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1. Name of book. About Last Night by Ruthie Knox
2. Small blurb about the book. Cath Talarico knows a mistake when she makes it, and God knows she’s made her share. So many, in fact, that this Chicago girl knows London is her last, best shot at starting over. But bad habits are hard to break, and soon Cath finds herself back where she has vowed never to go . . . in the bed of a man who is all kinds of wrong: too rich, too classy, too uptight for a free-spirited troublemaker like her.
Nev Chamberlain feels trapped and miserable in his family’s banking empire. But beneath his pinstripes is an artist and bohemian struggling to break free and lose control. Mary Catherine-even her name turns him on-with her tattoos, her secrets, and her gamine, sex-starved body, unleashes all kinds of fantasies.
When blue blood mixes with bad blood, can a couple that is definitely wrong for each other ever be perfectly right? And with a little luck and a lot of love, can they make last night last a lifetime?
3. Why this book is awesome. Ruthie Knox is awesome at writing sex scenes and a good book around them. (I thought about nominating the last erotica I read, and the sex scenes were fantastic, but the rest suuuucked.) The excerpt for this one really intrigued me.
1. Name of book. Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh
2. Small blurb about the book. In a world that denies emotions, where the ruling Psy punish any sign of desire, Sascha Duncan must conceal the feelings that brand her as flawed. To reveal them would be to sentence herself to the horror of “rehabilitation”-the complete psychic erasure of everything she ever was…
Both human and animal, Lucas Hunter is a Changeling hungry for the very sensations the Psy disdain. After centuries of uneasy coexistence, these two races are now on the verge of war over the brutal murders of several Changeling women. Lucas is determined to find the Psy killer who butchered his packmate, and Sascha is his ticket into their closely guarded society. But he soon discovers that this ice-cold Psy is very capable of passion-and that the animal in him is fascinated by her. Caught between their conflicting worlds, Lucas and Sascha must remain bound to their identities-or sacrifice everything for a taste of darkest temptation…
3. Why this book is awesome. This book is an excellent start to an excellent series. I am really terrible at explaining why books are awesome, but I should say that I was not sure I would ever find a paranormal series that *really* worked for me and then this became one of the best and most interesting series I've picked up all year. It is a romance series, but it also has great world building, an enjoyable cast of characters, and really interesting family relationships.
1. Name of book. Fire by Kristen Cashore
2. Small blurb about the book. It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. The young King Nash clings to his throne while rebel lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him. The mountains and forests are filled with spies and thieves and lawless men.
This is where Fire lives. With a wild, irresistible appearance and hair the color of flame, Fire is the last remaining human monster. Equally hated and adored, she had the unique ability to control minds, but she guards her power, unwilling to steal the secrets of innocent people. Especially when she has so many of her own.
Then Prince Brigan comes to bring her to King City, The royal family needs her help to uncover the plot against the king. Far away from home, Fire begins to realize there's more to her power than she ever dreamed. Her power could save the kingdom.
If only she weren't afraid of becoming the monster her father was.
3. Why this book is awesome. BECAUSE FIRE/BRIGAN IS THE BEST SHIP. No seriously.
1. Name of book. A Lady Awakened
2. Small blurb about the book. In order to keep her husband's estate after his death, Martha lies and says she's pregnant... and then hires her handsome neighbor, newly exiled to the country from London by his family, to turn fiction into fact.
3. Why this book is awesome. This is a heroine-driven regency romance; it is Martha who drives the story forward. Both she and the hero have excellent, realistic character arcs and, BONUS, the sex is fucking hot AND MOVES THE ROMANTIC ARC FORWARD.
1. Name of book. Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
2. Small blurb about the book. Elena Michaels seems like the typically strong and sexy modern woman, She lives with her architect boyfriend, writes for a popular newspaper, and works out at the gym. She's also a werewolf.
Elena has done all she can to assimilate to the human world, but the man whose bite changed her existence forever, and his legacy, continue to haunt her. Thrown into a desperate war for survival that tests her allegiance to a secret clan of werewolves, Elena must recon with who, and what, she is in this passionate, page-turning novel.
3. Why this book is awesome. A really great werewolf book. It's also about home and family and who you want to be.
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