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About Mikki Blu

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I read to escape and to be entertained for awhile. My main choice is historical mysteries, with a side of supernatural. I don't want any part of dystopian books, or depressing reality tales - there is quite enough of that in the news these days! I'm a social media failure - I don't tweet, Instagram, Tumblr or Facebook - who has the time when there's books to read?

Mikki Blu's Reviews:

A Reluctant Inappropriate Earl

March 3, 2017 by Mikki Blu 4 Comments

Warning: Contains hot m/m sex between a deeply inappropriate earl and a very confused magician, dark plots in a magical version of Victorian England, family values (not the good kind), and a lot of swearing. This was such a magical, steamy, witty, entertaining read!  Having read a couple M/M historical romance by Cat Sebastian, I was prompted by Ellepkay to check out Ms Charles books.  Thanks for that recommendation – I wasn’t disappointed!  This first book in the series had me hooked pretty much from […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Suspense Tagged With: A Charm of Magpies, cbr9, KJ Charles, LGBTQ, m/m romance, magic, mystery

Mikki Blu's CBR9 Review No:18 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Suspense · Tags: A Charm of Magpies, cbr9, KJ Charles, LGBTQ, m/m romance, magic, mystery ·
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Once Bitten, Twice Shy

March 1, 2017 by Mikki Blu Leave a Comment

Once again, into the fray with Merit and the rest of the vamps in Chicago.  In this book, she is settling more into the role of Sentinel at Cadogen House, and still fighting an attraction to Ethan Sullivan, leader of the house and the vampire who made her.  She’s also on the outs with Mallory, her BFF, but she is trying hard to fit in with the rest of vamps and improve on her fighting skills. In this book, the shifters and their leader are […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: cbr9, Chicagoland Vampires #3, Chloe Neill, fantasy, vampires

Mikki Blu's CBR9 Review No:17 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Suspense · Tags: cbr9, Chicagoland Vampires #3, Chloe Neill, fantasy, vampires ·
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The Madness of Lord Radnor

February 23, 2017 by Mikki Blu 1 Comment

I’ve been looking forward to this book since I finished the first one by Cat Sebastian, The Soldier’s Scoundrel, which I reviewed here earlier.  This book is about Georgie Turner, the younger brother to Jack Turner in the first book.  Georgie is a thief, born and bred on the streets of London.  He has no misconception of what he is and where his desires lay.  His only code of conduct is not to take advantage of anyone who is naive and that is what gets […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Cat Sebastian, cbr9, LGBTQ, M/M historical romance, Regency Romance

Mikki Blu's CBR9 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Cat Sebastian, cbr9, LGBTQ, M/M historical romance, Regency Romance ·
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On the Road Again

February 21, 2017 by Mikki Blu Leave a Comment

This is the third book in the The Cabot Sisters series, detailing the sad story of Prudence Cabot.  She is the good girl of the family and for her efforts, she feels that has been set firmly on the shelf thanks to the actions of her two older sisters Honor and Grace.  They both took scandalous steps to secure husbands, and are not settled into wedded respectable bliss.  Her younger sister, Mercy, is still in school and is not interested in marriage.  They seem to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: cbr9, historical romance, Julia London, The Cabot SIsters #3

Mikki Blu's CBR9 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: cbr9, historical romance, Julia London, The Cabot SIsters #3 ·
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Bite Me

February 20, 2017 by Mikki Blu Leave a Comment

So my reading choices this year seem to be all over the place – my usual genre is historical romance and I haven’t read as many of those so far.  My latest book took me back to the vampire world, a genre I’d read extensively a few years ago.  This is the second book in the Chicagoland Vampires and features a young woman newly turned vampire in Chicago, where vampires and shape shifters are out in the open.  I haven’t read the first one, but […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: cbr9, Chicagoland Vampires #2, Chloe Neill, fantasy, vampires

Mikki Blu's CBR9 Review No:14 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: cbr9, Chicagoland Vampires #2, Chloe Neill, fantasy, vampires ·
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A Film Noir State of Mind

February 15, 2017 by Mikki Blu 2 Comments

As per the book blurb:  When Clara Bishop, a struggling screenwriter-turned-tabloid journalist in Hollywood, is jilted by her philandering husband, she follows him to London, determined to win him back. Armed with only a glamorous wardrobe of vintage clothing inherited from her grandmother, a former film noir actress, Clara discovers that the clothes really do make the woman. Dressed to kill, she adopts a new femme fatale persona: confident, sexy and set on revenge.  This was a different sort of book that required a suspension […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Suspense Tagged With: cbr9, chick lit, kim izzo, time travel

Mikki Blu's CBR9 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Suspense · Tags: cbr9, chick lit, kim izzo, time travel ·
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