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September 20, 2021 /

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📚 April BOTM My #botm selection came in! I’v

📚 April BOTM

My #botm selection came in! I’ve read and loved other books by Abby Jimenez so this month’s choice was a no brainer. At this point her books are an auto-buy for me and this one sounds so good!
❓Which authors are auto-buys for you?

SYNOPSIS ✨
Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it’s now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They’ll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other’s out, and they’ll both go on to find the love of their lives. It’s a bonkers idea… and it just might work.

Emma hadn’t planned that her next assignment as a traveling nurse would be in Minnesota, but she and her best friend agree that dating Justin is too good of an opportunity to pass up, especially when they get to rent an adorable cottage on a private island on Lake Minnetonka.

It’s supposed to be a quick fling, just for the summer. But when Emma’s toxic mother shows up and Justin has to assume guardianship of his three siblings, they’re suddenly navigating a lot more than they expected—including catching real feelings for each other. What if this time Fate has actually brought the perfect pair together?

📚 April Hopefuls Happy April everyone! March w

📚 April Hopefuls

Happy April everyone! March was a whirlwind for me and I didn’t get nearly as much reading done as I had hoped. Work + life took away from social media but I did get to sneak in a couple of posts about my quick trip to NY!

I got to meet author Danielle Jensen during her A Fate Inked in Blood tour a couple of weeks ago and it put me in the mood for some Viking fantasy + romance this month. There are a few other ARCs I have in audio and ebook format as well but I’ll mention them in other stories and posts.

❓What are you excited to read this month?

📚 Trouble by Lex Croucher Published March 5, 20

📚 Trouble by Lex Croucher
Published March 5, 2024

Happy #publicationday to Trouble by Lex Croucher! I’m listening to an audio copy of this book right now and absolutely loving Ell Potter’s narration (she has quickly become my favorite narrator). I could see Emily’s personality taking a bit to adjust to but so far I’m loving both the story and her prickly personality.

❓Do the main characters have to be likable or would that put you off reading a book?

SYNOPSIS ✨

A Regency-era romantic comedy with a deliciously feminist and queer twist, from the New York Times bestselling author of Gwen & Art Are Not in Love.  There’s a new governess at Fairmont House, and she’s going to be nothing but trouble.  Emily Laurence is a liar. She is not polite, she’s not polished, and she has never taught a child in her life. This position was meant to be her sister’s––brilliant, kind Amy, who isn’t perpetually angry, dangerously reckless, and who does (inexplicably) like children.  But Amy is unwell and needs a doctor, and their father is gone and their mother is useless, so here Emily is, pretending to be something she’s not.  If she can get away with her deception for long enough to earn a few month’s wages and slip some expensive trinkets into her pockets along the way, perhaps they’ll be all right.  That is, as long as she doesn’t get involved with the Edwards family’s dramas. Emily refuses to care about her charges - Grace, who talks too much and loves too hard, and Aster, who is frankly terrifying but might just be the wittiest sixteen-year-old Emily has ever met - or the servants, who insist on acting as if they’re each other’s family. And she certainly hasn’t noticed her employer, the brooding, taciturn Captain Edwards, no matter how good he might look without a shirt on . . .  As Fairmont House draws her in, Emily’s lies start to come undone. Can she fix her mistakes before it’s too late?

Thank you @macmillanusa and @macmillan.audio for the #gifted copy!

📚 CURRENTLY READING The Friendship Study by Rub

📚 CURRENTLY READING
The Friendship Study by Ruby Barrett
Published February 13, 2024

I’ve never read a book that deals with loneliness and making friends as an adult so this book immediately piqued my interest. I started reading it this week and so far the story is just what I was in the mood for - a sweet, emotional romance with such relatable characters. A big thank you to @HarlequinPublicityTeam & @HarlequinBooks for the gifted copy!

SYNOPSIS ✨
Jesse Logan doesn’t want a fresh start. He wants his old life back—before an injury made his career as a firefighter impossible, before his grandfather’s Alzheimer’s got so bad he doesn’t recognize Jesse anymore. When a friend tells him about a paid psychological study, Jesse sees it as a chance to get back to the man he was while making a little extra cash.

All Lulu Banks is asking for is a fresh start. Back home after a devastating breakup, she’s struggling to find her place. She’s always been a lot—too loud, too eager, too obvious about her feelings. The friendship study seems like a great idea…until she’s paired with Jesse Logan, who recently ghosted her after a blind date that led to a steamy make-out session.

Now that old familiar tension is back. Despite the program’s strict “no romance” rule, Jesse and Lulu are quick to find a work-around that allows them to explore their tenuous connection. And soon they’re on their way to total self-improvement…

As long as they don’t get caught.

❓What are you reading this week?

📚 PUBLICATION DAY Heartless Hunter by Kristen C

📚 PUBLICATION DAY
Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli
Published February 20, 2024 by @wednesdaybooks
5/5⭐️

Happy #bookbirthday to Heartless Hunter! It’s nice to finally get back to some YA romantasy after reading so many contemporary romances and thrillers lately. This one is an emotionally charged enemies-to-lovers romance with a fast-paced, twisty plot. It was pretty much everything I was looking for when I picked it up - especially Gideon and Rune. I can’t wait for the sequel!

SYNOPSIS ✨
On the night Rune’s life changed forever, blood ran in the streets. Now, in the aftermath of a devastating revolution, witches have been diminished from powerful rulers to outcasts ruthlessly hunted due to their waning magic, and Rune must hide what she is.

Spending her days pretending to be nothing more than a vapid young socialite, Rune spends her nights as the Crimson Moth, a witch vigilante who rescues her kind from being purged. When a rescue goes wrong, she decides to throw the witch hunters off her scent and gain the intel she desperately needs by courting the handsome Gideon Sharpe - a notorious and unforgiving witch hunter loyal to the revolution - who she can’t help but find herself falling for.

Gideon loathes the decadence and superficiality Rune represents, but when he learns the Crimson Moth has been using Rune’s merchant ships to smuggle renegade witches out of the republic, he inserts himself into her social circles by pretending to court her right back. He soon realizes that beneath her beauty and shallow façade, is someone fiercely intelligent and tender who feels like his perfect match. Except, what if she’s the very villain he’s been hunting?

Kristen Ciccarelli’s Heartless Hunter is the thrilling start to The Crimson Moth duology, a romantic fantasy series where the only thing more treacherous than being a witch...is falling in love.

❓What have you been in the mood to read lately? Any recs?

Thank you @wednesdaybooks for the review copy.

Happy Valentine’s Day! 💕 Thank you to @booke

Happy Valentine’s Day! 💕

Thank you to @bookedwithmel for the gifts! I’ve had these two books on my TBR for a while so they couldn’t have been a better choice. I’m going to have to carve out some time this weekend to start reading them!

Thank you to @therealbookhustler @_coffeereadrepeat and @reading2relax for including me in the Galentine’s Day book exchange. ♥️

❓ What are your Valentine’s/ Galentine’s / Singles Awareness day plans?

📚 The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston Pub. Jun

📚 The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
Pub. June 27, 2023
4/5⭐️

I have been loving Ashley Poston recently. The Dead Romantics was one of my favorite books last year and The Seven Year Slip is another win. This book is the right person, wrong time trope in the most literal sense. Clementine meets the perfect man in her late aunt’s apartment - unfortunately he’s living seven years in the past. The romance is sweet and Iwan is just what Clementine needs in her present day life; she is at a crossroad in her career and dealing with the grief of losing her beloved aunt. Poston does a great job balancing the romance with personal development and it makes Clementine feel all the more real and multi-dimensional. My only (minor) complaint would be the slow start but it eventually picked up and I grew to love the characters and book.

Side note - Ashley Poston’s next book A Novel Love Story sounds so good and I can’t wait to get my hands on it!

❓QOD: Which upcoming release are you excited about?

Synopsis in comments ✨

📚 AUDIOBOOK FEATURE Only if You’re Lucky by S

📚 AUDIOBOOK FEATURE
Only if You’re Lucky by Stacy Willingham
Published January 16, 2024

Thank you @macmillan.audio for this Winter Survival Kit! The temperature just dropped below freezing this week so it couldn’t have come at a better time. I can’t wait to jump in!

SYNOPSIS ✨
Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one, the careful one, always the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when Lucy singles her out at the end of the year, a year Margot spent studying and playing it safe, and asks her to room together, something in Margot can’t say no—something daring, or starved, or maybe even envious.

And so Margot finds herself living in an off-campus house with three other girls, Lucy, the ringleader; Sloane, the sarcastic one; and Nicole, the nice one, the three of them opposites but also deeply intertwined. It’s a year that finds Margot finally coming out of the shell she’s been in since the end of high school, when her best friend Eliza died three weeks after graduation. Margot and Lucy have become the closest of friends, but by the middle of their sophomore year, one of the fraternity boys from the house next door has been brutally murdered... and Lucy Sharpe is missing without a trace.

A tantalizing thriller about the nature of friendship and belonging, about loyalty, envy, and betrayal—another gripping novel from an author quickly becoming the gold standard in psychological suspense.

❓ Does your reading taste change with the seasons? What do you prefer during winter?

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