“Kiss of Midnight” by Lara Adrian

I *heart* JR Ward. First, she brought to me the Brotherhood (and our love of the Brothers needs no further affirmation here at the RMB offices (ILOVEYOURHAGE!!!!)). Now, through the power of a quote, she has brought to me, the Breed (basically while staring at the new arrivals shelf at the bookstore with a thumping heart, my eyes registered the words “JR Ward”, turned to Lola and said “Hey check it! JR Ward said this book was good! Look look! She says it is “evocative, enticing, erotic”! Sold!” “You know that you just judged a book by it’s cover don’t you?” muttered Lola, not taking her eagle eyes off the new arrivals shelf; her eyes scanning each title rapidly for the new Kresley Cole book, hoping against hope that the pale scary lady got it wrong. “No that’s so not true! Look what are you trying to say that I’m shallow and easily misled by false advertising? OMG! check out this guy on the cover! *grabs book off shelf* Gorgeous! I shall read this one too! *ahem* anyway back to “Kiss of Midnight”, look Lola, THE WARDEN says it’s good! In JR Ward I trust”).

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“Her Every Pleasure” by Gaelen Foley
Princess Sophia is the heir to a Greek kingdom
But has to flee for her life from dangerous assassins
She stumbles onto a barn in the middle of the country
And has to stay there for the night for her own safety
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“Evermore” by Lynn Viehl
So when Sheridan and Lola got a call from Thin Pale Scary Lady who works at the bookshop near the RMB offices, telling us a new shipment of books had arrived, we squealed and quickly made haste, tottering over as fast as our Louboutins could carry us. (Sadly, we didn’t manage to find Kresley Cole’s new book, despite our sending positive vibes of energy out to the universe a la The Secret.) So looking over the selection, we picked up some books that we’d heard about, but never tried before. La Lola chose “Evermore” by Lynn Viehl, since I’d always seen her name mentioned at the back of the BDB books. Of course, her name never forms too much of an impression, seeing as how when I reach the end of another BDB book, I am wailing to the high heavens and anxious for my next fix of Black Dagger love.
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“Let Sleeping Rogues Lie” by Sabrina Jeffries
You know you got a raniew on your hands when, after recounting the plot of the latest book you read, Lola (aka woman who reads books about heroines having sex with trees, heroines having sex with men with two penises (one of which is silver, shiny and spiky), and heroines who have sex with their brother-in-laws while their husbands look on) stares at you all bug-eyed and silent (like someone just told her that Target was couture), and goes “Oh my god!”. That’s right. You’d better call upon the name of the Lord. Pour yourselves a glass of wine ladies as I present to you the reasons why you should let sleeping rogues lie:

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“Caine’s Reckoning” by Sarah McCarty
“So have you thought of what you’re going to say yet?” Sheridan asked sternly, her hands laden with Kenneth Jay Lane rings propped on her hips like a well-dressed teapot.

“Err…no. How is it you manage to lift your hands eh Sheri? Gosh, those rings must weigh a ton! Do you work out?” La Lola replied chirpily, kohl-lined eyes shifting about nervously.
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Our dearest darling RMB readers, authors, fangirls, critics, poison-pen writers and that weird guy with the dreadlocks who’s always sniffing around our garbage,

We are One! (And by this, we don’t mean we are united in the face of adversity (i.e Pansy heroes with limp noodles and the annoyingly clueless heroines who love them) although we are too). We’re a year old, and as fresh and supple as a baby’s butt (but far nicer smelling).

As we traipse around the pink donut of the RMB offices in our Louboutins and Jimmy Choos, Juan and Sven sniffling with emotion at our 6-inch heels, we promise to always be truthful, gorgeous and snarky.

And so, we thank you all for your support, your comments, your words of encouragement, and baseless disapproval (don’t think we have forgotten about you EDGAR).

We hope you will continue to enjoy our reviews and ranviews in the morning over vodka on the rocks or after a long day’s work over double vodka on the rocks. If you come across real true non-imaginary 6 feet of good looking macho muscled manliness with an insatiable appetite for.. physical activity and a penchant for.. kinky experimentation, well, you know where to find us!

To show how much we LOVE you, we have a little gift (please don’t be expecting a diamond ring or Sven wrapped in only a ribbon) for those of you who want it! Just drop us an email at ladies@ripmybodice.com with your mailing address and we’ll send you our lovely present!

Happy reading!

Lotsa love and kisses,
the RipMyBodice ladies
Lola, Sheridan and Mimi
xoxo

“Marly’s Choice”, “Sarah’s Seduction” and “Heather’s Gift” by Lora Leigh
There are some books where the lead couple hail from the town of “Eeew Inappropriate Much.” And then there are books where the lead couple, in search of a more fulfilling life, have migrated from the small town of “Eeew Inappropriate Much” to the big city of “Goddamn it, have you been raised by wolves?” Cade, Brock and Sam August are three such brothers who have decided to take themselves outside of the natural order, and into a universe where weird doesn’t even begin to cut it my friend. Welcome to the world of “The Men of August” where human rules are cast out into the wilderness and when the characters do things which are illegal in many states, they mean this literally.
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Our dearest fans!

We’ve been approached by one of our own (ie. someone who reads more romance novels than there are newspapers in a year) to help complete a survey. Not just any old boring survey but a ROMANCE NOVEL related survey. We’ve all had a go at it - Lola nearly chipped her nail while she was typing away furiously on why books NEED a true blue ALPHA Alpha Male and not some pansy ass wimp, and Sheri actually put down the vodka bottle for 15 minutes *gasp!* to give her 2 cents worth of what was sorely lacking in the romance novel industry - advance copies to fab review sites *cough*like us*cough*.

If you’ve got some time to spare or have a whole bunch of things to say, go here and help out one of our readers who is trying very hard to earn her MBA degree from the London Business School.

We quote:
“We are looking at the romance genre books industry and trying to come up with future trends and development opportunities. Our objective is to come up with recommendations that will make this industry successful and thriving in the next few years - in turn, allowing us readers to enjoy many more wonderful books and stories.”

“Bad Boys Ahoy” by Sylvia Day

“Hey Sheridan,” shrieked La Lola, bouncing into the room. “Guess What?”

“What? What?” yelled Sheridan, startled from slumber.

“Don’t you remember the game we used to play? Where every line had to be a question? You want to play it again?”

“Do I really have a choice? Or is this a trick question?”

I don’t think you deserve a choice, do you?” La Lola asked primly. “Shall we talk about “Bad Boys Ahoy” by Sylvia Day?”

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“The Wife Trap” by Tracy Anne Warren
Now recently (ok, like yesterday), my therapist told me that I should write letters to people who have pissed me off, as a form of anger management. She cautioned however that I should not send out said letters lest I find myself being hunted and gutted down by hired hitmen. However she was not amused when I excitedly asked if said hitmen would be a gorgeously tortured Alpha Male clad in leather who would take one look at me and then spirit me away to his hideout where we will make sweet sweet love and we would then be on the run from his colleagues who were itching to take him out so that they can be numero uno in the hitmen world. OR, if I would be rescued by any member of team McCloud.

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