Mandi's Mini's Not Just a Friend by Laura Jardine Series: Toronto Friend, #3 Romance Contemporary Grade: C Maya has had really bad luck with men. Between her ex doing horrible things, and going on blind dates with men that turn out badly, Maya is tired of the dating scene. She is lucky to have a friend with benefits in Liam. Knowing each other in school, now as adults, Maya knows she will have a good time with him if need be, and she can leave in the morning with no strings attached. Problem Continue Reading
Review: The Hotter You Burn by Gena Showalter
The Hotter You Burn by Gena Showalter Series: Original Heartbreakers, #2 Contemporary Romance July 28, 2015 HQN Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “When it comes to matters of the heart, the only thing you should want to be temporary is an STD.” Harlow Glass is the town leper. A teenage bully whose childhood was filled with emotional and verbal abuse, she made lives miserable and now she is paying the price. Broke and homeless, she lives in a tent on the outskirts of town and forages Continue Reading
Review: The Closer You Come by Gena Showalter
The Closer You Come by Gena Showalter Series: Original Heartbreaker, #1 Contemporary Romance March, 30 2015 HQN Books Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: Don’t make me count to three! The Closer You Come is the first book in Showalter’s Original Heartbreaker series. When I read the prequel novella, The One You Want, I was instantly hooked on the premise of three bad boys who all settle in a small town in order to try to move forward from a daunting past. Small town southern romances Continue Reading
Review: The Darkest Touch by Gena Showalter
The Darkest Touch (Lords if the Underworld, #11) by Gena Showalter PNR Paperback, 496 Pages November 25, 2014 Harlequin HQN Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Is this part of your motivational speaking? Or can we call this nagging?” Torin, host of the demon Disease, is forbidden from any human contact. His touch only brings sickness and eventual death. When he “accidently” kills a young woman who chose to ignore his warnings, he finds himself targeted by The Red Queen. The Red Continue Reading
Gena Showalter Giveaway!
Blurb: New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter returns with a sizzling Angels of the Dark tale about a winged warrior renowned for his ruthlessness, and the woman who becomes his obsession... A tormented past has left Thane with an insatiable need for violence, making him the most dangerous assassin in the skies. He lives by a single code: no mercy. And as he unleashes his fury on his most recent captor, he learns no battle could have prepared him for the slave he rescues from Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
Hero: Kane. Vessel for the demon Disaster. Kept prisoner in Hell for weeks, he only wants peace but his rescuer has other plans. Heroine: Josephina. A real fairy princess whose family wants her dead. She needs Kane's help and won't take no for an answer. “I like this,” she said on a groan. “Glad.” “I want...the rest...” The words ended on a groan. “Do the rest.” “Soon.” He took over completely. Awed by her—mine, she’s mine, and I can have her, can have this, as many times as I Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten–August 24th
10. Do you guys feel different today? I think we are all different people than last Friday. Why? Because WE’VE SEEN PRINCE HARRY NAKEY!! We’ll discuss shortly. 9. Oh Gideon Cross. Sylvia Day has released the first chapter in book two of her Crossfire series, Reflected in You. Read it HERE!!! Oh this is just crack. "I won't be back until Sunday night, Eva." Oh... I felt a sharp twinge in my belly at hearing we'd be apart that long. Most couples didn't spend every free Continue Reading
Review: Wicked Nights by Gena Showalter
Wicked Nights ( Angels of the Dark #1 ) by Gena Showalter Paranormal Romance June 26, 2012 HQN Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I’m done listening to this meaningless jabber. Team Winger sucks!” Wicked Nights is a spin off of Ms. Showalter’s dark and sexy PNR series, Lords Of The Underworld. Focusing almost entirely on the war between heaven and hell, Ms. Showalter introduces us to a group of winged warriors who are one step away from falling from grace. Disgraced for their Continue Reading
Interview with Gena Showalter and Giveaway
Holla!! It’s Tori. I'm so pleased that I am here today with New York best selling author Gena Showalter to talk about life, books, smexy men, and her newest release-Wicked Nights- #1 in her new series-Angels of the Dark. Hi Gena! (fangirl SQUEEE) Thanks so much for being here with me today at Smexy Books. I adore your Lord Of The Underworld series and smexy men so your Angels of the Dark series excites me in ways I really can’t say on here. Wicked Nights, which is smexy angel Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten–May 11th
10. Today’s Top Ten is brought to you by David ‘Gander.’ (I make myself snort, it’s true) 9. If you haven’t seen it yet, Kresley Cole released her cover for Shadow’s Claim. This will be the first book in her Dacian series (a spin off of her current Immortals After Dark series.) We meet the Dacians briefly in Lothaire. Damn, I like this cover. We have rain, a clawed up shirt, a sword, destruction in the background. Bring. It. On. From Cole’s Facebook Page: Trehan (the master Continue Reading