I’m back! I’ve read a few books lately but haven’t quite felt like talking about them. Sometimes even writing mini reviews can feel stressful. Review content warnings: references to emotional abuse, abortion, grief/death Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes- Although not a straight romance, more fiction with romantic elements, it does have a happily ever after. CW: grief, emotional abuse by an intimate partner & parent. The heroine, Evvie like Chevy, is a widow but she is not Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
New Releases: Week of June 17-21, 2019 Angela’s Tuesday Thoughts Audio Excerpt: Getting Played by Emma Chase Quick Fire Q&A: With Maya Rodale Cover Reveal and First Chapter of Handle with Care by Helena Hunting From: Kini- I haven't read much this week. I'm working on giving up my daily latte from Dunkin Donuts and caffeine withdrawl is no joke. So I spent a couple of nights in bed early. It's been five days since I last had my beloved latte and I am doing Continue Reading
Kini’s Friday Kisses
I feel like it has been forever since I talked about what I was reading! I looked back and it has been a few weeks, but I am back now. Here’s what I read recently. What Matters More by Liora Blake- I picked this up because I have read and enjoyed all of her previous books. For the most part I found this book boring and lacking emotional connection. Too much emotional stuff happened off page. That is annoying to me. There was a fair amount of sex though if that is something you are Continue Reading
Kini’s Thursday Kisses
Friday Kisses are being delivered on Thursday today. Tomorrow I will be off celebrating my son as he graduates from college. If you follow me on social media, be prepared for pictures :) Here’s some of the books I read recently. Hold Out: Returning Home #4 by Serena Bell- Overall this book is a decent read. I’ve read several of Bell’s books and I really enjoy her voice. This series has been wonderful and is centered around a group of friends that were previously in the military. But it is Continue Reading
Kini’s Friday Kisses
I didn’t read nearly as much this week as last week, but I have got lots to say about the book I did read. The Last Dance by Aimee Brown. First I want to acknowledge that the blurb mentions this book is perfect for fans of Nicholas Sparks, Jodi Picoult, & Anna Bell. I don’t know who Anna Bell is but neither of the other two authors write romance, but I was willing to give this book a try because the hero is a widower and falls in love with his wife’s sister, who's is also his BFF. Y’all Continue Reading
Kini’s Friday Kisses
I can hardly believe that it is already May, but here we are. May is Mental Health Awareness Month and I would be a liar and didn’t take a moment and say that I have been really struggling with my own mental health lately. It is very difficult to dig out from the lies that depressive/anxious brains like to lie about. But I am trying. Lots of things feel like impossible tasks and I’ve taken comfort in reading a lot more recently. I know that this is just a rough patch and there is light at the Continue Reading
Kini’s Friday Kisses
Friends! It feels like it has been forever, but it’s only been a month since I wrote a Friday post for you. March was bananas for me. Mid-month I moved, only across town so not a big deal but packing is THE WORST. I was a volunteer for Aplloycon the weekend of the 22nd and that was great. It felt amazing to be surrounded by other romance peeps. It was great to actually meet some people from twitter.com. Then immediately after that I got a cold. I feel like I’ve been since for eightyseventy days. Continue Reading
Kini’s Friday Kisses
Reading has been blah for me lately. Which is really disappointing. But it is what it is. I think in the first 2.5 months of 2019 I have DNF’ed more books than I did in all of 2018. I didn’t keep good records for 2018 so I don’t actually know how true that is but it feels like it. But for me, DNF isn’t always that it is a bad book but is usually because the book just isn’t working for me. This week it was Hired by Zoey Castile that I had to declare as a DNF. I really loved the first book, Continue Reading
Review: The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros
I'm like a moth to a flame for any sort of epistolary romance, add in a single parent to the mix and basically it's almost like the book was written for me. And it was but also there was a lot of this book that made me unhappy. Before we go any further, please note that this book has heavy themes of sick children, death, grieving, and PTSD. If any of these are triggering to you, this book is not for you. The book does not have any content warnings and I wouldn’t want a reader to be surprised Continue Reading
Kini’s Friday Kisses
The Military Wife by Laura Trentham- The blurb on this got me because it sounded like a tortured love story. And it was, but there wasn’t enough of it. I would have liked to have seen more of Bennett’s hesitation over getting in to a relationship with Harper. The heroine is an accountant but we never see her actually work. She lives in Nags Head, NC and travels a lot to Virginia Beach and Fort Bragg, but this is never an issue with her job. These are things I notice when I am not fully Continue Reading