Latest Paranormal & Contemporary Romance Book Releases – November 10th 2015

Amelia Hutchins also released A Demon’s Dark Embrace (The Elite Guards #1)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Fae Chronicles spin off (kind of)….this is where she focuses on Ryder’s brothers 🙂

Guys you have to see the cover on Callie Harts new book out 11-17
Check her FB page.

Wow what a list! November 9, A Devils Playground, when I Was Yours, and Love and Other Alien Experiences are all going on my list! And I’m doing really well reading the books off my tbr list, which never happens but it feels so good, like the relief and accomplishment one feels after finally organizing a particularly messy room that hasn’t been touched in…months….lol. But at the same time I read these lists every week and I want to read these books.Right now. *sigh* But there’s just not enough time to read them all, and then, *new books (oh that blurb)*!! Haha, I just put them in that messy room. 😛 I’m reading Room 212, no clue when I put it on my list or what it was about, but it’s good! I’m getting all the feels and really into it!

November 9, Tryst, The Demon’s Embrace, Reap…just too many! But I’m loving it!

I have Room 212 on my TBR…

I finished Pucked Up, The Pact and now reading The Offer and wanted to get book 2 of the Game On series but sometimes I need to go to the dark side after reading some of these less angsty (but still really good books). So I think I’ll do Comfort Food next because Maryse loves it and doesn’t steer me wrong!

*begins cursing* So, of cuorse I had to get Demon’s Dark Embrace. Top that off with my monitored died for a few days… The cord died, thankfully, so it was an easy fix, but still! After Christmas, new monitor!

I’ve also had Comfort Food on my list for a while. That cheap, it’s mine. Last, When I was Yours. I don’t know who published the blurb a long time ago, but I was caught right away. So, for a girl intent on not buying anything and instead just write, GEESH! 🙂

Of course you HAD TO GET A DEMON’S DARK EMBRACE!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I just read a bunch of spoilers on GR of Comfort Food and I’m still sticking to my nope!

Tessa! I also super excited about Reap! Loved Raze.

Jean – I’ll admit I didn’t liked Pucked Up as much as Pucked but I didn’t mind. I didn’t hear that The Play was the best of the 3. Definitely will put it on my list.

*squeals* I’ve been waiting for When I Was Yours for a while now!!!!! 😀 No idea if it’s going to be any good, but I am as much a sucker for titles that *oomph* me as I am for unique covers.

I LOVE covers that stand out from the rest. I’m a hot-blooded female so of course I like looking at those man candy covers, and the ones with couples on the front are sometimes nice, but what gets my attention and says “READ ME NOW!!” are the covers that are different from what seems to be the standard in CR nowadays. Like Badger…that cover caught my attention immediately, and then I was sold once I saw the blurb. Same with Jezebel.

I’ve probably mentioned this before, so if I have then just ignore me (if you weren’t already *snort*) but I don’t like the new Wilson Mooney book covers…when they were the blue and green with a butterfly, they seemed girlish and fitting for a HS teacher-student romance. NOW they have more grown-up covers with a couple on them and seem to just be…I dunno…absorbed, I guess, by all of the other similar covers.

Yay Amy! Yes, it does wrap up and sets you up for the next book! I hope you like it!

Oh Maryse – no worries. I like ok love dark reads! I read the Captive in the Dark series because of your blog as well as the Original Sinners series. Actually I was going to start the 5th book in that series when I stumbled onto Comfort Food at $.99.

“…hid it “in the closet” for a couple of years before I finally let everyone know..” <——- Right?!? I have some that I didn't have the nerve to talk about or tell anybody that I had read until I found this awesome group of ladies and realized that there's no judgement here. It's "safe." 😉

And then imagine how ecstatic I was when I realized that there are *actually* ladies that love to get wrung out emotionally by books like I do, LOL!!

I judge.
*shrug*

Too many good books again! I have so many books in the que right now it isn’t funny.

Also if you are a Kele Moon fan her first 2 Eden books have been revamped and are on sale for .99. Plus, there is a sneak preview of Claiming Eden, which is up for pre-order and comes out in January in Finding Eden. Whew!

Marina, Im reading End Of Day right now and am at 50%. Jewel E Ann is my new favorite author so I tried and tried holding off starting this series till all 3 were released but so many great reviews and recommendations I couldn’t hold off any longer! I LOVE it- I cant put this book down! I knew I would, all of her books are awesome! I love her writing and the main characters-I fall in love with them all. I would like to meet her, I bet she is a hoot! According to her Facebook page, she is writing the 3rd right now and hopes to have it released very early next year. Oh and try her Holding You series. It was fantastic!

Fabi, what’s on your list?

Wow. What. A. List!!! So many I want. I started When I Was Yours. So far so good, but I was surprised it’s from the H’s POV.

Amy, I have to agree about cover’s. I am drawn to some books because I have a connection with the cover.

Jean I thought book #1 The Pact was the best of the 3. Just my humble opinion. Love the Game On series.

Whoa, I was wrong. When I Was Yours is from both POV’s. Just started in his.

Whoa, whoa, whoa…Room 212?!?

*squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!*

It’s one of my favorites!! 😀 Fabi was ready to pummel me while she was reading it though. *snicker*

Noooo, I loved it!!! I hated the big time lapse (you know what I mean – I don’t want to spoil anything). But I loved loved loved the book. Did Maryse ever read it? It’s right up her reading alley.

Aw Fabi, feeling overwhelmed by our TBR lists is rotten…and you’re right about this being like a support group. If it’s reading related, we can all understand and sympathize. We. Just. Get. It. 😉

Crying over a TBR list? You’re in good company. I nearly started crying the other day when I realized that I will probably never read all of the books in my Kindle library, and it felt devastating. Who the heck feels that way over books? Oh, that’s right…we do. Yeah, yeah, I know…first-world problems and all that but WHATEVER. I know y’all get it and I love y’all for it!

Besides the obvious ones on this list, I want to read 11 under paranormal, Rise of the Fae, sounds different and I’m always looking for that!

I should try to make another tbr today with books I definitely want to finish by the end of the year. I want to read 38 more books to get to 250 but it might not happen this year since I got behind my pace by too much. I do have some vacation coming up but not a lot.

I’m picking something from my TBR for today and then I’m going to try out Wither because it’s got me intrigued 🙂 but I hope I do not cry my eyes out like UTEOTW!

Hmm. Forgot about Wither. I grabbed it on sale & after Jean’s reaction, maybe that will be next.:-)
I like the cover & another dystopian might be fun. We will see.

I just finished The Queen by Tiffany Reisz…. and I’m crying. Yeah… talk about a sap, I need Manny and a blankie fort and a glass of wine stat… yes, I realize that it is 10am, and a Wednesday, but it’s a holiday here in the US and I’m off today… and… it’s the end of the Original Sinners series, and… and… and. I’m sad girls

Major book hangover.

Plus I’ve hit the dreaded week 2 all of Nanowrimo. Gah, why do I do this to myself every year *smacks self in the head*

On a different, note I didn’t say happier, note. There are several books here that look promising…November 9, Tryst, The education of Caroline, Rule Breaker, #Jerk, If you Dare… wowsa… come on December!!!

Anyhow, hi all! I miss you!

Grey, good luck.
So, Tessa & Grey are the two of you authors and not telling us?

Michelle are you going to br The bronze Horseman with us? We had thought to start it on the 5th of Dec.

Holy moly!!! There is no easing into the story with Wither…it starts off with a bang while we are still trying to get to know the h, but it’s working and I like it!

Wham, bam, screw you ma’am. That about sums up the opening scene for me. Except there is no actual screwing. And the wham-bam is literal. But not in the sexy time sense. I’m pretty darn eloquent, right? *snort*

Yay, Jean.

Wither is definitely next.

Did you all see this? Harlequin has like 10,000 titles on sale. https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2015/11/recommendations-for-the-harlequin-sale-anyone/

Bev, that’s the same question I asked Tessa and Grey. :-O We have writers among us!

Jean, I am at 10% of On Paper and simply loving it. I am a little hesitant because I read somewhere that people were not 100% happy with it. We’ll see I guess. So far, I seriously love it. My only complaint is my usual “could use a little more copyediting”. I swear, next year when I have fewer jobs to keep up with, I’m going to sell copyediting services. I may not have a single creative bone in my body, but I can spot a typo a mile away (as long as I’m not the one typing it). 🙂

Where is MichelleS? She’s our resident Fae expert. I bet she’ll read Rise of the Fae.

I am seeing a lot of people not liking November 9 all too much as it being just ok of a book.

I’m at 15% of On Paper and simply loving it. Amy, the h reminds me of you in how she says what she’s thinking even when it’s slightly inappropriate. But its her friend’s outgoing personality that is most like yours. In fact, I can picture you and Maryse as these two. The H is smooth and charming and good looking. He’s also totally intrigued and attracted to h. —yup, I’m seriously liking this book.

Finished Star Dust. I liked it well enough—but didn’t love it. I love the premise but it was missing something, lol.

Next, Wither.

GENTRY BOYS (Books 1-4) by Cora Brent is only 0.99 right now!

Fabi, On Paper, by Shae Scott? I didn’t see that one of above list, is it from a previous list?

Grey-congrats on your writing success! I would not rec Rainfall for a reward downtime book, unless you like the ugly cry. Just saying…

Grey, that’s great. You’ll have to write us a blurb when done, too.
That is the wrong question for bev as bev has not read those books, lol. Well……..I read the end of Rainfall.

Lol, Fabi.
So, question. Would you ladies be comfortable if the authors we read hung out on here?
I agree with Kitty Thomas and thought her response on Saturday favorite was awesome.

So. Then. Amy? Fabi needs to go to RT with you.

Fabi, what did you do & who’d you see at RT.

Fabi!!!! That would be me. I’d just want to sit in the back & listen to the panel, not meet anyone. If I was going to RT & saw Maryse I honestly wouldn’t say hi either, lol.
I’m not going to Vegas but we totally could have sat in corners together and whispered behind are kindles. “Look its Maryse so that short one must be Amy.”

Oh noooo. We made Maryse cry. *jumps up from underneath desk*
*runs after Maryse*
“Hiiiii, hi Hi hi, hiiiiiii” hugz! Amy, Amy! Where’s Manny? Quick…

Whoa, I have some chatting to catch up on here!

*starts to scroll back up*

*stops mid scroll*

*gasps*

What happened that made Maryse run away sobbing?!?!?

*reads comments*

Okay, *I* feel like sobbing now just thinking about any of y’all hiding from any of us…we ARE family like Maryse said, so no hiding!

*in a sing-songy voice* Bev is gonna get snuffled on!! 😛

Hmmm well I’m out of town that weekend for the BR but I will start on Dec 9th when I get back. It’s really long right so you all may still be reading then!

Fabi, I have no idea how you are not staying up all night to finish Illuminae! When I got a third of the way in, that’s when I posted and knew KNEW it was 5* for sure amazing and could not put it down after that! And seriously Bev and you would both ignore poor Maryse if you saw her in person…I mean I shouldn’t laugh but I am picturing you hiding behind a newspaper or something lol.

Grey, OMIGOD!! I like how you just slipped that in all matter of fact too! I haven’t read 212 or Rainfall *hides*

Oh Tessa, you read Touched by AJ Aalto and liked it I believe. I LOVE that whole series so far and book 3 is free right now. I’m dying for the next one!

Haha what Fabi…the first page, that’s ridiculous 😉

See, I totally get Fabi. I even sometimes have a hard time saying hi to people I know irl.
I think it can be very hard for people who are not truly shy to really understand. Though I am way way better than I used to be. One of the good things about age, I guess.

Michelle, I hope you are going somewhere fun. And yes, will probably still be reading it. Or, Jean, move it to the 9th?
We just randomly decided on a December date. We were advised it was a cold weather book.

Oh, Fabi. Ouch. And you want to know a few. I know a few and they are great.
Hmm. The yodeling is a good ice breaker conversation, too. 😉
Didn’t Maryse just move? Maryse how’d you meet your neighbors?

Ok, I’m taking it back… I’m taking it all back *quick, name that movie quote*

I don’t want anyone to not want to talk to me! Or hide… the only hiding we do is in the blankie fort, drinking wine with Manny… remember, I’m quitting my day job and I’m going to make blankie forts in different colors and sew manatees and we’re all going to forget that I can’t sew. Right? Right.

No weirdness please! I’m terribly shy too, there’s only a couple of people in my real life that know I write. *shrug* It’s really no big deal… I am going back to hide under my rock now!

Goonies?! Oh yeaaahhh…I never got my waterproof bedazzled manatee in purple…

Fabi, it will be an upgrade on all that and more intense yes!

Cheryl, it was just a little something that simply clicked with me at the time. I’d always struggled horribly with public speaking. Even in front of small groups or friends. (My first B in college was in my Public Speaking class)

I had always been told to “be myself” “breathe” “relax”, etc. Ugh no help. So, during a leadership weekend retreat, one of our speakers talked about an “on switch”. He was referring to people being in a management or leadership position in their organisations who couldn’t afford to ” have a bad day” or be in a bad mood or basically not speak properly to anyone and everyone in the business environment. He explained that when we walked through the front door of the office we were to “turn on the switch”. You leave your personal life at the door and no matter what was/is going on in your life, you turn on your switch and greet people, eye to eye, exchange pleasantries and overall project a positive and cheerful disposition in the work environment.

There were a lot of other things I learned that weekend and throughout the years, but that one just clicked with me. I extended it to fit into any boardroom or classroom presentation. Nowadays I’m usually able to walk in and appear to pleasantly interact with whatever group I have to speak in front of. No one knows I took a deep breath and ” turned the switch on” before walking in. It somehow liberated me from being myself, the shy, introverted, seemingly snotty person. I wear it like a cloak and it frees me, even if only temporarily, from this paralyzing shyness. So…nothing fancy. Really its just a pretend game. *shrug* it works for me.

Pia, help me and Fabi convince Grey to read Room 212 next!

Grey, I’m with the others about Rainfall…I loved, loved, LOVED that book, but the twist (however brilliant it was) will tear your heart apart. Soooo, I say go with Room 212…talk about delicious angst. And it’s tolerable angst. 😉

Fabi! It gives me the warm and fuzzies knowing I came to mind while you were reading! *squeezy hugs Fabi* And picturing me and Maryse as the two characters? Whew! I can only imagine the antics going on in your read. *snicker* Bev already said one time that if Maryse and I are in Vegas together, one of us will end up getting married there, LOL!!

Maryse, I said it before and I’ll say it again…if we end up in Vegas at the same time, I’m going to get you drunk and you’re going to wake up with the tattoo “Mrs. Maddox” on your hip just like Abby! 😛

*hands Maryse hooker heels* There…we can wobble around on those and DARE anyone to call us short!

Michelle…no words. But I’m cracking up that THAT is just another day at the office for you.

And last thing before I go and baste in the greatness of Wither. To all of our “shy” friends…I’m SO glad that you aren’t shy here or else I wouldn’t have met ya! 😀

Ooohhh hermitty Maryse? I love being hermitty. On occasion, I’ve been known to stay in my pajamas and ignore the door on weekends. More time to read! In fact, my bestie used to come spend the weekend with me and we’d curl up at opposite ends of the couch with a book and a glass of wine each – and not speak for hours. hahaha great friendship huh? But then, we’d talk nonstop in a car ’cause we couldn’t read. 🙂

Sideline comment on Illuminae.
I’m on page 290.
This book should not only be read, it should EXPERIENCED.
@&%#£ Amazing!

Oh ok, I’m in a small suburb outside of Philly. I would love to get away right now. Have a great trip!

So guys, I don’t know what to read! I am in between books and don’t even have a first line for Thursday! What to read, what to read? Geez, I only have 847 books to choose from (not including bundled series I have downloaded)…….lol!

Um, a$$hole of the day award goes to me. I just parked in a spot reserved for surviving family members of those KIA. I didn’t realize it until I came out but still…it makes me an a$$hole.

Sooooo, how’s everyone doing otherwise? 😕

awww Amy, that was totally an accident. *hugs*

Jean, that is the awesomenest first line. You always have awesome first lines!

Thanks, Fabi and Bev…I still feel like a jerk, but I have to admit that Jean’s first line cheered me up and made me snicker a bit. I loved the Shattered Hearts series!

So many comments to catch up on. First, Fabi thanks for explaining about the on switch I’m going to try that next time I have to speak in front of all the school’s parents. eeek! So glad there’s no “shy” here with all our book friends!! 😉

Second, I feel tall- I’m 5’2 and 1/2 inches- so much taller than Amy & Maryse *snort*

First line: “The shower’s running.” When I Was Yours by Samantha Towle.

Amy, it was an honest mistake. *hands apple martini*

Maryse, your glasses look adorable!

I am near sighted too. And one eye is worse, one Dr. thought, because of how I sit and read, lol.

Finishing Middle of Knight, then on to Illuminae. I’m excited!! Need to restart it from beginning now that I have the hard cover, which is absolutely BEAUTIFUL. I just want to note… End of Day and Middle of Night are absolute 2015 Must Reads. I don’t want to build it up too much, but they are really original. They ebb and flow, one moment I can walk away and the next, totally unputdownable. Emotions all across the board. In the middle of Middle of Knight and this morning I was crying laughing so hard. And then again while just talking to my mom remembering? I read that the third is coming out next year. And somewhere else that there’s a fourth? Not sure…

Mmmmm, apple martini!! *takes drink from Cheryl* Martinis make everything better, don’t they? 😉

Aw Maryse…thank you, my sweet friend. *hugs* LOL, buttonhole? Usually your autocorrect is being dirty! 😛