Archive | April, 2009

Shiloh Walker’s Chains of Luuuurve Contest

April 27, 2009

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Shiloh Walker’s Chains of Luuuurve Contest

Want to win $100 in free books? To help promote her upcoming release, CHAINS, author Shiloh Walker is doing a dash through some of the blogs in romanceland, leaving behind excerpts. If you’d like to get entered to win a gift certificate for $100 (your choice from the online booksellers), all you have to do [...]

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My New Favorite Blog

April 18, 2009

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Discovered a new blog (new to me, that is) called Horror Movie a Day, where I spent three hours clicking through the archives and reading everything on the site. The dude is funny as hell. Here’s a sample of some snarkage I encountered in a review for a Korean horror film called, The Wig: The [...]

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Review: First Comes Marriage by Mary Balogh

April 16, 2009

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Review: First Comes Marriage by Mary Balogh

Grade: B- I accidentally grabbed this book from the pile I have on the passenger seat of my car—I meant to grab the Kleypas one— and didn’t realize my mistake until I was sitting in the waiting room of my doctor’s office. Because I didn’t want to go down ten floors on the elevator, walk [...]

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Review: Simply Scandalous by Tamara Lejeune

April 13, 2009

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Review: Simply Scandalous by Tamara Lejeune

Grade: B+ I’m pretty sure there’s a rule somewhere that romance novel heroes are supposed to be breathtakingly beautiful, veritable demigods walking around in tight blue jeans to be drooled over and worshipped inch by inch by mere mortals waiting to be swept into their brawny, muscled arms and ravished with punishing kisses. And if [...]

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Review: Seduce Me at Sunrise by Lisa Kleypas

April 10, 2009

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Review: Seduce Me at Sunrise by Lisa Kleypas

Grade: B- Lisa Kleypas is a whiz at creating dark, tortured heroes with heavy amounts of baggage and issues that can’t be swept away with ONE powerful bout of mad-true-love-sexin’ with the heroine. No, Kleypas’ heroes are soooo damaged that they require at least two or three bouts of mad-true-love-sexin’. One of the trademarks of [...]

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