This week at Smexy…

B review – With This Bling by LB Gregg (tori)
B review – Liam Takes Manhattan by Thea Harrison (tori)
B- review – Bite the Bullet by Angela Louise McGurk (mandi)
B- review – The Muse by Anne Calhoun (mandi)
C- review – Hard to Forget by Bella Jewel (sheena)
C- review – The Iron Warrior by Julie Kagawa (tori)

Cover Reveal: Reid’s Deliverance by Nina Crespo
Mandi’s January To-Be-Read List!
Smexy’s Top Ten
Smexy Deals!

Mandi News: I read Hell and High Water by Charlie Cochet and liked it. A m/m paranormal series, I believe five books are out (this is book one). It’s funny and lighthearted but with a lot of action. The main hero is super sarcastic – he falls for his new partner in a police force that mixes humans and shifters. I’m definitely reading book two – review of this will be posted this week.

I’ve just started City of Light by Keri Arthur – a new urban fantasy series releasing the first week in January. I’m confused by the world, but I’m only about 15% in so I’ll give it time.  After that I start Kill Without Mercy by Alexandra Ivy.

Tori’s News: I’m exhausted. Between school stuff, holiday stuff, cold stuff, and general stuff…I’ve hit rock bottom. Not much reading done so hopefully I can relax this weekend with some good books.

The Iron Warrior by Julie Kagawa: Read my review here. Not a bad ending to this trilogy but the similarities to the original series it spun off of let me feeling rather meh about the whole storyline.

Jax: A Rockstar Stepbrother Romance by Vivian Lux: I know, I know. I always say NO WAY to stepbro roms but this one wasn’t that bad. A mild emo humor tinged romance that falls apart due to miscommunication but manages to right itself when their respective parents decide to tie the knot. I liked that the whole OMG TABOO trope was pushed aside and the focus was on the couple not their sibling status.

Merry Blissmas by Jamie Begley: If you follow Jamie Begley’s Last Riders series then you will remember Bliss. Not a well liked character, Begley attempts to not so much redeem her in here but to give readers the reasons behind her behavior throughout the series. I think Begley does a good job though the fairytale aspect was a little disconcerting.

Thicker Than Water by Brigid Kemmerer–Review to come. A YA romantic suspense that starts out well but the slowly falls off to the wayside with flimsy plotlines, a lackluster romance, and a genre flip that came out of left field and didn’t fit well with the storyline.