A Lady by Midnight by Tessa Dare (Spindle Cove #3) Historical Romance Release Date: August 28, 2012 Avon Reviewed by May Favorite Quote: “If you wanted to stop cherishing and start ravishing… I’d be most amenable.” We return to Spindle Cove to finally find out all of the secrets, the history, and the sorrid past of Corporal Samuel Thorne and the town piano instructor Miss Kate Taylor – and what a story. These two have been sparring and shooting off sparks throughout the Spindle Cove Continue Reading
Archives for August 2012
Guest Author Seleste deLaney
We are happy to have Seleste deLaney at Smexy today to talk about her her August 28 release, Kiss of Death. Take it away, Seleste! Remy Says: Top Ten Ways to Annoy the Council of Elders One of Seleste deLaney’s favorite characters ever is Remy (Remus). He’s a brand new cast member of the Blood Kissed series, and she can’t wait for you to get to know him in Kiss of Death. Since it doesn’t come out for a couple days, she thought she’d let you get a little taste of him here. If you Continue Reading
Review: Seawitch by Kat Richardson
Seawitch (Greywalker #7 ) by Kit Richardson Urban Fantasy August 7, 2012 Roc Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Welcome to the freak show. “ Seawitch, the seventh installment in Richardson's Greywalker series, pits magic against good old police skills in a swashbuckling seafaring adventure when Harper Blaine teams up with a Seattle police detective to investigate a decades old mystery. When a boat (the Seawitch) that has been missing for 27 years suddenly turns up, abandoned in its Continue Reading
Review: By Surprise by Alyssa Turner
By Surprise by Alyssa Turner March 2, 2012 M/M/F Contemporary Etopia Press Reviewed by Mandi Paxton and Nicholas have been in a committed relationship for six years, and legally married for two. They have a very strong relationship, Paxton always knowing exactly what Nicholas needs and vice versa. Nicholas knows Paxton used to date women and considers himself bi-sexual but in the years he has been with him, the issue of women has never come up. That is until Nicholas finds a box of Continue Reading
Review: But My Boyfriend Is by K.A. Mitchell
But My Boyfriend Is by K.A. Mitchell (Florida #4) M/M Contemporary Romance August 21, 2012 Samhain Reviewed by Mandi I discovered KA Mitchell this past November thanks to Dear Author’s former reviewer Sarah, who I think has reviewed all of Mitchell’s books (you can see the reviews here). I started with Collision Course, which still remains my favorite of her books. In this one, Dylan is the brother of Aaron (hero in Collision Course). Dylan is twenty-two, has sex with women, but also Continue Reading
Review: When You Wish Upon a Duke by Isabella Bradford
When You Wish Upon a Duke by Isabella Bradford (Wylder Sisters #1) July 31, 2012 Historical Romance Ballantine Reviewed by May In the Dorset countryside lives the beautiful Lady Charlotte Wylder. After her father (an Earl) passed away her mother took her three daughters off to the country and raised them there. That is, until one fateful night when a carriage rolls up with news of Charlotte’s fiancé the Duke of Marchbourne, and how he wishes her to come to London so that they may Continue Reading
Review: Heart Secret by Robin D. Owens
Heart Secret (Celta’s Heartmate #11) by Robin D. Owens Sci-Fi/Fantasy/ Romance August 7, 2012 Berkley Trade Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “ I’m a woman, with a woman’s heart and feelings and needs. And since you can’t provide what I need-I’ll find someone who can. ” Garrett Primross lost his way and his heart when his childhood love and her child died of Iasc syndrome-a deadly disease that swept through his community and destroyed everyone it touched. As the only survivor, Continue Reading
How Much Smex is Just Right?
By May. I am the goldilocks of book smex. Too much, and I’m annoyed. Not enough, and I feel like you’ve cheated me. So the question is – how much book sex is just right? It really depends on the book. First off, I don’t read erotic fiction, so I am not talking about that genre at all. I’m talking about romance and fiction in general. Lately I went through a phase where it felt like I was reading nothing but books without sex, or with really badly done ‘let me just skim this’ sex. Because Continue Reading
Review: Inertia by Amelia C. Gormley
Inertia by Amelia C. Gormley (Impulse #1) July 19, 2012 M/M Contemporary Romance Self-Published Reviewed by Mandi Handyman Derrick Chance has lived a lonely life, by choice. By the age of 21, he lost many beloved family members, and now ten years later, lives in the house his grandparents gave him. Although he is gay, he has never had a gay relationship. He experimented with a woman years ago, but with the loss of his grandparents he is too scared to become attached to anyone. He Continue Reading
Review: White Hot by Nina Bruhns
White Hot by Nina Bruhns (Men In Uniform #2) Romantic Suspense August 7, 2012 Berkley Reviewed by Helyce U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Clint Walker is desperately trying to get to Seattle to deliver some top secret information being stored on a tiny SD card. He’s survived the sinking of the submarine Ostrov, only to get to Dutch Harbor and realize that he now has some Chinese operatives on his butt. He’s almost at the airport when he realizes that they’ve probably anticipated this Continue Reading