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Book Review – Tragic by Devney Perry + a signed book & gift card giveaway!!

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Tragic (Lark Cove Book 3)
<— THIS ONE’S GOING LIVE AT MIDNIGHT!!!! And I was delighted to get an early review copy (this author’s writing and alpha males are spot on and right up my alley).

And I was especially delighted when it featured a moody, big huge grump of a reclusive hero… who just happened to be her new neighbor. GAH!! I LOVE GRUMPY NEIGHBORS. Er… in books. Always and only in books (P.S. My neighbors are really awesome. I love my neighborhood!!). But boy do I love that kind of book drama. 😉 read more

Ilsa Madden-Mills – British Bad Boys Series Reading Order

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*fans self* Wooooooooo that third book (Spider) has one of the hottest covers/cover models yet!!! Whoa. Just… sayin’. Blurb jolt? For sure (no… seriously!!!).  But… cover jolt? HOLY HECK, YES!!!! You have my attention!!! 😛 He’s gonna be a perfect “hero”.

Tessa:  I loved Dirty English. It was just fun and made me happy reading it.
Emily: I just finished Dirty English and highly recommend it. I know this gets tossed around a lot, but it really had a Beautiful Disaster feel to it. I’ve been in a funk with this genre — tired of diluted versions of what initally turned me on to it (BD, Fifty Shades, etc.) — but this one really satisfied.
Tessa: I loved Dirty English. I loved Filthy English even more.  :) A bit of humor, some sadness, and I want to hug a secondary character…It had me giggling like crazy. I want Spider’s story the most though. He needs a hug.
Jean: Loving that cover of Spider! read more

Reader Question – The book about the widow and her kids that sneak over to the neighbor’s pool…

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Charity needs book help too!! And I know it, and I LOVED it!!! It’s hilarious and sweet and perfect and I reviewed it, and GASP!!!!

I know I’ll be kicking myself when someone guesses this right, like I should have known (*sigh* after so many books, titles elude me, but stories… I remember). And this one I loved!

I feel like this is an Aly Martinez book, or Mariana Zapata (at least… it has *that* feel, you know what I mean?) It is on the TIP of my tongue. I KNOW IT. Jewel E. Ann? I dunno. HELP US! read more

Book Review – Someone Else’s Ocean by Kate Stewart

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Someone Else’s Ocean
Kate Stewart’s latest JUST WENT LIVE and I had the pleasure of reading an early copy over the weekend!!
It was gentler on us than some of her past super-angsty books that had us in a frenzy, but it sure had it’s share of pull-pull, kindle-throwing moments, and of course… a seriously angsty moment that had my heart in my throat.

So what’s it about?

Koti has been living life on an island renting beautiful vacation houses to tourists, and loving her uncomplicated, and very single life. Having run from her high stress, demanding world, she’s finally found a semblance of peace living on the beach, and helping make visitors happy… even if for just a few weeks. That is, until Ian (her childhood friend that she hasn’t seen in ages) shows up in the vacation home right next door to hers, kicking up a storm. read more

Lucy Score & Claire Kingsley – Bootleg Springs Series Reading Order

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This series was just brought to my attention by Caroline and she just RAVED about it:

Caroline: I just finished reading Sidecar Crush by Claire Kingsley. She and Lucy Score are collaborating on a new series called Bootleg Springs set in rural West Virginia.

The first book by Lucy Score, Whiskey Chaser, and the second (Sidecar Crush) are rom-com at it’s best. Supposed to be a six book series with each other writing alternate books. Fantastic so far!!!

Michelle: Whiskey Chaser was a good book. I enjoyed it. read more