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Dear Ms. Bow, It’s not often that we stumble across North American-based fantasy, let alone North American-based fantasy that draws upon indigenous cultures. I admit this quality was what drew me to your novel. Like I’ve said in the past,… more

Oct 31, 2013

REVIEW: The Dark Witch: Book One in The Cousins O’Dwyer...

Kati B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads Contemporary, Ireland, Paranormal, Witches 8 Comments

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Dear Ms. Roberts: Winter, 1263. Sorcha, the Dark Witch, is being relentlessly pursued for her power by the evil sorcerer, Cabhan. Her husband is fighting in another war, and she’s home with her children: Brannaugh, Eammon and Teagan. Each of… more

Oct 30, 2013

REVIEW: Sleigh Bells in the Snow by Sarah Morgan

Sunita A Reviews/ Recommended Reads Contemporary romance, holiday setting, HQN, Series, Small Town Romance 21 Comments

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Dear Sarah Morgan: It’s no secret around here that I am a big fan of your work, and if there’s any complaint I’ve had with your categories it’s that sometimes they feel too short for the storylines you choose. So… more

Oct 28, 2013

REVIEW: Archangel’s Legion by Nalini Singh

Janine B Reviews/ Recommended Reads angels, Guild Hunter series, New York City, Paranormal, war 19 Comments

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Dear Ms Singh, When I heard that the sixth book in your Guild Hunter series would be a fourth book about Elena and Raphael, I gave a mental groan. Book three, Archangel’s Consort, made me feel the conflict between this… more

Oct 18, 2013

REVIEW: Unbound by Cara McKenna

Willaful A Reviews/ Recommended Reads Erotic-Romance, Scotland 24 Comments

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Dear Ms. McKenna: Lately, a number of erotic romance authors (Charlotte Stein and Abigail Barnette, for example) have been writing books that deliberately use the basic trappings of Fifty Shades of Grey to subvert its themes and reclaim the genre…. more

Oct 16, 2013

REVIEW: Reach For the Moon by Val Kovalin

Sirius B Reviews/ Recommended Reads contemporary gay romance, self-published 0 Comment

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Christmas vacation 1984 is far from festive at the house of eighteen year-old Alejo Sandoval. His parents teeter on the verge of divorce. His final semester of high school looms ahead. He has just found out that his trickster cousin… more

Oct 15, 2013

REVIEW: Duke of Midnight by Elizabeth Hoyt

Willaful B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads companion, Duke, Georgian, Historical, London, Recommended Reads 18 Comments

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Dear Ms. Hoyt: I was in happy-making-trope heaven with this story. A cold, proper hero, check. A heroine he can’t possibly marry, check. A double life, check. It could have been written for me! For readers who haven’t previously tried… more

Oct 13, 2013

REVIEW: The Tilted World by Tom Franklin & Beth Ann...

Jayne B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads 1920s, American historical, bootlegging, Mississippi, Prohibition-era, second chances 4 Comments

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The year is 1927. As rains swell the Mississippi, the mighty river threatens to burst its banks and engulf all in its path, including federal revenue agent Ted Ingersoll and his partner, Ham Johnson. Arriving in the tiny hamlet of… more

Oct 11, 2013

REVIEW: Rhythm and Bluegrass by Molly Harper

Jayne B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads Contemporary, Kentucky, music, tourism 11 Comments

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Kentucky Tourism Commission employee Bonnie Turkle is up Mud Creek without a paddle. When she gets permission from the state historical society to restore the McBride’s Music Hall to its former glory, she thinks the community will welcome her… more

Oct 9, 2013

REVIEW: Longbourn by Jo Baker

Jayne B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads Historical, Jane Austen, Regency England, Servants 21 Comments

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Dear Ms. Baker, Usually when I see a book that is in some way based on Jane Austen’s novels, I shy away from it. Though I’ve only read a fraction of the multitude ones that have been published, I find… more

Oct 8, 2013

REVIEW: The Haunted Heart: Winter by Josh Lanyon

Sunita B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads ghost-story, m/m romance, mystery, Series 7 Comments

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Dear Josh Lanyon: Sunita: As your faithful readers know, you took 2012 as a sabbatical year and did not release any new novellas or novels (although you did release two short stories). Blood Red Butterfly, which I reviewed briefly earlier… more

Oct 1, 2013

REVIEW: Stir Me Up by Sabrina Elkins

Jane B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads Chef, Contemporary, New Adult, Recommended Reads, Young-Adult 14 Comments

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Dear Ms. Elkins: Your editor emailed me and asked me to take a look at this book. I think it sat in my inbox for at least a week and she contacted me again. She loves this book and wanted… more

Sep 27, 2013

REVIEW: The Bridge by Rebecca Rogers Maher

Jayne B+ Reviews/ Featured/ Recommended Reads breast-cancer, Contemporary, mental illness, New York City, second chances, Suicide 13 Comments

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“Henry meets Christa on the west tower of the Brooklyn Bridge, just as they’re both about to jump off and kill themselves. Despite his paralyzing depression—and her panic over a second bout of cancer—they can’t go through with their… more

Sep 19, 2013

REVIEW: The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies 1) by KJ...

Sirius B+ Reviews/ Recommended Reads AU historical m/m romance, Historical Fantasy, m/m romance 32 Comments

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A lord in danger. A magician in turmoil. A snowball in hell. Exiled to China for twenty years, Lucien Vaudrey never planned to return to England. But with the mysterious deaths of his father and brother, it seems the new… more

Sep 13, 2013

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