Don’t Bite The Bridesmaid by Tiffany Allee (Sons of Kane #1) Entangled Publishing (May 2013) Ebook, 209 Pages Paranormal Romance After reading Allee’s urban fantasy, Banshee Charmer, I was excited to hear about Don’t Bite the Bridesmaid, the first in a new series entitled Sons of Kane. However, I was in for a bit of a surprise as this book was very different from her previous work. Luckily, this was in a good way and I found myself lost in the book very quickly. The premise of the story is…
Werewolves Be Damned by Stacey Kennedy (Magic & Mayhem #1) Entangled Publishing (April 2013) Ebook, 204 pages Paranormal Romance Nexi Jones watches helplessly, as her adoptive parents are slaughtered by werewolves. She is saved by two men dressed in leather kilts that call themselves Guardians. Taken back to an Otherworld where she is told she is part-guardian and part-witch, Nexi wants nothing more than to get revenge on the creatures that killed her parents. She is willing to do anything, even be instructed by Kyden, an elite Guardian. The man is,…
The Awakening: Aiden by Abby Niles Entangled Publishing (April 2013) Ebook, 167 pages Paranormal Romance Dr. Jaylin Avgar is a psychiatrist and half-shifter who has spent her career counselling other shifters who have lost their mates. Between watching her mother grieve over the death of her father, and dealing with her patients’ grief, she has decided to never mate with a shifter. Aiden O’Connell contacts Jaylin to help his friend, Liam, overcome his grief after being rejected by his mate. Aiden instinctively knows that Jaylin is his mate but she…
The Goddess by Robyn Grady (Idol #1) Entangled Publishing (May 2013) Kindle Edition, 205 pages Contemporary Romance The Goddess is the first part in the Idol series, a new trilogy by romance writer Robyn Grady. This is the first time I have read any of her books and so I had no expectations, other than this was a contemporary romance and that the cover was quite pretty. The book is about an American girl called Helene Masters, who is on a working holiday on an Island in an Aegean Kingdom,…
Bittersweet by Brooke Moss Entangled Publishing (Apr 2012) Ebook, 95 pages Contemporary Romance Having loved Brooke Moss’s novel, Keeping Secrets in Seattle, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from her short novella, Bittersweet. Expectations were high and, although it didn’t quite live up to my previous experience, it was still a sweet romance to indulge in. The book begins with Anna and her eight-year-old autistic son, Bowen, at one of their weekly sessions with therapist, Gianna. Bowen has sensory issues, and struggles with the idea of touching or walking…
Playing the Maestro by Aubrie Dionne Entangled Publishing (Feb 2013) Ebook, 190 Pages Contemporary Romance Melody Mires has banned herself from dating musicians, especially since her latest nightmare, Blake, the individual that runs the orchestra that suffers from a VERY huge ego. She vows to find a man outside of the music industry. However, a little hurdle comes in the form of the failing orchestra’s new conductor: Wolfgang Braun. Wolf is young, fresh German conductor that has been roped in to help the struggling orchestra where Melanie is the main flutist….
Keeping Secrets in Seattle by Brooke Moss Entangled Publishing (Feb 2013) Ebook, 204 pages Contemporary Romance Every so often a book comes along that completely grabs you and won’t let go until you’ve devoured every last page. For me, one such book was Keeping Secrets in Seattle by Brooke Moss. The book has a fairly simple premise which we’ve all seen several times before: out of two best friends who have known each other years, one has romantic feelings for the other. In this case, the friends are Violet Murphy…
Tall, Dark and Divine by Jenna Bennett Entangled Publishing (July 2012) Ebook, 177 pages Paranormal Romance Tall, Dark and Divine manages to stand out from the ever crowded Paranormal Romance books out there by shunning the still popular vampire, werewolf and demon characters. Instead, Bennett reaps the world of God’s and Goddesses for her otherworldly occupants. Set in the present, it seems that the God’s and Goddesses of the numerous caches have either chosen or been forced to live among us mere mortals. Eros, or Ross as his chosen human…
Torch in the Forest by Marcie Kremer Entangled Publishing (Feb 2013) Ebook, 139 pages | Historical Romance Eleanor of Strathcombe is an 18 year old widow and she wasn’t lucky when it came to her marriage with her bigot of a husband, Edgar. She continues to be unlucky in love as William of Litchfield attempts to take her hand in marriage, which would be her worst nightmare come true. Her situation then takes another dramatic descent as poachers have been taking game off of her land and the estate adjacent and…
Voodoo on the Bayou by Elle James (Cajun Magic #1) Entangled Publishing (Feb 2013) Ebook, 217 pages Paranormal Romance Voodoo on the Bayou by Elle James is a playful paranormal romance novel set in Bayou Miste, Louisiana. It opens with a confusing scene where Craig Thibodeaux is cursed by a voodoo witch for having insulted her granddaughter. His curse to be a frog in daylight hours until he can persuade a woman to fall in love with him before the next full moon. Enter Elaine Smith, the protagonist of this novel…
Banshee Charmer by Tiffany Allee (Files of the Otherworlder Enforcement Agency #1) Entangled Publishing (Jan 2012) Ebook, 159 pages Urban Fantasy While most authors struggle to create a world that is detailed within a short amount of pages, Tiffany Allee manages to pull off the impossible with great ease. What is even more impressive is the fact that this is not a short story from an already established world, but a new original series. What I really enjoyed about this book was the fact that it felt very fresh and had…
Bittersweet Blood by Nina Croft (The Order #1) Entangled Publishing (Feb 2013) Ebook, 300 pages Paranormal Romance Having read and loved Croft’s previous books, Break-Out and Deadly Pursuit in the Blood Hunters series, I was really excited when Carolyn asked me to read and review Bittersweet Blood. True, it is more Urban Fantasy than Sci-Fi Romance compared to the other series, but this book still showcases a great knack for world building and engaging characters. I zipped through this book at great speed, dying to find out where the story will…
Shield of Fire by Boone Brux (The Bringer and the Bane #1) Entangled Publishing (Dec 2011) Ebook, 320 pages Paranormal Romance Shield of Fire begins in the middle of the action: at an abbey where Ravyn is being attacked by the Bane of the title, but we are not bombarded with information which might be confusing. On the contrary, in many ways it is a story we’ve all read before: Ravyn is, at least at first, the damsel in distress who needs the big, brave man to come and save her….
Deadly Pursuit (Blood Hunter #2) by Nina Croft Entangled Publishing (Nov 2011) | Ebook, 286 pages Sci-Fi Romance Like every second book in a series, there was a lot to live up to with such an excellent start Croft had with Break Out. Luckily, she managed to pull off another excellent story… However, I do have a few reservations. Deadly Pursuit is longer than Break Out, which was a novella, and in some ways it slightly suffers because of it. Don’t get me wrong the characters are just as complex, and the…
Break Out (Blood Hunter #1) by Nina Croft Entangled Publishing (July 2011) | Ebook, 117 pages Sci-Fi Romance From the very first page to the very last, Nina Croft’s series debut is a delight to read. She manages to carve out a world in 117 pages, that some authors fail to do in a full length novel. For any fans of the TV show Firefly, this book is a must as you can almost imagine the characters in this book crossing paths with the crew of Serenity. They may even carry out…
