Musings

enoch_always.JPGReviewed by Andrea Williamson
Publisher: Avon
Release Date: April 28, 2009
5 stars

Last month, we spotlighted Bad Boys of Romance here at RNTV.  Picking Saint from Suzanne Enoch’s London’s Perfect Scoundrel was an easy choice.  I didn’t even have to think twice.  However, if I had to make that choice now after having read Ms. Enoch’s Always a Scoundrel, I would be hard pressed to choose.  Lord Bramwell Lowry Johns now shares that top spot with Saint.  There is truly something special about Ms. Enoch’s scoundrels . . .

Despite watching his two closest friends succumb to the happy domesticity of marriage, Lord Bramwell Lowry Johns wants nothing to do with it.  He doesn’t want or need a “well-ordered life” and believes he would die from boredom within two weeks.  His friends, Sullivan Waring (After…

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london_scandal.JPGReviewed by PJ Ausdenmore
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
4.5 Stars

Though a Scot by birth, for the past several years Jack Haines, Earl of Lambourne has been living the carefree life of a charming London rake…until the day he is accused of taking the Princess of Wales to his bed.  Protesting his innocence but wary of the Prince’s anger, Jack flees London one step ahead of bounty hunters and heads deep into the Highlands.  Thinking he has escaped, Jack is surprised to find himself surrounded by armed Scots and prepares to be escorted back to London to face either prison or the hangman but, instead, is taken north to Castle Beal and a fate that, for a rogue like Jack, is far worse than facing the Prince’s wrath.

Elizabeth “Lizzy” Beal, niece of the…

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deidre-headshot-color.JPGPlease help me welcome guest author Deidre Knight. As many of you know, both Maria and I loved her latest release BUTTERFLY TATTOO. (You can read my review here.) Today Deidre is giving away a copy of BUTTERFLY TATTOO and an autographed copy of RED FIRE  to two lucky posters.

BUTTERFLY TATTOO BLURB:
Just when the darkness seems permanent, fate flips a switch.

Michael Warner has been drifting in a numb haze since his lover was killed by a drunk driver. As the anniversary of the wreck approaches, Michael’s grief grows more suffocating. Yet he must find a way through the maze of pain and secrets to live for their troubled young daughter who struggles with guilt that she survived the crash.

Out of the darkness comes a voice, a lifeline he never expected to…

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Good Morning – it’s Monday, and the first day of the work week should always be as easy as possible.  To start you off right we have our Easy Breezy Monday Morning Contest. No worries – the contest will last all day. Answer a few simple questions for me and we’ll put your names in a hat tonight – tomorrow we’ll announce the winner.  What will you win?   A BOOK – oh yes, and  today we’re giving away two books to two lucky winners.

  1. Name a book where the hero and heroine go from ‘friends to lovers’.
  2. Name a book where the hero and heroine are have an arranged marriage.
  3. Name a book where the heroine is a single mother.
  4. Name a book where the heroine works for the police (in any capacity).

See… I…

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ivy_darkness.jpgReviewed by Kate Garrabrant
Publisher: Zebra
3 stars

Anna Randall has traveled from Los Angeles, California to a charity event in Chicago, Illinois to confront the vampire Conde Cezar. Anna blames Cezar for changing her into an immortal almost two-hundred years ago. Anna first met Cezar during a ball in London in the year 1814. Cezar took both her virginity and blood that night. When she awoke the next morning he was gone and her life was ruined. She wants Cezar to pay for what he did to her. But when she sees him again after all these years, a rush of lust for him flows throughout her body.

Cezar paid the price for seducing the innocent Anna. Cezar is at the mercy of the Oracles who have made Cezar’s immortal life hell. The…

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perry_passion.jpgReviewed by Stacy Ahlgren
Grand Central Publishing
Rating: 3.75 out of 5 stars

In this sexy but frustrating paranormal romance, the ancient and powerful Chinese scroll of Earth couldn’t have found a more unwelcoming new Guardian than Gabrielle Sansouci Chin, a San Francisco free spirit who tends bar to support her painting career. Unfortunately, her title is inherited, so upon her father’s death she gets the scroll. In spite of a sudden infusion of scary, unfocused power, the appeals of her dead father’s spirit and the arrival of sexy treasure-hunter Rhys Llewellyn, Gabe dodges responsibility until nearly the end of the book, repeatedly-and repetitively-ignoring clues about the danger closing in on her and the patently obvious machinations of the villain. Perry’s breezy writing style and steamy love scenes may carry some readers along,…

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