This week at Smexy… B+ review- Never Trust A Pirate by Valerie Bowman (historical/kini) B review – Borrowed Souls by Chelsea Mueller (urban fantasy/tori) B- review-All The Lies We Tell by Megan Hart (contemporary/mandi) C+ review- Red Wolf by Jennifer Ashley (paranormal/tori) C+ review – Open Hearts by Eve Dangerfield (contemporary/mandi) C review -Good Girls Guide to Talking Dirty by Alice Faris (comedy/kini) C review-Intercepting the Chef by Rachel Goodman Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten – May 12
10. Happy Mother's Day! 9. You guys - Charlotte Stein and Cara McKenna have co-written a book?? OMG my dirty romance heart is beating hard !! It releases June 6th. Amazon ALL WORK AND NO CLIMBING MAKES JASON A DULL BOY. Sending My new @soill fat butt campus wall. Aloha AC A post shared by Jason Momoa (@prideofgypsies) on May 11, 2017 at 1:41am PDT 8. Stop it Jason Momoa. Stop it with your sexiness!! chris pine singing in his SNL monologue pic.twitter.com/z6D3cKfrQY — Continue Reading
Review: Open Hearts by Eve Dangerfield
Open Hearts by Eve Dangerfield Released: April 25, 2017 Contemporary Romance Self Published Reviewed by Mandi This is my first time reading Eve Dangerfield and it won't be my last. Tori reviewed the first book in this series for Smexy and enjoyed it - Open Hearts reads fine as a stand alone although the previous hero and heroine do have a big part in this book. I'm curious to find out just how their HEA unfolded in book one, but I followed along just fine in book two. I'll say Continue Reading
Review: Intercepting the Chef by Rachel Goodman
Intercepting the Chef by Rachel Goodman (How To Score #1) Contemporary Romance Released: May 2, 2017 Pocket Star Reviewed by Helyce Favorite Quote: “You’re like the best parts of fall. Changing colors, the first brush of cool, crisp air. The stadium lights and cheering crowds, the scent of a well-worn ball Coach hands me after a win. All my favorite things wrapped up into one tiny, spirited package.” From the beginning, this story had me feeling a bit off-kilter. We meet Gwen, Continue Reading
Review and Giveaway: Borrowed Souls by Chelsea Mueller
Borrowed Souls by Chelsea Mueller Series: Soul Charmer, #1 Urban Fantasy May 2, 2017 Talos Press Reviewed by Tori Callie Delego finds herself caught between a rock and a hard place when her brother once again gets in over his head and Callie has to do a favor for the mob or her brother forfeits his life. To save him she will need to rent a soul, but when she can’t cover the cost the Soul Charmer makes her a deal. Two weeks working for him will get her a soul. A deal that forces Callie into a Continue Reading
Review: Good Girl’s Guide to Talking Dirty by Alice Faris
Good Girl’s Guide to Talking Dirty Publication Date: March 20, 2017 Contemporary Romance Self Published Reviewed by Kini Talking dirty as a phone sex operator isn't what straight laced school psychologist East Winters had in mind as a portable counseling job. But after being budget-cut out of employment, she needs the cash to get out of town fast and hitchhike to Maine for her dream job working at a school with a bigger pocketbook and no knowledge of her family's nasty history. Ex Continue Reading
Top Ten Reasons to Read: Going Nowhere Fast by Kati Wilde
When Aspen Phillips’ best friend invites her on a month-long road trip, she has serious mixed feelings. Sharing their tight quarters will be Bramwell Gage, overprotective brother and all-around jerk. Bram may be ridiculously sexy, but he’s made no effort to hide how he feels about Aspen—that she’s trash who’s no good for his sister. But Aspen is determined to get along with the uptight millionaire—and to keep her promise, concealing a secret about his sister that Bram can never know. But Continue Reading
Review: Never Trust a Pirate by Valerie Bowman
Never Trust a Pirate by Valerie Bowman Series: The Playful Brides, #7 Historical Romance Released: May 2, 2017 St. Martin's Paperbacks Reviewed by Sheena A rumored pirate and the scurrilous black sheep of his well-to- do family, Cade Cavendish relishes his world of rebellion, deception, and seduction. Nothing and no one can hold him to be the duty-bound, honorable man he is expected to be. But when an unexpected run-in at his twin brother's estate with a ravishing, raven-haired maid Continue Reading
Feature: Four Years Later by Emma Doherty
Becca McKenzie is happy—crazy, ridiculously happy. She might not have figured out what she wants to do with her life, but she has something better—Ryan Jackson—and they couldn’t be more in love if they tried. He might have been pissed when she went off to a different college, but they make the long distance work because they’re “Becca and Ryan”, and nothing is going to break them. Until it does. Until one terrible, unforgettable night away from Ryan. Until too much drinking and one empty Continue Reading
Review: Red Wolf by Jennifer Ashley
Red Wolf by Jennifer Ashley Series: Shifter’s Unbound, #10 PNR May 2, 2017 Berkley Favorite Quote: “When you live thousand of years, people who annoy you tend to die off.” Reviewed by Tori Lupine Shifter Dimitri has always had to defend himself to other Shifters. As a red wolf, he’s not considered a “pure” wolf, and the battles have honed him into a tough fighter, a champion of the fight clubs. Jaycee Bordeaux, a leopard Shifter, is Dimitri’s staunchest defender and oldest friend. Continue Reading