Juliana Ross’s set of interconnected Victorian erotic stories starts out a bit shaky but gets better with each tale. Improper Relations Grade: B- Hannah witnesses her late husband’s cousin Leo in an encounter with a maid and falls into sexual education with him. There are a lot of tropes here, from the ‘teach me’ to…
We all know Historical Romancelandia has a surfeit of dukes. However, never has that fact hit me so hard as while reading this anthology. The stories are set in different eras (the earliest is Georgian, the last is late Victorian), but it’s not the idea that these dukes might exist simultaneously that causes the problem….
In Moonlight & Whiskey, Tricia Lynne aims to deliver spunky, funny little story about a one-night stand that turns into true love. The novel starts well, but unfortunately goes quickly downhill and ends up feeling like a beignet that’s been soaked in cinnamon sugar for too long. Medical engineer Avery Barrows likes sex and isn’t…
Uma Crane is on the run from an abusive relationship. Once upon a time she was a wedding photographer in Northern Virginia, in love with a blue-eyed prosecutor named Joey, who charmed her with his Frank Sinatra-like demeanor. They were so into one another that each had the other’s name tattooed on their back. Unfortunately,…
Fall is the third standalone novella in Claire Kent’s erotic sci-fi series Hold. All the stories to date take place on a series of planets described as being part of Coalition space, the Coalition being a strict ruling party that controls this part of the galaxy. The first story (also entitled Hold) is a dark…
This is a revision of a book originally published in 2008 as Across the Stars. Solae O’bora, bounty hunter, teams up with Raav Asirian, mercenary, to deliver a ransom. The recipient, Fyn Du-ket, killed Solae’s mother and sister years ago. Raav and Solae have a lot of sex, which Solae hates that she loves. In…
Have you reached the middle of a book and realized you can’t put it down, but aren’t sure you like it? If you have, you know how I felt reading Dark Mafia Prince. I haven’t read many Mafia based romances, so I don’t have much to compare it to, but I was thoroughly entertained, and…
I agreed to review this anthology entirely because “the devil’s doorbell” is the best euphemism for “clitoris” I’ve ever heard in my entire life. Thankfully, the anthology was fantastic. There were far more hits than misses in the seven short stories, including two stories I gave DIK As (one by Jeffe Kennedy and one by…