Smexy College Romances Giveaway

Today, we're talking about College Romances with some SMEXY in there.

What the hell is SMEXY?

Well it's when you get SMART WRITING and add some hot, wet heart-pounding and throbbing SEX!

Every time I write a novel, I try my best to give it some complex characters, theme, strong plot, interesting setting, and some HOT SEX SCENES! I have a strong, top five of smexy novels.

However, before I list my top five. Please check out my latest Smexy College Romance is Complicated by You. I'll be giving out an ebook copy of my book as well as two new releases that may also be Smexy College Romances 

Unravel Me and Into the Depp.

TOP FIVE SMEXY COLLEGE ROMANCES

Number One

This is probably one of my favorite New Adult romances period. I just love that not only do you have this great sensuality between the characters, there is a lesson of female empowerment throughout the novel.

Number Two

I have a thing for characters that come from tragedy and trauma. I think that's what sticks with me the most about this novel. It's so much bigger than the romance and more about two emotionally confused characters forming a bond between them.

Number Three

This book is why I would warn my daughters about doggish fraternity guys! Such an entertaining romp of a cool college girl taming a foul ex-pro tennis player that enjoys involving innocent women in his fraternity love games.

Number Four

Dear God. This book is College Crack. I stayed up all night. The main reason why it is so low on the list is because I was so upset with the ending.

Number Five

There's no sex in the novel, BUT boy is this GEEK SMEXY. . .it's so damn funny and such a nerdtastic romance that I pretty much had an orgasm from the awesomeness!

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COLLEGE CRACK: Exploring New Adult Campus Romances

I'm really starting to love the New Adult genre. 
What does a book need to have in order to qualify as a New Adult genre? 

Here's the definition by New Adult Alley 
(which is the top blog spot I get all my NA recommendations):

Typically, a novel is considered NA if it encompasses the transition between adolescence—a life stage often depicted in Young Adult (YA) fiction—and true adulthood. 

Protagonists typically fall between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six, though exceptions may apply. NA characters are often portrayed experiencing: college, living away from home for the first time, military deployment, apprenticeships, a first steady job, a first serious relationship, etc. 

Other terms for NA include: Upper YA, Crossover Fiction, and Mature YA.

(Definition copied from the NA Alley website)

So on my journey through New Adult I've created some fun little categories for myself. Each month I'll discuss one of my categories and giveaway a book that I believe falls in it. 

For today, I want to present my NA category I labeled College Crack. I'm giving away Broken at Love to one winner who can choose print or eBook.  I just read it this weekend and believe it truly embodies my category.

Book Blurb: When a knee injury ends twenty-year-old Quinn Rowland’s pro tennis career, he’s not only dumped by his hot Russian girlfriend but ordered to attend college by his disinterested billionaire father. A rich kid who’s not used to being disappointed by life, Quinn and his sociopathic half-brother Sebastian create a frat house game intended to treat girls how they see them—as simple game pieces to be manipulated for their pleasure.

College sophomore Emilie Swanson knows Quinn’s reputation—after all, he did send one of her sorority sisters into therapy earlier in the semester—but the game and his charm bring them closer together and soon she starts to believe there’s more to Quinn than people think.


But what if the more is something darker than a game of toying with emotions and breaking hearts?

COLLEGE CRACK

• Set on a college campus 
• The characters tend to possess some serious emotional scars. 
• The courting and/or relationship is rocky and drenched in angst.
• One character usually has some money whether because they're from a rich family or the money was left to them.
• Alpha Male. I won't lie. On the alpha spectrum these books lean closer to the psychotic verging on creep side. Yet, there are also some really sweet non-creepy guys too.

Here's My Top College Crack books!

High drama, intense raw emotion, and alpha verging on creepy
Sex: Hot

Mysterious, empowering women, & sweet alpha with a huge heart
Sex: Sweet

Emotionally scarred students fall in love.
Sex: warmer than sweet, but not scorching hot

Tear jerker, sweet romance
Sex: None (at least I don't remember any)

Virgin and professor
Sex: Sweet

College Nerd - Rich CEO.
Sex: Wow! Lots! (in the later volumes)

Hot Rocker- College Chick, full of drama, love triangle.
Sex: Hot

Release Date: March 12, 2013
Hot rich alpha is tamed (or is he?) by a no-nonsense sorority girl.
Sex: Scorching Hot

FYI, three on this list I had problems with.

Losing It ended up being too sweet for my taste even though I enjoyed it.

Beautiful Disaster's alpha guy freaked me out. At times he was just too intense and dependent on the heroine.

Thoughtless There's some cheating involved in the plotline. I hated it the whole time, even though the bok made me lose lots of sleep.

However, all the books as well as the ones on this list had me up all night unable to go to sleep and put it down. 

What are some of your top College Crack novels?

Don't forget to enter the giveaway!

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Giveaway: Crazy Stupid Love New Adult Giveaway Blog Hop

Our first giveaway blog hop. Yay! And it's an international giveaway. Yay! We hope you're excited too—since this means free stuff! The Crazy Stupid Love hop is hosted by Talk Supe, and we're happy to participate.

This is an international giveaway for the winner's choice of paperback or ebook!

We're giving away a new adult book chosen by the winner from among any book mentioned in this post, or any book mentioned in the comments and then approved by Kenya or me. In other words, if this post doesn't mention a new adult romance (including paranormal romance) book you have your eye on, ask us in the comments if we'll include it as an option in our giveaway. If we approve in the comments, you're good to go!

Kenya and I have read a lot of New Adult books lately. In fact, Kenya's a little obsessed with them. Here are some of the ones we read and at least one of us loved (all of which are options for the winner):


Here are a couple that are on our reading list (also included as options for the winner):


The fine print: If the winner requests paperback, the book must be available from the Book Depository, which must ship to your address. The Book Depository ships to these countries. Otherwise, you're stuck with an ebook. If the winner opts for ebook, it will be gifted from an ebook store of the winner's choice that supports gifting. If the selected book is not yet published, we will preorder it or purchase it for the winner after publication.

You must be 18 or older to enter this giveaway.

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The other blogs in the hop (giving away more new adult goodies) are:

Book Review: Flat-Out Love by Jessica Park

Flat-Out Love by Jessica Park
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I really wanted to do this review right, by making a "Flat-Kenya" and posting it within my review.

What is a Flat-Kenya?
Read the damn book!

BHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


I've waited a long time to read this book because of all the one star reviews on Goodreads. Finally, one day I took the time to read the damn reviews and what did I find.... the reviews aren't even about the book. lol. They're about the author being an AssHat and argueing with reviewers on a book that she didn't write.

That sucks on both fronts because I'm sure the readers were annoyed by the events AND I bet the author may regret the behaviour, BUT let's not take it out on the BOOK!

Why not?

Because this book ROCKED!!!!!!

After the first chapter I slung the book between my greedy thighs and I went to town!


Oh yeah, baby!

I humped it!!
With each chapter, a cold literary lust of sensations saturated my brain!

You don't even want to know what I did to the book when my husband and kids left the house for the day.



You would think that sex was in this book.... but not one Sex Scene! And
yet
the
humping
continued!


Sick right?

Don't blame me. Blame the author.

The concept of the book gave me a literary boner!

I mean seriously this is why people pick up books, to be transported in the irregular and captivated by a story that incites many emotions.





PLUS ITS GEEKVILLE FUN!


I loved the facebook status updates. I saw some readers didn't like it.
News Flash: YOU SUCK!




And if you choose not to read this book because the author was (or still is) an AssHat, then fine. We all have our rights.

As an author, I think it was a wrong move on her part. Sadly, I'm a reader first and always have been! I just love to read good books not question the author of the book's personal life and choices. Granted, I have three kids so I'm too busy to care, but with all the garbage out there on the NY Times List, Amazon Bestseller's list, etc.....


Don't you want to read a book that incites you to HUMP IT?


Additionally, I've had many authors contact me and bitch about the bad book review that I gave them so I get why people are annoyed. I was also told an author read my bad review of their book out loud during a convention. Oh Well. But I don't think I'm going to not read a book because of a situation that is not directly related to me. At least those are my thoughts for now. We all have our own personal opinions and choices to make.

Either way! I can't wait to read a new humpable book!


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