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Monday Early Bird Book Releases – 09-02-2019

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HAPPY SEPTEMBER & GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!!!! 😀 I consider September officially fall (no matter when “they” decide fall is), and I’m so excited. We’ve officially hit my favorite time of the year!!! SQUEEEEE

Okay so, I’m late with the Monday Earlybirds ’cause I decided to work on the list leisurely this morning on my nice Labor Day holiday, sipping my coffee. And what a wonderful Monday it is. Sorta. 😉 The bird (Birdy) is chirping, okay no… the sun is not out (’cause Dorian is making his stupid-butt way over here), and I’ve got the whole day ahead of me  to read.

Three things? Yep!

1.) I’ve started “An Anonymous Girl: A Novel” and so far it’s phenomenal. Has that Tarryn Fisher feel (the two main characters, and their POVs are female – I LOOOOOVVE THAT with that slight creep-factor) and I can’t figure out where this is going although I have my guesses. I loved these authors’ “The Wife Between Us” and while this one is completely separate from that, it still has those feels… along the same betrayal lines. YAY!!!!

2.) I don’t believe Hurricane Dorian is going to affect us directly other than a TON of rain. When I first told y’all about it, at that time it was supposed to cross Florida state from the east coast to the west coast (where I am) and hit us pretty much directly then. Now it seems it will “hug” the entire east coast and continue upwards. We’ll have lots of rain and maybe some wind… but who knows. There have been last minute surprises in the past, so I’m not 100% out of the woods (but pretty sure I am)…

3.) That said, my aunt and my uncle and my cousins in Freeport Bahamas are in the direct, HARDCORE path of Dorian, so we’re on edge here. My aunt is actually vacationing in Canada right now visiting my mom and their siblings, but the rest of my aunt’s family is still in Freeport bracing.

LOOK WHAT JUST WENT LIVE :D !!!

  1. Goddess Rising: A Skye Faden Novel by Alisha Ashton
  2. Witching Bones: An Ante-Fae Adventure (Wild Hunt Book 8) by Yasmine Galenorn
  3. One Hot Summer <— LIVE!! ANTHOLOGY ALERT!! “Seven brand new novella’s to finish off your summer!”
  4. Chris (The Guzzi Legacy Book 3) by Bethany Kris
  5. Omega’s Secret Alpha: A Forte Green Novel (Omega’s Under Siege Book 2) by Aiden Bates
  6. Compel Me: A Reverse Harem Vampire Romance (The Last Vocari Book 1) by Elena Lawson <— SHE’S A VAMPIRE HUNTER LOOKING FOR ONE SPECIFIC ONE… “...It’s not until a group of three finds me that I think I’ve finally met my match. But these aren’t just any nameless, faceless vamps. I know them. Or, at least, I knew them—when they were still human. Worst of all, I owe them a debt. But paying it means I’ll need to face my worst fear… that I may not be entirely human, either…”
  7. Hidden Truths (Cape Charade) by Christina Dodd
  8. Sober K. Williams <— SHE HITS ROCK BOTTOM & NOW SHE HAS HER LIFE IN ORDER… “...With custody of her son back, a job she loves, and a darling little girl, her life is headed in the right direction. But when she moves into a new house and she meets her handsome neighbor, Tyler, the vow she made to stay away from men is tested...”
  9. Freak: A Dark College Bully Romance (Hillcrest University Book 2) by Candace Wondrak <— BULLY ROMANCE ALERT!! “…HU was supposed to help me move on, be a fresh start, but then I walked into a feud between Sawyer and Declan. The hatred between them is palpable, and yet I find myself in the middle, somehow. And Travis? Don’t get me started on that one. He might be sexy, but he gives a new definition to the word psycho. None of them are innocent, I now know, but what their crimes are is anyone’s guess. Am I the only innocent one around here? No, no I’m not…”
  10. Cross My Hart (The Notorious Harts) by Clare Connelly
  11. The Debt (The Billionaires Club) by Jackie Ashenden
  12. The Accidental Life Swap: The perfect laugh out loud romantic comedy by Jennifer Joyce <— SHE’S MISTAKEN FOR HER BOSSY BOSS… “...whilst overseeing the renovation of Vanessa’s beautiful countryside home, the last thing Rebecca ever expected was to be mistaken for her boss – or that she would even consider going along with it! Far away from the bustling city and her boss’s demanding ways, could she pretend to be Vanessa and swap lives, just for a little while?...”

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Archiving the August 2019 Book Releases

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Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 08-30-19

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HAPPY FRIDAY & FRIDAY FINDS EVERYONE (almost 40 finds)😮!! End of summer, end of my favorite month (my birthday month!!!) and our first hurricane is already on the way… *sigh* It’s headed right for us – supposedly – so fingers crossed all will be well. In case I lose electricity like I did a year or so ago, I am preparing blog posts to auto post for all of next week, just in case… (no worries, the blog will still be up because it’s not here in hurricane-land). LOL!! I’ll try and check in (or have my family or Sherry check in) to give you quick updates.

P.S. I’ve got my water, my lights, my batteries, my battery backups, and plenty of unperishables (my dogs have plenty of dog food)… and best of all… I have my BOOKS!!! MY PAPER BOOKS!! I’ve got my pile ready to go, so if my power is out, I will still be plenty entertained! YAY ME!!! 😀

But the storm’s not here yet, and I AM still here so… in the meantime…

TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT WE FOUND FOR THE WEEKEND :D !!

  • Instant Gratification (Always Satisfied Book 2) by Lauren Blakely <— LIVE!!! LAUREN BLAKELY ALERT!! “…As the premier best-man-for hire in all of Manhattan, I promise discretion, so when I need a plus one for a couple of “I dos,” I turn to my gorgeous, clever, witty best friend’s sister. She’s my good friend, too, and I lust after her completely. I mean, I TRUST her completely. After all, just look how she’s kept her lips sealed about the hot, multi-O night we spent together.…”
  • Maybe: The Complete Series by Ella Miles <— ARRANGED MARRIAGE SERIES SUPER-BARGAIN ALERT!!
  • Forgetting You, Forgetting Me (Memories from Yesterday Book 1) by Monica James <— GASP!!! THIS SOUNDS ANGSTY!!! Her world was shattered… and then HIS identical twin COMES BACK… “…It’s unimaginable how simple, ordinary words can change a person’s life forever. For me those words were, “There’s been an accident.” I thought Sam was my forever, but that forever came to a close the day Saxon Stone, Sam’s identical twin brother, came back...”
  • My Husband’s Wife: A Novel by Jane Corry <— PSYCH-THRILLER SUPER-BARGAIN & SOUNDS LIKE IT’S MADE FOR ME!! 😀 MINE!!! 😀 “…she takes on her first murder case and meets Joe, a convicted murderer to whom Lily is strangely drawn—and for whom she will soon be willing to risk almost anything. But Lily is not the only one with secrets. Her next-door neighbor Carla may be only nine, but she has already learned that secrets are powerful things. That they can get her whatever she wants. When Lily finds Carla on her doorstep twelve years later, a chain of events is set in motion that can end only one way...”
  • Soul of the Dragons (Bad Dragons Book 3) by Terry Bolryder
  • Grumpy Dad (Greenbridge Academy Book 2) by Abby Knox <— LIVE!! GRUMPY, RECLUSIVE DAD & THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER ALERT!! SOUNDS LIKE FUN!! “...Vince really wishes people would leave him alone. For the most part, they oblige. So why does a gorgeous, relentlessly upbeat Kindergarten teacher keep trying to include him in all this bougie PTA rigmarole? But … if all this nonsense will help five-year-old Max fit in at this fancy school, fine. Just this once, he’ll help; and then everybody’d better leave him alone…”
  • Heart of the Mountain by Frankie Love & C.M. Seabrook
  • Flirting with Forever by Kendall Ryan <— KENDALL RYAN SUPER-BARGAIN!!
  • The Bad Boy Reformed Series, Books 1-3: Raising Ryann, Resisting Ryann and Breaking Ryann by Alyssa Rae Taylor <— THREE BOOK BUNDLE SUPER-BARGAIN ALERT!! “…He’s the stereotypical fighter- 100 percent alpha male. The kind of guy a girl should avoid at all costs. When he’s hired to privately train me, avoiding him isn’t an option…”
  • The Simple Wild: A Novel by K.A. Tucker <— ONE OF MY FAV K.A. TUCKER BOOKS ALERT!!! And now we’re getting more feedback! 😀 P.S. Here’s my review.

Hvitserk: Love your review! I just finished reading it the other day I can’t believe I missed this one last year. I was in a reading slump after Katherine Center’s Things You Save in a Fire: A Novel and this it’s exactly what I was looking for!

Linda: …was totally able to indulge in reading The Simple Wild and laughed and cried and laughed and cried. Oh my heart.

  • To Be Your Girl (To Be Yours Book 1) by Rae Kennedy <— OLD SCHOOL FEELS LOVE TRIANGLE ALERT!! RECENT RELEASE & WE HAVE FEEDBACK!!! Well… sorta. 😉 Stacie is already loving it!!

Stacie: Hi Maryse,

I have a book recommendation. “To Be Your Girl” by Rae Kennedy I am only 16% in and already feeling a 5 star book here. It gives me all the feels, just like from the oldie books such as Thoughtless or Beautiful Disaster.

This book is already giving me giddy, butterfly feelings reading it; so far it’s been only from her POV which makes it so much better!!!  I couldn’t even wait to finish it before recommending it!! Can’t say enough how much I enjoy your page!

Maryse: You just said the magic words… HER POV. YAY!!! Thank you Stacie!! *claps and bounces* 😀

  • Misrule (A Death Dwellers MC Novel) by Kathryn C. Kelly <— BIKER BOOK ALERT!! THEY HAVE A THREAT FROM AN UNEXPECTED ENEMY… “…Knox and Roxy have finally set the date for their wedding, but things won’t go smoothly. There are too many people within the Club who won’t accept Knox—and one woman in particular whose day of reckoning has been a long time coming. Not to mention the outside interference from family. But the most deadly threat of all will come from an unexpected enemy....” And it’s in KU AND the author is today’s Friday Finds newsletter sponsor AND she’s giving away a copy here ➔ Kathryn C. Kelly – Death Dwellers Series Reading Order and we’re having a giveaway!!
  • The Whisper Man: A Novel by Alex North <— OMG ALL THE REVIEWS SAY TERRIFYING!!! Ooooops!! I missed this new release and Tasha J is my book-twin, so if she’s exited, I should have been… and now I SUPER-AM!!! 😉

Tasha J: Oooh, The Whisper Man by Alex North released today!

Maryse: OMG how did I possibly miss The Whisper Man??? All the reviews say TERRIFYING!! Eeeeeeep!!! MINE!!! 😀 Thank you Tasha!!!!

Tessa: My favorite thing, though, was the “others” world and how the MC reacted to it. I honestly loved the story and really want to stay in Lake Silence. I was so sad it ended and I refused to read anything else last night.

…Bev, you are going to love Lake Silence. The new area is quite wonderful. It’s different as far as how and why people interact, yet at the same time, it’s still the same world. It takes place a year after the BIG thing that happened in book four.

Melissa: Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by Anne Rice. It starts out with a bang and just keeps on going. I stayed up late every night and finished all 3 in about 2 days. I got the first one and regretted not getting all three at the same time. A great twist on what happens to Beauty after her prince wakes her with a kiss. Or should I say how he woke her as he gave her the kiss that woke her up. *shivers* Think I will read them again. = )

Kim: I think I read these back in the day, but for $1.99, I just 1-clicked those bad boys 😉

Rene: These are a great very naughty read. Anyone for a little spanking

Tessa: Finished Saphire Flames and it was as good as expected. Ilona Andrews is a rare miss, honestly, and I can’t think of that rare moment currently.

Maryse: I always here she’s one of the BEST paranormal authors out there. I wish I had jumped into her worlds when I was devouring that genre. I can’t wait until I cycle back around again. 😉

Tessa: They really are. I think the fact that it’s a husband and wife team makes it stronger because you get an honest male and female perspective and they work well together.

  • MONA is out of her book slump now that she’s had a stroke of book luck!!! 😀 She says:

I have been in such a book slump lately, either DNF or skim reading, but finally (thank you Maryse and everyone’s suggestions) I have been saved!

➔ First was Broken Knight by LJ Shen, it was angsty, but I didn’t require tissues, and a great read!

➔ Second was Julie O’s rec of Worked Up (Made in Jersey Book 3) by Tessa Bailey, very punny and entertaining! And Duke, what a great book boyfriend! Loved it!

➔ Third was Crossed Lines by Lana Sky and Holy Moly was it good, great, awesome! After reading the synopsis, I had it in my mind it was just going to be this bratty girl the whole time so I held off on starting it. Don’t get me wrong, she can be bratty, but it goes much deeper than that! I have a book hangover!

I’m looking forward to Friday’s Finds but am now headed off to read Butterfly in Frost.

Tessa: First Girl Child was wonderful! Loved it so much! Grey, if you read it, (which you should) tissues! I think it’s her best yet.

Michele G: Ohhh I loveddd The First Girl Child….

Grey: The First Girl Child was amazing. I stayed up last night to finish it. I LOVED it. It definitely had a The Queen & the Cure vibe to it…but in no way were the stories even remotely similar, just spectacularly written.

Tessa: I’m so glad you liked it! Hopefully, more will read it because it was just insanely good. Not a romance, though with the romance in it, but a true fantasy.

MichelleS: The First Child is calling my name! Thanks for all the feedback. I love Amy Harmon! And it’s KU with audio for free!!! Woop woop. …Lately I’ve been craving exactly that… fantasy and not necessarily romance. I think I’ve overdone it and nothing surprises me anymore, but with a good fantasy… I get all the thrills. The world, the lore, the characters. There’s always a little romance, but it’s not the central theme. So much intrigue & backstabbing. Love it!

  • Eight (Love by Numbers Book 6) by E.S. Carter <— SUPER-BARGAIN & CAN BE READ AS A STANDALONE ALERT!! AND I am ABSOLUTELY IN LOVE with this cover!!! OMG THIS BLURB BREAKS MY HEART!!!! He’s grieving his wife… “…She was my first love. She is my last love. I am an empty husk who pretends to be filled with enough love for those of us she left behind. Our little girl and newborn son need me. I am both mother and father now. I am hollow and empty. I am a shell. So why does the girl with the face of an angel and eyes that mirror my emptiness, look at me like I’m her everything?…”

Kathy: Love Love this book but get out your tissues. Definitely read it! …It is part of a series but can be read as a standalone. Of course it had my catnip of widowed Dad with small children. I definitely recommend it.

  • Can’t Fix Cupid by Raven Kennedy <— HILARIOUS RECENT RELEASE & Tessa loved this one too!

Tessa: I finished Can’t Fix Cupid. Sweet, emotional, and hilarious. Probably her best yet. It’s standalone away from her other cupid series. Same “afterworld”, different cupid on Earth instead of a fantasy world.

2312: I’ve read more than half the books you mentioned, and I know they are incredible hence, I must admit what I think, we have similar tastes in books, I love that. For another great read that will blow your mind away. Check out this book on Wattpad. A TIME OF RAGE by Edith Anyakee. I promise you, you won’t regret even reading just a single chapter.

  • Then She Was Gone: A Novel by Lisa Jewell <— PSYCH-THRILLER/UNCOMFORTABLE STORY ALERT!! Linda LOVED it!!!! 😀 Oh this is calling me big time!!! Her teen daughter disappeared…”… It’s been ten years since her daughter disappeared, seven years since her marriage ended, and only months since the last clue in Ellie’s case was unearthed. So when she meets an unexpectedly charming man in a café, no one is more surprised than Laurel at how quickly their flirtation develops into something deeper. Before she knows it, she’s meeting Floyd’s daughters—and his youngest, Poppy, takes Laurel’s breath away. Because looking at Poppy is like looking at Ellie...” <— 😮 GASP!!!!!

Linda: Stayed up way to late last night to finish a fantastic read!! Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewel. Couldn’t read fast enough!!! Kept me totally engaged even though an uncomfortable storyline for me. *****

MK: love this one too!

Kathy P: I have never highlighted as many passages as I did in the Mists of Serengeti.

Linda: Mist of the Serengeti was one of my holiday reads and oh my gosh….LOVED it soooo hard!!!! It was my “what took me so long?” to read!!

MichelleS: MICHELLE S IS ALIVE AND WELL. She was not kidnapped by aliens. …I’ve been reading The White Tower, Book one in a new fantasy series that’s spectacular for fans of that genre.

It’s reminding me a little of Tairen Soul series, so I’m in a good place! The mistrust of magic, the Fae, the names, the bad guy! The torture, the creatures, all of it.

  • TESSA’S LATEST BULLY FAVORITES LIST:

Tessa: Also, uh, I might’ve read a few more bully books. They are popular suddenly.

Boys of Oak Prep series by Callie Rose was soooo good and the trilogy is complete. It is an RH, though.

Zodiac Academy by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti just started. It’s a PNR Bully and is not an RH, and the premise along with that first book had me sucked in.

Also, bully PNR, and probably one of my favorites is Villain Academy series by Eva Chase, another PNR bully. Basically, she’s raised by the good guys, only to find she was kidnapped as a baby when her parents were killed and she’s actually born to be the bad guy. And it’s NOT CHEESY!

Grey: *Jots down all of Tessa’s suggestions*

Tessa: I’m not joking on the number of new bully books out. It’s the new popular trope. *grins* Which makes my day, but I’m having trouble keeping up, and there have been some truly BAD ones. lol It’s worth sorting through the bad ones to get to the good, though, right?

AUDIOBOOK L:DVERS!

For those going on a road trip soon, or maybe you’ve got some projects that require both hands this weekend but still allows you to “listen”… check out the free audible trial + 2 free audiobooks deal

Michele G: A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole that is currently gutting me as I listen to it…..ugh. I’m not to the adult lovers part yet…I’m hoping they get there…currently being emotionally destroyed while they are still teenagers….sorry…obviously I needed to vent!

  • The First Girl Child by Amy Harmon <— And here’s the audiobook version of Amy Harmon’s latest HUGE hit here!! 😀

MichelleS: The First Child is calling my name! Thanks for all the feedback. I love Amy Harmon! And it’s KU with audio for free!!! Woop woop.

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Kathryn C. Kelly – Death Dwellers Series Reading Order and we’re having a giveaway!!

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<—- BIKER SERIES (totally loaded in books and novellas) AND a new release (Misrule) just went LIVE!!! AND OMG THIS SMOKING COVER!! In fact, Kathryn C. Kelly is this Friday Finds Newsletter sponsor and we’re having a giveaway for THIS ONE!

Melanie: Kathryn Kelly’s death dwellers series stating with misled and also inferno by kathryn kelly. This lady is truly an amazing talented writer who deserves more credit than she gets read her books you will love outlaw, and sloanne.

Lauren: Kathryn Kelly’s new Death Dwellers MC book, Misfit, is out. The FINAL book of the series….been waiting a year for this one. It. Is. EPIC!!!

Amanda: I love me some bad boys which I dated a few myself lol…but if I had to say… Christopher “Outlaw” Caldwell in Misled by Kathryn Kelly….

About book #1:

Outlaw is not just his name…

Christopher “Outlaw” Caldwell lives life the only way he knows how. Hard. Loyal. Brutal. As president of the Death Dwellers he takes what he wants and gives only what is deserved, even meeting death head-on if it’s called for. He’s spent the last year holding the MC together after Big Joe Foy’s death. The last distraction he needs is a blue-eyed bombshell who is too sweet, too sexy, and too damn young. Worse, she brings out protective feelings Outlaw doesn’t like. It would be a crime to take her—but his name is Outlaw.

It’s his lifestyle.

Megan Foy needs help. After running away from her abusive stepfather, she goes searching for her dad, hoping he and his MC brothers will put a stop to the beatings she and her mother endure. What she finds is a hotter-than-hell man who sets her secret desires on fire, a man who calls to her inner bad-girl. A man who makes it clear he doesn’t want her around. But she isn’t backing down. She sees through his tough exterior. Outlaw might want her gone, but Megan wants him—and she’ll fight for what she wants.

A horrible secret could mean the end of the road for Outlaw and Megan. But Outlaw will turn hell inside out to keep what he thought he never wanted…

SERIES READING ORDER:

AND NOW FOR THE GIVEAWAY!!!!

The author says: I would love to do a giveaway for a copy of Misrule via Book Funnel.

How to enter for a chance to it? 

Just leave a comment below and by 10pm EST, Sunday, September 8th 2019, I will randomly select one lucky commenter as the winner.

The winner will be contacted and will have 48hrs to respond confirming their email address, so if you are picked, do not delay or you will lose your chance. This book will be sent to the winner directly by the author.

Giveaway open to International!!! :D

Reader Question… Solved! The book about the military Hero that protects a pregnant Muslim woman that was attacked…

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Amber needs our book help! I love men in uniform and am a sucker for those that help single pregnant women, and this one is calling to me. But I don’t know what it is…

She asks:

After reviewing your list of military romance trying to find a book I’ve been searching for months I thought I might just go to the source!

I only remember the secondary love story of the book.

It was a romantic suspense military where the secondary H was helping the wife of a killed friend. She is Muslim & pregnant & there was a scene where she was attacked I think in a gas station & they took her hijab & she hides & calls the H to help her & he covers her and carries her out.

That’s all I remember of the book. Their story, like I said is the secondary story so I’ve had no luck with my searches.

Does it ring a bell?

Anyone have a guess?

Aixa: Tactical Deception (Silent Warriors Book 2) by J.L. Saint

Amber: Yes!!!! It was actually Collateral Damage (Silent Warriors Book 1) I was trying to remember (the book before Tactical Deception) is where she was trapped in the food mart & he rescued her. Thank you SOOOO much!!!

Maryse: YAY!!!! Another one solved and it sounds intense!! Thank you Aixa!!! 😀

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