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Book Review: Mourning Wood by Heather M. Ogreron

Mourning Wood by Heather M. Orgeron

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On March 04,21 | 0 Comment

Title: Mourning Wood
Author: Heather M. Orgeron
Genre: Romantic Comedy
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The clever name appeals. The book is pretty great, too, though.

Whitney and Wyatt have a past. It included a steamy tryst by a dumpster in an alley a couple of years ago. After a renovation at their funeral home goes sideways, and much to Whit’s unamusement, Wyatt is the solution her best friend has to her problems. Whit would rather die in a dumpster than see the sexy man again, but she can’t get rid of him when her dad signs a contract with him to do the work.

Did I mention how much the clever name appeals to me? It is perfect. Kudos, Heather M. Orgeron, you rock at this title thing.

I adored this story. While Whitney and Wyatt are plenty entertaining alone, Prissy, Whit’s daughter, steals the show. I consider this a Rom-Com solely due to Priss. The love story itself is sweet, sexy, steamy, and satisfying, but all the hilarity is because of the six-year-old goth-girl-in-the-making with a collection of glass eyeballs.

Adult Fiction, Book Reviews, Paranormal Romance, Reverse Harem, Shifter Romance

Book Review: Alpha Hell by G. Bailey and Scarlett Snow

Alpha Hell by G Bailey & Scarlett Snow

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On March 02,21 | 0 Comment

Title: Alpha Hell (The Rejected Mate #1)
Author: G. Bailey & Scarlett Snow
Genre: Reverse Harem, Paranormal Romance
My rating: 5 of 5 series

Alpha Hell is really damn good, so I didn’t do badly shopping by the cover.

When Lilith Thornblood’s life becomes quite the pickle, she escapes to the one place the man searching for her won’t look. His domain. The Stormfire Alpha’s territory is in Hell, and Lilith’s decision to hide in plain sight requires assistance.

Cue Caspian Hardling, part shifter, part fae–all babe with an attitude and a loathing for fools. His answer to her problem is the Demon Hunter Trials. And the rest is… well, the story; it’s the cash and prize if you will, so I won’t spoil you.

Adult Fiction, Book Reviews, Romantic Comedy

Book Review: Interception by Eva Haining

Interception by Eva Haining

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On February 25,21 | 0 Comment

Title: Interception (Hall of Fame #2)
Author: Eva Haining
Genre: Romantic Comedy
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It’s always sad when book two is less than book one. I looked forward to this one because Zee was such a significant character in Faith’s book that I figured Zee’s book would be monumental. But it fell short. Sadness.

Zoey Porter and Cooper Danford are flint and kindling; together, they make fire. The two are so steamy they mate like bunnies, and it’s not going against the odds that they find themselves in the family way.

Family way? What am I in the fifties? She’s up the duff. Zee’s knocked up, and Coop’s swimmers are champions.

Adult Fiction, Book Reviews, Paranormal Romance, Shifter Romance

Book Review: Shifter Claimed by Alexis Calder

Shifter Claimed by Alexis Calder

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On February 22,21 | 0 Comment

Title: Shifter Claimed (Royal Mates #1)
Author: Alexis Calder
Genre: Paranormal Romance
My rating: 2.5 of 5 stars

Perfunctory.

That is the word that kept coming to mind while reading Shifter Claimed. There wasn’t an abundance of profundity in the story to fall into it, which is just a shame. I felt like there was a single note I was following, but there was so much left to see of the story that was kept from me. Shifter Claimed didn’t feel to me like it was ready to be published yet.

Skylar is a hunter with the guild. She is a mercenary that brings in lawbreakers that the enforcers don’t have time to look for and seize. She’s Buffy-esque but without the oneliners, part wolf, part human–all badass. She’s trying to do her job when she runs into Elias. A being that, clearly, is more than who he says he is and unwilling to admit to anything.

Adult Fiction, Book Reviews, Reverse Harem, Shifter Romance, Supernatural Fiction

Book Review: Her Wolves by G. Bailey

Her Wolves by G Bailey

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On February 19,21 | 0 Comment

Title: Her Wolves (Fall Mountain Shifters #1)
Author: G. Bailey
Genre: Paranormal Romance, Shifter Romance, Reverse Harem
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Oh, I had such a hard time with the heroine’s first name. I mean Mairin would not sound nice in my mind no matter how many times or how many accents I said it in, and in the end, I was okay with all the pet names given to her. Mai? Irin? Both better than put together.

Mairin Perdita is a foster wolf in her pack. The Ravensword Pack is a crap factory of tools except for a handful of wolves, and upon her mate reveal ceremony, she finds that it can only worsen. Soon she is forsaken by her true mate and sent to her death.

Good for you, Mairin, the Alpha is a right tosser, and he should have been given a whingy wolf for a mate. You were done well by the sea! Which delivers her to the Fall Mountain Pack. Into the hands of their four Alphas: Henderson, Silas, Ragnar, and Valentine.

Adult Fiction, Book Reviews, Friends to Lovers Romance, Sports Romance

Book Review: Not My Match by Ilsa Madden-Mills

Not My Match by Ilsa Madden Mills

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On February 09,21 | 0 Comment

Title: Not My Match (The Game Changers #2)
Author: Ilsa Madden-Mills
Genre: Sports Romance
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Oh, I’m such a big fan! IMM! Hearts and doodles. Who does Sports Romance Better?

And let me preface this with the disclaimer there are barely any sports in this–Not My Match is an Ode to Nerd-dom and Physics. I’m talking the Multiverse, anti-matter, CERN, String Theory, purple aliens with sexy tails–wait, she took the tail out–we are saying yes to STEM! And hello, to women in STEM. My kinda book. And Giselle Riley is my book girlfriend!

Devon Walsh, #89, has a crush. Man, is he bad hiding it. Just about anyone looking at him grinding his teeth while other men talk to Giselle can see it written in blood. But nope, Giselle isn’t his type. Too innocent. Too good. Too smart. Too in need of him to help her find the perfect match for her because she can do better than anyone she’s picking out for herself.

Adult Fiction, Book Reviews, Dark Romance, Reverse Harem

Book Review: Saint by Ruby Vincent

Saint by Ruby Vincent

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On February 07,21 | 0 Comment

Title: Saint (Saint and Sinners #1)
Author: Ruby Vincent
Genre: Dark Romance, Reverse Harem
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

First, let me say that my favorite book is Alice in Wonderland. Why does that matter? Because Sinjin Bellisario reminded me of the Mad Hatter and the Tea Party put together. The man is brilliant chaos, and I could eat him up.

Ruby Vincent’s Saint is a bit different from her academy books in that she’s taken a dark path, and I like it. Adeline Redgrave is a struggling chef trying to make it in a crap situation. She can barely make rent, much less pay for the care for her father. When she sees something she shouldn’t, it puts a crinkle in her life that she truly can’t afford.

Cinco City lives and breathes on the sin that feeds and fuels it. The Merchants are another gang who are making a stamp on the underworld until a Bunny witnesses them making a hit. But their leader is sheer wonky unpredictability, and he decides that she can live, but the caveat is she’s theirs.

Book Reviews, Paranormal Romance, Reverse Harem, Shifter Romance

Book Review: Seduction by Elle Lincoln

Seduction by Elle Lincoln

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On February 05,21 | 0 Comment

Title: Seduction (Fated Souls #3)
Author: Elle Lincoln
Genre: Paranormal, Shifter Romance, Reverse Harem
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

OH, Goodness, woman, you kill me with these cliffhangers. YOU SLAY ME WITH THEM!

I don’t even know where to start. I can’t. My mind is blown.

Sabina’s very naughty mate, Kade, destroyed Shadow at the end of Submission, and now is the Alpha of Shadow pack meaning, he’s split Bean’s sub-pack. Bean starts this book fed up with all of them and needs some time with the women in her life. She tells the boys to figure out their sugar and has Artemis spirit her away to her cousins and Nessa. Thus we begin Seduction. A book in which snack foods are seriously threatened.

Book Reviews, Omegaverse, Paranormal Romance, Sci-fi Fiction, Sci-fi Romance, Shifter Romance

Audiobook Review: X-Clan: The Experiment by Lexi C. Foss

X-Clan Experiment by Lexi C. Foss

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On February 03,21 | 0 Comment

Title: X-Clan: The Experiment
Author: Lexi C. Foss
Performers: Kale Williams & Sarah Puckett
Genre: Sci-Fi, Paranormal, Romance, Omegaverse
Rating: 5 of 5 stars

Elias, who was voted “Wolf Most Likely to be Sexed-up by Readers,” is the novella’s hero, X-Clan: The Experiment. He gets Daciana, an Ash Wolf omega from the Shadowlands. I’m so very excited because Kale Willams and Sarah Puckett get to read these parts, and the two are so damn good at it that there were times I fell into the story.

The Andorra Sector hasn’t been able to produce its omegas for decades, and because of this, their entire society is endangered. But there is hope for the future if the Ash Wolves are compatible. So the Alpha of the X-Clan and Elias’ best friend Ander Cain have arranged a trade, the experiment. Elias gets Daciana, and if she proves to be compatible, then they will mate.

Kale Williams sounds filthy reading Elias’s parts. It’s compelling, and even though his reading voice is sometimes delivered without a ton of inflection, it sounds even dirtier for it. Sarah Puckett is an excellent counter in Daciana’s voice.

Adult Fiction, Adventure, Book Reviews, Sci-fi Fiction, Sci-fi Romance

Book Review: The Segonian by Dianne Duvall

The Segonian by Dianne Duvall

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On January 30,21 | 0 Comment

Title: The Segonian (Aldebarian Alliance #2)
Author: Dianne Duvall
Genre: Sci-Fi Romance
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Can you go wrong with a Dianne Duvall novel? In my experience, it hasn’t happened yet.

The second book in the Aldebarian Alliance series, The Segonian, picks at the point in The Lasaran where they are attacked. And don’t worry, no tension is lost in the continuity. Dianne Duvall quickly gets our hearts pumping. Our girl Eliana is stranded in space with a few hours’ worths of oxygen while her rescue, the Ranasura, is weeks away. Commander Dagon and his crew quickly are falling for the charm of Eliana as they check in with her, sadly knowing that there is no chance they will arrive in time.

Thank Gathendians for the one positive thing they did was create the virus released on Earth that makes Eliana an Immortal Guardian. The only reason she could survive the weeks in deep space.

‘Hi, I’m Eliana, thank you for saving me.’ – Eliana