This week at Smexy... A review - Bite Me by Shelly Laurenston (paranormal) A review - Four Friends by Robyn Carr (contemporary) A review - Dash of Peril by Lori Foster (contemporary) B review - Unwound by Lorelei James (erotic) B review - Hope Ignites by Jaci Burton (contemporary) C+ review - Waiting on You by Kristan Higgins (contemporary) C review - Spirited by Mary Behre (paranormal) D review - Trying Too Hard by Molly Ann Wishlade (erotic) Feature: Marked by Alex Hughes Smexy's Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten – March 28th
10. Perfect bag for me! (thx Danielle!) Link 9. I just noticed that Decadent Publishing is doing a Calendar Men series. Each month, a new book with a new featured hero. I have yet to read any of these, but it looks like a fun premise. Read more about it here. 8. The RITA and Golden Heart finalists have been announced. These are the awards given out at the annual RWA convention for best romance books in all of the different categories. Congrats to all the Continue Reading
Feature: Marked by Alex Hughes
Over the past two years, I've read and really enjoyed the first two books in the Mindspace Investigations series by Alex Hughes. It features a hero with very strong telepath skills who is also a recovering drug addict and a heroine who works for the police department and reluctantly becomes his partner. I like to say it's Jim Butcher meets J.D. Robb. Set in the future, with paranormal suspense, our hero Adam reminds me a lot of Jim Butcher and the romantic relationship (and I hesitate to imply Continue Reading
Review: Dash of Peril by Lori Foster
Dash of Peril by Lori Foster (Love Undercover #4) Contemporary Romance March 25, 2014 Harlequin Reviewed by Helyce From Goodreads: To bring down a sleazy abduction ring, Lieutenant Margaret "Margo" Peterson has set herself up as bait. But recruiting Dashiel Riske as her unofficial partner is a whole other kind of danger. Dash is 6'4" of laid-back masculine charm, a man who loves life—and women—to the limit. Until Margo is threatened, and he reveals a dark side that may just match her Continue Reading
Review: Spirited by Mary Behre
Spirited (Tidewater, #1) by Mary Behre Paranormal Romance Paperback, 294 March 4, 2014 Berkley Sensations Reviewed by Tori After a nasty divorce, Juliana Scott just wants a quiet normal life and to find her missing sisters, but fate has other plans for her. Able to hear and see ghosts, Jules finds herself embroiled in a dangerous mystery when an insistent ghost implicates her in a series of deadly jewel heists. The only one who can keep her safe is a sexy hot detective who doesn’t Continue Reading
Review: Four Friends by Robyn Carr
Four Friends by Robyn Carr Contemporary Romance March 25, 2014 Harlequin Reviewed by Helyce Warning: there is infidelity in this book. It affects two of the woman featured. There is also drug abuse and domestic violence-though that’s told in the form of memories. If you are uncomfortable with any these things, this story may not be for you. In Four Friends, we meet four, everyday- but no less extraordinary women who live in the affluent town of Mill Valley, California. Some are Continue Reading
Review: Hope Ignites by Jaci Burton
Hope Ignites by Jaci Burton (Hope #2) Contemporary Romance March 25, 2014 Jove Reviewed by Helyce Favorite quote: Des figured he must have PMS-penis malfunction syndrome. Because he was acting like a dick. Logan McCormack is a man pretty set in his ways. He’s a cattle rancher, and it’s a life he’s chosen for himself. He loves the ranch, loves the land and is not afraid of hard work. But his world gets turned upside down when he leases out a small portion of his 45,000 acres to a Continue Reading
Review: Waiting On You by Kristan Higgins
Waiting On You (Blue Heron, #3) By Kristan Higgins Romance Contemporary March 25, 2014 Harlequin HQN Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Don’t go there again [...] We know how this ends. Colleen O’Rourke found her one true love as a teenager and lost it when she and the boy she loved had a fight that led him to marrying someone else. Now ten years later, he is back in town because of a family emergency and Colleen finds herself torn between wanting to keep hating him and wanting a second Continue Reading
Giveaway! Bellagrand by Paullina Simons
Blurb: They gave up everything to be together, but love was just the beginning of their journey... Italian immigrant Gina, independent, compassionate and strong, desperately wants a family. Boston blue-blood Harry, idealistic and fiercely political, wants to create a better world, a better country. Bound together by tormented passion, they rail, rage, and break each other’s hearts, only to come face to face with a stark final choice that will forever determine their destiny. Their journey Continue Reading
Review: Bite Me by Shelly Laurenston
Bite Me (Pride, #9) by Shelly Laurenston Paranormal Romance Paperback March 25, 2014 Bravo Reviewed by Tory Favorite Quote: “I want to awkwardly hug you.” Hybrid shifter Vic Barniov likes his life to be quiet and orderly, but that carefully controlled existence gets blown to smithereens every time he comes home to find honey badger Olivia (Livy) Kowalski hiding in his cabinets and eating all his honey. Livy drives Vic insane in all the right ways and Vic sets out to convince Livy that Continue Reading