A NOT SO FICTIONAL FALL ● Tasha & Pierre ● booksgrammer / author -pen name: Amelie De Pierre ● Pierre writes romance books as a female autho3.5 stars
A NOT SO FICTIONAL FALL ● Tasha & Pierre ● booksgrammer / author -pen name: Amelie De Pierre ● Pierre writes romance books as a female author ● Tasha attends an event to meet her favorite author, Amelie De Pierre ● she's surprised like everyone else that Amelie is a man ● they figure out that he lives where her sister is located ● Pierre's visa is up and he needs to find a way to stay in the States ● an agreement is made for a fake marriage (think of the movie: The Proposal) ● temporary marriage of convenience
A cute, fun book about a girl who is dumped by her fiance after he finds out she lied to him about her virginity.
Vivia is crushed but not devastated A cute, fun book about a girl who is dumped by her fiance after he finds out she lied to him about her virginity.
Vivia is crushed but not devastated over her new found single status. To not waste the already paid for honeymoon she heads to France with her bestfriend. The two of them end up on bike tour as part of the honeymoon package. The tour cyclist is a sexy French male who piques Vivia's attention.
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I normally don't read chick lit but every once in awhile I take a chance on this genre. While reading Faking It I could imagine how funny this would be as an audiobook. Hearing the inflections in the voices would really bring the humor to life.
If you enjoy chick movies than this book will tickle your funny bone with the comical banter and situations.
THE ROM-COMMERS ● Emma & Charlie Yates ● ghost writer / screenwriter ● Emma has been taking of her dad for theI love Katherine Center books so much!!
THE ROM-COMMERS ● Emma & Charlie Yates ● ghost writer / screenwriter ● Emma has been taking of her dad for the last 10 years ● Emma is hired to fix “Charlie Yates” screenplay ● Charlie doesn’t want a writing partner but his agent is forcing him ● enemies-to-lovers ● forced proximity
I recently finished another captivating book by Ms. Center. One thing I've come to appreciate about her works is the inclusion of intriguing medical c I recently finished another captivating book by Ms. Center. One thing I've come to appreciate about her works is the inclusion of intriguing medical conditions, although not in all of her books. This particular story introduces us to Sadie, who develops a rare condition called apperceptive prosopagnosia after a brain procedure. This condition, also known as face blindness, renders her unable to cognitively process faces. Interestingly, I had learned about this condition when it was revealed that Brad Pitt himself experiences face blindness.
Sadie's newfound blindness becomes a significant obstacle in her career as a portrait artist. Additionally, her initial encounter with a guy in her apartment building, Joe, leaves her unimpressed, as she overhears a negative phone conversation he's involved in. However, as Joe starts assisting her, she begins to warm up to him, despite her conflicted feelings. Complicating matters further, Sadie finds herself attracted to Dr. Addison, the veterinarian caring for her dog, and the feeling are mutual.
While the story does contain a twist seasoned romance readers might anticipate it from early on but will undoubtedly enjoy the pleasant surprise.
Ms. Center has firmly secured a spot on my list of favorite authors because I have thoroughly enjoyed every book I've read by her.
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Tate has decided to help locate his best friend, Camila's, sister. Most everyone is convinced she is dead sincWHAT IS THE PRICE YOU'RE WILLING TO PAY?
Tate has decided to help locate his best friend, Camila's, sister. Most everyone is convinced she is dead since she was stolen and sold into sex slavery over a decade ago. Even Camila no longer thinks her sister, Lucia, is alive. Tate makes it his mission to find out the truth about what happened to Lucia and *if* she's alive to reunite her with Camila. The price he must pay to find the truth broke my heart.
I don't want to give too much away on what Tate must endure getting his answer. And if the answer he seeks is the one he had hoped for. A lot happens on this journey to find Lucia that makes for challenging moments for him. He faces some of his most humiliating moments but through it all Tate grows as a man to not be messed with.
DEVASTATE is the fourth book in the Deliver series. It can be read as a standalone BUT if you plan to read the other books in the series - start with book one because there is an overall arc that flows through this series. Devastate is a dark book that takes you on a rescue mission journey in search of a person who has been missing for over a decade.
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Katherine Center is an author I started reading this year and, I've enjoyed everything I've read by her.
The Bodyguard was well done and I was entertaKatherine Center is an author I started reading this year and, I've enjoyed everything I've read by her.
The Bodyguard was well done and I was entertained reading it.
Hannah is having a rough go of it. She loves her job but there are some hurdles with her situation. Working with her best friend and boyfriend has its downfall when they betray her. And unfortunately, her mom has passed and Hannah is just wanting to get lost in her job and forget the world around her. That's when her boss gives her the assignment of guarding actor Jack Stapleton. In this role, she'll have to pretend to be his girlfriend.
THE BODYGUARD ● Hannah & Jack Stapleton ● Huston, Texas ● fake dating ● forced proximity ● slow burn ● standalone
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I KISSED SHARA WHEELER ● Chloe ● senior year ● timeline: prom to graduation ● Shara is the prom queen ● Shara Wheeler runs away on prom night ● Shara kiI KISSED SHARA WHEELER ● Chloe ● senior year ● timeline: prom to graduation ● Shara is the prom queen ● Shara Wheeler runs away on prom night ● Shara kissed Chloe, Smith, and Rory prior to running away ● Shara left each of them a note with clues to where she is ● Chloe, Smith, and Rory work together to find Shara ● Smith is Shara’s boyfriend ● Rory is Shara’s neighbor ● Rory & Smith used to be best friends as kids ● small-town in the bible-belt ● Paper Towns by John Green vibes ● contemporary young adult
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REPUTATION ● Georgiana Ellers ● Mean Girls meets Jane Austen ● Regency-era ● only child ● lives with aunt and uncle ● lonely until she meets Francine ● REPUTATION ● Georgiana Ellers ● Mean Girls meets Jane Austen ● Regency-era ● only child ● lives with aunt and uncle ● lonely until she meets Francine ● Francine and her friends introduce her to a privileged lifestyle ● race, gender, class, and sexuality
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Audiobook source: Netgalley Narrator: Bessie Carter Length: 10H 58M
TOKYO DREAMING ● Izumi (18) ● Japanese American teenager ● deciding if she should take a gap year or attend college ● fake dating ● love triangle ● fathTOKYO DREAMING ● Izumi (18) ● Japanese American teenager ● deciding if she should take a gap year or attend college ● fake dating ● love triangle ● father: Crowned Prince ● mother: “commoner” ● her parents reconnect ● Japenese royalty ● continues on from Tokyo Ever After
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Audiobook source: NetGalley Narrator: Ali Ahn Length: 9H 12M
I absolutely fell in love with this book from the very beginning. It transported me to the 1930s when life was so different. The story had just the riI absolutely fell in love with this book from the very beginning. It transported me to the 1930s when life was so different. The story had just the right mixture of angst and mystery along with a beautiful love story.
THE UNKNOWN BELOVED ● Dani Flanagan (25) & Michael Malone (40) ● seamstress / criminal investigator ● Chicago, 1923 -1938 ● hunting a serial killer - The Butcher ● Michael is a no-nonsense hero ● Dani has a special gift ● age-gap ● slow burn ● historical fiction ● mystery / suspense ● features some real people
Amy Harmon is a favorite author of mine. She writes the most unique stories that keep the reader coming back for more. While at the library I saw a lady holding one of Ms. Harmon's books and we got into a fun conversation while we waited to check out our books. I was able to recommend more books by Ms. Harmon after hearing what kind of books she liked to read. I had a great time discussing all the unique facets of Ms. Harmon's books with this lady.
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The Checklist is the story of Dylan who is a corporate consultant. Like the book, the title implies she does have a checklist.
Her checklist includes:The Checklist is the story of Dylan who is a corporate consultant. Like the book, the title implies she does have a checklist.
Her checklist includes: 1) making partner at her firm 2) getting a condo in Texas with her boyfriend
Her job has her going to Seattle to help a company that is failing. During that time she starts to discover her boyfriend is a snob and not someone she actually likes.
As the story moves along Dylan comes to the realization of what is important to her and what she really wants in her life. This awareness has her realizing that what she originally put on her checklist might not be what she really wants in her life.
Even though the book is marketed as a rom-com it felt more like Women's Fiction. Readers who enjoy the heroine finding her voice and paving her own path will enjoy this story.
Audio book source: Audible Narrator: Adenrele Ojo Length: 11H 59M
YOU LOVED ME ONCE is a story that demands an answer to that question. And once rules are broken who must pay the consequARE RULES MEANT TO BE BROKEN?
YOU LOVED ME ONCE is a story that demands an answer to that question. And once rules are broken who must pay the consequences. The making of a choice to save one person over another is something the majority of people don't have to do daily. But for those in the medical field, they are faced with that reality.
Serenity, a gynecologist oncologist, is running a drug trial that has the potential to help a lot of women. Everything was going well until it wasn't. Her ex showing up with his wife who is part of the trial makes for a messy time of decisions.
Serenity is faced with many choices once she realizes she knows someone involved in the trial. But that is only the start of a hard decision she'll have to make. And with each choice, she makes there's the potential for a major ripple effect.
Westin, a neurosurgeon, is a in relationship with Serenity. He's ready for a full commitment but Serenity is scared of having her heart broken so she holding him at a distance. When things with Serenity's job start to go sideways she holds onto the idea that Westin is better off without her.
Serenity's journey created a lot of stuff to think about in regards to ethical decisions that needed to be made. Lots of questions beyond the are rules meant to be broken? come into play as the story continues on. Would you stand by the person who broke them? Is a person deserving of a second chance at life, love, and happiness?
YOU LOVED ME ONCE ● medical setting ● medical trial ● flashmob ● angst ● ethical dilemma ● standalone
Audio book source: Audible Narrator: Julia Whelan Length: 8H 27M
I started this series with this book which happens to be the third in the series. While it can be read as a standalone I’m sure iFOUR POINT FIVE STARS
I started this series with this book which happens to be the third in the series. While it can be read as a standalone I’m sure if I started with the first book and continued in ascending order I would have had a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the plotline. There’s an overall arc throughout these stories that help tie everything together.
Shattered By You is a dark romance. It’s been years since I’ve read a dark romance and I had forgotten how addicting they are with their intense storylines.
Ms. Rose’s writing was well done. She created a world where I could feel the character’s pain and the adrenaline coursing through their bodies. Love songs are made out of what Haven & Crisis endured to be together.
Haven’s character is one of perseverance and survival. She has spent her life forced into selling her body and to keep her compliant she was drugged to make her reliant on the people who controlled her life.
Crisis is in a famous band and known for his manwhorish ways. But what people around him hadn't noticed was that he had stopped jumping from bed to bed as he was preparing himself to be there for Haven when she was ready to let someone into her life. He wanted to be that someone.
SHATTERED BY YOU ♦ dark romance ♦ Haven is a survivor of abuse (sex and drugs) ♦ Haven is detached ♦ Haven is Ream’s twin ♦ Crisis is Ream’s band member ♦ Crisis’s parents adopted Ream
Darker romance readers if you haven’t already read this series get to it.
WHOA!! What did I just read?!! To say I was thrown for a loop several times in this book is an understatement. At one point I'm heading north and thenWHOA!! What did I just read?!! To say I was thrown for a loop several times in this book is an understatement. At one point I'm heading north and then the next moment I'm heading Northeast and then BAM I'm driving past a train wreck and I can't look away. Then as I think we're back on track I start to veer to the south and finally, I'm going west towards the ocean where I get slammed by a tsunami of more mystery.
Chapter 25 had me pulling the car over to message my friend, Christy, to ask her what she had gotten me into. *lol* I mean, I did see the foreshadowing happening early on in the story but to actually see it come to fruition was on a whole another level.
I'll admit at times I questioned what I was reading and tried to make sense of it. As I've heard that is pretty common and as you get further in the book more stuff starts to come together. I have to admit it is fun reading and not knowing where the story is going to take you. That is something that becomes harder to do for a reader who has read a lot of books. Well done to the author! I enjoyed the wild ride.
The Ravehood series is a continuing story!
The audio was well done! Both narrators were excellent and added flavor to the story.
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YES!!! This book was everything I had hoped for when I heard Amy Harmon had a book coming out about a songwriter and a singer that is set in New York YES!!! This book was everything I had hoped for when I heard Amy Harmon had a book coming out about a songwriter and a singer that is set in New York City in the 1960s.
I love podcasts and this book starts out with Benny Lament being interviewed on the radio. Benny tells the story of how he came from a mob family to becoming famous. Another favorite of mine is autobiographies/memoirs/biographies and now that I'm done with the book I can see how it had that feeling too. The Songbook of Benny Lament had a good mixture of podcasts (radio) and memoir vibes.
Esther Mine is a powerhouse singer. She's small in stature but her voice is big. As a Black woman navigating the music world she experiences plenty of racial injustices and biases. New York City in the '60s had its fair share of violence and racial discrimination. I wasn't alive in the '60s but it is crazy to me that some of these same issues are still happening today.
I love when a book feels so real that you want to google the people so you can see photos and find out tidbits about them but then you remember this a fiction book.
I enjoyed this so much I have it in 3 forms: paperback, kindle, and audiobook. I recently listened to it and loved it. You can't go wrong with whatever version you decide to read.
Audio book source: Audible Narrator: Rob Shapiro Length: 14H 52M
Okay, let's get the basics down for this story. There are 3 main characters in this story: Layla, Leeds, and Willow. Layla and Leeds meet at Layla'sOkay, let's get the basics down for this story. There are 3 main characters in this story: Layla, Leeds, and Willow. Layla and Leeds meet at Layla's sister's wedding. The attraction between them was instant. From that moment on they became a couple.
Through social media, Leeds ex-girlfriend finds out about this new budding relationship happening between him and Layla. His ex turns into a stalker and comes for the happy couple.
This is where Willow enters the story. She is trying to help Leeds and Layla except Layla isn't aware Willow is trying to help them.
Does the story sound like it's getting messy, yet? That's the thing with CoHo books you have to trust the process. There have been books that I wasn't sure how the loose ends were going to tie up but every time CoHo pulls it off. This was another example of that - I kept telling myself let's see how this all comes together.
I can't go too much more into the storyline because the reader will want the experience of wondering what the heck is happening and how it's going to all workout.
LAYLA is a standalone. One thing I've learned from reading this book and CoHo's other book, Verity, IF the title is a woman's name the reader is in for some craziness. *lol*...more
Reel has two strong women stories in it - one who is from now and one is from the past. The strength of these two women, Neevah &[image] I L♥VED Reel!
Reel has two strong women stories in it - one who is from now and one is from the past. The strength of these two women, Neevah & Dessi, is the heartbeat running throughout the pages. Both women have a story that deserves to be told. Neevah is a stand-in actress who happens to be discovered during one of her fill-in performances and chosen to portray a strong Black woman, Desi, whose story isn’t widely known.
“Do you have any idea how many Dessi Blues there are? Black artists who shaped our culture, made our music, but whose contributions have gone unacknowledge? Their stories just slipped through the cracks. People who, by all rights, should be household names, but nobody knows their names? All they have to show for what they did is a plaque in their hometown or a line on Wikipedia, if that.”
I love that Neevah & Dessi lives, sort of, mirror each other. Even though they are living in different time periods they have a lot of similarities - a forbidden romance, performers, family turmoil, traveling, etc . . .
I did a mixture of reading this book and listening to it. I've been on a listening kick this year and I wanted to make sure I listened to part of this book. I enjoyed both reading and listening to REEL. Reel is 16 hours and 21 minute audiobook.
1. TAYLOR, WHAT DID YOU KNOW ABOUT CONOR PRIOR TO MEETING HIM? ”He’s on thLOVE THIS SERIES!!
THE DATING GAME questions with Conor & Taylor:
1. TAYLOR, WHAT DID YOU KNOW ABOUT CONOR PRIOR TO MEETING HIM? ”He’s on the hockey team and a regular face at the parties on Greek Row. A regular face in the sorority beds on Greek Row, too. But his real claim to fame is being arguably the hottest new guy in the junior class.”
2. WHAT DID YOU THINK OF TAYLOR WHEN YOU FIRST SAW HER? ”She’s like a walking pinup girl.”
3. CONOR, FOR YOUR FAKE RELATIONSHIP HOW’D YOU MAKE IT OFFICIAL? ”Taylor March, will you do me the incredible honor of updating your relationship status [on Facebook] and becoming my fake girlfriend?.”
4. PLEASE TELL US WHAT YOU SAID TO TAYLOR’S MOM WHEN YOU FIRST MET HER. “Nice to meet you, Doctor Mom - I mean Doctor Marsh. F*ck.”
5. TAYLOR, PLEASE SUM UP YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH CONOR. ”Sometimes we make all the wrong decisions, end up in all the wrong places, and still find exactly where we’re supposed to be. Conor’s my happy accident. My wrong place, wrong time, exactly right guy.”
Now you’ve gotten to know a little more about Conor & Taylor. A story about Mr. Popular and the wallflower where a sorority party dare kicks off their fake relationship.
THE DARE is the fourth book in a spin-off series: Briar U. It can be read as a standalone. It's a sports/college romance that revolves around a fake relationship that turns real. Along the way, their past comes to haunt them. Fans of this genre are going to love this book.
How does Ms. Ryan keep bringing the fire to her books?! She creates books that reach down and touch your soul! I’m in awe of the way she is ablWOW!!!
How does Ms. Ryan keep bringing the fire to her books?! She creates books that reach down and touch your soul! I’m in awe of the way she is able to bring so much realism to her characters and situations. I thought at one point I might know what Kimba’s health issue might be because almost all romance books with characters who have similar symptoms seem to turn out a certain way but I was wrong. And after all these years of reading romance, it’s nice to still get surprised by seeing something you don’t normally see in this genre.
“Don’t try to re-write history because the truth is suddenly not as convenient.”
When I saw how messy the Ezra & Kimba’s lives were becoming I wondered how this story was going to play out. Would things just become convenient and they’d ride off into the sunset? Or would these two be faced with hard choices that would leave them to conquer their mountains? Thankfully, these two had to face their issues and get through it which made me love them even more as individuals.
In The Kingmaker we are introduced to Kimba. In that book, I wanted to be Kimba because she was Lennix’s best friend and I so admired Lennix’s tenacity. Now that Kimba has gotten her own book to tell her story it confirmed what I knew back then - I picked a good person to be.
Queen Move is a standalone. If you want to catch more of Kimba prior to this story you can see her in The Kingmaker. Ezra & Kimba’s love story is made up of childhood friendship with a second-chance romance as adults. READ THIS STORY
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2020 has been a strange year and here is another strange thing to add to the weirdness. Last year the writing duo of Christina Lauren seemed to have p2020 has been a strange year and here is another strange thing to add to the weirdness. Last year the writing duo of Christina Lauren seemed to have predicted the real-life break up of a well-known husband/wife team in the book world. When I first started The Honey-Don't List I got the feeling I was reading about this real-life couple who a month ago announced on Instagram they were calling it quits. Like the secondary characters in the book, this couple had built a social media following that afforded them the lifestyle they were living. Through their conferences and book tours, they were able to influence followers on their seemingly perfect marriage. The Honey-Don’t List felt like a glimpse into the behind the scenes of this real-life couple’s life.
Okay, now onto the book … the story is actually about the assistants to the married couple. The married couple started out small and over time grew a large social media following. The fame gets to the couple and the assistants are left mopping up the couple's messes. The reader follows the two assistants and watches the slow burn of their relationship.
The Honey-Don't List is a standalone. If you liked the Netflix movie, Set It Up, then this book is up your alley. Two assistants who overtime realize it’s better to work together than to be enemies with each other. A relationship blossoms as they work around their problematic bosses.
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