It’s Hard Out Here For A Duke by Maya Rodale Keeping Up with the Cavendishes #4 November 28, 2017 Avon Reviewed by Kini Favorite Quote: “I wanted to hold your hand all day,” he whispered, interlacing his fingers with hers. “Just hold your hand. Like I was yours and you were mine.” This year was the first year I read a historical romance and this is the first one I have reviewed for Smexy. I was drawn to Rodale’s books because they have clever titles and I heard them described as “easy” Continue Reading
Review: Wrong to Need You by Alisha Rai
Wrong to Need You by Alisha Rai (Forbidden Hearts #2) Released: November 28, 2017 Contemporary Romance Avon Reviewed by Mandi Sadia pressed her hand over her heart, hating the swirl of emotion in there. I think I did the same thing, while reading this book, Sadia. Alisa Rai has definitely tuned into the angsty market. If you like forbidden love, some guilt thrown in and overall fretting about choices you have made in your life, this is the book for you. Blurb: He wasn’t supposed to Continue Reading
Review: Holiday Wishes by Jill Shalvis
Holiday Wishes by Jill Shalvis Series: Heartbreaker Bay, 4.5 Contemporary Romance Released: November 7, 2017 Avon Impulse Reviewed by Sheena Quote: “Okay, tough girl,” he said softly, nuzzling at her throat. “No questions. No talking. You go ahead and give ignoring what’s still between us your best shot. I’ll wait right here.” Tis the season for holiday-themed romances. Snowed in lovers, couples reuniting under the mistletoe, finding love on the slopes and HEA's that coincide with Continue Reading
Review: Acting On Impulse by Mia Sosa
Acting On Impulse by Mia Sosa Love on Cue #1 Contemporary Romance August 19, 2017 Avon Impulse Reviewed by Kini Favorite Quotes: I’M STANDING IN the middle of an airplane aisle, inching my way to row 12, when I spot her. I don’t know her name, nationality, age, or occupation, but I know this: Someday I’m going to marry the woman sitting in 12D. AND I need to regroup before I can speak to her. And I refuse to listen to the preflight safety demonstration unless the attendant can teach Continue Reading
Review: Disorderly Conduct by Tessa Bailey
Disorderly Conduct by Tessa Bailey The Academy, #1 Romance Contemporary/Erotic August 29, 2017 Avon Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “No one moves like us, Ever. No one talks to each other without words like us. Don't you know that?” Charlie Burns figured he found the elusive unicorn of all relationships when he meets and engages in a no strings affair with the most beautiful and sexually enticing woman in the whole state of New York-Ever Carmichael. A police cadet currently at the Continue Reading
Review: The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband by Julia Quinn
The Girl With The Make-Believe Husband by Julia Quinn (Rokesbys #2) Released: May 30, 2017 Historical Romance Avon Reviewed by May Cecilia Harcourt is now an orphan, her cousin is odious and taking over the home she’s always known, and now her brother Thomas is missing on the battlefront in the Colonies. What is a girl to do? Why jump the first boat over and when she finds her brother’s friend Edward Rokesby unconscious in the hospital but no sign of her brother – pretend she is his Continue Reading
Review: Wildfire by Ilona Andrews
Wildfire by Ilona Andrews (Hidden Legacy #3) Released: July 25, 2017 Urban Fantasy Avon Reviewed by May I had been hugged by a giant, super intelligent, pacifist bear. I could do this. I could do anything. I just had to walk in and call for a family meeting. Connor “Mad” Rogan and Nevada Baylor are back in the third and final installment of their series. Book two left us with huge questions and open issues – and I am happy to say that in this third installment we do find a fairly Continue Reading
Review: Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai
Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai (Forbidden Hearts #1) Released: July 25, 2017 Contemporary Romance Avon Reviewed by Mandi Favorite Quote: "You never told me why you decided your car is a woman." "Because no man could ever handle my ass for this long." Alisha Rai has a new series and it's angst-filled from page one. I enjoyed it. I've seen it mentioned that this book is like Romeo and Juliet, except with a happy ending. And that is right on target. We have two enemy families, Continue Reading
Review: Mister Hockey by Lia Riley
Mister Hockey by Lia Riley Hellions Angels #1 Contemporary/Sports Romance July 11, 2017 Avon Impulse Reviewed by Kini Favorite Quote: And typical Breezy behavior. On her tombstone it would read: She came. She saw. She made it awkward. Jed West is Mr. Hockey. The captain of the NHL’s latest winning team, the Denver Hellions—and the hottest player on the ice—at least according to every magazine. .and Breezy Angel. Breezy has been drooling over Jed at games for years, and he plays a Continue Reading
Review: The Day of the Duchess by Sarah MacLean
The Day of the Duchess by Sarah MacLean Series: Scandal & Scoundrel, #3 Historical Romance June 27, 2017 Avon Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Would you like to know why I kept the name?” “Yes.” “Because doves mate for life, and I knew there would never be another for me.” Readers have been waiting for this couple’s story since they were first seen in book one-A Rogue Not Taken. Malcolm, the Duke of Haven, is caught at a party in a compromising position with a woman who is Continue Reading