The frantic pace of this storyline and some poor choices by the heroine made it hard to enjoy this book, even though I liked the characters. I found myself dragging my feet every time I had to pick it up. This is clearly connected with other works by this author, although keeping up with past…
Blood Lines is the third book in a series, following Tempting Danger and Mortal Danger. I think the author summed it up well in this paragraph: “The world was set up to be blasted with repeated doses of magic, changing everything, probably killing people. Demons were popping up all over, and an Old One who’d…
Ready for a new series featuring a group of super-hunky paranormal warriors with a duty to protect humankind from all kinds of demonic and quasi-mortal bad guys? Well, whether you want it or not, you’ve got one, this time by Gothic historical romance author Jennifer St. Giles. I’ll admit that all this paranormal stuff is…
When super sexy animal trainer Antoine Monier decides to rescue the female tiger police confiscated from poachers in Germany, he gets more than be expects. The tigress, Tahira Kuric, is a shape-shifter like himself. But, Tahira is part of the Hayalet Ghost Tribe, a remote clan of shifters that are at war with the Sazi….
I don’t know how I managed to miss the boat on this author. Happily, I plan to check out her backlist immediately as I can hardly wait for the next book in this series. I wanted to read this book in one sitting, and was terribly offended that the real world intruded on my reading…
Clearly, Vickie Taylor’s primary goal in writing Flesh and Stone was simply to tell a rip-roaring story. Since I found myself devouring this book in just a few hours, she certainly succeeded for me. With a cool mythology and a new paranormal world to explore – gargoyles, no less! – Flesh and Stone seems altogether…
I’ve never read a shapeshifter romance before. It’s not generally something that appeals to me, but I was drawn in by the gothic feel of this book. It comes complete with a spooky old house, a dark and mysterious lord, and servants who border on squirrelly. Admittedly, it’s cheesy, and that’s what I liked about…
You know, just about the last thing I’m looking for when I pick up a book is 336 pages of staccato dialogue delivered by a bunch of crabby, unpleasant people. Add in a confused plot largely predicated on back story from previous books requiring a lot of really awkward exposition and the result, as you…
Paranormal romances seem to be everywhere these days, many of them covering the usual vampire/werewolf/psychic terrain. Vickie Taylor’s Carved in Stone offers paranormal fans something new, introducing a universe built around atypical supernatural creatures for the genre: gargoyles. When she was a child, Rachel Vandermere saw her parents murdered by a monstrous creature with wings…
I’m a big fan of HBO’s Deadwood. Make that a huge fan of HBO’s Deadwood. So, not surprisingly considering my obsessed fan-dom, I’m on a quest these days to somehow get my hands on books set in the American West that are as gut-wrenchingly visceral as that incredible show and that evoke the same raw,…