10. A cannoli filled with cannoli. A good way to start the weekend, yes? (link) 9. Quickie review! I read Make it Count by Megan Erickson a few days ago. I heard it had a nerdy hero so I wanted to check it out. It's cute and refreshing - I love that it's a New Adult that isn't overly angsty or emo. College aged hero tutors the heroine who has an undiagnosed learning disability. The heroine IS dating someone else other than the hero to start the book but it works out well for me. Continue Reading
Review: Fall From India Place by Samantha Young
Fall From India Place by Samantha Young (On Dublin Street #4) Released: June 3, 2014 Contemporary Romance Penguin Reviewed by Mandi Oh this book - *bangs head on the table for a few minutes* Okay, I'm ready now. I've really enjoyed the books in this series and up until this book, I've really liked that this author has stayed with this core group of friends and revisits the other couples in each book so we can continue to get a glimpse at their lives. That being said, I need a Continue Reading
Review: Just One Night by Lauren Layne
Just One Night by Lauren Layne (Sex, Love and Stiletto #3) Released: April 22, 2014 Contemporary Romance Loveswept Reviewed by May Favorite quote: "This is not happening," Riley muttered, glancing at the ceiling. "My mother is not telling me my spanking article lacked passion." Riley is a famed sex columnist for Stiletto magazine where she works alongside her two best friends. She's dated scores of men in Manhattan and she has the art of flirting down. The thing is... she's not the Continue Reading
Top Ten Reasons to read Devil’s Game by Joanna Wylde
Blurb: Liam “Hunter” Blake hates the Reapers MC. Born and raised a Devil’s Jack, he knows his duty. He’ll defend his club from their oldest enemies—the Reapers—using whatever weapons he can find. But why use force when the Reapers’ president has a daughter who’s alone and vulnerable? Hunter has wanted her from the minute he saw her, and now he has an excuse to take her.Em has lived her entire life in the shadow of the Reapers. Her overprotective father, Picnic, is the club’s president. The last Continue Reading
Review: Deeper Than Need by Shiloh Walker
Deeper Than Need (Secrets & Shadows, #1) by Shiloh Walker Romance Suspense E book, 400 pages June 3, 2013 St Martin’s Paperbacks Reviewed By Tori Favorite Quote: She felt like she’d been waiting her whole life for him, only she hadn’t realized it until the very second their gazes locked. Trinity Ewing, a former ad exec from New York, needed a fresh start for her and her young son so she purchases a house, sight unseen, in the small town of Madison, Indiana. Once she arrives, she Continue Reading
Guest Author Rebekah Weatherspoon and Giveaway!
I'm happy to have Rebekah Weatherspoon at the blog today. Rebekah is celebrating the release of her first book in a new series, Fit. Can we all take a moment to admire the cover......okay let's continue. I'll turn it over to Rebekah who is going to share an excerpt and look for a giveaway below. Blurb: Violet Ryan loves the delicious food she gets to eat on the reality shows she produces for The Food Channel. What she hates is her expanding waistline. Determined to drop the pounds, Violet Continue Reading
Review: Wicked Temptation by Zoe Archer
Wicked Temptation by Zoe Archer (Nemesis, Unlimited #3) Released: June 3, 2014 Historical Romance St. Martin's Reviewed by May Widow Bronwyn Parrish has no money and grim prospects. Her husband’s fortune is simply gone, and she’s being thrown out of her home and is planning on hiring herself out as a companion. A woman of noble birth, she’s falling and fast. That is, until Nemesis Unlimited steps in and offers her assistance in restoring her fortune. Marco Black doesn’t want this Continue Reading
Winners!
The winner of Shield of Winter by Nalini Singh is: EvelynS The winner of Banishing the Dark by Jenn Bennett is: Amy Winners have been emailed. Continue Reading
Review: The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu
The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu YA Contemporary E book, 208 pages June 3, 2014 Roaring Brook Press Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “There are some things [...] that are easy to forgive. And there are some things that are just unforgivable.” The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu reminded me a little of Jay Asher’s 13 Reasons Why in the layout. Five students-the vindictive princess, the clueless jock, the outcast brain, the unintentional slut, and the scared social Continue Reading
Release Day Excerpt! I Want to Hold Your Hand by Marie Force
Almost seven years after losing her husband in Iraq, Hannah Abbott Guthrie isn’t sure she’s ready—or able—to move on, but the attentions of a lifelong friend are making her think about it for the first time. The memory of the sweet kiss she shared with Nolan Roberts hasn’t strayed far from her thoughts, but she also fears that pursuing something with him would mean betraying her husband’s memory. Nolan has loved Hannah for years, but he’d been giving her the space she needed to heal from her Continue Reading