Secret Sisters by Jayne Ann Krentz Series: No Romance Suspense Thriller December 8, 2015 Berkley Reviewed by Tori Madeline Cross and Daphne Knight were the best of friends growing up in the Aurora Hotel owned by Madeline’s family.. When Madeline is viciously attacked there as a child, the culprit is caught and Madeline is assured he will never bother her again. Bothered by the trauma and secrets, Madeline leaves the island and never return. Now almost 20 years later, Madeline’s Continue Reading
Review: Steal Me by Lauren Layne
Steal Me by Lauren Layne (New York's Finest #2) Released: November 24, 2015 Contemporary Romance Forever Reviewed by Mandi Anthony Moretti loves being a cop. More specifically, a captain in the NYPD. He has siblings as cops, his father was the chief of police - it's in his blood and it's his passion in life. So when a burglar who has been hitting random homes in New York City continuously escapes capture, it really irritates Anthony. This burglar has been named Smiley, because he leaves Continue Reading
Review: Rebel Bride by Elizabeth Moss
Review: Rebel Bride (Lust in the Tudor Court #2) by Elizabeth Moss Series: Lust in the Tudor Court Paranormal Romance Released: December 1, 2015 Sourcebooks Reviewed by Sheena Hugh Beaufort, favoured courtier of King Henry VIII, likes his women quiet and biddable. Susannah Tyrell is neither of these things. She is feisty, beautiful, opinionated and brave. And Hugh is fascinated by her - despite himself. When Susannah pulls her most outrageous stunt yet and finds herself lost in the Continue Reading
Review: Misconduct by Penelope Douglas
Misconduct by Penelope Douglas Series: Standalone-HEA Contemporary Romance December 1, 2015 NAL Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Dark spaces and quiet spaces...that’s all we need” Former tennis champion Easton Bradbury just wants to move forward with her life and new teaching career; leaving her past where it belongs...in the past. But when she meets her newest student and his father, that may be harder than she thinks. Tyler Marick seems to have it all. Wealth, power, and a Continue Reading
Review: Feel The Burn by G. A. Aiken
Feel the Burn by G.A. Aiken (Dragon Kin #8) Released: November 24, 2015 Paranormal Romance Zebra Reviewed by May “I’m fine. Because I’m breathing. And that’s thanks to you.” Kachka folded her arms across her chest. “That is thanks to me. And yet I still do not have your kingdom.” “You have my everlasting loyalty” “The loyalty of a one-eyed rebel king who is allied with two made queens?” She shrugged. “I could definitely do worse.” Picking up where we left off, this book Continue Reading
Review: Shadow’s End by Thea Harrison
Shadow’s End by Thea Harrison Series: A Novel of the Elder Races, #9 Paranormal Romance December 1, 2015 Berkley Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “You did not walk away from those you loved. You fought for them, always, with everything you had, even if it meant fighting the long fight, and staying on the hardest, quietest, most difficult course." For Beluviel, consort to the Elven High Lord, and Graydon, gryphon and First Sentinel of the Wyr, even the slightest desire for each other Continue Reading
Review: Blood Kiss by J.R. Ward
Blood Kiss by J.R. Ward (Black Dagger Legacy #1) Paranormal Romance Releases: December 1, 2015 Signet Reviewed by Mandi First - spoiler alert! The heroine actually lives in this book. After The Shadows, you never know. (I'm still bitter - I can't help it. But I really liked this book so I'm moving on.) Blood Kiss is the first spin-off book of Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood book. It's 100% set in the BDB world, in the training center and lots of brothers and their shellans are in the Continue Reading
Review: Fish Stick Fridays by Rhys Ford
Fish Stick Fridays by Rhys Ford Series: Half-Moon Bay, #1 Romance Suspense M/M November 30, 2015 Dreamspinner Press Reviewed By Tori Favorite Quote: I took one look at you, and I felt like someone’d punched me in the face. Deacon Reid spent his life on the wrong side of the law until his sister dies and he’s forced to fight for custody of his niece. Now on the fast track to respectability, Deacon buys a business and plans to settle in the small town of Half-Moon Bay. When he meets Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
Hero: Tyler Marick. Hot. Demanding. Intense. Millionaire. Running for the senate. Believes there isn't anything or anyone he can't have. Until he meets his son's new teacher. Heroine: Easton Bradbury. Former tennis pro turned teacher. Young, smart, and self-assured enough to handle any man who comes her way. Being with a student's parent is forbidden but sometimes you can't help but indulge in a little misconduct. ...I slowly pulled down the sheet, exposing her perfect breasts, Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap Up
This week at Smexy… A review - The Truth About Him by Molly O'Keefe (mandi) B+ review – The Sweetest Scoundrel by Elizabeth Hoyt (mandi) B+ review – Christmas Ever After by Sarah Morgan (mandi) B review – Fighting for Devlin by Jessica Lemmon (helyce) B review – The Lost Soul of Lord Badewyn by Mia Marlowe (tori) B review – Hearts of Blue by L.H. Cosway (tori) C review – Compromising Her Position by Samanthe Beck (mandi) C review – Unnatural by Joanna Chambers (tori) C- review – Texas Continue Reading