Bringing Down the Duke by Evie DunmoreA League of Extraordinary Women #1Historical Romance September 3, 2019 by BerkleyARC This was a pleasant surprise! I love it when a debut author exceeds my expectations and leaves me looking forward to the next release in the series. Bringing Down the Duke is set in the late 1800s, and features a heroine who has secured a scholarship to Oxford and is involved in the suffrage movement in England. She, quite by accident and without knowing his Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten- August 30
10. Just want to make sure everyone gets a chance to see this Twitter thread because it's magnificent and I spent way too much time last weekend watching these videos. Omg pic.twitter.com/2dw28DxWDL— |L I Z Z O| (@lizzo) August 24, 2019 9. Oprah magazine released their 28 of the Best Romance Novels of 2019 That'll Instantly Have You Addicted. I've read 11 of them. How many have you read? 8. I promised Susan from last week's Top Ten that I would mention The 1st Annual Carroll Rom Com. Continue Reading
Review: How to Love a Duke in Ten Days by Kerrigan Byrne
How to Love a Duke in Ten Days by Kerrigan ByrneDevil You Know #1Historical RomanceAugust 27, 2019 by St. Martin's ARCContent Warning: rape and sexual assault I adore this author, absolutely adore. Kerrigan Byrne writes the MOST emotional, chest-clenching, angsty love stories. Strong heroines and broody heroes who experience sweeping, sensual, all consuming passion for each other. I always think she can't out do herself yet again and she always does. How to Love a Duke in Ten Days is the Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
Enter the world of the Others in the first novel in New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s thrilling fantasy series: a place where unearthly entities—vampires and shape-shifters among them—rule the Earth and prey on the human race.As a cassandra sangue, or blood prophet, Meg Corbyn can see the future when her skin is cut—a gift that feels more like a curse. Meg’s Controller keeps her enslaved so he can have full access to her visions. But when she escapes, the only safe place Meg Continue Reading
Angela’s Tuesday ARC Reviews: The Blacksmith Queen by GA Aiken and Sapphire Flames by Ilona Andrews
The Blacksmith Queen by GA AikenThe Scarred Earth Saga #1Fantasy RomanceAugust 27, 2019 by KensingtonARC The Blacksmith Queen was just what I needed last week. If you are familiar with GA Aiken/Shelly Laurenston then you know how much humor and zaniness are packed into her storytelling. Her over the top characters, the wonderful, sometimes bloody and violent, yet loyal extended family, the broad, interesting worldbuilding, and the fierce women who are the center of everything. THIS IS BOOK Continue Reading
Release Day: OFF LIMITS LOVERS BY REESE RYAN
She's totally off limits: The daughter of his father's nemesis, a jilted bride, and now...his client. But one unexpected kiss sets his world on fire. They're both playing with fire, and someone is about to get burned. Everything is bigger in Texas especially temptation. For attorney and Texas Cattleman’s Club member Roarke Perry, Annabel Currin is about as forbidden as it gets. A just-jilted bride, gorgeously sexy, tender-hearted…and the daughter of his father’s nemesis. The sexual currents Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
Blood might be thicker than water, but venom is stronger than just about anything … It was supposed to be a nice, quiet, simple dinner with friends—but nothing is ever nice, quiet, or simple when you’re Gin Blanco, the Spider, notorious assassin and current queen of the Ashland underworld. This time around, someone seems to be targeting Stuart Mosley, the president of First Trust bank. Lots of people have grudges against Mosley, but the more I investigate, the more Mosley’s problems seem Continue Reading
Guest Post: Divorce in Historical Romance by Felicia Grossman
Marriage (and its flipside, divorce), besides being “what brings us together, today” is one of those odd topics where civil law and religion often blend. Fitting, because I’m both a lawyer and a fairly observant Jew. Even more fitting because I wrote a historical romance featuring a twice divorced Jewish heroine called Dalliances & Devotion. And while my books don’t talk a ton about religion (I mean where’s the space? This is the book has like ten tropes: second chance, bodyguard, Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap- Up
New Releases: Week of August 19-23, 2019 Angela’s Tuesday ARC Reviews: Amy Harmon, Hailey Edwards, and Lorraine Heath Sheena’s Wistful/Wanton Wednesday!- The Alien’s Seduction by Zoey Draven Guest Post: It ain’t heavy, it’s my romance by Ainslie Paton Guest Post: Divorce in Historical Romance by Felicia Grossman Top Ten August 23 Angela: I've had the BEST week of reading. First I read The Blacksmith Queen by GA Aiken and, of course, it was exactly what I needed. Zany, fun, Continue Reading
Guest Post: It ain’t heavy, it’s my romance by Ainslie Paton
Some romances are designed to read like sunshine and lollipops, some to please with sass and snark, or comic situations and big laughs. Some show the storm clouds. Like a lot of authors, I write romance in part to explore issues that interest me. Sometimes that means showing the darker underbelly of storm clouds. I’ve written a mentally ill hero who was homeless, a male nanny, a female executive in a male dominated industry, a tech titan who got sacked from his own company for being a Continue Reading