In this USA Today bestselling novel, a woman with power over fire and illusion and the enslaved son of a chieftain battle a corrupt empire in this powerful and deeply emotional romantic fantasy. Every year, each village is required to send a young woman to the Empire's capital--her fate to be burned alive for the entertainment of the masses. For the last five years, one small village's tithe has been the same woman. Gilene's sacrifice protects all the other young women of her Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten 8-14-2020
10. Y'all... I can't. I wasn't prepared either. I was in no way prepared for this Paul Rudd look. I reflexively pulled my feet up into a chair in some kind of defence mechanism idk. pic.twitter.com/2TbIdzUl0c— chloe is fractionally less tired (@KloKlo) July 5, 2018 9. I love this. SOUND ON 🔈We teamed up with Wu-Tang Clan’s @RZA to create a new ice cream truck jingle for a new era. Listen to the full track here: https://t.co/BVhQKNIenI pic.twitter.com/Xu0lg6G3fL— Good Humor Continue Reading
Bookstore Romance Day- Tomorrow August 15th 2020
I don't have any new reviews for you, but I do want to make sure that you know that tomorrow is Bookstore Romance Day. You can see the official Virtual Event Schedule here. Registration is FREE but required to join the live events. All videos will be available later in the day on the RBD YouTube Page I will be moderating the 10 am Coffee Time panel with Mona Shroff, Cara Bastone, and Delores Fossen. Link to register is HERE. Additionally the amazing Linda (@theLindashow) put Continue Reading
Smexy Deals! (Freebie Friday Edition)
A sexy and intense standalone novel from a New York Times bestselling author. This book contains heavy subject matter and is intended for mature readers. Once, the only thing that mattered to me was football—training, playing, and earning my place on the best team at every level. I had it all, and I threw it away with a semester of drugs, alcohol, and pissing off anyone who tried to stop me. Now I’m suspended from the team, on house arrest, and forced to spend six months at home to get my Continue Reading
Smexy Deals
All's faire in love and war for two sworn enemies who indulge in a harmless flirtation in a laugh-out-loud rom-com from debut author Jen DeLuca. Emily knew there would be strings attached when she relocated to the small town of Willow Creek, Maryland, for the summer to help her sister recover from an accident, but who could anticipate getting roped into volunteering for the local Renaissance Faire alongside her teenaged niece? Or that the irritating and inscrutable schoolteacher in charge of Continue Reading
Angela’s TBR Update
Y'all... I have seven thousand books on my ARC spreadsheet to read, but instead, I keep picking up random new releases and books from my TBR that I've been meaning to read instead. Why am I like this? I've been on a historical mystery kick lately, right now I'm alternating between Deanna Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell series and Simone St. James's backlist of wonderful gothic/ghost story mysteries. I'm having so much fun. The Veronica Speedwell Series: A Curious Beginning (A Veronica Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
New York Times Bestselling Author Sarah MacLean returns with the next book in the Bareknuckle Bastards series about three brothers bound by a secret that they cannot escape—and the women who bring them to their knees. The Lady’s Plan When Lady Henrietta Sedley declares her twenty-ninth year her own, she has plans to inherit her father’s business, to make her own fortune, and to live her own life. But first, she intends to experience a taste of the pleasure she’ll forgo as a Continue Reading
Review: You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
This book was seriously exactly what I needed. Reading diversely is important, and reading more than just trauma porn when you read diversely is even more important imo. And this book is exactly that. You Should See Me in a Crown is a YA book with a Black lesbian MC and it’s not traumatic or painful, it’s a typical YA. And truly the book was a joy to read. Liz Lighty is such a relatable character as the girl who doesn’t want to stick out too much – with anxiety when people stare too much at Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap Up
Smexy’s August TBR New Releases: Week of August 3-7, 2020 Review: You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria Kini’ Friday Kisses- Mini Reviews for books by Kathy Douglass, Kate Meader, Kate Stayman-London, and Sarah Hogle Top Ten August 7, 2020 Kini: I am about 55% through You Had Me at Hola and I am really enjoying it. I hope to finish it today, Saturday. The bulk of my review books are for the end of the month so I am probably going to take a quick break and re-read Paradise Cove by Continue Reading
Top Ten August 7, 2020
Welp folks we made another week and in to a new month. Now I bring you some funny/silly/interesting things I saw on the web this week. 10. I feel this in my soul. 9. This video is so cute. It brought me a lot of joy when I watched it many times in a row. 8. Author Rachel Reid tweeted a thing and Ms. Bev had one of the best responses. 7. Curbside Larry is bringing the Big Library Energy we need. 6. This account of what it is like to have a cat is true. 5. Our friends Continue Reading