Paranormal romance is the subgenre of my heart for so many reasons, I return to it when I’m stressed, when I’m happy, when I need comfort...so basically all the time. My theory is the genre and the subgenre you originally grew up reading is the one you subconsciously return to. I grew up reading Christopher Pike and Anne Rice so I love paranormal the most. One of the things I enjoy the most about paranormal books is the different powers they get to utilize. I love to see the unusual talents Continue Reading
#RomBkLove 2021 Day 7: Bad Decisions Book Club
By Melanie Have you ever gone to bed and right around the time you should be turning off the lights to go to sleep, decided instead to start a book, promising yourself you’ll only read the first chapter? And then cue to 4 hours later, you’re holding your ereader in one hand and forcibly keeping your eyelids open with the other hand because you’ve only got 50 pages left and you must know how the lovable fools in your book plan to make their way back to each other. No? Just me? Alrighty Continue Reading
Smexy Rewind May 11th
I didn't have any original content for today, so I thought I would take a peek back at what we were talking about on this day in previous years. I actually enjoying looking back at the posts and see what authors are still writing and how things have changes. This look back includes a RomBkLove post from last year and a post about Jacob from New Moon. 2019: Seasoned Romance #rombklove 2017: Review: Borrowed Souls by Chelsea Mueller 2016: Review: The Voodoo Killings by Kristi Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap Up
Here's what happened on Smexy this week. New Releases Angela Tuesday Thoughts- May Historical Romance Edition Wistful/Wanton Wednesday! Review: How to Wake an Undead City by Hailey Edwards Tell Us What You Want to Read on Smexy (Thank you for all the responses so far. I appreciate the time taken and honesty of the answers by those who have already participated. It will stay open through June 11) Review: The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez What's going on in Continue Reading
Seasoned Romance #rombklove
I was in my early 30’s when my love for romance novels really developed. I spent my 20’s reading fiction with romantic elements but once I discovered romance there was so going back for me. I love the love stories. But as I’ve aged, I become more interested in reading love stories that are centered around main characters that are closer to my own age (early 40’s). I find myself having a hard time constantly connecting with main characters in their 20’s. I want to read about main Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap Up
We're bringing the weekly wrap up back. But it will he an enhanced version including not just a wrap up of what had on the site this week, but things/events/general happenings in or around Romancelandia that we wanted to highlight. New Releases Angela's Tuesday TBR Update May TBR Kini's Friday Kisses May is Masturbation Month - our friends at Bawdy Bookworms are celebrating with #RubOneOutBingo. Follow them on Instagram for more info. They also have a Facebook group Continue Reading