I'd love to greet you all and thank you for checking out this feature, but there is no time for that. No time! None! All of the minutes, seconds, nanoseconds I'm hording for the express purpose of sharing how FREAKING cute, bad ass, funny, sexy and enjoyable this book is! OHMYGOSHITSSODAMNFUN! First of all. Blurb. After two disastrous marriages, beauty columnist Amalia Truitt's life is finally her own—well, it will be if she can get herself back to Delaware and demand access to her share of Continue Reading
Smexy’s September TBR
Angela: I have so many books on my TBR this month I don't even have room to list them all. LOL. Lord of the Last Heartbeat by May Peterson 9/2- I saw someone tweet about this book months ago and knew I had to read it. A m/m fantasy romance put out by Carina Press, who quite frankly has published some of my favorite reads in the last few years. Here's a line from the blurb: In a world teeming with mages, ghosts and dark secrets, love blooms between the unlikely pair. But if they are to be Continue Reading
Wistful/Wanton Wednesday: Fire in Her Eyes by Ruby Dixon
Cool cover- check. Post-apocalypticish paranormally romance with strong female lead- check. Ruby Dixon. Checkity, check, check, check! I've so (so!) been looking forward to this book and it did not disappoint. These kind of stories tend to lean heavily on reliable trope: alien male finds his one true human mate, he glowers, she fights it, and by then end we are all swooning. Fire in Her Eyes, turns the tables and the otherworldly Drakoni protagonist is a dangerously protective and Continue Reading
Wistful/Wanton Romance: Bound to the Battle God by Ruby Dixon
Lucky for me, one of my favorite authors has a release schedule that keeps fresh, fun material in my hands on a nearly monthly basis. Lucky for you, I can never wait to come share the latest release and lucky for us, we can all enjoy it together! Best known for her sci-fi, Alien super sexy trope, Ruby Dixon takes on epic fantasy and builds a world that fills the chasm between Gods and Mortals and we see exactly what happens when their worlds collide and they dare fall in Continue Reading
Four reasons to start the Four Horseman series by Laura Thalassa
The Four Horsemen series by Laura Thalassa is all of the sexy, epic fantasy that I've been missing during my most unwanted reading slump. Aside from the occasional highlight (hello, all things Nalini Singh and the always reliable Kennedy Ryan and Ruby Dixon) it's been a rather 'meh' reading year. And then I see this gorgeous cover for War on my timeline, and I'm reminded that I've yet to read book 1, Pestilence of the Four Horseman series, that's been perched on my shelf for months. I knew War 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
Here's what happened on Smexy this week: New Release Monday Angela’s Tuesday Thoughts- Give Up the Ghost by Jenn Burke and TBR update Release Day Excerpt: Waiting For Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey Guest Post: Queer Romance Recs for your Pride Month Reading by Layla Reyne Once Upon a Wedding- Guest Post by Barbara Samuel Kini’s Friday Kisses From Kini: What's Happening in Romancelandia? I went on a road trip last week to visit my family in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Midwest is Continue Reading
Wistful/Wanton Wednesday
Happy Hump Day! This weeks sensual snippets are from a blast from the past that I came across scrolling my Kindle shelf- studiously avoiding my monster TBR behemoth pile. Storm Born by Richelle Mead caught my eye and I was instantly inundated with waves of nostalgia. Storm Born is the first book of the Dark Swan series, a urban fiction romancey series that is one of the absolute best of its kind. Give Storm Born its roses! It truly deserves! An absolute page turner from beginning to end. A Continue Reading
Snarky Smexy Saturday
Happy Saturday! I love weekends when I can relax, unwind and disappear into one of my many fictional escapes. I'm dedicating today to all of my snarky heroines out there who have given me hours of pleasure and the sorest of sides from laughter. One of my all time fav heroines who delivers her snark and her sex with vigor- Chicagoland's, Merit! Merit was a coed, targeted and marked for death, and saved by the bite of a Master Vampire, Ethan. Oh, baby, Ethan. I love you LONG time! Hands Continue Reading
Sheena’s Favorite Books for 2017 & Giveaway
2017 was definitely a year of highs and lows, disappointments and pleasant surprises; and in a way it felt very polarizing. As I look over all the books I've read this year, not too many landed in the middle for me. I loved or I loathed, with only a few middling "mehs"s sprinkled between. I rage read a couple of books that I couldn't bring myself to completely ignore (I'm looking at you J.R. Ward's The Chosen) and I was blindsided by one of my most anticipated reads seriously lacking in the Continue Reading