The Ugly Duchess by Eloisa James (Fairy Tales #4) Historical Romance August 28, 2012 Avon Reviewed by May Perhaps if she napped, she would wake to find that this day had never happened. Perhaps she was in a fever dream. After all, the fairy story was supposed to end when the Ugly Duckling became a swan. Everyone knew that swans got everything they wanted. Beautiful people always did. Theo’s father died when she was a child, and she (and her mother) moved into the home of the Duke of Continue Reading
Review: A Lady by Midnight by Tessa Dare
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
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
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: Blackstone’s Bride by Kate Moore
Blackstone’s Bride by Kate Moore August 7, 2012 Historical Romance Berkley Reviewed by May Favorite quote: He was born to be a connoisseur of erections. He knew them all, the ones like slow bread dough rising, or those like wild Congreve rockets soaring, or others like a water douser’s stick pointing straight at the source. When called upon to do his duty by a woman, he had taught himself to coax an erection out of the thinnest wisp of sexual stimulation. But that skill had come later Continue Reading
Review: Widow’s Web by Jennifer Estep
Widow's Web by Jennifer Estep (Elemental Assassin #7) August 21, 2012 Urban Fantasy Simon & Schuster Reviewed by May Favorite Quote: This was a matter of the heart – and one problem that all my knives and all my prowess as the Spider wouldn’t help me solve. Gin Blanco is an assassin. Oh, she’s semi-retired and she tries to live her life as normally as she can now running her BBQ joint the Pork Pit and spending time with her friends, sister Bria, and her lover Owen. But things happen, Continue Reading
It’s Good to be Cheap
By May. The other day I was shopping for books based on some recommended “must read” authors that I’ve yet to try, and I only purchased one book from the more than 40 books that the six authors I was looking into had written. I found authors with backlists that are unavailable for kindle (and out of print/very expensive for paper copy), authors with a backlist that is priced at $10-$15 for kindle versions of older books, and authors who had no inexpensive options for any of their titles. I Continue Reading
Review: A Girl Like You by Maria Geraci
A Girl Like You by Maria Geraci Chick-Lit August 7, 2012 Berkley Reviewed by May As this book opens we meet Emma Frazier and her boss Ben, who she has been crushing on since he started working with her at Florida! Magazine. Thing is in an order to impress him she overstated her relationship with a NASCAR superstar Trip (whom she went to high school with) and promised an exclusive interview. Now she’s got to head back to the small town of Catfish Cove on the Florida panhandle and track Continue Reading
Guest Author Heather Snow
We are happy to have Heather Snow at Smexy today to celebrate her recent release, Sweet Deception. A Literal Heroine Lady criminologist, Miss Emma Wallingford, unknowingly finds herself tangled in the dangerous final mission of Lord Derick Aveline, a spy who also happens to be her long lost first love. But when deception, however sweet, is the name of the game, no one can be trusted. And every love—and every life—is at risk. Hello! Heather Snow here and I am thrilled to be continuing my Continue Reading
Review: Sweet Deception by Heather Snow
Sweet Deception by Heather Snow (Veiled Seduction #2) Historical Romance August 7, 2012 Berkley Reviewed by May “I may not agree with your assumptions, but it is clear you strongly believe the maid is in danger. If there is a chance you are correct, I would like to do what I can.” A huff of exasperation escaped her lips, a gesture Derick took to mean she didn’t think too highly of him or his offer. He allowed a half-cynical smile to curve his lips. What did he care if Miss Emma Continue Reading