Romance and Urban Fantasy Book Reviews
Voracious reader, rides a bicycle (a lot), budding photographer, iPhone addict, and obsessed with all things grey at the moment. I blog about my adventures in cycling & other random crap at www.samanthacycles.com.
I’m doing it again! Raising money and awareness for the fight against HIV/AIDS. On Sunday, June 3, I begin riding my my bike (along with 2,500 other riders) for 7 days and 545 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles in AIDS/LifeCycle 11. AIDS/LifeCycle is the largest HIV/AIDS fundraiser in the world and last year’s ride raised [...]
Police officer Samuel Briggs is getting to know the people on his new, third-shift beat, but he’d prefer they not know too much about him—or the painful past that drove him away from New Mexico to start fresh in small-town Stratton, PA. All he wants is peace, a manageable routine, and time to fix up [...]
Ben is a 33 year old computer programmer in poor health who raised his younger sister. He works from home and looks forward to the hot young delivery guy who delivers his porn DVD’s every week. He’s on dialysis while he awaits kidney and pancreas transplants. Ollie is the cute young skater delivery guy. He [...]
Rachel Delaney, divorced mother with two boys, isn’t complaining. Her life is fine. Really. There is one thing that could make it better, though: a strong, warm, male body to help her make it through the occasional lonely night. No strings, and no relationship, thanks. Just a little fun with a perfect stranger. And there’s [...]
Miranda Wentworth never imagined becoming a mail-order bride. Now marriage to a stranger is her only hope of finding a home where she and her two younger brothers can escape the brutality of the Chicago orphanage where they live. With any luck, she can even start a family of her own, once the three of [...]
Thanks to the Nook iPad app, I downloaded Lover Reborn at 9:20pm (California time) on Monday night and read non-stop until I finished at 2:51am. And I’m not kidding about the non-stop … no bathroom breaks, no sips of water, I don’t even think I changed my position on the couch. I was the 1st [...]
Oh my. Where to begin? First, how about my nervousness and excitement to even have this in my hot hands. It felt like forever since book 3, City of Ghosts, and the world of Chess, Terrible, and the Downside. Book 3 also left with me one of my all time favorite lines in a book, [...]
When former ballroom champion Melina Cherkasov found out that her famous husband was cheating, she was devastated, especially since she was informed by a sleazy reporter on national TV. Thanks to an ironclad pre-nup and a scumbag ex, Melina has to pack up her dog and her dignity and take refuge in her dad’s retirement [...]
Book #6 in The Sentinel Series: Jackie Patton has been rescued by the Theronai from her captivity and torture at the hands of the Synestryn, only to learn that she’s a potential match for the Theronai warriors who need a woman to literally save their lives. Forced to choose, she unexpectedly selects Iain, a cold-hearted [...]
This is just how I like my M/M books – a strong love story where mindless sex isn’t the focus of the book or thrown in every few pages. Don’t get me wrong – I do love some mindless sex from time to time – but I’ll take a book full of characters with depth, [...]
