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
Review: Showmance by L.H. Cosway
Showmance by L.H. Cosway Romance Contemporary May 16, 2016 Self Published Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to just love and be loved in return.” Fans are sure to notice the deviation in plot and characterization that Cosway takes in her latest endeavor. Showmance is a sweet, sexy, mildly angst driven romance that perfectly showcases the allure of opposite attraction by slowing building a relationship between an introvert and a romantic. Mild Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
Hero: Jacko. Navy SEAL now private security. Found the love of his life in Lauren. But now she is pregnant and he freaks out. Heroine: Lauren - was on the run until Jacko saved her. Now she has to convince him his past has nothing to do with his future. He was 240 pounds of pure muscle, and right now he felt very grown up. He could feel every single male hormone in his body. Okay. It was time. He’d been a good boy. He’d waited, they’d had a nice meal together—though Lauren had Continue Reading
Weeky Wrap-Up
This week at Smexy... A review - Earth Bound by Emma Barry and Genevieve Turner (mandi) B review - The Rule Book by Jennifer Blackwood (mandi) B review - Midnight Quest by Lisa Marie Rice (mandi) B- review - Divine Descendant by Jenna Black (tori) C- review - Stiletto Secrets by Bella J (sheena) C- review - Love and Learn by Ava Blackstone (mandi) C- review - Love, Alabama by Susan Sands (tori) D review - As You Wish by Isobel Starling (helyce) D review - Burned by a Kiss by Tina Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten – May 20th
10. Did you just hear something? 9. Cover reveal for An Extraordinary Union by Aylssa Cole. WANT. Have to wait until 2017. *pouts* Go here for the blurb 8. More book news - JR Ward has a new website - and a newsletter (is that new? Maybe?). Also - there is a new maiden lane novella by Elizabeth Hoyt coming out - I loooove the Maiden Lane series. 7. Have you seen the Happy Chewbacca video?? Seriously, it will make you happy. It will make you giggle along with the woman. Go here to see Continue Reading
Review: Burned by a Kiss by Tina Leonard
Burned by a Kiss by Tina Leonard (Star Canyon #1) Released: May 3, 2016 Contemporary Romance Reviewed by Mandi The start of a new series, the blurb features Emma and Santana as our hero and heroine, but honestly, other characters stole the spotlight. Emma is Star Canyon's new vet, as her father has recently passed away and she took over his business. She loves her job and the small town she lives in. Santana is recently home from the Middle East and he heads back to his family ranch, Continue Reading
Review: Midnight Quest by Lisa Marie Rice
Midnight Quest by Lisa Marie Rice (Men of Midnight #4.5) Released: April 19, 2016 Novella Self Published Reviewed by Mandi This is a follow-up novella to Midnight Vengeance, so the couple has already had their HEA. I've read Midnight Vengeance, but I don't remember it, and this still read really easy as a stand-alone. I love Lisa Marie Rice books. They always have super alpha, over-protective heroes who are obsessively in love with the heroine. Over the top in love - it's fun. Jacko Continue Reading
Review: Divine Descendant by Jenna Black
Divine Descendant by Jenna Black Series: Nikki Glass #4 Urban Fantasy May 16, 2016 Pocket Star Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I’m surrounded by the dead in the middle of the night hoping to pull a previously unknown power out of my ass. What could possibly go wrong?” Private Investigator and immortal descendant of Artemis, Nikki Glass, learns a very valuable lesson in vengeance when a group of fertility goddesses decide to strike. The lives and loves of the gods and goddesses Continue Reading