Showing posts with label reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reviews. Show all posts

Saturday, April 6, 2013

Nanee's review of Eternal Bliss by Bonni Sansom



http://bonnisansom@blogspot.com
 http://www.wix.com/morbonni/bonnisansom/


Book Description:

Being a wedding planner with altar issues isn’t exactly good for business. Laine Peyton-Stanton has everything she needs. Money to burn, a thriving wedding boutique, a five thousand square foot house to herself, but the only thing missing is the husband she was supposed to have that left her at the altar a year ago. Leary of relationships, she hesitates getting back into one. On her way to work a traffic jam forced her to take an alternate route, where she met Kyle Logan quite by accident. Great, her day just got so much better. Not.

Minding his own business, Kyle Logan, a fire fighter for Atlanta, has no idea he’s about to meet the woman of his dreams. He’s been looking for the right woman to settle down with and hadn’t been having any luck until a woman in a Prius crashes right in front of him. She’s a bit of a bitch, but that makes the Dom in him want to tame her. He’s determined to win her over, but they don’t even know each other’s names.

What started off as a one night stand quickly develops into something more and one broken glow-in-the-dark lollipop condom could keep them together forever, until Kyle has an accident and lands himself in a coma. Will he recover and remember Laine and what they had or will he lose her forever?



 
Nanee's Review

Who wouldn't want to read a story with sexy fireman in it?

Laine has issues with weddings and marriage but she is a wedding planner and owns her own wedding boutique and Kyle is a sexy fireman looking for the "the one". ( what a great story idea)

Great sexy story..... Love Laine and Kyle's characters. Laine sexy successful rich business women looking for hot sex and nothing else. Kyle a hot as hell fireman looking for hot sex and maybe more. Kyle cant believe his luck when Laine gets into a accident out in front of the fire house. She cannot believe the cause of her accident was because she was checking out a hot as hell fireman hosing off a truck. He cant stop thinking about her. She cant stop thinking about Mr Orgasm (whats she nicknamed Kyle's assets). As they go their separate ways their desire for each other burns out of control and Laine's vibrator cant even keep up with her. Jeff Kyle's best friend also a fireman is a super jerk pain in the butt when it comes to Kyle's life (very well written, I wanted to slap the heck out of Jeff). Although Jeff and Kyle had shared girls in the past, Kyle is not willing to let Laine any where near him. Laine and Kyle's sex is out of control hot (fanning myself). Loved the relationship between Laine and Kyle, they so fell in love, even though their were ups and down and tragic circumstances I couldn't stop believing in their happily ever after. Loved the part where Laine's mother thinks Kyle is a delivery man (too funny) and loved the way the guys call girls who want to trap them and have kids "minivans" (hilarious) , loved this book would highly recommend. 


      

Monday, March 18, 2013

Author Natalie Gibson takes over Satin Sheets Romance Review Blog


Welcome!  Thank you for participating in:

     This is a big year for me, mostly because I am trying to take it seriously.  Before, I wrote.  Now I see that is not enough.  Last year I used Kindle Direct Publishing to put out my backlog including 4 in the Sinnis Series, Hateful Burden and 2 Mount Haven Quickies.  It has been a blast but I want to make a living doing what I love and so I need to edit, expand distribution, blog, market and network.  Krystal Shannan, I would like to thank you for helping me. 
     Here are some of the big developments in 2013 so far.  I am a member of Satin Sheets Romance Review blog and The Romance Troupe.  I have professionals working with me (Thank you Blue Harvest Creative!) on editing and design.  I will re-release Hateful Burden with a new wonderful cover on all major platforms and in PRINT!  My website is now up.  I have published Veil of Ishtar (book 5 of Sinnis) and Blind Furry (A Mount Haven Quickie).  I am writing Wretched Blood - the follow up to Hateful Burden, a stand alone steampunk-ish vampire book, the final Sinnis Series book, and 3 Mount Haven Quickies.

Now, let's get down to why you are here: 
The chance to win a Kindle Fire or $200 Amazon gift card.   


Leave a comment to enter to WIN!
1st Grand Prize – Kindle Fire
or
$200 Gift Card to Amazon/B&N
(US or International)
(no email = no entry)

2nd Grand Prize
$20 Amazon/B&N Gift Card
(US or International)
(no email = no entry)

3rd Grand Prize
Swag Pack including several paperbacks!
(US mail ONLY)
(no email = no entry)

Winners will be determined via random.org and posted to

Leave your email in the comments below for entry into the BIG contest described above.


ON TOP OF THAT:
I am giving away 6 $10 Starbucks gift cards 
- because what goes better with books than coffee?  

 
To enter my personal contest, tell me in your comment if you: 
1. Would like to be added to my monthly newsletter.
2. Visited my site - What's your favorite part?
3.  Like my facebook fan page OR friend me.


One entry into the Big Spring Break Blog Hop eParty can equal 4 entries for the big prize AND 
3 entries into my drawings.  Also, participate in Author Natalie Gibson's Website Unveiling and New Cover Reveal for Hateful Burden for more chances to win and fun postings throughout the day Monday the 18th.





Sunday, January 6, 2013

~Ava's Satin Sheets Romance Giveaway/Reviews of Selene Grace Silver's The Swing of Her Hips & Crash into my Heart~


Title: The Swing of Her Hips

Author: Selene Grace Silver

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Website: 

Length: 45 pages







Description:

A Scotsman and an American woman. He swore he’d never fall in love. She swore she’d never fall in love again. Then they met.

When a recently divorced teacher and a commitment-phobic media software specialist meet at an education conference, sexual sparks fly. Both are looking for an easy, friendly summer fling and think they've found the perfect temporary lover; but when summer ends, will they ready to part ways?


Review

Love it when I can read a book in on sitting and close it being completely satisfied! Selene created some wonderful, lovable characters with a titillating story that leaves you wanting more in great ways. Any contemporary romance reader will enjoy the story within The Swing of Her Hips. 
Two people that meet by chance or rather more by common interests both have sworn off love for the rest of their existence due to bad relationship experiences in their pasts. But what can you do when fate has another agenda in mind and you find yourself being pulled towards a person? Try and ignore it, for now. Duncan and Kallie can only ignore their feelings for so long. After a phone number exchange and a promise to keep in touch, they both find themselves thinking of the other even after only a short meeting. The day they finally meet up, it’s out of their control. The attraction is too strong and it’s decided to be a summer fling. But they both learn a lot while in each other’s company, Kallie learns not all men are the same, there is such a thing as a great guy out there and Duncan learns that not all women are horrible and incompatible. He also learns that he could not resist the swing of her hips from the very start :)

4 Satin Pillows
Heat rating of 3
Buy Links:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9781938876073&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=httpwwwgoodco-20

Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/238324









Title: Crash into my Heart

Author: Selene Grace Silver

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Website: 

Length: 45 pages





Description:

A smart, professional, self-sufficient single mom, Janice has learned never to depend on anyone but herself. But when her tire blows out and her car lands in the ditch, stranding her on a lonely desert highway, the help she gets from a sensual, dark stranger driving a sexy sports car makes her reconsider her fierce independence.

An aggressive executive, dedicated to running his successful company in a competitive industry, Adrian doesn't have time for anything—or anyone—else. Until he comes upon a beautiful woman in need of rescuing. Maybe he does have time for more than business.

Can Adrian make time for love?

Can Janice trust enough to love?


Review

A quick, sensual and exciting story that read like an amazing fantasy come true. A definite book to add to your TBR for all contemporary romance readers that want a quick and exciting fix! 
Janice is a single mother of two, widower for four years, and a very independent, beautiful, strong and lonely woman.  She is on her way home from dropping her boys off at the airport so they could visit with their grandparents when suddenly her tire blows and she ends up in a ditch with bumps, bruises and a wrecked car. After contemplating for a bit of what her next more should be, she hears a car stop close by, then sees a large male figure looming towards her. Can you say one HOT night and shining armor? Yes, a gentleman (of sorts) named Adrian helps her out of the vehicle and offers to help her get home. Janice is not used to any help what so ever, and is weary of any strangers, but in her current condition decides to accept it. He seems nice enough. Once he gets her safely into her home sparks fly, heat rises and changes of heart are made. 

I WANT MORE! The ending left my mind wandering what would happen next between the two. Would it really work? What about the boys, Janice’s children, will they accept him? I’m really curious where it all would go from the ending and REALLY loved both main characters and the way they both warmed up to one another so quickly :)


4 Satin Pillows
Heat rating of 3

Buy Links:


 


Special gift and future release announcement for you direct from Selene Grace Silver (continue down for giveaway information)


Hello everyone. As a thank you for your interest in Selene's work. She is making her latest release "Her New Year's Knight" free for 24 hours (midnight to midnight) on Thursday, Jan. 10th on Amazon. Here is the book details and link so you can check it out prior to January 10, 2013. Make sure to mark it on your calendars!



Title: Her New Year's Knight

Author: Selene Grace Silver

Genre: Romance

Website: 

Length: 110 pages



Description:

The holidays are a time for family. So what if Darla doesn’t have one. She’s a trained psychologist and well-versed in all the dangers of inflating the importance of one week of the year. Besides, she has her clients who need her. Unfortunately, one of them seems to have a dangerous obsession for her. She doesn't need Santa to bring her a family. What she really needs to find under the tree is a strong protector.

This novella runs 110 pages. It contains explicit descriptions of sex. Recommended for mature (17+) readers only.






Direct from Selene:
I am launching a series at the end of January--a paranormal set in LA with witches. I'm tentatively calling it the LA Witches and Warlocks Series. The first story is a sort of prologue (novella length, est. to be about 120 pages, though it may end up longer at 200 pages), set in 1977. My tentative pitch is for the first book is: 

Samhain, Hollywood, 1977 

Bowie is damaged goods. Home from a tour of duty in Vietnam, suffering PTSD, the young man discovers his family destroyed because he wasn't there to protect them. He blames his parent's murder-suicide on their involvement in magic, and consequently rejects his own latent powers as a warlock. Unfortunately, no matter what he does, his choices will create a dangerous enemy. It's too late to rescue his family, but it's not too late to rescue a beautiful young woman caught up in a dangerous web of magic. Will he involve himself in a spell that spans a lifetime, a spell that ties him evermore to a powerful witch and all her offspring?

Cursed to bear 12 sets of twins in 12 years by 12 different men? That is twenty-year-old innocent Adara’s terrible fate until a reluctant warlock steps in, altering one significant part of the spell, and thus creating a new destiny for both of them. Like a heroic knight from her childhood fairy tales, he rescues her at the moment the spell is manifested. While she's grateful for his help, being bound to an overbearing, controlling, potentially violent man who will never love her, who hates what she is, well, forgive Adara if she believes she would be better off had he just minded his own business and left the rescuing to someone else? 


GIVEAWAY


Selene is generously giving away (option of kindle format or Smashwords) ebook copies of The Swing of Her Hips to 5 (yes 5) lucky commenters! All you need to do is leave a comment with your email address (email address is needed to contact winner's so please remember to include it) and the winner's will be chosen and announced on Monday January 14, 2013. Thank you for stopping by & good luck to you all!



Monday, December 17, 2012

~Ava's Review/Giveaway of Claudy Conn's Hungry Moon-Quicksilver~




Title: Hungry Moon Quicksilver


Author: Claudy Conn

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Website: http://claudyconn.embarqspace.com/#

Length: 270 Pages



Description:
Ravena MacAllister doesn’t want to admit what she is. She wants to continue pretending she’s just human … only human, like her mother, like her friends. 

But she isn’t human.

Heartbreak and betrayal send her off rushing to Scotland, to a familiar haven where she has spent so many summers with her father, but she soon discovers that everything has changed.

From the moment she meets Quinn MacValdane, shock waves travel through him to her and back again, wrapping them in a tide of passion she had never dreamt possible. But if they are to have a future together, she must confront who and what she is, for she will need to call on the powers within her as she becomes embroiled in an adventure that will alter her life forever.

The time for pretending is over.



Review:


A very magical, gripping, exciting and romantic read that would not allow its reader to put it down for a moment (I should know). Great lovable characters, a story that is so vividly written it plays like a movie in your head and all in a fantastical world that makes you want to go for a visit. Any paranormal romance reader out there would love Hungry Moon-Quicksilver!

Raven lives a human life as much as she possibly can. Deeply burying her magical side due to the fact her mother is not a magical being and Raven herself does not want to accept it. Things change dramatically for her when she finds her thought to be best friend in a situation with the man she’s grown to care for deeply. She takes a trip to visit her father in Scotland and the floodgates open as wide as possible, pouring out more and more changes. Some negative, most positive, but what changes most for her is her heart once she meets Quinn...

Quinn is an incredible, magical hot stud muffin of a male that has been trapped somewhere not of earths plain many years ago and has yet to figure out a way to get back home. Being trapped for 75 years and having someone that has never given up looking for a way out for him, he becomes flawed when the he meets the one possibility to be set free and his body practically goes haywire. Now together they embark on a mission to get him home.

This book has a lot of paranormal to it, a hot wizard, demons, shape shifters and more! A must read hot romance, with a beautiful family feel, a handsome hero and beautiful (and kick butt) heroine and very magical element that sizzles the pages; definitely a great book to escape away with again and again! I look forward to much more of Claudy Conn’s works. I LOVE her writing style :)

5 Satin Pillows
Heat rating of 3 pillow mints

Buy Links:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AB3KWEU/ref=cm_cr_mts_prod_img

Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hungry-moon-quicksilver-claudy-conn/1113839132?ean=2940015770230

Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/257284

~Giveaway~

For the giveaway, Claudy Conn is giving away one ebook copy of Hungry Moon-Quicksilver to a lucky commenter. All you need to do is leave a comment with your email and a winner will be chosen via Random.org on December 24, 2012. Good luck to you all!

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

~Ava~ The Secret Life of Avery O'Dea Blog Tour/Giveaway & review


 
 
 
Elise Marion



‘Mom, I Want to Write Erotic Romance’. Coming Out of the Closet

Guest Post

She sat in the dining room, in her usual spot, reading a book on her iPad, cup of tea untouched in front of her. She looked as she always did: quiet, reserved, conservative. Mom. Yet for some reason in this moment she was the most intimidating I’d ever seen her. My palms were sweating and I wiped them on my jeans nervously, drawing her attention to me.

“Hey Sweet Pea,” she said, calling me by my childhood nickname. That did it; I was going to be sick. I had something to tell her and this definitely wasn’t a ‘Sweet Pea’ moment.

How do you tell your mom that her little girl is writing sexy stories for a living? How do you say, ‘hey Mom, read my book, there’s lots of graphic sex in there by the way’?

I know what you’re thinking. Mom’s are loving and supportive. Why wouldn’t she be thrilled that her daughter was getting published? I’ll tell you why. Because, when I was a teen/young adult, Romance novels were considered trash in my parents’ house. I had to hide them under my mattress and read them in hiding for fear they’d be thrown away. I’m sure all the true booklovers out there are cringing at the thought of seeing a book in the trash. I feel your pain, trust me; many of mine made it to the dumpster.

Yet, there was no reason to hide it. I’m an adult now … for God’s sake I’M someone’s mom now! You’d think I’d be able to just say it and get it over with. Yet some part of me—the part of me that cares what my parents think of my choices—was pee-your-pants scared.

I think I must have hemmed and hawed around it for a few minutes before finally spitting it out. Mom listened quietly and watched closely … probably for some sign that I was joking. Yet she knew I wasn’t. As much as she knew I loved Romance novels, she also knew I’d been a writer my whole life. This actually made sense to her.

To this day, she is my biggest cheerleader and is probably the only person I know who has read every one of my books (some of them multiple times). She does raise her eyebrows at the sexual scenes and tells me often that I ‘scorched her eyebrows off’, but her support and love never wavers. I will always be grateful to her for making it easy to do what I love without having to hide.




Title: The Secret Life of Avery O'Dea

Author: Elise Marion


Genre: Contemporary Romance


Length: 29,000 words




Description: Photographer Dominic Ramsey is having a bad year. His car won’t start, the rent is weeks overdue, his girlfriend dumped him, and photography jobs have been few and far between. Moonlighting as a paparazzo to scrape up some extra cash isn't exactly going well; there’s only so much money to be made in photos of tacky celebrity outfits. 

Avery O’Dea has led her life in front of the cameras since shooting to stardom in her first romantic film. When her on-screen romance becomes something more she and her Hollywood beau are, at least the way the magazines tell it, a match made in heaven. So what if Avery’s had to convert to Ryan’s vegan lifestyle publicly in order to solidify the relationship to the public eye? So what if she’s had to make a few sacrifices in order to achieve the Hollywood dream?

When a daring photographer catches her in a lie and exposes the truth of Avery and Ryan’s relationship to the world, Avery realizes just how tired she is of being ‘America’s Sweetheart’, and the elaborate cover-up becomes a burden that she no longer wishes to bear. As she locks eyes with the photographer that set her world on fire with a single photo, she begins to long for more from life; passion, love, and the freedom to live her life as she pleases.


Review

Absolutely loved this story! I really felt the intense immediate chemistry that was flowing between the two main characters. The Secret Life of Avery O’Dea is a fun, sensual and very realistic read that will have you turning its pages until the very end. This is a book any romance reader will have fun with :)

Avery is a woman that many can relate to, even if they are not movie stars or famous in any way. She’s a tough as nails woman that does not take what she has for granted and has had it with the whole Hollywood scene and all of its falsehoods. She is tired of portraying someone she is not, especially since she is very proud of her roots, success and all around what makes her, her. Now she just has to find a way to get her life the way she wants, no needs it to be and soon!

Dominic is a very talented yet struggling artist. He loves to photograph and while he’s waiting for his big moment to come, he earns his living by taking photos of celebrities and selling them to magazines and such. He does not do it to be malicious, nor does he do it as a career. It just something to help make ends meet, for now. When he sees a perfect opportunity to get himself out of his current rut, he takes it (of course). But what happens from there is shocking, hilarious and very passionate. Dominic’s life is about to change for good.

You feel the intensity of these two characters right from when they first meet. There’s no denying it. They both have different lifestyles they live, but want to change, make it real to themselves. Together they make it happen (even without meaning to) and then some! A completely satisfying story that I’m very happy to have read!

5 Satin Pillows
Heat rating of 4 pillow mints


Buy Links:

Bottom Draw Publishing http://www.bottomdrawerpublications.net/#!book-detail-pages

Amazonhttp://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Avery-ODea-ebook/dp/B0093P2C9K/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1353377543&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Secret+Life+of+Avery+O%27Dea









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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Welcome

If you've stumbled across this blog, please bear with me while I try to get everything ready to launch.

Satin Sheets Romance will grow into a promotional and review site for all genres of romance.

We will review, interview, have guests, do giveaways, blog hops, etc. This site is for readers and writers alike, because we all know writers are readers first. *wink*

If you are interested in joining the team please email me at satinsheetsromance(at)yahoo.com


We are not scheduling posts yet. 
But we are accepting submissions for review!
Please follow specific guidelines on Request Policy Tab.

Thanks for stopping by.

Krystal Shannan