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Whose Your Mama?

I hope Mother’s Day has been an amazing gift of love and happiness for everyone.   Let’s talk about our favorite written mothers of all time. Who makes the list? Are they good mother or a bad mother? Does she throw a Joan Crawford ‘no more wire hangers’ madness or does she give ice cream [...]

Hell Cat’s Top Books of 2012

I wasn’t able to read a lot lately but overall, I have some definite books I’ve enjoyed the past year. Obviously in no particular order but books that left a mark on my memory banks.     Beyond Shame by Kit Rocha [review] I don’t read erotica often. It’s usually not my sort of story [...]

Review: The Ugly Duchess by Eloise James

Title: The Ugly Duchess Author: Eloisa James Type: E-book Publisher: Avon/HarperCollins Publication Date: 8/24/12 Category: Historical Romance Buy: Amazon | Nook | Kobo | ARe | Sony     “I probably never would have made a very good wife, but I do make a good duke.”   I bought The Ugly Duchess back in August [...]

Welcome to the Asylum

Welcome to the Party, Limbo!   So! We have some news. I have a friend, she of the gift certificate, who will be reviewing on the site with me now. Please welcome Limbo. I’ll let her introduce herself and such on her own post but I wanted to give everyone the head’s up that this [...]

Review: Beyond Shame, Kit Rocha

Title: Beyond Shame Author: Kit Rocha Type: E-book Publisher: Kit Rocha Publication Date: 09/15/12 Category: Erotic Romance Buy: Amazon | ARe   Because I love Bree and Donna something fierce, I’m gonna say ZOMG for allowing me to see Beyond Shame before release.   I’m an anomaly in the world of romance demographics. I’m a [...]

Review: Impulse, Moira Rogers

Title: Impulse Author: Moira Rogers Type: E-book Publisher: Samhain Publication Date: 09/04/12 Category: Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy Buy: Amazon | Nook | Kobo | Sony   Bree and Donna (aka Moira) kindly gave me an ARC of Impulse a while ago but I’m just now posting the review. I blew through the first four Arcana books [...]

Discussions: The Value of Alpha Heroes

So, I read about the creepy, creepy editor of Oxford America and I realized something: I know why I like the alpha males so much in romance. Why? Because here is a man who will protect and adore a mate. He will love her, protect her, and inevitably accept that her reasons for feelings are [...]

Books and Food: A Love Affair

Gak! I have been in a book reading binge and forgot to, you know, post any sort of review or anything else. Oops! Reading helps my memory. For what it’s worth, since getting out of the hospital and pre-check in really, I’ve had memory issues. Not like I lose a ton of days, but times [...]

Mini Around The Net: Day, Romance, and Communities

I have a review of Stuck With You coming up next but I wanted to do some links to interesting sites and points. Romance and Smut is a great resource for finding romances that interest you based on categories, trigger warnings, subcategories. It’s such a useful tool. Trigger warnings are a common tool in fandoms [...]

Opinion: U of M Press Closes and Reviewing Self-Published

U of M Press Closes The University of Missouri is closing the press. How does that relate to me? Because as a college student, I use the Press pretty often. It’s where my professors gain some of our texts, since this isn’t 8th grade and we have books the size of Texas, and to close [...]

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