M/F

Book Review: Sweet Ruin by Kresley Cole

Posted on December 8, 2015 by thebloggergirls

Guest Reviewed by Gyn

24002318Title: Sweet Ruin
Author: Kresley Cole
Series: Immortals After Dark #16
Heroine/Hero:  Josephine/Rune
Genre: MF Paranormal Romance
Length: 384 Pages
Publisher: Gallery Books
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  An immortal assassin is caught between desire and duty…

A foundling raised in a world of humans

Growing up, orphaned Josephine didn’t know who or what she was—just that she was “bad,” an outcast with strange powers. Her baby brother Thaddeus was as perfect as she was flawed; protecting him became her entire life. The day he was taken away began Jo’s transition from angry girl… to would-be superhero… to enchanting, ruthless villain.

A lethally sensual enforcer on a mission

A threat to the Møriør has brought archer Rune the Baneblood to the mortal realm to slay the oldest living Valkyrie. Whether by bow or in bed, he never fails to eliminate his target. Yet before he can strike, he encounters a vampiric creature whose beauty conceals a black heart. With one bite, she pierces him with aching pleasure, taking his forbidden blood – and jeopardizing the secrets of his brethren.

A boundless passion that will lead to sweet ruin…

Could this exquisite female be a spy sent by the very Valkyrie he hunts? Rune knows he must not trust Josephine, yet he’s unable to turn her away. Despite his millennia of sexual conquests, he can’t ignore the unfamiliar longing she arouses deep within him. When Jo betrays the identity of the one man she will die to protect, she and Rune become locked in a treacherous battle of wills that pits ultimate loyalty against unbridled lust.
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Categories: 5 Star Ratings, Book Review, Guest Reviewer, M/F, Published in 2015 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Early Book Review: Secret Sisters by Jayne Ann Krentz

Posted on December 5, 2015 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Ami

25194146Title: Secret Sisters
Author: Jayne Ann Krentz
Heroine/Hero: Madeline Chase & Jack Rayner / Daphne King & Abe Rayner
Genre: MF Romantic Suspense
Length: 352 Pages
Publisher: Berkley/NAL
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  Madeline and Daphne were once as close as sisters—until a secret tore them apart. Now it might take them to their graves.

They knew his name, the man who tried to brutally attack twelve-year-old Madeline in her grandmother’s hotel. They thought they knew his fate. He wouldn’t be bothering them anymore…ever. Still their lives would never be the same.

Madeline has returned to Washington after her grandmother’s mysterious death. And at the old, abandoned hotel—a place she never wanted to see again—a dying man’s last words convey a warning: the secrets she and Daphne believed buried forever have been discovered.

Now, after almost two decades, Madeline and Daphne will be reunited in friendship and in fear. Unable to trust the local police, Madeline summons Jack Rayner, the hotel chain’s new security expert. Despite the secrets and mysteries that surround him, Jack is the only one she trusts…and wants.

Jack is no good at relationships but he does possess a specific skill set that includes a profoundly intimate understanding of warped and dangerous minds. With the assistance of Jack’s brother, Abe, a high-tech magician, the four of them will form an uneasy alliance against a killer who will stop at nothing to hide the truth….
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Categories: 3 Star Ratings, Book Review, Guest Reviewer, M/F, Published in 2015 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Blood Kiss by J.R. Ward

Posted on November 30, 2015 by susan65coug Miss Behaving

Reviewed by Susan65

24903031Title: Blood Kiss
Author: J.R. Ward
Series: Black Dagger Legacy #1
Heroine/Hero: Paradise/Craeg
Genre: MF Paranormal
Length: 496 Pages
Publisher: Penguin/Signet
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb: Paradise, blooded daughter of the king’s First Advisor, is ready to break free from the restrictive life of an aristocratic female. Her strategy? Join the Black Dagger Brotherhood’s training center program and learn to fight for herself, think for herself…be herself. It’s a good plan, until everything goes wrong. The schooling is unfathomably difficult, the other recruits feel more like enemies than allies, and it’s very clear that the Brother in charge, Butch O’Neal, a.k.a. the Dhestroyer, is having serious problems in his own life.

And that’s before she falls in love with a fellow classmate. Craeg, a common civilian, is nothing her father would ever want for her, but everything she could ask for in a male. As an act of violence threatens to tear apart the entire program, and the erotic pull between them grows irresistible, Paradise is tested in ways she never anticipated—and left wondering whether she’s strong enough to claim her own power…on the field, and off.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, M/F, Published in 2015, Susan65's Reviews | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Don’t Touch Me by Bey Deckard

Posted on November 24, 2015 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

donttouchme-promoTitle: Bey Deckard
Author: Don’t Touch Me
Series: UnCommon Bodies Anthology
Hero: Beau
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Fighting Monkey Press
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Available at: Amazon
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Blurb:  Fighting is what Beau does best, because the very thing he dreads is exactly what lends him the extraordinary strength to defeat even the worst odds. And he does it all with the help of his angel, the woman he longs desperately to hold…but can’t.

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Categories: 5 Star Ratings, Book Review, JustJen's Reviews, M/F, Published in 2015 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Veiled Magic by Deborah Blake

Posted on November 15, 2015 by thebloggergirls

Guest Reviewed by Ami

26028987Title: Veiled Magic
Author: Deborah Blake
Heroine/Hero: Donata Santori / Peter Casaventi / Magnus Torvald
Genre: MF Urban Fantasy
Length: 280 Pages
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  Since Witches came out of the broom-closet in the early 21st century, they have worked alongside humans as police officers, healers, stock traders, and more. But they aren’t the only paranormal entities in our world…

Police officer and Witch Donata Santori spends her days interrogating dead witnesses by summoning their spectral forms. Normally the job is little more than taking statements and filing reports. But when she’s called in on the case of a murdered art restorer, she finds herself suddenly in possession of a mystical portrait that both the human and paranormal communities would kill to get their hands on.

Unable to take on the forces hunting her alone, Donata seeks help from two unlikely and attractive allies: a reluctant shape-changer and a half-dragon art forger. But as the three of them hurry to uncover the truth about the powerful painting, Donata realizes that she’s caught in the middle of not one but two wars—one for possession of the painting’s secrets and one for possession of her heart…
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Categories: 3.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, Guest Reviewer, M/F, Published in 2015 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Archangel’s Shadows by Nalini Singh

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

17409835Title: Archangel’s Shadows
Author: Nalini Singh
Series: Guild Hunter #7
Hero/Heroine: Ash & Janvier
Genre: M/F Urban Fantasy
Length: 384 pages
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Available at: Amazon
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Blurb: In the wake of a brutal war, the archangel Raphael and his hunter consort, Elena, are dealing with the treacherously shifting tides of archangelic politics and the people of a battered but not broken city. The last thing their city needs is more death, especially a death that bears the eerie signature of an insane enemy archangel who cannot— should not—be walking the streets.

This hunt must be undertaken with stealth and without alerting their people. It must be handled by those who can become shadows themselves…

Ash is a gifted tracker and a woman cursed with the ability to sense the secrets of anyone she touches. But there’s one man she knows all too well without a single instant of skin contact: Janvier, the dangerously sexy Cajun vampire who has fascinated and infuriated her for years. Now, as they track down a merciless killer, their cat-and-mouse game of flirtation and provocation has turned into a profound one of the heart. And this time, it is Ash’s secret, dark and terrible, that threatens to destroy them both.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, M/F, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2014 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Archangel’s Legion by Nalini Singh

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

15808767Title: Archangel’s Legion
Author: Nalini Singh
Series: Guild Hunter #6
Hero/Heroine: Elena/Raphael
Genre: M/F Urban Fantasy
Length: 385 pages
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Available at: Amazon
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Blurb: Angels are falling from the sky in New York, struck down by a vicious, unknown force.

Vampires are dying impossibly of disease.

Guild hunter Elena Deveraux and the Archangel Raphael must discover the source of the wave of death before it engulfs their city and their people, leaving New York a ruin and Raphael’s Tower under siege by enemy archangels.

Yet even as they fight desperately to save the city, an even darker force is stirring, its chill eyes trained on New York…and on Raphael. Rivers of crimson and nightmares given flesh, the world will never again be the same…
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, M/F, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Archangel’s Storm by Nalini Singh

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

15848751Title: Archangel’s Storm
Author: Nalini Singh
Series: Guild Hunter #5
Hero/Heroine: Jason/Mahiya
Genre: M/F Urban Fantasy
Length: 353 pages
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Available at: Amazon
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Blurb: With wings of midnight and an affinity for shadows, Jason courts darkness. But now, with the Archangel Neha’s consort lying murdered in the jewel-studded palace that was his prison and her rage threatening cataclysmic devastation, Jason steps into the light, knowing he must unearth the murderer before it is too late.

Earning Neha’s trust comes at a price—Jason must tie himself to her bloodline through the Princess Mahiya, a woman with secrets so dangerous, she trusts no one. Least of all an enemy spymaster.

With only their relentless hunt for a violent, intelligent killer to unite them, Jason and Mahiya embark on a quest that leads to a centuries-old nightmare… and to the dark storm of an unexpected passion that threatens to drench them both in blood.
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Book Review: Archangel’s Blade by Nalini Singh

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

8074967Title: Archangel’s Blade
Author: Nalini Singh
Series: Guild Hunter #4
Hero/Heroine: Dmitri/Honor
Genre: M/F Urban Fantasy
Length: 321 pages
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Available at: Amazon
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Blurb: The severed head marked by a distinctive tattoo on its cheek should have been a Guild case, but dark instincts honed over hundreds of years of life compel the vampire Dmitri to take control. There is something twisted about this death, something that whispers of centuries long past…but Dmitri’s need to discover the truth is nothing to the vicious strength of his response to the hunter assigned to decipher the tattoo.

Savaged in a brutal attack that almost killed her, Honor is nowhere near ready to come face to face with the seductive vampire who is an archangel’s right hand, and who wears his cruelty as boldly as his lethal sensuality…the same vampire who has been her secret obsession since the day she was old enough to understand the inexplicable, violent emotions he aroused in her.

As desire turns into a dangerous compulsion that might destroy them both, it becomes clear the past will not stay buried. Something is hunting…and it will not stop until it brings a blood-soaked nightmare to life once more…
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, M/F, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Archangel’s Consort by Nalini Singh

Posted on October 24, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

9875509Title: Archangel’s Consort
Author: Nalini Singh
Series: Guild Hunter #3
Hero/Heroine: Elena & Raphael
Genre: M/F Urban Fantasy
Length: 337 pages
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Available at: Amazon
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Blurb: Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux and her lover, the lethally beautiful archangel Raphael, have returned home to New York only to face an uncompromising new evil…

A vampire has attacked a girls’ school–the assault one of sheer, vicious madness–and it is only the first act. Rampant bloodlust takes vampire after vampire, threatening to make the streets run with blood. Then Raphael himself begins to show signs of an uncontrolled rage, as inexplicable storms darken the city skyline and the earth itself shudders.

The omens are suddenly terrifyingly clear.

An ancient and malevolent immortal is rising. The violent winds whisper her name: Caliane. She has returned to reclaim her son, Raphael. Only one thing stands in her way: Elena, the consort who must be destroyed…
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, M/F, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment