Naughty Godmother by Chloe Cole

In the Naughty Godmother by Chloe Cole, Holly Tucket wants to move up in the Fairy realm from Tooth Fairy to a Naughty Fairy Godmother. Fairy Godmothers assist in turning nerdy, geeky sexually uncertain men into confident sexy alpha men. Holly’s first assignment/test to prove her worth as a Fairy Godmother is to help Alex Nelson. Alex is a first-class, awkward geek who is uncomfortable around the opposite sex. Holly must transform Alex into a successful seducer of women in 24 hours in order for her to pass her test.

This short story offers quite a few amusing scenes where you will find yourself giggling out loud. The next moment you will be caught up in a meaningfully seductive moment of intense feeling and lust. Ms. Chole has an enchanting ability to make a short, erotic anecdote into a story that is playful and yet, salaciously unforgettable. This will be an erotic story you will want to keep by your bedside to read when you need a pick-me up after a tough day at the office.

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Extreme Exposure (I-Team, #1) by Pamela Clare

Loved it!!

Extreme Exposure, I-Team #1 by Pamela Clare is a marvelous, romantic suspense story. It starts off with a few laugh out loud moments and then gets down to brass tacks. Kara McMillan is a tenacious investigative reporter for a newspaper called, Independent out of Denver Colorado. She meets Senator Reece Sheridan at a bar. A bar she was conned into visiting with her best friend Holly. During this chance encounter, Kara gets a little tipsy and puts her investigative talents to good use for personal inquisitiveness to find out the answers women all over the world want to know from a male’s perspective (this is a moment in the story where you’ll squirm or have tears of mirth running down your cheeks).

Kara becomes involved with an investigative story when a whistle blower brings a situation that is not only appalling but is dangerous to the Denver community to her attention. A big company is abusing the environment and has been getting away with the abuse for years by having governmental agencies look the other way. However, there is more going on with the situation than Kara knows and she ends up in the middle of a heated political scandal. As she continues to investigate, her life and everyone she cares about is threatened. It is this threat and the formidable powers behind the malice that embroils Senator Sheridan into the mix exacted from his feelings for Kara and his conscience.

When Kara first meets him, she is sure his motives are completely superficial and self-serving. After all, what else would one expect from a politician? However, in the process of becoming involved with Reece, Kara discerns that he is truly a man with ethics and morals -- a man worth respecting. But the truth of the matter is that Kara has learned to keep herself from getting involved with any man since the father of her child left her holding all of the responsibility of raising a child and taking care of herself. Compounding this way of thinking is the fact that her father left her mother much in the same way. This makes it difficult for her to let her guard down when she is around the Senator.

Due to Reece’s consummate patience and understanding of Kara’s past, he is able to whittle away at the wall she has erected around herself, ripping away her safety net so he can catch her when she falls. The intimacy that grows between Reece and Kara becomes eminently intrinsic to each others’ emotional and physical need. As the story progresses and their feelings grow more intense, the plot that builds will change their lives forever, either ripping them apart or solidifying their need for each other.

I cannot begin to relate accurately how much I really enjoyed reading this novel by Pamela Clare. It offered everything I love in a good romance: a complicated plot, loyalty to family and friends, steamy love scenes, authentic feelings, humor, an independent woman, a man who knows what he wants and a happy ending. I highly recommend Extreme Exposure by Pamela Clare to all my reading audience who love romance and suspense. Ms. Clare is adept at enthralling her readers with the alchemy of her storytelling abilities. This is a great story worthy of a place on your bookshelf or e-reader.

Here are some of my favorite lines from the novel:

• On one plate lay a single red rose. Some little romantic part of Kara -- a part of her she'd thought long dead -- sighed in feminine delight. She told it to shut up, but it didn't.
•  Kara was under a full-scale sensual assault, unable to think, barely able to keep up with the onslaught that was Reece.
•  When he touched her, his attention was focused, and his focus was total. He seemed to be right with her, through every breath, every touch, every tremor, as if he could feel what she felt, as if what she felt mattered more to him in that moment than anything else.
•  "...I can tell he's good for you."  -- "Is my aura full of smiley faces or something?"
•  "Are you having sex with my mommy?" Still half asleep and unsure what Kara would want him to say, Reece mumbled, "Not at the moment."

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Delicate Freakn' Flower by Eve Langlais

My rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Delicate Freakn' Flower by Eve Langlais is about a young, werewolf woman named Naomi who grew up in a household with five brothers who tended to get scrappy a lot around the house. The violence inherent in the male animal shape-shifters to disclose deep feeling in her childhood home did not lend itself to Martha Stewart type decorating or sensibilities. So, her mom had to “make do” to with mismatching dishes and sturdy, well worn furniture.

Naomi is bound and determined to find a nice, intelligent, quiet, non-violent human male for a mate when she is ready to settle down. She just wants a home where she can have nice things and know they will not end up in pieces at the end of the day. Despite her “delicate” needs, Naomi knows how to scrap with the best of the shifter population, especially since she had to deal with five older werewolf brothers growing up.

However, fortune has other plans in mind for Naomi once she is, quite literally, smacked in the face with the “injustice” of discovering she has two sexy shifter lacrosse players for mates. Ethan is a Kodiak bear and Javier is a jaguar. Naomi cringes inside at the thought of being tied to two dumb, though very sexy, shifters for the rest of her life. As time passes, Naomi is left wondering if there isn’t more to her mates than first met the eye.

The only reason I was not able to give 4 stars to the story was that I would get weary of Naomi’s calamitous attitude at times. On the whole, Delicate Freakn' Flower was a very gratifying shifter-love story. It provided humor, loyalty, two sexy tenacious men , steamy love, and moments of tenderness. Eve Langlais is fast becoming an author I trust to entertain me in the paranormal romance genre.

Some of my favorite lines from the novel are:

• ... the impressive speed and strength displayed by the lacrosse players—two in particular—made her girly parts tingle. Even more surprising, something about these males made her inner wolf yip in excitement. -- *snickers* @ girly parts

• She wanted to hate that he kept destroying her stereotypical view of a jock, but instead she grudgingly liked him more and more. The jerk.

• She wished she owned a mental muzzle for her inner wolf who spun in circles woofing while she chased her tail giddily.

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Just the Sexiest Man Alive by Julie James

Just the Sexiest Man Alive by Julie James

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Just the Sexiest Man Alive by Julie James is a cute, clean, fun, adult romantic novel. I enjoyed the strength of Taylor Donovan’s character and her sense of humor. She had some good one-liners in this novel that had me in stitches. There were quite a few places in the book that made me laugh or giggle.


Taylor is a hot shot lawyer who temporarily has moved out to L.A. to take as case. In the midst of preparing for her case, she is forced into helping out Jason Andrews, who is the hottest ticket in Hollywood, to prepare for an upcoming role in a movie where he portrays a lawyer. The premise of the book is swoon-worthy. Who wouldn’t want to be the center of a hot Hollywood actor. Well, Taylor. She is not impressed with him at all in the beginning of the book. But, as time goes on she starts to appreciate the “real” Jason not the Jason, the actor. The twists and turns the relationship between Taylor and Jason takes is very entertaining.

The only draw back I felt this book had was that it did not invest me in Jason’s character. His character was supposed to be shallow due to his notoriety in Hollywood, especially in the beginning. However, when he started getting serious about Taylor, I did not perceive his actions and words on a deep emotional level. I just could not connect to him. This did not detract from my enjoyment of the book. I just wanted to relate why I did not give the story a higher rating. I would still recommend it for romance readers. Julie James is a talented writer. I really, really liked Something About You.

My official rating for this book is 3.5 stars.


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Something About You by Julie James

Something About You by Julie James

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Something About You by Julie James was one of the most entertaining reads I have read in a long time. I loved it! It has a little bit of everything for us romance aficionados. It offers a good plot with great secondary characters, sexual tension, magnetic passion, deep abiding friendship, love, humor, mystery, and suspense.

This story has a very humorous beginning. Cameron Lynde, is in a hotel room where her sleep is rudely disturbed by a couple in the room next her having a vigorous lovemaking session. The cause for her sleep disturbance leads the story into a plot of intrigue where Cameron is reunited with FBI Agent Jack Pallas after three years where he fortuitously assigned as the agent in charge of the investigation Cameron unwittingly has found herself in the midst of.

When Jack left the Chicago area three years earlier, he and Cameron did not part on friendly terms, although they have a grudging respect for each other professionally. So, the start of their reunion has a strong cantankerous edge to it. Agent Wilkins who is Jack’s partner in the investigation adds some much needed comic relief to the strained situation. There were several laugh out loud moments in this book that were incited by Agent Wilkins. The other secondary characters in this story add a cohesive grounding in Cameron’s life and eventually, in Jack’s life.

The interest and heat that began when Cameron and Jack worked on their first case together starts to simmer again. The sexual tension that grows is thick as they feel more and more drawn to each other on a physical level. As the mystery of the plot thickens, the two learn to trust one another again despite the hurt they have caused each other in the past.

The author definitely knows how to capture her audience with mystery, suspense, sensuality, friendship, humor and love. Adding to those elements, Julie James voice is light and snarky at times. The delivery of Cameron and Jack’s story draws the reader in with her originality and sense of humor. In addition, her ability to create characters the reader will fall in love and connect with is outstanding. The romance reader would be remiss to pass up this story and this author. I highly recommend this book.

Some of my favorite quotes from Something About You are:
- The manager gestured to the door. “Would you mind if I escorted you back into your room, Ms. Lynde?” This was Polite-Peninsula-Hotel-speak for “You might as well get comfortable because your eavesdropping ass isn’t going anywhere.”

- “Glowering”—she liked that description. It was certainly more insightful than the generic “asshole” she’d been going with for the past three years.

- ...she realized then that her mind was already so far down in the gutter she’d need an extension ladder to get it out so she might as well just give in to the whole darn fantasy.

- (He looked) More like a chocolate molten lava cake. A dessert so sinful, so luscious, so filled with inner heat it made a girl want to lick each and every crumb right off the plate. That was Jack Pallas.

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Big Bad Beast by Shelly Laurenston

Big Bad Beast by Shelly Laurenston

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The Big Bad Beast is the story of Ulrich (Ric) Van Holtz and Dee Ann Smith who are both wolf shifters. The plot in this story revolves around a group of shifters and Dez Llewlyn trying to ferret out who is behind the illegal hybrid shifter dogfights. Who's money and cunning backs such a treacherous past-time? While the investigation is being implemented, the story of how Dee Ann and Ric come together to share love is unfurled.

The antics that go on between the main characters and the supporting characters will have the reader rolling in their chair or on the floor laughing. Shelly Laurenston never fails to make me laugh with her zany sense of humor. When I finish her books, I lament the fact that the book has ended. If you are new to this author, I highly recommend you start with The Mane Event. You will get more entertainment value from this story if you do.

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Dreams of a Dark Warrior by Kresley Cole

Dreams of a Dark Warrior by Kresley Cole starts off a thousand years ago with a twelve year old Regin the Radiant meeting Aidin the Fierce which sets the background of how their love-affair began. Then, the story flashes to present day New Orleans and is occurring in tandem to the last installment of the Immortal After Dark book that featured Carrow and Callum.

The conflict in the story begins very quickly which had my heart twisting and remained as such until the last third of the book. Delcan Chase, the commander of the Order, along with some of his soldiers have rounded-up Regin to take her to confinement with the other Lore folk that have been previously captured in an installation on an island where the majority of the novel takes place. From there, things continue to get more tense, dark, and - at times- violent.

The happily ever after for this hero and heroine does not come easily. However, Ms. Cole does a superb job of staying true to the characters we all know and love so well. The author also introduces us to a few new characters that draw you in and thereby win your heart.

The Valkyrie and witch humor is very much alive and well. Because of the sense of humor peppered through out the story and the loyalty of the characters to each other, I was able to keep reading the story without having to put the book down when I grew very frustrated with some of the situations in the story line.

Bottom line is Kresley Cole delivers another outstanding novel in her IAD series. She is able to illicit laughter, frustration, love, and a myriad of other emotions throughout the entirety of this story. Her ability to hook you into her world and not let go until the very end is uncanny.

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