10. My Week – I decorated for Halloween! Are we getting ready? Do all the kids have costumes picked out? I have a seven year old who is obsessed with scary things and a five year old who cries if there is a mean looking pumpkin. I can’t win. I did buy a plastic hand that crawls across the floor. I may have scarred my five year old for life. We’ll see. 9. Fun news! USA Today has started a romance blog, Happy Ever After. It went live yesterday afternoon. I was asked to be a part of it and I Continue Reading
Review: Slow Ride by Erin McCarthy
Slow Ride by Erin McCarthy (Fast Track #5) Contemporary Romance October 4, 2011 Paperback Berkley Reviewed by Mandi I’m not a car race fan in real life, but I do like the idea of this series that follows these drivers lives. However, this one just doesn’t quite rev my engine. Daniel “Diesel” Lange first meets Tuesday Jones at her father’s funeral. Diesel was her father’s favorite race car driver, until Diesel got into a horrible crash which crushed his knee. Unable to drive Continue Reading
Guest Author Elise Hepner
If I could be any writer for a day who would I be? This is one of those weird, forgoing space and time questions that I love to answer but always have trouble answering because there are so many super cool writers out there. I’ve narrowed it down to my top five so far and those authors might say a lot about how weird I am that I might want to be these writers for a day. But, keep in mind that I didn’t say when in their lives—so I could pick whenever, I would assume. Without further ado—my top Continue Reading
Guest Author: Thea Harrison and Giveaway
We are happy to have Thea Harrison guest posting today! My Casting of the Elder Races Heroes (to date) When I sat down to write this posting for Smexy Books, my thoughts naturally turned to what I find smexy about the heroes in my Elder Races series. Then I thought almost immediately about pictures. So the following is a list of my personal casting for the heroes in the series (so far). Dragos, from DRAGON BOUND. Now I have to admit, I’ve spun around and around trying to cast this one. Continue Reading
Review: Serpent’s Kiss by Thea Harrison
Serpent’s Kiss by Thea Harrison (Elder Races #3) Paranormal Romance October 4, 2011 Paperback Berkley Reviewed by Mandi One thing that really stands out in Thea Harrison’s third Elder Races Novel, is how removed the vampyre heroine really is from reality. Carling, once vampyre Queen, is now on the Elder Council. She is very old, and the bite that once gave her immortality, is now slowly killing her. She is desperate to find a cure, but is exhausted and about at the end Continue Reading
Review: Fatal Heat by Lisa Marie Rice
Fatal Heat by Lisa Marie Rice Romantic Suspense October 4, 2011 E-Book Avon Impulse Reviewed by Mandi Former SEAL Max Wright is still recovering from a devastating RPG attack. Spending a long time in a rehab facility to regain the use of his leg, he can now walk, but it is painful and slow. His commander has given him use of a beach house to relax, and further recuperate. Physically he is exhausted, but mentally he is still reeling from the fact he is no longer a SEAL and what that Continue Reading
Release Day Giveaway: Animal Attraction by Jill Shalvis
Sunshine, Idaho, is a quiet ranching town that provides a perfect refuge for injured animals….and sometimes, people. And veterinarian Dell Connelly suspects there’s a reason his clinic’s uberefficient receptionist has taken shelter here. Jade Bennett couldn't be happier to escape her well-meaning but smothering family and their expectations, not to mention the big-city jungle. There’s nothing like working with animals, having a forlorn, grumpy stray kitten make its home under her Continue Reading
Review: Prep Work by P.D. Singer
Prep Work by P.D. Singer August 17, 2011 M/M Romance E-Book, Novella Dreamspinner Press Reviewed by Mandi All celebrity chef Jude Marshall wants is an easy, plain meal. On a one night break from shooting his show, Jude Marshall Tastes. he finds himself in London at a pub. He doesn’t want to eat any more insects, or crazy spicy food that he often finds himself eating for his show. He wants something simple. So when he orders split pea soup, and it comes out with a fancy garnish, Continue Reading
Review: Must Love Vampires by Heidi Betts
Must Love Vampires by Heidi Betts October 1, 2011 Paranormal Romance Trade Paperback Kensington Reviewed by Mandi Must Love Vampires actually contains two stories, each coming in at about 100 pages. Following identical twins and their encounters with vampire brothers. “Vampnapped” “I’m like a sexual camel. I can live on that one orgasm for another ten years, easy.” That quote makes me giggle. And I think this book could have been a very light-hearted funny book, if it Continue Reading
September Recommendations!
The books we read in September that were a little extra special. Tori’s Recs Spiders revenge by Jennifer Estep (Review) The Darkest Surrender by Gena Showalter (Review) One Whisper Away by Emma Wildes The Last Detail by Melissa Schroeder Mind Over Monsters by Jennifer Harlow (Review to come) May’s Recs Dragon Actually by G.A. Aiken About a Dragon by G.A Aiken What a Dragon Should Know by G.A.Aiken Lord & Lady Spy by Shana Galen (Review) Unclaimed by Courtney Continue Reading