Category: Reviews

Guest Review: An Affair to Dismember – Elise Sax

Posted February 10, 2013 by Shannon in Reviews / 0 Comments
Guest Review: An Affair to Dismember – Elise Sax

Three months has been Gladie Burger’s limit when it comes to staying in one place: She’s always been a temp agency kind of girl, ever ready to move on. That’s why Gladie is more than a little skeptical when her eccentric Grandma Zelda recruits her to the family business in the quaint small town of […]

Review: House Rules – Chloe Neill

Posted February 10, 2013 by Shannon in Blog Tour, Reviews, Shannon / 1 Comment
Review: House Rules – Chloe Neill

In a city full of vampires, trouble never sleeps. At the tender age of 27, Merit became a sword-wielding vampire. Since then, she’s become the protector of her House, watched Chicago nearly burn to the ground, and seen her Master fall and rise. Now she’ll see her mettle—and her metal —tested like never before. It […]

Guest Review: Style Me Sexy – Tara Chevrestt

Posted February 10, 2013 by Shannon in Reviews / 1 Comment
Guest Review: Style Me Sexy – Tara Chevrestt

Bridget isn’t beautiful. At least she doesn’t think so. Besides, her ex always told her she wasn’t. And she believes him. So when an online romance leads to a blind date, she heads to the salon for a makeover stat. She’s dismayed to discover that her usual stylist isn’t available, and she has no choice […]

Author Interview: Karen Schreck

Posted February 9, 2013 by Shannon in Reviews / 1 Comment
Author Interview: Karen Schreck

We have Karen Schreck with us today chatting about her release, While He Was Away.  Help me in welcoming Karen to Cocktails and Books. Tell us about yourself. I grew up just outside Chicago, and except for a few years in Boston and upstate New York, Chicago and its environs have been my primary stomping […]

Review: Taking Charge – Mandy Baggot

Posted February 8, 2013 by Shannon in Shannon / 2 Comments
Review: Taking Charge – Mandy Baggot

Is going back Robyn s only way forward? American-born Robyn Matthers is going home. With her dad in hospital, his roadhouse in ruins and the ice hockey team slipping down the league, she needs to take charge. But does she have the strength to do it? Cole Ryan is a hockey player on a personal […]

Review: The Quintessential Gemini – Linn B Halton

Posted February 7, 2013 by Shannon in Shannon / 1 Comment
Review: The Quintessential Gemini – Linn B Halton

For twenty-one years, the focus of Katherine Dale’s life has been her work. Love interests and hobbies came and went, but what has always been there for her was her nine to five habit. Until she’s replaced. With her confidence dented, Katherine is angry at life and at herself. She’s ignored hints of “changes to […]

Review: Recipe for Satisfaction – Gina Gordan

Posted February 6, 2013 by Shannon in Shannon / 1 Comment
Review: Recipe for Satisfaction – Gina Gordan

Being the financial caretaker for her deadbeat parents isn’t the life professional organizer Sterling Andrews dreamed of. Tired of being the dependable—and boring—daughter, Sterling decides to have a little fun. And what could be more fun than seducing rich bad boy chef, Jack Vaughn? Except, after one scintillating night together, Sterling’s not only lusting for […]

Guest Review: The Demon Lover – Juliet Dark

Posted February 3, 2013 by Shannon in Reviews / 0 Comments
Guest Review: The Demon Lover – Juliet Dark

Since accepting a teaching position at remote Fairwick College in upstate New York, Callie McFay has experienced the same disturbingly erotic dream every night: A mist enters her bedroom, then takes the shape of a virile, seductive stranger who proceeds to ravish her in the most toe-curling, wholly satisfying ways possible. Perhaps these dreams are […]

Guest Review: Secret Sins – Lora Leigh

Posted February 3, 2013 by Shannon in Reviews / 0 Comments
Guest Review: Secret Sins – Lora Leigh

Sheriff Archer Tobias has watched the Callahan family struggle to find peace and acceptance in the community—despite the murders that continue to haunt them. But his darkest suspicions grow worse when Anna Corbin, a member of one of the country’s most influential families, becomes the next target… Anna knows she’s in danger. She knows she’s […]

Guest Review: The Good Father – Diane Chamberlain

Posted February 3, 2013 by Shannon in Reviews / 0 Comments
Guest Review: The Good Father – Diane Chamberlain

A beloved daughter. A devastating choice. And now there’s no going back. Four years ago, nineteen-year-old Travis Brown made a choice: to raise his newborn daughter on his own. While most of his friends were out partying and meeting girls, Travis was at home, changing diapers and worrying about keeping food on the table. But […]

Guest Review: Revenge of the Mad Scientist – Lara Nance

Posted February 3, 2013 by Shannon in Reviews / 0 Comments
Guest Review: Revenge of the Mad Scientist – Lara Nance

When Lady Arabella Trunkett’s father, the High Lord Minister of Urbannia is kidnapped, all clues point to the mysterious country of Gandiss and the world is thrown into political upheaval. Arabella is convinced the more sinister nation of Carabarras is to blame., urged on by a mad scientist seeking revenge. So, she sets out on […]

Review: Vanilla on Top – CJ Ellison

Posted February 3, 2013 by Shannon in Shannon / 0 Comments
Review: Vanilla on Top – CJ Ellison

Discover your inner bad girl, and set her free… Heather Pierce is done being a wallflower, both personally and professionally. Desperate to live a different life for one night, she attends a speed dating event. Maybe here, anonymous unless she chooses otherwise, she can become someone new. When a man way out of her league […]

Review: Turning Point – Tiffany A. Snow

Posted February 3, 2013 by Shannon in Shannon / 2 Comments
Review: Turning Point – Tiffany A. Snow

After her promotion from law firm Runner to Investigator, Kathleen Turner is learning the ropes of her new job from none other than assassin-for-hire Kade Dennon, a situation her boyfriend Blane Kirk is none too happy about. But the lessons with Kathleen take a back seat when Kade becomes a target. Previously untouchable, his enemies […]

Guest Review; Protector – Joanne Wadsworth

Posted February 3, 2013 by Shannon in Reviews / 0 Comments
Guest Review; Protector – Joanne Wadsworth

To love and protect…across worlds. Eighteen-year-old Faith Stryker is prepared to leap out into the unknown world beyond her home shores of New Zealand to experience life. Only she never expected to encounter Magio, a planet with two warring countries, where its people reach adulthood at eighteen by coming into their strength and prophetic abilities. […]

Guest Review: DraculaVille – Lara Nance

Posted February 3, 2013 by Shannon in Reviews / 0 Comments
Guest Review: DraculaVille – Lara Nance

Super Ad/Publicity Agent, Talia Quinton, is poised at the top of her career to receive a much coveted job representing the world’s largest advertiser. She’s shocked and humiliated when the account is given to a rival agent with much less experience. Instead, Talia is ordered to come up with a publicity plan to bring tourists […]