban fantasy
Series: Walker Papers, #1
Release Date: June 1, 2009 (reprint edition; original edition published June 1, 2005)
Number of pages: 416 pages
Publisher: Luna
Formats available: ebook, paperback, audiobook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Books-a-Million, Barnes & Noble, Book Depository
Book Blurb:
Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt.
No worries. No pressure. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing herself from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams.
And if all that’s not bad enough, in the three years Joanne’s been a cop, she’s never seen a dead body–but she’s just come across her second in three days.
It’s been a bitch of a week.
And it isn’t over yet.
My Thoughts:
I’d been looking forward to trying this UF series for quite some time. As far as urban fantasy institutions …
2 Stars,C.E. Murphy,featured,Review,The Needy Lover 16 Apr 2012
10 comments
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