This week at Smexy... A review - Deep Dark by Laura Griffin (mandi) B review - Showmance by LH Cosway (tori) C+ review - Second Time's a Charm by Kay Blake (tori) C review - Thieves' Honor by Jamalia Brinkley (mandi) C review - Make Me by Beth Kery (sheena) C- review - Sugar Daddy by Sawyer Bennett (mandi) C- review - A Minor Happy Ending by Shaan Ranae (sheena) Excerpt: Missed Connections by Tamara Mataya May Mini Reviews Smexy's Top Ten News from Mandi: Marrying Winterborne Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten – May 27th
10. This will be me this Memorial Day Weekend. Except the only pool around is an inflatable kiddie pool. I still may ride on a blow up shark and yell this. 9. Kristen Ashley is coming out with a new erotic series next year. Called The Honey Series, here is the blurb for the first book, Deep End: Enter a decadent sensual world where gorgeous alpha males are pleasure slaves committed to fulfilling a woman's every desire. At the elite Honey club, no boundary will be left untested, and Continue Reading
May Mini Reviews
Struck by Amanda Carlson Urban Fantasy DNF Struck is the first in her new PNR Phoebe Meadows series. A young woman finds out the hard way that she is the result of a liaison between Odin and a shieldmaiden. Forced on the run, she finds herself struggling to accept her destiny while trying to stay alive. I am a fan of Amanda Carlson’s and Viking/Norse mythology so I was excited to be offered an arc. I really wanted to like this one but there was just no connection for me. I like the Continue Reading
Review: Thieves’ Honor by Jamaila Brinkley
Thieves' Honor by Jamaila Brinkley Paranormal Romance Released: May 4, 2016 Soul Mate Publishing Reviewed by Mandi Em Stackpole has the magical ability to create illusions. She can make herself look unmemorable, or almost undetected, or unrecognizable. Her uncle is a highly trained thief, and took Em under his wing growing up, creating a thieving team. When this book starts, Em is under a - don't pay attention to me - glamour, and but yet still gains the attention of a seedy man. When Continue Reading
Review: Second Time’s A Charm by Kay Blake
Second Time’s A Charm by Kay Blake Romance Contemporary March 28, 2016 Self Published Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “ I loved her and I wanted to spend the rest of my life trying to prove it. ” Liz Alexander left New York six years ago with a broken heart and never returned. When her best friend passes away, Liz heads home to face her past and the man who almost destroyed her. Liam Parker hasn’t had any contact with Liz since she packed her bags and left. He never stopped Continue Reading
Review: Deep Dark by Laura Griffin
Deep Dark by Laura Griffin (Tracers #10) Romantic Suspense Released: May 24, 2016 Pocket Books Reviewed by Mandi I'll say it again - I love this romantic suspense series by Laura Griffin. So well done. Deep Dark has a thirty-nine year old homicide detective hero and a twenty-four year old cybercrime hacker - and their chemistry is soooo good. When a girl who was just starting out in life is found horribly murdered in her home, police want to find the murderer fast. But there is no Continue Reading
Review: A Minor Happy Ending by Shaan Ranae
A Minor Happy Ending New Adult/Contemporary Romance Released: March 26, 2016 Self Published Reviewed by Sheena Recent high school graduate and free spirit, Dyllan Prescott is planning on a summer full of fun with friends and her boyfriend, Nick who happens to be her best friends brother. Nick is the epitome of the typical nice guy. Kind, caring, but he becomes too attached, too quickly for Dyllan. Her boyfriend shelf life doesn’t usually last too long, but she is trying extra hard not to Continue Reading
Review: Sugar Daddy by Sawyer Bennett
Sugar Daddy by Sawyer Bennett (Sugar Bowl #1) Released: May 24, 2016 Erotic Romance Loveswept Reviewed by Mandi Few things to note upfront: First, the heroine was raped when she was younger, and relives some of it through flashbacks during the book. She tries to exact revenge against her rapist throughout the book. Second, this has a cliffhanger, with the HEA coming in book three. Sela Halstead was drugged and raped at the age of sixteen. She doesn't remember everything, but she Continue Reading
Exclusive Excerpt from Missed Connections by Tamara Mataya
Exclusive Excerpt from MISSED CONNECTIONS I haven’t drunk enough to pretend it’s the liquor talking. While I could blame the situation or the music or my loneliness, really I just want him so badly it hurts. Not so badly I can’t think straight, because all I have are straight lines—Jack and me heading straight upstairs, straight to my bedroom, and getting him naked straight away. No, my mind is very clear about what I want. What I need. What I’ve been waiting to happen for Continue Reading
Review: Make Me (Make Me #1-8) by Beth Kery
Make Me Forever (Make Me #1-8) by Beth Kery Series: Make Me Contemporary Romance Released: May 24, 2016 Intermix Reviewed by Sheena This is a review of the entire serial Make Me, which includes eight installments. Harper McFaddan has made her name as an investigative journalist by being both compassionate and fearless. After tragedy strikes her family, she moves to the shores of Lake Tahoe to find some peace. But when mysterious software mogul Jacob Latimer comes into her life, her Continue Reading