Time for the Monday early birds!!! I was running late but they’re up now. 😀 20 releases that sound so good, plus I’ll add more if we get any more surprises.
But first… THREE THINGS:
1.) I’m SO sick right now. Started as a chest cold on Thursday or Friday and this weekend developed into a raging… I dunno what. Every muscle in my body aches. Even my eyelids. Even my rib skin. Everything. HURTS. Not to mention the fire in my lungs and nose. *sigh* I think I have a man cold. 😉
2.) I spent the entire weekend in bed, and here it is Monday, and I’m spending today in bed too. I can barely function, or think, so I’m going to work on this list nice and slow…
3.) Good thing about spending a sick weekend in bed is reading!! AND I wrote two reviews. This one: Book Review – Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone (LOVED IT LIKE CRAZY!!!!) and this one: Book Review – Everything You Want Me To Be by Mindy Mejia (read it practically in one day).
LOOK WHAT JUST WENT LIVE 
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Friday (& Thursday) Finds & Reader Recommendations – 03-07-19
Okay I know…. you’re wondering. But Maryse… today is THURSDAY!! I know it. I do. But today is also a CRAZY AWESOME release day, and I just didn’t feel it was right to wait until tomorrow to post all of these.
And no worries, I will be updating this post all day tomorrow too, with all the actual Friday ones, too. 🙂
So let’s start, shall we?
TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT WE FOUND FOR THE WEEKEND !!
- Make Me Bad by R.S. Grey <— R.S. GREY’S LATEST IS LIVE TODAY!! She’s the good girl and she’s been warned to STAY AWAY from him… “…Everyone thinks Ben is going to ruin me. They think he’ll chew me up and spit me out. Well, Ben…go ahead. Tempt me. Taunt me. Make me bad…”
- Tucker (Texas Rascals Book 5) by Lori Wilde <— LIVE!!!
Diary of a Bad Boy by Meghan Quinn <— Meghan Quinn’s latest is LIVE!! He’s falling for his client’s daughter… “…How I ended up with her phone is a long story—and when she called to get it back, I took things a bit too far. One innocent exchange wound up leading to so much more. Fun, new, and totally immune to my charm, Sutton is different. And I had no idea she was the daughter of Foster Green...”- Bayside Escape (Bayside Summers Book 4) by Melissa Foster <— LIVE!!!
- The BEARly Tamed Grizzly (Bear Clan, 3) by Jenika Snow <— LIVE!!!
- No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories by Lee Child <— BARGAIN PRICED!!!
Wrecked & Restless (Sacred Sinners MC – Texas Chapter Book 4) by Bink Cummings <— The latest by Bink Cummings is LIVE!! “…My story isn’t one of happiness, if that’s what you’re thinking. The person I love most in the world is gone. And in the darkness I’ve been reborn, into a person I don’t recognize…”- Soul’s Fire (The Northwomen Sagas Book 3) by Susan Fanetti <— JAN RECOMMENDS IT!
Jan: Soul’s Fire by Susan Fanetti. This is her series about strong Viking women. If you liked The Vikings TV series, I rec these books. I’m really liking this one. There is a dark section *shudders* but it’s a beautiful love story between an English Prince and a bad-girl-tough-Viking-woman.
- Off the Air (Running on Air Book 1) by L.H. Cosway <— L.H. COSWAY ALERT!!! EXES ON A REALITY SHOW TOGETHER… Nay wants to read this one, and recommends that IF YOU do too…:
Nay: I’m so excited to finally find something that I KNOW I want to read! FYI, if you’re planning to read Off the Air and care about reading about characters from another series–the MC’s were introduced in Hearts on Air (bk #6 of the Hearts series), but there’s also a free prequel called Air Kiss: A Running on Air Novella that tells how the couple met. And it’s free!
So I’d imagine that that gives enough info so that you don’t feel lost (at least I hope so). I’m going to read it now, and then I’ll see if I want to continue…
Latest Romance Book Releases – March 5th 2019
HAPPY NEW RELEASE TUESDAY!!!! Between yesterday’s earlybirds and today’s list, we’ve got so many amazing choices again! Like that one there to the left!! Taylor Jenkins Reid is TOTALLY one of my favorite authors ever, and Daisy Jones & The Six sounds like it will be tumultuous!! 😀
What else gave me a blurb jolt? Off the Air by L.H. Cosway (another awesome author!! And this one sounds like fun… two exes on a reality show together), Confidential by Ellie Monago (psych-thriller with a psychologist that may have done some bad things), Ain’t Nothin But The Devil sounds like forbiddeny goodness!! She’s married to a billionaire and heartbroken because of how the marriage is going… and then there’s her brother-in-law, Catastrophe (Beautiful Destruction Book 2) by Lexi Barr (OMG TOTAL BLURB JOLT!! She befriended an elderly lady that was dying… “…Falling in love with her engaged grandson in the wake of devastation was last on my meager list of priorities. But fate had another idea..”)
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Monday Early Bird Book Releases + some that are going live at midnight! 03-04-19
<— GOOD MORNING & HAPPY EARLY BIRD MONDAY!! TIJAN FANS!!! Look what just went live early. 😛 It’s already in the top 100 on Amazon, and I have a feeling it’s heading for the top ten for sure. Eeeeeep!! Plus, I found us a bunch more…
But first… THREE THINGS:
1.) I watched “Overlord” yesterday on Vudu. and holy moly that one is intense and scary and SO good. Presents two versions of horror in one (the horror of wartime and that in itself was so shocking to me, and of course, the horror of experimenting on humans…)
2.) I also went to see “Fighting with My Family” at the movie theater (about a wrestling family trying to make it into the WWE, and that one was great. Funny, bittersweet, and had a really great “feel good message”. And of course, The Rock was in it and pure “The Rock” and had me laughing so hard. I loved it!
3.) I bought two old glass bottles (don’t think they’re antique) in a deep dark green, and one in a dark cobalt blue, to go with my dining set (on top of the hutch with a beautiful bottle glass my sister gave me in red and yellow). Those colors are all prominent in a really cool HUGE oil painting I received for Christmas (I love jewel tones) and it just looks so good together. P.S. the painting is so much prettier in person. Vibrant. Okay and now…
LOOK WHAT JUST WENT LIVE !!!
The Gift of You by Aidan Marus… just the description alone broke my heart
The Gift of You: An Anthology of Love & Sorrow <— Aidan Marus is today’s “Friday Finds” newsletter sponsor and I am THRILLED to have him with us today, ’cause… oh myyyyy that title just squeeeeeeezes my heart. A different format from our usual romance reads, but a love story nonetheless. Real life.
It was recently released (in January) and Aidan just reached out to me about it and sent me my very own copy. How could I resist something so bittersweet and heartfelt? The minute I read his email to me (and the blurb), my heart melted.
He told me: