Kiss Me & I’ll Kill You Back…

Title: Kiss At Your Own Risk

Author: Stephanie Rowe

Sub genre: Paranormal

Passion level: 2

*Passion is ranked on a scale from 1 to 5. 1= prudish; 5= might as well rent an adult movie.

Overall Rating: 2

*Overall rating is ranked on a scale from 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest) is based on character development, plot development, quality of writing, and our desire to finish the book.

Publication Month: January 2011

Publisher: Sourcebooks www.sourcebooks.com

Trinity Harpswell has a big problem. She is basically a good person but she is a Black Widow, and will kill any man she falls in love with. Talk about a girl with serious commitment issues. But if she lasts 5 years without killing anyone, she will be free of her Black Widow curse and live a normal life.

Blaine Underhill has just escaped from a crazy witch's den where she tortures her sex slaves. Here is a guy with some serious hang-ups about women and physical intimacy. If he can find a way to kill the evil witch and save his enslaved friend, he can find a good therapist and live a normal life.

Seven days before Trinity is free from her curse her father is framed for murder and sentenced to death; and the evil underworld people are blackmailing her to find and kill a monster before her fathers execution is carried out. Then Blaine breaks into her home while she is in the bathtub (seriously I can't make this stuff up) and tries to kidnap her and force her to come with him to kill the evil witch. So now I have just summed – up the first 7 chapters of this very slow read for you.

After chapter 7 the book gets pretty good, but it is not a romance novel. It is more of a paranormal action novel with a bit of sex thrown in at random times. Kinda like a guy action flick on cable. There is a bunch of cool fighting and things blowing-up and muscle bound shirtless men with cheesy dialogue; then out of nowhere two people start kissing. Uhh… huh? What?

My problem is that I like violent action movies with shirtless men, cheesy dialogue, and random sex thrown in. So I enjoyed the book. You will have to read it and judge for yourself.

Kaye Gives the Classic Romance Formula a Refreshing Twist!

Title: Yours For The Taking

Author: Robin Kaye

Sub genre: Contemporary

Passion level: 3

*Passion is ranked on a scale from 1 to 5. 1= prudish; 5= might as well rent an adult movie.

Overall Rating: 5

*Overall rating is ranked on a scale from 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest) is based on character development, plot development, quality of writing, and our desire to finish the book.

Publication Month: January 2011

Publisher: Sourcebooks www.sourcebooks.com

It starts with the classic formula. A filthy rich handsome single guy is being pressured by his parent figure to get married. So said filthy rich handsome guy doesn't want to be married at all, let alone to a gold-digger. So what does he do? He pays a smart pretty lady to marry him on a temporary basis. The smart pretty lady (who is not a gold-digger of course) has some righteous self-less reason to accept the money and the marriage proposal.

I would be so sick of this story line if this spin on the story wasn't so cute! First of all Gina thinks Ben is gay! So why not marry the handsome gay man for his money. Ben who is very much heterosexual and attracted to Gina, actually lets her believe he is gay. This results in him trying very hard to hide some very obvious heterosexual male reactions whenever she was around.

Okay Torrid Booklovers get your minds out of the bedroom for a minute; there are other male reactions a guy has towards his woman. Like jealously, possessiveness, over protectiveness and extreme bossiness. (Of course this only occurs in romance novels. I am sure all you Torrid Booklovers have your men perfectly trained to never be bossy. J )

And poor Gina is starting to have feelings for her gay husband. What a dilemma! All eye candy and no indulgence makes for a very frustrated couple and a very funny read. I recommended it just to see who gives into frustration (or is it temptation) first.