Latest Paranormal & Contemporary Romance Book Releases – August 18th 2015

Slow work day for me so I get to spend most of today reading Before We Were Strangers!! YAY!!!!! 😀

I saw that blurb for The Wife earlier this morning when I was browsing through the recommendations page on Amazon, and that was an *immediate* one-click, especially at .99! “The Wife. The Mother. The Truth.” *rubbing hands together* I didn’t read the two reviews ’cause I want to go in completely blind.

So far it’s Maryse, Grey and me…who else is reading BWWS today?

I’m enjoying BWWS… They’re playing the same game we did a couple days ago… M…F…K… *giggle*

Ahhhh now I get what BWWS is! Totally BR’ing with y’all and of course I one-clicked “The Wife”, hopefully it’s a cheating book!!!! 🙂

Thanks for the review, Anne! 🙂 I’m writing it up 😀 Sounds good.

Thank you Maryse! Can’t wait for you to read it. Its one of those books that will stay with you for a long time 🙂

Marit you need to read it! Its such a wonderful story and so well written.

I am reading Newly Exposed next but seriously I can’t stop thinking of Matt and Grace. *Swoon*

Just got the Love Me With Lies series by Tarryn Fisher. Only $0.99 each so less than $3 for the entire series. I think its time for me to finally read it!
Also got The Wife. Its sounds very intriguing.

Oh that’s right maryse I was reading a KA book which I have read before and it’s totally dedicated to you! I was like no way I know maryse how cool is that lol she gave you your own alpha and everything!

Just finished Tyrant and it was so good!!! Very satisfying ending!!! I’m going to read End of Day next I think…unless I squirrel to something from this list!!

Amy I won’t read the blurb. Thanks for the heads up 😉 I am excited to read this series. Oh and you are reading BWWS!! Yaay!

Niki I agree! I liked the ending too.

Amy, I hated that witch so much especially what she did with her *spoiler* at the beginning I wanted to strangle her so bad! I called her every name under the sun! Yes, I spoke to my ipad and quite loudly I might add just in case the c*nt didn’t hear me the first time!!!!!!!!

Oh god I can’t remember which I one!! I think think! It was in the Colorado mountain series? Maryse? I know Amy she so bloody famous this maryse lol
Oh and Anne yes yes read love me with lie that series is one of my all time favourite books and I loved the second book but not because of a certain person more because it really gives the hurts it’s so good!!
Jean I really can’t wait till the new FCH since u all made me read it and the last ones not fecking out!! U all still owe me for that btw

Lol Laura! Tessa “made” me read it too!

I downloaded Fallen Crest High just for Tessa and if I don’t like it????

Anne get ready for some real angst and try not to get too drunk or hurt your reading device BECAUSE YOU. WILL. WANT. TO. HURT. SOMETHING. I wouldn’t be surprised if you read all three books by tomorrow with no sleep, either. I HATED waiting for the next book!

Finished Hawthorne and Heathcliff this morning. Very sweet story. Trying to get some work done today but DYING to start Before We Were Strangers or Cocky Bastard or Tyrant or Undeniably You… teetering back and forth. Thinking BWWS. esp. with Anne saying she read it in one night! Sounds unputdownable!! So many books. Thanks Maryse for the recs!!!

*gives an evil giggle* Oh, I got FCU pre-ordered the second I could. Just need to wait. I’ll scream when it’s on my tablet. 😛

Ela, if you don’t like it, you tell us and, good news, it was free. I never judge as far as someone not liking something I like. We’re all different people.

Laura, Jean. *blinks innocently* Me?

Non FCU, I’m finally reading Entice, Eagle Elite three. Why finally? I read one and two either last year or two years ago and adored it, but still haven’t read three. I even read Bang, Bang, but not three. *shakes head*

Reading Perfect Chaos now (spinoff from Tear Asunder series) and whoa….this is some great sh!t!

Oh, I bought the first of the Hades Hangman series when it was on sale. Still haven’t gotten Tear Asunder. :/ One of those, one day I will things.

Well, expected publication now says 2016. :/ I like CH with mysteries. However, this long wait will make me forget everything. Gah!

Glad to hear about Tyrant!

Omg Bev, too funny. That’s awful. I don’t know whether to laugh or frown.

Fabi, Tyrant was good but I’m still not having the omigod 5* reactions I keep seeing. It was a really good story and glad I got answers, I just did not connect for some reason *shrugs*

Bev! HA!

Going back to tbr instead of spending money…now I just have to narrow that down…gah if I read a chapter tonight I’ll be lucky!

I just finished Tyrant. For me, King was 4.5 stars, and Tyrant is 4. I loved the grittiness of King, and while everything gets resolved very nicely in Tyrant, I missed how much of a jerk he was. You know when the bad guy is suddenly all crazy over the heroine? That’s when you lose me. But it was still really good. I cried at 98%. When you’re in the mood for gritty, like the MC type books, then I would still recommend King & Tyrant. And I loved the HEA and epilogue.

Wait, what? Bev, we were not surrendering our prisoner for anything less than Maryse reading FCH, remember? The whole Princess Bride thing is just an obvious everyone who loves romance or comedy should see it. Or read it. Either one.

“brobdingnagians”. I can’t even pronounce that. What the heck is it?

Them’s BIG people, Fabi. 😉

*thinks* Well, alright. However, no releasing until FCH or WiR is finished!

Tessa, I think like with the only in books we should add only on Maryse’s blog.

Oh the angst!!! Caleb why? And Leah ugh I really don’t like her!

Oh Anne I’m so jealous your reading that series for the first time I just loved it so much! Update people on the community series by Tracy tappan I’m on book 2 purest of the breed and OMG it’s even better than bloodline war I really love it all its all vampires fae and demons half breads and all and it’s more modern like the way BDB is get them on the TBR’s

You killed BRAN!! BRAN.

I’m lost on the Simon, Bran and killing part too!

Amy, I have tried 30 second interval running: run normal pace and then 30 seconds ramped. I’ll try the 30-20-10 today. Sounds like an intense run, especially with the heat wave we’ve been having. 😉

Jealous of you reading The Opportunist Anne. I agree, I HATED Leah and the angst just keeps coming!!

Who was Simon up against again? I still can’t believe he was killed. lol

Ahhh, OK. I don’t know Charles. Thanks for the reminder. *mutters “Simon?”*

That was the game, one each. One to marry, one to f, and one to kill. Sacrifices were made. Charles is from the Alpha and Omega series by Patricia Briggs.

Fabi, right? See why we were all shocked?

LOL BWWS game!!!!!!!!!!

BWWS game?

Teri, BWWS is Before We Were Strangers. It’s up there under new releases. Fourth Debt, that was insane. Is your google search filled with torture words too now? The visuals were insane. The end, though, that didn’t get me worried. After the other stuff that has happened, that seemed like a no big deal thing, which says how insane those debts have been.

Thank you Tessa and OMG! I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one looking up torture devices… I’d say it’s been an education, lol !!

I’m glad you’re not worried. I’ll worry for us all :-). I can’t wait to see how it all unfolds and if any ‘heads will roll’……..

Before We Were Strangers is absolute perfection. I can’t stop crying. Lol. Poor Grace and Matt. One of the saddest stories I ever read. It just broke my heart. I don’t really like 2nd chance romances. Call me crazy but I find them too sad. All that wasted time! But this story sucked me right in from the beginning. The writing was beautiful. I love Renee Carlino. Huge fan!

Jen, I don’t like 2nd chance romances for the exact same reason. Life is short. It kills me to read about all the wasted time, all those great years gone. 🙁 Thanks so much for the feedback on BWWS. You’re the first one to mention its a sad story. I know to stay away from it now since those are not my thing.

I love all the sharing on Maryse’s blog!

Fabi, I would still highly recommend Before We Were Strangers! Don’t miss out!!

Laura, she’s the one who killed Simon, not me! I’d have killed Tate. I actually read Written in Red long before it was mentioned on this blog. 😛 It was one of those random Goodread suggestions. Just looked up when it was released, and had it at three stars? Weird. That’s the third one I’ve found where goodreads recorded the wrong star rating. :/

I hear ya Ela! This is one that I kicked, screamed & temper tantrumed over like a toddler all the way to the 1-click button. Woosh, glad I did!! Such a great book & series!

Ela I haven’t read that series either but $10.99? Ouch!

Wow Amne, you are flying through those books!

NOW THIEF WILL TOTALLY ROCK YOU!

Ela, tell us how you really feel!! Hahahaha!

Go run off that frustration Cheryl!

Remember Cheryl…30-20-10 and that frustration will be GONE! 😛

The marry-f-kill game was pretty funny in BWWS…Matt: “Your turn. Bill Clinton, Spike Lee, and me.” Grace: “Ha! That’s easy. F*** Bill, marry Spike, and kill you.” *snort*

See, I’m the opposite when it comes to second-chance stories…I LOVE the poignancy that results from all of that time apart because it makes me appreciate the reunion (if it happens) that much more. But if they were split up because the guy cheated then NO.

Lucky you Anne, some of us had to wait for Thief after the bomb that was dropped at the end of DR! But I loved the epilogue in Thief. It was so perfectly imperfect…then again, it is a Tarryn Fisher book so that is to be expected. 😉

Alright, time for a TMI topic…no deflowering pain for the h in books? /for reals? I distinctly remember saying GTFO me and putting a stop to it. No pain…HA!

Lol Amy. What I remember is “sh!t that hurts…hmmm not so bad now…that could almost start to fell g….oh, you’re done?”

OMG the wait for Thief KILLED me, no not really since I’m still here, but no seriously it was horrifice!!!! And at that time we weren’t sure if we would get it or what would we get BECAUSE TF doesn’t like HEA *grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr* and who!

Omg Amy PAHLEAZE! I was afraid to say anything but the tears spilling down my cheeks should’ve clued to douchenoggle to F in! No I’m crying from joy so you can get your rocks off you dipshit!

I guess I remember my first time a tad too well??? Oh and then I and here I stress I IIIIIIIIIII had to take the bus home!!!!!!!!!!! The nerve! Then he wondered why he never ever got it from me again! Get a hint idiot!

LMFAO Fabi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THAT’S RIGHT WOMEN HAVE ALL THE CHEATING POWER (my opinion)!

Please don’t bring the f*&ker up and then he does what cause she’s what and I’m like WTF and then he takes for F*&(ing ever to apologize, make things right and all that other shit! *shaking my dam efin head* you DON’T GO AND DO THAT AFTER YOU CHEATED WHEN YOUR SUPPOSED LOVE OF YOUR LIFE IS NOT HER. OH I’M PISSED NOW, NO WONDER I NEVER READ THE SEQUEL

Hmmm Amy I kinda remember it but it wasn’t to sore but you know after childbirth nothing I mean NOTHING is sore anymore compared to that battle!
Ok another update I’m on book 3 of the community series by Tracy tappan and HOOOOBOY this one has turned dark and is totally a oh feck book but it’s so good the emotions in this one are going to be killer and loads more is happening you know that way your adrenaline starts going cause you just know the answers and puzzles pieces coming together are coming!!! Seriously you guys need to read these book 3 so far my favourite and I’m not even halfway!

Ela…I have a feeling we’re talking about the same book. 😉

He messes around while they are separated or not exclusive…I’ll probably think he’s a d!ck but I’ll still want them to be together. But they are together and exclusive and he does that? Ohhhhh noooo…game over.

Laura, you said you had a chicken pox crisis at your house…did both of your kiddos get it?

Ela the bus? Seriously, that’s just wrong! And I’ve been staying away from everyone here so I can tackle my TBR, but it is literally impossible, especially avoiding you girls and all the antics!

Fabi, I just fell off my chair laughing!

As for my first time, it was painful, but what I really Remeber is barely being able to walk the next day. My thighs were so sore!!! TMI???

Never TMI LMAO! Or how about those billionaires always falling for the virgin platinum diamond encrusted snatch??? EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. well lmost

Ela that douche didn’t even had the decency to take you home?!? What a moron! I would’ve kicked him in the balls the next time I saw him!

I know Ela! Lol! And I don’t mind they are virgins but they are so naive! That really bothers me!

Ok since we are sharing what do you think about hair down there? And do you guys like a little chest hair or prefer smooth skin? I particularly like man that groom their privates. They don’t have to shave it all off but I don’t like a jungle either lol And I love a little chest hair. I find it sexy.

Haha Anne! Seriously, nothing kinky or crazy!!! My body just wasn’t used those “moves”! Lol!!

Your thighs were sore, Jean? What the heck was he doing to make your *thighs* sore?? Oh wait, maybe he was doing something right… *snicker*

LOL Ela!!! All I know is that when I read about the young h’s with the perfect bodies, I feel like mine has gone from platinum and diamond encrusted (thank you Ela for that description :P) to tarnished and vajazzled with half the gems missing. 😕

Anne, I prefer manscaped. If I’m going to go through a Brazilian every month, he is gonna trim his stuff. Chest hair…I prefer sparse hair or none at all. *shrugs* Guess it’s good that is what hubby has. 😉

That’s horrible Laura!! Your poor baby girl. 🙁 I love her name though. My doc just about freaked when he found out I had never had CPox or the vaccine. Guess who got to go through a 3-shot series? *raises hand*

I don’t even think you get the shot here unless you have an low immune system or are elderly. How bad is this my hubby’s mum can’t even remember if he’s had them seriously?! Yep little myla I was looking at all the comments about dealing with curly hair because hers is super curly mines is poker straight I had no clue what to do with this! Google came to the rescue sort of….
On the scaping subject yes definitely has to be trimmed down there for him just oh hell no it’s like that book the Virgin romance novelist when she goes down on the guy with the huge bush and totally pukes on his junk hahahaha oh that was a fun book

Omg Amy, I have no words for that!

Yeah, the guy needs to keep it presentable down there! No jungles!

Laura, she puked on his junk?….hahaha that is too funny!

I’m at 54% of BWWS. *gulp* I think it’s starting…oh, my heart…

Just FYI…the more you get Brazilians done, the less they hurt. 😉 And I have to leave something ’cause hubby doesn’t care for the pre-pubescent look. *snort*

Leah is such a manipulative bi**h! Reading how things truly went is making my heart bleed. How can things gone so wrong?

Yup, all waxing hurts less the longer you do it. Also, your hair grows in less over time.

I keep seeing y’all talking about hating cheater books. But, but, but…what about Travis? We LOVE him!

“In the spring of 1792, Dominick Edward Guy de Ath Ballister, third Marquess of Dain, Earl of Blackmoor, Viscount Launcells, Baron Ballister and Launcells, lost his wife and four children to typhus.” – Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase

Captive in the Dark is FREE right now. Haven’t looked for much more lately sorry, been working 12 hr+ for the last couple days…soooo tired!

Bev, I’m knocking off some that I have had on my tbr for way too long and I think LoS is one of the historicals I’ve had there the longest! I know everyone loves it so fingers crossed I’m getting into a 5*. Tired but I want to get a chapter or two in to relax myself before bed.

Tessa I love their story too! TT is action packed so really enjoying it so far.

Michelle I hope you like LoS. I loved it back in the day 🙂

Oh Just finished Renee Carlino’s BWWS and it was beautiful. Just beautiful. How does she do that!!!! Evoke such heartache and longing. I’m a blubbering mess of huge sentimental romantic tears. Sigh. 5 sparkling stars for this one. Perfection.

I’m tellin’ ya, Cheryl…that was toned down from what I originally was going to post. 😛

Oh, heck no Tessa! I’m a bit wrung out after MBM so there is no way I’m reading CITD right now! Besides I already have it so the free thing isn’t gonna work. *pbltttt*

Lisa, have you read Sweet Thing by her? That one is my favorite of hers.

Oh boohoo I just finished the community book 3 no fair!!!! I loved it btw and there’s more books to come but by the looks of the authors website not till 2016!! Only us readers wish the year away cause all out books come out next yr! And maryse I totally never got my ‘I knew it!’ Moment that’s going to be the next book gah!

Ela, what Tessa said. I thought you thought Merry was slow burn and it is exact opposite so that’s hey said WiR, it is. But if you keep reading it you get a scritch. Just saying.

Hmmm! Gotcha Bev!

Tessa that reminds me of The Mona Lisa Series by Sunny, all the lovers that is…

https://www.goodreads.com/series/40531-mon-re-children-of-the-moon

You ladies make me grin & chuckle when I turn on my puter and read all the comments. Ela/Tessa you ladies are great!

I have to chime in on the Merry G. It’s LOADED with smut and I would have to say no romance. Not really anyway. I gotta agree with Tessa after a while it became so redundant with sex that I was flipping 30+ pages at a time… This is not to say the rest of the story wasn’t good and cool though. LKH can really weave an unusually world.

WiR… Oddly the no sex thing didn’t bother me at all because the entire book is just so good. Such a slow burn and build and he does love/care about her. I’m in so deep on this series now that it’s going to be a bad hangover when it all comes to an end…

That’s why I am loving the Night Prince series because there’s just the right amount of smut in it. It’s hot without the need of sex if that makes any sense. I am not reading the Merry Gentry series then because I enjoy like Maryse said a high tension romance more.

Finished Twice Tempted and loved it! I liked it better than Once Burned. Vlad in this one was such a badass, sweet, sexy alpha that I fell more in love with him.

*squee* Yeah, so glad you’re loving Vlad and Leila’s story, Anne!

Maryse, oh, that Richard and Jean Claude tension was beyond sexy. I think I miss that the most. Rooting for one or the other (me, Jean Claude and my niece, Richard) and not knowing who’d win or do something stupid and lose in the next book.

See in the Mona Lisa books sex helps the partner heal if he/she was hurt and restores and adds power to that person (Monere) so I didn’t mind all the sex, it worked…*sigh* loved that series, did not particularly like the last book, which Sunny says may not be the last.

Probably not Anne! He’s some form of sidhe.

Ela, finally someone else who has read the Monere books! I love them! Yeah there’s multiple partners and a lot of sex but the story and characters are soooo good and there is definite angst. Oh god howbout the thing with Dante…I need to reread them sometime now!

I still read the Anita Blake series. I liked Affliction probably mostly due to Edward and Nicky who I love but the last book was what 4 hours I will never get back. Just not good at all. Also did not like the last Merry book because of what happened to my fav of the men 🙁

Tessa, I’ve read the October Daye series but I’m behind and was just thinking I should catch up with the next book coming out, 3 or 4 books behind I think. I have loved it so far. I heard they get better and better.

Liking Lord of Scoundrels a lot so far bjt only a couple chapters in. The dialogue is very engaging and witty so far.

What is it with all of us having tobwork such long days lately? I think we’re all exhausted.

Oh my God. In this day and age of free information there is just no excuse fo r that. Shoot, even before the Internet most of us were smart enough to at least call our Vet’s office before giving anything to our pets. I bet people give their kids smaller doses of adult meds too. That also can go bad in a big way. 🙁 Maybe human meds should come with a warning “not suitable for pets” like they do for kids under a certain age.

Michelle…we had a diabetic cat when I was growing up and had to give it insulin shots twice a day. He hissed at us and tried to smack us when he first had to get the shots, but eventually he got so used to them that he would just lay down and roll over until we were done. He lived for almost 8 years after being diagnosed. Thought you would get a kick out of that. 😉

Tessa, it really was good except for all of her crying. Not that it wasn’t understandable, it was just TOO often. Still, I could definitely say I would recommend it! 😀

Fabi, I worry about these people with kids too! I mean if you can’t manage to take care of a kitty *shudders*

Tessa, facepalming sums it all up lol. October Daye is a must read for UF fans. I will get caught up with the series soon and most libraries have them fyi for others. Yeah I’ve read all the Anita books hoping to get back to the awesomeness of Obsidian Butterfly. If I could find an Edward replacement in another series I would likely bail! Pritkin from the Cassie Palmer series comes close.

Amy, he figured out the pokey was making him feel better 🙂 I needed you the other day when this lady burst into tears when her cat was diagnosed 🙁

My oldest cat was diagnosed with diabetes a few months ago. She’s 9 years old, a pretty calico. I was surprised but didn’t freak out since I’m familiar with the illness through my nephew who’s had it since he was 13. I have to say its a whole lot easier to take care of a pet than it is a child.

Ela – going to chime in on the sex – romance – smut discussion….

Laurel K Hamilton books – Anita and Merry end up sluts. End of story. Fantastic male characters and they all pine over heroine. Too bad. I adored the male characters and grew to hate the heroine.

Written in Red – no smut – no sex – not even a kiss!!!! ARGH!!!! But I still loved it, because I don’t need romance in every book. And I am still hoping eventually Simon is going to make a move. And by then it will be epic!! Remember how long it took Mercy to hook up with Adam? And it’s still my favorite UF series.

Tairen Soul – has all of that. Romance, but nothing over the top or instant or overly smutty. Also, Knights of Black Swan: ditto for all of which I just said.

Diabetes is so common and easily managed but yeah it can be overwhelming if you are nervous about the injections, etc. It’s in the top three most common issues cats can get as they age: kidney disease, diabetes, hyperthyroidism.

Bev, noooo paging me here too! Ok just this once, going to look 😉