This mini-interview with Leah Reader is brought to you in support of Queer Romance Month. QRM runs throughout October, celebrating love stories in all shades of the rainbow in all shades of romance. Join us, and over a hundred LGBTQ+ authors and allies, for essays, flash-fiction and much, much more. Recommend a book you love, but feel is under appreciated I usually find myself liking the books no one else likes (AND SOMETIMES BEING VINDICATED LATER FOR HAVING EXCELLENT TASTE Continue Reading
Ms. Manwhore (Manwhore Series 2.5) by Katy Evans
Review: Ms. Manwhore (Manwhore Series 2.5) by Katy Evans Contemporary Romance Released: October 5, 2015 Pocket Star Reviewed by Sheena What lies ahead for Chicago’s most envied couple, Malcolm Saint and Rachel Livingston? Sparks flew between them in Manwhore. Separated by deception, they felt the intensity and heat of their attraction turn up in Manwhore +1. Will Chicago’s wealthiest and most notorious player finally settle down, or will one woman never be enough? Find out in Ms. Continue Reading
Nuts by Alice Clayton is LIVE Giveaway
The New York Times bestselling author of Wallbanger and Rusty Nailed is back with Nuts, the first in a brand new series set in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley. Roxie Callahan is a private chef to some of Hollywood’s wealthiest, and nastiest, calorie-counting wives. After a dairy disaster implodes her carefully crafted career in one fell ploop, she finds herself back home in upstate New York, bailing out her hippie mother and running the family diner. When gorgeous local farmer Leo Maxwell Continue Reading
Review: The Outback Bachelor Ball Series and Giveaway!
The Outback Bachelor Ball series is three stories with three different HEAs. The set-up: Three unlucky-in-love girlfriends make a road trip to the Outback Bachelor & Spinster Ball, a highlight of rural Australian life. One's looking to move on, one's thumbing her nose at romance, and one's looking to slip away and hide. None of them are looking for love... Three women are about to meet their match in a cowboy, a soldier and a country rock star. One magical night. One less than Continue Reading
Review: Everything I Left Unsaid by Molly O’Keefe
Everything I Left Unsaid by Molly O'Keefe (#1) Released: October 13, 2015 Erotic Contemporary Random House Reviewed by Mandi Back in May when I went to Dallas for the RT Convention, I heard Molly O'Keefe speak about her upcoming book called Everything I Left Unsaid. All she would say is that it's a dark erotic book about a girl who answers a cell phone. I was hooked. And oddly enough, when I got home from RT, there was a paperback advanced copy waiting for me. I picked it up immediately Continue Reading
Review: Everybody Talks by Kitty James
Everybody Talks by Kitty James Series: Kitty James Mystery, #2 Romance Suspense August 15, 2015 Self Published Reviewed by Tori Daphne Arden has been trying to live down her mother’s wild antics for years but it’s hard when the gossip grapevine, nicknamed the beast, lives and breathes in her very own business, SPAkles Salon. Having been raised by her grandmother after her mother, Jolie, disappeared over 20 years ago, Daphne’s childhood was a mixture of speculation and innuendos. Having Continue Reading
Jade (Violet Series #3) by M.L. Med
Review: Jade (Violet Series #3) by M.L. Med Paranormal Romance Released: September 1, 2015 Smashwords Reviewed by Sheena Vampires and Demons have never got along. The centuries old feud continued with no end in sight, until now... Dominic has always been a bit of a ladies man…ok lets face it. He’s a man whore. Seeing his friends around him find their mates one after another has only made him more aware of what he can’t have. That is, until he wakes in a hotel room with the most Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
Hero: Charlie. A police officer whose very dirty mouth & high handed ways have the heroine begging to be frisked. Heroine: Erin. A dance instructor whose equally delighted and appalled that her latest crush is her former childhood nemesis. Charlie wants to be just friends with benefits, claiming he is NOT relationship material, but he seems to be having trouble sticking to his own rules. "Hi,” I said, my insides tense with excitement. “Hi.” “Are you the burglar?” His lips tipped Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
This week at Smexy... A review - Hidden in the Stars by Sadie Grubor (helyce) B+ review - Hard to Break by Bella Jewel (sheena) B+ review - Shadow Fall by Laura Griffin (mandi) B review - Star Dust by Emma Barry and Genevieve Turner (mandi) B review - Autumn Moon by Jan DeLima (tori) B review - Some Like it Scot by Suzanne Enoch (may) D review - Accidentally Hers by Jamie Beck (helyce) Feature: Blue Blooded by Shelly Bell Tori's October Mini Reviews Smexy's Top Ten News from Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten – October 16
10. Yesterday was National Red Wine Day. I hope you all celebrated appropriately. 9. I just finished The Fifteenth Minute by Sarina Bowen this morning. She is one of my favorite authors and in this one, as in her others, she brings up a difficult topic. This time the hero has been accused of non-consensual sex prior to the book starting. He is innocent, but the college may take action depending upon an upcoming hearing. I think the author handles this topic well and I like how it all plays Continue Reading