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Audio Review: Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

September 14, 2022 by Jen 2 Comments

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins ReidSports FictionRandom House AudioAugust 30, 2022 Review by Jen I LOVED Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid!! I listened to this one and was absolutely addicted from beginning to end. In fact, here’s my headline on TJR’s latest, If Netflix turns this into a limited series, it will do for tennis what The Queen’s Gambit did for Chess. It’s that freaking good! And, could the timing be any better with Serena on her farewell tour and the US Continue Reading

Review: Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman

April 13, 2022 by Kate H. 2 Comments

Funny You Should Ask by Elissa SussmanContemporary RomanceApril 12, 2022 by Random House - Ballantine, DellARC Review by Kate H. Chana Horowitz is a busy writer in LA, in her thirties and newly divorced.  Her successful career as an essayist and interviewer was launched by an interview with Hollywood movie star, Gabe Parker.  A decade ago she was given unprecedented access to the actor, and she spends much of a weekend learning about the heart-throb who has been controversially cast as Continue Reading

Review: Getting His Game Back by Gia De Cadenet

January 27, 2022 by Kate H. 3 Comments

Smexy has new reviewers! I'd like to welcome Kate H.! Getting His Game Back by Gia De Cadenet Contemporary Romance January 25, 2022, by Random House - Ballantine, Dell ARC Review by Kate H. The main characters in Gia De Cadenet’s debut novel have a lot on their plates, and that’s even before they meet each other. Vanessa is a dynamic app developer and entrepreneur who is doing well in an industry unused to black women’s leadership. Khalil is the co-owner of a local barbershop Continue Reading

Excerpt of Untouchable by Jayne Ann Krentz

January 10, 2019 by Kini 1 Comment

Krentz's latest romantic thriller released on January 8, 2019. Kindle Goodreads Excerpt: She heard the key in the lock. The door opened. The creep was silhouetted against the light of the hallway fixture, a balding, big-bellied man dressed in an undershirt and trousers. He did not see her sitting there in the shadows of the upper bunk. He moved into the room, heading toward the lower bunk. He reached down and started to pull the covers off of Alice’s thin, huddled Continue Reading

Review: The Passion of Cleopatra by Anne Rice & Christopher Rice

November 22, 2017 by Tori Leave a Comment

The Passion of Cleopatra by Anne Rice & Christopher Rice Series: Ramses the Damned Horror/Supernatural/Fiction November 21, 2017 Random House Reviewed by Tori Ramses, Cleopatra, and Egypt come back to life under the deft hand of Anne Rice and her son Christopher Rice as they pen the long-awaited sequel to her best selling paranormal horror novel-The Mummy: Ramses the Damned. Ramses is not so damned anymore as he and his now immortal lover are engaged to be married. Finally content Continue Reading

Review: The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel

March 8, 2017 by Tori Leave a Comment

The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel Fiction/Mystery suspense Random House, LLC March 7, 2017 Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: "Sometimes you have to pass the pain around in order to survive it." Fifteen-year-old Lane Roanoke didn’t know much about her mother’s family except her mother likened the Roanoke legacy to a nightmare you can never escape from. When her mother commits suicide, leaving a note begging forgiveness for not being able to wait, Lane is sent to live with her grandparents Continue Reading

Review: The Voodoo Killings by Kristi Charish

May 11, 2016 by Tori 1 Comment

The Voodoo Killings by Kristi Charish Series: A Kincade Strange Novel, #1 Urban Fantasy May 10, 2016 Vintage Canada  Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Look kid, I’m not raising a zombie so you can send it to buy beer.” Kincade Strange is a 27-year-old freelance voodoo practitioner living in Seattle, WA. Hard-pressed for funds and pulling seances for bored, rich kids,  Kincade finds herself in the middle of a mystery when she happens upon a zombie who was a famous artist while alive Continue Reading

Review: Everything I Left Unsaid by Molly O’Keefe

October 19, 2015 by Mandi 4 Comments

Everything I Left Unsaid by Molly O'Keefe (#1) Released: October 13, 2015 Erotic Contemporary Random House Reviewed by Mandi Back in May when I went to Dallas for the RT Convention, I heard Molly O'Keefe speak about her upcoming book called Everything I Left Unsaid. All she would say is that it's a dark erotic book about a girl who answers a cell phone. I was hooked. And oddly enough, when I got home from RT, there was a paperback advanced copy waiting for me. I picked it up immediately Continue Reading

Review: Do or Die by Suzanne Brockmann

February 27, 2014 by admin 5 Comments

Do or Die by Suzanne Brockmann (Reluctant Heroes #1) Released: February 4, 2014 Romantic Suspense Random House Reviewed by May On paper, Dunn had come across as the unscrupulous love child of Captain America and James Bond, capable of damn near anything. He was a former Navy SEAL turned international jewel thief- alleged international jewel thief because he’d never been charged for that particular crime. In jail and doing his time peacefully, it is a most unwelcome surprise when Phoebe Continue Reading

Giveaway Time from Loveswept and Bantam!

February 26, 2014 by Mandi 36 Comments

Today I have three recently released books to giveaway and some excerpts to share with you.    Five months have passed since Gladie Burger came to Cannes, California, to join her eccentric Grandma Zelda in the family matchmaking business, and Gladie is quickly mastering the rules of attraction. Her latest fix-up is still going strong and Gladie’s bank account is back in the black—until a rival matchmaker arrives in town and has both Gladie and Zelda seeing red. Not only is Continue Reading

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