Nov 29 2010
Dear Ms. Mady: I liked your voice and I liked the character interaction. I liked the idea of the novel but this novella was just that, an idea. It was a sketch and because of the brevity, I couldn’t buy into anything. I didn’t believe that there was an HEA for these three because there [...]
Jul 22 2010
Dear Ms. Hart, The plot of this Spice Brief deals with the same events described in your full-length novel, Tempted, which Jennie and I reviewed here. But whereas Tempted was narrated in first person from the POV of Anne Kinney, a married woman in her late twenties, “Everything Changes” is told in third person and [...]
Jun 3 2010
Dear Authors. The theme of this anthology is gay male threesomes, so I’m not sure where the title comes from. I opened the volume because it has stories by some of my favorite Dreamspinner authors (Merrow, Cullinan, Black) and because I love m/m romances AND threesome stories. Some of the stories have a HEA for [...]
Feb 12 2010
Dear Ms. North: A reader recommended this book to me. She said that she had picked it up during the All Romance eBook holiday giveaway for free and that it reminded her, a bit, of The Satin Sash. Specifically it was a menage a trois with a strong emotional component. I purchased the book on [...]
Jan 13 2010
Dear Ms. St. James, This book put me to sleep. I mean, I’d had four hours sleep the night before I read it and I was in bed trying to nap, but srsly, this book totally put me to sleep. In the middle of (one of) the (many) big sex scene(s). This is Not Good. [...]
Dec 3 2009
Dear Ms. Garnier: This is another book I don’t think I would have picked up on my own because author’s name made me think of the hair color. Huzzah for review copies. Antonia “Toni” Kearney and Grey Richards have been a couple for about two years. Grey had solicited Toni’s services as a logo designer [...]
Nov 30 2009
Dear Ms. Danella: What is under (or inside) the cover is a really well drawn high fantasy romance telling the story of clan Redgrove’s First daughter, Alithia, and her quest to get a tablet of mystery. The clan’s sacred flame has been extinguished. Without the flame, the clan cannot prepare its sanctified oils and incense. [...]
Nov 18 2009
Dear Ms. Thompson. I’ve had numerous people recommend your books to me as examples of good BDSM romances. When James Buchanan recommended you yet again, I broke down. I’m glad I did. I really enjoyed Submission Times Two and look forward to reading more of your books. I started with Submission Times Two because how [...]
Oct 1 2009
Dear Ms. Davis: I picked up this book at B&N because of the cover. I bought it because of its premise and because I’m fascinated by full triad m/m/f menage books actually being sold in the romance section at bricks-and-mortar stores, so I wanted to support that. Once I did, the book was…well, okay. Nothing [...]
Jun 7 2009
Jane: Maili, I understand you just finished reading (or is that too generous of a word) the words compiled into one PDF known as The Claiming by Trinity Blacio published by Siren Publishing-Bookstrand, Inc. The Claiming is ostensibly about a young woman whose family was killed in a bomb explosion on the family boat 10 [...]
May 16 2009
Dear Ms. Teglia Thank you for sending me a copy of your latest release, Animal Attraction. This is a stand alone full length story featuring Chandra Walker, an ordinary shop girl who finds out that her rare werewolf genes makes her a target for an all male pack looking for an alpha female, a queen. [...]
Apr 5 2009
Dear Ms. Rai: This is the first book of yours that I have read. I picked it because it featured a non caucasion protagonist; it had to do with cooking; and there were two hot guys in the story. I had mixed emotions at the end of the story. On the one hand I loved that [...]
Dec 12 2008
Dear Ms. Rossetti, I picked up this book on the strength of a cover quote from Shana Abe and the vague idea that said quote meant that The Flame and the Shadow would bear some resemblance to Abe’s Drakon series, which I’m quite fond of. About one-third of the way through, I was ruing my [...]
Nov 27 2008
Unlaced, as you might have guessed by the number of authors in the title of the post, is an anthology. It is an erotic romance anthology of three contemporary stories and one paranormal contemporary story. I admit that I did not read the last story by Denise Rossetti. I just haven’t been in the mood [...]
Nov 4 2008
There I was, sitting at my computer, reading a review copy of Pepper Espinoza‘s gay male triad novella from Samhain, Falling in Controlled Circumstances. I’m feeling pretty nifty that I’m reading a review copy-’like, OMG, people are actually giving me free books in the hopes that I’d write something nice about it. And I’ve got [...]
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