Anything But Minor by Kate Stewart (Balls in Play #1) Released: July 15, 2016 Contemporary Romance Self Published Reviewed by Mandi Favorite Quote: "You called my penis Jake Ryan." "It's the highest of compliments, I swear!" Tori told me to read this one and we have very similar taste (except for when it comes to big, southern dramas - but that's for another day). Has also recommend this and she is in my trusted reader circle. ALSO, this book is on Kindle Unlimited - how Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
This week at Smexy... B review - Fight the Tide by Keira Andrews (sheena) C+ review - The Sight by Chloe Neill (tori) C+ review - Jaxson by Alisa Woods (mandi) C+ review - Ethan & Wyatt series by K.A. Mitchell (mandi) C- review - Close to You by Kristen Proby (tori) C- review - To Kiss a Thief by Susanna Craig (mandi) D review - Swear on This Life be Renee Carlino (mandi) August Mini Reviews Cover Reveal: The Goal by Elle Kennedy News from Tori: It’s already Continue Reading
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My name is Amelia Gray. I am the Graveyard Queen, a cemetery restorer who sees ghosts. My father passed down four rules to keep me safe and I've broken every last one. A door has opened and evil wants me back. In order to protect myself, I've vowed to return to those rules. But the ghost of a murdered cop needs my help to find his killer. The clues lead me to the dark side of Charleston—where witchcraft, root doctors and black magic still flourish—and back to John Devlin, a haunted police Continue Reading
Review: Ethan & Wyatt Series by K.A. Mitchell
Getting Him Back by K.A. Mitchell (Ethan & Wyatt #1) Released: February 15, 2016 M/M Contemporary Romance Carina Press Reviewed by Mandi Both books coming in around 100 pages, this two book series has a HEA in book one, but a further look into their relationship in book two. Ethan decides to go to a more expensive college, to follow his high school boyfriend, but when he gets there, Blake tells him he no longer loves him. Ethan is shocked and devastated and decides he needs a Continue Reading
Audiobook Review: Jaxson by Alisa Woods
Jaxson by Alisa Woods (River Pack Wolves #1) Paranormal Romance July 21, 2016 ListenUp Audiobooks Reviewed by Mandi Former SEAL Jaxson River would give his life for his brothers and his pack, but if he doesn’t claim a mate soon, he’ll be forced to step down as their alpha. There’s only one problem: Jaxson’s dark secret would kill any mate he claimed. With someone kidnapping shifters off the street—and only Jaxson and his brothers, Jace and Jared, to stop them—now is not the time for his Continue Reading
Review: Swear on This Life by Renee Carlino
Swear on This Life by Renee Carlino Released: August 16, 2016 Contemporary Romance Atria Books Reviewed by Mandi Last year I read, Before We Were Strangers and gave it five stars. Obviously I was anticipating Swear on This Life, but boy did it have the opposite effect on me. Instead of loving and swooning, I disliked and got a bit ragey. Emiline is an adjunct writing instructor at UC San Diego who also wants her own writing career, but she has yet to be published. She has had a serious Continue Reading
Review: To Kiss a Thief by Susanna Craig
To Kiss a Thief by Susanna Craig (Runaway Desires #1) Released: August 16, 2016 Historical Romance Kensington Lyrical Press Reviewed by Mandi The beginning of this one held promise - so much intense, growly, promise - but it ended up falling quite flat for me. Sarah Sutliffe, Lady Fairfax is newly married (oh how I do love a marriage in trouble trope) to St. John, Viscount Fairfax and when she overhears her husband and another woman profess love for one another, she has a freak-out Continue Reading
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(This is a novella of approximately 36,000 words. Also included is a two-chapter preview of Do You Want to Start a Scandal, releasing 9/27/16.) Beautiful and elegant, Miss Diana Highwood is destined to marry a wealthy, well-placed nobleman. At least that's what her mother has loudly declared to everyone in Spindle Cove. But Diana's not excited by dukes and lords. The only man who makes her heart pound is the village blacksmith, Aaron Dawes. By birth and fortune, they couldn't be more wrong Continue Reading
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From Jodi Picoult, one of the most powerful writers in contemporary fiction, comes a riveting, timely, heartbreaking, and terrifying novel of families in anguish -- and friendships ripped apart by inconceivable violence. Until the phone calls came at 3:00 A.M. on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond that of Continue Reading
Top Ten Reasons to Read: Worked Up by Tessa Bailey
Factory mechanic Duke Crawford just wants to watch SportsCenter in peace. Unfortunately, living with four divorcee sisters doesn’t provide much silence, nor does it change his stance on relationships. But when a fellow commitment-phobe stumbles into his life, getting him good and worked up, he can’t deny his protective instincts. Samantha Waverly’s brother just put her in an impossible situation. The only way out? Marry huge, gruff, gladiator look-alike Duke—for show, of course. She doesn’t Continue Reading