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Book Review: Fast Burn by Lori Foster

Mar 22, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Fast Burn by Lori Foster

Fast Burn is fourth in Lori Foster’s Body Armor series, but don’t worry if you haven’t read the rest. This one stands perfectly well alone. Sahara Silver is the female CEO of Body Armor, an elite bodyguarding agency. Recruiting highly-skilled MMA fighters, she’s turned her business into the go-to agency for celebrities in the spotlight. Keen to add Brand Berry to her stable of former MMA employees, he’s the one man who seems impervious to her wiles. Or rather, not in the leas

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Book Review: Highland Dragon Master by Isabel Cooper

Mar 8, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Highland Dragon Master by Isabel Cooper

Erik MacAlasdair has to leave Scotland’s war with the English before his dragon side begins to see all humans as nothing more than prey. Sent on a mission by his clan leader to find an ancient artifact which might help stop the war, he reunites with Toinette, the lovely female dragon shifter he grew up with long ago. Now mistress of her own ship, Toinette accepts his commission, but getting stranded on a cursed island was never part of the plan. Though it’s billed as a romanc

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Book Review: Legal Seduction by Lisa Childs

Feb 26, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Legal Seduction by Lisa Childs

Bette Monroe is the executive assistant to Simon Kramer, the hottest lawyer in New York... and she's quitting her well-paid job. With a mole in the firm leaking secrets, Simon has to find out if Bette is the one who has compromised them all. Since she won't tell him why she's leaving, he's going to have to make seducing her his personal mission. Falling for her wasn't part of the plan... OK, I'm going to say this up front. I'm not fond of the secretary/boss trope. There's a p

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Book Review: Ruled by Anne Marsh

Feb 13, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Ruled by Anne Marsh

The second of the new Harlequin Dare books I'm reviewing this month, Ruled by Anne Marsh is a Motorcycle Club (MC) romance. Evie’s princess party business is booming. The only cloud on her horizon is her brother’s involvement in the Black Dogs motorcycle club - and Rev, the enforcer from rival club Hard Riders who keeps turning up to poke his nose into her life. It would be an awful lot more convenient for Evie if she didn’t find Rev sexy as sin, because she’s vowed she wants

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Book Review: Srepska by Lucas Sterling

Jan 10, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Srepska by Lucas Sterling

Srepska is a cyber-crime thriller predicated on a frightening possibility; what if a team of well-resourced, competent hackers managed to gain control of the systems governing everyday financial transactions? The story begins with the ‘Srepska’ group’s first large-scale trial, where they cripple the cellphone network in Kenya. Since around 40% of monetary transactions in the country are made using cellphones, the disruption of the system causes immediate chaos. Moving on from

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Book Review: Mesmerized by Candace Camp

Dec 27, 2017
2 min

Book Review: Mesmerized by Candace Camp

Olivia Moreland investigates psychic phenomena in order to debunk them. So when Stephen St. Leger invites her to his country estate in order to discredit a so-called ‘medium’ who has her claws into his mother, and strange phenomena begin to occur, Olivia and Stephen have to band together to try and find out what is behind the disturbances. They also have to contend with Pamela, the conniving widow of Stephen’s older brother, who seems determined to get her hooks into Stephen

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Book Review: The Duke Who Came To Town by Sophie Barnes

Nov 25, 2017
2 min

Book Review: The Duke Who Came To Town by Sophie Barnes

Having read the previous book in this series (The Earl Who Loved Her) and enjoyed it, I was pleased to pick up The Duke Who Came To Town too. This is the story of the eldest sister, Josephine, who works as an accountant in order to maintain her sisters in some sort of respectability. Of course, if you have read the previous two books in the series, you will already know that Louise and Eve have already found their true loves, and this conclusion to the trilogy sees the three

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Book Review: Picture Perfect by Lisa Moreau

Nov 21, 2017
2 min

Book Review: Picture Perfect by Lisa Moreau

I’ve been reminding myself recently that I should be reading and reviewing more LGBT stories, so when I spotted this lesbian romance available on NetGalley I grabbed it up. The only problem is that I think this may have started life out as a regular het romance and been re-written to make both protagonists female. I can’t otherwise account for the behaviour of Gabby, who frankly acts exactly like the worst kind of man when the tables are turned on her and she is the one who h

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Book Review: Deja New by MaryJanice Davidson

Nov 7, 2017
2 min

Book Review: Deja New by MaryJanice Davidson

Deja New is the second novel in MaryJanice Davidson’s Insighters series, and if you haven’t read the first one, you might as well give this one a miss. While the main character of this one, Angela, is a new protagonist, the main character from the first novel, Leah Nazir, is in this plenty. Her backstory is revisited enough for us to get a general idea of what might have happened in the first book, but the problem is that the world-building the reader needs to understand what

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Book Review: Hunt For Evil and Body Shot by Amy Jarecki

Sep 15, 2017
2 min

Book Review: Hunt For Evil and Body Shot by Amy Jarecki

I picked up the first two books in Amy Jarecki's ICE series of romantic suspense novels and this is a joint review for both books. Book 1 is Hunt For Evil, and begins with Navy SEAL Commander Logan Rodgers having to get MI6 spy Olivia Hamilton off a yacht owned by an ISIS terrorist before it gets blown sky high. This gets him off to a pretty poor start with Olivia, since she was right on the verge of a major breakthrough in her undercover operation. When they are both sent to

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Book Review: Archangel Errant by Elizabeth Corrigan

Sep 13, 2017
2 min

Book Review: Archangel Errant by Elizabeth Corrigan

Archangel Errant is the third in Elizabeth Corrigan's Earthbound Angels series, something I didn't realize when I picked it up for review on NetGalley. Nevertheless, I believe that every book in a series should be able to stand on its own, and that a reader who is not familiar with previous books in the series should be able to pick up the thread of the story. Yeah... not so much with this one. Archangel Errant is purportedly about Gabriel, who returning to Heaven after a lon

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Book Review: Urban Enemies anthology

Sep 3, 2017
1 min

Book Review: Urban Enemies anthology

Featuring stories from some of today's top urban fantasy authors including Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, Seanan McGuire and quite a few others I hadn't sampled before picking this up, Urban Enemies is an anthology with a difference. All of the stories are told from the point of view of characters who are normally considered the villains of the story. Tom Hiddleston said about playing the character Loki "Every villain is the hero in his own narrative" and that's very true in

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Book Review: Not According To Flan by Karen C. Whalen

Jul 26, 2017
1 min

Book Review: Not According To Flan by Karen C. Whalen

Not According To Flan is the first book in the Cozy Mystery genre I’ve read, and I have to say I was pretty underwhelmed. The heroine, Jane, is supposedly an intelligent paralegal who appears at the same time to be a complete airhead. Case in point; on realising that someone has definitely been inside her house, since some of her things have been rearranged, she takes a phone call from a friend and immediately changes focus to thinking about her dinner party without thinking

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Book Review: Some Kind Of Hero by Suzanne Brockmann

Jul 17, 2017
2 min

Book Review: Some Kind Of Hero by Suzanne Brockmann

It's been a while since I've read any Suzanne Brockmann - my TBR list is bonkers and unless I fall utterly in love with an author I don't religiously read their every work - but I remember her books as being solid romantic suspense with sexy heroes, strong heroines and hot love scenes. So when I spotted this one on NetGalley I figured I'd pick it up. Should be a nice solid read to counter the run of eye-burningly awful ones I've had in the last couple of weeks, I thought. Wel

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Book Review: A Suitable Affair by Erica Taylor

Jun 10, 2017
2 min

Book Review: A Suitable Affair by Erica Taylor

A Suitable Affair is the debut novel by Erica Taylor, and it features a likeable heroine, a charming hero and a really rather clever plot with a twist it took me a while to figure out. Sounds great, huh? Yeah... it's also really, really confusing. The heroine is the younger sister of a Duke who has recently got married after a courtship alluded to multiple times in the book as being dramatic and unconventional. I was absolutely, utterly convinced that Andrew and Clara were th

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Book Review: The Disappearance Of Lady Edith by Christina McKnight

Jun 3, 2017
2 min

Book Review: The Disappearance Of Lady Edith by Christina McKnight

The Disappearance Of Lady Edith is the first in a new series called The Undaunted Debutantes, following three young girls as they seek justice for the death of their best friend on her wedding night. I love Christina McKnight's writing and I've raved about her books before (Theodora, here, The Mistress Enchants Her Marquis, here, and For The Love Of A Widow, here) but for me, this one doesn't quite hit the spot. The premise is fine, I like the protagonists well enough, but th

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Book Review: Breaking The Honor Code by Stanalei Fletcher

May 10, 2017
2 min

Book Review: Breaking The Honor Code by Stanalei Fletcher

Breaking The Honor Code is the second book I've read in Stanalei Fletcher's Northstar Security series - you can read my review of Proving Ground here. While loosely connected, each book is absolutely readable as a standalone; you don't get characters from previous books popping up all over the place to confuse the main plot and the romance between the two leads. Allison is Northstar's 'cyborg queen', a brilliant, geeky young woman who genuinely loves her job. When Northstar r

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Book Review: The Last American Hero by Nicole Field

May 4, 2017
2 min

Book Review: The Last American Hero by Nicole Field

I feel like I need to add an extra disclaimer to my review on this book; beside my usual that I picked up this book off ReadingAlley for review and that this is my honest opinion, I feel that I should say that I am neither trans nor asexual, and that therefore I am not qualified to comment about how accurately, or otherwise, the story represents persons from those communities. Yes, The Last American Hero is a story about a trans superhero, but make no mistake, there are two m

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Book Review: Always by London Saint James

Apr 9, 2017
2 min

Book Review: Always by London Saint James

I think I've got a case of whiplash from how hard the theme changed smack bang in the middle of this book. The first half was the sweetest, fluffiest romance I've ever read... seriously, I was reading a lot of it with raised eyebrows, wondering where the heck the conflict was going to come from, or if there was even going to be any. And then BAM. Without any warning, all that sweet fluffiness is ripped away, and the entire second half of the book is basically just one massive

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Book Review: Enchanters by K.F. Bradshaw

Apr 7, 2017
3 min

Book Review: Enchanters by K.F. Bradshaw

Enchanters is an epic YA fantasy novel. That... is about the only thing I can tell you for certain about it, since after reading all 534 pages, I'm still not sure exactly who the protagonist was. Nor do I really have a clue about the world of Damea and the rules of its magic, since the 'magic loss' which was basically the entire quest line of the novel was in the end resolved by such a blatant deus ex machina that I found myself turning back a few pages going "Wait, what the

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