BOOK FEATURE
I’m excited to feature this heartwarming contemporary romance between a MLB baseball player and a pop star. It’s out today, April 1, 2025, and I’ve got not only the official book “blurb”, but an excerpt of the book from the author Berkley Publishing Group.
Continue reading “No Ordinary Love by Myah Ariel”
I can’t believe this is the author’s debut. The story immediately caught my attention and hours flew by as I kept turning the pages. The book is fast paced and is keeping me guessing about who to trust. The book is told from two POVs and I can’t tell if the narrators are unreliable or not. It’s hard to tell who the good and bad guys are. I mean, almost everyone is a pretty awful person in one way or another. Just when I thought the book was about one thing, it took a dark turn into something completely different. I felt like I was being strung along and just when I think I have it figured out, had the rug pulled out from under me. This is what made it a fun book to read and one you should check out.
Continue reading “See How They Fall by Rachel Paris”
Grady is a pro NHL player that sustained a torn rotator cuff while saving a man from drowning. He missed the last 6 games of the season and had surgery, but the recurring nightmares and fear of water are messing with him more than his physical injuries. He returns to his small town of Holden Cove to recover and is matched with one of his childhood friend’s sister, Jill, for a community reading program between his hockey team and her library. She’s off limits, but tell that to the instant chemistry that sparks between the couple.
Continue reading “Slash & Burn (Holden Cove #2) by Maddy Lowe”
3.5 stars rounded up to 4
This is a cute and spicy hockey sports romance between a Valentina, a PR fixer, and Kaden, a bad boy hockey star. Valentia had a messy divorce and has sworn off men. She’s working for her brother-n-law’s PR firm and gets pulled into a meeting with one of the firms clients Kaden, a grumpy bad-boy hockey star that creates chaos wherever he goes and is in immediate need of some good PR. Valentina is assigned to help his image, but because this is a sports rom com, events converge and she’s forced to fake date Kaden to help improve his image. She’s mortified – him, not so much.
Continue reading “Faking the Shot (The Crawford Family Playbook #1) by Kendall Hale”
Last week I missed participating in TBR Beyond Tours book tour for this book because I was in Instagram “jail” (when they don’t let you like/comment/follow), but I’m so happy to finally share this engaging book that is out now. I’m just getting into it, so check back later for my full review. It’s an engaging, fast-paced book with great world building and interesting characters. I’m really enjoying it so far.
Continue reading “Nightweaver (Nightweaver #1) by R.M. Gray”This is a fun and flirty historical fiction romance. Lady Sophie’s father died leaving their estate in financial ruin. Thus far she has put off her debut in society in the hopes that she would marry for love. That dream is squashed when her brother, the new Earl, tells her of their predicament and has her sail to NYC to find a rich husband that will save the family. Sophies widow aunt is her guardian and conspires with a friend in NYC with a rich eligible son to bring the son, Archie, and Sophie together.
Continue reading “The Most Eligible: A New York Society Novel by Meredith Green”
I listened to this book and the narrator did a pretty good job, although I was a bit confused with the accent he used for the male MC. The guy is supposed to be from a fake country that I equate to something like Sweden or Denmark, but the accent the narrator used was more Spanish than Nordic. The narrator sounded like Puss in Boots from the Shrek movies and it was really hard for me to get that image out of my mind. Because of that, the romance and spicy parts of the book were a bit icky.
Continue reading “The Princess Trap by Talia Hibbert”
This was a fun, entertaining mystery/thriller. The book is told from two POVs, Shelby the main female character and Florence, the elderly lady residing in the assisted living facility that Shelby runs. The book starts out with Shelby interrupting a burglary at her best friend Mack’s business. The burglar locks Shelby in the freezer and she almost dies. On the same night, Mack’s husband Leo disappears. The book then moves forward a year. Leo’s disappearance is still a mystery and Mack discovered that Leo was cooking the books and the family is in serious debt. Things kick off when Shelby finds a threatening note on her car after leaving work at the assisted living facility for the day.
Continue reading “Nothing Ever Happens Here by Seraphina Nova Glass”
I requested this book from NetGalley because the premise of the book sounded so good. Bryony, an aspiring writer attends a writers conference hoping to find an agent to help her publish a book to help her grandfather’s financially-struggling organization where she teaches ESL full-time. She’s turned down by everyone. After having a terrible interview with Jack, an arrogant agent, he asks her to review another author’s work. She gives a spot-on assessment of the work and he offers her the opportunity to ghost-write a popular rom-com author’s next book. In exchange, he’ll help her find a publisher for her book. The book then takes a time leap and we find that Bryony has ghost-written several successful books but wants out.
Continue reading “The Perfect Rom-Com by Melissa Ferguson”
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