Red Hill by Jamie McGuire Fiction Contemporary/Horror October 1, 2013 Simon & Schuster Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “We were surviving, but everyday felt less like living .” A virus is sweeping the nation, pitting man against man. When a small group of people find themselves at the same abandoned farm house, their fates become intertwined and their survival depends on one another. A woman looking for her daughters, a man trying to protect his only child, and a teenager and her Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
Hero: Gray Barnett. CEO and summer football league coach. Heroine: Lola Cook. A writer conned in to watching her naughty nephews for the summer. Writer Lola Cook is on a deadline. Meeting it gets twice as difficult when she finds herself in the unwelcome role of babysitter for her nephews. Six weeks with the twin teenage terrors is too much for Lola—until she has a brilliant idea: send the boys to football camp. That’ll at least get them out of her hair for five hours every day. Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
This week at Smexy… B+ review – Sex & Violence by Carrie Mesrobian (youth adult) B+ review – Lovers Unmarked Anthology (erotic contemporary) B review – A Puppy For Christmas Anthology (holiday contemporary) B review – Deception Cove by Jayne Castle (paranormal) B- review – Celtic Moon by Jan Delima (paranormal) B- review – Love Lessons by Heidi Cullinan (m/m) C+ review – Dirty Trick by Christine Bell (erotic contemporary) C+ review – Not Another Wedding by Jennifer McKenzie Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten
TGIF MINIONS!! Mandi’s took off and left me here all along so I’m taking over the Top Ten as I won’t be getting my drunk on till later. *fist pump* 10. Lizard Man loving? Twitter is abuzz over The Last Hour Of Gann by R.Lee smith. I’m hearing it is engaging, unique, and quite romantic. I love a good shifter story but this one goes even beyond in that our lizard man STAYS a lizard. This is alien loving, folks. I also like the premise that our lizard man hero thinks Continue Reading
Review: Deception Cove by Jayne Castle
Deception Cove (Harmony #10/Rainshadow #2) by Jayne Castle Paranormal Romance Paperback, 368 pages August 27, 2013 Jove Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “A second honeymoon on a damned island. What could possibly go wrong?” As a light-talent, Alice North has the rare ability to make things disappear, including herself—a gift that comes in handy during her magic act with her dust bunny Houdini. Business mogul Drake Sebastian is day-blind, since his sight was nearly destroyed in Continue Reading
Review: Sex & Violence by Carrie Mesrobian
Sex & Violence by Carrie Mesrobian Mature YA Contemporary/Fiction E book, 304 pages October 1, 2013 Carolrhoda LAB Reviewed by Tori Seventeen year old Evan Carter has never considered the consequences of having random sex. From the age of fifteen, Evan has used sex as a way to connect and combat the loneliness of having a father who's never there and being forced to continuously move. He purposely selects girls who are “not normal.” Girls who will let you sleep with them on the Continue Reading
Review: The Christmas He Loved Her by Juliana Stone
The Christmas He Loved Her (Bad Boys of Crystal Lake, #2) by Juliana Stone Contemporary Romance October 1, 2013 Sourcebooks Reviewed By Tori Jake Edwards, one of the three original bad boys of Crystal Lake, has come home to face his past. After witnessing his twin brother’s death in Afghanistan, Jake finds himself sinking into a dark pit of despair. He thought his brothers death was the worst thing he could ever endure. Until he realized he was falling in love with his brother’s widow, Continue Reading
Review: Sibling Rivals by Summer Devon
Sibling Rivals by Summer Devon M/M Romance Contemporary E book October 1, 2013 Samhain Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “How did it feel to hold the man he’d loved? Rather suffocating was the answer. Colin never suspected that when he followed his boyfriend Mark home for the holidays, he would end up alone on Christmas. When Mark Stevens decides to come out of the closet, Mark’s parents kick him and Colin out of their home and that ends their relationship. Colin stays in contact Continue Reading
Review: On Midnight Wings by Adrian Phoenix
On Midnight Wings (The Makers Song, #5) by Adrian Phoenix Urban Fantasy/Romance September 24, 2013 Pocket Reviewed by Tori Dante and Heather fight for their lives against two different foes to find their way back to each other. Dante, lost to his shattered and painful past, his bond with Heather the only thing keeping him sane, searches for Heather and the man who stole her. Powerplays and intrigue intensify as knowledge of what Dante truly is—a True Blood/Fallen Maker—ripples through Continue Reading
Review: Run To You by Rachel Gibson
Run To You by Rachel Gibson Contemporary Romance September 24, 2013 Avon Reviewed by Tori Rachel Gibson takes us back to Lovett, TX in this follow up to Rescue Me. Sadie Hollowell is dismayed to learn that she has an illegitimate sister when her father’s will is read. Sadie wants to meet her so her fiancé, Vince Haven, hires an old Navy Seal buddy to locate her. Blake give his ex Marine twin brother, Beau, the job. He locates Sadie’s sister down in Florida bartending in a dive. He Continue Reading