I have been an active member of Romance Twitter for at least five years and reviewing for about three years. Going to the RWA conference has been a dream for a while. It was absolutely a dream come true. To be surrounded by so many romance people just felt so affirming. I arrived on Thursday. Thursday, Friday and Saturday were packed with bookish things and romance people. Seriously it was kind of amazing. Every single person I met was absolutely amazing. Although a lot of people were also Continue Reading
Mini Reviews: The Molly O’Keefe/Fader Edition
Hi friends! I has been a long time since I wrote any sort of review. But July was a busy month for me. Almost everyone in my family has a July birthday. My son moved out of his apartment and back home! And I had to get ready for RWA. (Which was an amazing experience from which I am still recovering) Amidst all that I managed to read a few books. Two I want to highlight here are The McAvoy Sisters Book of Secrets by Molly Fader and One Last Chance by Molly O’Keefe. Molly Fader is a pen name of Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap Up (8/3)
New Releases: Week of July 29- August 2, 2019 Angela’s Tuesday Thoughts Four Meaningful Words by A.M. Gilliams- Release Day Wistful/Wanton Romance: Bound to the Battle God by Ruby Dixon Smexy’s August TBR Smexy’s Top Ten- August 2 Kini: I am still recovering from RWA. It was absolutely amazing to meet pocket friends in real life. But everything about NYC is exhausting. I am slowing recovering. I finished Down Too Deep by J. Daniels earlier this week. It was good. Widower Continue Reading
Smexy’s August TBR
Angela- I have tons of great ARCs for this month and I want to dig in to all of them right now. The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai 8/6- Alisha Rai is one of my go-to, must-have, auto-buy authors and I love her. This story about two rival dating app creators sounds amazing and I can't wait to read it this week. The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare 8/13- If this book is half as cute as the previous book in this series, The Governess Game, I know I'll be in heaven. The First Girl Child by Amy Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
New Releases: Week of July 15-19, 2019 Angela’s Tuesday Thoughts Author Q & A: Helena Hunting Talks about Making Up Reader Feature Smexy’s Top Ten- July 19, 2019 Angela: I am so tired. Lol. It's been a week. I did do quite a bit of reading, finished One Fine Duke by Lenora Bell and really loved, I'll have a review up on Tuesday. I dipped back into the Innkeeper universe and reread Maud's story in Sweep of the Blade, and I managed to sneak in the third and fourth books in Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
New Releases: Week of July 8- 12, 2019 Angela’s Tuesday Thoughts Smexy’s Mid-Year Update: What we’ve read, what we’ve loved, what’s up next Guest Post: Road Trip Essentials by Mimi Grace Guest Review: A Game of Sins (My Wicked Prayers Book 1) by Zurie Brunelle Kini: This week has felt like it was 74 days long. But I survived. I read a months worth of books in a week and now I am taking a few days off from reading. I included most of them in my post last Friday. One of which was 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
Weekly Wrap-Up
New Releases: Week of June 24- 28, 2019 Angela’s Tuesday Thoughts: Kingdom of Exiles and Her Other Secret Smexcerpt: Deadlock by Cherrie Lynn Excerpt from Her Other Secret by HelenKay Dimon Angela- I FINALLY read Vicious by VE Schwab (it's been on my TBR forever) and omgoodness… I can not believe I waited so long. Death, super powers, two old school roomies, one is a villain and one an anti-hero, a mixed up time line that I had work to keep straight in my head and an ending I Continue Reading