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Sometimes to find love, you must first learn forgiveness.
A dozen years, two thousand miles, and a law degree after high school, Rafi continues to harbor resentment toward Isaac , his childhood bully turned NBA star. When Isaac appears at Rafi's favorite restaurant acting like a long-lost friend, Rafi bluntly dismisses him. Isaac is tenacious and he has his heart set on the grown-up version of the boy he always wanted. The way Isaac sees it, he and Rafi are perfect for each other, if only he could sink the most important shot of his life: his one shot at forgiveness. |
Jolene Gray works as a nurse during the day, but we never find out anything else about that part of her life. Since she was eleven, she saw a ghost named Iris, allowing her to communicate with the dead. She can only see the ghosts of children, but she can hear all of them. She's been doing weekly night meetings at a local church--they're usually crowded with believers who want any messages from their dead relatives. Iris makes them all speak one at a time, so Jolene can pass along their words.
Red MacFarlene is a director of reality TV shows, but what he really wants to do is direct movies. Unfortunately his younger brother, whose name we don't learn until the end since Red calls him Golden Balls, has made a name for himself as a highly successful and sought-after movie director. So they haven't spoken much for years. When Red's boss offers him a chance to direct the season finale episode of the popular show Canada's Most Haunted, he jumps at the chance to gain more visibility. They've hired Jolene to be the psychic responsible for ensuring that any spirits actually in the place leave the living folks alone. I wasn't very convinced by the ghost story. The big bad ghost turned out to just be misunderstood, and the conflict seemed to be resolved too easily for me. What I really enjoyed was the steamy romance between Jolene and Red. I mean, when you're so hot for each other that your first time is in a maintenance shed of a cemetery, you know you've both got it bad! Complicating matters is that Red doesn't believe in ghosts, so at first he's afraid that he's having hot sex with a crazy woman. It doesn't stop him but he figures he'll need to get her some help, before they can have anything more. When he discovers, to his dismay, that the warning she gave them all about telling the spirits to not follow them home was really necessary, he's forced to admit that she's not crazy. She's got an ability he never believed in, and he's going to need her help to get himself free of a malevolent ghost. Enjoy the ghost story, but read this book for the steamy romance!
After being thrown out of his pack by a cruel leader, Omega wolf Simon has learned to survive by ignoring his gentle nature. His mother was also an Omega, who couldn't allow her 13-year-old son to be on his own away from the safety of a pack, so she went with him. When the story begins, 12 years later, he's once again on the grounds of the Blue Mountain pack, to bury his mother, who asked him to accompany her there, knowing she'd die while there.
The first four pack members who find him, rough him up a little, to scare him off. Then they report back to Frederick, their current pack leader. He and his twin brother Mitch, killed off the last pack leader and his three beta sycophants, then took over the pack. They're both alphas, but Mitch has no desire to be a leader. He's the "enforcer" for the pack. His gruff manner keeps everyone at bay, and that's just the way he likes it. When Mitch and Frederick smell the blood of a foreign shifter on their reporting pack members, they both realize that this is Mitch's mate. Frederick tells him to go deal with the interloper. When found by Mitch, Simon panics, he's been treated badly by Alphas and other male shifters before he smells "off", because not only is he a rare Omega male, but he's gay. His first instinct is to roll over and submit, but he fights until he's worn out. Then he wants to bare his belly to allow the alpha to kill him, since he's tired of always having to fight to survive. But Mitch takes him to his home that he rebuilt out of an old ruined house, it's close enough to where the pack leader lives, but far enough away for Mitch to have the privacy he needs. Simon fights against everything Mitch tries with him and he refuses to tell Mitch why. Luckily for them both, Mitch's rough exterior hides a gentle, loving man, who will give Simon all the time and space he needs to realize that they're a mated pair, bound to each other for life. The realism in this book was totally engaging. I was captured by Mitch's gentle giant, and astounded by Simon's inner strength, which he didn't believe in, but which kept him alive during his time living out of a pack. I loved both of these characters, and almost wept with happiness that they both found in each other, a harbor for their hearts and souls.
Chloe Hart is a wedding photographer who had to toss out her ex when she found him banging her supposedly close girlfriend. Chloe's still not over the betrayal, so she's not ready to date yet. She fears there aren't any men who could fulfill her the way that her "book boyfriends" do, since she devours romance novels and takes care of her urges herself.
One day a mysterious painting is delivered to her apartment, with the sender's info a mystery. When she unwraps the painting she's amazed that it's a realistic painting of "a big, blond Viking of a man," a perfect specimen of a man in his prime. He's physically perfect--or at least as far as she can tell, since there's an obtrusive animal skin draped across the crucial part of his nude body so she can only guess at what it's hiding, by examining his large hands. She promptly hangs it over her bed, to replace the nude photo of her ex that used to hang there. That night she has a wonderful dream involving the gorgeous man--she's in a medieval castle, and he's the conquering knight who has come to claim her virginal self. She laughs that she's not virtuous, but her words are ignored. The man makes wild, passionate love to her, resulting in the kinds of intense orgasms she never go from the ex who claimed she was a "pervert" when she suggested that if he tied her up, she might get some enjoyment out of sex with him. Over the next few days, she dreams of the hot, hard-bodied man every night. She learns his name is Radolf of Varik. Of course he's been cursed by a witch. The witch gets power from the orgasms he gives to women in their dreams so she's been pimping him out all this time. And he's been hoping that finally he'd meet a woman who would love him enough to enter the painting and break his curse by kissing him awake. This is a cute, clever take-off on Sleeping Beauty, only it's the man who's asleep and Chloe is just resourceful enough to figure out how to defeat the witch. Honestly, I'd probably enjoy reading a grocery list if it was written by Angela Knight. She writes toe-curdling, steamy sex scenes that can't help but fire up your imagination along with your body parts. This is a very short read, but it's got plenty of heat. I liked the nod to "romance-landia" where we all live, creating and reading about book boyfriends who are never too tired, are always hard, and always know how to pleasure a woman.
Cyprus Reid has exploded into the consciousness of the world. She's an overnight sensation whose fans are intensely dedicated, and whose detractors are equally rabid. When she sings, listeners are moved to tears. Everyone is intrigued by her. Her sexuality is blatant, irresistible and she is always accompanied by five ridiculously sexy men. Are they her body-guards or her lovers? A reverse-harem, or just eye candy for everyone, to add to the mystique of her allure?
Ex-Navy SEAL Jason Giles is a government-intelligence operative now, who has taken on a dangerous assignment. Scientists have been dying in the towns visited by Cyprus and her entourage. Is she connected in any way? When Jason gets himself hired by the hotel she's staying at, to provide protection for Cyprus, it doesn't take him long to realize he's in way over his head. Cyprus is much more than just a young man in a dress. What Jason discovers will change his life forever. I'm a huge fan of sci-fi in any medium: movies, TV shows, and books. So I'm aware that building a world is time-consuming. The more you want to play in that world, the more painstaking you have to be in establishing the parameters. This is a very ambitious beginning to a series. I wasn't sure at first what direction the author was going in, until the action became as compelling as the sexy men surrounding Cyprus. With her being a hermaphrodite, even when a man is having sex with her lady parts, there is still a very functional set of man-parts to contend with as well. Once we start experiencing the sex that goes on within this coven, it gets intense very quickly. There is a whole lot of male/male sex going on, and because three members of Cyprus' coven are alpha-males, there is some very violent sex that takes place as the alphas try to force each other to yield. In the end, there is also a very-much-deserved avenging of a horrific wrong committed against Cyprus and her coven, but it's also very violent, so reader be warned. Ms. Burke has created an interesting world, and the characters who live in it do so by their own codes. I will be watching to see how many books she plans in this series, and if any will be not just back-stories, but will continue the story she started here. The Coven is a highly recommended read!
Kayla gets a free ticket to a rock concert from her assistant. Right before the show, she hooks up with Jason, the much younger-than-her lead singer. She provides oral sex for him. But it's apparently mind-blowing and alters both their lives--and those of others as well. It seems that the bass player, Erik, has been tight with Jason since they were both young orphaned kids lost in the system. Whenever they were separated, they'd both suffer immense physical and mental pain and anguish. When they're together, Erik waits for Jason to have meaningless sex with groupies, then Jason brings the energy he gains from that back to Erik--and they have wild sex. But once Jason meets Kayla, he gets sick from her not planning on seeing him again.
I hesitate to call this a romance series, because the whole point of the stories is that these people are on an erotic journey, seeking to discover how they can create a triad that benefits all of them. In turn, the ties of power that encircle them all, strengthen them all as well. And being on an erotic journey is the textbook definition of erotica. So that's what I rated this book four stars and it's good at what it does. The two men love each other, and somehow neither are jealous of another person entering their relationship. Nor are they jealous of the time each spends alone with Kayla. But they're all happiest when in bed together. Considering that the first book in the series opens with a blow-job, you know from the start that this is going to be a steamy series. It doesn't disappoint. What plot there is exists only to take the participants to another sexual interlude. The four titles are: DAZE ON END, INTERLUDE IN C, FINDING THE CHORDS, COLOR HAZE. In the first 3 books, the focus is on Kayla, Jason and Erik. Randy, who is the drummer for their trio band, just broke up with Liz, when he found her involved in an interlude with Tom who unbeknownst to him, used to be with Liz when they were in high school. So the last book introduces another triad in the making, as another group of people start their erotic journey to happiness. his was an interesting series that explores the ins and outs (pun intended!) of a menage relationship. If you've ever wondered what it could be like to have two men in bed with you, this a series you'll really enjoy!
This time, we get to watch the action through Cal's eyes. He's the wolf-shifter who was badly abused by his pack-leader father. He and his brothers (by different mothers) were all beaten, starved, and deprived of a normal upbringing to suit the pack-leader's ego. In the previous book, he and his brothers returned to their childhood home, only to discover that it wasn't an accident--their father had summoned them in order to see if any of them could challenge him for leadership. Of course they did--together. The youngest brother was killed, but Cal was the one to triumph by ripping out the cruel leader's throat. His older brother Mark wanted the credit, which was fine with Cal. So they got Layla to agree to lie with them, and to say that Mark was the one to kill the alpha. Cal doesn't want to have to become the new pack-leader, and we don't yet know what Mark wants to do, since he's MIA. Cal's mother lives in Arizona, a very long way from where he lives now (close to where he grew up.) She contacts him because another pack is threatening her. He fears for her safety and immediately decides to journey there to face whatever enemy she faces. He can't afford to book a flight, nor can he get a seat quickly enough. But his trusty old truck fails him. Up drives Layla in her small car, volunteering to take him across many states to help his mother. He's happy she's willing, but not happy that the incubus (lust-demon) who is bound to her until she fully develops and can control her witch-magic, will of course, accompany them. The journey is very dangerous, since everything that can go wrong, does. Much of the early conflict involves Cal's jealousy, since he realizes he's falling in love with Layla, the only positive influence in his life. He clutches her closely, to try to maintain his tenuous grip on sanity--he can't even look in a mirror without being reminded who his father was, since he looks so much like him. So even though Layla finds his blond, hard-bodied self incredibly hot, he vacillates between hating himself, and hating the life he's been given. And though she never turns him away for Ink, her incubus--whenever he has a crisis of emotional intensity, Ink is always there to satisfy her desires. Which just gives him more angst. This was an exciting book to read. There was some romance, since it's obvious how much Cal needs, desires, and yes, loves Layla--even though it takes him forever to tell her. There are some hot encounters, but often they're interrupted by him surrendering to his emotional crises--which encourages Ink once again. Will Cal ever work up the nerve to tell Layla how he feels? Will the fairy they meet help them, or will she cause them all to be captured by the Hunters--who Cal always thought were a myth made up to scare young shifter children? What will happen when they finally meet up with his mother? Where has Mark gone? And will they all live through this journey, to make it to the next book? I sure hope so, since the author describes this as a Reverse Harem series. That's enough to have me waiting not-so-patiently for the next book. I can't wait to see Layla getting her every desire taken care of by the lust-demon who can read her mind to know what she wants him to do next, and the hot, hard-bodied shifter whose manly attributes were so graphically described in the last book.
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 | Title: A Taste of Magic Author: Alexa Piper Genre: Romance, paranormal TBR Reviewer: Bella Rating: 4 Stars - Recommended Read! Heat: 3/5 - Blush Worthy! |
Life is boring for Cora until she takes a job at a PI’s office. Now she learns about the paranormal and that a certain vampire is interested in making her his.
This was an interesting paranormal romance. Cora was thrust into the paranormal world to sink or swim. She finds Valerian sexy but he’s a vampire. What’s a girl supposed to do? There was a great pace to the book between the romance and the action. The excerpts in the book are a bit disorienting. Add in some werewolves, danger and mind blowing sex with a vampire … you have A Taste of Magic. There was a dose of humor that I found very entertaining. Overall, I really enjoyed A taste of Magic and it definitely deserve it’s four shiny stars!
This was an interesting paranormal romance. Cora was thrust into the paranormal world to sink or swim. She finds Valerian sexy but he’s a vampire. What’s a girl supposed to do? There was a great pace to the book between the romance and the action. The excerpts in the book are a bit disorienting. Add in some werewolves, danger and mind blowing sex with a vampire … you have A Taste of Magic. There was a dose of humor that I found very entertaining. Overall, I really enjoyed A taste of Magic and it definitely deserve it’s four shiny stars!
 | Title: Spirits of the Dogwood Author: T Lee Garland Genre: Mystery, Paranormal, Young adult TBR Reviewer: Christine and Bella (Buddy read) Rating: 5 Stars - A Must Read! |
Rhiannon has a secret: she can talk to spirits. Add that to her daily list of crap. Clean the house, groceries, pass high school, her mother gone and take care of her father. Then girls start disappearing. Dying. A serial killer is on the lose …
Christine: I really liked Rhiannon. She was smart girl who is just trying to navigate through what life slung at her. She lost her mother, she can see spirits, she has a hard crush on a cute boy and that’s a lot for a teenage girl to deal with at once. The side characters really stood out, Taylor, Mason, her father, Donna and the cute Jackson. Add to that the mystery of who is killing the locals. Why is she talking to ghosts? The paranormal element was really well done. I believed Rhiannon when she said she saw ghosts. Her calm fit from years of seeing them and being told to keep it a secret. The ending was exciting and I found myself really routing for this family. What happens next? What will her father and brother say when she tells them she can see ghosts? I’m curious if the next book starts with her in a psychiatrist’s office or mental institution. Maybe she solves more murders and finally her family believes here?! I want to read more!
Bella: I really liked her talking to ghosts and trying to figure out high school. You think you got it hard getting through there (according to my daughter it’s horrible) and then here’s a girl that can see ghosts! See, sweet child of mine, high school could be worse. I’m excited to read more about this family and I want to read what happens next. I’m hoping this is a series.
Spirits of the Dogwood was a must read for paranormal lovers!
Christine: I really liked Rhiannon. She was smart girl who is just trying to navigate through what life slung at her. She lost her mother, she can see spirits, she has a hard crush on a cute boy and that’s a lot for a teenage girl to deal with at once. The side characters really stood out, Taylor, Mason, her father, Donna and the cute Jackson. Add to that the mystery of who is killing the locals. Why is she talking to ghosts? The paranormal element was really well done. I believed Rhiannon when she said she saw ghosts. Her calm fit from years of seeing them and being told to keep it a secret. The ending was exciting and I found myself really routing for this family. What happens next? What will her father and brother say when she tells them she can see ghosts? I’m curious if the next book starts with her in a psychiatrist’s office or mental institution. Maybe she solves more murders and finally her family believes here?! I want to read more!
Bella: I really liked her talking to ghosts and trying to figure out high school. You think you got it hard getting through there (according to my daughter it’s horrible) and then here’s a girl that can see ghosts! See, sweet child of mine, high school could be worse. I’m excited to read more about this family and I want to read what happens next. I’m hoping this is a series.
Spirits of the Dogwood was a must read for paranormal lovers!
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 | Title: Infernal Desire, Demon Entanglement Series Author: Angela Knight Length: 97 pages Genres: Action Adventure, BDSM, Dark Fantasy, Paranormal Romance TBR Reviewer: Fiona Rating: 5 Stars - A Must Read! Heat: 5/5 - Orgasmic! |
Zana Alasdair has a problem. She's a half-demon succubus, who draws magic from the erotic energy she collects from making love to mortals. And who has she fallen in lust with? A half-angel who spends his time working out, making his body a prime killing machine, when he's not actively killing demons. Even her tail, which she calls Pointy since it has a mind of its own, is not happy about her spending the past five years crushing on a being who might kill her if he ever saw her. Rafe has been fighting demons for over 400 years, ever since his angel-father told him that he'd been created for that purpose. He's afraid to get close to anyone, since hundreds of years ago, his human wife and young child were brutally murdered by a demon, and left for him to find when he got home. So he's lonely, but resigned to his existence, which must surely end with some demon out-fighting him.
When these two meet, it's because Rafe is fighting a demon who almost overpowers him. Zana is there to first spirit the female humans it was threatening away, before she returns to see Rafe getting handed his butt. Can these two disparate beings find a way to have a future? Since this is written by a master of sexual scenes, there are many very hot, steamy episodes as these two pursue a tentative relationship. There will be obstacles, but one thing is for sure, there is a happy ending in a spectacularly hot chapter!
This is a must-read for all fans of the author, and of paranormal erotic romance.
When these two meet, it's because Rafe is fighting a demon who almost overpowers him. Zana is there to first spirit the female humans it was threatening away, before she returns to see Rafe getting handed his butt. Can these two disparate beings find a way to have a future? Since this is written by a master of sexual scenes, there are many very hot, steamy episodes as these two pursue a tentative relationship. There will be obstacles, but one thing is for sure, there is a happy ending in a spectacularly hot chapter!
This is a must-read for all fans of the author, and of paranormal erotic romance.
 | Title: The Adorable Snowman Author: Stephanie Burke Length: 92 pages Genres: Paranormal Romance TBR Reviewer: Fiona Rating: 4 Stars - Recommend Read! Heat: 3/5 - Blush Worthy |
Serendipity Collins, known to friends as Ren, lives in her RV. She's a loner who spends her time traveling around the country, selling her puppets, costumes and other crafts. She has no idea just how different the man is that she hits with her RV while driving through a blinding snowstorm. She helps the almost nude male into her RV, then gets a shock when she tries to pull off his hairy boots, and startles him awake--because they're not boots! Ta is trying to get away from the humans who were holding him captive.
This was a different twist on the fated mates trope because it's not certain that they will both be okay with becoming mates as they do have a choice. Ta is just as apprehensive as Ren in the start, as to whether their connection is merely physical, or also includes their minds and hearts. I gave a lower rating than Ms. Burke's books usually get on the heat level because most of the sex is Ren pleasuring herself because it's been so long for her. Also because Ta's bodily chemistry keeps emitting pheromones that drive her libido crazy. All the while they're both dithering around, trying to decide if they approve of each other. Of course, they finally agree that what they have found together, in a scorcher of a scene in the last chapter, is worth pursuing. Personally, if a 6'5" fanged giant of a man with long white hair, who can change his body at will into becoming a Yeti, and whose genital fur covers up a member of extraordinary magnitude, tried to convince me that we were meant to be mates, it would only take one experience with his male pheromones to get me to holler, yes!
This was a different twist on the fated mates trope because it's not certain that they will both be okay with becoming mates as they do have a choice. Ta is just as apprehensive as Ren in the start, as to whether their connection is merely physical, or also includes their minds and hearts. I gave a lower rating than Ms. Burke's books usually get on the heat level because most of the sex is Ren pleasuring herself because it's been so long for her. Also because Ta's bodily chemistry keeps emitting pheromones that drive her libido crazy. All the while they're both dithering around, trying to decide if they approve of each other. Of course, they finally agree that what they have found together, in a scorcher of a scene in the last chapter, is worth pursuing. Personally, if a 6'5" fanged giant of a man with long white hair, who can change his body at will into becoming a Yeti, and whose genital fur covers up a member of extraordinary magnitude, tried to convince me that we were meant to be mates, it would only take one experience with his male pheromones to get me to holler, yes!
