On My Wishlist is a weekly event highlighting a book that I really want to read. The book may be 20 years old, or the pub date may not be until next year, but either way I'm excited about it, and hopefully you will be too!
On My Wishlist: February 8th, 2014
On My Wishlist is a weekly event highlighting a book that I really want to read. The book may be 20 years old, or the pub date may not be until next year, but either way I'm excited about it, and hopefully you will be too!
On My Wishlist: February 1, 2014
On My Wishlist is a weekly event highlighting a book that I really want to read. The book may be 20 years old, or the pub date may not be until next year, but either way I'm excited about it, and hopefully you will be too!
Cover Reveal: He Belongs With Me by Sarah Darlington
Pub. Date: March 4th, 2014
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance
Two girls. One Leo. Identical twins, Maggie and Clara Ryder, both grew up with Leo Maddox, billionaire playboy, apparent alcoholic, and heir to his grandfather's world-famous Maddox hotel empire. Their roles were cemented long ago: Maggie, as his best friend and Clara as his childhood nemesis. But when a simple twist of fate changes everything and both girls start to fall for the lean, mean, ridiculously sexy and seemingly spoiled Leo... which girl will win his heart? Throw in a little mischief, drama, and one smoking-hot bartender and lines are sure to blur. But one thing's for certain, neither good-girl Maggie nor rebellious Clara will be satisfied until they each figure out where they belong.
Click inside for a chance to win a copy and for more info from Sarah!
ARC Review: Sweet by Erin McCarthy
Publisher: InterMix
257 pages
ebook (Trade Paperback publishing June 3rd, 2014 by Berkley Trade)
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Jessica Sweet thought going away to
college would finally make her free of her parents’ constant judgments and
insistence she play chastity club role model for their church events, but if
anything, the freedom has made her realize she can’t go home and be a hypocrite
anymore. Tired of dodging their questions, she stays at school over the summer
and lands in an unexpected crash pad: Riley Mann’s house.
Sarcastic, cocky, and full of
opinions, Riley is also sexy personified with tattoos and biceps earned from
working as a roofer all day. Not the right guy for her even if Jessica was
looking for a relationship, which she is definitely not. But Jessica knows that
Riley hides the burden of having to raise his younger brothers behind that grin
and as she helps him get his house in order for a custody hearing, they begin
to fall hard for each other, and she is forced to question what she’s hiding
herself.
Jessica has never had a problem
getting naked with a guy, but when it comes to showing Riley how she truly
feels inside, her fear of rejection may just ruin the best thing—the best
guy—to ever happen to her…
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Some books blow you away with description, others with
dialogue. "Sweet" is definitely a book that blows you away in the dialogue
department.
When I first started reading Sweet, I didn’t realize that it was book two in the True Believers
series. While I don’t think reading the books in order is absolutely necessary,
reading them in order gives you more context about the characters backgrounds,
and a stronger sense of flow from one story to the next. Sweet is one of those novels that grabbed me from the first page
and didn’t let me go until the last. I started reading just before bed, and while
the logical side of my brain told me ‘go to sleep, you have to work in the
morning’, I was so into the story and so in love with the characters that I
couldn’t help but finish the novel in one sitting.
Jessica Sweet’s voice is what drew me in right away. She is one
of the wittiest, funniest, most sarcastic, and completely no nonsense characters
that I have ever read. I connected with her in a way that I don’t connect with
many characters.
On My Wishlist: January 25, 2014
On My Wishlist is a weekly event highlighting a book that I really want to read. The book may be 20 years old, or the pub date may not be until next year, but either way I'm excited about it, and hopefully you will be too!
On My Wishlist: January 17, 2014
On My Wishlist is a weekly event highlighting a book that I really want to read. The book may be 20 years old, or the pub date may not be until next year, but either way I'm excited about it, and hopefully you will be too!
ARC Review: Racing Savannah (Hundred Oaks #4) by Miranda Kenneally
Pub. Date: December 3rd, 2013
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Paperback
304 pages
Synopsis from Goodreads:
They’re from two different worlds.
He lives in the estate house, and
she spends most of her time in the stables helping her father train horses. In
fact, Savannah has always been much more comfortable around horses than boys.
Especially boys like Jack Goodwin—cocky, popular and completely out of her
league. She knows the rules: no mixing between the staff and the Goodwin family.
But Jack has no such boundaries.
With her dream of becoming a horse
jockey, Savannah isn’t exactly one to follow the rules either. She’s not going
to let someone tell her a girl isn’t tough enough to race. Sure, it’s
dangerous. Then again, so is dating Jack…
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There are so many great parts to Racing Savannah. From the humor (especially the character of Rory,
whose script ideas ranged from groan inducing to eyebrow raising), to the
different family dynamics, the ridiculously amazing setting, and the personified
animals, the novel is so full and so fulfilling for readers. All of those
aspects may be great, but seeing a character grow to accept who she is the way
Savannah does, is incomparable in its greatness. Jumping out of her comfort
zone and taking chances turns out to be the best possible thing Savannah could
do. Savannah goes from having insecurities about where she comes from and who
she is, to realizing that she is the one who has set her own bar of
expectations too low. She moves from insecurity to empowerment, and that
journey is invigorating and powerful for the reader.
The one element of Racing
Savannah that I could have done without was, second half of the novel’s Jack.
I know I’m probably alone in this, and that Jack and Savannah’s relationship
will probably have a
On My Wishlist: January 10th, 2014
On My Wishlist is a weekly event highlighting a book that I really want to read. The book may be 20 years old, or the pub date may not be until next year, but either way I'm excited about it, and hopefully you will be too!
On My Wishlist: January 4th 2014
On My Wishlist is a weekly event highlighting a book that I really want to read. The book may be 20 years old, or the pub date may not be until next year, but either way I'm excited about it, and hopefully you will be too!
Books I Read in 2013 (the full list)
160. Collide by Gail McHugh
159. Down to You by M. Leighton
158. Girl With Guitar by Casey Quinn
157. Confessions of a Hostie by Danielle Hugh
156. The Moment We Began by Sarra Cannon
155. Last Hit by Jessica Clare and Jen Frederick
154. The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
153. My Sweetest Escape by Chelsea M. Cameron
152. Where the Stars Still Shine by Trish Doller
151. Crash Into You by Katie McGarry
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