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REVIEW: Cute But Prickly: A short sweet shifter romance (Shifter Bites) by Zoe Chant

Too prickly to love?

After getting her heart broken, hedgehog shifter Hester just wants to get away from romance for the Valentine’s Day weekend. Instead she ends up snowbound in a gorgeous mountain lodge with the most amazing man she’s ever met.

He’s sexy. He’s sweet. He’s funny. He turns into a grison, the most adorable ferret-like animal she’s ever seen.

And he’s her fated mate.

Too bad Hester’s not ready to open herself to love again.

But Mauro is determined to heal her broken heart. Will ...

REVIEW: An Affair of the Heart by Joan Smith

The Marquis of Claymore had been rejected by the Beauty of the Season and he was determined to marry the first beautiful woman he could find to assuage his pride. There were the Wanderley twins, with Wanda as gorgeous as could be, and her twin, Ellie, obviously not in the same class. But Wanda was almost engaged…

Dear Ms. Smith,

I have loaded up on your books but, spoiled for choice, I dithered on which one to read. Looking at ratings on a (now defunct but much missed site) I decided on this...

Review: Coddiwomple by S.E. Harmon

As a wildlife photographer, Journey “JJ” Sutton never stays in one place too long. The world is his classroom, and he’s living his dream. His only regret is that he had to sacrifice the love of his life to do it. But as the saying goes, you can never go home again. That’s until there’s a family emergency, and he has to…well, go home again. His easy breezy lifestyle gets complicated fast. It certainly doesn’t help that his ex-fiancé has bought the house next door.

After an unstable childhood, Ca...

REVIEW: The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

Dear Tasha Suri,

After enjoying Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash, your earlier duo of romantic fantasy novels set in an India-based world, I decided to request an ARC of The Jasmine Throne, the first novel in your new Burning Kingdoms trilogy.

Priya is a servant in the regent’s Mahal in the city of Hiranaprastha, in Ahiranya, a once-independent country now subjugated by the empire of Parijatdvipa.

Long ago, it was Ahiranya that ruled the region. Ahiranya’s leafy gods, the Yaksa, gifted their tem...

REVIEW: Out of Character by Annabeth Albert

Dear Annabeth Albert,

Considering I’m not the biggest fan of the enemies to lovers trope, it is perhaps surprising that the last two books I’ve read have featured it – and that I enjoyed them both.  There’s a specific way this trope can work for me however and in each case, luckily enough for me, it did.

Out of Character is perhaps unusual because it’s actually a friends to enemies, enemies to friends to lovers trope. Milo and Jasper were childhood friends. They grew up together, hung out as kid...

REVIEW: Someone to Cherish by Mary Balogh

Is love worth the loss of one’s freedom and independence? This is what Mrs. Tavernor must decide in the new novel in the Westcott series from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh.

When Harry Westcott lost the title Earl of Riverdale after the discovery of his father’s bigamy, he shipped off to fight in the Napoleonic Wars, where he was near-fatally wounded. After a harrowing recovery, the once cheery, light-hearted boy has become a reclusive, somber man. Though Harry insists he enjoys ...

REVIEW: Stupid Things I Won’t Do When I Get Old by Steven Petrow

Soon after his 50th birthday, Petrow began assembling a list of “things I won’t do when I get old”—mostly a catalog of all the things he thought his then 70-something year old parents were doing wrong. That list, which included “You won’t have to shout at me that I’m deaf,” and “I won’t blame the family dog for my incontinence,” became the basis of this rousing collection of do’s and don’ts, wills and won’ts that is equal parts hilarious, honest, and practical.

The fact is, we don’t want to ag...

REVIEW: The Science of Jurassic World : The Dinosaur Facts Behind the Films by Jon Brake and Jon Chase

A tale of some of the most amazing creatures ever to grace this tiny planet—unearth how the science fiction of the Jurassic World franchise inspired the evolution of dinosaur science.

It all began in 1993. Jurassic Park was a movie landmark in the development of computer-generated imagery and animatronic visual effects. Jurassic Park became the highest-grossing movie of that year, and the highest-grossing film ever at the time, a record held until the 1997 release of Titanic. The field of dino...

REVIEW: Brides of Banff Springs (Alberta) (Canadian Historical Brides Book 1) by Victoria Chatham

In the Dirty Thirties jobs were hard to come by. Having lost her father and her home in southern Alberta, Tilly McCormack is thrilled when her application for a position as a chambermaid at the prestigious Banff Springs Hotel, one of Canada’s great railway hotels, is accepted.

Tilly loves her new life in the Rocky Mountain town and the people she meets there. Local trail guide Ryan Blake, is taken with Tilly’s sparkling blue eyes and mischievous sense of humor, and thinks she is just the girl ...

REVIEW: The Return of the Sorceress by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a magical novella of revenge and redemption.

Yalxi, the deposed Supreme Mistress of the Guild of Sorcerers, is on a desperate mission. Her lover and confidant seized her throne and stole the precious diamond heart, the jewel that is the engine of her power. Yalxi sets out to regain her magic and find a weapon capable of destroying the usurper. But this will mean turning to unlikely allies and opening herself up to unpleasant memories that ha...