Sins & Needles by Karina Halle

Rating: A        Romance: 3/5       Raunch: 3/5 Redonk Nutshell: Con-artist returns home & is forced to face her past Ellie Watt has been on the move since she was a child. Born to grifter parents, she learned young how to pull cons. She returns home after a job turned sour […]

Never Deal with Dragons by Lorenda Christensen

Rating: A     Romance: 3.5/5      Raunch: 3/5 Redonk Nutshell: Dragon speaker gets pulled into dragon politics while dealing with a former flame DRACIM agent Myrna Banks has spent the last year of her life cleaning up a cluster of a mess when her ex took off with documents relating to her work. When […]

The Duke Diaries by Sophia Nash

Rating: A Romance: 4/5     Raunch: 3/5 If there’s one thing I’ve learned, Rory, it’s this: everyone wants and needs love, whether they have the courage to admit it or not. Redonk Nutshell: A childhood crush comes to fruition after a forced engagement takes a turn A love a strong heroine who has no […]

Baby You’re a Firework

Halfway through 2013. Can I get a WHAAAAAT??!? Here are a few of the top rated books so far in 2013 that really lit our fires here at The Raunch Dilettante: New Fiction: Addicted, Charlotte Stein Erotica writer ventures outside herself in order to spice up her writing and meets a man who lights her […]

When She Was Wicked by Anne Barton

Rating: A Romance: 4/5              Raunch: 3.5/5 “Though it might seem strange, there’s something very right about you and me. Together. Do you feel it, too?” The sincerity, the vulnerability, in his voice touched her soul. But he was wrong about this. They did not belong together – not truly. They […]

Wounded by Jasinda Wilder

He does not just fill my body, my womanhood. He fills me. My heart, my soul. He fills the horrible emptiness that has gaped inside me all my life. The moment that he slide into me, I knew. It has just taken me this long to understand the strange feeling flowing in my veins in place of blood: happiness. […]

His At Night by Sherry Thomas

He wanted to give her some warning. “My story, it isn’t always happy.” “No story is, or it wouldn’t be a story; it’d be a paean.” Redonk Nutshell: Two people who fake their circumstances end up in a forced marriage There aren’t many authors I could trust to successfully pull off a plot like this […]

A Notorious Countess Confesses by Julie Anne Long

It occurred to her that she’d never seen a man who was so…contained. Yes: That was precisely the right word. As though something in him, some potential, REQUIRED control. And whatever it was, whatever HE was, pulled at her. The way earth pulled water into it. It felt stronger than she was, and her entire life […]

Breath of Magic by Teresa Medeiros

Redonk Nutshell: Jaded millionaire finds everything he hoped not to when he holds a challenge to the public to prove magic exists Tristan Lennox is a man with a hard shell. He’s had to perfect the art of detachment when he’s been plagued with disappointment his entire life. When he holds a contest challenging anyone […]

Deep Desires by Charlotte Stein

Redonk Nutshell: A strange, erotic courtship begins when a woman hiding behind anonymity catches her attractive neighbor in the throes of passion If the first few sentences of this book don’t catch your attention then I’d recommend you check for a pulse: I don’t mean to keep spying on him, as he strips out of […]

This Is What I Want by Megan Hart

She hadn’t done nintey percent of what she wrote about, but that didn’t matter. That was teh point of fantasy, after all. It didn’t have to be practical. She’d grown to think of Eris as almost a different person. Someone bolder. Someone worshipped. Loved. Redonk Nutshell: Woman channels inner vixen through an erotic blog and […]

The Siren by Tiffany Reisz

A love story is not the same as a romance novel. A romance novel is the story of two people falling in love against their will. This is a story of two people who leave each other against their will. It starts to end the minute they meet. Redonk Nutshell: Erotica author & Dom goes […]