Smexy has a new reviewer! Everyone welcome Iby! On a Night Like This by Lindsey KelkContemporary RomanceJanuary 18, 2022, by Harper360/ HarperCollinsARC Review by Iby I love a good contemporary British romance book… something halfway between women’s fiction and a romcom, strongly character-driven focused on a woman who needs to make changes in her life. The hero is usually in the background, and the romance is usually slow burn and clean. If you like books by Josie Silver, Mhairi Continue Reading
Excerpt: In Case You Missed It by Lindsey Kelk
Blurb: When Ros comes home after three years away, she’s ready to pick up with life exactly where she left it. But her friends have moved on, her parents have rekindled their romance, and her bedroom is now a garden shed. All of a sudden, she’s swept up in nostalgia for the way things were. Then her phone begins to ping, with messages from her old life. Including one number she thought she’d erased for good – the man who broke her heart. Is this her second chance at one big love? Continue Reading
Kini’s Most Anticipated Reads 2020
First I want to mention that almost all of the books that I am excited about are from traditional publishers because they typically release information about new books several months in advance. If you are indie or self publishing a book, we would love to know about it sooner rather than later so we can get it on our radar! Our request form does not require an ARC. Second, most of these books are from the first half of 2020, with a few from the second half as publishing hasn’t released much Continue Reading
Giveaway: This Scot of Mine by Sophie Jordan
Harper Collins has generously offered to giveaway a copy of This Scot of Mine to two Smexy readers. Comment below with your favorite Marriage of Convenience romance, any genre, must have a HEA, and we will pick two winners at random. Comments from March 12 & 13, 2019 will be considered for the giveaway. US Only. This Scot of Mine by Sophie Jordan releases today, March 12. This Scot of Mine is a story featuring a marriage of convenience. Lady Clara fakes a pregnancy to escape a Continue Reading
Review: Olivia Twist by Lorie Langdon
Olivia Twist by Lorie Langdon Historical Romance/NA March 6, 2018 Harper Collins/Blink Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: Lesson one: Friends are just enemies in disguise. Olivia Brownlow is no stranger to danger. Orphaned at birth and raised in a workhouse as one of the boys, Olivia eventually made her way to the streets and was taken in by a gang of thieves. When a crime goes wrong and she’s caught, she and the intended mark are shocked to discover they're related and he takes Continue Reading
Review: Scorched by Erica Hayes
Scorched by Erica Hayes Urban Fantasy Harper Collins Publishing May 22, 2014 Reviewed by May My name is Verity Fortune. I’m thirty-one years old. I’m not a bad person. Locked in a mental hospital, tortured, and determined to hang on to her sanity Verity has finally found her chance to escape. What she doesn’t realize is her life as a super hero might not be quite the same as it was since she was captured and tortured. Things are different and the only person she can trust just might Continue Reading
Review: Be With Me by J. Lynn
Be With Me (Wait For You, #2) by J. Lynn Romance Contemporary/NA E book, 299 pges February 4, 2014 HarperCollins Reviewed by Tori Teresa Hamilton is having a rough year—she’s in love with her big brother’s best friend, but he hasn’t spoken to her since they shared a truly amazing, mind-blowing, change-your-life kiss. She got out of a terrible relationship. And now an injury is threatening to end her dance career for good. It’s time for Plan B – college. And maybe a chance to convince Continue Reading
Review: Angel’s Ink by Jocelynn Drake
Angel’s Ink (The Asylum Tales #1) by Jocelynn Drake Urban Fantasy Released: October 16, 2012 Harper Voyager Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I had a price to pay for my choices.“ In Low Town, where elves, fairies, trolls, werewolves, and vampires are happily walking among humanity, everything has its price. Gage just wants to run his tattoo parlor and live a quiet fuss free life, but this former warlock is finding out that what he wants and what he’ll get are two very different Continue Reading
Review: Deep Desires by Charlotte Stein
Deep Desires by Charlotte Stein Erotic Contemporary, Novella Released: September 27, 2012 Harper Collins Reviewed by Mandi I think Charlotte Stein has one of the best voices in erotic romance. I always find her heroines so intriguing, so sexually curious, teasing and flirty, and many times they take the reins and show the hero what can be between them. This book is darker though and I really like it. Abbie works as a grocery store clerk and lives in an apartment building called Continue Reading
Review: The Asylum Interviews–Bronx by Jocelynn Drake
The Asylum Interviews: Bronx (The Asylum Tales #0.5) By Jocelynn Drake Urban Fantasy July 3, 2012 Harper Voyager Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Most trolls only have one child.” “Really? Why?” “The mother tends to eat the spares.” The Asylum Interviews is a prequel to Jocelynn Drake’s newest series, The Asylum Tales, which releases its first in the series, Angel’s Ink, in October. In this short novella, we get an introduction to the series main character, Gage, and the Continue Reading