This week at Smexy... A review - A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev (contemporary/mandi) A/B+ joint review - Burn for Me by Ilona Andrews (urban fantasy/tori/mandi) B+ review - Maybe This Christmas by Sarah Morgan (contemporary/mandi) B review - Gray Bishop by Kelly Meade (urban fantasy/tori) B review - Archangel's Shadow by Nalini Singh (paranormal/mandi) C+ review - Seventh Grave and No Body by Darynda Jones (urban fantasy/tori) C review - He's No Prince Charming by Elle Daniels Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten – Happy Halloweenie!
10. The official holiday is called - Hallowine. Drink accordingly. (Liqu-or-Treat!) 9. Speaking of drinking....JR Ward has a new contemporary series coming out called The Bourbon Kings (I think series and first have same title?) This is the cover. I don't think we have a blurb yet - but I did receive a press announcement. Included: Ward said: “The Bourbon Kings are just like my Black Dagger Brotherhood vampires, flawed heroes for strong women who live and love in a vivid, Continue Reading
Spotlight and Giveaway with Darynda Jones
Blurb: Twelve. Twelve of the deadliest beasts ever forged in the fires of hell have escaped onto our plane, and they want nothing more than to rip out the jugular of Charley Davidson and serve her lifeless, mangled body to Satan for dinner. So there’s that. But Charley has more on her plate than a mob of testy hellhounds. For one thing, her father has disappeared, and the more she retraces his last steps, the more she learns he was conducting an investigation of his own, one that Continue Reading
Review: Seventh Grave and No Body by Darynda Jones
Seventh Grave and No Body (Charley Davidson #7) by Darynda Jones PNR E book, 352 pages October 21, 2014 St. Martin’s Press Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Hey, I could be your assistant. I’d be an Assistant Serial Killer Serial Killer. I’d be an ASS.” Entering into the seventh installment of Darynda Jones wickedly funny and smoking hot Charley Davidson series, Seventh Grave and No Body, picks up not long after book six-Sixth Grave From The Edge- ended. Charley Davidson, Grim Continue Reading
Joint Review: Burn for Me by Ilona Andrews
Burn for Me by Ilona Andrews (Hidden Legacy #1) Urban Fantasy Released: October 28, 2014 Avon Reviewed by Tori and Mandi Blurb: Nevada Baylor is faced with the most challenging case of her detective career—a suicide mission to bring in a suspect in a volatile case. Nevada isn’t sure she has the chops. Her quarry is a Prime, the highest rank of magic user, who can set anyone and anything on fire. Then she’s kidnapped by Connor “Mad” Rogan—a darkly tempting billionaire with Continue Reading
Review: He’s No Prince Charming by Elle Daniels
He's No Prince Charming by Elle Daniels (Ever After #1) Released: October 28, 2014 Historical Romance Forever Reviewed by May Danielle Strafford is in the business of helping young couples in love elope. Engagements and promises be damned – she’ll help young ladies not be trapped by a forced match and kept from their true loves. Unfortunately for her Marcus Bradley is there and watching from the shadows as she helps his bride-to-be elope. The man seemed almost a wild animal. His size Continue Reading
Guest Author Sarah Morgan and Giveaway
This winter, ex-skiing champion, reformed heartbreaker and single dad Tyler O'Neil has only one mission—making sure his daughter, Jess, has the best Christmas ever. The fact that his best friend, Brenna, is also temporarily moving into his chalet at the overbooked Snow Crystal resort is a delicious distraction he's simply going to have to ignore. Theirs is the one relationship he's never ruined, and he's not about to start now. Ski pro Brenna Daniels knows all about the perils of Continue Reading
Review: Maybe This Christmas by Sarah Morgan
Maybe This Christmas by Sarah Morgan (O'Neil Brothers #3) Released: October 28, 2014 Contemporary Romance Harlequin Reviewed by Mandi Well this series is just adorable and romantic and sexy and Maybe This Christmas is a great addition. I was so excited for Tyler's story - he is the fun, carefree, womanizer of the O'Neil brothers who is also caring for his teenage daughter after her mother abandoned her on his door step. Tyler lives for skiing. Growing up at his family's Vermont winter Continue Reading
Review: Archangel’s Shadow by Nalini Singh
Archangel's Shadow by Nalini Singh (Guild Hunter #7) Released: October 28, 2014 Paranormal Romance Berkley Reviewed by Mandi Nalini Singh has built such a fascinating world in this Guild Hunter series. She writes such wonderful descriptions that I get the most vivid images in my head as I read. As we are on book seven of this series, not only do we get a HEA between hunter Ash and Janvier but we also get pages devoted to Raphael and Elena, Dmitiri and Honor and one of my favorites from Continue Reading
Review: A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev
A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev Released: October 28, 2014 Contemporary Romance Kensington Reviewed by Mandi Favorite Quote: I love you. That's what he was thinking. He wanted to mouth it to her. He wanted to whisper it into her lips, into every secret place in her body. He wanted to scream it out in front of the entire world. When this book arrived unsolicited in the mail, I immediately turned it over and read the back blurb, because a Bollywood book intrigued me. The blurb Continue Reading