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Review: Encompassed (Immortal Series, Book 4) by Em Petrova

by Sandra Scholes 01.27.2012

Reviewed by Sandra Scholes It is interesting the amount of cross genre fiction there is out for readers to have a look at. Encompassed, book 4 is Em Petrova’s chance to show how she can weave a ship’s captain and a Mayan Princess into a loving relationship. There is a reason Dante and Maria are [...]

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Review: Scandalous Desires (Maiden Lane, Book 3) by Elizabeth Hoyt

by Keira 11.16.2011

Heroine: Widow Silence Hollingbrook is in a dire situation. To reclaim what she loves she must face the man who callously and cruelly used her to make a point that ruined her marriage. Only of course he doesn’t make things simple. Apparently there’s danger (evil Charlie Grady, the Vicar of Whitechapel) and wouldn’t you know, [...]

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Pirate Romance: Separating Myth from Truth

by Keira 06.27.2011

What is pirate, privateer, or buccaneer romance? While pirate romance seems pretty self explanatory the truth of the matter is that modern romantic notions of pirates are far from fact. When we think of a pirate, I am sure many of you will conjure up an image of the deliciously sexy and adventurous Jack Sparrow [...]

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Review: Beauvallet by Georgette Heyer

by Keira 06.07.2011

Beauvallet is one of my top favorite Georgette Heyer romances. It’s one I would recommend for a guy to read because of how daredevil the hero is and how much action and high jinks take place. Sir Nicholas Beauvallet is a dashing pirate with a rakish charm. He’s the bane of the Spanish empire and [...]

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Review: Guardian Angel by Julie Garwood

by Keira 04.03.2011

Guardian Angel by Julie Garwood is the second book in the set of three novels, Guardian Angel follows on the heels of The Lion’s Lady. I didn’t know this when I started and was pleasantly surprised to find that I enjoyed the book. Usually I dislike sets of romances because one couple or half of [...]

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Review: Crimson Rapture by Jennifer Horsman

by Keira 03.13.2011

I first heard about Crimson Rapture from a HaBo post over at Smart Bitches: Trashy Books. I can’t remember now if this book was the actual book or just one of the suggestions, but I guess it hardly matters. It sounded cool and I got it immediately from Paperback Swap. It was originally published in [...]

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Review: With Proud Humility by Jess Mountifield

by Carla F. 02.15.2011

by Carla F., guest reviewer Summary: In the first chapter of With Proud Humility, the heroine, Lady Marie Woodall has been chained up by the pirate, Black Vane. Marie had not been kidnapped by Vane, but had boarded his ship because she wanted to get the map that shows the island where her Mother’s treasure [...]

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Review: The Pirate Lord by Sabrina Jeffries and Deborah Martin

by Carla F. 12.23.2010

by Carla F., guest reviewer It started out with an interesting premise and it ended OK, but there was so much in the middle that bugged me. In The Pirate Lord, Sara Willis, a reformer, decides that she is going to try to expose the conditions of convict women who are being transported to New [...]