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L.J. Shen – All Saints High Series Reading Order

February 16, 2020 By Maryse Leave a Comment

L.J. SHEN’S LATEST BULLY ROMANCE SERIES and book #3 (Angry God) JUST WENT LIVE!!! P.S. Book #2 made some in our crew sob (but LOVE it!!)

Tessa: Pretty Reckless by LJ Shen and OMG, tummy twists galore!

MichelleS: …I love LJ Chen’s writing, and it’s a serious bully book.!

JulieO: Can’t believe it!!! I just finished re-reading the SINNER OF SAINTS SERIES. I mean I just put down SCANDALOUS last night and thinking about what to read next and it was like a book was dropped from heaven. PRETTY RECKLESS just for me!!!! Happy🥰 read more

Reader Question – The book about the new girl that has a run in with the boys who play basketball…

January 23, 2020 By Maryse 2 Comments

Diana needs our book help and oooooooh Bully Book alert!!! And something in her description made me think of one of my all-time favorites!! In fact, if I’m right, this was a previous reader question a year or so ago: Reader Question – The book about the girl who used to play piano, but quit because her father had an affair with her best friend.

She asks:

Ok, Maryse and fellow book junkies I need help finding a book I’ve been looking for off and on for months.

A bb loving tomboy moves to a new poor neighborhood and school and has a run in with the boys who play basketball in her neighborhood park. I think that her fam had recently lost a bunch of money? But maybe not. read more

Reader Question – The book about the Italian arranged marriage to a cruel mafia man that she hates… and the Russian.

January 9, 2020 By Maryse 4 Comments

Miyah is looking for this one! Oooooh this one is a mafia romance and all sorts of tumultuous drama potential! Plenty of detail here to spark your memory if you read it, so I spoiler alerted throughout, in case you haven’t read it.

She asks:

Hi Maryse!!

I’ve been reading for blog for a while and thought you be the perfect person to help me find this book I read awhile ago and wanted to reread.

I believe it’s about a girl who is in an Italian arranged marriage and I think he’s in the mafia and she hates him and he’s cruel so right before they’re wedding she meets this Russian guy who similarly I believe is in the mafia and… read more

Reader Question… Solved! The book about the twin with amnesia and her husband is super mean to her…

November 14, 2019 By Maryse 4 Comments

Natali needs our book help! This sounds like possibly a dark romance (marital strife & a definite bully of a husband). Maybe it turns into one of those “husband grovels and repents?” books? Possibly? But he sure sounds like an A$$!!!! ROAR!!!

Not even sure if he’ll be redeemable but I’m dying to know if you’ve read it.

She asks:

Hi Maryse,

I Hope you can help me, I have been going through all the posts and suggestions on your blog, I know I saw it somewhere a loooong while back, but for the life of me I can’t find this book. read more

Reader Recommendations – Our Favorite Plain Jane or Ugly Duckling Romance Books

November 6, 2019 By Maryse 14 Comments

A few requests for this trope and how could I resist?? Especially when two of ’em just hit my radar BIG time today!!!

Mary: …wondering if you or your readers might be able to recommend some books with the ugly duckling to swan theme. You know where the heroine is gorgeous inside and just needs to build her self esteem and have a makeover to get the hot guy’s attention i.e. Laurie in Sweet Dreams. Or she’s an ordinary girl but the gorgeous guy gets to know her and thinks she’s gorgeous… i.e Zoe from Perfection (A Neighbor From Hell Series Book 2). read more

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2 days ago

TODAY'S FRIDAY BOOK FINDS!!

---> Cowboys, hockey players, mafia men & a few VERY suspicious characters... 😂📚 My list is FULL of trouble today!!

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3 days ago

READER QUESTION ALERT!!

HAVE A GUESS? ---> Reader Question – The book where she’s mentally ill and lives with two roommates…

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4 days ago

Wareesha LOVED this book and wants more like it...

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Reader Recommendation & Request – Blood of the Fairest (Grimm Fragments Book 1) by Morgan B Lee: www.maryse.net/books/book-recommendations/reader-recommendation-request-blood-of-the-fairest-grim...

5 days ago

THE BIGGEST NEW BOOK RELEASE LIST in ages, is ready!!!

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6 days ago

CHECK OUT WHAT JUST WENT LIVE EARLY!!!

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23 BOOKS ON TODAY'S LIST ---> Monday Early Bird Book Releases – 10-19-2026: www.maryse.net/book-releases/monday-early-bird-book-releases-10-19-2026.html

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