The Wicked Duke by Madeline Hunter Series: Wicked, #3 Historical Romance/Mystery May 31, 2016 Jove Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Thank you for the lesson in county etiquette. Whatever would I do without you, Ives? No doubt just bumble along, embarrassing myself.” Lancelot (lance) Hemingford, Duke of Aylesbury, has been languishing away at the family estate for nine months. Suspected of murdering his brother, his remaining siblings felt it best for him to stay out of sight and Continue Reading
Review: Marrying Winterborne by Lisa Kleypas
Marrying Winterborne by Lisa Kleypas (The Ravenels #2) Released: May 31, 2016 Historical Romance Avon Reviewed by Mandi I enjoyed this book more than book one, so yay for that! We meet Rhys and Helen in book (although this can be read as a standalone). They fall in love in book one, they get engaged in book one. What's left for this book, right? Well, at the end of book one (omg I'll stop saying "book one") they have a fight and they break up. This is where book two starts. Rhys was Continue Reading
Review: Duke of Sin by Elizabeth Hoyt
Duke of Sin by Elizabeth Hoyt (Maiden Lane #10) Releases: May 31, 2016 Historical Romance Grand Central Reviewed by Mandi He was the Duke of Montgomery. He'd successfully blackmailed the King. He was about to blackmail himself a wife. No one loved him. And that was the way he liked it. The hero in this book, Valentine Napier, the Duke of Montgomery, is a villain. He blackmails everyone. (no, really). He murders people. He is cunning, arrogant, but he also has this child-like Continue Reading
Feature: Gambled Away – A Historical Romance Anthology
Releasing tomorrow (5/31), Spanning centuries and continents, five brand-new novellas from beloved historical romance authors tell the stories of men and women who find themselves wagered in a game of chance and are forced to play for the highest stakes of all: love. Below are the blurbs and playlists the author used for each story. This is such a fun playlist because there are so many factors at work. First we had five different authors writing in five different worlds – from ancient Continue Reading
Review: Torn by Cynthia Eden
Torn by Cynthia Eden Series: LOST, #4 Romance Suspense May 31, 2016 Avon Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “If I have you...I have everything.” PARTNERS . . . FRIENDS . . . Forensic anthropologist Victoria Palmer has always been better with the dead than the living. Shutting down her emotions, she lets few people in. But then Victoria’s latest investigation takes her and agent Wade Monroe to Savannah, Georgia. Handsome, dangerous, and more than ready to play dirty on any case, Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
Hero: Ezekiel Steele. A security guard for the House of Payne. Feels dead inside and unable to love. Until he meets Essie. Heroine: Essie Santiago. Brutalized when she was sixteen. Eight years later she has defied the odds and is now competing in a reality tv contest to become a designer for the House of Payne. For the first time since she was attacked, a man interests her. His smile was brilliant enough to light up the entire complex. Then, while she was still trying to recover Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
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