Say You’ll Be Mine by Naina KumarContemporary Romance January 16, 2024 by Dell Review by Melanie I always find it increasingly difficult to review books that aren’t 5 stars or 1 star but just sort of fall into that middle category that I like to label as forgettably meh or as my friend Melinda would term, “aggressively fine.” The real problem with this book actually lies with me because it’s time I finally admit that I just don’t care about the fake relationship trope in contemporary Continue Reading
Review: Will They or Won’t They by Ava Wilder
Will They or Won't They by Ava WilderContemporary RomanceJune 27, 2023 by Dell Review by Melanie I was a huge fan of Ava Wilder’s debut novel and was especially intrigued by the premise of her second novel, Will They or Won’t They, which, based on its description, happens to be a second chance romance, one of my favorite tropes. One could argue that it’s also an enemies-to-lovers trope but I would say this is more of a costars to casual sex to secretly pining to antagonistic costars to Continue Reading
Review: The Proposition by Madeleine Roux
The Proposition by Madeleine RouxHistorical RomanceRandom House, Ballantine DellAugust 2, 2022 Review by Kate H. The Proposition by Madeline Roux is set in the early 19th century in Sussex countryside, as well as London. It has a dastardly villain in Lord Boyle, who you will detest throughout the novel, especially for his ability to fool almost everyone. Clemency is the FMC and she is strong-headed, but a bit naive having grown up in the countryside. At the beginning of the novel, she Continue Reading
Review: How to Fake it in Hollywood by Ava Wilder
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