Wendy Clyde here. Dabney Grinnan and I are discussing R. Lee Smith’s The Last Hour of Gann, which was released in September. While Dabney had read Ms. Smith, this is my first book by her and I was very pleasantly surprised by the book’s quality and complexity. When Dabney suggested we have a Pandora’s Box…
Before I begin my review I must ask a question: how common is the phrase “calf nuts on a cracker?” Is this just a Texas expression? A rancherism? This was the catchphrase of the hero of Boone Mitchell, the hero Unforgettable by Alison Kent. Unfortunately, the title is a misnomer and the story is pretty…
Trilogies abound these days with rich guys paired with average girls. But a story about a woman who finds a journal detailing the erotic acts experienced by a missing woman appealed to me. Friends, a pretty cover and an interesting premise could not make up for the strange awfulness that was this book. The story…
I remember the first time that I read Dune by Frank Herbert. It took me 150 pages to figure out who was who and what was going on. There were so many characters and intrigues and Hebert just dropped the reader right into the middle of the action to figure it out for ourselves. I…
Reflected in You is a follow up to the author’s breakout hit Bared to You, which rose to the top of many bestseller lists in 2012. This review may contain slight spoilers for the previous novel, and indeed the stories are very intertwined; you won’t want to read the second book without reading the first…
Narrated by Adam Paul Rush is the first in Ms. Banks’ Breathless trilogy featuring three billionaires who run a hotel empire – Gabe, Jace, and Ash. Gabe Hamilton has had his eye on Jace’s sister, Mia Crestwell, for about four years, but waited until she was twenty-four to make his move. He’s very, shall we…
The first chapter of Exposed to You is so wildly erotic and intriguing I’d recommend it to anyone who wants to see how great erotica is written. The rest of the book, however, does not live up to the promise of the first twenty-one pages. The book opens with Joy Hightower, a rather private young…
As a reader, what do you expect from a book subtitled “Erotic Romance for Women”? I expected erotica, especially after reading Lorelei James’ foreword that the stories would take “elements of a traditional western and adding in erotic romance.” My reaction was what fun. Imagine my disappointment when the element missing from most of the…
It is difficult to find an erotic romance that is able to combine more substantial issues with the development of an actual “romance” as opposed to just a “sexual relationship with token HEA.” I’m pleased to say that this 2008 re-release is the exception to this rule, though I found other aspects of the novel…
The TBR Challenge theme for August 2012 is hot, steamy reads. In a sense, the book I chose, Megan Hart’s Dirty, originally published by Harlequin Spice in 2007 (and being reissued in September 2012), fits the bill. The story contains plentiful sex scenes, and they certainly are steamy. However, that’s not what stands out most…