A Touch of Flame by Jo Goodman Releases: June 5, 2018 Western Historical I loved this book. It's not the fastest paced, or the sexiest but it completely worked for me. Our hero is Ben Madison, who is the newly elected sheriff of Frost Falls, Colorado. Taking place in 1898, Ben is the most easy-going, never-to-get-riled hero I've read. That doesn't mean he is stupid or doesn't care, he just likes to observe and play along real nice with the folks, to keep everyone peaceful and happy. He puts Continue Reading
Tori’s Tuesday Musings
**We are going to try a new format at Smexy. Each day, one reviewer will post all the books she has read in the past seven days. Sometimes it may be long reviews like you are used to seeing. Sometimes they will be mini reviews. This gives each reviewer a week to read books, and their own day to talk about them. Mandi is Monday, Tori Tuesday, Sheena Wednesday, Helyce Thursday and Kini Friday. The Top Ten will be coming back this week, and we will still post a wrap-up and Smex Scene over the Continue Reading
Review: The Other Lady Vanishes by Amanda Quick
The Other Lady Vanishes by Amanda Quick Burning Cove, #2 Romance Suspense/Historical May 8, 2018 Berkley Reviewed by Tori Amanda Quick's second Burning Cove installment takes us back to the opulent world of Hollywood stars and roaring 30s when Adelaide Blake escapes a sanitarium only to discover a vast conspiracy of drugs, blackmail, and murder surrounding her false confinement. Unable to trust anyone for help in finding out the reasons behind her confinement, she finds herself relying Continue Reading
Review: How to Marry a Werewolf by Gail Carriger
How to Marry a Werewolf by Gail Carriger (Claw & Courtship #1) Released: May 13, 2018 Historical Paranormal Self Published Reviewed by Mandi Gail Carriger writes such cute, quirky books and in this novella (although it felt like a long novella) she gives us a grumpy werewolf hero and a human heroine who loves to collect rocks. Faith had an indiscretion with a werewolf in Boston (it's hinted at in the blurb and you will learn more about it as you read) and her family shuns her and Continue Reading
Review: A Duke Like No Other by Valerie Bowman
A Duke Like No Other by Valerie Bowman Series: The Playful Brides, #9 Historical Romance Released: May 1, 2018 St. Martin's Paperbacks. Reviewed by Sheena Favorite Quote: “Is your horse named Zeus, after a man who ruined the lives of most of the people around him?” Mark’s lips quirked. “...No...Zeus was a god, not a man.” His lips spread open into an unrepentant grin. “Are you comparing me to a god?” “We’re speaking about your horse, not you,” she replied before snapping shut her Continue Reading
Review: House of Cads by Elizabeth Kingston
House of Cads by Elizabeth Kingston (Ladies of Scandal #2) Released: April 26, 2018 Historical Romance Self Published Reviewed by Mandi Favorite Quote: "Oh Mr. Mason," she murmured, a sweet but faint note of compassion in her voice. "Of course it is very unfair to you, that so many women have let you believe this puppy dog look will always work." She clucked her tongue consolingly. "You poor man." Oh, he liked her. Adorable book alert!! New-to-me author Elizabeth Kingston has Continue Reading
Review: It Happened in the Highlands by May McGoldrick
Tempest in the Highlands by May McGoldrick The Pennington Family, #2 Historical Romance Released: March 27, 2018 Swerve Reviewed by Sheena It Happened in the Highlands is a second chance romance that simultaneously hit and missed core marks. I like second chance romance, something about characters finding their way back to one another despite time and distance has always appealed to me. In this novel, Jo, an adopted young woman is jilted days before her wedding, her intended a Continue Reading
Mandi Actually Read a Book on Vacation! (and liked it)
Usually when I go on vacation, I maybe read one chapter. Just one lonely chapter. I find myself getting caught up with my kids or doing things like - not relaxing in a chair so I can read. But this most recent vacation lacked my children and had plenty of lounging by the pool time - so I read an entire book and a half! (I probably would have read more if I didn't have tequila in my other hand at all times). I win at life. (also lose at life after I discovered a humongous cockroach in my 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: What a Highlander’s Got to Do by Sabrina York
What a Highlander's Got to Do by Sabrina York Untamed Highlanders #5 Historical Romance Released: March 6, 2018 Swerve Reviewed by Sheena Favorite Quote: Against her will, her frown tipped into a smile. And when he smiled back, she nearly swooned. Which was annoying. She was hardly a swooning sort. What a Highlander's Got to Do is the latest superb entry in the addictive Untamed Highlander's series. This is a very "new reader" friendly series and while knowledge of the earlier Continue Reading