10. It’s August! School starts this month. Not until the 30th but hey, who’s counting? ME. It’s hot, humid and I’ve eaten one too many of my mother’s salted caramel cupcakes (which are OMG amazing and I need to get the recipe from her and share it with you). 9. Okay folks, take a deep breath. Let’s all hold hands and gather around. The news: Ilona Andrews announced on their blog yesterday that there will not be another Kate Daniels book until 2013. Let’s have a collective SNIFFLE. Kate Continue Reading
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The Smexy Family is Growing
Tori and I are happy to share with you today that we have two new reviewers starting at Smexy Books! Helyce and May. I’ve been thinking for awhile now about bringing on a new reviewer or two. To keep up with reviews, Tori and I have a very strict reading schedule. Which we are not complaining about, because if we didn’t read every day, we would go insane. We have to read. But at the same time, we get these great recommendations from others, and if the book is not on our Continue Reading
Review: Hexed Anthology
Hexed by Ilona Andrews, Yasmine Galenorn, Allyson James, and Jeanne C. Stein PNR/UF June 7, 2011 Paperback Berkley Reviewed by Tori Hexed is an anthology written by four of the bestselling writers in the fantasy, romance genre. Action and magic follow four powerful woman as they fight for the men they love. Magic Dreams by Ilona Andrews- Rating: B+ Old legends and frightening nightmares came to life in Magic Dreams. The shapeshifting Tigress Dali Harimau finds Continue Reading
May Rec’s
Looking back in the month of May, these are the books Mandi and Tori liked best. Tori’s “must read” for May Spellcast by Barbara Ashford Paranormal Romance May 3, 2011 (review to come) Book Info Amazon, Goodreads Magic Slays (Kate Daniels #5) by Ilona Andrews Urban Fantasy May 31, 2011 Review Amazon, Goodreads Note: This is a rec from Mandi too! Big Bad Beast (Pride #6) by Shelly Laurenston Paranormal Romance May 1, 2011 Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten–May 27th
10. My Week – My five year old graduates from preschool today. YAY for no more preschool checks. Boo for my kids getting so big! 9. The Lothaire cover has been revealed. What do we think? I don’t know. I LOVE Lothaire in the series and I’m dying for his book. But I don’t want to picture the above dude when I read about him. Sorry – just doesn’t work for me. But I will do dirty deeds to get my hands on a copy of Lothaire. Also – super excited that is the title of the book. Bring it Continue Reading
Interview with Nalini Singh and Giveaway
Hi Nalini and welcome to Smexy Books! For those who may not know much about you, give us a little background about yourself. I live in gorgeous New Zealand, and write the Psy/Changeling and Guild Hunter series for Berkley Sensation. I’m also addicted to chocolate and travel. For excerpts, behind-the-scenes info, and free short stories, check out my website: www.nalinisingh.com In your newest Psy-Changeling novel, Kiss Of Snow, you match a rather young Psy, Sienna who is 19, with a much Continue Reading
Mandi’s Little Rant About Hard Bitten
**Spoilers about Hard Bitten by Chloe Neill and the series in general** I’ve been contemplating why I didn’t like the end of Hard Bitten by Chloe Neill (book 4 in her Chicagoland Vampire series). I talked about it a bit in my review, but didn’t want to go into it too much before release date. Now the book has been out a week and I need to rant again. There is a huge cliffhanger at the end and it has really bothered me. For the most part I do like cliffhangers in most urban Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten–April 29th
10. My week – I have no idea what I did this week. I’m so boring it isn’t even funny. I meet my friends for lunch and they ask – what’s new? I just sit there with a little drool coming out the side of my mouth. What do I do? Read a little, tweet a little, scrub a toilet. That’s all I got people. But I do love me ;) 9. I’ve wanted to read a Samantha Kane book for quite some time now. I have her first Brothers In Arms book on my Kindle, but haven’t gotten to it Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten–April 15th
10. My week – Stay far away from this post. *Sprays Lysol* My kids brought home pink eye over the weekend,,,yay. So as a family we started applying eye drops. And of course the kids eyes cleared up in like five minutes. Hubs took the eye drops and then had an allergic reaction to the medication and woke up the next day with both of his eyes swollen shut. I got cocky (yes, I said “cocky”) after the first day and didn’t keep up with the drops so now I have it again, and it won’t go away. Seriously Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten–March 11th
10. Rainy and cloudy all week – so what did I do? Read three BDSM books. What else is a girl to do? Two I loved, one I didn’t. See below for more. Hubs also turned 33 – he requested oyster stew for dinner. So like a good wife I called his mother and said – hey, make your son oyster stew! Oysters in a cream sauce – I just can’t do it. ;) 9. One of my favorite authors, Ilona Andrews (who writes the Kate Dainels and Edge series) has a new short story out called Of Swine and Roses. I Continue Reading