Contemporary Romance: Shipped by Angie Hockman- Release date 01/19/2021- Billed as "The Unhoneymooners meets The Hating Game", an enemies to lovers on a cruise ship? Yes, please. The Dating Plan by Sara Desai- Release date 03/16/2021- This is the follow-up to The Marriage Game and it features the fake dating trope. Sweethand (Island Bites Book 1) by N.G. Peltier- 03/30/2021- Enemies to lovers who are stuck together for a wedding.... and I really love this cover. The Continue Reading
Melinda’s Most Anticipated of 2021
PNR/Fantasy: The Devil You Know by Kit Rocha. Release Date: 8/31/21 Big Bad Wolf by Suleikha Snyder. Release Date: 1/26/21 Wonderstruck by Allie Therin. Release Date: 2/9/21 Last Guard by Nalini Singh. Release Date: 7/20/21 Historical: The Devil Comes Courting (The Worth Saga) by Courtney Milan. Release Date: 2/9/21 Contemporary: How to be Good by Chace Verity. Release Date: 2/02/21 The Girl With Stars in Her Eyes by Xio Axelrod. Release Date: 4/6/21 Twice Shy Continue Reading
Melanie’s Favorites of 2020
Contemporary: Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert - cinnamon roll heroes were what got me through 2020 and very few authors do it as well as Talia Hibbert. When security guard Zafir Ansari's rescue of PhD candidate Dani Brown during a fire drill gone wrong goes viral (#DrRugbae 4ever), the two decide to fake a public relationship for the sake of Zaf's kids' charity with a side order of sexy times in private. I love the “lets bang to get her out of my system and surely I will not Continue Reading
Smexy’s August TBR
Angela- It's August! I mean it's still 2020, but at least we are inching toward the end of the year. YAY! I'm adding one book that will hit the last week of July to my list because we didn't do a TBR for July and I don't want anyone to forget it's release. Happy almost end of summer! Deal with the Devil (Mercenary Librarians #1) by Kit Rocha 7/28 Fantasy Romance - I practically begged for an ARC for this book, but just when it hit my Kindle I knew I had to hold on to it until the last Continue Reading
Review: Deal with the Devil by Kit Rocha
Favorite Quote: "They don't own you-- that was a lesson I had to learn. They may have made you, but what you do with that will always be your choice. Deal with the Devil is the first book in Kit Rocha's new Mercenary Librarians series. This is also their first book that I've read that wasn't self-published and when I tell you I had to practically beg for a copy, I'm not exaggerating. This book was one of my most anticipated of the year and I was willing to do almost anything for a copy. I Continue Reading
Smexy Deals
Ashwin (Gideon's Riders #1) by Kit Rocha The first book in the follow-up to Kit Rocha's bestselling BEYOND series... Gideon's Riders, Book One Lieutenant Ashwin Malhotra is a Makhai soldier—genetically engineered to be cold, ruthless. Unfeeling. His commanding officers consider him the perfect operative, and they’re right. Now, he has a simple mission: to infiltrate Gideon’s Riders, the infamous sect of holy warriors that protects the people of Sector One. He’s never failed to Continue Reading
New Cover Reveal and Giveaway for Beyond Control by Kit Rocha
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Best selling author Kit Rocha is redesigning the covers for their famed Beyond Series and SmexyBook is excited to be part of their reveal! Below is the NEW cover for Beyond Control-Book 2 (of 9) in the bestselling, multi-award-winning BEYOND series. Isn't it GORGEOUS?? Alexa Parrino fought to escape the gilded cage of Orchid House, the training ground for the sector’s most exclusive--and dangerous--courtesans. Now she enjoys influence and power in Continue Reading
Review: Deacon by Kit Rocha
Deacon by Kit Rocha Gideon’s Riders, #2 Romance/Post Apocalypse/Sci-Fi August 29, 2017 Self Published Favorite Quote: Being worshipped was a double-edged sword. Reviewed by Tori Deacon is one of the few original Riders left and their leader. A self-contained aloof man with a secret bloody past that comes back to haunt him when he is called to a murder scene. Forced to reveal all his secrets, he begins to see that his inability to accept and move beyond his past has inadvertently Continue Reading
Review: Ashwin by Kit Rocha
Ashwin by Kit Rocha Series: Gideon's Riders, #1 Post Apocalyptic/Fantasy/ Romance March 7, 2017 Self Published Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “You’re the exception to every rule.” Lieutenant Ashwin Malhotra is a Makhai soldier--genetically engineered to be cold, ruthless. Unfeeling. His commanding officers consider him the perfect operative, and they're right. Now, he has a simple mission: to infiltrate Gideon's Riders, the infamous sect of holy warriors that protects the people Continue Reading
Joint Review: Beyond Surrender by Kit Rocha
Beyond Surrender by Kit Rocha Series: Beyond, #9 Romance Suspense/Post apocalyptic Self Published Reviewed by Mandi & Tori Beyond Surrender is the ninth and last installment in Kit Rocha’s Beyond series. Nessa, O’Kane princess and ruler of the distillery, finds her sanity and strength tested when she falls for the one man whose only goal is to see Eden fall. The sectors are going to war and nothing will ever be the same again. This post apocalyptic series has been a favorite of Continue Reading