Review: The Warlord Wants Forever by Kresley Cole
Filed under: Book Reviews, Genre: Paranormal, Heat: Sexy!, Reviews: rating 3.5
February 2006 ~ Immortals After Dark, Book .5
Book Blurb: Nikolai Wroth, once a ruthless human warlord in the 1700s and now a general in the rebel vampire army, needs to find his Bride, the one woman who can render him truly alive. As a turned human, he doesn’t enjoy a heartbeat or breaths and is consequently weaker than fully blooded vampires. He wants his Bride for the power she will bring him and can hardly believe it when his heart beats for Myst the Coveted, a mad, fey, mythological creature.
Myst is known throughout the world as the most beautiful Valkyrie, part chillingly fierce warrior, part beguiling seductress who can “make you want her even as she’s killing you.” She has devoted her life to protecting an ancient, powerful jewel and to fighting the vampires, and she now sees a way to torment one—for with Wroth’s heartbeat comes consuming sexual desire that can only be slaked by her.
She eludes him for five years, but he has finally chased her to ground and stolen the jewel which commands her, giving him absolute power over her. While he possesses it, he can make her do anything, and he plans to in order for her to experience first hand the agonizing, unending lust she’d purposely subjected him to for half a decade. Yet when Wroth realizes he wants more from her and frees her, will she come back to him?
– As the first title in Cole’s Immortals After Dark series, its easy to see why this series caught on as quickly as it did. Tortured heroes, sexy, smart heroines and many Very Bad Things out to hurt them. While The Warlord Wants Forever isn’t quite as polished as her later titles, it is still an enjoyable and amusing read. If you want to see where the magic was born, pick up a copy of The Warlord Wants Forever (in the Playing Easy to Get anthology) and prepare to be amused. ~ Cerise, www.ireadromance.com
New Release: Whirlwind Affair by Francesca Hawley
Filed under: Genre: Contemporary, Genre: Erotic, New Releases
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Genre: Contemporary, Erotic
Length: Novella
Erika Bergstrom is shopping in an upscale adult boutique when handsome Rodrigo Torbellino asks for help finding a gift. Just her luck! As he flirts with her, she discovers he’s shopping for a bridal shower gift for a friend, not a lover. So when he asks her to model a beautiful negligee then seduces her in the dressing room, Erika gives in to her urge for a wild new experience…a one-night stand.
The next morning, Erika’s body is sated from pleasure. Rigo obtains a promise she’ll call him and tells her that if she doesn’t, he’ll find her. She’s intrigued and thrilled with his obvious interest until she discovers Rigo is the head of the company her brother wants the family to partner with, so she doesn’t contact him. A month passes. When they meet again, the fire between them burns just as bright as ever, but does Rigo want the business deal or her?
Can the red stilettos live up to their legend to provide the wearer with her heart’s desire?
Review: A Wanted Man by Linda Lael Miller
Filed under: Book Reviews, Genre: Historical, Heat: Sexy!, Reviews: rating 4
July 2007 ~ The Stone Creek Series, Book 2
Book Blurb:
The past has a way of catching up with folks in Stone Creek, Arizona. So schoolmarm Lark Morgan and Marshal Rowdy Rhodes are determined to hide their secrets–and deny their instant attraction. That shouldn’t be too hard, since each suspects the other of living a lie.
But Rowdy and Lark have one truth in common: the very real dangers they face. Like the gang of robbers wreaking havoc on the railroad heading toward Stone Creek–the men Ranger Sam O’Ballivan expects Rowdy to nab. And as past and current troubles collide, Rowdy and Lark must surrender their stubborn pride to the greatest power of all–an undying love.
– Here I am again about to wax poetic about Linda Lael Miller. As a friend always says, the truth is the truth no matter how you say it. Linda Lael Miller kicks ass. Her historicals are gritty and more realistic than most and that’s exactly what I like about them. Life in the west in the 1800’s was rough for both men and women and a bathtub was a luxury.
Miller handles the reality of frontier life without creating a book that is so depressing that the reader ends up in tears at the end. She’s written dozens of historicals yet each time her work feels fresh and unique. Both the hero and heroine are lying about their pasts and Miller deals with the life and death situations they face with a firm hand giving just enough information to illustrate her point without drowning the reader in historical facts or coming off like a history lesson.
A Wanted Man is an excellent read and a welcome addition to the Stone Creek Series. ~ Ana, www.ireadromance.com
Trailer: Survival of the Fairest by Jody Wallace
One of the best book trailers I’ve ever seen. 
Review: The Cowboy’s Second Chance by Christyne Butler
Filed under: Book Reviews, Genre: Contemporary, Heat: Saucy, Reviews: rating 3.5
June 2009
Book Blurb: Landon Cartwright was a hero in Maggie Stevens’s eyes. The roving cowboy showed up just in time to rescue the Crescent Moon owner from the men trying to steal her land. But the longer the sexy-as-sin loner stayed–working her ranch and bonding with her daughter–the more Maggie knew she was setting herself up for heartbreak….
Haunted by tragedy, Landon Cartwright came to Destiny looking for a job. He didn’t expect to play rescuer, then fall for his alluring new boss and her daughter. He’d board his horse, earn his pay and hit the road again. Because Maggie was a forever kind of woman. And he wasn’t a stick-around kind of guy.
Or was he?
– Hmm, why I do have a feeling the author has a thing for Michael Landon and Bonanza? <g>
This is one of those books that left me feeling happy. What could be more romantic than a handsome hero who rides a horse and races to the rescue disregarding the possible danger to himself? Butler has a deft hand with characterization and plotting and I look forward to reading more of her work. ~ Cerise, www.ireadromance.com
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