Category Archives: Fantasy

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May 15, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: Immersed in Pleasure by Tiffany Reisz

The Man­hat­tan Mer­maids: Believed to be the most beau­ti­ful women in the city, they enter­tain wealthy, pow­er­ful men in an exclu­sive club called Fathoms....and are all vir­gins. Derek Prince doesn't believe they really exist, until he meets the stun­ningly sen­sual Xenia. She dri­ves him wild with desire, but giv­ing in to temp­ta­tion means los­ing her posi­tion at Fath­oms. Derek is incred­i­bly turned on by the thought of being Xenia's first...but will he be will­ing to wait for her? Con­tinue read­ing →

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May 10, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: Nightshade and Bloodlust by Michelle Rowen

Jil­lian Con­rad never believed in vampires-until she was unwill­ingly injected with a serum that was sup­posed to act as a deadly poi­son to them. Now, tor­mented half-vampire Declan Reese wants her blood to destroy the undead king­dom. Unfor­tu­nately, the serum has also made her blood irre­sistible to all vampires-including Declan, whose desire for Jil­lian is more than mere hunger.

Jil­lian Conrad's blood has killed the vam­pire king. Now an enemy to all vam­pires, she is tar­geted for elim­i­na­tion. So is the infant daugh­ter of the dead king. If Jil­lian doesn't stand in the way of her death, then every­one, liv­ing or dead, is in great peril. Con­tinue read­ing →

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May 8, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: Matched by Ally Condie

Cas­sia has always trusted the Soci­ety to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Match­ing cer­e­mony, Cas­sia knows with com­plete cer­tainty that he is her ideal mate... until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.

The Soci­ety tells her it's a glitch, a rare mal­func­tion, and that she should focus on the happy life she's des­tined to lead with Xan­der. But Cas­sia can't stop think­ing about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cas­sia begins to doubt the Society's infal­li­bil­ity and is faced with an impos­si­ble choice: between Xan­der and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to fol­low. Con­tinue read­ing →

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May 5, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: The White Oak by Kim White

In The White Oak, the first book in the Imper­fect Dark­ness series, Cora Alexan­der falls through a sink­hole and enters the under­world still alive.

Her liv­ing pres­ence threat­ens the tyran­ni­cal rule of Minos and the infer­nal judges who have hijacked the after­life and rebuilt it, trap­ping human souls in a mechan­i­cal, computer-controlled city that lies at the core of the earth. To sur­vive, Cora must rely on her untrust­wor­thy guide, Mino­taur, an arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence built by Minos. She is helped by a mys­te­ri­ous voice, and by Sybil, under­world librar­ian and author of each person's book of life. Sybil's col­lec­tion holds the key to humankind's inter­twined life stories.

When Cora's own book is destroyed, Sybil gives her a mag­i­cal golden pen and sends her to the under­world city to write her own des­tiny. Along the way, Cora finds the ghost of her dead brother, Lucas, a genius pro­gram­mer who alone is capa­ble of find­ing the chink in Minos's armor. But will he be able to get Cora out alive, or will they both suc­cumb to the seem­ingly inescapable under­world trap? Con­tinue read­ing →

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April 28, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: Under A Vampire Moon by Lynsay Sands

Chris­t­ian Notte's story, the six­teenth book in the Arge­neau series is set on an island par­adise called St. Lucia.

After a bad rela­tion­ship and an even worse divorce, Car­olyn decides to go on a long over­due and much needed vaca­tion with the 'girls'. Only the rest of the vaca­tion­ers didn't get the memo. Around every cor­ner there seems to be another cou­ple cel­e­brat­ing their hon­ey­moon or anniver­sary and the few sin­gle men she does see are far too young to even con­sider, includ­ing an irre­sistibly attrac­tive rock vio­lin­ist she meets.

It's really too bad he's so young but in the end it doesn't mat­ter because accord­ing to his cousin, Giac­inta, women in gen­eral aren't Christian's type. But there's a catch, Chris­t­ian needs Carolyn's help. He needs her to be his beard (to play the part of his fake girl­friend) for the week to appease his 'machismo' fam­ily. Car­olyn just can't seem to say No and decides to help Gia's cousin. The only prob­lem is that being around Chris­t­ian and act­ing like they are a lov­ing cou­ple is wreak­ing havoc on her emo­tions. Carolyn's thoughts keep drift­ing back to places they shouldn't, like kiss­ing his full lips or feel­ing his broad shoul­ders under her fin­ger­tips... good lord, she's in trou­ble. Con­tinue read­ing →

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April 21, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: Kiss of Pride by Sandra Hill

SOME MEN ARE TOO BAD TO BE TRUE...

Is he really a Viking with a vampire’s bit? An angel with the body of a thun­der god? A lone wolf with love on his mind? Alexan­dra Kelly, his prey, thinks Vikar Sig­urds­son is either flat-out crazy or he’s try­ing to maneu­ver her into his bed–which is hardly where a pro­fes­sional reporter should con­duct an inter­view, tempt­ing as that prospect might be.

SOME MEN ARE TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE...

Until Vikar does some­thing a teensy bit unex­pected, and Alex begins to won­der whether her mys­tery man could really be every­thing he says he is: a Viking Vam­pire Angel on a thousand-year-long mis­sion with his pack of sin­ful brothers—and a man who’s finally found the woman of his dreams. By then, Vikar is already wrap­ping his chis­eled arms around Alex’s body...and sink­ing his wicked fangs right into her neck. If this is sin, why does it feel so good? Con­tinue read­ing →

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April 19, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: Struck by Jennifer Bosworth

Mia Price is a light­ning addict. She’s sur­vived count­less strikes, but her crav­ing to con­nect to the energy in storms endan­gers her life and the lives of those around her.
Los Ange­les, where light­ning rarely strikes, is one of the few places Mia feels safe from her addic­tion. But when an earth­quake dev­as­tates the city, her haven is trans­formed into a mine­field of chaos and dan­ger. The beaches become mas­sive tent cities. Down­town is a crum­bling waste­land, where a trav­el­ing party moves to a dif­fer­ent empty build­ing each night, the rev­el­ers drawn to the destruc­tion by a force they can­not deny. Two war­ring cults rise to power, and both see Mia as the key to their oppos­ing dooms­day prophe­cies. They believe she has a con­nec­tion to the freak elec­tri­cal storm that caused the quake, and to the far more dev­as­tat­ing storm that is yet to come.
Mia wants to trust the enig­matic and allur­ing Jeremy when he promises to pro­tect her, but she fears he isn’t who he claims to be. In the end, the pas­sion and power that brought them together could be their down­fall. When the final dis­as­ter strikes, Mia must risk unleash­ing the full hor­ror of her strength to save the peo­ple she loves, or lose every­thing. Con­tinue read­ing →

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April 12, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: Little Red and the Wolf by Alison Paige

Maizie Hood strug­gles to keep her bak­ery turn­ing a profit, her land­lord from evict­ing her, and her dear Granny in a nurs­ing facil­ity. Wrestling with the deci­sion to sell Gran’s cot­tage is hard enough. The last thing she needs is her child­hood big-bad-wolf night­mares turn­ing into real-life adult fan­tasies. Sexy busi­ness­man Gray Lupo’s sud­den inter­est just makes mat­ters worse. Is he the answer to her prob­lems, or just a wolf in gentleman’s Armani?

Since his wife was killed twenty-one years ago, Gray’s life has been focused on two things: pro­tect­ing the pack and avoid­ing the grown daugh­ter of his wife’s killers. When it becomes clear he can’t do one with­out com­pro­mis­ing the other, Gray finds play­ing “big bad wolf” to Maizie Hood’s “Lit­tle Red” is a role he enjoys far more than he expected.

A real bad wolf’s attack on Maizie changes every­thing. Gray can’t deny the pull she has on his instincts—and his heart. Sud­denly he finds him­self tak­ing on a role he never thought he’d want, as her pro­tec­tor and mate. Until the truth about his con­nec­tion to her night­mar­ish past comes to light… Con­tinue read­ing →