Thursday, October 17, 2024

#BookReview: Seven Summers by @PaigeToonAuthor @penguinusa



ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Two epic love stories. One impossible choice. 

Six summers ago

Liv and Finn meet working in a bar on the rugged Cornish coastline, their futures full of promise. When a night of passion ends in devastating tragedy they are bound together inextricably. But Finn's life is in LA with his band, and Liv's is in Cornwall with her family - so they make a promise. Finn will return every year, and if they are single they will spend the summer together.

This summer

Liv crosses paths with Tom - a mysterious new arrival in her hometown. As the wildflowers and heather come into bloom, they find themselves falling for one another. For the first time Liv can imagine a world where her heart isn't broken every year.

Now Liv must make an impossible choice. And when she discovers the shocking reason that Tom has left home, she'll need to trust her heart even more . . .

#BookTour: The Hart of God (The End of Days) by Lawrence R. Deering @RABTBookTours




Fiction / Thriller / Apocalyptic / Christian

Date Published: July 14, 2024

Publisher: Manhattan Book Group


 

Successful, college educated men in their twenties and thirties are admitted to psychiatric institutions claiming to be angels in a satanic army. They know their rank, mission, and commanding officer. Many had no prior religious background. Friends, Jonathan Hart, a reporter, and Charles Atwater, a psychologist collaborate on studying these patients with Angelic Psychotic Disorder. They discover that what they call the Dark Angel movement has people placed in the highest levels of government. The book examines the ease of which a charismatic leader promising peace could persuade people to give up their individual rights. It questions the strength of faith, what normal people are capable of when confronted with enormous challenge, and the impact on individual relationships. 

#BookTour: Healthbook Good Health Medicinebook by Dr. Andrea Palfi @RABTBookTours


 

Healthcare / Lifestyle / Nonfiction

Date Published: 9/11/24

 

 

Are you on any medication? Would you like to know what you take?






Wednesday, October 16, 2024

My Week in Review: @ReaderLatte @CrossroadReview @BistroBookBabes


Welcome to my weekly updates of what is going on in my life, bookish stuff like updates with my TBR and reviews, What am I watching?  What movies can't I wait for etc, and of course bookstagram and social media. I hope you enjoy this resurrected meme! 

#WaitingOn: The Christmas Tree Farm (Dream Harbor #3) by @GilmoreLau27606



From the author of the viral TikTok sensation, The Pumpkin Spice CafĂ©, comes the only spicy grumpy x sunshine Christmas romcom you need this year!

Kira North hates Christmas. Which is unfortunate since she just bought a Christmas tree farm in a town that’s too cute for its own good.

Bennett Ellis is on vacation in Dream Harbor taking a break from his life in California. And most importantly, taking a break from his latest run of disastrous dates.

After a run in with Kira in her fields, Ben has no intention of offering to help the grumpy owner set up her tree farm, despite the fact she’s clearly got no idea what she’s doing.

Kira knows she should stop being so stubborn, but her farm is not all cute and cozy like people always show on social media, it’s borderline dangerous with no heating, and she’d rather no one saw it.

But somehow fate finds Ben at Kira’s farm once more, and as Kira watches him swing an ax at the first tree, she finds herself appreciating his strength and questionning why she refused help in the first place..

The Christmas Tree Farm is a spicy romantic mystery for fans of Gilmore Girls with a HEA guaranteed!

Tropes:

• grumpy x sunshine
• small town
• forced proximity
• one bed



#CoverReveal for Body Checked by the Defenseman by R.C. Stephens @GiveMeBooksPR




Title: Body Checked by the Defenseman
Series: Riverside U #2
Author: R.C. Stephens
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Brother's Best Friend/Forbidden
College Hockey/Virgin Heroine
Cover Design: Najla Qamber
Sexy Cover Design: Mayhem Cover Creations
Release Date: November 21, 2024


BLURB

Ruby Foxx is the only girl I’ve ever wanted… and she’s completely off-limits.

Her brother is my teammate and best friend. They’re my family. We grew up across the hall, sharing a secret connection I’ve tried hard to forget.

But I never crossed the line—not then, and not when we came to Riverside U—I’ve kept my distance.

Until her dorm floods, and she moves into the hockey house. Now, there’s nowhere to hide. Ruby’s always around, and my feelings are hitting harder than a body check on the ice.

Then she confesses she’s never been with a man… and asks me to change that.

I can’t just take what she’s offering—I need to make it special—something she’ll never regret.

I promise to take my time and teach her, but I’m the one getting schooled because I’m falling fast.

The guilt is like a slap shot, knowing I’m betraying my best friend—my family—by falling in love with her.

I know I should skate away, but after tasting happiness with Ruby, I can’t let her go.

What if, by holding on, I lose everything—on and off the ice?

#BookReview: If I Stopped Haunting You by Colby Wilkens



ABOUT THIS BOOK:
An enemies to lovers romance with a spooky twist where two feuding writers end up on a writers retreat together at a haunted castle in Scotland

It's been months since horror author Penelope Skinner threw a book at Neil Storm. But he was so infuriating, with his sparkling green eyes and his bestselling horror novels that claimed to break Native stereotypes. And now she’s a publishing pariah and hasn’t been able to write a word since. So when her friend invites her on a too-good-to-be-true writers retreat in a supposedly haunted Scottish castle, she seizes the opportunity. Of course, some things really are too good to be true.

Neil wants nothing less than to be trapped in a castle with the frustratingly adorable woman who threw a book at him. She drew blood! Worse still, she unleashed a serious case of self-doubt! Neil is terrified to write another bestselling “book without a soul,” as Pen called it. All Neil wants is to find inspiration, while completely avoiding her.

But as the retreat begins, Pen and Neil are stunned to find themselves trapped in a real-life ghost story. Even more horrifying, they’re stuck together and a truly shocking (extremely hot) almost-kiss has left them rethinking their feelings, and… maybe they shouldn’t have been enemies at all? But if they can’t stop the ghosts pursuing them, they may never have the chance to find out.

Full of spooky chills and even more sexy thrills, If I Stopped Haunting You by Colby Wilkens is the funny, fast-paced romp romance readers have been waiting for!