Month: October 2013

Denise Grover Swank’s The Curse Keepers earns three stars for originality

imageWhen I read the description of Denise Grover Swank‘s new book The Curse Keepers, to be published 19 November 2013, I was immediately intrigued as I’ve always been fascinated with the story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. However, I want to be absolutely frank, once I began reading the book I had a pretty hard time of it.

Swank’s two main characters – Ellie Lancaster and Collin Dailey – are the Curse Keepers, the first in their families in 400 years to meet and trigger an ancient curse. One of the problems was that I found I …

Five tree-top stars for Sarah Morgains Sleigh Bells in the Snow.

imageFrom the moment I started reading the first book in Sarah Morgan‘s new series, the O’Neill Brothers, I was hooked. Sleigh Bells in the Snow is a wonderful holiday romance featuring a transplanted citified, workaholic Brit based in Manhattan, Kayla Green, and a businessman/Yankee/champion skier, who’s also a hunk, Jackson O’Neil.

When Jackson hires public relations expert Kayla to restore his families Vermont resort to solvency, Morgan makes sure we know there is a mutual attraction between the two of them – even if both of them try to resist it. I adored Kayla’s cluelessness as to dress …

Marie Treanor’s paranormal romance series Serafina’s is a sexy, fun, suspenseful, and HOT five star read

What is the perfect Halloween read? Marie Treanor’s Serafina’s series without a doubt. Set in modern day Scotland and populated by psychics, witches, vampires, zombies, faeries, leprechauns, ghosts, ghosts, rockers (some of the scariest of the bunch), and more, this a fabulous series that is filled with a bit of mystery, suspense, the supernatural, humor, and a lot of hot, sexy romance. In fact, this is the perfect read for any paranormal romance fan, and I’d extend that to romance fans with a thing for sexy hunks in Scottish kilts and lovers of Scottish brogues.

imageThe first book of the …

Five tree-top stars for Sarah Morgains Sleigh Bells in the Snow.

imageFrom the moment I started reading the first book in Sarah Morgan‘s new series, the O’Neill Brothers, I was hooked. Sleigh Bells in the Snow is a wonderful holiday romance featuring a transplanted citified, workaholic Brit based in Manhattan, Kayla Green, and a businessman/Yankee/champion skier, who’s also a hunk, Jackson O’Neil.

When Jackson hires public relations expert Kayla to restore his families Vermont resort to solvency, Morgan makes sure we know there is a mutual attraction between the two of them – even if both of them try to resist it. I adored Kayla’s cluelessness as to dress …

Four stars for Keri Arthur’s Kiss the Night Goodbye, reissued recently by Dell

imageI’ve enjoyed a few of Keri Arthur‘s books, but in all honesty have yet to read her two most popular series – Riley Jensen or its successor Dark Angels. I was quite happy to see that Dell is republishing her earlier series and that the publisher shared book four, Kiss the Night Goodbye, in Arthur’s Nikki and Michael series with me for review.

As you know, I do like to read series in order, however I wasn’t able to do so with the Nikki and Michael, but I did get a sense of the characters from the first …