Smexy Books is so excited to participate in #BerkleyBookmas and we’re so happy to host the very talented Tamsen Parker with an exclusive deleted holiday scene from her best selling erotic romance-School Ties. Berkley Bookmas is chock full of exclusive content from authors like exclusive excerpts, deleted scenes, author recipes and more! Check out the calendar of events below: A Hawthorn Hill Christmas by Tamsen Parker Erin It’s our second Christmas together, and I cannot wait Continue Reading
Review: Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu YA Fiction June 29, 2017 Roaring Book Press Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “It said girls are a revolutionary soul force that can change the world for real.” Vivian Carter is DONE. A junior at a small Texas high school where football is worshipped as a religion, Viv is tired of the misogyny in the school with the constant harassment, sexist dress code, and the football players getting away with murder. Her mom, a former Riot Grrrrl of the 90’s, Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan and USA Today Bestselling Author Chelle Bliss brings you two inked-filled and spicy, contemporary novels plus two never-before-seen short stories set in their same world that revisits some of their favorite characters. Today's scene is from Inked Fantasies (A Men of Inked Bonus Short Story) by Chelle Bliss City and Suzy have been married for over a decade and their children consume much of their lives. Joe thinks they need a night away to reignite Continue Reading
Review: Roomies by Christina Lauren
Roomies by Christina Lauren Romance Contemporary December 5, 2017 Gallery Books Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “This is what happens when you put a bunch of artists in charge of a legal decision.” Holland Bakker has spent the last six months infatuated with a gorgeous busker and haunts the subway station every day just to hear him play. When her uncle, a famous musical director, needs a musician when his lead quits, Holland knows the perfect person and drags her uncle to hear her Continue Reading
Cover Reveal!! MAN CARD by Sarina Bowen & Tanya Eby
MAN CARD by Sarina Bowen and Tanya Eby Man Hands, #2 Contemporary Romance January 15, 2018 Excerpt: Nothing ventured, nothing banged... Ash I still don't know how it happened. One minute I was arguing with my arrogant competitor--our usual trash-talk over who deserves the larger commission. But somehow I went from throwing down to kneeling down... It can never happen again. I don't even like Braht. He's too slick. He's a manipulating mansplaining party boy in preppy Continue Reading
Review: Flame in the Dark by Faith Hunter
Flame in the Dark by Faith Hunter Series: Soulwood, #3 Urban Fantasy December 5, 2017 Ace/Roc Favorite Quote: Here there was no fear or grief. No worry or pain. Here I would stay. Reviewed by Tori Picking up not long after book two, Curse of the Land, Flame in the Dark opens to Nell arriving at a crime scene where a senator has been attacked at a fundraising party and the whole situation has a strong supernatural feel to it. Especially when the prominent guest list comes to light. Continue Reading
Review: Heart Sight by Robin D. Owens
Heart Sight by Robin D. Owens Series: Celta’s Heartmates, #15 Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance December 5, 2017 Berkely Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “At times you might have thought you were my puppet but you’re my anchor. Without you, I’m adrift. “ Muin “Vinni” T'Vine has been the prophet of Celta since he was six years old. A unique and lonely child, his strong psi power made most people wary of him. But now that he’s older, he’s ready to marry and protect the girl he’s known Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
I love the Winstons Brothers. This series loosely connects with Reid's Knitting in the City series and is just as funny and sexy. In here, we meet Beau Winston, Duane's twin and the nicest Winston brother. A mechanic at the family body shop, the new mechanic hired to replace Duane is stunningly beautiful, extremely talented, and a woman. Shelley Sullivan is the new mechanic and sister of Quinn Sullivan from Neanderthal Seeks Human. Shelley is stunning but extremely OCD and socially stunted. Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
This week at Smexy… B+ review –Wrong To Need You by Alisha Rai (contemporary/mandi) B+ review – A Rancher's Heart by Vivian Arend (contemporary/helyce) B review –A Cruel Kind of Beautiful by Michelle Hazen (contemporary na/tori) B review –Mississippi Roll by George R.R. Martin (science fiction fantasy/tori) C+ review – Close Contact by Lori Foster (suspense/helyce) C+ review – A Duke in Shining Armor by Lorretta Chase (historical/mandi) C- review – A Crazy Kind of Love by Mary Ann Continue Reading
Review: Mississippi Roll by George R.R. Martin
Mississippi Roll Anthology Edited by George R.R. Martin Series: Wild Cards, #24/ The USA Triad, #1 Science Fiction, Fantasy December 5, 2017 Tor Books Favorite Quote: “This trip just gets weirder and weirder” Reviewed by Tori Now on its final voyage, the historical steamboat Natchez is known for her super-powered guest entertainers. But after the suspicious death of a crewmember, retired NY police detective Leo Storgman decides to make this incident his personal case. His findings Continue Reading