Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews The Iron Covenant, #1 Urban Fantasy June 26, 2018 Self Published Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: "As long as you stay here, you have a home. I'll never abandon you." Hugh D'Ambray has been cut loose by his master and pseudo-father, Roland. He wallows in the booze until his will to live and need to save his people overrides his death wish. With no money, shelter, or weapons, the Iron Preceptors have no hope of surviving the necromancers that are Continue Reading
Review: Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean
Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean The Bareknuckle Bastards, #1 Romance Contemporary June 26, 2018 Avon Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: "The darkness has always tempted her. The locks. The barriers. The Impossible." Felicity Faircloth fall from grace has left her and her family in a pickle. From her unfortunate discovery in a man's bedchamber to her involvement with a married man, Felicity has lost her friends and her social standing, becoming yet another flower on the Continue Reading
Tori’s Tuesday Teasers
Here's what I'm reading to share with you next Tuesday... Three Days Missing by Kimberly Belle. July 1, 2018 When Kat Jenkins awakens to the police on her doorstep, her greatest fear is realized. Her nine-year-old son, Ethan, is missing—vanished from the cabin where he’d been on an overnight field trip with his class. Shocked and distraught, Kat rushes to the campground where he was last seen. But she’s too late; the authorities have returned from their search empty-handed after losing Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
Heroine: Lady Euphemia Marlington. Held hostage in a harem for seventeen years, she is back in England and her embarrassed father is forcing her to marry. Hero: Adam de Courtney aka The Murdering Marquess doesn't want to get married again but is in need of an heir. Can these two outcasts find a place with one another? Adam was not accustomed to women wanting to make love in the broad light of day. In general, most of the females he’d bedded had squawked in terror at the first Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
This week at Smexy… Monday, Mandi talked about: C+ review –Untamed Cowboy by Maisey Yates (contemporary) Monday Musings Tuesday, Tori talked about: C+ review – Stray Magic by Kelly Meding (urban fantasy) Wednesday, Sheena talked about: Smexy Snapshots Wishful/Wanton Wednesday Quotes Thursday, Helyce talked about: D review – The Ticket by Aidee Jaimes (contemporary) DNF review – Love Is The Punchline by Kathleen Jones (contemporary) B+ review – Ocean Light by Nalini Continue Reading
Stray Magic by Kelly Meding
Stray Magic by Kelly Meding Strays, #1 Urban Fantasy June 19, 2018 Harper Voyager Reviewed by Tori Agent Shiloh Harrison, a federal marshal in the supernatural world, is half-djinn and half human. Part of a five-man unit that keeps the different species on the straight and narrow, The story starts out on a high note though it levels quickly with Shiloh being called from her boyfriend's bed to a hostage scene. Seems like a group of vampires has taken the residents of Myrtle's Happy Continue Reading
Thursday Mini Reviews
Hi everybody!! Tori here. Due to time constraints from a new job, Helyce was nice enough to let me slide into her space today to review two of my FAVORITE authors, Jennifer Estep and Molly Harper. Venom in the Veins by Jennifer Estep Elemental Assassin, #17 Paranormal Romance June 12, 2018 Self Published Gin Blanco, restauranteur and Ashland's latest boss of its underworld, is shocked when Stuart Mosley, Finn's boss and Gin's friend, is assaulted and almost kidnapped. Between Continue Reading
Review: Ocean Light by Nalini Singh
Ocean Light by Nalini Singh The Trinity #2, Psy-Changeling #17 PNR Berkley June 12, 2018 Favorite Quote: They might only have a fragment of an instant in time, but he’d make that fragment extraordinary. Ocean Light is Bowen Knight's story; the leader of the Human Alliance and one of the leaders in the Trinity Accord. Fans have been expecting his story, straddling the fence and withholding our forgiveness over his past deeds. Bowen had an experimental chip put in that blocks the Psy's Continue Reading
Guest Post: Minerva Spencer Talks about Life, Romance, Writing, & Her Debut Book-Dangerous
SmexyBooks is so happy to welcome author Minerva Spencer to the blog. WELCOME MINERVA!! Minerva Spencer's debut historical romance, Dangerous, releases June 26, 2018. My Journey Down Romance Road . . . I read my first romance novel—THE DEVIL ON HORSEBACK, by Victoria Holt—in seventh grade. I still remember how deliciously shocking the philandering hero was and how I stayed up all night to finish the book. I was hooked. I ripped through all the Holts in the library and Continue Reading
Tori’s Tuesday Teasers
The Varlet and the Voyeur by L.H. Cosway & Penny Reid Rugby, #4 Contemporary Romance June 14, 2018 When William Moore, a sweet and quiet pro rugby player from America, is discovered to be a voyeur, the tabloids have a field day with him. Labeled a pervert and worse, the team decides some PR is needed and Willam agrees to a live-in companion to help him break his need to watch (consensual) couples having sex. Josey Kavanaugh has just learned her parents have lost their life savings in Continue Reading