It's Wednesday and that means I'm back to put a little bump in your hump day! This past week, I've read books that made my heart flutter and falter and I can't wait to share them with you, so without delay, here are this weeks Wistful and Wanton quotables: This weeks wistful quote is from Nalini Singh's forthcoming second installment of her phenomenal Psy-Changeling Trinity series. Oceanlight features long awaited hero, Bowen Knight and Kaia Luna, the water changeling who changes his Continue Reading
Sheena’s Wistful/Wanton Wednesday!
Happy Hump Day! Time to share the romance quotes this week that either made me swoon or scramble for my pearls for some serious clutching! This week's wistful quote is from Rider's Revenge by Jamie Begley and is book 10 in one of my cherished, motorcycle club (MC) romance series, The Last Riders. The Last Rider novels feature a MC comprised of former service men who formed an unbreakable bond in the armed forced and when they all got out, they formed their club, bought a huge chunk of Continue Reading
Sheena’s Mini Reviews
Series: The MacGregors: Highland Heirs, #7 Historical Romance Grade: A Whenever I get a hankering for a beautifully written historical romance, I look no further than Paula Quinn. She just has a knack for creating these beautiful worlds with rich characters all against the picturesque Scottish highlands, I'm always, already mid swoon as soon as I crack (click?) it open. Book 7 is about Lachlin Mackenzie, a (scarred!! swoon level +1000) widower and father to a wife and daughter who were Continue Reading
Review: Something Blue by Lena Hart
Something Blue by Lena Hart Series: Brides of Cedar Bend, #4 Contemporary Romance Released: March 31, 2018 Maroon Ash Publishing Reviewed by Sheena Favorite Quote: “You are my priority, Quinn. You always were. Even when I didn’t show it.” Tears welled in her eyes and he was taken aback by it. He couldn’t remember the last time he’d seen her cry and he didn’t think he could handle it if she did because of him. All he ever wanted was to be with her and make her Continue Reading
Sheena’s Wistful/Wanton Wednesday!
**We are going to try a new format at Smexy. Each day, one reviewer will post all the books she has read in the past seven days. Sometimes it may be long reviews like you are used to seeing. Sometimes they will be mini reviews. This gives each reviewer a week to read books, and their own day to talk about them. Mandi is Monday, Tori Tuesday, Sheena Wednesday, Helyce Thursday and Kini Friday. The Top Ten will be coming back this week, and we will still post a wrap-up and Smex Scene over the Continue Reading
A Dirty Wedding Night by Jaine Diamond
A Dirty Wedding Night by Jaine Diamond Series: Dirty, #2.5 Contemporary Romance Released: May 9th 2018 DreamWarp Books Reviewed by Sheena Favorite Quote: "Quit being a fu*king hero and take your woman to bed...Don't come back 'til she's popped your cherry!" Fans. I need fans. Paper fans, fancy Dyson blade-less fans, church fans, ceiling fans, oscillating standing fans, industrial floor fans, the little hand fans that mist water at your face fans. I need all the fans please. This Continue Reading
Review: A Duke Like No Other by Valerie Bowman
A Duke Like No Other by Valerie Bowman Series: The Playful Brides, #9 Historical Romance Released: May 1, 2018 St. Martin's Paperbacks. Reviewed by Sheena Favorite Quote: “Is your horse named Zeus, after a man who ruined the lives of most of the people around him?” Mark’s lips quirked. “...No...Zeus was a god, not a man.” His lips spread open into an unrepentant grin. “Are you comparing me to a god?” “We’re speaking about your horse, not you,” she replied before snapping shut her Continue Reading
Review: Bound to the Alien Dragon Mage by Thea Dane
Bound to the Alien Dragon Mage by Thea Dane Science Fiction/Romance Released: October 26, 2017 Reviewed by Sheena Freelance researcher Jasmine Andrew takes a job at Pax Corp, a secret organization in search of extraterrestrial life. One night when a stranger with eyes of amber fire appears out of thin air, she barely has time to gasp before he pulls her into a black void. On the other side lies Ozar, a world of dragon shifters, and Jasmine is now bound to one of its strongest and Continue Reading
Review: The Viridian Convict by Sam York
The Viridian Convict by Sam York The Pennington Family, #2 Science Fiction/Romance Released: April 10, 2018 Self Published Reviewed by Sheena The Godfather meets Guardians of the Galaxy in this crazy-ass adventure set on Viridian, a prison planet full of aliens…who want to eat you. Tig, the only human, is thrust into a lose/lose/lose situation when the mob boss he works for asks him to pick up and deliver a package that the Fed—the governing body of the known universe—also wants. To Continue Reading
Review: It Happened in the Highlands by May McGoldrick
Tempest in the Highlands by May McGoldrick The Pennington Family, #2 Historical Romance Released: March 27, 2018 Swerve Reviewed by Sheena It Happened in the Highlands is a second chance romance that simultaneously hit and missed core marks. I like second chance romance, something about characters finding their way back to one another despite time and distance has always appealed to me. In this novel, Jo, an adopted young woman is jilted days before her wedding, her intended a Continue Reading