Serving Sin by Angelina M. LopezFilthy Rich #3Contemporary RomanceMay 25, 2021, by Carina Press Review by Melanie Angelina M. Lopez, who burst onto the romantic fiction landscape in 2019 with her debut novel, the delightfully subversive Lush Money, returns to wrap up her Filthy Rich series with the final book in the trilogy, Serving Sin. Set in the fictional Monte del Vino Real, a tiny Spanish principality, the first book focused on Mateo, the future king of the principality and the Continue Reading
Review: Hate Crush by Angelina M. Lopez
Our friend Melinda @melindaedits, is here with a review for Hate Crush by Angelina M. Lopez, out today. Princess Sofia, her female MC in Hate Crush, was introduced to us in Lopez's debut last year, Lush Money. I immediately liked Sofia. She seemed complicated and misunderstood and one of those MCs that the public and paparazzi love to hate when constantly in the public eye. And IRL as well as in books - I am always here for rooting for the underdog, especially when it's a vilified Continue Reading
Excerpt: Hate Crush by Angelina Lopez
Make sure you check back later today for a review of Hate Crush Setup: Tensions have reached a flashpoint between Princesa Sofia and rock star Aish Salinger, and all the emotions the millionaire winemaker has been trying to subsume while performing a fake relationship with a man she hates – a boy who broke her heart – come to a head. Sofia storms down to the darkness of her cathedral wine cellar and Aish, desperate for her love but angry, too, follows her. “What I did to you was the Continue Reading
Guest Post: Subverting the Billionaire Trope by Angelina M. Lopez
My debut romance novel, Lush Money, is about a Mexican-American self-made billionaire businesswoman. I would love to say when I thought her up in 2015, that I was aiming for a trope-subverting heroine; that I anticipated the 2016 election, the #MeToo movement, and the resolve of women and people of color to no longer accept the status quo of being pushed to the background. But I’m just not that wise. I owe much to luck for the gift of Roxanne Medina, the smart and sultry billionaire heroine Continue Reading
Smexy’s October TBR
Angela: I actually have a few more, but by the time this posts I'll have already reviewed them. Look for reviews for The Library of the Unwritten, Aurora Blazing, and The Twisted Ones. They all release on 10/1 and were solid, well written reads. Sharpest Sting by Jennifer Estep 10/8- Ms. Estep is self- publishing her Gin Blanco, Elemental Assassins series now and I'm always afraid I'll miss the next release. This is book #18 and I'm eager to find out what Gin, Owen, the gang are up to now. Continue Reading