Title: A Season for Scandal Author: Golden Angel Release Date: August 19th, 2021 Page Count: 260 Format: Audiobook Start Date: August 12tn 2023 Finish Date: August 26th, 2023
Rating: 5 Stars
Review:
I was really enjoying this book when I hit a wall. Then I had to set it down. I knew that if I had read any more that I’d fall into a rut and force myself to finish the book. I want to stress that this is NOT because the book is bad. It’s because the reading mood gremlin came to visit. I couldn’t get into a romance novel no matter how hard I tried. Luckily, after reading a couple of other genres, I feel like I had a reset.
This is a spicy novel, but there’s a lot more to it than that. One of which is literally written into the title. Scandal, and lots of it. There’s also some mystery and intrigue. The book starts out by Josie getting a note to meet somebody out in the garden. Once she gets there, something happened that she was not expecting at all. Something that put her reputation in serious jeopardy.
I love the fact that even though there’s a bit of a miscommunication trope in here, it’s not overly cringy. It makes me realize that it’s not the trope itself that I don’t like. It’s the overexaggerating of it that grates on my nerves. This author does a really great job at keeping your engagement from page one to the very end. Things happen at a certain pace that just makes the story flow that much better!
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They are doing photos on the app to support organizations. I’m not sure if they are adding more, but so far they have Meals on Weals and Make a Wish. It really hit my heart and I just had to color and display some of the photos that I’ve colored from them. I’ve also really enjoyed reading the little pieces that come with each photo. I love the Happy Color app!
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The latest novel in the Flying Panthers MC series is out today! Get Knuckles by Lottie Berki!
Knuckles (Flying Panthers MC #3)Publication Date: August 30, 2023
Genre: MC Romance
Unspoken love will always shout the loudest… But what if it’s too late for its voice to be heard?
Despite looking tough on the outside, The Flying Panthers’ road captain, Knuckles, has a big heart and longs to find ‘the one’… a longing so strong that it’s kept him from ever having a serious relationship.
There’s someone on his mind, but he’s terrified of losing her as a friend if he tries to make it anything more.
Mel owns the new bakery and coffee shop in town, and Knuckles has been helping her with protection against the trouble brewing in the street outside… He’s falling for her fast, and she has a crush on him too – but neither of them is ever going to say anything for fear of it not working out.
When Mel gets a new boyfriend, Knuckles finally owns up to his feelings… But it seems it’s too late… and what’s more, her boyfriend is a cop… one with his sights set on The Flying Panthers.
Mel is fiercely loyal, and there’s no way she’d keep something like this from Knuckles, but as soon as she tells him about the cop’s plans, things go from bad to worse. She’s isolated and alone… and in far more danger than she realizes.
This is Knuckles’ opportunity to show her what he’s made of… Mel longs for someone to fight for her, and she needs that now more than ever. But is there too much at stake for Knuckles to tell her how deeply he truly feels… and will Mel have enough trust left in her to brave another romance?
This thrilling friends-to-lovers story is a tale of love, loyalty, and passion. Rich with injustice and peril, it will leave you on the edge of your seat as you root for Knuckles and Mel to find the love they truly deserve.
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Title: Anywhere You Run Author: Wanda M. Morris Release Date: October 25th, 2022 Page Count: 396 Format: Audiobook Start Date: August 22nd, 2023 Finish Date: August 26th, 2023
Rating: 5 Stars
Review:
This book. It is so deep and thought provoking. It’s written by a POC about POC issues. I don’t think anybody else could have portrayed the story better if I’m being honest. It’s raw. It’s deep. It’s emotional. It’s told by multiple points of view. Each of them going through their own problems. I really felt so much for most of the characters in this book.
There are many issues that I can’t speak about. It’s not my history to speak about. I can say that I see it and understand it. I have never and will never turn a blind eye to that kind of thing. I will always use my voice against things that happen in that regards. I will leave it at that.
There are many aspects in this book that are dark. Besides the obvious aspects of racism that should always be shown in a realistic light. There’s also violence and mental instability. There’s something that happens in the book that also might be triggering. However, stating it in the review might be a spoiler.
The messages in this book are powerful. If I had been reading along as I listened, I would have quotes to share in this review. There were so many passages in this book that really impacted me greatly. Maybe one day I will reread the book so that I can pull the quotes that meant something to me. I’m glad that I had a chance to read this book. I’m glad that the person who runs my book club chose this as the book to read this month!
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I read this book for our local book club. I had never heard of it before. I’m really glad that we chose to read it. It was a really good book that I enjoyed very much. I feel like I learned so much about an event that I’d never heard about before. I also feel like I see Savannah in a new light. The next time I go there, I will be looking for the statue referenced in this book. I really recommend this book. It’s packed with so much emotions and history. It’s rich with intensity and thought-provoking passages.
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Happy publication day to Beka Westrup and congratulations on the release of The Seldom Wings!
The Seldom Wings (Winged Spirits Series Book 1)Publication Date: August 29, 2023
Genre: Adult Dark Fantasy
🔥 A Morally Gray FMC
🔥 Pansexual Rep
🔥 Witcher Vibes
🔥 Unbreakable Promises
🔥 Spice
🔥 Wings
🔥 Sleeping with the Enemy
🔥 Action/ Adventure
For years, Sia’s hidden herself in the gnashing forest, dodging her father’s bounty hunters and ignoring the nameless magic in her veins. When she receives a letter from an estranged lover, she returns to the coast she used to call home, within reach of her father’s magical city hovering above the smog and the arranged marriage waiting for her. This place is not somewhere Sia wishes to linger—the land is noxious and filled with rebels, witches, and other humans who become walking corpses when they die. What was intended to be a brief visit turns into a death-bed promise anchoring Sia to Gwaith House for the foreseeable future. She agrees to look after her first love’s human child until her widower proves he can care for his daughter himself.
The thing with promises is: Sia can’t break them. No seraph can. At least, not without severe consequences.
While navigating the complex feelings she develops for the angry widower and her own grief, Sia becomes entangled in a mysterious string of dismembered corpses roaming the smog and a strange detective who refuses to leave her alone. As the desperate undead draw closer and closer to the child she is sworn to protect, Sia races to find the murderer responsible for creating them. She needs to figure it out quickly, or she may risk falling right back into her father’s scorching hands.
Excerpt
“It’s you,” he said in a mighty exhale. “You really are hiding down here in the smog, fraternizing with humans.”
My heart bottomed out. “Where I go and what I do is none of your business.”
His lips curled in wry amusement. “Isn’t it?”
Everything inside me went cold. He knew who I was. Reluctantly, I asked, “What exactly were you doing down here when you were captured?”
The seraph’s head tilted, the slow consideration of a predator.
“What do you think, Princess?” He rolled his shoulders and flashed his teeth, a lazy show of aggression. “I was collecting a bounty.”
I put the box between us as he prowled forward, raising my dagger in warning.
“Where do you think you’re going?” His eyes followed my every step. “You know you can’t outrun me, not with your pretty golden wings put away.”
Beka Westrup is a genre-hopping author of fantasy and romance. The Seldom Wings is her second full-length novel. She lives in the PNW with her husband and two children, collecting more books than she’ll ever be able to read and drinking copious amounts of iced coffee.
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Welcome to the book tour for The Five Watches, a time-travel adventure by John R. York!
The Five Watches
Expected Publication Date: August 15, 2023
Genre: Time Travel/ Adventure/ Spec Fiction
What might happen if a handful of people living in different eras became entangled in time, some intentionally and some accidentally? The nineteenth-century scientist, Dr. Wilhelm Gussen, is passionate about improving the welfare of mankind, and so he begins a journey through time in a quest to learn about future advances in epidemiology. Physicist Emory Lynch, from the twenty-seventh century, studies an old pocket watch, said to be a time travel device, and accidently stumbles into the twenty-first century. In 2019, Jim Zimmerman, the de facto neighborhood go-to guy, finds himself caught in the middle of a clandestine, future conspiracy. True to his character, he becomes inextricably involved in future affairs that involve saving humanity from itself-dragging his wife and a few neighbors along for the ride. Thus, begins a time travel adventure that examines the stubborn predictability of human behavior and how some things, even over time, never seem to change.
John York has been writing and publishing thought provoking novels since 2016, but he’s always been a storyteller, even as a kid in Central Ohio where he grew up. His life experiences provided him with a wealth of adventurous tales to share with others and resulted in his debut work, Wolf’s Tale. According to John, all his intriguing stories of unusual people, places, and events come to him in dreams. His heroes and heroines are always ordinary people who rise up to accomplish extraordinary things.
He currently lives with his wife, Paula, in New Port Richey, Florida, in a house they call “the swamp castle”.
Welcome to the book tour for Bob Roger’s novel, Two Rivers. Read on for more details!
Two Rivers: De Trouble I Be See Publication Date: June 10, 2023 Genre: Historical Fiction/ Americana/ Southern Gothic
July 1854, Colleton District, South Carolina A half-dozen years before Abe Lincoln’s inauguration, comes another collision between European immigrants and African abductees that does not end well. By 1854, the Tiffany family had enslaved over 300 Africans for more than a century on the 1,100-acre slave labor camp that they called the Tiffany Plantation. The Tiffanys were the largest rice producer in South Carolina’s Colleton District. While the toil of enslaved Africans earned untold riches for the Tiffanys, the Africans endured violence inflicted to force increased rice production and profits followed by the indignity of the bodies of loved ones being stolen from their graves and delivered to a medical school. Determined to put a stop to robberies of African graves was Posey, an eighty-four-year-old man whose ancestors came from the shores of the Bigh of Biafra, now known as Nigeria. It was Posey’s expert river-irrigation skills that made Tiffany crops successful. More conflict arose when James, the new general manager at Tiffany, realized that Posey’s expertise would be essential for the success of a plantation he planned to gain with ill-gotten money and slave mortgage-backed securities. All the while, the widow Ella, an enslaved nurse-midwife, sought to realize her dream of marrying widower Posey. Matters grew worse when Posey thwarted James’ first attempt to force his attention on Penny, a comely young enslaved wife and mother. Rich with history and a cast of unforgettable characters, Two Rivers is a sweeping saga of two peoples, European immigrants and African abductees. Together, they experience courtships, infanticide, homicide, rape, rebellions, revenge, sabotage, storms, high-stakes gambling, grave-robbing, counterfeiting, and more. “De troubles Posey be sees” in Two Rivers reminds one of Southern Gothic storytelling
BobRogers is the author of the historical novels FirstDarkand TheLacedChameleon, which earned critical acclaim from Kirkus Reviews, San Francisco Review, and Baltimore Examiner. Bob is a meticulous researcher, known to spend extra time, magnifying glass in hand, deciphering 18th and 19th century handwriting for “just the facts, ma’am.” Bob, a former U.S. Army captain and combat leader during the Vietnam War in Troop A, 1/10 Cavalry, finds his topographic map experiences useful in field research. If not closeted in libraries or museums, you are likely to find him walking centuries old rice fields, battlefields, or in a canoe following the river trails of his characters. He is a member of the Organization of American Historians and his favorite places to write include his studio, parks, beaches, airplanes, and libraries. During and after his thirty-three-year sojourn at IBM, Bob created and taught gratis computer classes for under-employed youth (Norfolk, Virginia) and senior citizens (Charlotte, North Carolina) caught on the wrong side of the digital divide. When not making desserts for neighbors, we see him frequently at baseball games and concerts of the symphony. Bob tends his flowers, okra, and tomato plants in Mérida, Yucatán, México. Visit him at https://bobrogers.biz and see his other books, what he’s up to next, subscribe to his monthly newsletter, and get links to free eBooks by other authors. His Alma Mater is South Carolina State University, and he studied creative writing at the University of Maryland.
Title: Keep it in the Family Author: John Marrs Release Date: October 18th, 2022 Page Count: 380 Format: Audiobook Start Date: August 21st, 2023 Finish Date: August 25th, 2023
Rating: 5 Stars
Review:
Where do I even begin? I am giving this a full star rating. Mainly because of how absolutely disturbing the book is. I want to say before I even begin the review that this book has many triggers. It’s not for people who find it hard to cope with traumatic events. Especially those involving things happening to children. I’m not going to say much more than that.
This book was basically a Criminal Minds written without the FBI’s point of view in my opinion. I can’t even begin to explain why I say that. I couldn’t even begin to explain what this book made me feel. I think I’m going to need to process this book for quite a while. I didn’t even begin to try to predict things.
There were parts that absolutely horrified me and made me sick. I guess that’s the whole point of the book though if we’re being honest. I mean this book has many mentally unstable people. I’m not sure if anybody in this book was completely stable if I’m being honest. I was a little sensitive to the things that were happening throughout the book. I pushed through anyway. I wanted to find out what happened and why.
I think one of the biggest things I couldn’t stand was how Mia was talked down to. It gave me major Girl on the Train vibes in that regard. I’m not saying that the two books are alike. I’m just saying that the way she was treated was like that. I can’t even begin to think of anything that this book reminds me of. My closest comparison is the Criminal Minds one I made earlier. I did enjoy it very much. I will be reading other books by this author.
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She loves writing contemporary steamy romance that you make you feel so many different emotions throughout her books!
She loves to go for long walks on the beach or the woods, she finds that fresh air gives her a great inspiration. Also loved to sit and watch people pass by and visit different places and go back home and create beautiful steamy romances!
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