This week at Smexy… A review – Archangel's Assassin by Barbara Elsborg (paranormal mm/helyce) B review – Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu (fiction ya/tori) C+ review – The House on Foster Hill by Jaime Jo Wright (mystery romance inspirational/tori) C+ review – West Coast Love by Tif Marcelo (contemporary/mandi) C+ review – Sniper's Devotion by Christa Tomlinson (contemporary mm/mandi) C review – To the Duke, with Love by Amelia Grey (historical/sheena) C review – Spartan Heart by Jennifer Continue Reading
Review: It’s Hard Out Here For A Duke by Maya Rodale
It’s Hard Out Here For A Duke by Maya Rodale Keeping Up with the Cavendishes #4 November 28, 2017 Avon Reviewed by Kini Favorite Quote: “I wanted to hold your hand all day,” he whispered, interlacing his fingers with hers. “Just hold your hand. Like I was yours and you were mine.” This year was the first year I read a historical romance and this is the first one I have reviewed for Smexy. I was drawn to Rodale’s books because they have clever titles and I heard them described as “easy” Continue Reading
Review: Spartan Heart by Jennifer Estep
Spartan Heart by Jennifer Estep Series: Mythos Academy Colorado, #1 Urban Fantasy/YA December 5, 2017 Self Published Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: The first day of school is always the worst. School just started and Rory Forseti already knows it going to be a bad one. A spartan at the Mythos Academy in Colorado, she becomes persona non grata when it’s revealed her parents were famous Reaper assassins. Even her heroics in helping to defeat Loki and his minions last Continue Reading
Review: West Coast Love by Tif Marcelo
West Coast Love by Tif Marcelo (Journey to the Heart #3) Released: December 11, 2017 Contemporary Romance Pocket Star Reviewed by Mandi This series has been fun because it usually centers around food. I like food. I tend to start craving whatever food the protagonists are eating. I've been known to rush to the kitchen to make biscuits and tea. In this book, it's all about BBQ. And all I wanted to do was eat meat! Damn it. Victoria, or Vic, (the sister of the heroine in book two), Continue Reading
Review: The House on Foster Hill by Jaime Jo Wright
The House on Foster Hill by Jo Wright Mystery Suspense/Romance/ Inspirational September 2017 Baker Publishing Group Reviewed by Tori Ivy Thorpe is a memory keeper of sorts. Still in mourning over the loss of her brother, Ivy helps her father with his coroner duties while making sure the dead that pass through his office are named and remembered. When a young woman is found dead in a tree trunk, Ivy makes it her mission to discover the girl’s name, especially when they learn she had Continue Reading
Review: Sniper’s Devotion by Christa Tomlinson
Sniper's Devotion by Christa Tomlinson Released: November 7, 2017 M/M Contemporary Romance Self Published Reviewed by Mandi Blurb: Officer Hector Castillo, a sniper on Houston’s elite SWAT team, is content living alone as a perpetual bachelor. But when he opens up his small apartment to a friend in need, their close quarters awaken long suppressed desires Hector can’t help but acknowledge. Miguel Delgado’s unfortunate detour down a road he never intended to travel ends in a big wake Continue Reading
Merry Berkley Bookmas from SmexyBooks and Tamsen Parker!
Smexy Books is so excited to participate in #BerkleyBookmas and we’re so happy to host the very talented Tamsen Parker with an exclusive deleted holiday scene from her best selling erotic romance-School Ties. Berkley Bookmas is chock full of exclusive content from authors like exclusive excerpts, deleted scenes, author recipes and more! Check out the calendar of events below: A Hawthorn Hill Christmas by Tamsen Parker Erin It’s our second Christmas together, and I cannot wait Continue Reading
Review: Archangel’s Assassin by Barbara Elsborg
Archangel’s Assassin by Barbara Elsborg Paranormal M/M Romance December 2, 2017 Self Published Reviewed by Helyce Tao wakes up in the middle of a park with no memory of who he is. While he does know where he is and some basic survival type things like needing to find shelter and food, he can’t remember anything before waking in the park. He had a bracelet on with the word “Tao” on it which he assumes is his name and so he calls himself this. He hates that he’s forced to panhandle, but Continue Reading
Review: Love on the Tracks by Tamsen Parker
Love on the Tracks by Tamsen Parker Snow & Ice Games #1 New Adult/Sports Romance December 5, 2017 Swerve Reviewed by Kini I am a big fan of Parker’s books as tends to write a solid and usually emotional story and frequently pushes the boundaries of my comfort to the edges. The blurb alludes to a fake relationship between a female participant of the Snow & Ice Games and a boy band member, I imagined both H/H would be younger but was a little surprised when I found out the heroine Continue Reading
Review: To the Duke, with Love by Amelia Grey
To the Duke, with Love by Amelia Grey Series: The Rakes of St. James, #2 Historical Romance Released: December 5, 2017 St. Martin's Press Reviewed by Sheena Favorite Quote: "I figure if a man can't tie his own neckcloth and needs a valet to do it for him, he probably can't stable his own horse." Sloane Knox, the Duke of Hawksthorn is in a bind. He is a renowned rake and ruiner of women. His reputation, well earned and cemented in an act of impropriety, a deed so dastardly that it Continue Reading