Dual Review: Supernaturally Kissed by Stacey Kennedy

Release Date: January 5th 2012
Series: Book #1 in the Frostbite series
Publisher: Ellora’s Cave
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Formats Available: Kindle Edition, e-book
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s website, Amazon, Barnes&Noble

Blurb:

Ghosts harass and annoy Tess Jennings to save their souls. Sometimes she helps them. Other times she ignores them. But one ghost will give her no choice.

Kipp McGowen, a cop with the Memphis Police Department, will stop at nothing to gain her help, including using his ghostly charms to seduce her.

Tess must help solve the five-year old cold case of Hannah Reid, because solving the case will save Kipp.

But a bigger problem presents itself. Tess is falling in love with a ghost. Now she must decide. Keep Kipp forever or find the killer…

Our thoughts:

Anna: I think we should start this review by talking about the heroine, Tess. I pretty much …

Review: Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Philips

Format Read: Paperback purchased by reviewer
Number of Pages: 384 pages
Release Date: January 1st 1995
Publisher: Avon
Series: Chicago Starts book 2
Formats Available: Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle Edition, ebook, Audio Book
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Publisher, Amazon.com, Book Depository, Barnes&Noble

Book Blurb:

Come heck or high water, Gracie Snow is determined to drag the legendary ex-jock Bobby Tom Denton back home to Heaven, Texas, to begin shooting his first motion picture. Despite his dazzling good looks and killer charm, Bobby Tom has reservations about being a movie star — and no plans to cooperate with a prim and bossy Ohio wallflower whom he can’t get off his mind or out of his life. Instead, the hell-raising playboy decides to make her over from plain Jane to Texas wildcat.

But nothing’s more dangerous than a wildcat with an angel’s heart in a town too small for a bad boy to …

Review: Rocky Mountain Haven by Vivian Arend

Rocky Mountain Haven by Vivian Arend

Format Read: e-book provided by Novel Sidekick courtesy of Author for Review
Length: 156 Pages
Series: Six Pack Ranch, Book 2
Genre: Contemporary Erotic Romance, Western
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Formats Available: eBook, Kindle, Nook
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Goodreads, Kindle, Nook, Kobo

Book Blurb:

It’s the quiet ones that take you by surprise.

Beth Danube’s emotionally abusive husband is dead and buried. So is her heart. It’s no big deal, she has all she wants: her three little boys and a fresh start in a small Alberta town. What she doesn’t want is another man in her life—not now, maybe not ever.

After ten years of unsatisfactory, missionary-position sex, she never expected her libido to reawaken. One look at sex-in-boots Daniel Coleman in a Calgary bar, though, blows the dust off her sexuality.

Sensing an edge of desperation, even fear, beneath …

Review: Hearts in Darkness by Laura Kaye

Format read: ebook purchased by reviewer
Release Date: April 20, 2011 (issued as paperback August 9, 2011)
Number of pages: 230 pages (110 pages paperback)
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Publisher’s Website

Blurb:

Makenna James thinks her day can’t get any worse, until she finds herself stuck in a pitch-black elevator with a complete stranger. Distracted by a phone call and juggling too much stuff, the pin-striped accountant caught only a glimpse of a dragon tattoo on his hand before the lights went out.

Caden Grayson is amused when a redhead literally falls at his feet. His amusement turns to panic when the power fails. Despite his piercings, tats, and vicious scar, he’s terrified of the dark and confined spaces. Now, he’s trapped in his own worst nightmare.

To fight fear, they must both reach out and open up. With no preconceived notions based …

Review: The Bodyguards’ Princess by Ann Mayburn

Format read: ebook copy provided by author
Release Date: 30 July 2011
Number of pages: 132 pages
Publisher: Liquid Silver Books
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon

Blurb:

Lalita Chetana, daughter of a United Nations Diplomat, survives an attempted kidnapping by a terrorist group known as the anarchists. She has a difficult time with her recovery, and her father hires two bodyguards, ex-Marines Asher Epson and Kent Warne, to keep her safe and give her time to heal. Unfortunately, even their skills can’t save her from an enemy determined to destroy her.

Hypnotized into stealing UN secrets, she is framed by the anarchists. As part of their plan to humiliate and break her father, they plant a hypnotic trigger that anytime she hears the word “bitch” she will become aroused to the point of pain. She is forced to flee and go into hiding with Asher and Kent. The …

Review: Legacy by Kate Kaynak

Format read: paperback copy provided by author
Release Date: 28 January 2011
Series: Book #3 in the Ganzfield series
Number of pages: 280 pages
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Book Depository

Blurb:

Maddie has more problems than the average seventeen-year-old:
A psychotic killer with superpowers wants her dead.

A serious medical issue makes a “normal” life impossible for her.

And she’s about to be introduced to Trevor’s grandparents.

Guess which one freaks her out the most? The Ganzfield series continues in this third instalment.

My Thoughts: Kate Kaynak blew me away with Minder and I became an enthusiastic fan of the series. I enjoyed the first 2 books a lot, but Legacy left me disappointed. I was expecting as much thrill, action and excitement as I was led to expect due to the previous stories, but sadly Legacy failed …

Review: Hammer Down by Moira Rogers

Format read: ebook
Series: Book #2 in the Children of the Undying series (Book 1 : Demon Bait)
Release Date: 3 Jan 20122
Number of pages: 333 pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Samhain Publishing, Barnes & Noble

Book Blurb:

When hell reigns on earth, love is a luxury they can’t afford.

Children of the Undying, Book 2

While the tattered remains of humanity huddle underground, hiding in their virtual world, Devi prefers living topside, making dangerous hauls through the demon-infested wasteland earth has become. The wealth that comes from smuggling supplies to those shunned as summoner-born or demon-touched doesn’t hurt, either.

The man she meets to arrange one of those under-the-table hauls is complicated…and handsome as hell. Literally. A glimpse of the predator beneath his silver gaze and she’s tempted to break her cardinal rule: never mix business with pleasure.

Zel’s first look …

Review: Hidden Summit by Robyn Carr

Hidden Summit by Robyn Carr

Format Read: e-book provided courtesy of Publicist
Length: 352 Pages
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Series: Virgin River #17
Publisher: Mira
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Publisher, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, Powells, Book Depository, IndieBound, Chapters

Book Blurb:

ROMANCE UNDER CONSTRUCTION…

Sick of running into her cheery ex-husband and his new wife, Leslie Petruso accepts a job at the Virgin River branch of Haggerty Construction and takes the high road right out of town. Now she’s got Paul Haggerty’s business running like a well-oiled machine. In fact, things are so busy Paul jumps at the chance to hire an extra set of hands.

Just like Leslie, Conner Danson has been burned by love. But Leslie was disappointed by her relationship going bad, Conner was decimated. He’s got no time for woman…although he …

Review: All Fall Down by Megan Hart

Format Read: eARC provided by publisher through Netgalley
Number of Pages: 400 pages
Release Date: December 27th 2011
Publisher: Mira
Formats Available: Paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon. com, Book Depository (US),  Book Depository (UK), Barnes&Noble

Book Blurb:

In the midst of a chaotic midnight assembly, Sunshine is forced outside into the darkness. Holding a scrap of paper scrawled with a stranger’s name and address, Sunny grasps the hands of her three small children and begins her escape.
Liesel Albright has dreamed of starting a family. She never bargained on inheriting one already in progress…or one so deeply damaged. When nineteen-year-old Sunshine appears on the Albrights’ doorstep claiming Liesel’s husband, Chris, is her father, all they can think to offer is temporary shelter. The next day, they’re stunned by the news that the Family of Superior Bliss, led by a charismatic zealot, has committed mass …

Review: You Don’t Have to Say you Love me by Sarra Manning

Format Read: Paperback purchased by reviewer
Number of Pages: 560 pages
Release Date: February 3rd 2011
Publisher: Corgi
Formats Available: Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle Edition
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Publisher, Goodreads, Amazon. com, Book Depository, Barnes&Noble

Book Blurb:

Sweet, bookish Neve Slater always plays by the rules. And the number one rule is that good-natured fat girls like her don’t get guys like gorgeous, handsome William, heir to Neve’s heart since university. But William’s been in LA for three years, and Neve’s been slimming down and re-inventing herself so that when he returns, he’ll fall head over heels in love with the new, improved her.

So she’s not that interested in other men. Until her sister Celia points out that if Neve wants William to think she’s an experienced love-goddess and not the fumbling, awkward girl he left behind, then she’d better get some, well, experience.

What Neve needs is someone to …