CONTEST IS CLOSED. Winners are: Set 1- Nora HurleySet 2- Michelle DrurySet 3- TerrySSet 4- KareniSet 5- DiscoDollyDebSet 6- Brandi Drapinski All winners have been notified by email. Kini and I have some ARCs sitting on our bookshelves that need good homes. Leave a comment for the set you would like to win. We'll select random winners this Sunday evening. Open to US residents. Set #1Well Met by Jen DelucaWaiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey Set #2No Judgements by Meg Continue Reading
Guest Post by Hailey Turner
Hailey Turner's new novel, A Crown of Iron & Silver - Soulbound III was released on September 10. Hailey stopped by to talk the origin of her love for fantasy. I still remember finding Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce in my middle school library. It was the first book in a quartet about a girl who wants to be a knight, and then pretends to be a boy for years in order to reach her goal. The story stuck with me, and it was the first fantasy book I remember reading and Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
A beautiful English lady falls for a Scottish highlander in this delightful historical romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood. Judith Hampton was as beautiful as she was proud and loyal. Her dear Scottish friend from childhood was about to give birth, and Judith had promised to be at her side. But there was another, private reason for the journey from her bleak English home to the Highlands: to meet the father she had never known, the Laird Maclean. Nothing prepared Continue Reading
Angela’s Tuesday Thoughts
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E HarrowFantasySeptember 10, 2019 by RedhookARC I had zero expectations when I requested this book for review. The cover is what first drew me in and the blurb is what had me hitting the request button. Blurb: In the early 1900s, a young woman searches for her place in the world after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut. In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. Continue Reading
Guest Post: Quirky Heroines by Amanda Weaver
Amanda Weaver's newest novel, Love and the Laws of Motion The Romano Sisters, #2, is out today. Amanda stopped by Smexy to highlight some of her favorite quirky heroines. Livie, the heroine of Love and the Laws of Motion, is brilliant, shy, and just a little bit out of step with the world around her. I loved writing her, because I love quirky heroines. Give me your shy girls, your bookish geniuses, your socially awkward ladies…I love them all. When I sat down to make a list of my Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap- Up
New Releases: Week of September 2-6, 2019 Angela’s Tuesday ARC Reviews: Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore and Lord of the Last Heartbeat by May Peterson Smexy’s September TBR Sheena’s Thursday Tingles! Featuring: Dalliances & Devotion by Felicia Grossman Kini’s Friday Kisses Top Ten 9/6/19 Angela: I'm super busy at work today, but I'm going to the Astros game this evening so I'm excited. Tomorrow we are heading out to move my daughter from Dallas to Florida, so wish me Continue Reading
Top Ten 9/6/19
We made it another week! And to September. How'd most of this year fly by? 10. Kitty Scarlett made it back on the Top Ten. This week was rough for her. My folks were visiting and KS doesn't do well around a lot of people for extended periods of time. She looks too ridiculous in this photo to not share. 9. The Highwomen album released today! I’ve been streaming it all day! I love Maren Morris. And I've been obsessed with Brandi Carlile since I saw her on the Grammy's earlier this Continue Reading
Kini’s Friday Kisses
Need You Now by Molly O’Keefe- Unless you’re new here, (which if you are, welcome) you know that I am a O’Keefe fan girl. When I saw Need You Now, I knew I needed it. It is part of The Debt series. I think I’ve read most of this series. It’s kind of dark y’all. The heroine spends time in a juvenile detention program that puts her in the home of an abuser. If that is a trigger, please do not read this book. It is probably better if you have read at least the first two books in the series to Continue Reading
Smexy Deals! (Sci-Fi/Fantasy Romance Edition)
From global phenomenon C. S. Pacat comes the first novel in her critically acclaimed Captive Prince trilogy.Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos, but when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave. Beautiful, manipulative and deadly, his new master Prince Laurent epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. But in the lethal political web of the Continue Reading
Sheena’s Thursday Tingles! Featuring: Dalliances & Devotion by Felicia Grossman
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