October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and there is still time to take part in Penguin’s Read Pink initiative. Read Pink® in Support of Breast Cancer Awareness What’s black and white and pink all over? The initiative by the Penguin Group (USA) called Read Pink® in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October)! This literary embrace of a life-saving cause last year resulted in more than 400,000 best-selling romances shipped with Read Pink seals and information about the charity it Continue Reading
Review: Trancehack by Sonya Clark
Trancehack by Sonya Clark (Magic Born #1) Released: October 28, 2013 Paranormal Romance Carina Press Reviewed by Mandi Blurb: It’s 2065. Those born with magic abilities live in government-run zones, without rights or freedoms. Fear of magic created this segregated world and fear keeps it intact. A high-profile murder brings Detective Nathan Perez to Magic Born Zone 13. He’s had little experience with the Magic Born and isn’t sure what to expect during his first encounter with a Continue Reading
Review: Heating up the Holidays Anthology
Heating up the Holidays Anthology Released: October 28, 2013 Contemporary Romance Loveswept Reviewed by Mandi Play With Me by Lisa Renee Jones I DNF’d this story. Hero is this cold businessman. Heroine is hired as his assistant. I did not like at all. I wish this story wasn’t the first in the anthology. Oh well. Snowfall by Mary Ann Rivers. Blurb: Jenny Wright can’t get enough of her erotic conversations with someone she knows only as “C.” Flirting online helps Jenny Continue Reading
Review: The Wicked Wallflower by Maya Rodale
The Wicked Wallflower by Maya Rodale (Bad Boys and Wallflowers #1) Released: October 29, 2013 Historical Avon Reviewed by May This story opens as Lady Emma is coming out into society and discovering that London society is just as cruel as her finishing school. The girl who bullied her there is on the scene and making sure her nickname “the buxom bluestocking” is known to everyone, as well as making sure Emma and her friends quickly get placed as the least likely girls. To get in Continue Reading
Review: The Iron Traitor by Julie Kagawa
The Iron Traitor (The Iron Fey: Call Of The Forgotten #2) by Julie Kagawa Paranormal Romance-YA October 29, 2013 Harlequin Teen Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “You can’t save everyone. Sometimes, you have to make the decision to let them go.” Ethan Chase once again finds himself up to his neck in the machinations of the Fey when he is forced to go back into Nevernever to help find his nephew, Keirran, the Iron prince. Keirran is determined to help all the Forgotten fey from fading, Continue Reading
Top Ten Reasons to read Beauty and the Billionaire by Jessica Clare
Blurb: Real-estate tycoon Hunter Buchanan has a dark past that’s left him scarred and living as a recluse on his family’s palatial estate. Hunter is ready to give up on love—until he spots an enigmatic red-haired beauty and comes up with an elaborate scheme to meet her. Gretchen Petty is in need of a paycheck—and a change. So when a job opportunity in an upstate New York mansion pops up she accepts. And while she can overlook the oddities of her new job, she can’t ignore her new boss’s Continue Reading
Review: Dark Witch by Nora Roberts
Dark Witch (The Cousins O’Dwyer Trilogy, #1) by Nora Roberts Paranormal Romance/Suspense Paperback, 342 pages October 29, 2013 Berkley Trade Reviewed by Tori Once upon time, in the Emerald Isle, a young witch and her three children fought a valiant fight against the evil sorcerer, Cabhan, who was bent on taking their powers. When the young witch had nothing more to fight with, she gave her life and the majority of her powers to her children, using the very last bit to trap and kill the Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
This excerpt is from Snowfall by Mary Ann Rivers Hero: Evan, an Occupational Therapist who helps Jenny with her deteriorating vision. He has sexy long arms and likes to furrow his sexy eyebrows. He is kind and patient and realllly knows how to kiss. Heroine: Jenny, a microbiologist who is losing her vision due to an inherited disease. She is super smart, super strong, super sexy and scared of the encroaching darkness. I adored her. “I really want to kiss you,” he says. None of the kisses Continue Reading
Winners!
The winner of Bare Knuckle by Katie Porter is: Carolyn L The winners of Winning the Boss’s Heart by Hayson Manning are: Amanda JenM Helen Marie Natasha Maureen Congrats! Emails have gone out. Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
This week at Smexy… A review – Archangel’s Legion by Nalini Singh (paranormal) B+ review- The Perfect Match by Kristen Higgins (contemporary) B review – Winning the Boss’s Heart by Hayson Manning (contemporary) C+ review – Wild Man by Kristen Ashley (contemporary) C review – Obsession by Jennifer Lyon (contemporary) C- review – Friday Afternoon by Sylvia Ryan (erotic) Katie Porter – Gimme a Scarred Hero Sarah Morgan Deals! Upcoming Books from Serena Bell! Interview with Continue Reading