Escort by Skye Warren Contemporary Romance Released: March 18, 2018 Self Published Reviewed by Mandi I'm always game for escort books. In the past I've enjoyed Curio by Cara McKenna and Escorted by Claire Kent. Escort features a hero, Hugo, who is from Tangier (a big city in Morocco). At the age of fifteen, after his mother died, he fell in love with an older woman who started to teach him about sex (not a fan that he was only fifteen at this point. Not a fan at all). He thought Continue Reading
Archives for March 2018
Review: The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
The Broken Girls by Simone St. James Mystery Suspense/Supernatural March 20, 2018 Berkley Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: She’d always known the monsters were real. In the 1950’s there was a school for girls in Vermont called Idlewild Hall. It was a place for the troublesome, the illegitimate, the unwanted. Rumored to be haunted, four girls bond over shared fears and secrets, until one of them disappeared. Fiona Sheridan knows what it is to have lost. Having lost her sister to a Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
Hero: Gregory Vyse, Baron of Fulkham, is a respected spymaster whose skills are tested when he meets the mysterious Princess Aurore of Chanay—a woman he swears is actually the alluring French actress Monique Servais, whom he met years earlier. Heroine: Monique Servais, a beautiful stage actress, must perform the role of a lifetime—one of a princess—when she’s forced to cover for a royal cousin she’s never met. But a certain seductive spymaster could ruin everything if he exposes her Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
This week at Smexy... A review - Long Shot by Kennedy Ryan (contemporary/sheena) B+ review - The Wolf Lord by Ann Aguirre (paranormal/tori) B+ review - Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston (paranormal/tori) B review - Fast Burn by Lori Foster (contemporary/helyce) B review - Exposed Anthology (contemporary/kini) B review - Harbinger by Emily Meredith (urban fantasy/mandi) C+ review - The Instigator by Stephanie Julian (contemporary/mandi) D review - Master Cole by Marie Tuhart Continue Reading
Review: Long Shot by Kennedy Ryan
Long Shot by Kennedy Ryan A Hoops Novel Contemporary Romance Released: March 22, 2018 Reviewed by Sheena Favorite Quote: He tries to demean me with his words...his words are a dog with no bite. They have no teeth with me. But who needs teeth when you have fangs? There are roughly, 172,000 words in the English language. The average person knows 20,000-30,000 words and uses 3,000 of them commonly. Out of all these words at my disposal, I can't find enough of them to string together Continue Reading
Review: The Instigator by Stephanie Julian
The Instigator by Stephanie Julian (Redtails Hockey #4) Released: February 16, 2018 Contemporary Romance Self Published Reviewed by Mandi Derek Flaherty is the instigator in this book. Both on the ice and in his personal life. He plays for the "AHL" a minor league hockey division and really hopes to make it to the big leagues eventually. He plays for the Redtails, a good team heading to the playoffs. He has a good relationship with all of his teammates - a lot of smack talk, laughing Continue Reading
Review: Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston
Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston The Honey Badgers, #1 PNR/Comedy March 27, 2018 Kensington Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I hate my fammmmiiillllyyyyyyy!!” The MacKilligan sisters are in trouble. Their father has done some terrible things in his life but this time, he may have sealed his death warrant and possibly theirs with his latest get rich scheme. Berg Dunn is just your average bear who works as security for the rich and famous with his siblings. When a gorgeous Continue Reading
Review: Exposed: A Romance Anthology
Exposed: A Romance Anthology Contemporary Romance March 13, 2018 Self-Published Reviewed by Kini I picked up this antho because it had several authors that I have never read and I thought this would be a good introduction to their writing. I have been in a reading slump so reading short stories was kind of perfect for me. I only read four of the stories and will give a brief review below. All the stories have the same general theme. One of the characters has been chosen to participate Continue Reading
Review: The Wolf Lord by Ann Aguirre
The Wolf Lord by Ann Aguirre Ars Numina, #3 PNR/Fantasy March 14, 2018 Self Published Favorite Quote: “Maybe a marriage of convenience to a wicked wolf wasn’t so bad after all.” Reviewed by Tori Roguish. Reckless. Unreliable. Raff Pineda has a certain reputation among the Animari. He’s the one to call if there’s a party starting, not the man to rely on when all hell breaks loose. Though he’s nominally the leader of the Pine Ridge pack, he defers to his second on the tough calls. Continue Reading
Review: Harbinger by Emily Meredith
Harbinger by Emily Meredith Released: March 13, 2018 Urban Fantasy Self Published Reviewed by Mandi A debut urban fantasy featuring demons and nephilim. I tend to not sway towards demons necessarily, - but I read an excerpt when I received this review request and I liked it. Even better, I enjoyed this entire book (except for the end but we will get to that!) When Annabel's uncle dies, she is shocked. She had not spoken to him for fifteen years, but the loss of him still upsets her. Continue Reading