Unbound by Cara McKenna Released: October 16, 2013 Contemporary Romance Penguin Reviewed by Mandi I’ve said this countless times on this blog but I love Cara McKenna’s voice. She always gives me something different in her stories, and many times they are filled with characters who are not super rich or have wealthy backgrounds or families. They are just people, usually one of them struggling with something quite dark, and we get to see them fall in love and realize what they are Continue Reading
Review: A Seaside Christmas by Sherryl Woods
A Seaside Christmas by Sherryl Woods (Chesapeake Shores #10) Women's Fiction Septempber 24, 2013 Harlequin Reviewed by May As the only child of a single mom, Jenny Collins wanted nothing more than to be part of a large, rambunctious family like the O'Briens. Ironically, though, when her mother married into that family, Jenny found herself feeling more like an outsider than ever. Now, after years in Nashville as an established songwriter, Jenny's drawn back to Chesapeake Shores to Continue Reading
Mandi’s New Favorite Book–The Last Hour of Gann by R. Lee Smith
It was her last chance: Amber Bierce had nothing left except her sister and two tickets on Earth’s first colony-ship. She entered her Sleeper with a five-year contract and the promise of a better life, but awakened in wreckage on an unknown world. For the survivors, there is no rescue, no way home and no hope until they are found by Meoraq—a holy warrior more deadly than any hungering beast on this hostile new world…but whose eyes show a different sort of hunger when he looks at her. It was Continue Reading
Review: Secret Unleashed by Sierra Dean
Secret Unleashed (Secret McQueen, #6) by Sierra Dean Urban Fantasy E book, 343 pages October 15, 2013 Samhain Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “If I wanted questions going unanswered, I could just watch Lost.” Never has a book been so aptly titled than Secret Unleashed. Number six in Sierra Dean’s dark and wickedly sexy urban fantasy Secret McQueen series. In this installment, Secret learns some secrets that will leave her and readers reeling from the implications. Recap from book Continue Reading
Review: Duke of Midnight by Elizabeth Hoyt
Duke of Midnight by Elizabeth Hoyt (Maiden Lane #6) Releases: October 15, 2013 Historical Grand Central Reviewed by Mandi The Duke of Wakefield or Max is a dark and broody guy. Years ago he witnessed the murders of his parents on the streets of St. Giles and he blames himself. He has guilt and shame and now as an adult, he has taken to the streets at night as one of the Ghosts of St. Giles. A vigilante who rids St. Giles of the bad guys. He wears a mask and a cape and is a Continue Reading
Guest Author Karina Halle
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