Gothic

Review: Red Velvet and Absinthe by Mitzi Szereto

by Sandra Scholes 12.05.2011

Reviewed by Sandra Scholes There is nothing like 15 stories of paranormal erotic romance to thrill a reader into each of them, all are different, yet all will leave them with the distinct taste of absinthe on the tongue from the sheer pleasure they bring. A Foreword and Introduction create enough of a background to [...]

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Defining the Genre: Gothic Romance

by Keira 09.26.2011

Gothic romance is a genre you can’t find all too easily today. It was a popular genre a few decades ago and lovers of this romance sub-genre will have to troll secondhand bookstores to find titles. Classics of this genre are novels such as Wuthering Heights and Scarlet Letter. Well known authors of Gothic romance/horror [...]

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Review: Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange

by Keira 09.20.2011

Amanda Grange picks up where Pride and Prejudice ends. Jane and Elizabeth are getting ready for their double wedding, both eager and anxious about the life spreading out before them. On the way to the wedding, Elizabeth experiences a brief foreboding chill but shrugs it off as wedding nerves. The ceremony goes smoothly, Darcy’s vows [...]

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Review: The Master of Seacliff by Max Pierce

by Sandra Scholes 08.25.2011

by Sandra Scholes, guest reviewer Andrew Wyndham gets the offer of a lifetime to tutor an unruly child at a huge mansion where its master, Duncan Stewart starts out as an imposing and brooding man of means who shows Andrew what life at Seacliff is like. Duncan slowly warms to Andrew, his new tutor who [...]

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Plain Fear: Forsaken by Leanna Ellis

by Sharon S. 08.19.2011

by Sharon S., guest reviewer I really don’t know how to classify this book. I think it is YA, but I feel it leans more towards Adult. I’ve seen it called Christian Literature, and it is heavy on the faith and beliefs of the Amish community, but it is more about love conquering the darkness, [...]

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Duty and Desire by Pamela Aidan- Guest Review

by Sasha Muradali 08.11.2011

By: Sasha Muradali, guest blogger Duty & Desire is an interesting addition to the trilogy of Fitzwilliam Darcy: Gentleman by Pamela Aidan. This second installment takes readers through Mr. Darcy’s missing moments in Pride and Prejudice in between his departure for London after the Netherfield Ball and his reemergence at his aunt’s house, Rosings Park. [...]

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Review: A Cottage by the Sea by Ciji Ware

by Karin 07.26.2011

by Karin, guest reviewer from Savvy Thinker A Cottage by the Sea by Ciji Ware is being reissued — it is a good choice for reissue for those of us, like me, who never read it the first time — with some new material on brain function, chemistry, and recent findings in the scientific literature [...]

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Review: Love Bleeds (Only After Dark Series: Book 1) by Maggie James

by Sandra Scholes 07.08.2011

by Sandra Scholes, guest reviewer There are a lot of genres thrown into this novel by Maggie James, but for the most part it is about vampires, or should I say, one vampire in particular; Joseph Markus who happens to lead a double life. By day he is a rich entrepreneur who has far too [...]