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[image error] The Look of Love by Bella Andre. $ 1.99

From the Jacket Copy:

With THE LOOK OF LOVE, New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author Bella Andre introduces you the Sullivan family. In this fun and emotional contemporary romance series, when a Sullivan bad boy falls…he falls hard. And it’s forever.

BOOK DESCRIPTION:

Chloe Peterson is having a bad night. A really bad night. The large bruise on her cheek can attest to that. And when her car skids off the side of a wet country road straight into a ditc...

REVIEW: Once a Playboy by Kate Hardy

Dear Ms. Hardy,

I haven’t read too many of the Harlequin Medical Romance line up til now. I do like the medical slant of the stories and the fact that many of them are set outside the U.S. The short length, though, might turn out to be a problem for me as it seems to intensify the usual hurdles romance characters generally face on the road to a HEA.

Serena James is finding it difficult to get her physiotherapy patient, gorgeous playboy George Somers, to quit trying to overdo it on his road to r...

Review: The iPad Mini, the most dangerous competitor to the iPad yet

It’s iPad v. iPad

The iPad Mini is the perfect marriage between form and function. It’s perfect for one hand, in the bed reading. Your purse, no matter what size, will be able to carry this. It might even fit in some larger inside suit coat pockets. It’s biggest competition isn’t the Kindle Fire or Google’s Nexus. It is the iPad.

iPad v. Ipad Mini v. Kindle Fire v. Kindle Paperwhite

Even Apple seems to acknowledge this. On its product page, it describes how the iPad Mini is smaller, weighs less,...

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Good Girls Don’t by Victoria Dahl. $ 1.99

From the Jacket Copy:

Too much of a good thing?

With her long ponytail and sparkling green eyes, Tessa Donovan looks more like the girl next door than a businesswoman—or a heartbreaker. Which may explain why Detective Luke Asher barely notices her when he arrives to investigate a break?in at her family’s brewery. He’s got his own problems—starting with the fact that his partner, Simone, is pregnant and everyone thinks he’s the father.

Tessa has her hands...

REVIEW: Undeniable by Madeline Sheehan

Warning: The following review contains profanities, graphic language, sexual situations, and rape references.

Dear Madeline Sheehan:

I read this book in part because of chatter on an online forum. One of the readers said it was a love child of Sons of Anarchy and Kristen Ashley. She was not wrong. In fact, I would go so far as to call this an homage to both. Perhaps even fan fiction of both. The subtitle of the book might even be, Motorcycle Man: The Untold Story. Every unsavory and dark thing...

First Page: Unpublished manuscript / Contemporary

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“SO it’s just gossip? You aren’t in love with the Yank?”

Craig Davenport didn’t so much as blink. Him? Love? Just thinking the bloody word gave him the heebie-jeebies. “You know me better than that, pal.” He ignored...

Daily Deals: More romances for $1.99

Update:

Katie McGarry’s Pushing the Limits is on sale for 20p at Amazon UK. I highly recommend that book at that price.

[image error] Angel of Darkness by Cynthia Eden. $ 1.99

From the Jacket Copy:

He Fell For Her

Nicole St. James was a nice woman. An innocent, pretty, twentysomething schoolteacher with her life ahead of her. But as the angel of death, it’s Keenan’s job to take that life away. So when a vampire attacks Nicole, Keenan is not supposed to snap and take out the vampire instead. It cost him his win...

What Janine is Reading: September 2012

It’s hard to believe November is here already, and I’m just now getting around to posting my September reading list. Where did the time go?

[image error] Once Upon a Ballroom by Caroline Linden, Katharine Ashe, Maya Rodale, and Miranda Neville

This anthology has been priced between free and 99 cents since it came out, and because I’ve enjoyed Miranda Neville and Caroline Linden in the past, I decided to try it. Turns out that over 20% of it is excerpts from upcoming books and “About the Authors” content. The...

REVIEW: Lord Gray’s List by Maggie Robinson

Dear Ms. Robinson:

I haven’t read such an adorable hero in a long time. I was just sad he was matched up with Evie.

There was an inequality to the characters that set me on edge and I never quite felt balanced in the end. Evie Ramsay took over a printer’s shop that her father won gambling. She created a scandal sheet called The London List. Her favorite target was Benton Gray. She reported his every exploit until he became, as his mother put it, a “byword of loose morals and louche behavior.” A...

Friday Film Review: Genevieve

[image error]Genevieve (1953)

Genre: Comedy

Grade: B

Originally I had another film lined up for today but yesterday I was reading that this coming weekend is the annual London to Brighton Rally. “That’s it,” I said. “Genevieve is on.” From a little film that the studio heads didn’t think much of and didn’t want to release, it’s become a classic. After a quick look around the web, I couldn’t find where anyone has loaded it to watch but there are DVDs from several regions available and it shouldn’t be hard to...