Angela: I expect to be mad at myself after this post goes live and people start reminding me of books that I forgot to add to my list. For now, this is my most anticipated for the second half of 2021. I reserve the right to add books in the comments section. LOL. Devil in Disguise (Ravenels Book 7) by Lisa Kleypas- 07/27/2021 Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia- 08/17/2021 Battle Royal: A Novel by Lucy Parker- 08/17/2021 Bombshell: A Hell's Belles Novel by Sarah Continue Reading
Sunday Smexy Deals!
“Second First Impressions is the warmest, coziest, sweetest book of the year, an absolutely perfect blend of humor and heart. I want to live inside Sally Thorne’s brain.” —Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling of Beach Read From the USA Today bestselling author of The Hating Game and 99 Percent Mine comes the clever, funny, and unforgettable story of a muscular, tattooed man hired as an assistant to two old women—under the watchful eye Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
Mid-Year Update: What We’ve Loved So Far… Review: Determining Possession by Christina C. Jones New Releases: Week of June 28- July 2, 2021 Review: The Devil and the Heiress by Harper St. George Pride Giveaway Winner! Backlist Review: You First by J.C. Lillis Review: Freed by E L James Audible Original Review: What the Hex by Alexis Daria Smexy’s Happy Friday! Have a great weekend! Continue Reading
Smexy’s Happy Friday!
Just a few things I found around the internet that made me smile!
This popped up on my timeline again, which means I have to share
This dog playing the piano and singing alongside his little buddy is the Twitter content I’m here for…pic.twitter.com/KJombg6Rfb— Rex Chapman
(@RexChapman) June 28, 2021
Flash mob!
Needed this…. https://t.co/RxaGYvaidu— Jamie Gangel (@jamiegangel) June 24, 2021
Just a miniature Freddie Mercury.
This little one doing Continue Reading
Smexy Deals
Never, ever fall for your brother’s annoying, infuriating, gorgeous best friend. Gia Norcross’ life is exactly how she likes it. She has a successful PR firm in San Francisco, a beautiful apartment, a loving family of overprotective brothers, and her fabulous designer shoe collection. Perfection. Sure, occasionally she has to deal with her aggravating nemesis who happens to be her brother’s best friend. Saxon Buchanan: tall, rich, handsome, bossy, and knows how to work her last Continue Reading
Audible Original Review: What the Hex by Alexis Daria
What the Hex by Alexis DariaContemporary PNRJuly 1, 2021, by AudibleAudio ARC Review by Melinda Another well-done Audible Original with a fantastic narrator, Jacqueline Grace Lopez. Basically audiobooks can live or die entirely on who narrates them, and Jacqueline added so much to this experience. It’s even more impressive that when I looked her up to see what else I could find that she narrated this was her debut! Her Spanish added a lot to the context of the book. This is a Continue Reading
Smexy Deals
I have loved Channing Monroe all my life. In first grade, he asked for my Trapper Keeper.I hit him in the head with it.Third grade, we were best friends. We kissed in seventh grade.Eighth grade, he turned into a bad boy and the rest was a tumultuous storm. Growing up, the problem was never love for us.Bad times. Good times. There were times when I felt our love in every inch of my body, vibrating, making me feel like it could bring me back to life. The problem was us. The problem is Continue Reading
Review: Freed by E L James
Freed by E.L. James50 Shades as Told by Christian #3Contemporary June 1, 2021, by Bloom BooksReview by Jen Freed by E L James is the third book in the 50 Shades series told from the voice of Christian Grey. Let me set the stage, 50 Shades came out in 2011 and I read the series three times. I read it the first time because I was seeing it quietly posted about in some forums and blogs. I could tell it was going to be a big thing. Women were gushing about it, but a bit embarrassed that they Continue Reading
Backlist Review: You First by J.C. Lillis
You First by J.C. LillisLGBT Contemporary PNRMay 23rd, 2019 - Self-PublishedPurchased Reviewer: Melinda You First by J.C. Lillis is not exactly a genre Romance in my opinion because it doesn’t exactly have the typical HEA. But I still really enjoyed and recommend this book but I always want readers to know what they’re getting into! The blurb uses the word bittersweet and I think there isn’t a more perfect word to describe both the romance and the book. Levon Ludlow is a D-level Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
I don’t love him. I don’t even like him.I just want him. Eli Loveless was my nemesis from the first day of kindergarten until we graduated high school. Everything I did, he had to do better - and vice versa. The day he left town was the best day of my life. Ten years later, the day he came back was the worst. Now he’s my co-worker. Grown-up Eli Loveless is sexy as sin. He’s hotter than asphalt in the summer. The irritating kid I once knew is gone, and he’s been replaced by a man with Continue Reading