How to Fake it in Hollywood by Ava WilderContemporary RomanceJune 14, 2022 by DellARC Review by Angela The first thing I want to say before getting into the meat of this review is that this is another case of the illustrated cover not accurately reflecting the contents of the book. I went into How to Fake it in Hollywood thinking that it would be a lighter rom-com featuring two actors having to fake a relationship for the tabloids in order to pump up their careers. What I got was a much, Continue Reading
Review: Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
Funny You Should Ask by Elissa SussmanContemporary RomanceApril 12, 2022 by Random House - Ballantine, DellARC Review by Kate H. Chana Horowitz is a busy writer in LA, in her thirties and newly divorced. Her successful career as an essayist and interviewer was launched by an interview with Hollywood movie star, Gabe Parker. A decade ago she was given unprecedented access to the actor, and she spends much of a weekend learning about the heart-throb who has been controversially cast as Continue Reading
Review: Getting His Game Back by Gia De Cadenet
Smexy has new reviewers! I'd like to welcome Kate H.! Getting His Game Back by Gia De Cadenet Contemporary Romance January 25, 2022, by Random House - Ballantine, Dell ARC Review by Kate H. The main characters in Gia De Cadenet’s debut novel have a lot on their plates, and that’s even before they meet each other. Vanessa is a dynamic app developer and entrepreneur who is doing well in an industry unused to black women’s leadership. Khalil is the co-owner of a local barbershop Continue Reading
Review: Blackthorne’s Bride by Joan Johnson
Blackthorne's Bride by Joan Johnston Bitter Creek, #4/Mail Order Bride, #12 Historical Romance July 25, 2017 Dell Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Rebuke? Censure? How dare she! Did she know who he was? What he was? Marcus Wharton, the Duke of Blackthorne bought a young girl’s freedom with a gold watch and a knife, saving her from certain death. Instead of sending her home to her family as promised, he sent her to work as a servant on one of his neglected estates with his nephews. Continue Reading
Review: Deeper Than Midnight by Lara Adrian
Deeper Than Midnight (Midnight Breed #9) by Lara Adrian Paranormal Romance June 28, 2011 Paperback Dell Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “You are the finest thing I’ve ever touched.” At the end of Taken By Midnight, Corinne and the other female captives were rescued by the Order from one of Dragos’s holding sites. Deeper Than Midnight starts out with Corinne wanting to go home and see her family after being missing for 70 plus years. Brock, her former bodyguard and member of Continue Reading
Review: Taken by Midnight by Lara Adrian
By Midnight (A Midnight Breed Novel #8) by Lara Adrian Paranormal Romance September 28, 2010 Paperback, 400 Pages Dell Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I may grow to like being a cyborg.” When ex police officer Jenna Darrow first awakes, she doesn’t remember much of what happened except for an unspeakable horror who kept repeating the same sentence over and over to her, “Do you choose life or death?” Though she is alive, she has been changed in ways she cannot even begin to Continue Reading
Review: As Lie The Dead by Kelly Meding
As Lie The Dead (Dreg City #2) By Kelly Meding Urban Fantasy July 27, 2010 Paperback, 416 Pages Dell Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: "The brass no longer controlled me. I was done being their bitch." As Lie The Dead picks up right where Three Days To Dead left off. Evangeline Stone (Evy) and Wyatt have survived the battle with the goblins and are trying make sense of all that happened. When Evy is approached by one of the last surviving Owlkins, Phineas (Phin), and Continue Reading
Review: Shades of Midnight by Lara Adrian
Something inhuman is stalking the frigid Alaskan wilds, leaving unspeakable carnage in its wake. For bush pilot Alexandra Maguire, the killings stir memories of a horrific event she witnessed as a child and evoke in her the inexplicable sense of otherness she has long felt within herself but never fully understood . . . until a darkly seductive stranger with secrets of his own enters her world. Sent from Boston on a mission to investigate the savage attacks and stop the slaughter, vampire Continue Reading