Tag Archives: Paranormal Romance

Catch and Release, by Isabel Murray

25 Apr
Illustrated cover for _Catch and Release_, showing what looks like a green mermaid/merman tail disappearing at the bottom of the cover, with some corals in gradated shades of blue to pink on the sides, and some bubbles bobbing upwards, on a deep blue background.

This is all Erin@TheSmutReport’s fault: she wrote this review, and I had no choice but to read a sample, get hooked (sad pun not intended), buy it, and start reading it on the spot.

Beware: explicit sex on page; swearing; near death by exposure; parents being assholes about mental health; a fantastic grandfather.

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Wolf’s Honor, by Ambrielle Kirk

23 Feb
Cover for Wolf's Honor, showing a bare-chested tanned white man superimposed on the left side, over a shot of a road at dusk under a heavily clouded sky tinged in reds and golds; in the foreground, the photoshopped head of a light-colored wolf sits at the bottom right corner. The title and series names, in white font, are centered over the image, with the author's name, also on white font, running across the bottom.

Desperate times and all that; the theme for this month’s TBR Challenge is “furry friends” and look, I’m sorry, I’m going with shapeshifter romance–because it’s literally the day before, and this ARC has been sitting in the digital TBR since early 2015 (gah!) and it’s supposed to be around 150 pages. (Don’t judge me!)

Fun sidebar: I truly expected that most of the challenge participants would go for pets rather than shapeshifters, and honestly, having been around romancelandia for this long, I really should have known better.

Beware: explicit sex; attempted rape as backstory; fated mates; violence and some gore.

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Single White Incubus, by E.J. Russell

17 Aug
Cover for Single White Incubus, showing a bear paw, pads up, holding a Polaroid-style snapshot of a nerdy-looking white man with light brown hair and a thin beard and mustache looking directly at the camera; on the white space below the image, there's a symbol resembling a triquetra, the uppermost loop forming a heart, with the words "Supernatural Selection" below on the left corner; to the right of that the text: "SWI ISO LTR WTR
(single white incubus in search of long term relationship willing to relocate). The living need not apply."

This is S’s fault; she wrote this review, I read the sample, then, despite the cheesy cover, I bought the book, and then lost a few hours reading.

Beware: explicit sex on page, PTSD; Quentin’s actions could be triggering to someone with eating disorders.

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Christmas Wolf Surprise, by Terry Spear

7 Oct
A handsome, fairly muscular white man with dark hair wearing a longsleeve thermal-type of shirt and jeans; in the background, a small town street with Christmas lights, falling  snow and pine trees, and a worlf walking down the street.

I am trying to do something about the ungodly number of digital ARCs in my TBR, and as this book releases next week, I decided to try a timely review.

Spoiler: it did not go well; I tried, but I gave up at 52%, after skimming the last chapter, to see if there was something there that would make it worth it to continue.

Reader, beware: the world building is not well thought out; there’s sex on the page; and the disregard for informed consent (on becoming a wolf shifter, not sex) is appalling.

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