Category: Reviews

Review: Skin Game – Jim Butcher

Review: Skin Game – Jim Butcher

Skin Game is an amazing installment in the Dresden Files series! Harry has several epiphanies thanks to his friends, and there are lots of bad guys to fight, while protecting the innocent. My Skin Game review: Jim Butcher has outdone himself with Skin Game! To read the 15th book in a series and think ‘yes, this one is my favorite!’ is nothing short of amazing. Harry has come a long, long way, and the fact that he’s been all alone on the strange island in Lake Michigan with Demonreach has made him feel a little out of touch both with himself and with his friends. Who can he trust? Who should he stay away from? And how come his head […]

Posted 17 November, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 27 Comments
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Review: Block – J.A. Huss

Review: Block – J.A. Huss

Block has everything a contemporary romance should have, there’s some mystery, lots of hotness, a character who has a well hidden secret and a movie star who falls in love for the first time. My Block review: Well, so far, for each new book in the Social Media series, Ms. Huss has been able to up the ante and get me more and more involved with the characters. Block brings a lot more to Grace especially. It is so easy to understand both her obsession with Vaughn, and her confusion because he seems to be just as obsessed with her. Also, the things about Vaughn that bothered me a little in Follow are all forgotten now. He has shown me […]

Posted 14 November, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 9 Comments
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Review: What a Lady Demands – Ashlyn MacNamara

Review: What a Lady Demands – Ashlyn MacNamara

What a Lady Demands is an amazing Historical Romance story, because Cecelia Standford is such an unconventional heroine – and that makes everything that happens even better. My What a Lady Demands review: If you are familiar with my blog, you know that I love reading Historical Romances, but that I kind of loathe reading about virgins… Kind of like an oxymoron, right? Apart from the fact that What a Lady Demands fulfilled my desires – beautiful historical romance story, with a very strong heroine, who is scandalously not a virgin. She’s twenty-three years old, and she knows her way around a male body for sure. Of course, just the fact that the heroine isn’t a virgin isn’t enough for […]

Posted 13 November, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 17 Comments
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Review: The Cowboy Earns a Bride – Cora Seton

Review: The Cowboy Earns a Bride – Cora Seton

Both Mia and Luke were acting like spoiled children for a while, but when Mia found her backbone, and Luke understood that she should be his partner and not his princess, The Cowboy Earns a Bride became pretty good! My The Cowboy Earns a Bride review: I think that maybe I’ve outgrown The Cowboys of Chance Creek series, because I haven’t been as enchanted with the last two books as I was with the first ones. The Cowboy Earns a Bride felt a little formulaic to me, and I got a little fed-up with the unnecessary drama that surrounded Mia and Luke. The setting is still good, and the friends surrounding the main couple should have made me feel happy […]

Posted 12 November, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 4 Comments
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Review: Tall, Dark and Royal – Vanessa Kelly

Review: Tall, Dark and Royal – Vanessa Kelly

Tall, Dark and Royal has mystery, chemistry and a very strong female character to make things interesting. My Tall, Dark and Royal review: Chloe and Dominic aren’t your usual HR characters, both because Chloe has pretended to be dead for a long time, and because they’re both older than the part of the ton who is out to get married and start a family. This certainly made Tall, Dark and Royal a very interesting read. Chloe is a very strong-minded woman, she has been on her own since she was fifteen, after her illegitimate son was taken from her, and she found work with an older woman. Helping other young women who found themselves pregnant but not married became Chloe’s […]

Posted 11 November, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 13 Comments
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Review: Play Me: Wild – Tracy Wolff

Review: Play Me: Wild – Tracy Wolff

Play me Wild is the first installment in a hot serial about Cole and Aria, and I really enjoyed how Aria was willing to stand up for what was right, even at the cost of her job! My Play Me Wild review: Aria was trying everything she could to stay in control of her life, and it was easy to see that something has happened to her in the past to make her crave solitude and control right now. When a customer at the casino where she works starts to harass a customer, and neither the security guard, nor the dealer are willing to help, Aria steps up. And ends up losing her job. Play Me Wild showed me right […]

Posted 10 November, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 10 Comments
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Review: Burying Water – K.A. Tucker

Review: Burying Water – K.A. Tucker

Burying Water is filled with angst, with no memory of who she is, Alex ends up living next door to a guy she feels very connected to but she has no idea why. My Burying Water review: Burying water is well written, and because it’s in dual points of views, the readers actually know much more about Alex than she knows herself. Also, it’s written in present tense, so the story really unfolds at the same time the reader is reading it. Jesse is doing his best to keep her distance from her, but he also wants to make sure she’s getting better, and he really wants to be there if and when she recovers her memory. The sense of […]

Posted 6 November, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 20 Comments
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Review: The Viscount’s Christmas Temptation – Erica Ridley

Review: The Viscount’s Christmas Temptation – Erica Ridley

The Viscount’s Christmas Temptation is the perfect ‘hors d’oeuvre’ to Ridley’s new series: fun characters, unlikely situations, a Christmas ball and romance are all neatly packed into this little story. My The Viscount’s Christmas Temptation review: Lady Amelia is an organizer, she plans for everything, even the unexpected. When she decides to help Lord Benedict to host his annual Christmas Ball, she does not take no for an answer, and she knows exactly which angle to play to make sure things happen the way she want them to. There is one little thing she hasn’t planned for though, and that’s falling in love with her co-host. The Viscount’s Temptation is a light-hearted historical holiday romance, and I enjoyed every word […]

Posted 5 November, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 12 Comments
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Review: Her Holiday Man – Shannon Stacey

Review: Her Holiday Man – Shannon Stacey

Her Holiday Man is a bittersweet holiday romance, where the two main characters are both holding back for fear of being hurt once more. My Her Holiday Man review: When Will decided to move back home, he hadn’t thought for one second he would have to share his newly widowed mother with the beautiful woman living across the street as well as her son. At first, he was extremely suspicious of Christina, was she trying to take advantage of his mom in any way? Or was she just a lonely woman having found a friend? It didn’t take long before Will was looking forward to seeing both Nathaniel and Christina, though. But he was not at all ready to open […]

Posted 4 November, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 12 Comments
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Review: Lord Wastrel – Donna Cummings

Review: Lord Wastrel – Donna Cummings

*I received a free ARC of Lord Wastrel from Donna Cummings in exchange of an honest and unbiased review* Filled with Cummings’ trademark humor, her penchant for naughty heroines and converted rakes, Lord Wastrel hit exactly the right spot! My Lord Wastrel review: Delightful, humorous, filled with stubborn characters and a Goddess of Love who needs to seek amends, Lord Wastrel appealed to me on all levels. Very well written, in third person past tense, I got to know Felicia and Hugh very well, and the supporting cast of characters was amazing as well. Cummings always manages to tickle my funny bone, she has such a way with words, it’s just impossible not to fall in love with her characters, […]

Posted 3 November, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 16 Comments
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