2012 RT Book Reviews (Awarded by RT BookReviews Magazine)

Awards List

Top Pick

Accidentally in Love With...A God?
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Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

Beneath the Surface
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Joya Fields

Colorado Dawn
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Kaki Warner

The Confession
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Charles Todd

Copper Beach
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Jayne Ann Krentz

Dark Victory
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Michele Lang

Darker After Midnight
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Lara Adrian

Deadly Obsession
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Kristine Cayne

The Eyes of the Desert Sand
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Edwin Wolfe

A Field Of Poppies
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Sharon Sala

First Date
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Krista McGee

Fortune's Cinderella
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Karen Templeton

Gideon's Corpse
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Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child

The House at Sea's End
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Elly Griffiths

King of the Isles
(*)
Debbie Mazzuca

A Lady Never Surrenders
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Sabrina Jeffries

Lothaire
(*)
Kresley Cole

Nameless
(*)
Kyle Chais

Passion and the Prince
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Penny Jordan

The Pleasure of Your Kiss
(*)
Teresa Medeiros

Promise Me This
(*)
Cathy Gohlke

The Queen of Kentucky
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Alecia Whitaker

Seven Princes
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John R. Fultz

Shadow Heir
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Richelle Mead

Silver-Tongued Devil
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Jaye Wells

Sudden Insight
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Rebecca York

Tempest
(*)
Julie Cross

A Walk Across the Sun
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Corban Addison

And She Was
(*)
Alison Gaylin

Available Dark
(*)
Elizabeth Hand

Beyond Molasses Creek
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Nicole Seitz

Catch Me
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Lisa Gardner

Daring to Date the Boss
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Barbara Wallace

Darkest Highlander
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Donna Grant

The Duchess Diaries
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Jillian Hunter

Firelight
(*)
Kristen Callihan

Last Man Standing
(*)
Cindy Gerard

Legacy of Fools
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Missy Horsfall; Susan Stevens

The Lord of Illusion
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Kathryne Kennedy

The Lost Daughter
(*)
Lucy Ferriss

My Wicked Little Lies
(*)
Victoria Alexander

Oath of Office
(*)
Michael Palmer

Princess from the Past
(*)
Caitlin Crews

The Revenge of Lord Eberlin
(*)
Julia London

A Scandalous Countess
(*)
Jo Beverley

Secrets of the Lost Summer
(*)
Carla Neggers

Something About Witches
(*)
Joey W. Hill

Spin
(*)
Catherine McKenzie

To Kiss a King
(*)
Maureen Child

Undone Deeds
(*)
Mark Del Franco

The Wings of Morning
(*)
Murray Pura

Afterglow
(*)
Cherry Adair

Allegiance
(*)
Cayla Kluver

Between the Duke and the Deep Blue Sea
(*)
Sophia Nash

The Book of Lost Fragrances
(*)
M.J. Rose

By a Thread
(*)
Jennifer Estep

Colorado Fireman
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C.C. Coburn

Deception
(*)
Naomi Chase

Embrace
(*)
Jessica Shirvington

Fair Game
(*)
Patricia Briggs

Infamous
(*)
Sherrilyn Kenyon

The Isis Collar
(*)
Cat Adams

The Key on the Quilt
(*)
Stephanie Grace Whitson

Loss
(*)
Jackie Morse Kessler

The Needle in the Blood
(*)
Sarah Bower

Oracle's Moon
(*)
Thea Harrison

Pandemonium
(*)
Lauren Oliver

Rainshadow Road
(*)
Lisa Kleypas

A Rogue by Any Other Name
(*)
Sarah MacLean

The Sanctuary
(*)
Ted Dekker

Spellbound Falls
(*)
Janet Chapman

Stand by Me
(*)
Neta Jackson

Strangers in the Desert
(*)
Lynn Raye Harris

The Surrender of Miss Fairbourne
(*)
Madeline Hunter

True Highland Spirit
(*)
Amanda Forester

When Maidens Mourn
(*)
C.S. Harris

172 Hours on the Moon
(*)
Johan Harstad

About That Night
(*)
Julie James

Alien Diplomacy
(*)
Gini Koch

At Your Pleasure
(*)
Meredith Duran

Betrayal
(*)
Christina Dodd

Crystal Gardens
(*)
Amanda Quick

A Deeper Darkness
(*)
J.T. Ellison

The Discovery
(*)
Dan Walsh

The Duke's Perfect Wife
(*)
Jennifer Ashley

Ghost Flower
(*)
Michele Jaffe

Glamour in Glass
(*)
Mary Robinette Kowal

Grace
(*)
T. Greenwood

Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach
(*)
Colin Cotterill

Harvest of Rubies
(*)
Tessa Afshar

Highland Lover
(*)
Amanda Scott

Hunter's Rise
(*)
Shiloh Walker

Immobility
(*)
Brian Evenson

An Indecent Proposition
(*)
Carol Marinelli

A Land More Kind Than Home
(*)
Wiley Cash

Lessons After Dark
(*)
Isabel Cooper

Lover Reborn
(*)
J.R. Ward

The Man Who Risked It All
(*)
Michelle Reid

Range of Ghosts
(*)
Elizabeth Bear

The Saint
(*)
Monica McCarty

The Seduction of Phaeton Black
(*)
Jillian Stone

Silenced
(*)
Allison Brennan

The Slayer
(*)
Theresa Meyers

Summoning the Night
(*)
Jenn Bennett

Taming an Impossible Rogue
(*)
Suzanne Enoch

The Thirteenth Sacrifice
(*)
Debbie Viguie

Thunder and Rain
(*)
Charles Martin

Ties That Bind
(*)
Marie Bostwick

Twisted
(*)
Laura Griffin

Unraveling
(*)
Elizabeth Norris

Viral
(*)
James Lilliefors

The Wedding Dress
(*)
Rachel Hauck

A Week to Be Wicked
(*)
Tessa Dare

What Doesn't Kill You
(*)
Iris Johansen

What Lies Beneath
(*)
Andrea Laurence

White Horse
(*)
Alex Adams

The Witness
(*)
Nora Roberts

Beauty to Die For
(*)
Kim Alexis; Mindy Starns Clark

Beguiling the Beauty
(*)
Sherry Thomas

Bitterblue
(*)
Kristin Cashore

Blue-Blooded Vamp
(*)
Jaye Wells

Born of Silence
(*)
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Conquered by a Highlander
(*)
Paula Quinn

Courtesan's Lover
(*)
Gabrielle Kimm

A Dark Anatomy
(*)
Robin Blake

A Deal at the Altar
(*)
Lynne Graham

Destined
(*)
Aprilynne Pike

Garden of Madness
(*)
T.L. Higley / Tracy L. Higley

Heart of Brass
(*)
Kate Cross

If You Were Mine
(*)
Bella Andre

In the Company of Witches
(*)
Joey W. Hill

Insurgent
(*)
Veronica Roth

The Lucky Dog Matchmaking Service
(*)
Beth Kendrick

The Maverick Returns
(*)
Roz Denny Fox

No Longer a Gentleman
(*)
Mary Jo Putney

The Proposal
(*)
Mary Balogh

The Reckoning
(*)
Jane Casey

Silence
(*)
Michelle Sagara

A Sister's Forgiveness
(*)
Anna Schmidt

The Solitary House
(*)
Lynn Shepherd

Strindberg's Star
(*)
Jan Wallentin

The Taming of a Scottish Princess
(*)
Karen Hawkins

Under Fire
(*)
Catherine Mann

When She Wasn't Looking
(*)
Helenkay Dimon

The Whole Lie
(*)
Steve Ulfelder

The Witch Thief
(*)
Lori Devoti

Against the Sun
(*)
Kat Martin

All Spell Breaks Loose
(*)
Lisa Shearin

Along Came a Duke
(*)
Elizabeth Boyle

Beautiful Sacrifice
(*)
Elizabeth Lowell

The Book of Summers
(*)
Emylia Hall

Charmed by His Love
(*)
Janet Chapman

Cop to Corpse
(*)
Peter Lovesey

Dead Scared
(*)
S.J. Bolton

Dreamless
(*)
Josephine Angelini

Escape with a Rogue
(*)
Sharon Page

Eyewitness
(*)
Carol Ericson

Fated
(*)
Alyson Noel

The Forbidden Ferrara
(*)
Sarah Morgan

Glamorous Illusions
(*)
Lisa Tawn Bergren

Gone Girl
(*)
Gillian Flynn

The Good Daughter
(*)
Diana Layne

Hot for Fireman
(*)
Jennifer Bernard

Impossible to Resist
(*)
Janice Maynard

The Last Kind Words
(*)
Tom Piccirilli

Let Love Find You
(*)
Johanna Lindsey

Live and Let Drood
(*)
Simon R. Green

A Midsummer's Nightmare
(*)
Kody Keplinger

No One Left to Tell
(*)
Karen Rose

Not Fit for a King?
(*)
Jane Porter

One Good Friend Deserves Another
(*)
Lisa Verge Higgins

Rebel
(*)
Linda Windsor

The Reckoning
(*)
Alma Katsu

Redshirts
(*)
John Scalzi

The Replacement Wife
(*)
Caitlin Crews

Rescue Me
(*)
Rachel Gibson

The Risk Agent
(*)
Ridley Pearson

Rodeo Daughter
(*)
Leigh Duncan

The Shadowed Sun
(*)
N.K. Jemisin

Shadow and Bone
(*)
Leigh Bardugo

Soul Bound
(*)
Anne Hope

Superstition
(*)
Tori Scott

The Taken
(*)
Vicki Pettersson

Tangle of Need
(*)
Nalini Singh

This Is Not a Test
(*)
Courtney Summers

Waiting for Sunrise
(*)
Eva Marie Everson

Wife 22
(*)
Melanie Gideon

Wolf Hills
(*)
Bianca D'Arc

The Yard
(*)
Alex Grecian

Abducted
(*)
T.R. Ragan

The Apocalypse Codex
(*)
Charles Stross

A Baby on the Ranch
(*)
Marie Ferrarella

Can't Buy Me Love
(*)
Molly O'Keefe

City of the Dead
(*)
Daniel Blake

Close Your Eyes
(*)
Iris Johansen; Roy Johansen

Colby Roundup
(*)
Debra Webb

The Coldest War
(*)
Ian Tregillis

Criminal
(*)
Karin Slaughter

The Dark Knight
(*)
Elizabeth Elliott

The English Heiress
(*)
Patricia Rice

Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues
(*)
Diana Rowland

Forever a Lady
(*)
Delilah Marvelle

The Great Escape
(*)
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

A Man of Privilege
(*)
Sarah M. Anderson

Once Burned
(*)
Jeaniene Frost

Perfect Is Overrated
(*)
Karen Bergreen

Ravishing the Heiress
(*)
Sherry Thomas

Samurai Game
(*)
Christine Feehan

Scandal Wears Satin
(*)
Loretta Chase

A Scandalous Scot
(*)
Karen Ranney

The Secret She Kept
(*)
ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Sharps
(*)
K.J. Parker

The Siren
(*)
Tiffany Reisz

The Sleeping and the Dead
(*)
Jeff Crook

Sorry Please Thank You: Stories
(*)
Charles Yu

Starlight
(*)
Carrie Lofty

Strong Vengeance
(*)
Jon Land

Tarnished
(*)
Karina Cooper

Tempest's Fury
(*)
Nicole Peeler

The Theory of Attraction
(*)
Delphine Dryden
in The Theory of Attraction

Thief of Shadows
(*)
Elizabeth Hoyt

Thirteen
(*)
Kelley Armstrong

Tin Swift
(*)
Devon Monk

Touch
(*)
Jus Accardo

Veil of Pearls
(*)
M.L. Tyndall / MaryLu Tyndall

What You Wish For
(*)
Kerry Reichs

Almost a Scandal
(*)
Elizabeth Essex

The Amish Bride
(*)
Mindy Starns Clark; Leslie Gould

Avenging Angel
(*)
Anne Marie Becker

The Caller
(*)
Karin Fossum

The Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires
(*)
Molly Harper

Chasing the Wind
(*)
Pamela Binnings Ewen

Deserving of His Diamonds?
(*)
Melanie Milburne

Double Down
(*)
Katie Porter

Forever and a Day
(*)
Jill Shalvis

Gage
(*)
Delores Fossen

Gunmetal Magic
(*)
Ilona Andrews

King of Thorns
(*)
Mark Lawrence

A Lady Never Lies
(*)
Juliana Gray

Moonglow
(*)
Kristen Callihan

Naked Games
(*)
Anne Rainey

Not My Blood
(*)
Barbara Cleverly

Off the Grid
(*)
P.J. Tracy

Onyx
(*)
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Pretty Boy Problems
(*)
Michele Grant

Pushing the Limits
(*)
Katie McGarry

The Raft
(*)
S.A. Bodeen

Shadows Before the Sun
(*)
Kelly Gay

The Sweetness of Forgetting
(*)
Kristin Harmel

Temptation's Edge
(*)
Eve Berlin

The Things I Do for You
(*)
Mary Carter

Throne of Glass
(*)
Sarah J. Maas

Time Untime
(*)
Sherrilyn Kenyon

The Warrior Laird
(*)
Margo Maguire

Whispers Under Ground
(*)
Ben Aaronovitch

Widow's Web
(*)
Jennifer Estep

Angels Landing
(*)
Rochelle Alers

The Angel
(*)
Tiffany Reisz

Archangel's Storm
(*)
Nalini Singh

The Beautiful Mystery
(*)
Louise Penny

Becoming Clementine
(*)
Jennifer Niven

Carnival of Souls
(*)
Melissa Marr

Cast in Peril
(*)
Michelle Sagara

The Christmas Pony
(*)
Melody Carlson

Dearly, Beloved
(*)
Lia Habel

Delusion in Death
(*)
J.D. Robb

Desire the Night
(*)
Amanda Ashley

The Diviners
(*)
Libba Bray

Don't Cry for Me
(*)
Sharon Sala

Duke: Deputy Cowboy
(*)
Roz Denny Fox

Endgame
(*)
Ann Aguirre

Five Days Grace
(*)
Teresa Hill

The Incense Game
(*)
Laura Joh Rowland

Inside Bet
(*)
Katie Porter

The Kingmakers
(*)
Clay Griffith; Susan Griffith

A Lady by Midnight
(*)
Tessa Dare

Last to Die
(*)
Tess Gerritsen

Let Me Be The One
(*)
Bella Andre

Lord of Temptation
(*)
Lorraine Heath

The Lost Night
(*)
Jayne Castle

Loving Lady Marcia
(*)
Kieran Kramer

Mark of the Witch
(*)
Maggie Shayne

Mason
(*)
Delores Fossen

Opening Moves
(*)
Steven James

The Other Woman
(*)
Hank Phillippi Ryan

Outpost
(*)
Ann Aguirre

A Plain and Simple Heart
(*)
Lori Copeland; Virginia Smith

Playing to Win
(*)
Jaci Burton

The Raven Boys
(*)
Maggie Stiefvater

Red Hot
(*)
Niobia Bryant

Return of the Last McKenna
(*)
Shirley Jump

The Reunion
(*)
Dan Walsh

Riveted
(*)
Meljean Brook

Rules to Catch a Devilish Duke
(*)
Suzanne Enoch

The Shadow on the Quilt
(*)
Stephanie Grace Whitson

The Sheikh's Claim
(*)
Olivia Gates

Something Witchy This Way Comes
(*)
H.P. Mallory

Stranger in the Moonlight
(*)
Jude Deveraux

A Sunless Sea
(*)
Anne Perry

Ten
(*)
Gretchen McNeil

The Ugly Duchess
(*)
Eloisa James

Austin: Second Chance Cowboy
(*)
Shelley Galloway

Bianca
(*)
Bertrice Small

The Care and Feeding of an Alpha Male
(*)
Jessica Clare

Dark Storm
(*)
Christine Feehan

Distinguished Service
(*)
Tori Carrington

Finding Mercy
(*)
Karen Harper

Full Disclosure
(*)
Dee Henderson

Ghosts of Memories
(*)
Barb Hendee

A Gift from Tiffany's
(*)
Melissa Hill

In Need of a Good Wife
(*)
Kelly O'Connor McNees

Invisible Murders
(*)
Lene Kaaberbol; Agnete Friis

Ironskin
(*)
Tina Connolly

Jennifer Johnson Is Sick of Being Married
(*)
Heather McElhatton

The Last Dragonslayer
(*)
Jasper Fforde

The Maverick's Ready-Made Family
(*)
Brenda Harlen

Mortal Ties
(*)
Eileen Wilks

Nightwalker
(*)
Allyson James

One Final Step
(*)
Stephanie Doyle

Postcards from the Dead
(*)
Laura Childs

A Promise to Love
(*)
Serena B. Miller

The Reckoning
(*)
Jana DeLeon

The Runaway Princess
(*)
Hester Browne

Sacrifice
(*)
Cayla Kluver

Sleep No More
(*)
Iris Johansen

Snowbound in the Earl's Castle
(*)
Fiona Harper

Tempting the Bride
(*)
Sherry Thomas

Texas Wild
(*)
Brenda Jackson

The Twelve
(*)
Justin Cronin

When Snow Falls
(*)
Brenda Novak

Whispers at Moonrise
(*)
C.C. Hunter

The Yellow Packard
(*)
Ace Colllins

Beau: Cowboy Protector
(*)
Marin Thomas

Betrayal
(*)
Robin Lee Hatcher

Beyond the Storm
(*)
Carolyn Zane

Caroselli's Christmas Baby
(*)
Michelle Celmer

Conjure
(*)
Lea Nolan

Dark Lie
(*)
Nancy Springer

Daughter of the Spellcaster
(*)
Maggie Shayne

Days of Blood and Starlight
(*)
Laini Taylor

A Death in the Small Hours
(*)
Charles Finch

Edge of Black
(*)
J.T. Ellison

Exposed to You
(*)
Bethany Kane

Flash Point
(*)
Nancy Kress

Her Highness and the Highlander
(*)
Tracy Anne Warren

Magic for a Price
(*)
Devon Monk

Nauti Temptress
(*)
Lora Leigh

The Prince
(*)
Tiffany Reisz

The Recruit
(*)
Monica McCarty

Rescue My Heart
(*)
Jill Shalvis

Seducing Mr. Knightly
(*)
Maya Rodale

Something New
(*)
Janis Thomas

Soul's Gate
(*)
James L. Rubart

Stalked
(*)
Allison Brennan

Still Life with Shapeshifter
(*)
Sharon Shinn

Tempting Trouble
(*)
Gennita Low

Twas the Night After Christmas
(*)
Sabrina Jeffries

The Twelve Clues of Christmas
(*)
Rhys Bowen

The Vanishing
(*)
Jana DeLeon

The Warrior
(*)
Margaret Mallory

What an Earl Wants
(*)
Kasey Michaels

Wicked Nights With a Proper Lady
(*)
Tiffany Clare

Against the Odds
(*)
Kat Martin

Alien vs. Alien
(*)
Gini Koch

All Fall Down
(*)
Harry Turtledove

Becoming Dante
(*)
Day Leclaire

The Bone Tree
(*)
Greg Iles

Breathe
(*)
Kristen Ashley

Came Upon a Midnight Clear
(*)
Katie Porter

The Chocolate Kiss
(*)
Laura Florand

A Cold Creek Noel
(*)
Raeanne Thayne

Cold Days
(*)
Jim Butcher

Cold City
(*)
F. Paul Wilson

Come A Little Bit Closer
(*)
Bella Andre

The Dead Shall Not Rest
(*)
Tessa Harris

The Doctor of Thessaly
(*)
Anne Zouroudi

Edge of Sanity
(*)
Shannon K. Butcher

Forever a Lord
(*)
Delilah Marvelle

Gates of Rapture
(*)
Caris Roane

Gravity
(*)
Melissa West

Heart of Atlantis
(*)
Alyssa Day

How to Deceive a Duke
(*)
Lecia Cornwall

King of the Dead
(*)
Joseph Nassise

The Laird's Choice
(*)
Amanda Scott

Law Man
(*)
Kristen Ashley

Lethal Investments
(*)
K.O. Dahl

Opal
(*)
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Playing the Royal Game
(*)
Carol Marinelli

The Plum Tree
(*)
Ellen Marie Wiseman

Running Wild
(*)
Linda Howard; Linda Jones

Shadow's Claim
(*)
Kresley Cole

Shiver
(*)
Karen Robards

Steel's Edge
(*)
Ilona Andrews

Sweet Dreams
(*)
Kristen Ashley

Tomas: Cowboy Homecoming
(*)
Linda Warren

Woman in a Sheikh's World
(*)
Sarah Morgan

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