Hero: Marcos. Underground fighter. Gang Member. Car stealer. Wants to live a better life but the opportunities just aren't there. Gets into a car accident involving the heroine and stays to make sure she is okay. Gentleman. Heroine: Katie. High School history teacher. Feels much chemistry after meeting Marcos. Puts an ad on craigslist personal. Finds him. Stubborn and spirited. Instead of posting an actual sex scene, I'll post my favorite scene in this book - when Katie puts one last ad on Continue Reading
Archives for August 2014
Weekly Wrap-Up
This week at Smexy... A review - Cash's Fight by Jamie Begley (contemporary/sheena) B+ review - Evernight by Kristen Callihan (historical pnr/tori) B+ review - Resenting Me by Crystal Spears (contemporary/sheena) B review - The Best Kind of Trouble by Lauren Dane (contemporary/helyce) B review - Talk Sweetly to Me by Courtney Milan (historical/may) C+ review - Midnight Vengeance by Lisa Marie Rice (suspense/mandi) C review - Heroes are My Weakness by Susan Elizabeth Phillips Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten – August 29th
10. That's pretty much the only way to my heart. (also substitute coffee with wine). 9. My weekend rec is The Viper by Kele Moon. The hero has done time for gang related stuff (stealing cars) and the heroine is a high school history teacher. They meet when they are involved in a car accident. He is very gentlemanly and won't leave her until the paramedics can cut her out. He then leaves and goes back to his hometown of Miami. She is so smitten with him that she...wait for it...put Continue Reading
Review: Talk Sweetly To Me by Courtney Milan
Talk Sweetly To Me by Courtney Milan (Brothers Sinister #4.5) Released: August 18, 2014 Historical Romance Self Published Reviewed by May Favorite Quote: “Anyone who thinks that ladies are delicate has either never been pregnant or has put the experience from her mind out of sheer horror.” Rose is a brilliant mathematician who works as a “computer” of numbers for a scientist while also living with and assisting her very pregnant sister. There is only one thing that unnerves her, and Continue Reading
Review: Resenting Me by Crystal Spears
Resenting Me (Breakneck Series 1.5) by Crystal Spears Released August 20, 2014 MC Romance/Erotic Novella Self Published Reviewed by Sheena Blurb: One look at the beautiful Hawaiian flower dancing on stage at his buddy’s strip club and Pyro’s world changes. He’s lost, captivated, head over heels. He tries to stay away, resist her charms, but he just can’t find the strength to do it. Instead, he hires Hazel (Lana) and Winter as entertainment for the Breakneck President’s thirtieth Continue Reading
Review: No Limits by Lori Foster
No Limits (Ultimate, #1) by Lori Foster Romance Suspense E book, 384 pages September 1, 2014 Harlequin Favorite Quote: “Dude, you are seriously heaving like a caveman and it’s just not like you. It’s making me uneasy, and you don’t want to fuck me. I can only imagine how the little lady feels.” Cannon Coulter, a mixed martial arts champion nicknamed ”the saint”, finds his life turned upside down when a surprise inheritance places him in direct contact with a young woman he never Continue Reading
Review: The Beautiful Ashes by Jeaniene Frost
The Beautiful Ashes (Broken Destiny, #1) by Jeaniene Frost Urban Fantasy/New Adult August 26, 2014 Harlequin Reviewed by Tori Ivy has always seen other worlds since she was a child. Given medication to control her “hallucinations” she is convinced her visions aren’t real. That is, until her sister disappears and Ivy discovers not only are these other worlds real, but her sister is trapped in one of them and unless Ivy can find a hidden relic to use to save her, she will die. The one man Continue Reading
Review: The Homecoming by Robyn Carr
The Homecoming by Robyn Carr (Thunder Point # 6) Contemporary Romance August 26, 2014 Harlequin Reviewed by Helyce From Goodreads: At the age of nineteen, Seth Sileski had everything. A superb athlete and scholar, handsome and popular, he was the pride of Thunder Point. Destined for greatness, he lost it all in a terrible accident that put an end to his professional football career when it had barely begun. The people in his hometown have never forgotten what might have been. Seth has Continue Reading
Excerpt and Giveaway Time: The Best Kind of Trouble by Lauren Dane
The Hurley Boys: The BEST KIND OF TROUBLE by LAUREN DANE Copyright 2014, Lauren Dane All Rights Reserved, Harlequin But when she walked into the coffee shop on Tuesday, he was there. Natalie ignored him and once she got out to the street—and man, was she glad she’d driven that day so she could put a closed door and a bunch of steel between them—she saw he waited just on the other side of her car. “What? God, I told you, I’m not interested.” His smile was slow, easy and Continue Reading
Review: The Best Kind of Trouble by Lauren Dane
The Best Kind of Trouble by Lauren Dane (The Hurley Boys #1) Contemporary Romance August 26, 2014 Harlequin Reviewed by Helyce When Natalie Clayton moved to the idyllic town of Hood River to take a job at the town library, she just wanted a quiet life, away from the stress of her family. Having had a difficult childhood with a manipulative father and grandmother, she’d always sought refuge in the library. Among the shelves of books, she could escape for a short time through reading. Continue Reading