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Helyce’s Final Thoughts on Thursday

December 27, 2018 by Helyce 5 Comments

Hello Friends, It is with much sadness that I write this post.  My time at Smexy Books has come to an end. I will never forget that day that Mandi emailed me and asked if I might be interested in reviewing with her and Tori.  At the time, I was a stay-at-home-mom. I would read while my kids were at soccer practice. When I found the Goodreads community my reading world opened and I found so many other genres I had not explored before.  Talking books was how Mandi and I met and Continue Reading

Review: Chasing Forever by Kelly Jensen

December 20, 2018 by Helyce Leave a Comment

Hello friends-I am entering panic mode where Christmas is concerned.  I had been doing really well with the holiday shopping and thought I was exactly where I should be by this time with 6 days to go.  But over the last couple of days I have been completely overwhelmed. This weekend is going to be crazy. As you can imagine, there has been little time for reading, so I have only one review for you today. Chasing Forever by Kelly Jensen (This Time Forever #3)MM RomanceReleased: December Continue Reading

Helyce’s Thursday Thoughts

December 6, 2018 by Helyce Leave a Comment

Hello Friends.  It is December-the tree is up, the lights on the house have been hung, and a fair amount of shopping has taken place.  Am I close to being done-absolutely not. There is just not enough time in the day (or enough money). That said, I managed one book this week via Audible.  It’s not a new release, but a mystery/thriller that popped up as a “if you liked...then you’ll like…”. I never thought I’d be a fan of ‘listening’ to a book, but I was wrong. AND the really cool thing is Continue Reading

Helyce’s Thursday Thoughts

November 29, 2018 by Helyce Leave a Comment

Hello friends.  Can you believe that a week ago today we were all anticipating our Thanksgiving dinner? Time is just flying by.  My daughter was home from college and insisted that we start decorating for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving.  She was all excited, bugged her Dad all day to get everything down from the loft in the garage. So he did, and she worked on things for about 20 minutes and gave up.  So, as usual, everything falls to me. I’ve got the tree partially Continue Reading

Helyce’s Slightly Ranty Thoughts on Thursday

November 15, 2018 by Helyce 4 Comments

So, a week or so ago, I talked about finding Sarah J. Maas’s series A Court of Thorns and Roses. At that time, I was about 30% into book 3, A Court of Wings and Ruin (ACOWAR).  According to Goodreads, this book is 707 pages long.  I love, love, love, a good, long epic-like book that can keep me interested, so much so, that I don’t want to put it down. This book is exactly that...and when all is said and done, I very much enjoyed book 3. Though, it is not without some faults, and I Continue Reading

Helyce’s Thursday Thoughts

November 15, 2018 by Helyce 2 Comments

Hate Notes by Vi Keeland and Penelope WardContemporary RomanceReleased: November 6, 2018Montlake After walking in on her fiance getting a blow job from his secretary, Charlotte cancels her wedding and quits her job.  Needing money, she decides to sell her wedding dress and head to a consignment shop. While there she comes across a beautiful wedding dress and can’t stop herself from trying it on.  A custom made dress, it was exactly just the right amount of over the top with the Continue Reading

Review: Snowfall on Lighthouse Lane

November 8, 2018 by Helyce Leave a Comment

Snowfall on Lighthouse Lane by JoAnn Ross (Honeymoon Harbor #2)Contemporary RomanceReleased: November 1, 2018HQN When I first got back into reading romance, I read a lot of JoAnn Ross. I love her voice, and her stories were ones that I could count on.  Not to say they were cookie cutter, but I trusted that no matter what, it would be a story full of love and even with whatever conflict that occurred, in the end we’d have that HEA. Snowfall on Lighthouse Lane is a second chance romance. Continue Reading

Helyce’s Thursday Thoughts

October 25, 2018 by Helyce Leave a Comment

Over the weekend I spent time doing two things.  Neither of them was reading, sadly. I bedazzled a bra with fake rhinestones for my daughter’s mermaid costume.  You guys...college and sorority halloween parties will be my death. My neck and shoulders are killing me still. But...the bra turned out spectacular even if I do say so myself.  The second thing I did, that I couldn’t stop myself from doing once I began, was glomming The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix.  That Continue Reading

Helyce’s Thursday Thoughts

October 18, 2018 by Helyce 5 Comments

My slump has officially ended-for the time being anyway. I don’t think my review for Winter Cottage does the book justice--but I always struggle with reviewing books that I’ve really enjoyed.  It’s so difficult NOT to say too much and give it all away. So I censor myself and feel like I’m not giving the story it’s true props! I think this story would make a fantastic movie for Hallmark or Lifetime.  And, interesting piece of information--Mary Ellen Taylor is Mary Burton, which I didn’t learn Continue Reading

Helyce’s Thursday Thoughts

October 11, 2018 by Helyce 1 Comment

I ventured outside of Romance this week and took a ride with a psychopath... The Lies We Told by Camilla WayThrillerReleased: October 9, 2018Berkley In The Lies We Told, we alternate between the past and present.  In the past, we meet Beth and Doug who are realizing that their young daughter is showing some very obvious signs of being a psychopath. She’s bullied kids at school, killed her mother’s precious pet bird (leaving the bird’s head on the pillow next to Beth while she slept), Continue Reading

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