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Hell, Yeah
by Carolyn Brown
Mass Market Paperback
List Price: $7.99
Published in 2010
ISBN-10: 1-4022-3927-0
This title is the second installment of the Honky Tonk series. It started out with I Love This Bar. You don’t need to read the first book to enjoy this one. Cathy O’Dell is an accountant who bought the Honky Tonk bar from her cousin, Daisy, who was the star of the first book.
On New Years eve, Travis Henry kissed her. He’s geologist in town for a new oil well. He just also happen to have his new trailer located right next to Cathy’s bar. Sparks fly, and this story is off to a rollicking start.
While I enjoy reading this story, it didn’t hold my attention like Carolyn Brown’s other book. She’s an awesome writer guaranteed to make you enjoy her story, but I just can’t seem to care about Cathy or Henry for some reason. I think maybe it’s because Cathy and Henry are simply happy and well-adjusted. One of the reason I grow from reading stories is when a character has a personal struggle. I can learn from the choices that they make. I can learn from when they do it wrong, or when they do it right. I can decide for myself if there’s no clear answer. In this story, it’s a beautiful sunset. Period.
Other books in the series
I Love This Bar (June, 2010)
Hell, Yeah (Aug., 2010)
My Give-A-Damn’s Busted (Oct., 2010)
Honky Tonk Christmas (Nov., 2010)
The Magician’s Accomplice: A Commander Jana Matinova Investigation
by Michael Genelin
Hardcover
List Price: $25.00
Published in 2010
ISBN-10: 1-56947-626-8
I was very lucky to get a free Kindle copy of this book. I actually turned on the speech function of Kindle so I can listen and drive. This story enthralled me from the start. An impoverish student, masquerading as a guest, sneaked into Savoy hotel in Slovakia to get a free breakfast. He was gunned down as a result. Slovakian police commander Jana Matinova received the call late at night and plunged into this unusual murder case.
I love the setting. When I started reading this book, I had no idea of it’s foreign setting. It’s always fun to know about other countries. Just like when I read Blood of the Wicked by Leighton Gage. I like the journey and the information that I wouldn’t otherwise know. I highly recommend this book. It was free when I downloaded it, but right now, it’s $9.99 as an e-book in Kindle.
About the author:
Michael Genelin, a graduate of UCLA and the UCLA Law School, has served in the LA District Attorney’s Office and the US Department of Justice in Central Europe. He has written for film and has been an adviser to television series. He now lives with his wife and daughter in Paris. (from Fantastic Fiction) More info at the author’s website.
Tempted by a Warrior
by Amanda Scott
Mass Market Paperback
Published by Forever
List Price: $6.99
Published in 2010
ISBN-10: 0-446-56132-0
Product Description
Lady Fiona, wed in haste, has never known marital peace. When last she’d seen her cruel husband Will, he’d struck her – and she has no memory of what she did next – only that she woke later alone in her bedchamber. Will has gone missing, and Fiona fears that in her rage and terror she might somehow have killed him. When her husband’s cousin Sir Richard comes to search for Will, Fiona is touched by his warm nature. A knight and warrior, Richard is drawn to Fiona’s brave manner, quickly seeing in her an equal measure of inner courage. Confessing that she fears having killed Will, Fiona accepts Richard’s offer to help her. Pursuing together the mystery of Will’s disappearance, they fall in love. Meanwhile the English are reinforcing their garrison in the Scottish Borderlands, putting Fiona, Richard, and Scotland in peril….
About Amanda Scott: (from FantasticFiction.co.uk)
Amanda Scott, best-selling author and winner of the Romance Writers of America’s RITA/Golden Medallion and The Romantic Times’ awards for Best Regency Author and Best Sensual Regency, began writing on a dare from her husband. She has sold every manuscript she has written. More than twenty-five of her books are set in the English Regency period (1810-1820), others are set in fifteenth-century England and sixteenth-and eighteenth-century Scotland. Three are contemporary romances. Amanda lives with her husband and son in northern California.
Giveaway:
Thanks to Anna for letting me host this giveaway.
Contest ends on July 30.
Winners must have a US or Canadian addresses. No PO Box, please.
Please fill in this form, and answer the quesiton below. Winners will be choosen from the comments. I’ll match the addresses from the form.
If you have a chance to ask an author two question, what would it be? Some of your answers will be used in my upcoming author interview (I’ll credit your name for the question)
Dangerous Desires
by Dee Davis
Mass Market Paperback
List Price: $6.99
Published in 2010
ISBN-10: 0-446-542
Product Description
As the extractions expert for A-Tac, an elite CIA black ops unit masquerading as faculty at an Ivy League college, Drake Flynn knows how to survive behind enemy lines. But he’s about to meet one adversary he can’t subdue . . . or resist.
A RACE FOR SURVIVAL
Stranded in the Colombian jungle after a mission goes bad, Drake has only one objective: evade the mercenaries hot on his trail and deliver “the package” to U.S. officials. But “the package” has a mind of her own, and she has no intention of trading one set of captors for another. Madeline Reynard is beautiful, headstrong, and hell-bent on escape after years as a crime lord’s pawn. She’ll risk everything for freedom, even if it means deceiving the dark, handsome operative who now holds her life in his hands.
Drake has been burned too many times to let a woman manipulate him, especially a secretive one like Madeline. Even so, they cannot deny the attraction between them. Now as enemy forces close in, Drake and Madeline must trust each other with their lives-or face certain death.
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Giveaway:
A special thanks to Hachette Book Group for letting me host this giveaway.
Ends on July 30.
Contest open to US and Canada addresses only. No Po Box addresses, please.
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What’s your top 3 favorite books and why are they a favorite? Do you re-read them?
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