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Reader Favorites – Rochelle’s Top Books of 2019 List

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It’s Rochelle’s turn, and I think this might be the last BEST OF 2019 list… (unless of course I get another). 😉 But what a way to end off a “best of” category. Tons of greatness right here!

Some of you might not know Rochelle all that well, since she’s only become more active with us as of 2019. Though she’s been with us since 2017!! P.S. While going through her comments, I just found a few other fantastic-sounding recommendations in the last year from her that I haven’t posted, so I’m including them on this week’s Friday Finds list. YAY US!! 😀 read more

DC Renee’s “Love’s Deception” just went LIVE, so she’s sent over an excerpt, a Five Fun Facts + we’re having a giveaway!

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Love’s Deception JUST WENT LIVE!!! MARITAL DRAMA ALERT & oooooooooh this one sounds ANGSTY!!!! And lucky us, the author is celebrating her release right here on the blog by sponsoring this week’s newsletter & celebrating her sister’s birthday today, too. P.S. Happy birthday to her sister!! 😀

She’s sent over a Five Fun Facts (actually TEN Fun Facts – 5 about the author and 5 about this book!!) and a giveaway (a surprise book box that even I don’t know what’s inside other than I DO KNOW there’s a signed book in there!!!), plus an excerpt (that got my heart with angst and so much love… and then the author told me something even more exciting!! I asked her if it gets safer from then on, after excerpt and she said oh HECK NO!!! Tee hee!!! ). read more

Latest Romance Book Releases – 01-28-2020

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HAPPY TUESDAY NEW RELEASE DAY!! And what a HUGE list it is!! 96 books on today’s list and I’m still working on it, so keep checking back. I highlighted a bunch that sound so good!!

<— P.S. Anne says about this one:

Anne: Just started reading this! Awesome so far!

And… oooops!! Looks like House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City Book 1) by Sarah J. Maas has a new release date of March 3rd now. 😀

Blurb jolts? Yep! OMG SO MANY!!! 😀 Like… Fashion Jungle (I’m actually reading this one!! Co-written by Rachel Van Dyken and Kathy Ireland and it’s based on true stories in the fashion industry!! Eeeeep!!!), Marriage on Madison Avenue (they’re best friends, and then he goes and tells his mom they’re in a relationship!!), Even If It Hurts (sounds like a love triangle!! She’s married but then her first love comes back…), Rules of Engagement (J.T. Geissinger’s latest!! Football star hires a matchmaker to help him find a wife), Frenemies (single dad just moved in next door!!), Bastard Bachelor Society  (Sara Ney’s latest! He’s in a bet to stay single and then she moves in next door!!), Lone Star Longing (she’s pregnant and alone, but he’s there for her), Firecracker (she’s a widow and broke, and he’s the hot firefighter fixing stuff in her apartment), The Other People (psych-thriller!!! His 5-year old daughter went missing), Heartland (Sarina Bowen’s latest – she’s had a crush on him forever, and they’re best friends)… and SO MANY MORE!!! Seriously, I could blurb-jolt list all day with today’s releases (so I highlighted them to help you sort). 😀 read more

Reader Favorites – Joy’s Top Books of 2019 List

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Joy just sent us a HUGE list of her favorites! She starts it off with her absolute top 5, and then gives us her favorites by category, and boy has she enjoyed the darker side over this last year!

If you’re in the mood for raw, gritty, dark and even… super-dark, Joy has some suggestions (and quite a few on here that I loved, too).

Joy’s Best of 2019

Hi Maryse!

I’ve lurked around your blog since 2016 and I absolutely love it! Whenever I see a post about a buddy read, I try to hop into read it too. I’m not into psych-thrillers and I know that those are your faves, so I skip over those. read more

Monday Early Bird Book Releases – 01-27-2020

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 Happy Monday!!! Today’s list is sort of a short one but tomorrow looks like it’s going to be a big release day and I can’t wait to play with that one!! 😀

Three things:

1.) Birdy is using his whole cage!!! I’m so happy now. He’s actually flying in it and it makes me laugh because he chirp-squeals every time he actually flies like he’s on a roller coaster or something. LOL!! He’s too cute!! But he’s using it, all three levels like a big Birdy!

2.) I watched a horror movie called Midsommar while I worked on this list and it freaked me out and turned my mind (and mood) into a mess. What a mind*ck. So incredibly disturbing and visually creepy and shocking. Cults and rituals. Slow and creepy and just. Holy moly NO. Just don’t. I don’t know why I do this to myself. And yet I love reading about them and watching them. I liken it to me learning how NOT to get sucked into one. 😉 But this one made it so I did not sleep well at all. read more