Heather C’s Reviews

Book Review: The Curious Case of the Clockwork Menace by Bec McMaster

Posted on August 22, 2014 by Heather C

Reviewed by Heather C

The Curious Case Of The Clockwork Menace (London Steampunk, #3.5)Title:  The Curious Case of the Clockwork Menace
Author: Bec McMaster
Series: London Steampunk #3.5
Hero/Heroine: Garrett/Perry
Genre: MF Steampunk
Length: 44,990 Words
Publisher: Bec McMaster
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Available at: Smashwords and Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Friends, partners, and professionals… So just why is this case coming between them?

In a Victorian London ruled by the blood-drinking elite, Perry Lowell is a logical and accomplished Nighthawk: a rogue blue blood who tracks murderers and thieves for the Guild. So when she and her charming-but-reckless partner, Garrett, are charged with finding a missing theatre starlet, it should be a simple solve.

But with an entire theatre of suspects, including a flirtatious understudy and whispers of a Clockwork Menace haunting the place, tension is brewing between the pair of them. Can they come together to solve the case – or will it be too late, when the murderer turns his gaze on Perry herself?

Warning: This is not a traditional HEA. Set three years before Forged By Desire (available Sept 2014), it’s a pre-romance novella featuring Perry and Garrett. Heads will butt, tempers will flare – and perhaps one of them might come to realise just what the other truly means to them?
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Book Review: Dark Skye by Kresley Cole

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Heather C

Reviewed by Heather C

ETitle:  Dark Skye
Author: Kresley Cole
Series: Immortals After Dark #15
Hero/Heroine: Thronos/Lanthe
Genre: M/F Paranormal Romance
Length: 384 Pages
Publisher: Gallery Books
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Available at: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks and Kobo
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Eternal Obsession

As a boy, Thronos, Lord of Skye Hall, loved Lanthe, a mischievous Sorceri girl who made him question everything about his Vrekener clan. But when the two got caught in the middle of their families’ war, tragedy struck, leaving Thronos and Lanthe bitter enemies. Though centuries have passed, nothing can cool his seething need for the beautiful enchantress who scarred his body – and left an even deeper impression on his soul.

Endless Yearning

Lanthe, a once-formidable sorceress struggling to reclaim her gifts, searches for love and acceptance with all the wrong immortal suitors. But she’s never forgotten Thronos, the magnificent silver-eyed boy who protected her until she was ripped from the shelter of his arms. One harrowing night changed everything between them. Now he’s a notorious warlord with a blood vendetta against Lanthe, hunting her relentlessly.

Can the heat of desire burn brighter than vengeance?

With their families locked in conflict and battles raging all around them, will Thronos and Lanthe succumb to the brutal chaos that threatens everything they cherish? Or will the fragile bond they formed so long ago spark a passion strong enough to withstand even the darkest doubts?
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Book Review: Ember by Kristen Callihan

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Heather C

Reviewed by Heather C

9Title: Ember
Author: Kristen Callihan
Series: Darkest London #0.5
Hero/Heroine: Benjamin/Miranda
Genre: M/F Paranormal/Historical
Length: 88 Pages
Publisher: Forever Yours
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Available at: Forever Yours, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Prequel to Firelight.

After a fire consumes the Ellis family fortune, the beautiful and resourceful Miranda finds herself faced with an impossible dilemma: enter a life of petty crime or watch her family succumb to poverty. But once her fiancé learns of her descent into danger—and of the strange, new powers she’s discovered—saving her family may come at the high price of her heart.

When Lord Benjamin Archer’s one chance for redemption is destroyed by corrupt London antiquarian Hector Ellis, he vows to take what Ellis values most—his daughter Miranda. Forced to hide his face behind masks, Archer travels the world hoping to escape the curse that plagues him so that he can finally claim his prize.

But once Archer returns home to London, will it be revenge he seeks? Or will the flame-haired beauty ignite new, undeniable desires?
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Book Review: Dead Man and the Army of Frogs by Lou Harper

Posted on August 9, 2014 by Heather C

Reviewed by Heather C

ETitle:  Dead Man and the Army of Frogs
Author: Lou Harper
Series: Dead Man #2
Heroes: Denton Mills/Bran Maurell
Genre: MM Paranormal
Length: 44,000 words
Publisher: Lou Harper
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Available at: Amazon, Smashwords and All Romance eBooks
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: All Denton wanted was a few minions. He got frogs instead.

Web developer by day and necromancer by night, Denton Mills is used to seeing things nobody else can. When he starts hallucinating frogs, he simply assumes they have something to do with his boyfriend Bran’s obsession.

Bran Maurell is a witch, who in a youthful outburst, accidentally turned his then-lover, Peter, into a croaker. Bran has been trying ever since to reverse the spell. A fresh amphibian encounter only spurs him to double his efforts.

As if Peter’s ghost coming between them weren’t enough, Denton and Bran are forced to deal with several errant spirits stalking the citizens of Chicago. Between a French chef who refuses to admit he’s dead, and malevolent creatures bent on causing mayhem, jealousy may be the least of Denton’s problems.
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Mobster Week Review: Hired Muscle by Hank Edwards

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Heather C

Reviewed by Heather C

22735074Title: Hired Muscle
Author: Hank Edwards
Heroes: Barry & Vinnie
Genre: MM Historical Romance
Length: 58 pages
Publisher: Hank Edwards Books
Release Date: July 9th, 2014 (2nd edition)
Available at: Amazon, Barnes & Noble and All Romance eBooks
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: In October 1941, the violence of Baltimore’s warring mob families is escalating. The danger has decimated many of the businesses around DuMochelle’s restaurant where Barry waits tables. When a mob boss and his family begin to frequent the restaurant, a romantic relationship develops between Barry and Vinnie, a bodyguard. Vinnie resists, fearing for Barry’s safety and concerned that Barry will want nothing to do with him if he discovers his role in the family. But their passion cannot be denied, and Vinnie is trapped between the love he wants and the only life he’s known. As the rival mob family moves in for the kill, Vinnie and Barry find themselves caught in the crossfire.

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Book Review: Firelight by Kristen Callihan

Posted on August 3, 2014 by Heather C

Reviewed by Heather C

12104686Title: Firelight

Author: Kristen Callihan

Series: Darkest London #1

Hero/Heroine: Benjamin Archer/Miranda Ellis

Genre: MF Paranormal Romance, Historical

Length: 390 page

Publisher: Forever

Release Date: January 2012

Available at: Grand Central Publishing, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Kobo

Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Once the flames are ignited . . . 

Miranda Ellis is a woman tormented. Plagued since birth by a strange and powerful gift, she has spent her entire life struggling to control her exceptional abilities. Yet one innocent but irreversible mistake has left her family’s fortune decimated and forced her to wed London’s most nefarious nobleman.

They will burn for eternity . . .

Lord Benjamin Archer is no ordinary man. Doomed to hide his disfigured face behind masks, Archer knows it’s selfish to take Miranda as his bride. Yet he can’t help being drawn to the flame-haired beauty whose touch sparks a passion he hasn’t felt in a lifetime. When Archer is accused of a series of gruesome murders, he gives in to the beastly nature he has fought so hard to hide from the world. But the curse that haunts him cannot be denied. Now, to save his soul, Miranda will enter a world of dark magic and darker intrigue. For only she can see the man hiding behind the mask.

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Book Review: Gilded Lily by Delphine Dryden

Posted on August 1, 2014 by Heather C

Reviewed by Heather C

zTitle: Gilded Lily
Author: Delphine Dryden
Series: Steam and Seduction #3
Hero/Heroine: Barnabas Smith-Grenville/Frederique Murcheson
Genre: MF Steampunk
Length: 304 Pages
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Available at: Berkley, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, All Romance Ebooks and Kobo
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: HIDDEN IDENTITIES, SCANDALOUS SECRETS…
DEADLY ATTRACTION.

Frederique Murcheson’s introduction into society hasn’t gone smoothly—some would even call it a disaster. Only Freddie considers her debut a success. Her scheme to become a makesmith has gone off flawlessly. The only thing that could upset her plans now would be if someone discovered that brilliant tinker Fred Merchant is, in fact, a lady in disguise.

Wooing a spoiled heiress is not exactly Barnabas Smith-Grenville’s idea of high espionage. However, considering his brother disappeared on the job, supposedly into the most iniquitous of opium dens, he cannot expect much better. At least the assignment will afford him time to search for his brother, whom he suspects is in spy-related trouble rather than a drug-addled haze.

But when Freddie proves to be both irresistible and the key to the answers he seeks, Barnabas finds himself not only entwined in a scandalous mystery involving lethal submersibles and deranged dirigibles, but also in a dangerous game of the heart…

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Book Review: The Bitter Rednesses of Love by Dominique Frost

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Heather C

Reviewed by Heather C

18085969Title: The Bitter Rednesses of Love
Author: Dominique Frost
Heroes: Anthony Clark & Stephen Ayers
Genre: MM Historical Romance, Steampunk
Length: 21,721 words
Publisher: Loose Id
Release Date: June 2013
Available at: Loose Id, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, All Romance eBooks and Kobo
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Anthony Clark, degenerate genius and impoverished nobleman, finds himself wedded to the painfully proper young aristocrat, Stephen Ayers. They’ve been pledged since before Stephen’s birth.

Will their marriage prove intolerable to them both, or will they find a happy equilibrium, instead? As Anthony teaches Stephen the pleasures of the body, will Stephen be able to teach Anthony the pleasures of the heart?
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Book Review: Scarlet Devices by Delphine Dryden

Posted on July 26, 2014 by Heather C

Reviewed by Heather C

1Title: Scarlet Devices
Author: Delphine Dryden
Series: Steam and Seduction #2
Hero/Heroine: Matthew Pence/Eliza Hardison
Genre: MF Steampunk
Length: 304 Pages
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Available at: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, All Romance eBooks and Kobo
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: DRIVEN TO WIN. 

DRAWN TO LOVE.

Fresh from university, Eliza Hardison is determined to crusade for workers’ rights until her cousin Dexter, the Makesmith Baron, prevails on her to represent Hardison House in the American Dominion Sky and Steam Rally.

The competition is fierce, but only one opponent really matters to Eliza. Dexter’s protégé, Matthew Pence, was always like a big brother to her. But now she’s grown up, and Matthew has made a break from Hardison House with his own business venture—and made his own entry in the rally.

Matthew intends to win while keeping Eliza safe on the perilous route from New York to San Francisco. As the threats escalate through treacherous skies and uncharted American wilds, though, Eliza and Matthew must work together, discovering a bond deeper than either could have imagined…but is winning the rally more important than winning at love?

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