Coming up in July! I didn’t have a new release read for this week, so let’s take a look at what I’m reading in July! In June I read a romantic suspense/mystery book, a genre that I hadn’t read in a long time, even though I used to read them all the time. I really enjoyed it. I forgot how much fun it is to get into the nitty-gritty details of the story and try to read between the lines for clues to figure out what happened or who the bad guy was. So first up is a Mystery/Thriller by a new Continue Reading
Review: The Highlander’s Promise by Lynsay Sands
The Highlander's Promise by Lynsay Sands Highlanders, #5 Historical Romance June 26, 2018 Avon Reviewed by Sheena There are some things that you just know. The sky is blue. 1 +1 = 2. If you use baking soda instead of baking powder in a recipe, you've fudged up BIG time, and if you write a bearded, scarred, reclusive Highlander with a heart of gold surrounded by glacier ice ad growlyness, if you dare build such a hero, Sheena will come. Sheena will come fast and hard- double-entendre Continue Reading
Sheena’s Wistful/Wanton Wednesday!
Happy Wednesday! Time to get humpin! This week's quote are from an oldie but goodie, Desolation by Bella Jewel. Desolation is the fourth book in Jewel's Joker's Wrath series, a particularly cracky MC series from a few years ago. Heroine, Pippa, sold into human trafficking and forced to work at a remote labor farm, Pippa has had almost everything stripped from her. Chained to a fellow laborer and forced to witness all manners of abuse and atrocity, she's desperate to escape as she knows she Continue Reading
Review: Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews
Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews The Iron Covenant, #1 Urban Fantasy June 26, 2018 Self Published Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: "As long as you stay here, you have a home. I'll never abandon you." Hugh D'Ambray has been cut loose by his master and pseudo-father, Roland. He wallows in the booze until his will to live and need to save his people overrides his death wish. With no money, shelter, or weapons, the Iron Preceptors have no hope of surviving the necromancers that are Continue Reading
Review: Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean
Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean The Bareknuckle Bastards, #1 Romance Contemporary June 26, 2018 Avon Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: "The darkness has always tempted her. The locks. The barriers. The Impossible." Felicity Faircloth fall from grace has left her and her family in a pickle. From her unfortunate discovery in a man's bedchamber to her involvement with a married man, Felicity has lost her friends and her social standing, becoming yet another flower on the Continue Reading
Tori’s Tuesday Teasers
Here's what I'm reading to share with you next Tuesday... Three Days Missing by Kimberly Belle. July 1, 2018 When Kat Jenkins awakens to the police on her doorstep, her greatest fear is realized. Her nine-year-old son, Ethan, is missing—vanished from the cabin where he’d been on an overnight field trip with his class. Shocked and distraught, Kat rushes to the campground where he was last seen. But she’s too late; the authorities have returned from their search empty-handed after losing Continue Reading
Mandi’s Monday Musings
We've about reached the halfway mark in 2018, and I just glimpsed at some of my review books coming up and I thought I'd highlight some that look exciting: Once beloved by London's fashionable elite, Hartley Sedgwick has become a recluse after a spate of salacious gossip exposed his most-private secrets. Rarely venturing from the house whose inheritance is a daily reminder of his downfall, he’s captivated by the exceedingly handsome man who seeks to rob him. Since retiring from the Continue Reading
Review: Six Weeks with a Lord by Eve Pendle
Six Weeks with a Lord by Eve Pendle Historical Romance June 25, 2018 The first chapter in this book is so intense and delicious, I got very excited! But my excitement soon fled as this book loses steam and had a romance that didn't work for me. The reason the first chapter is so striking is the fact that our heroine, Grace Alnott, needs a husband desperately. She comes from trade, her father owned a very large grocer and she has a fifty thousand dollar dowry. Her father really wanted her Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
Heroine: Lady Euphemia Marlington. Held hostage in a harem for seventeen years, she is back in England and her embarrassed father is forcing her to marry. Hero: Adam de Courtney aka The Murdering Marquess doesn't want to get married again but is in need of an heir. Can these two outcasts find a place with one another? Adam was not accustomed to women wanting to make love in the broad light of day. In general, most of the females he’d bedded had squawked in terror at the first Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
This week at Smexy… Monday, Mandi talked about: C+ review –Untamed Cowboy by Maisey Yates (contemporary) Monday Musings Tuesday, Tori talked about: C+ review – Stray Magic by Kelly Meding (urban fantasy) Wednesday, Sheena talked about: Smexy Snapshots Wishful/Wanton Wednesday Quotes Thursday, Helyce talked about: D review – The Ticket by Aidee Jaimes (contemporary) DNF review – Love Is The Punchline by Kathleen Jones (contemporary) B+ review – Ocean Light by Nalini Continue Reading