10. A cannoli filled with cannoli. A good way to start the weekend, yes? (link) 9. Quickie review! I read Make it Count by Megan Erickson a few days ago. I heard it had a nerdy hero so I wanted to check it out. It's cute and refreshing - I love that it's a New Adult that isn't overly angsty or emo. College aged hero tutors the heroine who has an undiagnosed learning disability. The heroine IS dating someone else other than the hero to start the book but it works out well for me. Continue Reading
Review: Fall From India Place by Samantha Young
Fall From India Place by Samantha Young (On Dublin Street #4) Released: June 3, 2014 Contemporary Romance Penguin Reviewed by Mandi Oh this book - *bangs head on the table for a few minutes* Okay, I'm ready now. I've really enjoyed the books in this series and up until this book, I've really liked that this author has stayed with this core group of friends and revisits the other couples in each book so we can continue to get a glimpse at their lives. That being said, I need a Continue Reading
Top Ten Reasons to read Devil’s Game by Joanna Wylde
Blurb: Liam “Hunter” Blake hates the Reapers MC. Born and raised a Devil’s Jack, he knows his duty. He’ll defend his club from their oldest enemies—the Reapers—using whatever weapons he can find. But why use force when the Reapers’ president has a daughter who’s alone and vulnerable? Hunter has wanted her from the minute he saw her, and now he has an excuse to take her.Em has lived her entire life in the shadow of the Reapers. Her overprotective father, Picnic, is the club’s president. The last Continue Reading
Guest Author Rebekah Weatherspoon and Giveaway!
I'm happy to have Rebekah Weatherspoon at the blog today. Rebekah is celebrating the release of her first book in a new series, Fit. Can we all take a moment to admire the cover......okay let's continue. I'll turn it over to Rebekah who is going to share an excerpt and look for a giveaway below. Blurb: Violet Ryan loves the delicious food she gets to eat on the reality shows she produces for The Food Channel. What she hates is her expanding waistline. Determined to drop the pounds, Violet Continue Reading
Winners!
The winner of Shield of Winter by Nalini Singh is: EvelynS The winner of Banishing the Dark by Jenn Bennett is: Amy Winners have been emailed. Continue Reading
Release Day Excerpt! I Want to Hold Your Hand by Marie Force
Almost seven years after losing her husband in Iraq, Hannah Abbott Guthrie isn’t sure she’s ready—or able—to move on, but the attentions of a lifelong friend are making her think about it for the first time. The memory of the sweet kiss she shared with Nolan Roberts hasn’t strayed far from her thoughts, but she also fears that pursuing something with him would mean betraying her husband’s memory. Nolan has loved Hannah for years, but he’d been giving her the space she needed to heal from her Continue Reading
Joint Review: Shield of Winter by Nalini Singh
Shield of Winter by Nalini Singh (Psy/Changeling #13) Released: June 3, 2014 Paranormal Romance Berkley Reviewed by Sheena and Mandi Blurb: Assassin. Soldier. Arrow. That is who Vasic is, who he will always be. His soul drenched in blood, his conscience heavy with the weight of all he’s done, he exists in the shadows, far from the hope his people can almost touch—if only they do not first drown in the murderous insanity of a lethal contagion. To stop the wave of death, Vasic must Continue Reading
Review: Grim Shadows by Jenn Bennett
Grim Shadows by Jenn Bennett (Roaring Twenties #2) Releases: June 3, 2014 Historical Paranormal Romance Berkley Reviewed by Mandi I recently read Bitter Spirits, the first book in this series and was seriously impressed. I had put it off because it was set in the twenties and had paranormal elements and for whatever reason that didn't appeal to me. But after seeing so many positive reviews, I read it and loved it and was exited to pick up Grim Shadows. I liked this book, not quite as much as Continue Reading
Guest Author Nalini Singh and Giveaway!
We are happy to have Nalini Singh stopping by Smexy today to talk about her book that releases tomorrow, Shield of Winter. Sheena and I have had a sneak peek at this book and it's really good! We'll be posting our review tomorrow. Today, Nalini has some words about Arrows.... Arrows Nalini Singh I always knew I would one day write about the Arrow Squad, but I never expected what I would find when I peeled back the layers of these dangerous men and women. To be an Arrow is to be a Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
Earlier this week, Tori told me that I really needed to read Sweet Filthy Boy by Christina Lauren. I had never read this author and something as silly as the cover kind of put me off. But when Tori singles out a book for me to read, I always listen - and she was right of course. This book features things that normally don't work for me - it's a New Adult - when the book opens the heroine is graduating from college. There is a drunken, spur of the moment wedding in Vegas. There is no immediate Continue Reading