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May 17, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: Something About You & A Lot Like Love by Julie James

There’s some­thing about Julie James…

Stay­ing overnight in a lux­ury hotel, Assis­tant U.S. Attor­ney Cameron Lynde over­hears a high-profile mur­der involv­ing a U.S. Sen­a­tor. Spe­cial Agent Jack Pal­las is assigned to the investigation-the same Jack Pal­las who still blames her for nearly ruin­ing his career three years ago.

Now the pair will have to put their rocky past behind them, focus on the case at hand-and smother the flame of their sizzling-hot sex­ual tension.

The FBI wants her cooporation.

As the daugh­ter of a bil­lion­aire and the owner of the city’s top wine store, Jor­dan Rhodes is invited to the most exclu­sive par­ties in Chicago. But there’s only one party the FBI wants to crash: the char­ity fund-raiser of a famous restau­ra­teur, who also hap­pens to laun­der money for the mob. In exchange for her brother’s release from prison, Jor­dan is going to be there – with a date sup­plied by the Bureau.

Agent McCall just wants her.

As the top under­cover agent in Chicago, Nick McCall has one rule: never get per­sonal. This “date” with Jor­dan Rhodes is merely an assign­ment – one they’re both deter­mined to pull off even if they can’t be together for five min­utes before the sar­casm and sparks begin to fly. But when Nick’s inves­ti­ga­tion is com­pro­mised, he and Jor­dan have no choice but to pre­tend they’re a cou­ple, and what starts out as a sim­ple assign­ment begins to feel a lot like some­thing more… Con­tinue read­ing →

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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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May 3, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: Jersey Angel by Ann Beth Bauman

Jer­sey Angel by Beth Ann Bau­man Genre: Real­is­tic Fic­tion for Young Adults Series: Stand­alone Excerpt: n/a • Source: Net­Gal­ley Rat­ing: Not For Me, Barely Read­able T – M Hard­cover: 208 pages Pub­lisher: Wendy Lamb Books (May 8, 2012) ISBN-10: 0385740204 · ISBN-13: 978–0385740203 Buy: Amazon.de or com · BookDepository.com · BookDepository.co.uk Blurb It’s the sum­mer before senior year and the allur­ing … 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 26, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: Somebody to Love by Kristan Higgins

Some­body To Love by Kris­tan Hig­gins Genre: Con­tem­po­rary Romance; Stand­alone Excerpt: n/a · Source: eArc Rat­ing: VERY ENTERTAINING, GOOD Mass Mar­ket Paper­back: 432 pages Pub­lisher: HQN Books (April 24, 2012) ISBN-10: 0373776586 · ISBN-13: 978–0373776580 Buy: Ama­zon · BookDe­pos­i­tory · BookDe­pos­i­tory UK Blurb After her father loses the fam­ily for­tune in an insider-trading scheme, sin­gle mom Parker … Con­tinue read­ing →