This week at Smexy… A review – Styxx (Dark Hunter #23) by Sherrilyn Kenyon (pnr) A review – Heart of Venom by Jennifer Estep (Elemental Assassin #9) (uf) B+ review – The Corrupt Comte by Edie Harris (Bourbon Boys #1) (historical) B review – Personal Assets by Kelsey Browning (Texas Nights #1) (contemporary) B review – A Return Engagement by Stephanie Laurens (historical) B- review - Glitterland by Alexis Hall (m/m contemporary) C review –Stay With Me by Elyssa Patrick (With Me #1) Continue Reading
Archives for August 2013
Smexy’s Top Ten-August 30, 2013
10. Happy Labor Day weekend everyone!! Mandi is out of town so todays Top Ten is all about ME and MY thoughts, MY Wants, and MY needs. As it should be. 9. Thanks to Jane from Dear Authors, I have now seen it all. Someone to Cuddle. It's gay cuttlefish shapeshifter erotcia. ZOMG! Can you even say that with a straight face? I don't even know what cuddlefish is. 0_o While I'm definetly NOT taking one for the Smexy team and reading this, I do recommend reading the reviews on Amazon for this Continue Reading
Review: Stay With Me by Elyssa Patrick
Stay With Me by Elyssa Patrick (With Me #1) Released: August 22, 2013 New Adult Self Published Reviewed by Mandi Hailey has just started college, but she isn’t just another teenage face in the mix. She has a very famous face. A child star, she has done broadway and film and is very famous. But it was her mother that always pushed her into acting, and now that Hailey is able to take control of her life, she has decided to leave Hollywood behind and go to college. She craves to just be Continue Reading
Review: A Return Engagement by Stephanie Laurens
A Return Engagement by Stephanie Laurens Historical Romance E book, 100 Pages August 27, 2013 Avon Impulse Reviewed by Tori Lady Nell Daughtry has arrived with her family to help get her sister down the aisle and safely married to Prince Frederick of Lautenberg. It’s not that her sister doesn’t want to marry Frederick, she adores him and wants to be his wife one hundred percent. Unfortunately, her family suffers from a family phobia certain ailment that causes them to undermine themselves Continue Reading
Review: Styxx by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Styxx (Dark Hunter #23) by Sherrilyn Kenyon Paranormal Romance September 3, 2013 St. Martin's Press Reviewed by Tori Just when you thought doomsday was over... Centuries ago Acheron saved the human race by imprisoning an ancient evil bent on absolute destruction. Now that evil has been unleashed and it is out for revenge. As the twin to Acheron, Styxx hasn’t always been on his brother’s side. They’ve spent more centuries going at each other’s throats than protecting their backs. Continue Reading
Review: A Rake’s Midnight Kiss by Anna Campbell
A Rake's Midnight Kiss by Anna Campbell Released: August 27, 2013 Historical Romance Forever Reviewed by May From Good Reads: It Takes A Lady Brilliant scholar Genevieve Barrett knows how to keep a secret. Her identity as the author of her father's academic articles has always been her greatest deception—until a charming housebreaker tries to steal the mysterious Harmsworth Jewel from her. She doesn't reveal that she recognizes her father's devastatingly handsome new student as the Continue Reading
Three is a Crowd
We all know romance is fantasy. I’m sorry y’all but you are not going to meet your future billionaire husband at your local coffee shop The creepy, stalker guy you see on the street corner – is really just a creeper, he is not a secret sex god waiting to whisk you away. And you are not going to end up in a permanent menage with two hot men. There I said it. You are not going to live happily ever after with two guys. All contributing to the household expenses evenly, all taking turns having Continue Reading
Review: The Corrupt Comte by Edie Harris
The Corrupt Comte by Edie Harris (Bourbon Boys #1) Released: August 27, 2013 Erotic Historical Romance Samhain Reviewed by Mandi The Corrupt Comte is a really well done erotic historical. The passion in this book made me flail in happiness. Let me set it up. Set in Paris 1820, Gaspard Toussaint is a spy for the crown. He didn’t start out his life wanting to be a spy. The seventh child of a blacksmith, he entered the army in hopes of just being fed. But his reality becomes very Continue Reading
Review: Love Overdue by Pamela Morsi
Love Overdue by Pamela Morsi Released: August 27, 2013 Contemporary Romance Harlequin Reviewed by May Quiet and conservative D.J. has just been hired to be the librarian in a tiny town called Verdant, Kansas. Little does she know that the woman who found and hired her, really just wants to set her up with her only son. Scott Sanderson took up his family’s business and is the pharmacist (and owner) of the town’s drug store. Divorced and not looking to try the whole commitment thing Continue Reading
Review: Heart of Venom by Jennifer Estep
Heart of Venom by Jennifer Estep (Elemental Assassin #9) Released: August 27, 2013 Urban Fantasy Pocket Reviewed by May “My name is Gin, like the liquor” They both gave me blank looks, apparently not getting the joke. Nobody appreciated irony these days. I sighed. “My name is Gin Blanco,” I replied. “But y’all probably know me by another one: the Spider.” Heart of Venom is the ninth novel in Estep’s Elemental Assassin series, and while this book does not stand alone, each and every Continue Reading