I re read Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels series from start to finish. A wonderful hero and heroine who actually work through their issues and fall in love in a realistic fashion. I had heard so many good things about it on line I decided to give it a chance and so glad I did. I did manage to sneak in a few books just for my reading pleasure. I will have full reviews of these books in January. Nothing in these books convinced me that they should have met much less fall in love and have a happy ending together. Same with Demon Crossingsby Eleri Stone and Cate Rowan’s A Source Of Magic. I was really looking forward to Christine Feehan’s Spirit Bound, second in her Sisters of the Heart series, but the hero and heroine disappointed me.
I seemed to have picked books where the hero is so alpha that I was turned off by them. News From Tori-My week has been a hodge podge of reading. I’ve only read a few chapters but the interaction between the hero and heroine in the first two chapters is so well done.
On a good note I did really enjoy Defying the Odds by Kele Moon (listed above) and I’ve started Not Wicked Enough by Carolyn Jewel and I’m completely in love. I’ll have a full review of that one in February. Did not warm up at all to her throughout the book.
I finished A Town Called Valentine by Emma Cane but had a very hard time with the heroine. I didn’t like how the characters were written in this one. I also DNF’d One Wicked Night by Kelly Jamieson. I just couldn’t get invested in the characters and thought the build-up to the romance lacked. I made it halfway through How to Dance With a Duke by Manda Collins but it was just too slow for me to continue. News from Mandi: I had an up and down reading week. in a way Melody admired.Here is what we talked about at Smexy Books this week:ĭ Review of Sweet Reward by Christy Reece (Romantic Suspense)ī Review of Defying the Odds by Kele Moon (Contemporary)ī+ Review of A Lady Awakened by Cecilia Grant (Historical) At least he attempted to use his charisma for good, which was more than she had to say for most charmers.
Even Wyatt’s smooth-talking ways weren’t so bad. Melody sighed because she liked both of them. He winced, a look of genuine sadness crossing his gruff features. “Maybe.” Clay shrugged, seeming to consider it for a moment. “Do you really think they’re gonna die alone?” Melody asked when she was certain they were too far away to hear her through the door. She could hear Jules and Wyatt arguing down the hallway as they walked to their rooms, because both of them had voices that could wake the dead. Melody laughed, covering her mouth with her hand as she pressed her ear to the door. “There was a wicked side of her that wanted to know what it was like to slam a door in people’s faces, with a clipped Time to fuck off.Ĭlay leaned a hand against the door of the suite, looking skyward.
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