The Sexy Scary Book Club

What happens when two mortal enemies team up to find a lost relic before an even BIGGER bad can get to it? Well, they get horny for each other…naturally. Join Lisa & Jess for a new episode of The Sexy Scary Book Club. This week they discuss Amber V. Nicole’s Book of Azrael while also trying to answer the question, has “Romantasy” replaced the term “Paranormal Romance?” And, what is an “Urban F...

"You can call me death. And I will call you mine." When Hanna learns that her Shaman father is being held captive by Death himself, she travels to the Land of the Dead to trade her life for the release of her father. Taken to Death's castle at Shadow's End, Hanna discovers a macabre yet beautiful new world. Even though she's technically Death's prisoner, she's surprised at the realization that in...

What's the best course of action when you accidentally (sort of) awaken a two thousand year old evil deep in the jungles of South America? Probably to just forget about it and head back home where you're getting ready to start a new life with your new coven. But, it's hard to concentrate on your studies when the hot as hell primitive warrior shows up on your doorstep, claiming your his long lost w...

Ah, everyone's favorite troupe. This week Lisa and Jess discuss the pregnancy troupe, looking at two old skool favorite's: Karen Marie Moning's Kiss of the Highlander and the 6th installment of the Immortals after Dark series, Dark Desires after Dusk by Kresley Cole. Oh, and did we mention both FMC's are virgins to start? Gotta love a two-for-one classic troupe.

This week Lisa and Jess are getting swarthy, this week and hanging out with some sexy pirates on a High Sea adventure. We'll be discussing Stacey Marie Brown's latest release, Silver Tongued Devil where we answer the question: which pirate is more fun, Croygen or Katrina, aka 'Puss in Boots?' Also, don't mind us while we mercilessly butcher ol' C-dog's name the whole way through. Next we're discus...

This week Lisa and Jess are discussing a favorite topic, books with witches! We're delving back into the Witch Walker world with Charissa Weak's 2nd installment City of Ruin. We'll learn more about the Bloodgood sister's past, the King of the East's identity and what the heck that pesky god Neri has been up to since taking his magic back from Colden Moeshka. Then we're shifting gears to the dark a...

Jess and Lisa are back for a new season of The Sexy Scary Book Club. Over our break, we discovered author Carissa Broadbent and we loved both of the books we read so much, we simply couldn't choose which one to cover on the pod. So, we decided to create a new theme so we could talk about both! The theme for this week is 2 Books, 1 Author. We are diving into two very different but equally lush and...

No themes this week as Lisa and Jessica FINALLY get to read the latest installment of Raven Kennedy's Plated Prisoner series, Glow. Can Auren recover and learn to control her gold? Will Queen Kaila follow through on her plan to make Auren stand trial for the death of Midas? Is Queen Malina able to regain her throne? And, will Rip just shut up during sexy time?...Tune in and find out!

It seems like most paranormal romance, fantasy romance series meets it's heroine here at some point. She comes face to face with her life as she knows it and a brave new world where nothing is as it seems. The world she was raised in is all of a sudden nothing but question marks and no one is willing to share all the information. Secrets are uncovered, those once thought enemies might become the o...

What makes for a kind alpha, and are we starting to see more of them in recent paranormal/fantasy fiction? Okay, sure, there's still some manipulation at play here, but it's all for the greater good and growth of our heroine's arc... so that's probably okay, right? In this episode, Lisa and Jess look at Commander Rip from The Plated Prisoner series by Raven Kennedy and Rhysand from A Court of Thor...

The theme this week looks at retellings of popular figures from mythology, religion and lore. Lisa and Jess discuss Neon Gods by Katee Roberts and Gild by Raven Kennedy. Sex parties, spicy bargains and a touch of pure gold. Oh my! Join us for another episode, won't you?

Aliens Attack! this week where Lisa and Jess ask the question, does it really count as captivity when your lodgings are like a 5 star hotel with 24 hour room services and your captor has abs of steel and is real good in bed?, in The Krinar Captive by Anna Zaires. Oh, and how about some conscious consent and maybe a shower before snacking on my downstairs, thank you very much, in Ice Planet Barbari...

From Victorian London to Istanbul. From dragons to fallen angels. From secret parentage and faked deaths, to barely restrained lust and some...questionable consent. This week we'll be discussing everyone's favorite, the Secret trope, highlighting Shana Abe's The Smoke Thief and The Scribe by Elizabeth Hunter.

Lisa and Jess discuss The Restorer by Amanda Stevens and The Shadow Reader by Sandy Williams this week. Our theme is all about those books that you've read, you've loved, but you just can't quite remember them...like...at all. Jess has picked the first book in the Graveyard Queen series for Lisa. Amelia gray is a cemetery restorer in Charleston who can also see ghosts. Amelia finds herself swept u...

Sure main characters are great, or whatever, but how about some love for those side-piece characters who are always catching our eye?? You know who I'm talking about. Our Wolven bestie Kieran from the Blood & Ash series by Jennifer Armentrout. Poppy may only have eyes for Casteel, except, wait a minute...she's been peeping some of Kieran's personal biz. There's a particular outdoor celebration...

Last week we went old school and this week we're going Back to School. We're talking about the first book in the Zodiac Academy series, The Awakening by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti. Twins Tori and Darcy find out that instead of being the humans they thought, they are actually Fae, and not only that, but the last known heirs to the throne. Whisked away to the Zodiac Academy, they'll have t...

This week the theme is Going Old Skool & we'll be chatting about some of the OGs in the paranormal romance/urban fantasy genre. We'll be hanging out at Mercy garage with Mechanic and coyote shifter Mercy Thompson. When a wayward kid, and newly turned werewolf shows up dead on her porch after putting in a few days work at her shop, Mercy is roped into helping unravel the mystery of who murdered...

Wait...Were what? This episode is dedicated to those uncommon shifter books you sometimes stumble across that have you scratching your head, raising your eyebrows and wondering, how does THAT work in bed? This week we're hanging out with honey badger shifter sisters who can't manage to stay out of trouble, courtesy of their criminal of a father, in Hot & Badgered by Shelly Laurenston. Next wil...

We're back for a new season of The Sexy Scary Book Club and this time, it's all about THEMES. This week we're discussing A Fantasy of Frost by Kelly St. Clare and A Shadow in the Ember by Jennifer Armentrout. These books have a lot in common, from their bad ass take care of business heroines to the strong Alphas constantly trying (and failing) to keep them out of harms way. But, the most interesti...

When Blood King and Vampire, Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev, promises to spare her kingdom for her hand in marriage, Princess, Isolde de Lara, must choose between everyone she loves and keeping people safe. Isolde never saw herself getting married, instead planning to rule her kingdom alone as Queen. She certainly never saw herself married to a monster like the Blood King, what could he possibly want w...

Dare I say we have a (gulp) nice alpha? Join us for a new episode of The Sexy Scary Book Club. This week we're talking about The Witch Collector by Charrisa Weaks... Raina Bloodgood has one desire: kill the Frost King and the Witch Collector who stole her sister. On Collecting Day, she means to exact murderous revenge, but a more sinister threat sets fire to her world. Rising from the ashes is the...

We're back to discuss the final installment of Stacey Marie Brown's Winterland Tales. The bad boys and girls of Winterland are back for the final battle, and this fight isn’t just between naughty and nice, but life and death. Dinah Liddell grew up plagued by nightmares of monsters and strange creatures only to discover they are all real. Winterland exists. Now, she’s being forced to return the Blo...

Dinah Liddell adheres strictly to her plans and schedules. She has life all laid out for her and longtime boyfriend Scott. 2 years after her sister Alice's mental breakdown, things seem back to normal. Alice is thriving in NYC with her successful Hat Shop and Bakery and sexy as hell Matt Hatter at her side. Things are moving along for Dinah as well. Now at University, she and Scott have moved in t...

We're back with Alice, Scrooge (ahem, I mean Matt hatter) and the gang. Alice has woken up from her Winterland fever dream and it's back to life as usual... with the exception of all the Christmas themed hallucinations and mysterious new neighbors; One of which she feels particularly drawn to. Alice is trying to make sense of it all but can't help feeling she's losing her grip on reality. Jessica,...

What if Alice fell down a hole and instead of visiting Wonderland, she found herself in magical Christmas themed adventure? Alice is down on her luck. Heartbroken and jobless, her far more responsible teenage sister Dinah gets her a job working as one of Santa's sexy elves at a local tree farm. Out for a breath of fresh air, Alice sees a sexy shirtless man running through the trees illuminated by...