tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34078071021473436682024-03-14T09:13:43.929-05:00The Lovely BooksA place for all book lovers...The Lovely Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13869305852924891698noreply@blogger.comBlogger1236125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407807102147343668.post-51309346248720154212022-07-15T07:00:00.001-05:002022-07-19T12:13:54.270-05:00Review-We Made It All Up by Margot Harrison<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8jZcic9oK5sW5rG2n-Vaeui78DbAG_lBBV8bi0UEsajPn1XQkf4NDqNN7L_UZD1hOA21raEr4c_MipEa8jkvxTnd9vPV1uSRB32Wiwg6oJsrunNH5r5yUeHqVBY_X2YSfz9VUB-OmItw_cvA8iwxQVoukCkKXCxqCIFMLzMjDBxmFGt1hUs2m4C6q/s1240/41307E7C-3DE8-4A36-A996-5314AA523C26.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1240" data-original-width="828" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8jZcic9oK5sW5rG2n-Vaeui78DbAG_lBBV8bi0UEsajPn1XQkf4NDqNN7L_UZD1hOA21raEr4c_MipEa8jkvxTnd9vPV1uSRB32Wiwg6oJsrunNH5r5yUeHqVBY_X2YSfz9VUB-OmItw_cvA8iwxQVoukCkKXCxqCIFMLzMjDBxmFGt1hUs2m4C6q/s320/41307E7C-3DE8-4A36-A996-5314AA523C26.jpeg" width="214" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Published: July 12, 2022</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Genre: YA Mystery</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: Print ARC</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Rating: 3 stars</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">See what reviewers are saying <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58885069-we-made-it-all-up?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=1EHbnuQX6Q&rank=1" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</div><p></p><p>Blurb:</p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">Celeste is the talk of the town when she moves to Montana from Montreal, but the only friend she makes is Vivvy, the heir to the town’s name and a social pariah. Inspired by a passion-fueled school incident, they begin writing a love-story fan fic between the popular guy and the school stoner, one that gradually reveals Celeste’s past. While their bond makes Celeste feel safe and alive again, Vivvy keeps prodding Celeste to turn fantasy into reality. When they finally try, one drunken night on a dark mountainside, Celeste is the one who ends up kissing golden boy Joss. And Joss ends up dead.</span></p><p><span id="freeText13053613923629776493" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><br />Celeste doesn’t remember the end of that night and can’t be sure she didn’t deliver the killing blow. Could she still be that scared of getting close to a boy? Secrets are hard to keep in a small town, and even Vivvy seems to suspect her. Exploring the winding passages of the cave where Joss died, Celeste learns he had his own dark secrets, as does Vivvy. The town isn’t as innocent as it appears.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span></p><p><b><u>Review</u></b>:</p><p>We Made It All Up is a story told in past and present about a night where the town’s golden boy, Joss, turns up dead. The main character, Celeste, is in the thicket of the tragedy but she doesn’t remember one thing from what happened that night. Yea thought they premise of the story was pretty cool. Especially when Celeste and Vivvy had their whole fanfic arc that involved Joss. </p><p><br /></p><p>This was a fast and easy mystery read. If you’re looking for something that will keep you entertained until the very end, this one is the perfect summer read. The characters were all interesting and I really wanted to get to the end to see their motivations. Overall, I thought this was fun! I can’t wait to read more from the author. </p><p>*Thank you to the publisher for providing a free copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. </p><p>Buy:</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/We-Made-All-Margot-Harrison/dp/031627576X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=OFRV30LLHL05&keywords=we+made+it+all+up+margot+harrison&qid=1658250671&sprefix=we+made+it+all+%2Caps%2C1532&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon US</a></p><p>About the Author:</p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Margot Harrison was raised in the wilds of New York by lovely, nonviolent parents who somehow never managed to prevent her from staying up late to read scary books. She now works at an alt-weekly newspaper in Vermont, where her favorite part of the job is, of course, reviewing scary books and movies.</span></p>The Lovely Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13869305852924891698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407807102147343668.post-82422926846644669922022-06-14T12:59:00.001-05:002022-06-14T12:59:00.151-05:00Review: Sometime in Summer by Katrina Leno<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgUeu4uYz43zdc-XvHx3a_bJNSVrs7KHYhoZMz_yE8RiSU9_rBf3qWJhIhN0h33Pcz3NQjJN68JQBJ9gATJUmmPpeaSfCQSVyPafN0c2BFK0mFY4lcQD-DjMSMKLF70iRXfHbYEz-ExA48nIBkVNHc2PGfWJW0gk9f5KLMYIuP2qsqfTgqNFRxN99-/s400/58783422.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgUeu4uYz43zdc-XvHx3a_bJNSVrs7KHYhoZMz_yE8RiSU9_rBf3qWJhIhN0h33Pcz3NQjJN68JQBJ9gATJUmmPpeaSfCQSVyPafN0c2BFK0mFY4lcQD-DjMSMKLF70iRXfHbYEz-ExA48nIBkVNHc2PGfWJW0gk9f5KLMYIuP2qsqfTgqNFRxN99-/s320/58783422.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u>Published</u>: June 28, 2022</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u>Publisher</u>: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u>Genre</u>: Contemporary Young Adult</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u>Source</u>: Print ARC</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u>Rating</u>: 4 stars</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">See what all the readers are saying <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58783422-sometime-in-summer?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=R3wURuE0O0&rank=1" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Blurb:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">From critically acclaimed author Katrina Leno comes a tender love letter to books and summertime, with a touch of magic.</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Anna Lucia Bell believes in luck: </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">bad </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">luck. Bad luck made her best friend stop talking to her. Bad luck caused her parents’ divorce. Bad luck is forcing her mother, Miriam, to sell the family’s beloved bookstore. And it is </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">definitely</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> bad luck that Anna seems to be the only person in the world Miriam is unable to recommend a life-changing book.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">When Anna finds out that she and her mom are spending two months in a New England seaside town called Rockport, she expects a summer plagued with bad luck too. But Rockport has surprises in store for Anna, including a comet making its first appearance in over twenty years and two new—but familiar—friends.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">In what will prove to be the most important summer of her life so far, Anna learns about love, herself, and the magic that an ordinary summer can bring.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Review:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Sometime in Summer</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> is a beautiful coming-of-age story about a girl who believes in luck. At the moment when the book first starts, she’s convinced she has all the bad luck. First, her parents are divorcing, she and her best friend aren’t on speaking terms, and the family bookstore is going to be sold. Yes, I would say that sounds like a lot of bad luck!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">When Anna and her mother go to Rockport for the summer, I had no idea what to expect. But magic wasn’t it! That was a pleasant surprise. The whole ordeal involving Anna and the two people she befriends was the coolest thing. I love how the story is about fate. Sometimes things happen just the way they’re supposed to. And sometimes things happen and we have no control over it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Anna is amazing and real. So many times I read about teenagers that are unrealistic. Anna is perfectly unperfect in the most beautiful ways. She grows in so many ways. The secondary characters were great to read about as well. Overall, I loved this book and the wonderful message it sent to us.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">*Thank you to the publisher for providing a free copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Buy the book:</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316194514/ref=x_gr_w_bb_sin?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_sin-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0316194514&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2" target="_blank"><b>Amazon US</b></a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sometime-Summer-Katrina-Leno-ebook/dp/B09HSHS37Q/ref=sr_1_1?crid=21SER5ZT4LXCD&keywords=sometime+in+summer&qid=1652466212&sprefix=sometime+in+summe%2Caps%2C178&sr=8-1" target="_blank"><b>Amazon UK</b></a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/sometime-in-summer" target="_blank"><b>Kobo</b></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY-6p0RdVyzOsdOD8aVpHoY7cA8S3guViOMkzbB43p0WX60w6AYd0QJl6j9Cc7e6qBo__kcSChEMOEobxUBlR537XGelJ2IGXKPXuOzTwzOVaWTIAaVwQuIrOvZ7AB2OP-b-_IweJoyACe5rLSSVXQKaegTclHfp5vWtyi-CNrR10CmqaM6gi1_HrQ/s450/6549397.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY-6p0RdVyzOsdOD8aVpHoY7cA8S3guViOMkzbB43p0WX60w6AYd0QJl6j9Cc7e6qBo__kcSChEMOEobxUBlR537XGelJ2IGXKPXuOzTwzOVaWTIAaVwQuIrOvZ7AB2OP-b-_IweJoyACe5rLSSVXQKaegTclHfp5vWtyi-CNrR10CmqaM6gi1_HrQ/s320/6549397.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">About the Author:</span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Katrina Leno was born on the East Coast and currently lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of six critically acclaimed novels - Horrid, You Must Not Miss, Summer of Salt, Everything All at Once, The Lost & Found, and The Half Life of Molly Pierce.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://katrinaleno.com">katrinaleno.com</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://instagram.com/k">instagram.com/k</a><a href="http://instagram.com/katrinalenobooks">atrinalenobooks</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://twitter.com/katrinaleno">twitter.com/katrinaleno</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://facebook.com/katrinalenobooks">facebook.com/katrinalenobooks</a></span></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><br /><p></p>The Lovely Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13869305852924891698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407807102147343668.post-74262415726684615532022-05-26T07:00:00.003-05:002022-05-26T07:00:00.156-05:00Review-Love Radio by Ebony LaDelle<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-XB2CuWg1V_quGPmxiqlj_wZky72Ze4cLKi7f0r5LOm6s80xoiTbH8WcIFf4xrWEW5qAJ2wyfpLtlOLYwLSf6wW4IUTMNd9CpGNx8lVel4I_EIXmcF4cTs8vBvHkHOaraLIOmTIQHrlOq4ofC2JS4qvwqhK9uuSj4P2Rk6wT588-pJpAr6chDY7Ta/s2121/59042752.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2121" data-original-width="1400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-XB2CuWg1V_quGPmxiqlj_wZky72Ze4cLKi7f0r5LOm6s80xoiTbH8WcIFf4xrWEW5qAJ2wyfpLtlOLYwLSf6wW4IUTMNd9CpGNx8lVel4I_EIXmcF4cTs8vBvHkHOaraLIOmTIQHrlOq4ofC2JS4qvwqhK9uuSj4P2Rk6wT588-pJpAr6chDY7Ta/s320/59042752.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Publisher: Simon and Shuster for Young Readers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Published: May 31, 2022</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Genre: YA Romance</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: Print ARC</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Rating: 5 stars</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">See what other readers are saying <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59042752-love-radio?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=if1SBedAmd&rank=1" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Blurb:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600; text-align: start;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hitch</span> </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">meets </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Sun Is Also a Star</span> </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">in this witty and romantic teen novel about a self-professed teen love doctor with a popular radio segment who believes he can get a girl who hates all things romance to fall in love with him in only three dates.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Prince Jones is the guy with all the answers—or so it seems. After all, at seventeen, he has his own segment on Detroit’s popular hip-hop show, </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Love Radio</i><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">, where he dishes out advice to the brokenhearted.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Prince has always dreamed of becoming a DJ and falling in love. But being the main caretaker for his mother, who has multiple sclerosis, and his little brother means his dreams will stay just that and the only romances in his life are the ones he hears about from his listeners.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Until he meets Dani Ford.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Dani isn’t checking for anybody. She’s focused on her plan: ace senior year, score a scholarship, and move to New York City to become a famous author. But her college essay keeps tripping her up and acknowledging what’s blocking her means dealing with what happened at that party a few months ago.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">And that’s one thing Dani can’t do.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">When the romantic DJ meets the ambitious writer, sparks fly. Prince is smitten, but Dani’s not looking to get derailed. She gives Prince just three dates to convince her that he’s worth falling for.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Three dates for the love expert to take his own advice, and just maybe change two lives forever.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><span face="Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><b>Review:</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><span face="Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><span style="background-color: white;">Wow. This was amazing. Love Radio is everything I love in YA romance. It had a swoony hero and the heroine was the perfect blend of vulnerable and strong. Prince Jones is the love expert on a radio show and he's only in high school! He gives love advice to those who need it. He's also charming and good. Dani is a little more closed off and at times a little judgmental. But is quickly put in her place when she makes the wrong assumption to Prince!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><span face="Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><span face="Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><span style="background-color: white;">The story is more than just a light romance. It dealt with a heavy subject matter that I feel was handled realistically. It made me sad and I could see why Dani was the way she was. Which was standoffish and too herself. Then Prince came around and opened everything up. He was so amazing!! I need more books like this in my life.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><span face="Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><span face="Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><span style="background-color: white;">I thought this was one of the best written this year and hope you pick up your copy from a local bookstore. It's romantic and real, and also has amazing characters that will embed themselves into your heart. So cheesy, but true!!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><span face="Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><span face="Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><span style="background-color: white;">*Thank you to the publisher for providing a free copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><span face="Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><span face="Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><b>About the Author:</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><span face="Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Ebony LaDelle is a marketing pusher by day, storyteller by night. Born in Michigan, awoken at Howard University, and cultivated in Brooklyn, Ebony can usually be found searching for her next live concert, scouting out the latest food craze to try, or being the undisputed Mom Friend of any group. She cohosted Why Not YA?, a @Belletrist and @EpicReads monthly video series where she interviewed authors in the young adult space. You can visit her online at EbonyLaDelle.com and follow her on social @EbonyLaDelle.</span></span></span></div><div><span face="Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><span face="Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><span face="Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><b>Buy links:</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><span face="Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Love-Radio-Ebony-LaDelle-ebook/dp/B09GPXP8R9/ref=sr_1_1?crid=A1NZ5619ZAVJ&keywords=love+radio&qid=1650333954&s=digital-text&sprefix=lo%2Cdigital-text%2C1588&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Amazon US</a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><span face="Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Radio-Ebony-LaDelle-ebook/dp/B09P1DYXFY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1650333996&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon UK</a></span></span></div><br /> <p></p>The Lovely Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13869305852924891698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407807102147343668.post-86736235261412790582022-05-25T09:00:00.006-05:002022-05-28T19:36:32.030-05:00Review-A Callahan Wedding by Monica Murphy (The Callahans, #7)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk-s2Ftpya6PPIRuxJW7TbieXRJP2OM7GRr8A0uDUUH9GWfwHbMVW6vj3NxHghrhe2hWtOjKJGx4Mx5dHiIakzE1RfBbfrQnV-xPMEiZW_SHw-K-hY8C3XPFKuSuvN49WbxmLdiU0PJBDfUzyFn8nEXSYF_Z3B5bL7CY-9wydwu6F9P_kSlUUsKCrP/s475/59363186._SY475_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="317" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk-s2Ftpya6PPIRuxJW7TbieXRJP2OM7GRr8A0uDUUH9GWfwHbMVW6vj3NxHghrhe2hWtOjKJGx4Mx5dHiIakzE1RfBbfrQnV-xPMEiZW_SHw-K-hY8C3XPFKuSuvN49WbxmLdiU0PJBDfUzyFn8nEXSYF_Z3B5bL7CY-9wydwu6F9P_kSlUUsKCrP/s320/59363186._SY475_.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Published: May 26, 2022</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Publisher: EM Publishing</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Genre: Romance</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: E-ARC</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Rating: 4 stars</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">See what other readers are saying about it <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59363186-a-callahan-wedding?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=BieG7uu6f1&rank=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u><b>Blurb</b></u>:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="col-md-8" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;"><div class="book-page-info" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="book-info-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="expandable-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="expandable-text-description description " style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="expandable-text-rendered" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box;">From</span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> New York Times</span><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> bestselling author Monica Murphy comes the conclusion to the Callahan series…</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">There is nothing quite like your first love. And no one knows this better than NFL quarterback Jake Callahan. After being with his high school sweetheart for years, he is finally going to make Hannah his wife.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Their wedding plans start out small. Intimate. A special ceremony with just their family and closest friends. Soon enough though, things get out of control. The guest list is huge. The planned reception, flashy. Jake is miserable. Hannah is overwhelmed. So they send an exclusive invitation to the ones that matter to them the most: pack your bags.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">You’re invited to our destination wedding.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Catch up with the Callahan family and their friends from the College Years series in this sexy, fun novella!</span></p></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u><b>Review</b></u>:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">So many times I read and fall in love with so many characters. But they have nothing on the Callahans and everyone in their life. It was nice to be back with Jake and Hannah. There’s just something about Hannah that I’ve always loved. She’s low maintenance and the perfect girl for Jake. Such a lucky man! It was also amazing being back with our beloved characters. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Always happy to see my boy Eli haha! He’s been my favorite since he was first introduced. I’m glad Hannah and Jake decided to get married the way they did. It fit them perfectly. Overall, this was a fast, sweet read. I will forever read books with thr Callahans!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">*Thank you to the author for providing a copy for an honest and unbiased review. All thoughts and opinions are subjective but my own. </span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Buy the book:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09JL73BNT/ref=x_gr_w_glide_sin?caller=Goodreads&callerLink=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fbook%2Fshow%2F59363186-a-callahan-wedding%3Ffrom_search%3Dtrue%26from_srp%3Dtrue%26qid%3DBieG7uu6f1%26rank%3D1&tag=x_gr_w_glide_sin-20" target="_blank"><b>Amazon US</b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Callahan-Wedding-Callahans-Book-ebook/dp/B09JL73BNT/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=a+callahan+wedding&qid=1652451318&sprefix=the+callahan+weds%2Caps%2C161&sr=8-1" target="_blank"><b>Amazon UK</b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u><b>About the Author</b></u>:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author. 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One moment I’m the forgotten daughter of one of the most wealthy families in the country, and the next I’m the blushing bride in an arranged marriage. My fate is sealed in my wedded union with a complete stranger.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">In public, Perry Constantine is the life of the party. Easygoing. Adored. In private, he’s brooding. Dark. Angry. But so am I. It’s a contest of wills to see who will break in the bedroom first, and while I try to remain strong, I find myself craving the very man I swore to hate.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">My husband.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Review:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In. Love! <i>The Reluctant Bride</i> is a sexy and sweet romance between two equally amazing characters. To think that no one could hold a place in my heart after reading about Crew Lancaster! Well Perry Constantine has given him a run for his money. That being said, for those of you who don't know this story is about Charlotte Lancaster. The only girl in a band of brothers. She's also broken and alone. What I thought was pretty cool is that the Constantine and Morelli families aren't new; but they're knew to me since I haven't read their stories. Something I hope to rectify soon! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Perry Constantine is the happy go lucky mama's boy. He always says yes to her... Of course that changes when he's told he would be marrying Charlotte Lancaster. Something he does NOT want to do. But ends up doing his civic duty to his family. Once he and Charlotte meet, the sparks fly. They're flirty banter is only the tip of the iceberg. The two quickly realize they may need each other more than they know.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The book ends on a bit of a cliffhanger but I'm cool with it. I can't wait to see what happens next and get more of Perry and Charlotte. I also hope to get started on all of the books with the other characters that are in the series. So many books, so little time! I'm going to have a fun few weeks reading and catching up until the next book comes out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">*Thank you to the author for providing a free copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">About the Author:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author. A believer in kissing. A believer of love.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I also write contemporary romance as USA Today bestselling author Karen Erickson.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Sign up for my newsletter: </span><a href="https://monicamurphyauthor.com/subscribe" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px;" target="_blank">https://monicamurphyauthor.com/subscribe</a><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Hang out with me on Instagram:</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><a href="https://instagram.com/monicamurphyauthor" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; outline: 0px;" target="_blank">https://instagram.com/monicamurphyauthor</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Buy links:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Reluctant-Bride-Monica-Murphy-ebook/dp/B09FHDZ9F6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=6SS54C5834MU&keywords=the+reluctant+bride+monica+murphy&qid=1650328585&sprefix=the+reluctant+%2Caps%2C1211&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon US</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reluctant-Bride-Monica-Murphy-ebook/dp/B09FHDZ9F6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=29C4Z9C0DJDQA&keywords=the+reluctant+bride&qid=1650328563&sprefix=the+re%2Caps%2C2590&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon UK</a></div><br /> <p></p>The Lovely Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13869305852924891698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407807102147343668.post-86841085752546820262022-04-18T07:00:00.008-05:002022-04-18T19:04:07.492-05:00Review-Gone Dark by Amanda Panitch<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5RDxlBmVjbuootGKULqGXh5jneaYEvCqENjEQ91uWzzwF1gyQJUJrJLk8mlhjfdfwtz-ttG2TZFoIyudhu7sPoGLGAXRar80LW2O_8VtQ22W9SCuiHqm8BLuWRAVDFKXy1qRkbjjG1zM5HKNnD_0_UJK4sSh7xIVtwDcgYL-wAjdD8A_cBTuuTJBt/s2114/58437726.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2114" data-original-width="1399" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5RDxlBmVjbuootGKULqGXh5jneaYEvCqENjEQ91uWzzwF1gyQJUJrJLk8mlhjfdfwtz-ttG2TZFoIyudhu7sPoGLGAXRar80LW2O_8VtQ22W9SCuiHqm8BLuWRAVDFKXy1qRkbjjG1zM5HKNnD_0_UJK4sSh7xIVtwDcgYL-wAjdD8A_cBTuuTJBt/s320/58437726.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Published: April 12, 2022</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Genre: YA Thriller</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: Print ARC</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Stars: 4.5 Stars</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">See what readers are saying about it<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58437726-gone-dark?ref=nav_sb_ss_5_9" target="_blank"> HERE</a>!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Blurb:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600; text-align: start;">Dry</i><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600; text-align: start;"> </span><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600; text-align: start;">meets</span><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600; text-align: start;"> </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600; text-align: start;">Hatchet</i><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600; text-align: start;"> </span><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600; text-align: start;">in this thrilling tale of survival following a teen girl who must lead her friends across country to the safety of her estranged father’s survivalist compound after a mass power failure leaves the country in chaos.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><br /></span></div><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: left;">When seventeen-year-old Zara escaped her father’s backwoods survivalist compound five years ago, she traded crossbows and skinning hides for electricity and video games…and tried to forget the tragedy that drove her away.</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><br /></span></div><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: left;">Until a malware attack on the United States electrical grids cuts off the entire country’s power.</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><br /></span></div><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: left;">In the wake of the disaster and the chaos that ensues, Zara is forced to call upon skills she thought she’d never use again—and her best bet to survive is to go back to the home she left behind. Drawing upon a resilience she didn’t know she had, Zara leads a growing group of friends on an epic journey across a crumbling country back to her father’s compound, where their only hope for salvation lies.</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1e1915;"><br /></span></div><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: left;">But with every step she takes, Zara wonders if she truly has what it takes to face her father and the secrets of her past, or if she’d be better off hiding in the dark.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Review:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Gone Dark was a cool book to read. From the very beginning I just knew that it would be right up my alley. I always like to think about the "what-ifs" in life. Like what would happen if the world took a dark turn and the apocalypse was at our door step. I think about what I would do for survival. But let's face it, more than likely it won't happen. At least that's what I tell myself because the reality is too terrifying to even think about.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">That's why I like reading books about it! Seventeen year old Zara knows all about the apocalypse thanks to her doomsday father. When she and her mother escape the compound they live in, Zara finally knows what freedom is. That all changes when the United States and the world's electrical grid are cute off. Now it's up to Zara's training is up to speed for survival. So many things go wrong and little goes right, but one thing is for sure, Zara is as amazing as they come! I loved reading her story and watching her grow.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> Overall, I enjoyed this book so much! Although the whole electrical grids going out hit a little too close to home for me. I guess this sort of thing did happen in February of 2021 and what I like to call the Snowpaclypse. We lost power and water for a few days and it was brutal! Snow is now tainted for me but I guess being Texan, we like our weather hot!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">*Thank you to the publisher for providing a free copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>About the Author:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Amanda Panitch spent most of her childhood telling stories to her four younger siblings, trying both to make them laugh and scare them too much to sleep. Now she lives in New York City, where she writes dark, funny stories for teens, kids, and the pigeons that nest on her apartment balcony. You can follow her on Twitter @AmandaPanitch, and visit her online at <a href="http://www.amandapanitch.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;" target="_blank">www.amandapanitch.com</a> </div></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Buy Links:</div><div><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gone-Dark-Amanda-Panitch-ebook/dp/B09841XKYZ/ref=sr_1_2?crid=GXZ0DXS6MX2N&keywords=gone+dark&qid=1650326542&sprefix=go%2Caps%2C1604&sr=8-2" target="_blank">Amazon US</a></div><div><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gone-Dark-Amanda-Panitch-ebook/dp/B09843M8BK/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1650326612&sr=8-3" target="_blank">Amazon UK</a></div>The Lovely Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13869305852924891698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407807102147343668.post-89183076718235719782021-11-17T00:00:00.001-06:002021-11-17T18:52:33.800-06:00Cranky Chicken by Katherine Battersby<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYOEmxf8iPh9cNvr9vwhkG0AIfkWUFdcouW5_3lbq4d_cMwD-g-RHCC4kFlctbmgqk_3W5mVbHMpkORU2apC2kkqoVt0JylBysYNv2OYgVNEPgIcNd4dfQ4P10dhSQxZG1R8D5soWB5bo/s1866/cranky+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1866" data-original-width="1400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYOEmxf8iPh9cNvr9vwhkG0AIfkWUFdcouW5_3lbq4d_cMwD-g-RHCC4kFlctbmgqk_3W5mVbHMpkORU2apC2kkqoVt0JylBysYNv2OYgVNEPgIcNd4dfQ4P10dhSQxZG1R8D5soWB5bo/s320/cranky+2.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Published: September 7, 2021</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Genre: Middle School</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: Finished copy</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Rating: 5</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">See what other readers are saying about it <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56980392-cranky-chicken?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=Bcf81uRfFQ&rank=1" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Blurb:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span id="freeText6774540585445936192" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><b>Narwhal and Jelly meet <i>The Bad Guys </i>in this heartwarming, brightly illustrated, and downright hilarious chapter book about what happens when a very cranky chicken is befriended by a very cheerful worm.</b><br /><br />Cranky Chicken is, well, cranky. With one cranky eyebrow, cranky eyes, and even cranky, scratchy feet. But then one day, Cranky meets a very friendly worm named Speedy who wants nothing more than to be friends. Young readers will love seeing the mismatched friendship grow over the course of three charming and laugh-out-loud short adventures as Chicken and Speedy become BFFs (Best Feathered Friends) and Speedy shows Chicken how to look on the bright side.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZPSShf5h0MlnyXqTQKD26yRwXzDCDDLNTsYKx8mEMPzxxVQijlv8ua5JbZ14z8AMROSd8O9VTl1xLEkPlMGt4F17FP3BlStEitJDlZcgGs6gkoaZ0HPqqtqlhKUwxo8Cpu3gAJGrbBjQ/s1235/cranky.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1235" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZPSShf5h0MlnyXqTQKD26yRwXzDCDDLNTsYKx8mEMPzxxVQijlv8ua5JbZ14z8AMROSd8O9VTl1xLEkPlMGt4F17FP3BlStEitJDlZcgGs6gkoaZ0HPqqtqlhKUwxo8Cpu3gAJGrbBjQ/s320/cranky.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Review:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I read this several times over the past few weeks. First with my own kids, then by myself, and a couple more times when I took the book to the school I work at. Everyone, including me, loved it! I totally relate to this cranky chicken and I loved how the worm, wormed himself into the heart of the chicken. It's a funny book that will have you and your child in stitches! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Buy the book:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08W5FV1DZ/ref=x_gr_w_glide_sin?caller=Goodreads&callerLink=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fbook%2Fshow%2F56980392-cranky-chicken%3Ffrom_search%3Dtrue%26from_srp%3Dtrue%26qid%3DBcf81uRfFQ%26rank%3D1&tag=x_gr_w_glide_sin-20" target="_blank">Amazon</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cranky-Chicken-Katherine-Battersby/dp/1534469885/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=cranky+chicken&qid=1637196685&sr=8-3" target="_blank">Amazon UK</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">About the Author:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Katherine is the critically acclaimed author and illustrator of eleven picture books, including Trouble, Perfect Pigeons and the popular Squish Rabbit series, which have been published around the world. Her first graphic novel, Cranky Chicken, releases soon. Her books have had glowing reviews in The New York Times, received starred Kirkus reviews and have been shortlisted for numerous awards. She is regularly booked to speak in schools, libraries and at festivals and she is a passionate advocate for literacy and the arts. She currently lives in Ottawa, Canada, with her poet husband, their book obsessed baby and a wonderfully ridiculous dog.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Visit her at: </span><a href="http://www.katherinebattersby.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #00635d; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">www.katherinebattersby.com</a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><br /><p></p>The Lovely Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13869305852924891698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407807102147343668.post-15748177577418197042021-08-26T08:00:00.001-05:002021-08-26T10:03:17.898-05:00New Release Review—Charmed (Willow Springs 3) by Laura Pavlov<p> </p>
<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">⭐ ℕ𝔼𝕎 ℝ𝔼𝕃𝔼𝔸𝕊𝔼 ⭐ </span></h1>
<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐯𝐥𝐨𝐯 𝐢𝐬 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝! 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐬𝐬!</span></h4>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#1Cʟɪᴄᴋ: </span><a href="http://mybook.to/CharmedLauraPavlov"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://mybook.to/CharmedLauraPavlov</span></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Crew Carlisle is enemy number one.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">He’s also my new boss.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I need this internship as much as Crew needs an ego lobotomy.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">He’s arrogant, cocky, and annoyingly good looking.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our families have despised one another since long before I was born.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The man loathes me, and he makes no effort to hide his contempt.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">But everything I thought I knew isn’t as it seems.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">And Crew isn’t who I thought he was.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’ve never fully given my heart away, and this is the last man that I should give it to.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">But walking away isn’t as easy as I expected.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Crew Carlisle is my kryptonite.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">And falling for my nemesis is not an option.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Goodreads: <a href="https://bit.ly/CharmedGR">https://bit.ly/CharmedGR</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Review:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Charmed </span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Let me tell you, this series has been the absolute best! Each book gets better and better. I love the character development of each girl. What makes this series the best though is the fact that it centers around female friendships. Healthy female friendships! Each girl gets a book about their personal struggles and of course falling love. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This book is about sweet Maura. Maura’s family has always had drama with another family in town for generations. So much so that Maura doesn’t tell her father about where she is interning. With the enemies son, Crew. Crew is such a jerk upon meeting him! A big ole jerk that I could help but love. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">The chemistry between the two is on fire and it was only a matter of time before the two gave into those fantastic feelings. These books are so addictive; I devour them in just a day. I love how Maura gives as good as she gets. She doesn’t let Crew slow her down. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Now I have to wait for the next book! Which I’m very excited for. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">*Thank you to the author for providing a free copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All thoughts and opinions are subjective but my own. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">𝐶𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑢𝑝 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠:</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Book 1 - Frayed - </span><a href="http://mybook.to/FrayedLauraPavlov"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://mybook.to/FrayedLauraPavlov</span></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Book 2: Tangled - </span><a href="http://mybook.to/TangledLauraPavlov"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://mybook.to/TangledLauraPavlov</span></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Laura Pavlov writes sweet and sexy contemporary romance that will make you both laugh and cry. She is happily married to her college sweetheart, mom to two awesome almost-grown kids, and dog-whisperer to a couple of crazy puppies. Laura resides in Las Vegas where she is living her own happily ever after.</p>
<p class="p1" style="text-align: center;">Website: <a href="https://bit.ly/3hoxrIL">https://bit.ly/3hoxrIL</a></p>
<p class="p1" style="text-align: center;">Newsletter: <a href="http://bit.ly/2M3MzRv">http://bit.ly/2M3MzRv</a></p>
<p class="p1" style="text-align: center;">Goodreads: <a href="https://bit.ly/3g4jroa">https://bit.ly/3g4jroa</a></p>
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<p class="p1" style="text-align: center;">Join Pav-Loves Readers: <a href="https://bit.ly/2XAK9vF">https://bit.ly/2XAK9vF</a></p>
<p class="p1" style="text-align: center;">Amazon: <a href="https://amzn.to/2NSnGcK">https://amzn.to/2NSnGcK</a></p>
<p class="p1" style="text-align: center;">BookBub: <a href="https://bit.ly/3ii8Vdp"><span class="s1">https://bit.ly/3ii8Vdp</span></a></p>
The Lovely Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13869305852924891698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407807102147343668.post-32992815664050341262021-07-30T09:00:00.001-05:002021-07-30T09:00:00.196-05:00Review—Burn (Fuel Series 3) by Ginger Scott<p> </p>
<p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="font-family: Cambria; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1100" data-original-width="1100" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx-hiTQCgOkczj11JDCMblT0x-r0DQNpdMFgGKLFVKjQ_yZ9sknSU9Q6Mv0iAlxcMhQJBNQI-b6LCUHLmVgKx9zezw8u-VZqOMAZeXPXIWGuy127n2JhYuvs_3rz3WOVC6rGrIQQ_eYOkY/s320/Burn-IG+now+live.jpg" width="320" /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="p1" style="color: #1c1e21; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: "PingFang SC"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">★</span>NOW AVAILABLE<span class="s1" style="font-family: "PingFang SC"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">★</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: STIXGeneral; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐧</span>, the final book in the Fuel Series by Ginger Scott, is LIVE! This second-chance romance completes this angsty, steamy, new adult trilogy.</span></p><p class="p3" style="color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p4" style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s3" style="color: #050505;">Purchase </span><span class="s4" style="color: #050505; font-family: STIXGeneral; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭</span><span class="s3" style="color: #050505;"> (1) here: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097TTSBN8?fbclid=IwAR1O6M0lhUODMYa7GSX_Z_kExf8Dgwei7QFWGthXGa1HfzhPsmuaMj_JDOQ%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank"><span class="s5" style="color: blue;">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097TTSBN8</span></a></span></span></p><p class="p4" style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s3" style="color: #050505;">Purchase </span><span class="s6" style="color: black; font-family: STIXGeneral; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>𝐖𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤</b></span><span class="s7" style="color: black;"><b> (2):</b> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097SBSX3J?fbclid=IwAR0LCpYxBAftkX_WpJrldvD1o3vFoulaQGO4h2dI4wQzGfpLw4fE5ebJDHM%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank"><span class="s8">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097SBSX3J</span></a></span></span></p><p class="p4" style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s7" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Purchase<b> Burn (3): </b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097SCCH12?fbclid=IwAR0uKaJDk0hjEJqsZfz8RoxDXChQl40Q7kkymDQPfMqjXSq7J_zja6FMTP0%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank"><span class="s8">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097SCCH12</span></a></span></span></p><p class="p5" style="color: blue; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s3" style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Fuel Series link: <a href="%22"><span class="s9" style="color: blue; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">https://amzn.to/3j5mQ7S</span></a></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: start;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1361" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGcImKCIUa251Ou2BLVFbOlO9N4HWcGyVw58rN3USN9FJet9KnRpEFoQSL4pt81m3yXUE6fnQjRFxJ8wKzvPhs7TUmcdrkUhm3ZfRrSjSrv3I3GX3lG-dWfiYltdnxTzg9IIFXAOL5Dxax/s320/Burn_cover_ebook+copy.jpeg" width="213" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="p6" style="color: #181818; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">“The whole Fuel Series is one I rate alongside the best I have ever read. It’s one I will read over and over.” – The Saucy Bookshelf</span></i></p><p class="p7" style="color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p8" style="color: #333333; font-family: STIXGeneral; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;">𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐧</span></p><p class="p2" style="color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dustin Bridge’s world is about speed. About the edge. His life has been carved by cutting corners and making moves, following impulsive decisions while weighing the facts at hand.<br /><br />On the track, that has never steered him wrong.<br /><br />In life, though? That’s another story.<br /><br />On the cusp of greatness, the world’s up-and-coming racing star seems to be living the perfect story. A hero to his hometown. A partner to his best friend. A man poised to take the throne, to become the greatest, and to reap the rewards and attention that come along with it.<br /><br />He’s been branded the track’s most eligible bachelor. And rarely does he cross a finish line without a dozen screaming, adoring women brandishing his name on glitter-covered T-shirts across their chests, just hoping he’ll break his own rules and take one of them to bed.<br /><br />But he won’t. As loose as Dustin may be on the road, he’s become disciplined in life. He let love in completely—<i>once. </i>For <i>one </i>person. Hannah Judge. And she wrecked him.<br /><br />And now, she’s back.</span></p><p class="p2" style="color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Review-</span></span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Wow. What a rollercoaster! I thought the ending of book two couldn’t change my mind or my opinion about certain circumstances that Hannah felt she needed to do. I didn’t think my heart could take what I was about to read in book three either! And I was right! My heart rate was erratic because all I wanted was too see our hero and heroine finally happy. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">My investment into these amazing characters lives was on point. I felt every emotion and the angst is perfectly done! Dustin and Hannah have such a long road ahead of them. But I knew that if anyone could make it, it would be them. Like most Scott books, I was sad to see it end. I fall in love way too fast and am always a little bit sad to say goodbye. Good thing I can re-read and go through that rollercoaster again!</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><p class="p2" style="color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">*Thank you to the author for providing a free copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All thoughts and opinions are subjective but my own. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><p class="p9" style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: start;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="p10" style="color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Add them to your TBR!</span></p><p class="p5" style="color: blue; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s4" style="color: #050505; font-family: STIXGeneral; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗙𝗧</span><span class="s3" style="color: #050505;">: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58077726-shift?fbclid=IwAR1E_jKudoX-gL82N54KYxw5Cimp5waKteTSa96Fce8aGJhmnB0i6-ahMCI%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank"><span class="s9" style="color: blue; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58077726-shift</span></a></span></span></p><p class="p5" style="color: blue; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s4" style="color: #050505; font-family: STIXGeneral; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">𝗪𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗞</span><span class="s3" style="color: #050505;">: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58077746-wreck?fbclid=IwAR0ou6WyKtiRvXi_EGNBqYbg0bD7ALoO30VD8fn2KBr7F13HLYoGOuWGkx0%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank"><span class="s9" style="color: blue; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58077746-wreck</span></a></span></span></p><p class="p5" style="color: blue; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s4" style="color: #050505; font-family: STIXGeneral; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">𝗕𝗨𝗥𝗡</span><span class="s3" style="color: #050505;">: <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58077766-burn?fbclid=IwAR2yywGaN5mQi-HYhuA6c4d4hpZcYBJDs958CQC5hoXPH6YgzFCYlEvTLks&h=AT2PsKx3gSRsrlB7KDh9OKsdST7oETFp61khDdkqO6yXie-WpEWhCSdnAppqEKJ8OtzYL9fZO7BFJ0BBLqcP9NLbSjnwxTJdtbvPDRzNRKXYgzRyBh8qfOW7AodGbjmEoR_oQXNxE3BL_Dv0bqRoY1vhuA&__tn__=-UK-R&c%5B0%5D=AT3ECpNt98wFWUlfQ4kz5KltpLM6p6k1U12clFBBprX4n2zJgzfutxZa_donkKkoF5NGjV6fgqLexOWIWixpZBVBWvdtnW6cPuW3oZ0L-_pHKbLVVwqbdOkIzRzCdsQ-hoXQcxICNI3GxJMkc8PVEcR4n_9oql8lpKBL6gbLQzMZoT9bdSakAA%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank"><span class="s9" style="color: blue; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58077766-burn</span></a></span></span></p><p class="p11" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p12" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Find more books by Ginger Scott here: <a href="http://www.littlemisswrite.com"><span class="s5" style="color: blue;">www.littlemisswrite.com</span></a></span></p></div></div>The Lovely Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13869305852924891698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407807102147343668.post-12094893461463929382021-07-16T08:00:00.001-05:002021-07-16T08:00:00.196-05:00Review—Wreck (Bk 2) by Ginger Scott<p> </p>
<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="color: #333333; font-family: STIXGeneral; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="font-family: STIXGeneral; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="1640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg4CUESZTgeda-EVzvS2s8Qh4jyy0FW6e0ZIaVKwddeVOSHDgrElJZKeLRwLEAyhX4l-A0Ht9vq8Ium_3tw3SAVh5gWUPMHSh1I_bk9oiQSJOdJq7ZEMDUAEUrZkyrlJ_HtN3vZ7jq9EPa/s320/Wreck-FB+Cover+now+live.jpg" width="320" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="p1" style="color: #1c1e21; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: "PingFang SC"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">★</span>NOW AVAILABLE<span class="s1" style="font-family: "PingFang SC"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">★</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: STIXGeneral; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">𝐖𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤</span> is LIVE! This is the second book in the brother’s-best-friend, friends-to-lovers Fuel Series by Ginger Scott. Don’t miss this angst-filled read!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p3" style="color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p4" style="color: #181818; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s3" style="color: #0f1111; font-family: "PingFang SC"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">★★★★★</span><span class="s4" style="color: #0f1111;"><i> "</i></span><i>I’m just going to put and say it—Wreck totally wrecked me! Dustin and Hannah completely tore my heart into pieces.” – The Lovely Books</i></span></p><p class="p5" style="color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p6" style="color: blue; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s5" style="color: #050505;">Purchase </span><span class="s6" style="color: #050505; font-family: STIXGeneral; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭</span><span class="s5" style="color: #050505;"> (1) here: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097TTSBN8?fbclid=IwAR1O6M0lhUODMYa7GSX_Z_kExf8Dgwei7QFWGthXGa1HfzhPsmuaMj_JDOQ%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank"><span class="s7" style="color: blue;">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097TTSBN8</span></a></span></span></p><p class="p6" style="color: blue; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s5" style="color: #050505;">Purchase </span><span class="s8" style="color: black; font-family: STIXGeneral; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>𝐖𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤</b></span><span class="s9" style="color: black;"><b> (2):</b> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097SBSX3J?fbclid=IwAR0LCpYxBAftkX_WpJrldvD1o3vFoulaQGO4h2dI4wQzGfpLw4fE5ebJDHM%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank"><span class="s10">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097SBSX3J</span></a></span></span></p><p class="p6" style="color: blue; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s9" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pre-order<b> Burn (3): </b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097SCCH12?fbclid=IwAR0uKaJDk0hjEJqsZfz8RoxDXChQl40Q7kkymDQPfMqjXSq7J_zja6FMTP0%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank"><span class="s10">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097SCCH12</span></a></span></span></p><p class="p6" style="color: blue; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisIdDd34y2a6xu8MM8X8GfkadIlqYluk6FpsQfVDw4iZwUWe6sVuphrnLyqTiOkXauvTl-R9ZwenJJnt0exT9VYEKyMj76XXS0-mW3MZgAQ8Yvwm6d2vzltp1lpVsqdwXYlErr0nzJ2RpW/s320/Wreck_e-book-cover_toside.JPG" /></div><br /><p class="p6" style="color: blue; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: STIXGeneral; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>𝐖𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤</b></span><br />When Dustin Bridges left Camp Verde to try to make it on his own, he left half his heart behind. A life with Hannah Judge was just too dangerous. A mountain of chaos and violence was always aiming for the target on Dustin’s back, and that made giving up the only person he ever loved feel necessary.<br /><br />But impossible isn’t a word Dustin believes in. Defying odds is what he’s good at. It’s how he’s survived. And when fate calls him home, he sees it as his chance to take back his girl, to make his heart whole and to put his makeshift family back together.<br /><br />Just one thing. That family? And more importantly, that girl? They want nothing to do with him.<br /><br />When Dustin left Hannah without a word, he broke a promise. More than that, he broke a bond. <i>He broke Hannah. </i>The life she saw in her future was gone in a blink, and in its place she grew a heart of stone and a craving for danger.<br /><br />But isn’t danger what Dustin Bridges is really all about?</span></p><p class="p3" style="color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: start;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="p3" style="color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: start;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: medium;">Review-</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: start;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: start;">“Because we’re real, and we’re forever. And even the fucking hands of fate with all their destructive power can’t undo our destiny.”</p><p class="p3" style="color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: start;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: start;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I’m just going to put and say it—Wreck totally wrecked me! Dustin and Hannah completely tore my heart into pieces. The ending! I’m glad we don’t have to wait too long until the conclusion. I don’t think I could take it. </span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">The book starts off four years later; after the ending of book one, we were all left heartbroken. Could these two soulmates ever find their way back to each other? Only one way to tell but so many things happen! Dustin and Hannah both have grown and changed so much. Yet, they’re both still the same. The feelings they have for each other can never go away. At least not for them. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Overall, Scott hit the spot. My heart is heavy and not fully satisfied until I can get more of our main characters. I have to know asap how everything turns out! </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">*Thank you to the author for providing a free copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All thoughts and opinions are subjective but my own. </div><p class="p3" style="color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: start;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p7" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>*Burn</b> completes their love story in their mid 20s. Coming July 30<sup>th</sup>!</span></p><p class="p5" style="color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p8" style="color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Add them to your TBR!</span></p><p class="p6" style="color: blue; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s6" style="color: #050505; font-family: STIXGeneral; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗙𝗧</span><span class="s5" style="color: #050505;">: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58077726-shift?fbclid=IwAR1E_jKudoX-gL82N54KYxw5Cimp5waKteTSa96Fce8aGJhmnB0i6-ahMCI%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank"><span class="s7" style="color: blue;">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58077726-shift</span></a></span></span></p><p class="p6" style="color: blue; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s6" style="color: #050505; font-family: STIXGeneral; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">𝗪𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗞</span><span class="s5" style="color: #050505;">: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58077746-wreck?fbclid=IwAR0ou6WyKtiRvXi_EGNBqYbg0bD7ALoO30VD8fn2KBr7F13HLYoGOuWGkx0%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank"><span class="s7" style="color: blue;">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58077746-wreck</span></a></span></span></p><p class="p6" style="color: blue; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s6" style="color: #050505; font-family: STIXGeneral; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">𝗕𝗨𝗥𝗡</span><span class="s5" style="color: #050505;">: <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58077766-burn?fbclid=IwAR2yywGaN5mQi-HYhuA6c4d4hpZcYBJDs958CQC5hoXPH6YgzFCYlEvTLks&h=AT2PsKx3gSRsrlB7KDh9OKsdST7oETFp61khDdkqO6yXie-WpEWhCSdnAppqEKJ8OtzYL9fZO7BFJ0BBLqcP9NLbSjnwxTJdtbvPDRzNRKXYgzRyBh8qfOW7AodGbjmEoR_oQXNxE3BL_Dv0bqRoY1vhuA&__tn__=-UK-R&c%5B0%5D=AT3ECpNt98wFWUlfQ4kz5KltpLM6p6k1U12clFBBprX4n2zJgzfutxZa_donkKkoF5NGjV6fgqLexOWIWixpZBVBWvdtnW6cPuW3oZ0L-_pHKbLVVwqbdOkIzRzCdsQ-hoXQcxICNI3GxJMkc8PVEcR4n_9oql8lpKBL6gbLQzMZoT9bdSakAA%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank"><span class="s7" style="color: blue;">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58077766-burn</span></a></span></span></p><p class="p6" style="color: blue; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p6" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Find more books by Ginger Scott here: www.littlemisswrite.com</span></p><p class="p6" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p6" style="color: blue; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><br /></p></div></div></div></div></div>The Lovely Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13869305852924891698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407807102147343668.post-83401506896531001822021-06-25T09:00:00.001-05:002021-06-25T09:00:00.225-05:00New Release—Shift Bk 1 by Ginger Scott<p> </p>
<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="color: #333333; font-family: STIXGeneral; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="font-family: STIXGeneral; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1100" data-original-width="1100" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4tbM9byNT2u1uIdtTetgwFW4oC3PDJ_VrUHgJa8WH1Mj0uSCWnQ6GEu3tYVbp80CBP0IzWCqAXPreeqWV6NR0_wcgJYxPSA-U5Y4BxruV5YsF0zhptVq1dk6J_yDTIvglTcxTd_BdrtrN/s320/Shift-IG+now+live.jpg" /></div><br /><span class="s1" style="font-family: "PingFang SC"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="color: #1c1e21; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: "PingFang SC"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">★</span>NOW AVAILABLE<span class="s1" style="font-family: "PingFang SC"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">★</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: STIXGeneral; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭</span>, the first book in <span class="s2" style="font-family: STIXGeneral; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">𝗧𝗵𝗲</span> <span class="s2" style="font-family: STIXGeneral; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">𝗙𝘂𝗲𝗹</span> <span class="s2" style="font-family: STIXGeneral; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀</span> by Ginger Scott is LIVE! Buckle your seatbelt, it’s gonna be a wild ride!</span></p><p class="p2" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5HSyEBsJkUq0A-Cpfvtb9wdt1a7wIWu1YtYLM-gJvICNccuuKiITcPm8RzIAJvLkVIi6wg8yfoFA2nVTqtqvtTnUiSCMu2sFUaZ06Iq82mH-2iTrnyQtuOJtTHU2SPHPRe15hVRfMvCyB/s320/Shift-eBook.jpg" /></div><p class="p2" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: start;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s3" style="color: #050505;">Purchase </span><span class="s4" style="color: #050505; font-family: STIXGeneral; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭</span><span class="s3" style="color: #050505;"> here: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097TTSBN8?fbclid=IwAR1O6M0lhUODMYa7GSX_Z_kExf8Dgwei7QFWGthXGa1HfzhPsmuaMj_JDOQ%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank"><span class="s5" style="color: blue;">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097TTSBN8</span></a></span></span></p><p class="p4" style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s3" style="color: #050505;">Pre-order </span><span class="s6" style="color: black;"><b>Wreck:</b> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097SBSX3J?fbclid=IwAR0LCpYxBAftkX_WpJrldvD1o3vFoulaQGO4h2dI4wQzGfpLw4fE5ebJDHM%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank"><span class="s7">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097SBSX3J</span></a></span></span></p><p class="p4" style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s6" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pre-order<b> Burn: </b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097SCCH12?fbclid=IwAR0uKaJDk0hjEJqsZfz8RoxDXChQl40Q7kkymDQPfMqjXSq7J_zja6FMTP0%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank"><span class="s7">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097SCCH12</span></a></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“An adrenaline rush of a romance that made my heart race and my soul shake. So HEADY. So HEART-POUNDING. So HEARTFELT. So YES!!!” – Karen, Bookalicious Babes Blog</span></p><p class="p3" style="color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p6" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Shift</span></b></p><p class="p7" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 22.5px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p6" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dustin Bridges has always had two things he could count on—his fearless instincts behind the wheel and the support of his two best friends, Tommy and Hannah Judge.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p6" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dustin brought the speed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p6" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tommy, the brains.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p6" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And Hannah . . . she was the glue that held everyone together.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p6" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Together</i>, they were unstoppable.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p8" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p6" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">From the dirt tracks of their youth to the late-night drag races under a desert moon as teens, the Judge siblings pushed and watched in awe as their friend edged closer to his dream. Always racing, always running. That was Dustin’s gift and curse. And while his life at home was unbearable, his world with the Judges always seemed perfect.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p8" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p6" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Growing up with people makes for a special bond. But sometimes life has a way of testing just how strong a relationship is. And falling in love with one of your best friends, not to mention your other best friend’s sister? Well, that can be the toughest test of all.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p8" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p6" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Heartbreak doesn’t know what it’s up against, though, because when there is a prize to be won, nobody bets against Dustin Bridges.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p6" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p6" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">Review-</span></span></p><div itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Book" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><div class="hreview" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="feedItemContent" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 5px;"><div class="feedItemContentBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; padding-top: 5px;"><div class="reviewText" id="4070945130" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-top: 5px;"><br /></div><div class="reviewText" id="4070945130" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-top: 5px;">Ginger Scott books always leave me with a heavy dose of nostalgia. She writes the teenage years so well that it always takes me back to when I was that age. <b style="box-sizing: border-box;">That teenage angst is no joke</b>. The way this book ended makes me want to WEEP. But don’t let that scare you—because this story is so beautifully told. Plus, you don’t have to wait long for the other two books. They both will be out in July. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Dustin and Hannah have a connection. One being the fact that Dustin is Hannah’s brother, Tommy’s, best friend. So yes, this is a brother’s best friend novel. One of my favorite romantic tropes. The two have always had a connection but have never acted upon it. See, Dustin is from the wrong side of the tracks. He has terrible parents and his only solace is the Judges. A wonderful family that treats him as their own. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I loved that the story centered around racing. I’m not too familiar with it but it makes me interested enough to go and find one to watch. Dustin is good at it and wants to race after high school. Hannah is a grade younger. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Overall, I enjoyed this book very much. To say I need the second book is an understatement! I can’t wait to see how everything plays out. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />*Thank you to the publisher for providing a free copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All thoughts and opinions are subjective but my own.</div></div></div></div></div><p class="p6" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: start;" /></p><p class="p6" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="p7" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 22.5px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p6" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Wreck and Burn</span></b></p><p class="p6" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">(Books 2 and 3)</span></b></p><p class="p6" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Wreck </b>continues Dustin and Hannah’s story four years later, and book 3, <b>Burn</b>, completes their love story in their mid 20s.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p3" style="color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: STIXGeneral; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58077766-burn</span></a></span></span></p></div></div></div></div>The Lovely Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13869305852924891698noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407807102147343668.post-50524806970788262892021-05-18T08:00:00.005-05:002021-05-18T09:39:59.968-05:00Review—Made in Korea by Sarah Suk <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhxUEX1ZenbFTiJsxxoucH-sOjotjXnWbXA-OwSI1NE6qK3TDQSAwrDwthqPN0dLFw7ExsLL0m5e1rMYLo-5lbvFZ3tGUViDGFomwpP1pkSiwgPHxkY0tE_CeFIsSstZYtSYZvzhuFEpY/s475/BB812966-E83D-4D0D-AB07-2CF72D7B502E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="314" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhxUEX1ZenbFTiJsxxoucH-sOjotjXnWbXA-OwSI1NE6qK3TDQSAwrDwthqPN0dLFw7ExsLL0m5e1rMYLo-5lbvFZ3tGUViDGFomwpP1pkSiwgPHxkY0tE_CeFIsSstZYtSYZvzhuFEpY/s320/BB812966-E83D-4D0D-AB07-2CF72D7B502E.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Publisher: Simon and Shuster for Young Readers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Published: May 18, 2021</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Genre: Own Voices, YA Romance</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: E-ARC</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Rating: 4.5 Stars</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">See what reviewers are saying <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53141483-made-in-korea?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=JIVTgGFlmP&rank=1" target="_blank">HERE</a></div><p>Blurb:</p><p><span id="freeText7083307148052331898" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><b><i>Frankly in Love</i> </b><b>meets <i>Shark Tank</i> in this feel-good romantic comedy about two entrepreneurial Korean American teens who butt heads—and maybe fall in love—while running competing Korean beauty businesses at their high school.</b><br /><br />There’s nothing Valerie Kwon loves more than making a good sale. Together with her cousin Charlie, they run V&C K-BEAUTY, their school’s most successful student-run enterprise. With each sale, Valerie gets closer to taking her beloved and adventurous halmeoni to her dream city, Paris.<br /><br />Enter the new kid in class, Wes Jung, who is determined to pursue music after graduation despite his parents’ major disapproval. When his classmates clamor to buy the K-pop branded beauty products his mom gave him to “make new friends,” he sees an opportunity—one that may be the key to help him pay for the music school tuition he knows his parents won’t cover…<br /><br />What he doesn’t realize, though, is that he is now V&C K-BEAUTY’s biggest competitor.<br /><br />Stakes are high as Valerie and Wes try to outsell each other, make the most money, and take the throne for the best business in school—all while trying to resist the undeniable spark that’s crackling between them. From hiring spies to all-or-nothing bets, the competition is much more than either of them bargained for.<br /><br />But one thing is clear: only one Korean business can come out on top.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">Review:</span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><i><b>Made in Korea</b></i> is a must read! Valerie and Wes are those characters you root for from beginning to end. They’re fun, realistic, and you can’t help but fall in love with them. I liked how the story was told in a unique and interesting way. It was different but in a good way. It wasn’t cliche; more like a breathe of fresh air.</span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">An easy and fast-paced story; this is one that checks off everything you could want in a book and more. It’s about two “rivals” who end up having a tons of chemistry but also are competing when it comes to selling those beauty products to the school! Why is this trope so fun? I never wanted the book to end. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Overall, I thought this ended perfectly. Kind of like an ice cream with a cherry on top! It was sugary sweet and I loved every minute of it. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"></span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">*Thank you to the publisher for providing a free copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All thoughts and opinions are subjective but my own. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><p><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Buy the book:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08LDWSSX1/ref=x_gr_w_glide_sin?caller=Goodreads&callerLink=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fbook%2Fshow%2F53141483-made-in-korea%3Ffrom_search%3Dtrue%26from_srp%3Dtrue%26qid%3DJIVTgGFlmP%26rank%3D1&tag=x_gr_w_glide_sin-20" target="_blank">Amazon US</a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Made-Korea-Sarah-Suk/dp/1534474374/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=made+in+korea&qid=1620341551&sr=8-2" target="_blank">Amazon UK</a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">About the Author:</span></span></p><p><span face="Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">Sarah Suk (pronounced like soup with a K) lives in Vancouver, Canada where she writes stories and admires mountains. When she’s not writing, you can find her hanging out by the water, taking film photos, or eating a bowl of bingsu. You can visit her online at sarahsuk.com and on Twitter and Instagram <a href="Sarah Suk (pronounced like soup with a K) lives in Vancouver, Canada where she writes stories and admires mountains. When she’s not writing, you can find her hanging out by the water, taking film photos, or eating a bowl of bingsu. You can visit her online at sarahsuk.com and on Twitter and Instagram @sarahaelisuk." target="_blank">@sarahaelisuk</a>.</span></p>The Lovely Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13869305852924891698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407807102147343668.post-81614382551882715192021-05-01T08:00:00.001-05:002021-05-01T08:00:00.211-05:00Review— Crescendo: A Silver City Story by Lilith K. Duat<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8o7Fc3IpyKV6z_W01oD3jUfShSQwNPz2bNX1PdsQvgPwP-s2TFLHPkqyyGIP4Be_6fpyByokl03fogjrqcXTilH58a_B_tS3jtkBW3HXbPxCCl8YjRdRM4i6NP7j2Ek09Nx3tTtG05ms/s475/BD173FF1-5FB0-4FF7-A810-5540905E18D4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="297" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8o7Fc3IpyKV6z_W01oD3jUfShSQwNPz2bNX1PdsQvgPwP-s2TFLHPkqyyGIP4Be_6fpyByokl03fogjrqcXTilH58a_B_tS3jtkBW3HXbPxCCl8YjRdRM4i6NP7j2Ek09Nx3tTtG05ms/s320/BD173FF1-5FB0-4FF7-A810-5540905E18D4.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Blurb:<p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">In an era of Britneys and Christinas, 17 year old April Lee hit it big with her debut album "This Girl Punx", and the hit singles "Skid Sister" and "Confusion".</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">She was top of the charts and took the pop-punk world by storm. Now, at 22, she's hit rock-bottom.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">May Hart is a Victorian goth fae princess. She’s all tortured wailing and flowy skirts. Snow white skin, jet black hair, ice blue-grey eyes. She’s part Ice queen, part murder of crows. As front-woman for the band Ethereal, her haunting vocals made hits out of the songs “Plastic Garden”, “The Eternal” and “Take me from Death”. Now is the time to go solo. Can she succeed? Of course she can.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">When both women are tapped to record the theme-song to a new super hero movie, they begin to grow close. But the business is very two faced and both April and May carry with them dark secrets. Can they look past each other's hurt and find love and stellar careers?</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">CRESCENDO is part of SILVER CITY STORIES and is a first-time lesbian erotic romance intended for adults only. It deals with dark subject matter, abuse, violence and celebrates sexual expression between consenting adults</span></p><p><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);"><br /></span></span> Review:</p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Crescendo is a story about two women in the entertainment industry that eventually grow close and fall in love. April and May are what I like to call, on fire! They complimented each other very well. I liked their relationship a lot. This is a novella, so it’s fairly short. Short, fast, yet still satisfying! Smoking hot chemistry and music go so well together! If you’re looking for a sexy, easy read, this is the one for you!</span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">*Thank you to the author for providing a copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All thoughts and opinions are subjective but my own. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><p>Buy:</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B091P7XS1Z/ref=x_gr_w_glide_sin?caller=Goodreads&callerLink=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fbook%2Fshow%2F57628042-crescendo%3Ffrom_search%3Dtrue%26from_srp%3Dtrue%26qid%3DjIm5AInEFE%26rank%3D5&tag=x_gr_w_glide_sin-20" target="_blank">Amazon US</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crescendo-Silver-City-Story-Stories-ebook/dp/B091P7XS1Z/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=lilith+duat&qid=1619208500&sr=8-2" target="_blank">Amazon UK</a></p><p><br /></p>The Lovely Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13869305852924891698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407807102147343668.post-89982490894375200502021-04-07T18:43:00.002-05:002021-04-07T18:43:13.170-05:00Release Day Review—Badly Behaved by Meagan Brandy<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5dPB1puZZEi1Z0YXnzWS51w3LrcWqksDyyVxIFJ6KiichtUoNiPjRJlJVRpxAqvixpGydrzqFlp1tUWu7_qmmrnd6IZeSqTbSw053OXwBRXjxHb6RFMB2K-hcIPRmGCEIbqB8a_jRsZQ/s2048/D6E167D6-4E03-4500-80FF-A5ED2C9A134C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5dPB1puZZEi1Z0YXnzWS51w3LrcWqksDyyVxIFJ6KiichtUoNiPjRJlJVRpxAqvixpGydrzqFlp1tUWu7_qmmrnd6IZeSqTbSw053OXwBRXjxHb6RFMB2K-hcIPRmGCEIbqB8a_jRsZQ/s320/D6E167D6-4E03-4500-80FF-A5ED2C9A134C.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Blurb:</span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><p class="s9" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 1.5em;">I'm a Monet.</span><br /></p><p class="s9" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px;"><span class="s8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 19.799999237060547px;">A chameleon.</span></span></p><p class="s7" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s10" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 19.799999237060547px;">I'm whatever I must be.</span></span></p><p class="s9" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px;"><span class="s8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 19.799999237060547px;">And what I must be is a flawless daughter, a skilled socialite, and the perfect prize to the man who signed along the dotted line.</span></span></p><p class="s9" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px;"><span class="s8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 19.799999237060547px;">Not that I'm complaining.</span></span></p><p class="s9" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px;"><span class="s8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 19.799999237060547px;">I'm all for a contractual agreement, a quick and clean catapult into the next phase of rich girl life. One that takes little thought, less effort, and zero devotion.</span></span></p><p class="s9" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px;"><span class="s8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 19.799999237060547px;">It's exactly what I want.</span></span></p><p class="s9" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px;"><span class="s8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 19.799999237060547px;">An impassive life.</span></span></p><p class="s9" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px;"><span class="s8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 19.799999237060547px;">A calculated future.</span></span></p><p class="s9" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px;"><span class="s8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 19.799999237060547px;">Or, it was until the lights went out, darkness took over, and I learned what it meant to live.</span></span></p><p class="s9" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px;"><span class="s8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 19.799999237060547px;">To feel.</span></span></p><p class="s9" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px;"><span class="s8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 19.799999237060547px;">To fall.</span></span></p><p class="s9" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px;"><span class="s8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 19.799999237060547px;">But everyone knows what thrives in the night burns in the light and flames were among us.</span></span></p><p class="s9" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px;"><span class="s8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 19.799999237060547px;">There is no escape.</span></span></p><p class="s9" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px;"><span class="s8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 19.799999237060547px;">No turning back.</span></span></p><p class="s9" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px;"><span class="s8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 19.799999237060547px;">No ending within my control.</span></span></p><p class="s9" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px;"><span class="s8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 19.799999237060547px;">My mother always says our choices determine our consequences.</span></span></p><p class="s7" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s10" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 19.799999237060547px;">I hate it when she's right.</span></span></p><p class="s9" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px;"><span class="s8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 19.799999237060547px;">__</span></span></p><p class="s9" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px;"><span class="s8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 19.799999237060547px;">This is an all-new 103k word standalone romance about a rich girl and the trouble she finds herself in when she catches the eye of a guy unlike the ones in her world.</span></span></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7EsU92GtUBw-2lyJa8ZkeIvTrY6WPnN5QxdfSDK_K39Bs19RitDrZNoP2nrxW7fAXfzaFyTRCmzS0nN8PUfi5N8FK5dNrLU2tj3xZqdQFOQSXk0CuVYiprJnHWKrcvYuSfRPOKMjRaQs/s1080/03E4131D-88D2-4B9E-A39B-469D99725165.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7EsU92GtUBw-2lyJa8ZkeIvTrY6WPnN5QxdfSDK_K39Bs19RitDrZNoP2nrxW7fAXfzaFyTRCmzS0nN8PUfi5N8FK5dNrLU2tj3xZqdQFOQSXk0CuVYiprJnHWKrcvYuSfRPOKMjRaQs/s320/03E4131D-88D2-4B9E-A39B-469D99725165.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Review:</div><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Badly Behaved was so good! I loved it from start to finish. Jameson is that female protagonist that you can’t help but love the heck out of. She’s strong yet vulnerable. I think that’s what I adored most about her. </span><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Let me tell you, I thought this book was hot. And if you loved Brandy’s Boys of Brayshaw series, then you won’t want to miss this one! Ransom and Jameson were on fire. Their story is one that I can jump on board with because it dealt with a female lead that gained love and a family when she wasn’t even looking for it. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">She grew up in a somewhat loveless upbringing. Which brings her to the here and now where Jameson didn’t believe in fairytales or all they entailed. It takes three beautiful boys to show her there’s more to life than just loneliness. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I also enjoyed a certain couple in the book so much. It came as a surprise even though it shouldn’t have. They were my favorite though! Overall, I enjoyed this entirely too much. I got nothing done because I just had to finish this beautiful love story. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">*Thank you to the author for providing a copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. 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line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p class="s7" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s11" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.399999618530273px; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Meet </span></span><span class="s11" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.399999618530273px; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Meagan Brandy</span></span><span class="s11" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.399999618530273px; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">:</span></span></p><p class="s7" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm94ZnLzkdyte3Gc9JNhS7GU77d-8Rz6kkk3zAm4YW762P4RI8_iBGC80P8Kh2QUhwgG0l-QVZ8b6jfx6dDExkjZcTW_m76r1UuUlk_RJ3UJM244pjPJJwvX9lDIkQjyz_UXSpOi32iJs/s1640/AADCE703-2373-42E8-B56A-1729B1916A79.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="1640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm94ZnLzkdyte3Gc9JNhS7GU77d-8Rz6kkk3zAm4YW762P4RI8_iBGC80P8Kh2QUhwgG0l-QVZ8b6jfx6dDExkjZcTW_m76r1UuUlk_RJ3UJM244pjPJJwvX9lDIkQjyz_UXSpOi32iJs/s320/AADCE703-2373-42E8-B56A-1729B1916A79.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span class="s4" style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-align: center;"><br /></span></p><p><span class="s4" style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-align: center;">This is all of me. The good, the bad, the used, and the broken</span><span class="s4" style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-align: center;">…</span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Heartbreakingly beautiful and completely engrossing, A young woman's life takes a disturbing and utterly fascinating turn as the past she's put behind comes back to haunt her. USED is packed full of twists, turns, and a gripping romance sure to leave readers emotionally spent and asking for more.</span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a name="_Hlk61339607"></a><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">USED</span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, a brand new standalone </span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">romantic suspense from debut</span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> author </span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Kate Dunbar</span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> is OUT NOW!</span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Grab your copy today!</span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br /></span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s6" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">“USED was amazing. Like </span></span><span class="s7" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">seriously amazing</span></span><span class="s6" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">. I can't remember the last time I hated to put a book down so I could go to sleep and then immediately pick it up to finish it the next morning. And yet, here we are and that's what I did.” ~ </span></span><span class="s8" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">Samantha Chase, New York Times Bestselling Author</span></span><span class="s6" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"></span></span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s8" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s6" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">“Rarely have I read a book </span></span><span class="s7" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">so vividly described, so rich with emotion</span></span><span class="s6" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">, that I felt like I lived it. USED is the kind of book that engages your heart and takes you on a journey that leaves you hopeful and empowered by the end.”</span></span><span class="s6" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"> ~ </span></span><span class="s8" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">Erika Kelly, </span></span><a name="_heading=h.v3cwbet9lm2j"></a><span class="s8" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">Award Winning Author of the Rock Star Romance Series</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s8" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s8" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdmDqRaFxAMd55Jx8Sd3NFEpqtjOOP2b4pFtea7VhmURuVXy2_Y5CV08jiqsqlwOGJDRSo_zoSV8U8mVyUIG-heqxpWML81Y0hSWTvwTj8HBCHInZdilZt6Ayb7ZsXVPNCw_z3VRAOA1Q/s2700/FAC7B478-1320-4EBA-951F-0ED1FB7ED9D5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="1800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdmDqRaFxAMd55Jx8Sd3NFEpqtjOOP2b4pFtea7VhmURuVXy2_Y5CV08jiqsqlwOGJDRSo_zoSV8U8mVyUIG-heqxpWML81Y0hSWTvwTj8HBCHInZdilZt6Ayb7ZsXVPNCw_z3VRAOA1Q/s320/FAC7B478-1320-4EBA-951F-0ED1FB7ED9D5.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s8" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s8" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">Review:</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s8" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: start;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s8" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: start;">Used was haunting. It was beautiful. And I know it’s a a feeling that won’t leave anytime soon. Sabra’s story is emotional, raw, and hopeful. At least it was in the end. It’ll embed itself into your very being. It sounds contrite but I’m changed. </span></span></span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">The power that Dunbar was able to evoke through words had left me breathless. At times my stomach was in knots but in the end I felt whole. Trevor. There aren’t enough words to describe him adequately because that man definitely is a hero. He’s patient and perfect for Sabra. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"> It’s hard to believe this is a debut novel but it is! Overcoming any sort of abuse can be a battle that one may feel can never be won. I felt the author handled abuse with the utmost care and respect for those that have gone through situations like these. So thank you for that! I loved this book so much and can’t wait to see what journey Kate will take us on next. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s8" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"></span></span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">*Thank you to the author for providing a free copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. 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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Heartbroken by the loss of her fiancé, adventurous Anna finds a second chance at love with an Irish sailor in this riveting, emotional romance.</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">After a reminder goes off for the Caribbean sailing trip Anna was supposed to take with her fiancé, she impulsively goes to sea in the sailboat he left her, intending to complete the voyage alone.</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">But after a treacherous night’s sail, she realizes she can’t do it by herself and hires Keane, a professional sailor, to help. Much like Anna, Keane is struggling with a very different future than the one he had planned. As romance rises with the tide, they discover that it’s never too late to chart a new course.</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">In Trish Doller’s unforgettable </span><span class="s6" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Float Plan</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, starting over doesn't mean letting go of your past, it means making room for your future.</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br /></span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">"The perfect escape. Fresh, funny, and romantic. I wish I could sail away with this book." - Meg Cabot, </span><span class="s7" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">New York Times</span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> bestselling author of </span><span class="s7" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The Princess Diaries </span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and</span><span class="s7" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Little Bridge </span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">series</span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Review:</span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I think it’s the mark of a good author to be able make you mourn for a character you barely know. Float Plan started off making my stomach twist and my heart rate to speed up. It also caused my eyes to leak. Anna’s living in a perpetual nightmare after the loss of her fiancé. What a loss it is too... </span></span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">“Even the vastness of the blue sea surrounding me feels less empty than the prospect of a life without him.“<br /><div><br /></div><div>I don’t know if it was the timing of reading the story but I was filled with immense sadness. I felt Anna’s grief as if it were my own. I felt her fiancé Ben’s grief as if it were me. I felt it all. And it was only the second chapter. </div><div><br /></div><div>While I felt the underlying dark cloud surrounding the book, it’s actually a pretty uplifting romance story about living life to its fullest. To always remember that life has beautiful surprises when you least expect them. But need them the most. </div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">*Thank you to the publisher for providing a free copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All thoughts and opinions are subjective but my own. </div><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEVtUatkG8x4s_LhkMdB7gKQDoz2E7hETqLE5kLA78I_28FsOhry5pKMSlyZXQjkdxYIS4WOZ33kGbn7GE_4lZS_TWsPMQXI4IGOtq7djFkat6FDbidUXpLk5hqC9KlpMqLZKu6xKAJdQ/s2048/F8AFAB84-2F56-465B-8A52-F3C1E11D4653.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEVtUatkG8x4s_LhkMdB7gKQDoz2E7hETqLE5kLA78I_28FsOhry5pKMSlyZXQjkdxYIS4WOZ33kGbn7GE_4lZS_TWsPMQXI4IGOtq7djFkat6FDbidUXpLk5hqC9KlpMqLZKu6xKAJdQ/s320/F8AFAB84-2F56-465B-8A52-F3C1E11D4653.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-decoration: underline;">Author bio:</span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">TRISH DOLLER is the author of novels for teens and adults about love, life, and finding your place in the world. A former journalist and radio personality, Trish has written several YA novels, including the critically acclaimed </span><span class="s6" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Something Like Normal, </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">as well as </span><span class="s6" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Float Plan,</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> her adult women's fiction debut. When she's not writing, Trish loves sailing, traveling, and avoiding housework. She lives in southwest Florida with an opinionated herding dog and an ex-pirate.</span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-decoration: underline;">Buy link:</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">https://read.macmillan.com/lp/float-plan/</span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-decoration: underline;">Social Links:</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> @</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">TrishDoller</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> on Instagram and Twitter</span></p>The Lovely Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13869305852924891698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407807102147343668.post-27829784497391594442021-02-23T10:30:00.001-06:002021-02-23T10:30:03.863-06:00Cover Reveal—The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava ReidHappy cover reveal to Ava Reid! The cover and synopsis both sound amazing. I, for one, can’t wait to get my hands on the book. <div><br /></div><div>Preorder here: <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-wolf-and-the-woodsman-ava-reid?variant=32269080100898" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-wolf-and-the-woodsman-ava-reid?variant=32269080100898</a><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijhlJNMkyvLXo8z0_AYI_hNf9w6gepsEV-IE-txWrpwnffm6rDCgSHlehsOGAtQ6HSsoseqwFBIlaVTYTVQfVjBL-OxIeyqMEvcg2YpZWRuDwJpNIzTEUKFM57AxBpu-2HpM8-AR5Een8/s1748/A2800AE9-FA43-4B1A-8C67-FAB243B34286.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1748" data-original-width="1083" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijhlJNMkyvLXo8z0_AYI_hNf9w6gepsEV-IE-txWrpwnffm6rDCgSHlehsOGAtQ6HSsoseqwFBIlaVTYTVQfVjBL-OxIeyqMEvcg2YpZWRuDwJpNIzTEUKFM57AxBpu-2HpM8-AR5Een8/s320/A2800AE9-FA43-4B1A-8C67-FAB243B34286.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><b>PLOT SYNOPSIS:<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Taken from the myths and legends of her Jewish and Hungarian heritage, and weaving that with diverse cultural magic, <b>THE WOLF AND THE WOODSMAN</b>sets Évike and Gáspár on a dark, powerful journey that is full of tradition and yet feels entirely unique. When soldiers arrive from the Holy Order of Woodsmen to claim a girl to sacrifice to the king, Évike is betrayed by her fellow villagers and surrendered. But when Évike and the Woodsman’s captain are attacked en route, they form a tenuous pact, forcing them both to decide whose side they are on, and what they are willing to give up for a nation that never cared for them at all. From the truly vicious magic to the sizzling heat between Évike and Gáspár, the twists and turns of this stand-alone will delight and surprise readers as they fall in love with Évike and connect with her struggles and triumphs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxFMf53N2LSIbveCVMWnBZ6hX1CaiHWGVaJov8TG7y5CRSNXssXt5nH_q4gyuKkm0EcMq5w41bJaVnqPRNiUQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">Ava Reid was born in Manhattan and raised right across the Hudson River in Hoboken, but currently lives in Palo Alto, where the weather is too sunny and the people are too friendly. She has a degree in political science from Barnard College, focusing on religion and ethnonationalism. The Wolf and the Woodsman is her debut novel.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;"><u><o:p> </o:p></u></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: 18pt;">ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE WOLF AND THE WOODSMAN</span></u></b><b><u><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">“Reid’s fast-paced debut examines religious freedom through the lens of myth and magic. … The convincing enemies-to-lovers romance, fascinating religion-based magic system, and thoughtful examination of zealotry make this a notable debut.” – <b><i>Publishers Weekly<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">"Gorgeously written and grimly real, <i>The Wolf and the Woodsman</i> is both a myth and a mirror, a bloody fable about two people caught in the jaws of history. It quite literally took my breath away. It has the unsettling-but-compelling gore of Henderson's <i>The Year of the Witching</i>, the folkloric lilt of <i>The Bear and the Nightingale</i>, and the moral complexity of <i>Seeing Like a State</i>. I’m obsessed.”--<b>Alix E Harrow</b>, Hugo-award winning author of <i>The Ten Thousand Doors of January<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">"THE WOLF AND THE WOODSMAN is a book that made me remember how beautiful and gut wrenching historical fantasy can be. It’s a fundamentally Jewish tale, one that gripped me from beginning to end. A riveting debut that will keep you up all night, desperately chasing the heart-pounding conclusion.”--<b>Victoria Lee,</b> author of <i>The Fever King</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">"THE WOLF AND THE WOODSMAN, beautifully written and expertly told, is a darkly magical tale from beginning to end. I was equal parts terrified and delighted, somehow swept away and grounded in a world as beautiful as it is deadly.”--<b>Isabel Ibañez</b>, author of <i>Woven in Moonlight<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">“Évike may be the only one in her village without ‘powers,’ but that doesn’t stop her from being an in-your-face heroine who stands up for the things she believes in and never backs down. Reid has crafted a story that is not only relevant for our times, but has timelessness about it that truly makes it shine. <i>The Wolf and the Woodsman </i>is not a book I will soon forget.”– <b>Genevieve Gornichec</b>, author of <i>The Witch’s Heart</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">“Combining religion, magic, and evocative language, Ava Reid has created a daring fantasy world full of imagination and fierce heroics.”--<b>Luanne G. Smith</b>, bestselling author of <i>The Vine Witch</i></span></p></div></div>The Lovely Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13869305852924891698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407807102147343668.post-85972816988252918892021-01-29T08:00:00.001-06:002021-01-29T08:00:00.242-06:00Combative Trilogy by Jay McLean ~ Sale & Boxset Release Blitz<p> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b>💣🖤 𝔸𝕍𝔸𝕀𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕃𝔼 ℕ𝕆𝕎 🖤 💣</b></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b>𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗦.</b></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b>𝗧𝗪𝗢 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗦.</b></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b>𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗠𝗕.</b><b>⠀</b></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b>𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐱 𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐲 𝐌𝐜𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐄 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐧 #𝐊𝐔! </b></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b>#𝟏-𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟗𝟗 𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒!</b></p>
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<b>BLURB</b>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">In a world full of secrets, heartache, and betrayals, they only have one thing on their mind: redemption.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">But with redemption comes destruction.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">And that destruction might cost them their hearts.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">*</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Kyler Parker is not one of the lucky ones.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Abused and neglected until he was sixteen, Kyler needed an out. A way to escape.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, at twenty-four, Kyler’s past is knocking on his door, offering a deal he has no choice but to take.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">*</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Unwanted from the day she was born, and then discarded, Bailey’s only plan in life is to make it through to the next day.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">One hopeless night, one wrong decision, and one pull of the trigger changes everything.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">*</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Nate DeLuca was born into a life he didn’t want.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Forced to walk a path that was already chosen for him.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Grandson to a mob boss, he’s forever torn between his duty, his honor, his legacy, and the truth.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">But the truth is never simple, and it’s not at all what it seems.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">*</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Some villains are made.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Some villains are born.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">And some villains aren't villains at all.</span>
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<b>ABOUT THE AUTHOR</b>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Writer. Reader. Mom. Wife. Master of awkward Sarcasm. </span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Jay McLean is a full-time reader, writer of New Adult and Young Adult romance, and skilled procrastinator. When she’s not doing any of those things, she can be found running after her three boys, investing way too much time on True Crime Documentaries and binge-watching reality TV.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">She writes what she loves to read, which are books that can make her laugh, make her hurt and make her feel.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Jay lives in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, in her dream home where music is loud and laughter is louder.</span>
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The good, the bad, the used, and the broken</span><span class="s4" style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-align: center;">…</span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Heartbreakingly beautiful and completely engrossing, A young woman's life takes a disturbing and utterly fascinating turn as the past she's put behind comes back to haunt her. USED is packed full of twists, turns, and a gripping romance sure to leave readers emotionally spent and asking for more.</span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a name="_Hlk61339607"></a><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">USED</span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, a brand new standalone </span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">romantic suspense from debut</span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> author </span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Kate Dunbar</span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, will be releasing on </span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">March 8, 2021</span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> on all retailers!</span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Don’t miss the fantastic cover below, and pre-order your copy today!</span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s6" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">“USED was amazing. Like </span></span><span class="s7" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">seriously amazing</span></span><span class="s6" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">. I can't remember the last time I hated to put a book down so I could go to sleep and then immediately pick it up to finish it the next morning. And yet, here we are and that's what I did.” ~ </span></span><span class="s8" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">Samantha Chase, New York Times Bestselling Author</span></span><span class="s6" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"></span></span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s6" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">“Rarely have I read a book </span></span><span class="s7" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">so vividly described, so rich with emotion</span></span><span class="s6" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">, that I felt like I lived it. USED is the kind of book that engages your heart and takes you on a journey that leaves you hopeful and empowered by the end.”</span></span><span class="s6" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"> ~ </span></span><span class="s8" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">Erika Kelly, </span></span><a name="_heading=h.v3cwbet9lm2j"></a><span class="s8" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">Award Winning Author of the Rock Star Romance Series</span></span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s8" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="s21" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s7" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">Heartbreakingly beautiful.</span></span><span class="s6" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"> This book isn’t about angst and pain. It’s about a fighter-a survivor-that we all attain to be. The story </span></span><span class="s7" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">tears you apart</span></span><span class="s6" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"> in the best ways and </span></span><span class="s7" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">builds you back up</span></span><span class="s6" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"> in the most beautiful.”</span></span><a name="_heading=h.gpy17b7lwxyk"></a><span class="s6" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"> ~ </span></span><span class="s8" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">Nichole Chase, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author</span></span></p><p class="s21" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a name="_heading=h.ategwu7mqnih"></a></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s8" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"></span></span></p><p class="s21" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s6" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">“Used is a raw, heart-wrenching story of surviving trauma, but it's also so much more. 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McKenna<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj943ScAHpRChodCPIJK9c8qYeyec4prDXUzQdZvHgnmLoxVwpZEoUHpm2HUxsPs_CgBd-5DreMCUz9-S4dNawYm2wwon8xO0W34Dgo-BgjX7FQRu7pTJEOBU98Z6tVClD4Z1-otydPRIk/s965/Saving+Dr+Warren+Tour+Header+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="965" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj943ScAHpRChodCPIJK9c8qYeyec4prDXUzQdZvHgnmLoxVwpZEoUHpm2HUxsPs_CgBd-5DreMCUz9-S4dNawYm2wwon8xO0W34Dgo-BgjX7FQRu7pTJEOBU98Z6tVClD4Z1-otydPRIk/w400-h200/Saving+Dr+Warren+Tour+Header+%25281%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQzbyJ9w2aetPY7Pqnya7hYlG-vkjOLN0DHntDiajPvT9GO3GbtljwPxpnBOmwaE1F__C7AmEOt3XSa0Lp38vBjiyUvoYwByJ0fTNj3IbDbJONSJm_6eA0JFCio1LhI1UeN8utapZ9yGQ/s499/Saving+Dr.+Warren.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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line-height: 1.87826; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="https://amzn.to/37vNH7q" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saving Dr. Warren … A True Patriot</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.87826; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Written by Jeffery McKenna</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.87826; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Publisher’s Synopsis:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Patriotism Prevailed in…</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.87826; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ✯ The American Revolution</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.87826; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ✯ WWII</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.87826; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ✯ 9-11</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.87826; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What About Today?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.87826; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How do we share Patriotism with America’s Future?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.87826; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The novel </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saving Dr. Warren… A True Patriot</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> answers that question through the eyes of a 14 year old boy.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.87826; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Steve O’Dell loves to write and does it well. But as an eighth-grade student at Needham Middle School, his talent sometimes seems more an embarrassment than a blessing.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.87826; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then, on Veterans Day 2001, Steve’s award-winning essay propels him into an adventure twisting through Revolutionary battles and bloodshed. Thanks to the bizarre bequest of a manuscript and a musket ball from a long-lost family war hero, Steve’s journey with the Revolutionary War hero Dr. Joseph Warren begins.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.87826; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A time-traveling talisman missing from the archives of one of Boston’s oldest historical societies takes Steve through portals of history, where he walks side by side with a real Boston patriot. He makes house calls with Dr. Warren on March 5, 1770, and stumbles onto the bloodstained streets of the Boston Massacre. From the killings of <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://10" style="text-decoration-color: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.38);" x-apple-data-detectors-result="10" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">March 5</a> to boarding tea ships in 1773, Steve’s history book explodes to life as he helps Dr. Warren and forges a friendship with Boston’s True Patriot. Steve watches Dr. Warren launch Paul Revere on his midnight ride, and he helps Dr. Warren dodge British musket balls in the first battles of the War for Independence. With each adventure, Steve tastes the light that ignites The Revolution.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.87826; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Steve will eventually convince others that the Revolutionary relic he was given really does open portals through time, but he faces his most difficult quest alone—saving Dr. Warren from the onslaught at Bunker Hill. Can he do it? And if he fails, will he ever return to this century?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.87826; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saving Dr. Warren…A True Patriot</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> rips through the pages of history. From the Revolutionary War to the vanishing veterans of World War II, to the ashes of September 11, 2001, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saving Dr. Warren</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> demonstrates to both old and young that patriotism, standing like an old oak tree on a grandfather’s farm, has and will endure.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.87826; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ages 11-15 | 366 Pages | Publisher: Jeffery J. McKenna | ISBN-13: 978-0999901205</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #fb0007; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PURCHASE LINK</span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amazon: </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3mXKR1x" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://amzn.to/3mXKR1x</span></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Interview:</p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.6px;">Where did you come up with the idea for Saving Dr. Warren?</span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">Twenty years ago, my wife, and best friend, gave me a book for Christmas. It was titled </span><span class="s5" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; line-height: 21.6px;">Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolution Through </span><span class="s5" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; line-height: 21.6px;">The</span><span class="s5" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; line-height: 21.6px;"> Eyes Of Those That Fought And Lived It</span><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">, written by George F. Scheer and Hugh F. Rankin. </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">I was excited about the book. </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">I love history. </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">I remember where I was and the time of day when I read the first chapter. In a way, you could say that moment changed my life. It introduced me to Dr. Joseph Warren. It started a twenty-year quest to tell his story in an engaging and fun way for the toughest of audiences - teenagers! </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">I learned that night that Dr. Warren sent Paul Revere on the midnight ride that started the Revolutionary War. I remember asking that very night, "Why have I never heard of him? I love American history. Why has his story seemed to have fallen through the cracks of history?"</span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.6px;">What's a good lesson one would take when finishing the book?</span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">I hope the reader will feel a greater appreciation for those that have sacrificed and those that are currently still sacrificing so much for us to enjoy the blessings of living in America. </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">Oh, please know that I recognize the United States has faults. In book two of my three-part series, much will be explored of families struggling through some of our country's shortfalls. </span><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">But,</span><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">the United States is a beautiful and remarkable nation and has the ability to continue to improve. </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">I'd like the reader of Saving Dr. Warren... "A True Patriot" to REMEMBER the United States is worth living for and dying for. I would like the reader to respect more, honor more, and REMEMBER more, those that have done just that. </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.6px;">What's your writing process? Music? Snacks?</span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">Long, tedious, torturous. It doesn't come easy. </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">I get big bursts of ideas here and there. However, turning those ideas into a readable story is a painful process for me.</span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">Time to write is a precious gift. I live a very busy life. I'm a father of four children, a partner at a law firm, and am very involved in my church and other community services. Finding time to write is not easy. Hence ... one book was twenty years in the making. :-)</span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.6px;">What book would you take with you on a desert island?</span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">The Bible. </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">I love the Old Testament and New Testament stories. I've read almost all of them, but I've never read the Bible cover to cover. It is so deep and so expansive. I don't think I could ever get bored! </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.6px;">Do you have any advice for aspiring writers?</span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">Take the plunge today! </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">Start early. </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">Start now. </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">I know all too well the insecurities and growing pains that come with trying to write your first novel. It's so easy to compare your work to other published authors and feel like you're not measuring up. When this happens, remember that "comparison is the thief of joy"—Teddy </span><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">Rosevelt</span><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">. That story you have inside of you is a story only you can tell. Listen to the critics; they're there to help you, but don't get discouraged by them. </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;">I wish you the best of luck, and may God bless you! </span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;"><br /></span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-hS0tfSKzqvGx-atybpBhImoc8-edg1_XjgVg8lLdS__JWS3JNTthm99lCQI2MSk0SwfymetISpz6v7X2wZYtbJV4JS3idEflPECDEP7CwakVh1NLfGX13g-Dpn8mV2f7-tvSG1x56qY/s883/Jeff-McKenna-Author-Image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="883" data-original-width="710" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-hS0tfSKzqvGx-atybpBhImoc8-edg1_XjgVg8lLdS__JWS3JNTthm99lCQI2MSk0SwfymetISpz6v7X2wZYtbJV4JS3idEflPECDEP7CwakVh1NLfGX13g-Dpn8mV2f7-tvSG1x56qY/s320/Jeff-McKenna-Author-Image.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #fb0007; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ABOUT THE AUTHOR</span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeff Mckenna resides in a peaceful Southern Utah town amidst the red rocks that make up National Parks like Zion and Arches. He loves mountain biking over the brightly colored sandstone that surrounds him, as well as new trails he finds when he goes on cross-country RV trips with his wife. Along with reading entertaining historical fiction novels, Jeff believes a great way to learn to love America is by exploring her beautiful landscape and visiting cities and states from sea to shining sea. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeff’s love for his country is what has fostered his love for writing. Uncovering America’s history can be messy, but Jeff dives in with both hands to uncover what lies hidden in our nation’s past. He loves to reveal forgotten heroes and help them come alive for young Americans as they race through the pages of his historical fiction novel, Saving Dr. Warren… “A True Patriot.” </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeff would love to hear about the American heroes you’ve discovered as you’ve dived into history! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For more information, visit</span><a href="https://www.jefferyjmckenna.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.jefferyjmckenna.com/</span></a></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Visit</span><a href="https://www.jefferyjmckenna.com/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeffery J. McKenna's website</span></a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for plenty of free educational resources that have been created specifically for </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saving Dr. Warren... A True Patriot.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> You'll find lesson plans, an essay contest, as well as information about author visits.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This historical-fiction novel has been used in several middle school classrooms as a resource for both History and English teachers—it is a great educational tool for parents, librarians, and teachers.</span></span></p><div><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.6px;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.6px;"><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DISCLOSURE</span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Per FTC guidelines, you must clearly disclose partnership with The Children’s Book Review and author Jeffery McKenna in both your blog post and all social shares.</span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GIVEAWAY</span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.87826; margin-bottom: 2pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enter for a chance to win a copy of </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saving Dr. Warren … “A True Patriot</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,” autographed by Jeffery McKenna!</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><strong><br /></strong></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><strong style="background-color: white;">One (1) grand prize winner receives:</strong></p><ul style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><li><span style="background-color: white;">A copy of <em>Saving Dr. Warren … “A True Patriot</em>,” autographed by Jeffery McKenna</span></li><li><span style="background-color: white;">An original 1700’s musket ball</span></li></ul><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><strong style="background-color: white;">Two (2) winners receive:</strong></p><ul style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><li><span style="background-color: white;">A copy of <em>Saving Dr. Warren … “A True Patriot</em>,” autographed by Jeffery McKenna</span></li><li style="color: white;"><br /></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.87826; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The giveaway begins December 10, 2020, at 12:01 A.M. MT and ends January 10, 2020, at 11:59 P.M. MT.</span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #fb0007; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TOUR SCHEDULE</span></p><p class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 21.6px;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span></p><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; margin-left: 0pt; text-size-adjust: auto;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: medium none;"><colgroup><col width="51"></col><col width="238"></col><col width="276"></col><col width="105"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 27.75pt;"><td style="border: 0.75pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dec 10</span></p></td><td style="border: 0.75pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Children's Book Review</span></p></td><td style="border: 0.75pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.thechildrensbookreview.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.thechildrensbookreview.com/</span></a></p></td><td style="border: 0.75pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); 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font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lisa's Reading</span></p></td><td style="border: 0.75pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://lisasreading.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://lisasreading.com</span></a></p></td><td style="border: 0.75pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; 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overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.lifeiswhatitscalled.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.lifeiswhatitscalled.blogspot.com</span></a></p></td><td style="border: 0.75pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Interview</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 15.75pt;"><td style="border: 0.75pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dec 14</span></p></td><td style="border: 0.75pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Life Is What It's Called</span></p></td><td style="border: 0.75pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow: hidden; padding: 2pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.lifeiswhatitscalled.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; 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<script src="https://widget-prime.rafflecopter.com/launch.js"></script>The Lovely Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13869305852924891698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407807102147343668.post-72559269315087712562020-12-15T08:00:00.004-06:002020-12-15T08:00:01.237-06:00Excerpt feat Giveaway—Layla by Colleen Hoover<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj27VFH4M7s1fZitdqQlxpEOOdsrc-ERQt3QGKLJVm7CLeVNYCqRGzTqze16NGowd3at2JTbEPiFxjBdEXmaqAwoGMfmQk0LudWyU6eh5Ds9Ph779Rv5V2PLGyJaPkimKX5V7SahFo0uac/s500/F44A87F8-B4BB-487F-A6CD-2A40C23CB6D7.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj27VFH4M7s1fZitdqQlxpEOOdsrc-ERQt3QGKLJVm7CLeVNYCqRGzTqze16NGowd3at2JTbEPiFxjBdEXmaqAwoGMfmQk0LudWyU6eh5Ds9Ph779Rv5V2PLGyJaPkimKX5V7SahFo0uac/s320/F44A87F8-B4BB-487F-A6CD-2A40C23CB6D7.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> <b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">About the Book</span></b></p><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">Title: <i>Layla</i></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">Author: Colleen Hoover</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">Release Date: December 8, 2020</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">Publisher: Montlake</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><b><span face="arial, sans-serif">Summary</span></b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">When Leeds meets Layla, he’s convinced he’ll spend the rest of his life with her—until an unexpected attack leaves Layla fighting for her life. After weeks in the hospital, Layla recovers physically, but the emotional and mental scarring has altered the woman Leeds fell in love with. In order to put their relationship back on track, Leeds whisks Layla away to the bed-and-breakfast where they first met. Once they arrive, Layla’s behavior takes a bizarre turn. And that’s just one of many inexplicable occurrences.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br />Feeling distant from Layla, Leeds soon finds solace in Willow—another guest of the B&B with whom he forms a connection through their shared concerns. As his curiosity for Willow grows, his decision to help her find answers puts him in direct conflict with Layla’s well-being. Leeds soon realizes he has to make a choice because he can’t help both of them. But if he makes the wrong choice, it could be detrimental for <i>all</i> of them.<br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN">This month bestselling author Colleen Hoover released her very first paranormal romance, <i>Layla</i>. Today Colleen shares one of her very favorite parts of the book and introduces the scene. Colleen, take it away! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span lang="EN">“Leeds and Layla have just met about an hour before this scene takes place. I wouldn’t say they experienced insta-love, but it was definitely an immediate attraction. Leeds is lonely and withdrawn from life, while Layla is the opposite. She’s over the top and fun and everything Leeds isn’t. He’s a musician who has never released any of his own music due to insecurities and doubt. But Layla lights a fire in him and uncovers the confidence about his music that he keeps buried.” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><b><span lang="EN"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><b><span lang="EN">Excerpt from <i>Layla</i> by Colleen Hoover</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN">Layla leans in and I expect her to kiss me, but instead she whispers, “Play me something,” against my mouth. Then she moves to the couch and lies down. “Play something worthy of that piano,” she says. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN">She crosses her legs at her ankles and lets one of her arms dangle off the couch. She runs her finger against the hardwood floor while she waits for me to start playing, but I can’t stop staring at her. I’m not sure there’s another woman on this planet who could make me want to stare at her without blinking until my eyes dry up, but she’s looking at me expectantly. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN">“What if you don’t like my music?” I ask. “Will you still let me kiss you?” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN">She smiles gently. “Does the song mean something to you?” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN">“I wrote it using pieces of my soul.” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN">“Then you have nothing to worry about,” she says quietly. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN">I spin around on the bench and place my fingers on the keys. I hesitate for a moment before playing the song. I’ve never performed it for anyone before. The only person I’ve ever wanted to sing it for is my father, and he’s no longer alive. His death is the reason I wrote this in the first place. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN">I’ve never been nervous while playing Garrett’s songs onstage, but this feels different. This is personal, and despite the fact that there’s only one person in the audience right now, it feels like the most intense audience I’ve ever performed for. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN">I fill my lungs with air and slowly release it as I begin to play. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">That night I <i>stopped</i> believing in heaven</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">I can’t believe in a god that cruel</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">Can you?</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">That night I stopped praying on my knees</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">But I don’t pray standing either</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">Do you?</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">That night I closed the door and closed the</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">window</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">I’ve been sitting in the dark</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">Are you?</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">That night I learned happiness is a fairy tale</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">A thousand pages read aloud</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">By you</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">That night I stopped believing in God</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">You were ours, he didn’t care, he</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">Took you</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">So that night I stopped . . .</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">I stopped . . .</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">I just</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">Stopped.</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">That night I stopped.</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">I stopped.</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">I just stopped.</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">That night I stopped.</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN">I . . .</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN">When I’m finished playing the song, I fold my hands in my lap. I’m a little hesitant to turn around and look at her. The whole room got quiet after I played the last note. So quiet—it feels like all the sound was sucked out of the house. I can’t even hear her breathing. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN">I close the cover to the piano and then slowly spin around on the bench. She’s wiping her eyes, staring up at the ceiling.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN">“Wow,” she whispers. “I wasn’t expecting that. I feel like you just stomped on my chest.” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN">That’s how I’ve felt since I first laid eyes on her tonight. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN">“I like how it ends,” she says. She sits up on the couch and tucks her legs beneath her. “You just stop in the middle of the sentence. It’s so perfect. So powerful.” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.100000381469727px; margin: 0in;"><span lang="EN">I wasn’t sure if she’d realize the intentional ending, but the fact that she does makes me all the more enamored of h</span></p></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><b><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilhAu6MVqyQOPlqcV-Ph02p5hIAf2nK8VR9dR3DBouky8IMqxn4Xbhpc0hF-ew_6mLndmm58tGv11PjH9nzUtxij-PcQ406VABi3r5ZktXMY7_CUXW5Z614UR-ARsUkXwEPVatY4FnVAA/s959/DC5A395A-A748-4EC8-BF93-D532F6835493.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="959" data-original-width="959" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilhAu6MVqyQOPlqcV-Ph02p5hIAf2nK8VR9dR3DBouky8IMqxn4Xbhpc0hF-ew_6mLndmm58tGv11PjH9nzUtxij-PcQ406VABi3r5ZktXMY7_CUXW5Z614UR-ARsUkXwEPVatY4FnVAA/s320/DC5A395A-A748-4EC8-BF93-D532F6835493.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><b><span face="arial, sans-serif">Author Biography</span></b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">Colleen Hoover is the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of several novels, including the bestselling women’s fiction novel <i>It Ends with Us</i> and the bestselling psychological thriller <i>Verity</i>. She has won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance three years in a row—for <i>Confess</i> (2015), <i>It Ends with Us</i> (2016), and <i>Without Merit</i> (2017). <i>Confess</i> was adapted into a seven-episode online series. In 2015, Hoover and her family founded the Bookworm Box, a bookstore and monthly subscription service that offers signed novels donated by authors. All profits go to various charities each month to help those in need. Hoover lives in Texas with her husband and their three boys.<br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><b><span face="arial, sans-serif">Social Media Links</span></b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">Website: <a href="http://www.colleenhoover.com/" style="color: var(--accent-color) !important; text-decoration-color: var(--accent-color) !important;" target="_blank">http://www.colleenhoover.com/</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AuthorColleenHoover/" style="color: var(--accent-color) !important; text-decoration-color: var(--accent-color) !important;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/AuthorColleenHoover/</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/colleenhoover" style="color: var(--accent-color) !important; text-decoration-color: var(--accent-color) !important;" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/colleenhoover</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">Goodreads: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5430144.Colleen_Hoover" style="color: var(--accent-color) !important; text-decoration-color: var(--accent-color) !important;" target="_blank">https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5430144.Colleen_Hoover</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Giveaway— <a href="http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/07c2363f264" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/07c2363f264</a></div>The Lovely Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13869305852924891698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407807102147343668.post-39164423513569105422020-12-09T07:30:00.001-06:002020-12-09T07:30:05.774-06:00Colleen Hoover Q&A of new book Layla + Giveaway!<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw_ooA5Fj-UiAySFQvWIPEDjlR09poudPF27WXkluLiSwqmMA6bEl48aLQOmqYdcHodAKhAp-1svBIWJtsAtzr9qROnyK0DKWQhsL5F-aLozu3aE2G269bLBa8wgXNd5oV1C7zSAEZnTo/s500/FF3391D6-0F0D-42CD-9719-84C17FDCF140.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw_ooA5Fj-UiAySFQvWIPEDjlR09poudPF27WXkluLiSwqmMA6bEl48aLQOmqYdcHodAKhAp-1svBIWJtsAtzr9qROnyK0DKWQhsL5F-aLozu3aE2G269bLBa8wgXNd5oV1C7zSAEZnTo/s320/FF3391D6-0F0D-42CD-9719-84C17FDCF140.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Q&A with Author Colleen Hoover</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>You have written in many different genres and always keep your fans wanting more. For Layla, you are dipping your toes into a paranormal story that has lots of secrets. How do you describe Layla without giving anything away? #spoilerfreezone </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">What is supposed to be a short, romantic getaway for new couple Leeds and Layla turns into an extended vacation full of bizarre occurrences. But no matter how much Layla wants to leave, Leeds is more focused on finding answers for the unexplainable.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The paranormal elements in your story are faint...just a whisper...until they take over. What was it like adding another worldly twist to your writing for the first time? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;">It was HARD. Super hard. I love using my imagination, but I also love realistic stories, so I found myself trying to pull back on things I didn’t feel were realistic. But then it got a lot easier when I decided to just make Leeds’s reactions sort of mirror what I would do orsay in those early moments. I put a lot of my own thoughts in Leeds’s character. He finds it hard to explain some of the things that happen, so his reactions are probably what my reactions would be at first. Until there was no room left for doubt, anyway. Then his actions veer very far from what mine would have been.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Love-at-first-sight is such a mundane phrase for what these two share. Their passionate relationship seems to move in fast-forward. What is it about these characters that make their connection so instantaneous?</b> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I knew where the story was going to go, so I needed their meet-cute to be believable, fun, and I wanted them to be a couple readers would root for. I probably rewrote that first chapter dozens of times,but I focused mainly on their banter. Sometimes we meet people we instantly click with on so many different levels. Leeds and Layla clicked with their sarcasm, their humor, their taste in music. And she read him without even knowing him. To Leeds that was special. I think he felt seen in a world where he’s often overlooked. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>It becomes somewhat of an inside joke between your couple that, before Layla, Leeds’ always wore a look like he was“dying inside.” The truth is that he was deeply unhappy before meeting Layla. How does she change his life?</b> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Leeds is lonely and holding back on his dreams because of doubts. Leeds sees something different in Layla. She’s carefree, fun and gives him confidence to follow his dreams. In a sense, I think she’s his missing puzzle piece. She fills the parts of him that are empty. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Before Leeds, Layla doesn’t have a real direction in her life. What does this romance provide to her and why is she so grateful to have found her hero? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Layla is fresh out of college, living with her parents and unemployed. Leeds’s career gives her focus, and being with him inTennessee got her out of a place where she probably felt useless and unproductive. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Can readers expect more paranormal elements in your books moving forward?</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I’ll never say never! </div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center;"><br />***<span face="arial, sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></b></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><b><span face="arial, sans-serif">About the Book</span></b></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">Title: <i>Layla</i></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">Author: Colleen Hoover</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">Release Date: December 8, 2020</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">Publisher: Montlake</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><b><span face="arial, sans-serif">Summary</span></b></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">When Leeds meets Layla, he’s convinced he’ll spend the rest of his life with her—until an unexpected attack leaves Layla fighting for her life. After weeks in the hospital, Layla recovers physically, but the emotional and mental scarring has altered the woman Leeds fell in love with. In order to put their relationship back on track, Leeds whisks Layla away to the bed-and-breakfast where they first met. Once they arrive, Layla’s behavior takes a bizarre turn. And that’s just one of many inexplicable occurrences.</span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br />Feeling distant from Layla, Leeds soon finds solace in Willow—another guest of the B&B with whom he forms a connection through their shared concerns. As his curiosity for Willow grows, his decision to help her find answers puts him in direct conflict with Layla’s well-being. Leeds soon realizes he has to make a choice because he can’t help both of them. But if he makes the wrong choice, it could be detrimental for <i>all</i> of them.<br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh628TzZosfTDDyw2su1wxMh-DHGRVfeQA-PJF9AWCDXejxminDHl8To2XI1eqlU9kOqLPKL3AMr-JeL0Cs6x0gqaScLIUBP5wfk24Rj6MEzWCHvuuhMX6Hu9IclMBWduRF-2s0Dv8flbk/s959/760A440C-FF05-43E1-B5E0-EC17A457B302.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="959" data-original-width="959" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh628TzZosfTDDyw2su1wxMh-DHGRVfeQA-PJF9AWCDXejxminDHl8To2XI1eqlU9kOqLPKL3AMr-JeL0Cs6x0gqaScLIUBP5wfk24Rj6MEzWCHvuuhMX6Hu9IclMBWduRF-2s0Dv8flbk/s320/760A440C-FF05-43E1-B5E0-EC17A457B302.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><b><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></b></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><b><span face="arial, sans-serif">Author Biography</span></b></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">Colleen Hoover is the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of several novels, including the bestselling women’s fiction novel <i>It Ends with Us</i> and the bestselling psychological thriller <i>Verity</i>. She has won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance three years in a row—for <i>Confess</i> (2015), <i>It Ends with Us</i> (2016), and <i>Without Merit</i> (2017). <i>Confess</i> was adapted into a seven-episode online series. In 2015, Hoover and her family founded the Bookworm Box, a bookstore and monthly subscription service that offers signed novels donated by authors. All profits go to various charities each month to help those in need. Hoover lives in Texas with her husband and their three boys.<br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><b><span face="arial, sans-serif">Social Media Links</span></b></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">Website: <a href="http://www.colleenhoover.com/" target="_blank">http://www.colleenhoover.com/</a></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AuthorColleenHoover/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/AuthorColleenHoover/</a></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/colleenhoover" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/colleenhoover</a></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">Goodreads: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5430144.Colleen_Hoover" target="_blank">https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5430144.Colleen_Hoover</a></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><b><span face="arial, sans-serif">Rafflecopter Giveaway</span></b></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><u><span face="arial, sans-serif">Direct Link</span></u></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/07c2363f263" target="_blank">http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/07c2363f263</a> <br /></span></div></div><p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></p><p><br /></p><p> Review: </p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I went into this not knowing a thing about it. It’s Colleen Hoover so, why would I? Right? The only thing that I did know was that it would be a paranormal romance—I remember when she started talking about it. It has the usual Hoover you see in her books; great abd engaging writing, decent characters (kind of?), and a story like no other. She does well with writing unique books. </span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Only thing I didn’t care for, for the majority of the story was Leeds. I had a tough time connecting to him and even wondering why he did the things he did. So this is a review for those who don’t like him, his story is somewhat redeemable in the end. I wouldn’t say I completely love him in the end, but he was tolerable. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Layla was cool. I liked how quirky and free-spirited she was before everything that happened. There was a big twist that wasn’t really a twist to me. I don’t know if it’s because I read so many PNR and mysteries and thrillers, that this just didn’t really completely ‘wow’ me. I knew the twist from the moment that incident happened in the beginning of the book. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">There’s so much more to say about the story but eh, I say go in blind haha. I will admit one night when I reading, I got really creeped out and had to stop reading. Then I dreamed about the book! That’s the power of Colleen Hoover, I guess. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">*Thank you to the publisher for providing a free copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All thoughts and opinions are subjective but my own. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" />The Lovely Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13869305852924891698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407807102147343668.post-51121372602038899872020-12-02T15:26:00.005-06:002020-12-02T15:26:35.896-06:00Review— The Bookworm's Guide to Faking It (The Bookworm's Guide #2) by Emma Hart<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO5dWURrn_2z41SBGTC-wg2HSmf079H4d6DQjCdVwsOjL12DIRfmw8ObAd0VtxSIG7UCwoJuuKqoPj5PsuG_O10QEUqFWwKZSadI9TViH3MMRaS3AWIzXq8Ck4R8j5Q8EYi4F9xJCCbao/s2000/5DBE948F-519F-4917-88C6-86513DECE3A3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="761" data-original-width="2000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO5dWURrn_2z41SBGTC-wg2HSmf079H4d6DQjCdVwsOjL12DIRfmw8ObAd0VtxSIG7UCwoJuuKqoPj5PsuG_O10QEUqFWwKZSadI9TViH3MMRaS3AWIzXq8Ck4R8j5Q8EYi4F9xJCCbao/s320/5DBE948F-519F-4917-88C6-86513DECE3A3.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5XyAhP-b-TtgZiDYB5vobWHKajsUBDCdrxRDBVnxrBttOsy_4jKJbgYGd_LzJUTSZOnRnMljMF69Gm7Xr1GGXxyrUK7fDh9nx_Lc6dm7bG9NYf8sCLojsMoU0hv6Z83q0RTfRcRLCm3I/s475/935ED492-041C-4C41-9D2B-A09661D1B9C4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="305" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5XyAhP-b-TtgZiDYB5vobWHKajsUBDCdrxRDBVnxrBttOsy_4jKJbgYGd_LzJUTSZOnRnMljMF69Gm7Xr1GGXxyrUK7fDh9nx_Lc6dm7bG9NYf8sCLojsMoU0hv6Z83q0RTfRcRLCm3I/s320/935ED492-041C-4C41-9D2B-A09661D1B9C4.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Publisher: Emma Hart</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Published: December 2, 2020</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Genre: Contemporary Romance</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Source: E-ARC</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Rating: 4 stars</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="s6" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36px;"><span class="s7" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53886618-the-bookworm-s-guide-to-faking-it?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=wPVLzzBNb2&rank=2" target="_blank">THE BOOKWORM’S GUIDE TO FAKING IT</a></span></span><span class="s7" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s8" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span><span class="s8" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">an </span></span><span class="s8" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">all-new, side-splittingly hilarious </span></span><span class="s8" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">second chance</span></span><span class="s8" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">romcom from New York Times bestselling author, Emma Hart</span></span><span class="s8" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> is LIVE!!!</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="s6" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p class="s6" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36px;"><span class="s7" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">BLURB </span></span><span class="s9" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 24px;">→</span></span></p><p class="s11" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s10" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">What I expected on Saturday morning: Books.</span></span></p><p class="s11" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s10" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">What I got on Saturday morning: my ex-best friend and first crush in front of me.</span></span></p><p class="s11" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p class="s11" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Let it be known that I, Holley Stuart, do not give a single rat's behind about pro baseball's star pitcher Sebastian Stone.</span></span></p><p class="s11" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I definitely </span></span><span class="s13" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; font-style: italic; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">don't</span></span><span class="s12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> care that he's standing in my bookstore.</span></span></p><p class="s11" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Nor do I care that he seems to have forgotten about the last time we saw each other--senior prom, when he both humiliated me and broke my heart, albeit unknowingly.</span></span></p><p class="s11" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Now, he needs a date to his sister's wedding.</span></span></p><p class="s11" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Don't ask me how I ended up being it, because I have no idea. But that's the least of my problems.</span></span></p><p class="s11" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">His grandfather is adamant we're dating, and </span></span><span class="s12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Seb</span></span><span class="s12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> isn't in a hurry to convince him otherwise, so I have no choice but to go along with it.</span></span></p><p class="s11" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The problem? The only thing I've ever faked is... well, </span></span><span class="s13" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; font-style: italic; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">you know</span></span><span class="s12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></span></p><p class="s11" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I've definitely never faked my feelings for someone.</span></span></p><p class="s11" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">And judging by the way I feel whenever </span></span><span class="s12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Seb</span></span><span class="s12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> looks at me, it doesn't look like I'm starting now...</span></span></p><p class="s11" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="s11" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Review:</span></span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">“But it wasn’t real.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"> And it wasn’t a dream. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">This right here was a nightmare.”<br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Let me start off by saying that I liked this and thought it was both entertaining and fun to read. I have to get something off my chest though! </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><p class="s11" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">I liked Saylor (I’m just going to get that out of the way) because she was the only one I felt called Holley out on her shit. Holley agrees to go as a date to a wedding with Sebastian, her ex best friend/heartbreaker, and if I truly believed she didn’t want to go with him then that’s one thing. But all she ever did was whine and complain even though she’s clearly not over him or what happened at prom all those years ago. It got old fast. </span></span></span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"> Don’t even get me started on the fact that Holley acted like a bitch to Sebastion from something he did almost a decade ago!! Again, Saylor saved the day by telling her to get over it and get over herself. Thank you! To be pissed from something that happened so long ago is just dumb. I could understand a year or two going by and still being mad. Any more than that, then you’re just a bitter, salty bitch. No other way to put it! </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">You may think I hated the book based on that little rant but rest assured I liked it. It was funny and yes, romantic. I loved the fact that I felt a connection to Holley when it came to being a bookworm. Once we got passed the prickly stage that I didn’t like, I definitely felt an appreciation for her that I didn’t have in the beginning of the book. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Especially when it came to finally opening up. Sebastion and Holley as a couple was magical to see. I may have a slight weakness when it comes to baseball players and booknerds. So maybe I’m also a little bit biased. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Overall, if you’re looking for something light and romantic, then this is the one for you. It has the fake dating trope I love so much and the hero could be pretty swoony. </div><p class="s11" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s12" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /></span></span></p><p class="s11" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p class="s15" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="s14" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 10.800000190734863px;"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="font-size: 2em; 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font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Publisher: Avon Books</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Published: December 1, 2020</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Genre: Histical Romance</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Source: E-ARC</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Rating: 4 stars</span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">See what other readers & reviewers are saying here <a href="https://bit.ly/2JpN2fM" style="color: var(--accent-color) !important; text-decoration-color: var(--accent-color) !important;">https://bit.ly/2JpN2fM</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Blurb:</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;"><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;"><i>USA Today</i> bestselling author Loretta Chase continues her Difficult Dukes series with this delightful spin on Shakespeare's classic, <i>The Taming of the Shrew.</i><br /><br />This time, who’s taming whom…</b><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">Cassandra Pomfret holds strong opinions she isn’t shy about voicing. But her extremely plain speaking has caused an uproar, and her exasperated father, hoping a husband will rein her in, has ruled that her beloved sister can’t marry until Cassandra does. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">Now, thanks to a certain wild-living nobleman, the last shreds of Cassandra’s reputation are about to disintegrate, taking her sister’s future and her family’s good name along with them. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">The Duke of Ashmont’s looks make women swoon. His character flaws are beyond counting. He’s lost a perfectly good bride through his own carelessness. He nearly killed one of his two best friends. Still, troublemaker that he is, he knows that damaging a lady’s good name isn’t sporting. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">The only way to right the wrong is to marry her…and hope she doesn’t smother him in his sleep on their wedding night.</span><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Review:</span><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">There’s something about reading a book about a naughty Duke that just gives me butterflies in my stomach! The Duke of Ashmont is everything I want in a hero and more. Cassandra is the perfect heroine that I immediately loved! Their chemistry and banter is everything I wished for and more. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">My only hang up was that I wished there was a tad bit more romance. Don’t get me wrong, what we got was great! But I’m one that lives and breathes romance and I was just left with feeling that I wanted more. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Overall, it was a fast and easy read. The characters made it so fun! I look forward to more books in the Difficult Dukes series. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">*Thank you to the publisher for providing a free copy for an honest and unbiased review. All thoughts and opinions are subjective but my own. <br /><div><br /></div><div>Buy the book:</div><div>Amazon US <a href="https://amzn.to/3lwMKk1" style="color: var(--accent-color) !important; text-decoration-color: var(--accent-color) !important;">https://amzn.to/3lwMKk1</a></div><div>Amazon UK <a href="https://amzn.to/3qktN87" style="color: var(--accent-color) !important; text-decoration-color: var(--accent-color) !important;">https://amzn.to/3qktN87</a></div><div><br /></div><div>About the Author:</div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Loretta Lynda Chekani was born in 1949, of Albanian ancestry. For her, the trouble started when she learned to write in first grade. Before then, she had been making up her own stories but now she knew how to write them down to share. In her teenage years, she continue to write letters, keep a journal, write poetry and even attempt the Great American Novel (still unfinished). She attended New England public schools, before she went off to college and earned an English degree from Clark University.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">After graduation, she worked a variety of jobs at Clark including a part-time teaching post. She was also moonlighting as a video scriptwriter. It was there that she met a video producer who inspired her to write novels and marry him. Under her married name, Loretta Chase, has been publishing historical romance novels since 1987. Her books have won many awards, including the Romance Writers of America RITA.</span></div></div></div><p><br /></p>The Lovely Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13869305852924891698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407807102147343668.post-61892555890360865092020-11-29T07:00:00.001-06:002020-12-01T10:47:51.383-06:00Blog Tour—Pretending by <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZfJyg2PesIzGXM46D0_1nUHURMO4XiHzH1OAwz34dUVN8qRUaVUO6WQS8YgG4wBFAy7d3Dtct4jSK3jjBixCUbbEmaOI0sZRSli4MTNLbJ764Y5WEH23PYky-Gc3Ksrkbk9qJIOC-POk/s400/0BC502E2-6F49-42F2-98A7-DDEF3DCC7BAE.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="267" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZfJyg2PesIzGXM46D0_1nUHURMO4XiHzH1OAwz34dUVN8qRUaVUO6WQS8YgG4wBFAy7d3Dtct4jSK3jjBixCUbbEmaOI0sZRSli4MTNLbJ764Y5WEH23PYky-Gc3Ksrkbk9qJIOC-POk/s320/0BC502E2-6F49-42F2-98A7-DDEF3DCC7BAE.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p>Blurb: <span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">In </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">PRETENDING</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">, April struggles to move on after a traumatic relationship. She’s kind, pretty, and relatively normal, but she can’t seem to get past the fifth date. Every time she thinks she’s found someone she can trust, they reveal their awful selves to her and leave her heartbroken. Until April realizes that what men really want is </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Gretel</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Gretel is perfect - beautiful but low maintenance, sweet but never clingy, sexy but not a slut. She's a Regular Everyday Manic Pixie Dream Girl Next Door With No Problems. And when April pretends to be Gretel, dating becomes so much more fun—especially when she reels in the unexpecting Joshua. Finally, April is the one in control, but it’s her own feelings that she can’t seem to manage. And as she and Joshua grow closer, how long will she be able to keep pretending?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Perfect for fans of “Fleabag,” with winking narration and bitingly observant humor,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><b style="font-size: 11pt;">PRETENDING</b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">is an emotionally authentic take on #MeToo narratives and explores the pain and frustration of dating men in an era when stories about assault are a daily occurrence. </span>In <b>PRETENDING</b>, April struggles to move on after a traumatic relationship. She’s kind, pretty, and relatively normal, but she can’t seem to get past the fifth date. Every time she thinks she’s found someone she can trust, they reveal their awful selves to her and leave her heartbroken. Until April realizes that what men really want is <i>Gretel</i>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Review:</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;" /></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">This has the best firstliner in a book I’ve ever read. “I hate men.” I just KNEW that once I read that short little line, that Pretending was going to be my type of book. April is my gal—beautiful, kind, and just so happens to have terrible luck in the lurveeee department. Don’t we all, April?</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Bottom line, always be yourself. If you find yourself needing to lie to impress someone, you’re not only doing them a disservice, you’re doing yourself a disservice as well. April is 100% of herself but men just don’t like her. That’s when she comes up with a plan to act not like herself. She meets Joshua and the two start a relationship based on April’s one little lie. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">That one little lie turns into something quite big though. April and Joshua are a good pair. I liked them both a lot. While I loved April a lot, there were times where I got a teensy bit annoyed with her. She’s very...unique and obsessed with falling in love. Sometimes less is more. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">Overall, I had a ton of fun reading this! It’s romantic and funny. The message about always being yourself bares repeating. BE YOURSELF!</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">*Thank you to the publisher for providing a copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All thoughts and opinions are subjective but my own. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: #454545; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">See what readers abd reviewers are saying <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43788851-pretending?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=kEExOQE7Ex&rank=1" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Buy the book:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08775B6T5/ref=x_gr_w_glide_sin?caller=Goodreads&callerLink=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fbook%2Fshow%2F53238732-pretending&tag=x_gr_w_glide_sin-20" target="_blank">Amazon US</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pretending-Holly-Bourne/dp/0778331504/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=pretending+holly&qid=1606841167&sr=8-2" target="_blank">Amazon UK</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">About the Author:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Holly started her writing career as a news journalist, where she was nominated for Best Print Journalist of the Year. She then spent six years working as an editor, a relationship advisor, and general ‘agony aunt’ for a youth charity – helping young people with their relationships and mental health. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Inspired by what she saw, she started writing teen fiction, including the best-selling, award-winning ‘Spinster Club’ series which helps educate teenagers about feminism. When she turned thirty, Holly wrote her first adult novel, 'How Do You Like Me Now?', examining the intensified pressures on women once they hit that landmark.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Alongside her writing, Holly has a keen interest in women’s rights and is an advocate for reducing the stigma of mental health problems. She’s helped create online apps that teach young people about sexual consent, works with Women’s Aid to spread awareness of abusive relationships, and runs Rethink’s mental health book club.</span></p>The Lovely Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13869305852924891698noreply@blogger.com0