Review: Better Naughty Than Nice Anthology

Every year from Thanksgiving to New Year's Day it's my unofficial Anthology Season. I gorge myself on holiday stories -- Christmas, Hanukkah, whatever -- and most tend to come in anthology format. This year's Blaze Christmas anthology, Better Naughty Than Nice, by Vicki Lewis Thompson, Jill Shalvis, and Rhonda Nelson provided the most solid of the new anthologies I've read this year. None of the stories wowed me, but I found all three to be pretty enjoyable. Click here to read my full review at AAR. I also read this book as part of the 2009 Holiday Reading Challenge.

Disclosure: I purchased this book myself.

Review: Power Play by Nancy Warren

My review of Power Play by Nancy Warren is up today over at AAR. I really enjoyed Warren's take on the Accidentally Double-Booked Hotel Room plot, and her hero Jonah is just yummy. In her last couple of Blazes, her heroes have been more on the beta side, and I'm really liking it. Jonah has this laid-back confidence about him that's so much more sexy, IMHO, than the domineering alphas the genre is overripe with. Click here to read my full review.

Disclosure: I purchased this book myself.