Tori and I love, love, love The Sins & Needles series by Karina Halle. We have reviewed Sins & Needles and Shooting Scars and now we are about to start the final book in the trilogy, Bold Tricks. We have such a love/hate relationship with the villain-ish and complex and frustrating character of Javier Bernal, we asked Karina if she would write about him. The Redemption of Javier Bernal When I first planned out the entire Artists Trilogy (before I even wrote Sins & Needles Continue Reading
Review: Red Hill by Jamie McGuire
Red Hill by Jamie McGuire Fiction Contemporary/Horror October 1, 2013 Simon & Schuster Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “We were surviving, but everyday felt less like living .” A virus is sweeping the nation, pitting man against man. When a small group of people find themselves at the same abandoned farm house, their fates become intertwined and their survival depends on one another. A woman looking for her daughters, a man trying to protect his only child, and a teenager and her Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
Hero: Gray Barnett. CEO and summer football league coach. Heroine: Lola Cook. A writer conned in to watching her naughty nephews for the summer. Writer Lola Cook is on a deadline. Meeting it gets twice as difficult when she finds herself in the unwelcome role of babysitter for her nephews. Six weeks with the twin teenage terrors is too much for Lola—until she has a brilliant idea: send the boys to football camp. That’ll at least get them out of her hair for five hours every day. Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
This week at Smexy… B+ review – Sex & Violence by Carrie Mesrobian (youth adult) B+ review – Lovers Unmarked Anthology (erotic contemporary) B review – A Puppy For Christmas Anthology (holiday contemporary) B review – Deception Cove by Jayne Castle (paranormal) B- review – Celtic Moon by Jan Delima (paranormal) B- review – Love Lessons by Heidi Cullinan (m/m) C+ review – Dirty Trick by Christine Bell (erotic contemporary) C+ review – Not Another Wedding by Jennifer McKenzie Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten
TGIF MINIONS!! Mandi’s took off and left me here all along so I’m taking over the Top Ten as I won’t be getting my drunk on till later. *fist pump* 10. Lizard Man loving? Twitter is abuzz over The Last Hour Of Gann by R.Lee smith. I’m hearing it is engaging, unique, and quite romantic. I love a good shifter story but this one goes even beyond in that our lizard man STAYS a lizard. This is alien loving, folks. I also like the premise that our lizard man hero thinks Continue Reading
Review: Deception Cove by Jayne Castle
Deception Cove (Harmony #10/Rainshadow #2) by Jayne Castle Paranormal Romance Paperback, 368 pages August 27, 2013 Jove Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “A second honeymoon on a damned island. What could possibly go wrong?” As a light-talent, Alice North has the rare ability to make things disappear, including herself—a gift that comes in handy during her magic act with her dust bunny Houdini. Business mogul Drake Sebastian is day-blind, since his sight was nearly destroyed in Continue Reading
Review: A Puppy For Christmas by Carole Mortimer, Myrna Mackenzie, and Nikki Logan
A Puppy for Christmas by Carole Mortimer, Myrna Mackenzie, and Nikki Logan Released: October 1, 2013 Contemporary Romance Harlequin Reviewed by May I couldn’t believe that stories with puppies and romance and Christmas had all been combined into one anthology. Happy? Oh yes, it made me very giddy. Overall this is a strong set of stories. While I did not read one, the other two are strong enough for me personally that I still recommend this. In fact, what had me on edge about the first Continue Reading
Mari Carr and Sami Lee Go Pink
Author Sami Lee is visiting Smexy today raise awareness about breast cancer and talk about her book and the book Mari Carr has written that also addresses this disease. During the month of October, Mari Carr and I are conducting a month long blog tour to run in conjunction with Breast Cancer Awareness month. We each wrote books featuring heroines dealing with the disease so we thought it would be a great idea to combine our efforts to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research. Continue Reading
Review: Love Lessons by Heidi Cullinan
Love Lessons by Heidi Cullinan (New Adult M/M Contemporary Romance) Released: October 2, 2013 Samhain Reviewed by Helyce Kelly Davidson has been looking forward to moving away from home and attending college since he was probably in middle school. He is looking forward to being able to just be himself; out and proud and comfortable in his own skin for the first time in his life. He knows that Hope University is the right place for him and he is looking forward to everything that college Continue Reading
Review: Dirty Trick by Christine Bell
Dirty Trick by Christine Bell (Perfectly Matched #1) Contemporary Romance Released: September 23, 2013 Entangled Publishing Reviewed by Mandi I’ve read a couple of books by Christine Bell and I really like her voice. Dirty Trick gives us two very likable protagonists. Grace Love runs a matchmaking service, yet never has a match of her own. Her best friend Trick is on the SWAT team (hubba hubba) and has always given her the good tingles when he is around, but they never quite Continue Reading