A PopSugar Must-Read for October!In this finger-licking good rom-com, two is the perfect number of cooks in the kitchen.Nikki DiMarco knew life wouldn’t be all sunshine and coconuts when she quit her dream job to help her mom serve up mouthwatering Filipino dishes to hungry beach goers, but she didn’t expect the Maui food truck scene to be so eat-or-be-eaten—or the competition to be so smoking hot. But Tiva’s Filipina Kusina has faced bigger road bumps than the arrival of Callum Continue Reading
This Week on TikTok
Happy Weekend! It’s TikTok time. Have you watched Shadow and Bone on Netflix? I binged through it this week and LOVED it. Then, found myself lost in Ben Barnes TikToks. In celebration of my newfound love for all things Ben Barnes, I kick off this week’s Top 5 TikToks with an homage to the darkling. #5 #4 He's not wrong. #ThirstTrap #3 Who else does this? Signed, Mom of Sparky, now called Doodles. #2 Exhibit 1 on why men should read romance Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
Inside a drop-dead sexy, hard-partying rock star lies a good heart...and a dark secret. Twenty-something Kat Reid is loving life as an in-demand Hollywood makeup artist. She has absolutely no interest in rock 'n' roll, but in order to pay the mortgage, she agrees to work on the set of a rock video for the world-famous rockers known as Bad Habit...which brings her face-to-face with Nico Nyx, lead singer of Bad Habit and Adonis in the flesh. However, the fiercely independent Kat isn't Continue Reading
Review: The Duke Undone by Joanna Lowell
The Duke Undone by Joanna LowellHistorical RomanceApril 6, 2021, by BerkleyARC Review by Angela I think the cute, artsy covers have confused me at this point, I just do not know what to expect when I open a book anymore. Joanna Lowell is a new to me author so that was no help either. The Duke Undone is waaaaaay more angsty (like whoa) and filled with dark themes than I expected. This isn't a bad thing, but between the alcoholism, PTSD, dyslexia, family members being locked away against Continue Reading
Jen’s Mini Audible Reviews: Reviews for Books by Amy Harmon, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Kerri Maniscalco, Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy and Kylie Scott
I love listening to books when I go on walks and when I’m working around my house. All of the below books were excellent. I’m pretty particular about voices. There's one popular male narrator out there who just gives me creepy uncle vibes. I really enjoyed these stories AND the narrators were terrific. No creepy uncle. :) The Songbook of Benny Lament by Amy Harmon Epic!!! This was brilliant!! The narrator, Rob Shapiro was spot on. The story takes place in NYC in the 1960s and Shapiro’s Continue Reading
Take My Books Giveaway Winners!
The winners of Take My Books Giveaway are: Set #1- Martha Lawson Set #2- Kim Dismukes Set # 3- JRH Set #4- Lexie All winners have been notified by email. Continue Reading
#RomBkLove 2021 Day 7: Bad Decisions Book Club
By Melanie Have you ever gone to bed and right around the time you should be turning off the lights to go to sleep, decided instead to start a book, promising yourself you’ll only read the first chapter? And then cue to 4 hours later, you’re holding your ereader in one hand and forcibly keeping your eyelids open with the other hand because you’ve only got 50 pages left and you must know how the lovable fools in your book plan to make their way back to each other. No? Just me? Alrighty Continue Reading
Review: The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel CleetonHistorical FictionMay 4, 2021, by Berkley Review by Melanie Let me preface this review by stating that I know very little about Cuban politics and history. It’s not a subject that’s focused on in the American public school system and I am also not a history scholar so my knowledge on this topic is greatly limited. However, I am a big fan of Chanel Cleeton, read her consistently when she was writing contemporary romance and when she made the Continue Reading
Review: Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan
Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan Young Adult May 4, 2021, by Inkyard Press Review by Melanie I don’t find myself reading too much YA but this delightful book made me want to change that. There’s so much I want to say about this book that I’m a little afraid my review might be all over the place. But before I start in on the actual bones of the review, I just want to address one thing really quickly: I related HARD to this book. Maybe it’s because of the similarities in our Continue Reading
Take My Books Giveaway!
I’m clearing out my bookshelves this week! Let me know which set you prefer by commenting with the set(s) of your choice. Contest to run through Friday 5/7/2021at midnight. Winners will be chosen Saturday 5/8/2021 and notified by email. Open to US residents only. Set #1 All Consuming (Brotherhood by Fire #3) by Jaci Burton Flight (The Texas Murder Files Book 2) by Laura Griffin Set #2 Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne Dial A For Aunties by Jesse Q Sutanto Set Continue Reading