I’ve loved soaps and romance for as long as I can remember. Honestly, they go together like peanut butter and chocolate, strawberries and cream, Jeremy Renner and me…wait, where was I? Ahem. Yes. With only four daytime soap operas currently on air (sniffle!), it’s easier than ever to find the one that works for you.… Read More Soap on a Trope: Love Romance? Try Daytime!
This short month was mostly about playing catch-up! I read Jill Sorenson’s excellent, dark and evocative romantic suspense The Edge of Night and Vivian Arend’s sexy paranormal Black Gold, and reread Meredith Duran’s That Scandalous Summer in preparation for Fool Me Twice. And I FINALLY finished George R.R. Martin’s fifth A Song of Ice and Fire book, A Dance… Read More Just One Book: February Reads
I kicked the year off with a nice variety of brand-new reads — and almost forgot to post the rundown. Oops? Bitter Spirits, by Jenn Bennett (paranormal romance) Tempered, by Karina Cooper (out 2/10, steampunk/romance, e-book) Marked, by Lauren Dane, Vivian Arend and Kit Rocha (out 2/10, erotic romance anthology) A Gentleman ‘Til Midnight, by… Read More Book Who’s Talking: January Reads
I’ve recently come back to Days of our Lives after a several-year hiatus. In a sea of new faces, there are still the familiar characters. Jennifer Horton. Hope Brady. Marlena. Sami. My geriatric Greek tycoon boyfriend, Victor Kiriakis. And Elvis “EJ” DiMera. To my dismay, it appears absence has made my heart grow fonder…because I’m… Read More How Do You Solve a Problem Like EJ DiMera?
Thanks to yet another novella glom, my December showing was pretty darn good! Undying, by Cyndy Aleo (contemporary romance, paranormal, e-book) Wild Justice, by Kelley Armstrong (romantic suspense) The Dom Project, by Heloise Belleau & Solace Ames (erotic romance, e-book) Driftwood Deeds, by Laila Blake (erotic romance, e-novella) Twisted, by Laura K. Curtis (romantic suspense,… Read More Book Out Below: December Reads
The other day, I was craving some “deeply screwed up” romance and found myself turning to Anne Stuart, who has swiftly become my go-to for the kind of uncomfortable, twisted narrative you usually only find in villain-centric fan fiction or wholly nonromantic thrillers. In Stuart’s Black Ice, the male progatonist — I hesitate to say “hero,”… Read More From Bad to Worse: Stuart, Soaps and Seductive Villains
I’m so late with this wrap-up that I had to concurrently begin the December post! Gasp. I didn’t read a lot in November. Okay, that’s a lie. I did read a lot, but I didn’t have a lot of luck in November. I had three DNFs (Did Not Finish)! Unheard of! However, there were also… Read More Booked on You: November Reads
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