He burns for her. Lucky for him, she likes to play with fire. . . My name is Eddie Rosas, but everyone calls me Trouble. Since I got out of prison six months ago, I’ve had one goal: find my father, whatever the cost. My older brother says I need to move on. He also wants me to leave our gang, East Side Hollenbeck, and go straight, but I can’t—not until I uncover the truth about our family and its missing piece. One problem? I’m distracted. My distraction’s name is Carmen Centeno. Smart, Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
New Releases: Week of July 8- 12, 2019 Angela’s Tuesday Thoughts Smexy’s Mid-Year Update: What we’ve read, what we’ve loved, what’s up next Guest Post: Road Trip Essentials by Mimi Grace Guest Review: A Game of Sins (My Wicked Prayers Book 1) by Zurie Brunelle Kini: This week has felt like it was 74 days long. But I survived. I read a months worth of books in a week and now I am taking a few days off from reading. I included most of them in my post last Friday. One of which was Continue Reading
Guest Review: A Game of Sins (My Wicked Prayers Book 1) by Zurie Brunelle
When I got the review request for A Game of Sins, I knew this was my chance to get my sister Cori -- Resident Sexpert of my now defunct podcast, Romance Romp -- to write her first romance review. As she notes in her bio, she is into the "kinky kinks", so I hoped this book would be up her alley. Take it away, Cori! CW: explicit sex, blasphemy I was more than happy to see what Zurie Brunelle’s Game of Sins brought to the Priest sex game, especially since I’ve recently read Sierra Simone’s Continue Reading
Guest Post: Road Trip Essentials by Mimi Grace
Debut Author, Mimi Grace is stopping by Smexy today with her list of road trip essentials. Mimi's book, Along for the Ride is out on July 16. When Jolene Baxter offered to help her sister and brother-in-law move halfway across the country, she didn’t foresee the last minute changes that would leave her making the journey with the one person she can’t stand, Jason Akana. Their interactions are strained from a heated confrontation five years prior, but adding car problems, a pit Continue Reading
Smexy’s Mid-Year Update: What we’ve read, what we’ve loved, what’s up next
Angela: Hey y'all! It's half way into 2019 and Goodreads says I've read 78 books. My goal is 125 this year, so at the moment I'm ahead of schedule. I'm trying to incorporate more books that have been sitting on my TBR shelf into my reading schedule, but I can't seem to stop requesting review ARCs. I have willpower issues, I know this. Lol. As you can see, I'm a genre jumper. I vary rarely read in the same genre two books in a row. I read a ton of fantasy, urban fantasy, science fiction, Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
A Princess in Theory: Reluctant Royals #1 by Alyssa Cole From acclaimed author Alyssa Cole comes the tale of a city Cinderella and her Prince Charming in disguise . . . Between grad school and multiple jobs, Naledi Smith doesn’t have time for fairy tales…or patience for the constant e-mails claiming she’s betrothed to an African prince. Sure. Right. Delete! As a former foster kid, she’s learned that the only things she can depend on are herself and the scientific method, and a Continue Reading
Angela’s Tuesday Thoughts:
Fix Her Up by Tessa BaileyHot and Hammered #1Contemporary RomanceJune 11, 2019 by AvonARC KINDLE * BN * GOODREADS I can't remember why I set this aside a few weeks ago. Maybe it just wasn't grabbing me at the time or something else had all my attention. But this time when I picked it up I read it straight through to the end and really enjoyed. I have always been a big fan of the brother's best friend trope, throw in a hot has been baseball player who can't stop talking dirty during Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
Building Forever (This Time Forever Book 1) by Kelly Jensen A new town, a new neighbor, and a new chance to build a forever. Charlie King is doing fine. Sure, he’s a widower raising a teenage daughter who just got her first boyfriend, his book series isn’t writing itself, and he has a crush on his new neighbor—the guy next door. But everything’s just fine. Simon Lynley is doing better. He moved to Bethlehem to fall out of love and rebuild his career. An affair with his neighbor isn’t Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
New Releases: Week of July 1-5, 2019 IN MOONLIGHT AND MEMORIES trilogy by Julie Ann Walker, is finally live! Angela’s Tuesday Thoughts- Protect the Prince by Jennifer Estep and TBR update. Smexy’s July TBR Follow up from Smexy Survey Kini’s Friday Kisses Angela: I just finished the second book in VE Schwab's Villain's series and it was even better than the first. I'll have a review for Vengeful next Tuesday. Right now I'm switching back and forth between Tessa Bailey's Continue Reading
Kini’s Friday Kisses
I’m back! I’ve read a few books lately but haven’t quite felt like talking about them. Sometimes even writing mini reviews can feel stressful. Review content warnings: references to emotional abuse, abortion, grief/death Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes- Although not a straight romance, more fiction with romantic elements, it does have a happily ever after. CW: grief, emotional abuse by an intimate partner & parent. The heroine, Evvie like Chevy, is a widow but she is not Continue Reading