Today we have Holley Trent with us and she's talking about how she started reading romance, her newest release Writing Her In, prickly heroines, and more. Thanks for joining us Holley! Writing Her In releases on March 11, 2019 What is the first romance you ever read/how'd you start reading romance? I honestly don’t know the title but it was definitely a category romance of some stripe! I found it in a dollar store bin when I was a teen. I think the story was set in Hawaii. The Continue Reading
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Rising Star by Susannah Nix Alice Carlisle has problems. Her sociology Ph.D. dissertation is going nowhere, she’s about to lose the TV extra job that’s been paying her bills, and her roommate is kicking her out. She needs to find a new place to live ASAP, so she can focus on finally finishing her doctorate. Enter Griffin, one of Hollywood’s rising stars, who offers to let her move into his guest room if she’ll dog sit for him. Four months rent free in a nice house with an Continue Reading
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Slamdunked by Love by Jamie Wesley Revenge is supposed to be sweet... Caitlin Monroe is ready to confront her past. Years ago, her father ditched her mother for the NBA, leaving her pregnant and alone. Now he’s a big-shot coach, and Caitlin’s ready to take the so-called “ family man” down. But on her way to the team gala, her car dies, and it’s her father’s sexy new star player who comes to her rescue. Brady Hudson wants nothing more than to put his past behind him and concentrate on Continue Reading
Review: The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros
I'm like a moth to a flame for any sort of epistolary romance, add in a single parent to the mix and basically it's almost like the book was written for me. And it was but also there was a lot of this book that made me unhappy. Before we go any further, please note that this book has heavy themes of sick children, death, grieving, and PTSD. If any of these are triggering to you, this book is not for you. The book does not have any content warnings and I wouldn’t want a reader to be surprised Continue Reading
American Dreamer: Cast List by Adriana Herrera
Today we welcome Adriana Herrera to SmexyBooks! Her debut book, American Dreamer, releases on March 4, 2019. The HEROES. I was so excited when I got a request to do a casting list for American Dreamer. Folx I have had my list ready to for a while. If Netflix ever comes knocking, I WILL BE READY! For Nesto, I have only one option, Johnny Sibilly. He is a Dominican-Cuban actor—you may have seen him as Costas on Pose—and he looks exactly how I envision my favorite Afro-Caribbean food Continue Reading
Q&A with Rebecca Yarros
Rebecca's latest release The Last Letter was released on 2/26/19. I will have a review of it later this week. Hi! Thank you so much for having me! How’d you start reading romance? RY: My Aunt Hope introduced me to romance when I was a teenager, and I was hooked. Her house was crammed full of romance novels, and she was always up for letting me borrow them. I’d leave with a dozen books, binge-reading authors like Jude Deveraux, Catherine Coulter, Christine Feehan and Julie Garwood Continue Reading
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As Good as the First Time by K.M. Jackson True to its name, the small southern town of Sugar Lake is a sweet place to visit—and you might even want to live there . . .With her big-city career and relationship in sudden free fall, Olivia Gale isn’t sure where she belongs. So when her help is needed at Goode ʼN Sweet, the family bakery in Sugar Lake, she jumps at the chance to indulge her pie-making hobby while getting her life back on track. Olivia’s not looking for any distractions. Even if Continue Reading
Review: Let’s Talk About Sext by Evie Claire
I picked this up because I thought it was going to be about a couple who texts/sexts a lot. At least enough to make it in to the title. I was a little disappointed that there wasn’t more texting. There was some, but not as must as I wanted. That is probably me just being nit-picky though. And that is how I roll. While I am talking about the little things in this book that bothered me, I want to mention that the word “girl” was used 63 times. The heroine, Phebe is a ball busting project manager Continue Reading
Excerpt: Swim Deep by Beth Kery
Kery's new book releases on February 22. She describes is as "twisty mystery that will hopefully offer some shivers and thrills, as well as some romantic feels." Swim Deep Buy Links Excerpt: “I want to make it clear what you’ll inherit in the event of my death. I know to someone who’s so young, it must seem uncomfortable to speak of it. But it’s important that things like this are set into place now.” “Not just in the case of Evan’s death. In the case of divorce, as well,” Hathaway Continue Reading
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Men of Haven (Collection Volume 1) by Rhenna Morgan The first three books in Rhenna Morgan’s irresistible Men of Haven series, available now! Live hard, love harder, and make your own rules. Those are the cornerstones the Men of Haven bleed by. Heaven help the poor bastards who get between them and the women they’ve claimed as their own. Sugar Daddy by Lisa Kleypas SHE'S FROM THE WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKSLiberty Jones has dreams and determination that will take her Continue Reading