The Opposite of Nothing by Shari Slade New Adult Released: March 20, 2014 Self Published Reviewed by Mandi Callie is in college and on the side works as a DJ for the local campus radio station. We learn she had a really bad childhood and she struggles with friendships. People made fun of her, threw trash at her - she is a social pariah. Even in college she has trouble making friends. She feels awkward in the school cafeteria or any other public gathering place. She has her own tiny Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
Just a tiny peek into a very sexy book that releases this Tuesday.... Hero: Eric Collier. When the book opens, he is in prison (has been there for 5 years). He ends up writing dirty love letters to the prison librarian. Then he gets out.... Heroine: Anne Goodhouse. Librarian. Can't help but feel intense lust for a prisoner. Encourages his dirty love letters. Then he gets out.... A man, touching a woman for the first time since his freedom had been taken away. A woman, Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
This week at Smexy... B+ review - Last Breath by Jessica Clare and Jen Frederick (suspense) B+ review - Special Interests by Emma Barry (contemporary) B review - Absolution by Angela McGurk (paranormal) B review - Home Sweet Home by Sarah Title (contemporary) C+ review - The Rebel Pirate by Donna Thorland (historical) C review - Tough Love by Heidi Cullinan (m/m) C- review - Plain Jayne by Laura Drewry (contemporary) D review - Laura's Wolf by Lia Silver (paranormal suspense) A Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten – April 11th
10. So I hear last week Tori perused my Facebook account and stole a not so flattering picture of my husband and myself - we MAY have consumed some beers at the baseball game, and then she posted it in the Top Ten. Oh....there will be revenge Tori!! *wait for Tori to post a bad pic* 9. Cover reveal! Coming December 2014, Revenant by Larissa Ione. I wouldn't mind if he flapped his wings at me. 8. JR Ward had her annual signing and Q&A session last weekend. I updated my JR Continue Reading
Review: Laura’s Wolf by Lia Silver
Laura's Wolf by Lia Silver Released: March 5, 2014 Paranormal Romance Melusine Press Reviewed by Mandi When this review request came through, I was so intrigued. A marine, turned into a werewolf then locked up in a laboratory? Sign me up! I expected a very alpha, growly, broken werewolf. Right? But instead we get Roy who isn't really alpha. Not really growly. Broken because of PTSD but even that didn't resonate with me. Roy was dying in Afghanistan when his buddy bit him and turned him. Continue Reading
Review: Special Interests by Emma Barry
Special Interests by Emma Barry Released: April 7, 2014 Contemporary Romance Carina Press Reviewed by Mandi Favorite Quote: "You're so damn adorable, Millie Frank, I can't believe I've kept my hands off you this entire meal," he said, reaching over the table and pulling her hand towards him. I have so many good things to say about this book that I don't even know where to start. Millie Frank works for the construction worker's union in Washington, D.C. She is pretty passionate about Continue Reading
Review: Home Sweet Home by Sarah Title
Home Sweet Home by Sarah Title (Southern Comfort #2) Released: April 3, 2014 Contemporary Romance eKesington Reviewed by Mandi Grace Williams is moving to the house of her dreams, after accepting a teaching position at Pembroke College in Kentucky. Leaving the west coast, Grace arrives at her new/old Victorian house and can't wait to get inside. But once she does, she realizes the big dreams she had of fixing up an old house is in reality, a ton of work. Everything needs updated, a lot Continue Reading
Review: Tough Love by Heidi Cullinan
Tough Love by Heidi Cullinan (Special Delivery #3) M/M Erotic Romance April 8, 2014 Samhain Reviewed by Helyce Before moving forward with this review, I feel like I need to make a disclaimer of sorts because, I really love Heidi Cullinan’s work. I have not read all of her extensive backlist but what I have read I have always enjoyed and have often been strongly moved on an emotional level. I read and enjoyed the first two books in this series, so it was a no brainer to accept Tough Love Continue Reading
Review: Absolution by Angela Louise McGurk
Absolution by Angela Louise McGurk Urban Fantasy E book, 358 pages Self Published December 7, 2013 Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I just want to get through every fucking day, as well as I can, until I finally die like everyone I care about did.” Eve Blackthorn’s world has always been filled with vampires. Saved by a vampire as a teenager, Eve had no way of knowing the impact he would have on her future. She eventually falls in love with him and they marry, much to the dismay of Continue Reading
Review: The Rebel Pirate by Donna Thorland
The Rebel Pirate by Donna Thorland (Renegades of the Revolution) Released: March 4, 2014 Historical Romance Penguin Reviewed by Mandi Blurb: 1775, Boston Harbor. James Sparhawk, Master and Commander in the British Navy, knows trouble when he sees it. The ship he’s boarded is carrying ammunition and gold into a country on the knife’s edge of war. Sparhawk’s duty is clear: confiscate the cargo, impound the vessel and seize the crew. But when one of the ship’s boys turns out to be a lovely Continue Reading