“Fire in the Heart” by Katherine Sutcliffe

Warning. This is a really dated book. By which I mean you have a hero so mean to the heroine that if he tried to pull any of that crap with any of the RMB girls, I’d be using a certain appendage as a pogo stick. While it’s still attached to him. Bouncy bouncy. But did I like the book? Hell yeah! That’s why it’s FAN-TA-SY. What we have here are all the classic elements of a larger than life guilty pleasure. Observe.
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“Hot Night” by Shannon McKenna

After debating at length on how to write a review for Shannon McKenna’s latest offering “Hot Night”, I decided to come up with a list of all the things you can come to expect in a Shannon McKenna book. Having read her entire McCloud series in the span of two months, I’ve gone past the point of “too much of a good thing is bad for you” and into the land of no return, where methinks now the only way I can attract a McCloud brother (or any of the Duncan brothers) is to put myself in the line of sight of a psycho killer (and not just your average Ted Bundy, oh no) and get him wildly attracted to me to the point that he wants to screw me and then kill me (or screw me while killing me). Then, and only then, will I be worthy of a Shannon McKenna hero of my own, who will protect me at all costs, play kinky sex games with me, and then marry me. I’m going to go talk to Mimi to see if she knows any psycho killers I can meet. Wish me luck!

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It’s that time of the year again. The bad moon’s rising and ghosts and ghouls are coming out to play. The ripmybodice girls love Halloween. Our offices are decked out with diamante skulls and bloodied daggers (basically we just moved all of Mimi’s year-long decor out from her office and into the open). We’ve done it all. Planned our annual Halloween bash; found recipes for Blood Punch; rented horror flicks like “Gigli” and “Are We There Yet”; gotten our costumes (Lola’s going as Wonder Woman, Sheri as the Captain of The Mile High Club and Mimi’s a Sheriff Gone Wild.). So all that’s left to do is present to you, our first ever Halloween post.
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“The Pirate and the Pagan” by Virginia Henley
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Hey Sheridan, heard from Mimi yet? I wonder how long she’s going to stay in her self-imposed meditational exile in the bat cave. She’d better not come tracking guanao. Have you seen my old copy of “The Pirate and the Pagan” by Virgina Henley? I’m in the mood for some far-fetched-stretch-your-imagination-beyond-the-realm-of-belief kind of book, and thought this would be perfect. You remember it right? The one with the ‘twins’?
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“Mine Till Midnight” by Lisa Kleypas

Warning: This book does not contain any seals, roots, shamans, silver penises or flying entities whose sole purpose in life is to clean your bajango after sex. It does however, contain bees, mentions of pookas, crusty wounds, an eye-rolling worthy ghost plot, steamy stolen kisses in the dark, a fire, and hidden treasure. *sees Lola perk up* No Lola, it is not about a half man half bee Alpha Hero who in addition to owing a monstrous dick (as they so often do), has a stinger which he uses for sexual purposes while collecting his lady’s pollen. Sigh. Readers’ discretion to be advised.

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“Lord of the Deep” by Dawn Thompson
I will never look at a seal the same way again.

The hero of “Lord of the Deep” is a selkie, which is basically a creature of the ocean, who can take the form of either a seal or a human. When it takes human form, it will go ashore and mate with mortals. Being blessed with incredible physical beauty (when the selkie is in human form I guess, coz I’d like to think that people aren’t turned on by seals and if they are, I really don’t want to know about it), mortal lovers are often enamoured of their selkie lovers and will do anything to keep them by their side. You can keep a selkie with you by possessing his sealskin so that he remains in human form, but once you return his skin to him, he will never look back and return to the sea.
 

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“Bewitching” by Jill Barnett
When I first started reading romances, one of the earliest authors I read was Jill Barnett. I devoured her backlist of books, but my 2 favourites by her remain “Bewitching” and “Dreaming” (its sequel). In the early 90s, before the whole paranormal craze took off and supernatural studs exploded everywhere, “Bewitching” was the first book I read which featured a heroine a little out of the ordinary. A witch to be precise.
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My name is Lola and I must confess
That when it comes to heroes
Alpha is the best.

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“A Distant Tomorrow” by Bertrice Small
*Lola looks around furtively* The coast is clear. No sight of Sheridan or Mimi. Tiptoeing like the ballerina hippos from Fantasia, Lola quietly goes into her office and opens her massive closet. Throwing aside discarded bags and shoes from last season she pulls out The Chest. The Chest encrusted with pink diamante and full of guilty pleasures like her Jaws DVD box set, her Debbie Gibson CD, her biography of The Rock and her humorotica novels. One of which is the tragi-comedy, “The Twilight Lord”. Picking up “A Distant Tomorrow,” the second in the Hetar series, Lola settles in for a good time of even more salacious goings-on and the sort of scenes which make you want to have a coconut mango bubble bath later. And not because you love coconut mango bubbles (because who doesn’t?) but because you just want to get rid of the icky feeling.
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“Heartless” by Kat Martin
I love books which feature correspondence between the hero and heroine. It’s the idea that someone can fall in love with you without even having met you, based solely on what you’ve written. All I need is for Gerard Butler to read this blog and fall madly in love with me and I’m set. The best example which springs to mind is “My Sweet Folly” by Laura Kinsale, which had the best prologue ever written in my opinion, featuring a series of letters written by the hero to the heroine. I wept buckets during the prologue, but unfortunately the rest of the book never lived up to that first chapter.
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