Rock Chick by Kristen Ashley - Every book in the Rock Chick series is currently on sale for $1.99. This was the first series I read by this author and what made me fall in love with her. I’ll post links for the rest of the series after the photo and blurb. Indy Savage, cop's daughter, rock chick and used bookstore owner, has been in love with Lee Nightingale, once bad boy, now the man behind Nightingale Investigations, since she was five years old. No matter what ingenious schemes Indy Continue Reading
Guest Review: A Game of Sins (My Wicked Prayers Book 1) by Zurie Brunelle
When I got the review request for A Game of Sins, I knew this was my chance to get my sister Cori -- Resident Sexpert of my now defunct podcast, Romance Romp -- to write her first romance review. As she notes in her bio, she is into the "kinky kinks", so I hoped this book would be up her alley. Take it away, Cori! CW: explicit sex, blasphemy I was more than happy to see what Zurie Brunelle’s Game of Sins brought to the Priest sex game, especially since I’ve recently read Sierra Simone’s Continue Reading
Smexy’s Mid-Year Update: What we’ve read, what we’ve loved, what’s up next
Angela: Hey y'all! It's half way into 2019 and Goodreads says I've read 78 books. My goal is 125 this year, so at the moment I'm ahead of schedule. I'm trying to incorporate more books that have been sitting on my TBR shelf into my reading schedule, but I can't seem to stop requesting review ARCs. I have willpower issues, I know this. Lol. As you can see, I'm a genre jumper. I vary rarely read in the same genre two books in a row. I read a ton of fantasy, urban fantasy, science fiction, Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
A Princess in Theory: Reluctant Royals #1 by Alyssa Cole From acclaimed author Alyssa Cole comes the tale of a city Cinderella and her Prince Charming in disguise . . . Between grad school and multiple jobs, Naledi Smith doesn’t have time for fairy tales…or patience for the constant e-mails claiming she’s betrothed to an African prince. Sure. Right. Delete! As a former foster kid, she’s learned that the only things she can depend on are herself and the scientific method, and a Continue Reading
Angela’s Tuesday Thoughts:
Fix Her Up by Tessa BaileyHot and Hammered #1Contemporary RomanceJune 11, 2019 by AvonARC KINDLE * BN * GOODREADS I can't remember why I set this aside a few weeks ago. Maybe it just wasn't grabbing me at the time or something else had all my attention. But this time when I picked it up I read it straight through to the end and really enjoyed. I have always been a big fan of the brother's best friend trope, throw in a hot has been baseball player who can't stop talking dirty during Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
Building Forever (This Time Forever Book 1) by Kelly Jensen A new town, a new neighbor, and a new chance to build a forever. Charlie King is doing fine. Sure, he’s a widower raising a teenage daughter who just got her first boyfriend, his book series isn’t writing itself, and he has a crush on his new neighbor—the guy next door. But everything’s just fine. Simon Lynley is doing better. He moved to Bethlehem to fall out of love and rebuild his career. An affair with his neighbor isn’t Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
New Releases: Week of July 1-5, 2019 IN MOONLIGHT AND MEMORIES trilogy by Julie Ann Walker, is finally live! Angela’s Tuesday Thoughts- Protect the Prince by Jennifer Estep and TBR update. Smexy’s July TBR Follow up from Smexy Survey Kini’s Friday Kisses Angela: I just finished the second book in VE Schwab's Villain's series and it was even better than the first. I'll have a review for Vengeful next Tuesday. Right now I'm switching back and forth between Tessa Bailey's Continue Reading
Kini’s Friday Kisses
I’m back! I’ve read a few books lately but haven’t quite felt like talking about them. Sometimes even writing mini reviews can feel stressful. Review content warnings: references to emotional abuse, abortion, grief/death Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes- Although not a straight romance, more fiction with romantic elements, it does have a happily ever after. CW: grief, emotional abuse by an intimate partner & parent. The heroine, Evvie like Chevy, is a widow but she is not Continue Reading
Follow up from Smexy Survey
In late May I posted a survey of sorts to learn more about the Smexy readership and I am thankful for all the responses. As I mentioned the blogging landscape has really changed and continues to change. We can barely keep up! I promised I would respect the privacy of the respondents but I do want to share some very general things that we learned/confirmed. First, y’all really miss the Friday Top Ten. We are going to bring that back. Look for it soon. It might be the Top 5 or Top 8, but it Continue Reading
Smexy’s July TBR
Angela: I have some great ARCs to read this month and I'm going to try to and fit in a few from my TBR pile as well. Protect the Prince by Jennifer Estep 7/2- I also had this on last month's TBR post because I got the release date mixed up. Maybe I have too many ARCs sitting on my Kindle. LOL. Anyway, I loved the first book in the series and can't wait to get back to this world. Stolen Desire by Robin Lovett 7/15 - If you love SUPER sexy sci-fi romance and you aren't reading this Continue Reading