Review: "Beg for Mercy" by Jami Alden

Format Read: Paperback submitted by Hatchett Book Group (Forever Romance) for review
Length: 448 pages
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Publisher: Forever, Hatchett Book Group
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, Nook
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Indiebound, Books-A-Million, Chapters, Nook,

Book Blurb:

He lurks in the shadows, waiting and watching . . . And once he has you, all you can do is. . .

Megan Flynn thought she was falling in love. Cole Williams wasn’t just handsome and passionate, he was one of the good guys. Or so she thought, until he arrested her brother-the only family she has left-for a murder she knows he couldn’t have possibly committed. Now, with her heart broken and her brother’s life hanging in the balance, Megan will risk everything to prove his innocence. Even …

Review: Never Tempt Danger by Denise Robbins

Format read: paperback provided by authorNumber of pages: 280 pagesRelease Date: 12 September 2010Publisher: L&L DreamspellFormats available: paperback, ebookPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Kindle store

Blurb:

Maureen thought her special gift was a curse. Maybe she’s right.

As the one man who accepted her “gift” slid the diamond ring onto her shaky finger, Maureen saw his death flash in her mind an instant before the bullet struck. With blood on her hands and a government research project in the balance, Maureen-Gilly-Gillman does the only smart thing she can. She disappears. If there was one thing Maureen had learned, it was Never Tempt Danger.

Special agent Lucas Danger knows Maureen Gillman better than any other man. Assigned to find Gilly and her military robot prototype, Lucas discovers that his past has caught up with him. When the woman he loves collides with his secretive past, Lucas has …

Review: Fool Moon by Jim Butcher

Format Read: Audiobook borrowed from libraryNumber of Pages: N/ARelease Date: July 1, 2001Publisher: Roc / Buzzy MultimediaFormats Available: Hardcover, paperback, audiobook, ebookPurchasing Info: Amazon, Goodreads, Book Depository, Author’s Website

Book Blurb:

HARRY DRESDEN — WIZARDLost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment.

Business has been slow. Okay, business has been dead. And not even of the undead variety. You would think Chicago would have a little more action for the only professional wizard in the phone book. But lately, Harry Dresden hasn’t been able to dredge up any kind of work—magical or mundane.

But just when it looks like he can’t afford his next meal, a murder comes along that requires his particular brand of supernatural expertise.

A brutally mutilated corpse. Strange-looking paw prints. A full moon. Take three guesses—and the …

Review: Deadly Obsession, by Katie Reus

Format Read: e-Book Galley provided by NetGalley courtesy of Carina Press
Length: 80,000 words
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Publisher: Carina Press
Formats Available: e-Book, Kindle
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Publisher, Goodreads, Kindle, Nook, All Romance eBooks.

Book Blurb:

The chilling words of a killer: This is just the beginning…

Ten years ago, Lilly Carmichael left town without an explanation, breaking Braden Donnelly’s heart. The death of her aunt has brought Lilly home—and face-to-face with memories she thought were long buried. Still getting over a traumatic incident from her work as an NSA agent, Lilly initially dismisses the face at her window as a figment of stress-induced paranoia.

Now the sheriff of Hudson Bay, Braden has spent the past year hunting a sadistic murderer. His investigation is turned upside down when new evidence indicates that Lilly is the killer’s next target. Determined …

Review: Comfort Food by Kitty Thomas

Format Read: HardcoverNumber of Pages: 186Release Date: 21 March 2010Publisher: Burlesque PressFormats Available: Harcover, EbookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon

Book Blurb:

Emily Vargas has been taken captive. As part of his conditioning methods, her captor refuses to speak to her, knowing how much she craves human contact.

He’s far too beautiful to be a monster. Her attraction to him and his lack of violence has her walking a fine line on the edge of sanity.

Told in the first person from Emily’s perspective, Comfort Food explores what happens when all expectations of please and pain are turned upside down. As whips become comfort, and chicken soup becomes punishment.

My Thoughts:

Comfort Food was a powerful read, but it didn’t truly touch me in the ways I was expecting.

Emily is a captive of a …

Review: Wild & Steamy by Meljean Brook, Jill Myles, Carolyn Crane

Format Read: ebook submitted by Author for ReviewLength: 123 PagesGenre: Urban Fantasy, Steampunk Romance, Paranormal RomanceSeries: The Iron Seas #0.4, The Disillusionists Trilogy #2.5Release Date: August 3, 2011Formats Available: eBook, Kindle, NookPurchasing Info: Meljean Brook, Jill Myles, Carolyn Crane, Smashwords, Goodreads, Kindle, Nook

Book Blurb:

The Blushing Bounder by Meljean Brook – An Iron Seas novella of 15,000 words: The search for a killer puts Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth’s life in danger and her assistant, Constable Newberry, in the line of fire. But Newberry faces a danger of another kind: to his heart, by the woman forced to marry him. What will it take for this prudish bounder to convince his wife to stay?

Vixen by Jill Myles – A shifter novella of 15,000 words: Miko’s denied her were-fox nature for far too long and turned her back on her vixen heritage. But when she meets two very sexy cat-shifters, she …

Review: Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 764Release Date: 1 January 1995Publisher: Orion BooksFormats Available: Paperback, Harcover, Audio Book, EbookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon

 Book Blurb:

One man, Richard Cypher, holds the key to the fate of three nations, to the fate of humanity. But until he learns the Wizard’s First Rule his chances of succeeding in his task are slim. And his biggest problem is admitting magic exists at all…

A novel of incomparable scope and brimming with atmospheric detail: this is a world where heart hounds stalk the magical boundaries between countries, and worlds, for unwary human prey, blood-sucking flies hunt on behalf of their underworld masters, and where artists can draw more than just your likeness.

There is nowhere to hide, nowhere is safe. Here magic makes love twice as sweet, and betrayal …

Review: "Bound By Law", by SE Jakes + Giveaway!

Format Read: e-ARC submitted by Author for ReviewLength: 157 PagesGenre: Contemporary, GLBT, BDSM, ménage à trois Series: Men of Honor Book #2Release Date: August 9, 2011Publisher: Samhain PublishingFormats Available: eBook, Kindle, NookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Publisher, Goodreads, Kindle, Nook

Book Blurb:

The one man he can’t forget is the one whose memories could destroy them all.

After the one man he trusted disappeared, it took Law Connor ten years to take a chance on another relationship. Trouble is, right about the time he’s finally ready to let go of the past, the past stages a hostile takeover.

Back when they were teens, Styx was the boy with no memory. He and Law had each other’s backs until he was forced to leave to keep Law safe. Now a CIA agent, he’s finally discovered who he is, and why he’s …

Review: Bloody Jack by L. A. Meyer

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 290Release Date: 1 June 2004Publisher: Harcourt PaperbacksFormats Available: Paperback, Harcover, Audio BookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon

Book Blurb:

ADVENTURE AND DECEPTION ON THE HIGH SEAS!Life as a ship’s boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming a skilled and daring sailor as the crew hunts murderous pirates on the high seas.There’s just one problem: Jacky is a girl…

My Thoughts:

Bloody Jack has potential to rival Captain Jack Sparrow, she is that good.

Jacky wasn’t always called Jacky; she was once called Mary, living on the streets of London after That Dark Day when her parents and sister were claimed by the plague. The first part of our story details …

Review: The King’s Courtesan by Judith James

Format Read: ARC provided by publisher from NetgalleyLength: 384 pagesGenre: Historical RomanceRelease Date: August 23rd, 2011Formats Available: Kindle, e-Book, paperbackPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Amazon, Goodreads, Book Depository (US), Book Depository (UK)

Book Blurb:

HER BODY IS A BATTLEGROUND

Sensuous, beautiful and determined, Hope Matthews is a favored mistress of the king. Her many charms have helped her rise from the gutter to the king’s bed. But with the new queen’s impending arrival, her nights in the royal chamber— and her hopes for security—will swiftly come to an end.

HIS HONOR A DISTANT MEMORY

Haunted by his past, hardened by the recent civil war, Captain Robert Nichols lives only for revenge. When told he must marry the king’s courtesan to provide a cover for their affair, he’s faced with a new low. Both are pawns of a great man, …