Edited to Add: Contest is now closed. The winner is : Arianne Congrats! You’ve made it to the 2pm EST stop on the Tessa Dare Blog Tour to celebrate her release of A Week to be Wicked which releases today! (May reviewed it here). Tessa is doing a travelogue for this blog tour. Our entry: From the Journal of Colin Sandhurst, Lord Payne: M advises me, strongly—and with a blunt object—to keep my own journal, rather than poking through hers. Notes to Continue Reading
Interview with Kate Noble and Giveaway
Welcome back to Smexy Books! Tell us a little bit about your upcoming release, If I Fall. That’s for having me Mandi! I’m very happy to be back in the land of the smexy. If I Fall is about Sarah Forrester, who was last seen getting her heart cruelly broken inFollow My Lead, when her fiancé breaks their engagement because he loves another. In the eyes of society, this marks her as The Girl Who Lost a Duke, with everyone pitying her, expecting her to have a breakdown in public. Thus to survive Continue Reading
Vote For Your Favorite Caption!
Yesterday, I posted a picture of Vishous and Butch (it’s true love y’all) and asked that you submit a caption. Today, I have chosen my five favorites, and will now leave it up to a vote to decide the winner! The caption with the most votes will win a $50 gift card to either Amazon, Barnes and Noble or JR Ward’s Café Press Store. We will announce the winner of the Caption prize and the winner from yesterday’s scavenger hunt ($25 gift card) tomorrow. Place your votes Continue Reading
Review: Covet by Felicity Heaton
Covet by Felicity Heaton (Vampire Erotic Theater Series #1) January 14, 2012 E-Book, Novella Dark Rose Publishing Reviewed by Mandi For two years, Javier and Lilah have had an intense attraction to each other but they are unable to act upon it for a very important reason. Javier is a vampire, and an Lilah is a human, but owned by a master vampire. Rule number one in their world – “an owned human must never be touched by a vampire other than their master.” If touched out of desire or Continue Reading
Let’s Celebrate BDB with a Giveaway!
Tomorrow, Lover Reborn by JR Ward releases. As this is a favorite series of both mine and Sophia’s from Fiction Vixen, every year we like to do a little something to celebrate. This year, we’ve brought back a few of our favorite characters from our previous skits for some fun. Hey hookers, It’s Layla. I’m back. That’s right - Mandi (you know, the one that calls herself “smexy” *rolls eyes*) tried to dump me off on Saxton last year. Ha! I screamed the word “verily” at him for 12 Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
I read both Crave and Covet (book one in this series) last night, and really enjoyed them both. They are dark, erotic, PNR novella’s. This is a small excerpt from Crave. Hero – Elite vampire Callum, owner of the erotic theater, Vampirerotique. Heroine – Werewolf Kristina is on the run from her pack and tries to resist the sexy vampire. But….. Still holding her, he strode across the room, tossed her onto the bed, and before she had stopped bouncing in the middle of it, was on her. His Continue Reading
Winners!
The five winners of Caught in the Act by Jill Sorenson are: ClaudiaGC Sara Estella June Victoria Zumbrum The winner of Born to Darkness by Suzanne Brockmann is: Chris Bails Congrats! All winners have been emailed. Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
Here is what we talked about at Smexy this week: A review – Born to Darkness by Suzanne Brockmann A- review – A Week to be Wicked by Tessa Dare B+ review – Moving in Rhythm by Dev Bentham B review – Tailor Made by Josephine Myles B review – Thief by Ava March B- review – Geared for Pleasure by Rachel Grace C+ review – Doubletake by Rob Thurman C review – The Tattooed Duke by Maya Rodale C- review – Much Ado About Rogues by Kasey Michaels Smexy’s Rules of Romance Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten March 23–Third Anniversary Edition
Smexy is three today! It seems like I’ve been doing this a lot longer. LOL. But is has been three very fun years. In this past year, we have had the addition of May and Helyce, and I can’t say enough how much I appreciate them and of course Tori! Since the anniversary falls on a Friday this year, I thought I would go back through all of my top tens, and post my favorite top ten moments from all of my lists. 10. August 20, 2010 – I was still obsessed with True Blood Continue Reading
Review: Thief by Ava March
Thief by Ava March (Brook Street #1) March 19, 2012 M/M Historical Romance Carina Press Reviewed by Mandi Lord Benjamin Parker is pretty sure he is gay, but having never been with a man, he wants to test out his suspicion. Rumor has it that Clements gambling hell caters to his sort of persuasion. So he gets up the courage and visits there one night. When he walks in — even though gambling is going on — he can see men who touch each other more intimately and knows he is in the right Continue Reading