romances

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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The #1 Reason Women Love Triangles in Romance

by Keira 08.23.2011

They are always two men and one woman. I have never come across a Love Triangle in romance involving two women loving one guy where it’s a matter of serious deliberation for the hero. If there are two women, the non-heroine woman is easily distinguished by being a nasty piece of work. She’s possessive, catty, [...]

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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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20 Ways to Know You Read Too Much Romance

by Keira 06.19.2011

Before I begin, thanks Susan for your 5 tells – they’re hilarious! Now, when it comes to our favorite literature is it possible to ever read too much of it? What are some of the tells of overindulgence in romance? Let’s take a look! You Know You Read Too Much Romance When… Most of your [...]

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Review: SEALed with a Kiss by Mary Margret Daughtridge

by Keira 06.17.2011

The first SEALed is Hot! Hot! Hot! Daughtridge knows how to write about delicious Navy SEALs. Jax Graham is one hunky sex-on-a-stick hero. I consumed this book in great big heaving gulps. Get it? *wink* I just couldn’t put it down and frankly didn’t I want to either. What makes Jax so hot? He’s a [...]

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Review: Never Too Hot by Bella Andre

by Keira 06.10.2011

Never Too Hot is part of Bella Andre’s Hot Shots: Men of Fire series. Connor MacKenzie is my ideal hero. He’s a hunky firefighter still struggling with the trauma inflicted by the Desolation wildfire two years ago that left him with serious burns on his arms and hands. As someone who defined himself by his [...]

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Review: Knight’s Fork by Rowena Cherry

by Keira 06.04.2011

Today I am reviewing Knight’s Fork by Rowena Cherry. This is my first ARC (advance review copy; official book release is September 30, 2008) and I eagerly read the whole novel in two days! Knight’s Fork is just one novel in the futuristic set series about the Great Djinn race. Knight’s Fork contains all the [...]

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Aural Sex: Listening to Romance

by Keira 05.17.2011

Fess up: have you enjoyed aural sex? Don’t you just love the play on words? This past year I started to listen to more and more audio books. Romances of course being among them. My first time aurally was an erotica romance and whew dang was it hot. Really hot. Scorching, make you blush even [...]