(Barrons, I want to do naughty things to you – for real! Picture from Karen Marie Moning’s website.) Recently, Jessica at Read React Review (formally Racy Romance Reviews) posed the question – to what extent do you engage in fantasy when reading romance? She broke it down into two parts – first addressing why some of us treat characters as real. For example my Smexy Boyfriend list, or interacting with JR Ward’s characters on her message board. Most recently Karen Marie Moning has her characters Continue Reading
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Book, Blog and Other News
First up, Nalini Singh has posted an excerpt to her upcoming book, Bonds of Justice. Go HERE for the excerpt. It will be released July 6th. Blameless, the third book in Gail Carriger’s Alexia Tarabotti series now has a cover: I LOVED the first book, Soulless, and the second book, Changeless releases soon. You can watch how they created the above cover, HERE. Awhile ago, Karen Marie Moning started a facebook page for some of her characters. I of course immediately became “friends” with Continue Reading
Book News
Nalini Singh’s latest cover for Bonds of Justice, Max’s book, has just been released. To read an excerpt go HERE. Comes out July 6th. The final book in Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series now has a cover and title: I may be the only one who has not read this series. Hunger Games will be read by me this year! Mockingjay comes out August 24th. Suzanne Collins Website. Want to read the first two chapters of Magic Bleeds, the fourth book in Ilona Andrew’s Kate Daniel series? Go HERE. Continue Reading
Team Smexy
I received so many wonderful responses to my call for reviewers last week! I want to thank everyone who emailed me!! I ended up picking three great people, and I already had another selected, so I now have four guest reviewers who you will see pop up once in awhile. I’m really excited to be working with them and I look forward to hearing all of their thoughts on upcoming books. They might just think all they have to do is post a guest review now and then but I may have forgotten to mention a Continue Reading
Smexy’s Ten Favorite Sex Scenes of 2009
I couldn’t properly call this blog Smexy Books without talking about my favorite naughty scenes this year – and oh have our authors been naughty. Let’s face it – I have read a lot of sex this year, and there have been many scenes that have made me turn the fan on extra high. It was hard but I picked out my ten favorite, and I am just giving you a quick taste of the lovin’ going on. I not only chose them for their downright dirty talk, but also because I fell in love with the book and the Continue Reading
Smexy’s Favorite Books of 2009
(You didn't think I would have a year-end post without Brandon Flowers, did you?)2009 was a busy year for me. I started the year obsessed with the Anita Blake series by Laurell K Hamilton, which I still feel is one of the best series I have read (at least the first dozen books.) From there I discovered Nalini Singh and Colleen Gleason, two more favorites of mine. And then on March 23, 2009 I sat down at my computer and went to blogger.com. I stared at my screen and thought, oh, I like the name Continue Reading
Winner of Skin Game – Ava Gray
The winner of Skin Game by Ava Gray is..............e-booklover, who thought Branded by Fire by Nalini Singh was the sexiest book of the year. Out of the 58 comments for the sexiest book, Maya Banks and Lauren Dane tied for the most mentions!e_booklover, please email me at mandischreiner (at) gmail (dot) com.Thanks so much to Ann Aguirre for hosting the contest and for the interview!!! Continue Reading
Smexy is in the Bookstore!
I have known the manager of our local bookstore, Little Professor, for some time now. *waves* Hi Sarah!! A while ago, she asked me if I would want to do a "Smexy Recommends" display at her store. I thought it was a great idea! So I came up with twelve of my favorite books/series and wrote up little summaries about each one. We decided we needed a giveaway. So we stuffed a gift basket full of - An Edward Cullen action figure (hello!! I have one - and everyone else must have one too), copies of Continue Reading
Coming up in 2010
I know it is only September, but there have been so many tempting covers recently for books coming out next year. So let's take a little look at what I am anticipating:January:Tairen Soul - C.L. Wilson - The fifth and final book in her Tairen Soul series. Greatly anticipating this book. C.L. Wilson has stated she is going to start a new series, but will come back to write Bel and Galen's books!! I don't read a lot of fantasy, but I adore this series. The second book, Lady of Light and Shadow is Continue Reading
Must Love Hellhounds Anthology
(She looks so badass - I want to be her)Must Love Hellhounds Anthology - Charlaine Harris, Nalini Singh, Ilona Andrews, Meljean BrookSeptember 1, 2009Urban Fantasy368 pages, paperbackBerkleyIt is hard to go wrong buying an anthology with the authors Charlaine Harris, Nalini Singh, Ilona Andrews and Meljean Brook. As the title promises, each story features hellhounds in one way or another.The Britlingens Go to Hell - Charlaine HarrisBatanya and Clovache are bodyguards hired by a thief named Crick Continue Reading