All of the books in this post I either purchased or were available in KU. All are also self-published. Sweep With Me (Innkeeper Chronicles #4.5) by Ilona Andrews 01/14/2020- I love Ilona Andrews and I especially love this series, so of course I one-clicked the pre-order button when I saw that I was releasing right after the new year. Sweep With Me is a novella length addition to the Innkeeper Chronicles and features Dina, Sean, and Gertrude Hunt. As with any Ilona Andrews book, Continue Reading
Review: Sharpest Sting by Jennifer Estep
Sharpest Sting by Jennifer EstepElemental Assassins #18Urban FantasyOctober 8, 2019 Self PublishedARC Gin Blanco and crew are still going strong eighteen books into the Elemental Assassins series. When we last left the Spider, she had just figured out that her greatest nemesis also happened to be her uncle, yet she was determined to take him and the rest of the Circle down. Sharpest Sting starts off with a bang, and a couple of murders, as you might have guessed. But these murders tip Continue Reading
Review: How to Wake an Undead City by Hailey Edwards
How to Wake an Undead City by Hailey EdwardsThe Beginner's Guide to Necromancy #6Urban FantasyJune 6, 2019 Self PublishedKINDLE * GOODREADS Savannah has fallen to the vampires, and it’s up to Grier to take out their leader, Gaspard Lacroix, and restore peace. Lacroix might be more powerful and immune to her magic, but she’s got a plan. Too bad it’s got holes big enough for a new threat to waltz through while the city is on her knees.Now Grier must risk her very soul if she hopes to slay her Continue Reading
Review: How She Likes it by Carla de Guzman
How She Likes it by Carla de Guzman Romance Contemporary 2018 Midnight Books Reviewed by Kini I picked this book up after seeing it teased on Twitter. Guzman is part of #romanceclass on Twitter and this was my first read by her. The heroine is an heiress and the hero is her assistant. I love when an author uses this trope and I was curious to see how the power dynamic would be portrayed. It was no squicky at all and worked well for me. Isabel is the CEO of a make-up company and in Continue Reading
Seven Smexy Reasons to read Rebel Hard by Nalini Singh!
Rebel Hard by Nalini Singh Hard Play, #2 9/18/2018 TKA Distribution Review by Sheena You guys. Whatever the lung friendly equivalent to smoking a cigarette is, I'm totally doing it. Because how else do you cap off the reading of such a fulfilling, romantic, decadent, beautiful love story? You see, Rebel Hard was destined to be devoured. Not just because Singh is an auto-read, not just because the cover is yum. The blurb folks; the synopsis sang a siren's song to all of my reader senses. Continue Reading
Six Smexy Reasons to Read Block Shot by Kennedy Ryan
Block Shot by Kennedy Ryan Series: Hoops, #2 Released September 10, 2018 Self Published Review by Sheena: Be braced. I read a book I think is vitally important and I love it and I can’t even think about how to collect myself. I'm really trying to pull it together because you need coherency and all I can think of is the precise angle to just start shoving Block Shot into reader's hands and eyeballing (with intensely raised brows) until they finish it! Annnnd that is probably not the Continue Reading
Review: The Duke I Tempted by Scarlett Peckham
The Duke I Tempted by Scarlett Peckham (Secrets of Charlotte Streets #1) Released: July 31, 2018 Historical Romance Self Published Reviewed by Mandi The Duke of Westmead,who also goes by Archer, is in need of a wife. Aren't all dukes?? Archer doesn't want a wife, he doesn't even want a lover. He hasn't kissed or slept with a woman in thirteen years! (Are we perking up now?). After tragedy strikes all those years ago, Archer doesn't know how to handle his grief and turns to a woman who Continue Reading
Review: The Gaucho’s Lady by Genevieve Turner
The Gaucho's Lady by Genevieve Turner Released: July 19, 2018 Historical Romance Self Published Reviewed by Mandi Favorite Quote: "Eliana Sofia Suarez Herrera," he said with deep satisfaction, " you are glorious." I very much enjoyed this book! I've read the historical series that Genevieve Turner co-writes with Emma Barry and have liked a lot - but I've never read Turner on her own. I was intrigued that this book was set in Argentina in 1905. I don't think I've read a romance set Continue Reading
Helyce’s Thursday Thoughts
Awaken the Darkness by Dianne Duvall (Immortal Guardians #8) Paranormal Romance July 10, 2018 Self Published Blurb: He awakens encapsulated in dirt with no knowledge of how he came to be there. Riddled with injuries, he can remember neither his past nor who he is. Nor can he remember what he is. But surely no mortal man could survive being buried deep beneath the earth. All he knows with certainty is that the soothing voice and presence of the woman moving around above enables him to Continue Reading
Review: Getting Schooled by Emma Chase
Getting Schooled by Emma Chase Released: June 26, 2018 Contemporary Romance Self Published Reviewed by Mandi I'm a big Emma Chase fan - from royals to lawyers, her books are some of my favorites. And this is where the "but" comes in. This one has a hero that is just a little too cocky for me. He is a high school teacher and football coach and when his high school sweetheart comes back home, he remembers all those feelings he had for her years ago. Callie returns to her hometown when Continue Reading