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
Review: Not Another Wedding by Jennifer McKenzie
Not Another Wedding by Jennifer McKenzie Released: October 1, 2013 Contemporary Harlequin Reviewed by Mandi Event planner Poppy Sullivan is worried her best friend Jamie is rushing into marriage and that his fiancé is a gold digger, so she is determined to get Jamie’s ear and tell him her concerns. At pre-wedding festivities, she runs into Beck Lefebvre, the man whom she was in love with as a teenager. The man who took her virginity and then never called again. Not wanting to Continue Reading
Review: Sex & Violence by Carrie Mesrobian
Sex & Violence by Carrie Mesrobian Mature YA Contemporary/Fiction E book, 304 pages October 1, 2013 Carolrhoda LAB Reviewed by Tori Seventeen year old Evan Carter has never considered the consequences of having random sex. From the age of fifteen, Evan has used sex as a way to connect and combat the loneliness of having a father who's never there and being forced to continuously move. He purposely selects girls who are “not normal.” Girls who will let you sleep with them on the Continue Reading