Already Satisfied.

I love the overall feeling of this cover. It's like, satisfy you? No sweat at all baby!

Mommy, Baby, Daddy.

I'm a great big sucker for books with babies in them. Whether they're still in their mommy's belly or out of it, as long as they're still cute and are not teenagers yet, I love their presence. they make good romances.

And that's why I recently picked up A Mother's Touch from the libary, an collection of three classics by Linda Howard, Emilie Richards, & Sherryl Woods. Lovely book. ☺

Praise for Personal Assets

I just finished Emma Holly's Personal Assets, and no, I'm still not into the man-man, woman-woman thing. It's hot, it's erotic, but it does have sweet moments in it too:

"I love you," he said, searching her face as if he meant to imprint her image in his brain. "Remember I love you."

Aw shucks. This is my absolute favourite line in the book. And another thing worth mentioning is that Simon's dad is really a wonderful person.

"My dad always says..."

I love all those parts describing the relationship between Simon and his dad (foster dad actually), especially about how he was a hero to Simon, "rescuing" him from the orphanage when he was five.

And let's not forget Simon's sweet mom too. Kudos to her for calling her son darling, and taking to scrubbing the floor of her home by herself instead of hiring a maid to do it.

Tempting

I got Susan Johnson's Tempting recently at a mini book bonanza at less than a third of the price sold at Bookstores. The version I got is the green paperpack one:

I've already read the book: I saw the trade paperback version (the pretty pink one) on the shelves at the library one day last year, and made a big leap for it. I enjoyed Tempting enough to want to buy it, but I want the trade paperback version, pretty pink and big text and all, but it's nowhere to be found for sale.

Here's a heart-breaking moment from the book:

When the winter wind struck them, she shivered in his arms.

He broke into a run.

Max was carrying Christina in his arms as she was in a weak form (poisoned by evil husband), and thus Max was really desperate to get her to a doctor fast. In the end, she became well again, gotten rid of evil husband, and got married again. To Max of course.

Happy ending always.

"Uh, Ms. Bartholomew?"

I can never stop cracking up at this:

Romance Editor's Pick at Kensington Books

Oh no, I'm not poking fun at Kensington again.

And erm, just a warning before I start:

Not for those who are taking a hiatus from reading new books.

I just clicked on the Romance Editor's Pick at Kensington's homepage and was taken to the page on this book: The Naked Earl by Sally Mackenzie.

I already fell in love with the book just after reading the description on that page. Visiting the author's website had me reading the excerpts here & here, which resulted in making this book a must-try for me.

When a naked earl climbs through the window into her bedchamber, Lady Elizabeth Runyon does the proper thing: She screams.

Robert Hamilton, Earl of Westbrooke, has no intention of being tricked into marriage by a detestable female, and if he has to flee naked across a rooftop, he will.

Sally Mackenzie has also written two more books of the Naked kind: The Naked Duke and The Naked Marquis.

How cute. I would love a Naked Knight in Shining Amour though.

Sun, Sand ("," or "and") Sex?

Aha!

I found something questionable on the Kensington website.

Sun, Sand, Sex is the title on the cover of this definately-a-must-buy June '07 Brava release (by Linda Lael Miller, Jennifer Apodaca, and Shelly Laurenston. Please see supporting image as of below:

But wait! On this kensington page, the title is indicated as Sun, Sand And Sex above the ISBN. (Note that the comma after Sand is replace by an And.) Evidence as below :

Yes, I have nothing better to do at this darn moment.

Updated: I just realised that Jennifer Apodaca's name is spelt wrongly too! Shame!

All Fired Up.

I had fun reading All Fired Up by P.J. Mellor. It's funny at times, and those accidents that happened with Tricia are really outrageous. The candle fire, dumpster incident, and if it's me, I'll never have the courage to show my face ever again.

The short marriage proposal scene was kinda cute. I thought Nick is pretty brave and romantic to have done the climbing-the-ladder-to-the-her-window-to-propose thing, complete with tux, flowers and the ring. Even though Tricia's answer was a hell, no coupled with window-slamming on Nick's fingers, it makes a great prelude to make-up sex later anyway.

And even another embarrassing situation proceeded the make-up sex. How many crazy situations can you squeeze into a novella? It's entertaining for me.

My Personal Assets.

I got a new book: Emma Holly's Personal Assets. And off it goes into my TBR.

I love the hot pink back cover. Read the excerpt here, it's very hot. It's Emma Holly by the way. Really, really, not your typical romance book.