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Red Hot Holiday: Wish List\I Need You for Christmas\Breath on Embers by K.A....
I came to this holiday anthology in a non-traditional, non-festive way. During a Twitter conversation with another reviewer, I mentioned ménage scenes rarely raise my pulse. She suggested I read Anne...
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REVIEW: Merry Sexy Christmas Anthology by Beverly Jenkins, Kayla Perrin,...
Dear Ms. Jenkins, Ms. Perrin, and Ms. Smith: I’m a sucker for Christmas stories, and anthologies are a great way to try out new authors, so a Christmas anthology can be a double winner for me. While...
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REVIEW: Naughty & Nice 3-Story Bundle (Room at the Inn, All I Want for...
Dear Ms. Knox, Ms. O’Keefe, and Ms. Sloan: I suspect a conspiracy. Every anthology I’ve read this year, composed of three novellas, contains one novella much weaker than the other two. I can’t figure...
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REVIEW: Romancing the Holiday anthology by Helen Kay Dimon, Christi Barth, &...
Dear Ms. Dimon, Ms. Barth, and Ms. Burton: Carina Press’s holiday anthologies are fast becoming autobuys for me. I was sorry there was no m/m anthology this year, but this entry in another favorite...
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REVIEW: The Christmas Carrolls by Barbara Metzger
Dear Ms. Metzger, When I was scanning my memory for good Christmas stories to recommend here, I remembered reading two of your other holiday theme books but this one didn’t ring bells for me. Turns out...
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REVIEW: Strangers on a Train anthology
I was curious how the authors of this anthology came up with the idea for it so I queried Ruthie Knox. Here’s her answer: Strangers on a Train started on Twitter, of all places. I ran across a Tumblr...
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REVIEW: Carniepunk
Dear readers, Ah, carnivals! Cotton candy, funnel cakes, ferris wheels and rigged games. Definitely a mainstay of summer. Of course, many a novel has been written about the carnival and it was only a...
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REVIEW: Mirror, Mirror by J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney, Elaine Fox, Mary Kay...
Billed as an anthology of fairytale inspired romances, the majority of these stories turned out to be rather sweet. Although J.D. Robb’s Eve and Roarke story is fabulously dark, one should not assume...
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REVIEW: Heating Up the Holidays Anthology
This contemporary anthology mostly delivers what the title and cover promise: romance and steam, against a winter holiday background. (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s.) The emphasis is more on the...
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REVIEW: The Sharing Spoon by Kathleen Eagle
A Christmas star shines brightly in the Western skies, bringing hope, love, and miracles in three unforgettable stories of romance trimmed with the holiday traditions of Native America. The Sharing...
View ArticleBring on the holiday romances
I’m not a huge fan of a lot of aspects of the Halloween-to-New-Year’s marketing and consumption extravaganza. I think Halloween costumes should be left to the under-12 crowd, I prefer to leave the...
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REVIEW: The Waters of Eternity by Howard Andrew Jones
Venture into the time of the Arabian Nights with stalwart Captain Asim and the brilliant Dabir as they hunt an unseen killer that craves only the eyes of his victims, and pursue a dark entity haunting...
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Tuesday News: #AmazonCart on Twitter; the real, made-up Apple Earbuds; the...
Twitter’s New #AmazonCart Deal Won’t Be Its Big Commerce Moneymaker – So now you can add products to your Amazon cart with a Twitter hashtag. First, of course, you have to link up the two accounts, and...
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JOINT REVIEW: Secrets of Neverwood by G.B.Lindsey, Diana Copland, and Libby Drew
Three foster brothers are called home to Neverwood, the stately Pacific Northwest mansion of their youth. They have nothing in common but a promise to Audrey, the woman they all called mother—that upon...
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Review: My True Love Gave to Me
In my experience, romantic holiday anthologies have good odds of being meh, but this collection of contemporary and fantasy stories included enough great names in Young Adult literature to be worth a...
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REVIEW: Under the Mistletoe by Mary Balogh
Dear Ms. Balogh, A Twitter conversation about romance novellas led me to borrow your Christmas anthology Under the Mistletoe from my library after author Cecilia Grant mentioned that the best novella...
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REVIEW: This Wedding is Doomed Anthology
In these stories of matrimonial madness from four sensational authors, unexpected couples find their happily ever after at a wedding that’s counting down to disaster… Since it’s Spring and we’re...
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REVIEW: Lords for All Seasons by Miranda Neville
Dear Ms. Neville: I came across this book without knowing that it was a series of novellas (though the plural “Lords” should’ve given me a clue), never mind that it was a series of previously published...
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REVIEW: The Brightest Day by Kianna Alexander,Alyssa Cole,Lena Hart,Piper...
Dear Readers, I picked up this anthology because its concept sounded interesting and fresh – it celebrates Juneteenth. The four novellas in the anthology each contain a romance set in the United States...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Devil’s Doorbell anthology
Dear authors, I was only hearing good things about The Devil’s Doorbell anthology and when Molly O’Keefe kindly offered me a review copy I didn’t hesitate to say yes. There are seven short stories in...
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