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Thursday, January 30, 2020

New Release: Love at the Bluebird by Aurora Rose Reynolds and Jessica Marin + Review!







Title: Love at The Bluebird
Authors: Aurora Rose Reynolds & Jessica Marin
Publisher: Boom Factory Publishing LLC
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 31, 2020



Blurb

With a hit song sitting at number one on the country music charts, Gavin McNeer thought he finally had everything he ever wanted.
All it takes is one look from the mesmerizing woman sitting in the front row at one of his shows and a brief encounter to make him realize just what he’s been missing. Even though he’s been burnt in the past, Gavin puts his inhibitions aside and his heart on the line to earn the trust of the woman who could be his everything.

Working in an industry where relationships start and end in the blink of an eye, Alyson Dawson has made it her mission not to get mixed up with musicians, no matter how good-looking they are. Keeping her focus on her blossoming career and clients, Aly doesn’t even have time to date much less fall in love. That is until she meets Gavin, a man who changes everything with one smoldering look.

Just when these two begin to settle into their new relationship, Aly is asked to do something that may require her to choose between the career she’s building and the man she’s falling in love with. To make things worse, Gavin’s ex decides to add a touch of drama to an already delicate situation.

Will their love survive, or become just another sad love song?







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Review:

 3.75-4 stars
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 This was a good book! Love at the Bluebird is Aly and Gavin's story. Gavin is an up and coming country music singer. Aly is a music producer's assistant. They meet at the famous Nashville music cafe, The Bluebird. Gavin is performing and sees Aly across the room. He is smitten and pursues her. Aly is a little unsure because she knows male musicians have reputations as manwhores, but she soon sees that Gavin is different and only has eyes for her. Love ensues!

I enjoyed this story a lot. Gavin and Aly were a great couple. Very sweet and sexy! Gavin is perfect and adores Aly right away. She is super sweet, too. I liked that there was a little instalove, but in a way that was a little different that usual ARR books. There is some drama, so it's not too bland, but not too much. Gavin has a crazy ex (that he hates now), who tries to cause issues, but it turned out okay and didn't bother me. It's still a fun, easy read. I also really liked the cool Nashville music-industry setting. There was some fun side characters that I would like to see get books too.

Overall, Love at the Bluebird is a fun, sweet, sexy, easy read. Aly and Gavin were adorable together. I enjoyed this book and look forward to more from Aurora Rose Reynolds and Jessica Marin.






Aurora Rose Reynolds

Aurora Rose Reynolds is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author whose wildly popular series include Until, Until Him, Until Her, Underground Kings and Shooting Stars.

Her writing career started in an attempt to get the outrageously alpha men who resided in her head to leave her alone and has blossomed into an opportunity to share her stories with readers all over the world.



Jessica Marin

Jessica Marin began her love affair with books at a young age from the encouragement of her Grandma Shirley. She has always dreamed of being an author and finally made her dreams of writing happily ever after stories a reality. She currently resides in Tennessee with her husband, children and fur babies. When she’s not hanging out with her family, she loves watching a good movie, going dancing with the ladies, sniffing essential oils, daydreaming of warm beaches, and world peace.

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Aurora Rose Reynolds and her husband, Sedaka Reynolds, created Boom Factory Publishing to use their experiences to expand and promote upcoming and existing indie authors.

 With over five years in the industry, and millions of books sold worldwide, we know what it takes to become a successful author and we will use this knowledge to take our authors to the next level.

 “As a successful hybrid author in this ever evolving industry, I know that you’re only as successful as the team that is promoting you!” – Aurora Rose Reynolds


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Monday, January 27, 2020

New Release: Bastard Bachelor Society by Sara Ney + Review!




What is the Bastard Bachelor Society?


It’s a gentleman’s club—like the dignified men of the past used to have.

Except, we’re not gentleman, and we’re not dignified.

We’re ineligible bachelors; bored, jaded and not looking for relationships. Quite the opposite actually… 

We’re so committed to being single, we’ve created a high stakes bet to see who can remain single the longest. Rules are involved. Prizes.

Laugh it up, but I’m no loser. 

Enemy number one to my single status? My irresistible neighbor, Abbott Margolis. She with her evil cat Desdemona, and Sexy AF pencil skirts. She’s kind and beautiful and hilarious. We can’t get involved, no matter how much her meddling grandmother pushes us together. But if I was going to lose this bet for anyone? It would for Abbott. 

Let’s face facts: I’m a bastard, unwilling to settle down. 

Especially when there’s a bet to win.

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Review:

3.75 stars
***


This was a cute book! Bachelor Bastard Society is Brooks and Abbott's book. After a bad breakup, Brooks makes a pact with his two best friends to form a gentlemen's club, complete with personalized smoking jackets and a set of rules to live by. The rules include no exclusive girlfriends, no seeing the same woman more than three times a week, no marriage or babies and a few other silly rules. They each put up a wager of something very valuable to them that they will forfeit if they break the rules. Brooks is set on remaining a bachelor and is also a bit arrogant. He has no plans to break the rules. But then he doesn't plan on meeting Abbott. She is his beautiful across the hall neighbor, with whom he has instant chemistry. With no plans to be with anyone romantically, he sees how great Abbott is, so he sets about making her his friend. The two become very close. Eventually, they fall for each other and Brooks willingly gives up the bachelor life.

This book was cute and sweet! I really liked this fun story of friends to lovers with great banter. I really liked both Abbott and Brooks. He played at being a jerk, but he was really a nice guy. The only negative I saw was that they became such great friends that I didn't really feel the slow burn between them until they actually got physical. I was totally convinced in their best friendship that I didn't feel a ton of fire there. Still, by the end, I found them to be a cute couple and felt the love between them. I liked that the book felt safe and the was no major drama.

Overall, this was a fun read. Abbott and Brooks were really cute together. I enjoyed the story and start to a new series. I look forward to more from Ms. Ney in the future!









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 Sara Ney is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the How to Date a Douchebag series, and is best known for her sexy, laugh-out-loud New Adult romances. Among her favorite vices, she includes: iced latte’s, historical architecture and well-placed sarcasm. She lives colorfully, collects vintage books, art, loves flea markets, and fancies herself British.

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New Release: Heartland by Sarina Bowen + Review & Excerpt!










Heartland by Sarina Bowen
 is now available!



A standalone romance in the USA Today best-selling True North world.


Expect: cute goats, college parties, caramels, a hot, broody farm boy and a broken girl who can’t stop loving him.

An emotional friends to lovers romance full of risky secrets and late-night lessons in seduction.

Dylan is my best friend, and the only person in my life who understands me. He doesn’t mind my social awkwardness or my weird history. The only glitch? He doesn’t know that I’ve been hopelessly, desperately in love with him since the first day we picked apples together in his family’s orchard.

But I know better than to confess.

Now that I’ve joined him at college, I’m seeing a new side of him. This Dylan drinks and has a lot of sex. None of it with me.

Until the moment I foolishly ask him to tutor me in more than algebra…and he actually says yes.

One crazy night sets our friendship on fire. But now my heart lies in ashes, and nothing will ever be the same again.

Heartland is a standalone college romance set in the True North world. Expect: a young, broody farmer, a giant crush, tasty caramels, cute goats and late night confessions.  




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Excerpt:

“So why were you having a bad day, anyway?” Ellie asks. “Man trouble?”
“Not exactly. It’s more like a lack of man trouble. I kissed my hot algebra tutor. And I wasn’t supposed to.”
Her big eyes widen. “Which hot algebra tutor? You never said.”
“He doesn’t work at the lab,” I say hastily. “He’s a friend. And he wants to stay that way.”
“Oh.” She looks deflated. “That is a bummer.”
“Do you have a boyfriend?”
“No.” She makes a face. “It would be nice, though. This year is kind of lonely. My roommate is a total bitch.”
“Oh, I have one of those, too.” 
“Yeah?” Ellie’s eyes brighten. “Does yours steal your clothes and then lie about it?”
“Um, no. She wouldn’t want any of my things. We have singles, anyway. Just a common bathroom.”
“Lucky! She must be easier to stand, then.”
“You’d think.” I take a gulp of mint tea. 
“My roommate took my brand-new scarf. With the tags still on! And when I called her out on it, she tried to gaslight me.”
“Gaslight?” I feel my cheeks flush like they sometimes do when I don’t understand the idioms that people use.
“You don’t know Gaslight? It’s a movie from the forties.”
“Ingrid Bergman,” says Dylan’s voice. “We haven’t got around to the classics yet.”
I startle, sloshing my tea over my hand. And when I look up, Dylan is right there. Clear brown eyes. Tousled hair. Tight, muscular body that’s clothed in a nice sweater and ripped jeans. A handsome face that I finally kissed.
Pain slices through me. Because I’m never going to get over him. There will never be a day when I look at Dylan and don’t wish for more.
“Can I talk to you for a quick second?” he asks, taking the mug and grabbing a napkin off the table. He wipes the tea off my hand.
“Now is not a good time,” I say quickly. Because I don’t want to cry in the coffee shop in front of my only new friend.
Dylan actually rolls his eyes. “Fifteen seconds, Chass. Give a man a break.”
“I’d talk to you.” Ellie raises her hand like a school girl. “Pick me.”
And that’s just what I need—another girl in my life who’s swooning for Dylan. Because that always turns out well. 
“Fine. Fifteen seconds.” I jump to my feet. Let’s get this over with.
Dylan takes my arm and tows me gently over toward the bulletin board, where nobody is currently reading the flyers for meditation circles and ski equipment sales. 
“Look, I’m sorry,” is his opener. “You're avoiding me. Not that I blame you. I'm sorry things got so out of control.”
“Which things?” I ask warily. Because I don’t want an apology for fooling around with me.
“Pick one!” Dylan raises his hands. “All the things. I shouldn’t have been so inappropriate.”
“But…” I know Dylan was in a serious state of drunken depression when he kissed me. It’s not like I was expecting to hear those kisses made him as happy as they made me. But would it kill him to be a little less patronizing? “Dylan, I’m not twelve years old. It was just a kiss or two. I don’t think I’ll need a full course of therapy to recover.”
He blinks. “Okay. Good?”
“So did you really need to drag me over here to apologize a third time? Did you apologize to all the girls you kissed during Spin the Bottle in seventh grade?” 
I heard about Spin the Bottle and Seven Minutes in Heaven only last year, by eavesdropping on Debbie and her buddies at another bonfire. I’d been transfixed by their tales of who’d kissed whom over the years and how often. 
At thirteen, Spin the Bottle would have sounded like heaven to me. Seven minutes in a closet with a boy? I would have lobbied for eight. I was always the most inappropriate girl in the bunch. 
Yet somehow Dylan sees me as some kind of innocent child. 
“No. Good point.” He crosses his delicious arms and smiles at me. “You are in a feisty mood today.”
“Is that so wrong?”
“No.” He shakes his handsome head. “Not at all. Are we going to hug it out?” He opens his big arms wide.
Oh boy. I can’t resist stepping into them. And when he pulls me in, I experience the familiar hormone rush that always happens when I’m close to him. Rapid heartbeat? Check. Goosebumps? Check. My nose lands against his flannel shirt. 
My mouth is mere inches from his, of course. But this time he has no interest in kissing me. It takes all my willpower to give him a squeeze and then step back.
“Be well, Chass. I’ll leave you to your tutoring session, even if you’re basically cheating on me right now. But we’re still making caramels this weekend, right? I told Griffin we could use six gallons of goat’s milk. Don’t make a liar out of me.”
“I won’t,” I say quickly. I might be slightly irritated at him, but it will blow over. My capacity to forgive him for not loving me back is basically infinite. “We’ll leave right after Friday classes?”
“You got it. And this is for you. Share it with your friend.” He pulls something out of his pocket. “More market research.”
He puts a little box in my hand and then walks away.
As always, it takes me a second to get over my hormone rush. I stand there blinking for a long moment until I realize Ellie is grinning at me from the sofa. So I go back over to her and sit down.
“Wow…” she says, stealing a glance at Dylan’s retreating backside. “Is that hot hunk of Vermont male your algebra tutor?”
“Yes.” My voice is gravel.
“And your future ex-boyfriend?”
“Nope. I’ll never get that chance. He's my best friend, but...” There's no tidy explanation.
“But you want more. I would if it were me.”
I nod, miserable. 





Review:

3.75-4 stars
****



This is a good book! Heartland is Chastity and Dylan's book. Chastity grew up in a fundamentalist, polygamous cult. She escaped as a teenager and fled to some family friends' farm in Vermont. There she met and became best friends with Dylan Shipley, whose family has a farm nearby. Their friendship was so close that they go to the same college and continued being good friends there. But things get complicated quickly. Chastity has a huge crush on Dylan beyond friendship. She is curious about many things that she hasn't experienced due to her background, including sex. She works up the nerve to ask Dylan to tutor her in seduction, which leads to a lot of emotion and eventually love.

I have to admit this book started off a bit rocky for me. I was a little weary that the characters were so young (20 or 21), in college, and had moments of immaturity. The first half was a little too angsty for me. (I'm a wimp) This is not an easy, light read. There are a lot of emotions at play. But I enjoyed the second half a lot and it balanced out for me.

Chastity has had a huge crush on Dylan for years. It was a little embarrassing how much she pined after him and he was oblivious. She was willing to take any crumbs of attention that he would give her. In some ways, Dylan was a typical college guy, focused on partying and having casual hookups. But there is more to him than that. He works hard on his family farm on the weekend and carries the stress of family responsibility. He does have a girlfriend when the book starts, Chastity's mean girl roommate, but that doesn't last too long. Dylan was best friends with Chastity, but he never saw her romantically or thought he was attracted to her. I didn't feel any chemistry between them, myself, for quite a while. I felt bad for Chastity that he never appreciated her, as a friend, like she deserved. I wasn't sure I liked Dylan because of his behavior at first either. But, as time went on, Dylan began to realize what a good friend she was to him and how much she meant to him. It was sweet the way he gradually realized that he loved her. He never pushed her away either.

Even though the book started out with Chastity blindly adoring Dylan, by the end, I felt the love between them and that they loved each other equally. Dylan turned out to be a sweetheart and Chastity grew in his love and became more confident. Yes, they were both young, but I felt they made a great match and their future was secure together. I liked both of their characters. They both had been through a lot, with Chastity growing up in a cult, having escaped, but still being quite innocent in some worldy ways, and having no experience with men. Dylan had lost his father and had a lot of guilt he was carrying about that and his tumultuous relationship with his older brother. I was happy to see them both mature a lot, learn and grow from their past experiences, and find happiness together.

Overall, I ended up liking this book a lot. Much of the book has a different feel than the rest of the series- college, new adult, less mature characters. But we do get to visit with the Shipleys and their farm. I love this series and it's small town, Vermont setting. I love the family dynamics and the relationships that affect Chastity and Dylan. I enjoyed the scenes and description of them making caramels together too. They ended up being a cute and fun couple. I look forward to more from this series and Ms. Bowen in the future!








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New Release: A Favor for a Favor by Helena Hunting + Review!

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“This book has it all—explosive chemistry, feel-good fun, and loads of banter.”

—Kendall Ryan, New York Times bestselling author


A Favor for a Favor, all-new enemies-to-lovers standalone sports romance from New York Times bestselling author Helena Hunting, is available now!



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A new stand-alone romance about trading favors, battling wills, and winning love.

When I joined Seattle’s NHL expansion team, I thought it was the start of something great. But nothing ever goes the way you expect. Take my introduction to my new neighbor. She came rolling in on the hot mess express at midnight, making a racket while she tried to get into my team captain’s apartment. Did I mention that he’s married to a woman who definitely was not her?

Imagine my surprise when I end up with an injury that has me out of the game for weeks, and she’s the one to offer to help me. I should probably add that she’s not the captain’s mistress. She’s his sexy, pastel-haired younger sister.

So we come up with an arrangement: she rehabs me so that I can get back on the ice sooner, and she can add a professional athlete that isn’t her brother to her client list. Seems simple enough. As long as I can keep my hands to myself and my hormones in check.


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Review:

4.25 stars
****


Aww! This was a really good book. A Favor for a Favor is Stevie and Bishop's book. Stevie is Rook's sister (from A Lie for a Lie) and is a physical sports therapist. After catching her boyfriend cheating, she moves into Rook's empty former apartment across the hall from Bishop's. Rook is the captain of the pro hockey team that he and Bishop are on. Bishop wanted the captain's appointment, but was passed over, so he already doesn't like Rook. When he sees Stevie move in, he thinks she is Rook's mistress and is rude to her. Stevie sees lots of women leaving Bishop's apartment and thinks he is a playboy (the ladies are really his brother's conquests). So they get off on the wrong foot, but they soon become good friends. Stevie helps him with physical therapy after an injury and they eventually fall for each other.

I really enjoyed this book! This is a well paced, easy read. The story was really fun, without too much angst or pushing away. I liked the grumpy Bishop and the sweet but snarky Stevie. They had great chemistry and good banter. Their relationship is opposites attract, slowish burn, friends first and then lovers. I enjoyed seeing their relationship develop and that they both found happiness together.

Overall, this book was really good! A Favor for a Favor is the perfect blend of humor, sexiness, and sweetness. I am loving this series, it's fun characters and sweet sexy romance. I can't wait for more from Ms. Hunting!



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About Helena Hunting

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of PUCKED, Helena Hunting lives on the outskirts of Toronto with her incredibly tolerant family and two moderately intolerant cats. She writes contemporary romance ranging from new adult angst to romantic sports comedy.


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Friday, January 24, 2020

New Release: Baby Blues by Fiona Davenport + Review!



Baby Blues

Vegas, Baby Series
by Fiona Davenport



Blurb

Knox Dawson didn’t believe in love at first sight, at least not for himself. He watched as his sisters and several of his friends each fell fast and hard, confident it would never happen to him. Then he spotted Addilyn Cole on stage and realized how wrong he’d been.
Addilyn jumped at the too-good-to-be-true offer to perform at the Lennox, but she never bargained on finding love during her first show there. When things go wrong the morning after their impulsive wedding night, Knox has to convince Addilyn she’s the woman he wants…forever.

Review:

3.5 stars
***

 Another super cute and entertaining book from this series! Baby Blues is Addilyn and Knox's story. Addilyn is a new lounge singer at the Vegas hotel where Knox is head of security. Love at first sight leads to a fun, wild night and an impromptu wedding. There is instalove and a cute story with low angst, no OP drama, good chemistry, a pregnancy and a sweet epilogue. Add in Knox's fun sisters from earlier books in the series, lots of sugary sweetness, a little drama and a lot of sexiness. You have the recipe for a fun, sweet, quick and easy read. Entertaining and enjoyable! This was a fun addition to the Fiona Davenport world!
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