Vespertine by Leta Blake and Indra Vaughn M/M Romance Released: September 10, 2015 Self Published Reviewed by Helyce From Goodreads: Can a priest and a rock star obey love's call? Seventeen years ago, Jasper Hendricks and Nicholas Blumfeld's childhood friendship turned into a secret, blissful love affair. They spent several idyllic months together until Jasper's calling to the Catholic priesthood became impossible to ignore. Left floundering, Nicky followed his own trajectory into Continue Reading
Review: A Taste of Heaven by Penny Watson
A Taste of Heaven by Penny Watson Romance Contemporary Released: September 15, 2015 Self Published Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Team Scottish Grumpy Bastard.” Sophia Brown has lost her husband and her passion for life. An accomplished cook and gardener, her daughters enter her in a cooking contest hoping it will help to wake their mother up from her grief. The contest is a televised show that pairs an amateur and professional together with weekly eliminating cook offs. Sophia Continue Reading
Engaging by Sarah Curtis
Engaging by Sarah Curtis Series: Allure, #2 Romance Contemporary Ebook May 27, 2015 Self Published Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: "Do you miss me or the sex?" Cassie Wagner met and fell in love with Gage Hunter, lead singer for the band Engage, while in college. Their whirlwind romance ended abruptly when Gage decided to break up with her before he went on tour. After a few months, he realized his mistake and came back for her only to discover she had left college and Continue Reading
Review: Undaunted (Knights in Black Leather #1) by Ronnie Douglas
Review: Undaunted (Knights in Black Leather #1) by Ronnie Douglas New Adult Released: September 15, 2015 William Morrow Paperbacks Reviewed by Sheena Aubrey Evans needs to get her life back on track after her father is indicted for embezzlement. All she has to do to hightail it out of small-town Tennessee is save up money for college tuition and steer clear of hard-muscled boys on motorcycles. Yet there's no ignoring someone like Zion. A knight in black leather, Zion looks like every Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
Hero: Luke. A sexy, charming, dirty mouthed alpha who never stays in one place...or with one woman for too long. Back in West Bend due to his mother's death, when he meets a divorcee with a child, he finds himself suddenly rethinking his wandering ways. Heroine: Autumn. Moved to West Bend following her divorce. With a toddler in tow and brewery to run, she doesn't have time for dating, must less sex. That is until Luke saunters through her door. Suddenly she's wondering if he looks as Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-up
This week at Smexy... A- review - The Devoted Series by Sadie Black (sheena) B+ review - Hannah and the Highlander by Sabrina York (sheena) B review - Begging For It by Lilah Pace (mandi) B- review - Alluring by Sarah Curtis (tori) C+ review - Fast, Fresh, and Hot by Eliza Madison (mandi) C review - The Highlander's Bride by Amanda Forester (sheena) C- review - Wildest Dreams by Robyn Carr (helyce) D review - Delayed Penalty by Sophia Henry (mandi) Smex Scene Sunday Cover Reveal - Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten – September 11
10. Man, it's hard to write that date in the title. We remember. We never forget. 9. My friend Pamela rec'd this one to me - and we share a very similar taste in books. C.M. McKenna is the pen name for Cara McKenna, an author whose voice I love. I read this and I liked it a lot - but - BUT - there is not an HEA at the end. For that reason, I guess I have to say this is not a romance book, although there is a romance (an extremely dark, messed up romance) in this book. While I think Continue Reading
Review: Delayed Penalty by Sophia Henry
Delayed Penalty by Sophia Henry (Pilots Hockey #1) Contemporary Romance Released: September 1, 2015 Loveswept Reviewed by Mandi Auden has been cut from the soccer team which means she has lost her soccer scholarship and needs to find a summer job quick. She goes back home to her russian grandparents, who raised her, and her grandfather assigns her a job - to be a translator for a russian hockey player. This excites Auden greatly - she loves hockey and although this isn't for the Continue Reading
Review: Hannah and the Highlander (Untamed Highlander #1) by Sabrina York
Review: Hannah and the Highlander (Untamed Highlander #1) by Sabrina York Historical Romance Released: September 1, 2015 St. Martin's Paperbacks Reviewed by Sheena Scotland 1813: Highlanders are her weakness. Hannah Dounreay has no time for suitors who only seem interested in her family's land, which she manages as well as any man. If she marries, she wants to be loved for the educated, independent woman she is. But when a strong, silent-and spectacularly handsome-Highlander saves Continue Reading
Review: The Highlander’s Bride by Amanda Forester
Review: The Highlander's Bride (Highland Trouble) by Amanda Forester Historical Romance Released: September 1, 2015 Sourcebooks Casablanca Reviewed by Sheena After years of fighting in France, Sir Gavin Patrick longs for his Scottish home and for an easier life off the battlefield. However, laden with a shipment of orphans, a massive treasure to transport, and Lady Marie Colette—a sharp-tongued French heiress—Gavin realizes that the real battle is only beginning. Colette expects a Continue Reading