This week at Smexy…. A/D review – Seven Nights in a Rogue’s Bed by Anna Campbell (historical) A review – The Angel by Tiffany Reisz (erotic) A review – Run the Risk by Lori Foster (contemporary) B+ review – Deep Desires by Charlotte Stein (erotic) C+ review – The Lady Risks All by Stephanie Laurens (historical) C review – The Space Between Us by Megan Hart (erotic) C review – How to Date a Henchman by Mari Fee (superhero) C review – Rapture by JR Ward (paranormal) C- Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten–September 28th
10. We are diving right into the Top Ten today with animal cracker naughtiness. I hope you can handle it. Link. 9. Yes, I’m obsessed with this book. So here are more details that I’ve found this week. From RT Magazine: "There are others in the Fever World having the sex Dani's too young for in Iced." (Hooray for this! Is it Christian I wonder? Another of Ryoden and Barrons’ “friends?”) Iced begins a week before Shadowfever ends, with chp 1 opening the morning after Cruce gets iced Continue Reading
Review: Rapture by J.R. Ward
Rapture by J.R. Ward (The Fallen Angels #4) Released: September 25, 2012 Paranormal Romance Berkley Reviewed by Mandi Please Note: The hero of this book has been kept pretty hush hush. If you want to go into the book with a totally clean slate, please don’t read this review. Rapture is book four in JR Ward’s Fallen Angel series. I wasn’t a big fan of the first two, but the last book was an enjoyable read. Rapture falls down the middle. It is an okay book, slow at times, but Continue Reading
Winner!
The winner from the Karen Hawkins giveaway of a $20 gift card to an online bookstore is: Cheryl C. Congrats! Continue Reading
Review: Deep Desires by Charlotte Stein
Deep Desires by Charlotte Stein Erotic Contemporary, Novella Released: September 27, 2012 Harper Collins Reviewed by Mandi I think Charlotte Stein has one of the best voices in erotic romance. I always find her heroines so intriguing, so sexually curious, teasing and flirty, and many times they take the reins and show the hero what can be between them. This book is darker though and I really like it. Abbie works as a grocery store clerk and lives in an apartment building called Continue Reading
Guest Author Cassi Carver and Giveaway
Hi, everyone, I’m Cassi Carver! Thank you for visiting me at Smexy Books today! I’m really excited about the release of Shadow Rising, the second book in my spicy urban fantasy series with Samhain Publishing, and I thought I would talk a little about music and how it can affect writing a book. Last year was the first year I’d really heard about authors coming up with playlists for books and series. Sure, I’d listened to music while I was writing before, but could it be possible that if I made a Continue Reading
Guest Author Amy Andrews
Thanks to Mandi and Smexy Books for hosting me today and letting me talk about my new Entangled Publishing release Taming the Tycoon. One of the scenes I loved writing the most involved Nate and Addie, posing as a couple, being manipulated by his meddling old granny into sharing the same room. With only one bed. “You want Addie in the rose bedroom?” he asked. “Oh no darling,” his grandmother interjected. “She’ll be in with you, of course.” Nathaniel felt time screech to halt around him. Continue Reading
Review: The Angel by Tiffany Reisz
The Angel by Tiffany Reisz (The Original Sinners #2) Erotic BDSM Romance Releases: September 25, 2012 Harlequin Reviewed by Mandi My Favorite Quote: “My confession begins,” Father S said, “as the confessions of many men begin – with three words.” “Father, forgive me?” Michael hazarded a guess. Father S sighed. “I met Eleanor.” A few months ago I read The Siren and at that point it was my favorite book so far this year. I found the writing to be so engaging and refreshing. The Continue Reading
Review: Gold Digger by Aleksandr Voinov
Gold Digger by Aleksandr Voinov M/M Contemporary, Novella Released: September 17, 2012 Riptide Reviewed by Mandi I’m a huge fan of Aleksandr Voinov’s Special Forces series. Huge, as in the two heroes, Dan and Vadim are two of my favorite guys. It is super emotional, angsty, violent, and just pure torture to read. And I love to be tortured when I read. So when I heard the author was coming out with a novella featuring Vadim’s son, I became very excited. Nikolai Krasnorada works Continue Reading
Review: The Space Between Us by Megan Hart
The Space Between Us by Megan Hart Erotic Contemporary Releases: September 25, 2012 Harlequin Reviewed by Mandi I think Megan Hart is an excellent erotic story teller. I have read Broken, Dirty, Tempted and Stranger and pretty much loved each book. She challenges me as a reader and makes me stretch my boundaries. Her endings are rocky HEA’s at best (although that is one of the things I love about her books), and the ending of The Space Between Us to me is very sad. The prologue Continue Reading