RELEASE BLITZ: On Loverose Lane by Samantha Young

 

On Loverose Lane by Samantha Young is now live! 

Imagine my surprise when my new neighbor turns out to be one of Scotland’s most famous (and hottest) professional footballers, Callan Keen. I’m even more shocked to discover that the brooding player is still holding a grudge for something that happened (or didn’t happen) between us years ago.

Too busy trying to take my social media management company to the next level, I don’t have time for this gorgeous blast from the past. Or at least I shouldn’t. Yet whenever I see him, I can’t help but engage in a battle of wits with the grump upstairs.

When a huge client opportunity arises, circumstances force me to enlist Callan’s help. I require a fake date and Callan needs me to facilitate a meeting with my dad to further his own business interests.

The deal between us should be simple. Except, of course, the blazing chemistry we’ve shared since the moment we met. We can’t deny it, we can’t control it, and soon we’re agreeing to six weeks of no-strings-attached, mind-blowing, steamy shenanigans.

I told myself I was too smart to catch feelings. But when Callan finally finds out the truth about our past, he becomes the guy I used to know. And that man is way too easy to fall for.

The problem is that Callan has vowed to never let another person close enough to break his heart again.

It just might prove impossible to show my stubborn Scotsman I’m worth the risk, especially when old wounds are re-opened and threaten to wreck any chance of a future together…

The #1 International bestselling author is back with this emotional and steamy sports romance in which ambitious entrepreneur, Beth Carmichael, meets her match in the grumpy football captain who moves into the apartment above hers.

  

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Meet Samantha

Samantha Young is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. She's been nominated for several Goodreads Choice Awards. Samantha writes adult contemporary and paranormal romance, YA urban fantasy and YA contemporary fiction and is currently published in 31 countries.
She resides in Scotland.

 

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Review: Servant of Earth by Sarah Hawley

Servant of Earth by Sarah Hawley
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I was provided an ARC of this book via Netgalley, all opinions are my own.  I did end up listening to the audiobook which I borrowed from my library as this has been sitting on my TBR for a while.  I'm sorry it took me so long to read this as this was really great!  This is the kind of fantasy that I love to get lost in.

I don't know why more people aren't talking about this book!  It had everything I look for in a fantasy.  There are some dark moments, trials, interesting magic, interesting fae creatures and characters, betrayal, and a bit of romance.

Kenna is not well liked in her village.  She is always collecting things from the bog to sell or trade to survive.  Her best friend is selected along with several other women to be sent to the fae in Mistei as tribute.  The people of Kenna's town believe this to be a great honor, but Kenna isn't so sure.  She offers to help her friend and the women travel the dark path on their journey only to become trapped in the fae land her self and find herself enslaved.  She is assigned to a fae who is about to undergo trials to prove her worth and grant her immortality and power.  Kenna must aid her mistress or face death.  Armed only with her wits and a strange magical dagger she found in the bog before entering Mistei, Kenna finds that the world she has entered is wrought with secrets and plots to overthrow the mad king.  She also finds herself being courted by a handsome fae prince.  

I really enjoyed this.  Kenna develops so much as she helps Lara through the trials.  She is always wandering around gathering information wherever she can to ensure that Lara will successfully pass.  Kenna is always getting herself into sticky situations, but she is clever and finds a way out of them.  I loved the addition of the dagger, which is sentient, and a character in its own right.  I expect we will see more out of the dagger in book 2 as there were some pretty big revelations at the end of this book.  I really enjoyed the characters and the world building.  I can't wait for book 2 out later this year and to find out where Kenna the now Princess of Blood ends up in this magical world.

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Review: Get Lost with You: A Novel by Sophie Sullivan

Get Lost with You: A Novel by Sophie Sullivan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I was provided both the ALC and ARC of this book via Netgalley, all opinions are my own.  Than you to St. Martins Press/St. Martin's Griffin and RB Media/Recorded Books for providing me with advanced copies of the book in both formats.  I have really come to enjoy reading along with the audiobook when I get the opportunity.  The narrator did a great job keeping me engaged

This was a super sweet second chance, small town romance.  Jillian Keller, aka Jilly has been in love with Levi since high school.  He left their small town of Smile to chase his dreams of becoming a chef and working in a big time fancy restaurant and while he had feelings for her, he didn't want to lead her on.  He was also friends with her older brothers and didn't want to break the "bro code".  Fast forward into the future, Jilly is a divorced single mom and helping to run a small lodge with her brothers.  She is cautious about everything in her life but overly so when it comes to love after her failed marriage.  She has alot on her plate with the lodge's summer opening looming and some new offerings on the way to bring in new clients.  She doesn't have time for a new relationship when Levi reenters her life, but everything happens for a reason.  

Levi has returned home to help out with the family construction business when his dad needs routine surgery.  There is a rift between father and son that needs mending due to Levi leaving town to pursue his dreams and not taking over the family business.  Naturally feelings were hurt, but Levi wants nothing more than to mend this fence and reestablish himself in his home town.  He achieved his goal to become a successful chef, and now more than ever he knows that the small town life is what he wants.  He also wants to explore that spark he has always felt for Jilly, so when an opportunity to cook at the lodge and spend more time with her opens up he jumps at the chance to show her how great they can be together and that he isn't going anywhere.

I really loved this.  Levi and Jilly were really cute together, they kept their relationship playful while dealing with real life situations.  They passed notes to one another like teenagers to keep things fun, while building up the trust needed for something concrete.  It is very low spice, there are some intimate scenes, but they are fade to black and not very descriptive.  I appreciated that Jilly got to explore her feelings of inadequacy in a relationship and fears about a new relationship as a single mom on her own terms.  She had real conversations with Levi and the conversation she had with her mom were really great to help her overcome her objections and find love again.

This is the 2nd book in the Rock Bottom series, but it does read as a complete standalone.  I have not read the 1st book in the series which centers around Jilly's brother Beckett and girlfriend Presley.  They are side characters in this book, and I'll be picking Love, Naturally soon as I want to know everything about their love story!  This is also my first book by the author, but it will not be my last!

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Release Blitz:The Kiss Lottery by Ilsa Madden-Mills

 

The Kiss Lottery by Ilsa Madden-Mills is now live!

From bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills comes a steamy story about first love and second chances where a city girl returns home for a Valentine's Day tradition...and the boy who broke her heart.

Roses are red, violets are blue--someone in Rose has feelings for you...

Yeah, bad ones. Everly Davis didn't leave her tight-knit hometown on the best terms. It's been ten years, but you don't forget heartbreak like that. Then again, the anonymous invite to the annual Kiss Lottery in Rose, Tennessee, gives Everly content for her podcast. And she has a bone to pick with that old heartbreak anyway.

Beckett Whitfield has never left Rose--and he's never forgotten Everly. He even named the villain in his latest bestseller after her. Turns out she's not happy about that. Nothing about their reunion is particularly happy, and after the way they left things, what did he expect?

When the Kiss Lottery pairs them together, Everly and Beckett will have to confront old feelings that never went away and the secrets they never shared. But finally telling each other everything might be exactly what they've needed all along.

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#1 Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA Today best-selling author Ilsa Madden-Mills pens angsty new adult and contemporary romances.

A former high school English teacher and librarian, she adores all things Pride and Prejudice, and of course, Mr. Darcy is her ultimate hero.

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Review: The Kiss Lottery by Ilsa Madden-Mills

The Kiss Lottery by Ilsa Madden-Mills
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I was provided an ARC of this book via the author and Netgalley, all opinions are my own.

This was the perfect second chance romance leading into Valentine's Day.  It is a complete standalone, and to my knowledge doesn't connect with any of the author's other works.  In the town of Rose, the Kiss Lottery pairs strangers and those well acquainted in the hopes the couple finds true love.  Everly and Beckett had that already, but their friendship and feelings for one another were shattered in high school.  Her true feelings for him were put on display for the whole town to see, and he was given a choice and he didn't choose her.  

Years apart have not healed all wounds, so when Everly receives an anonymous invitation to participate in this year's Kiss Lottery, she returns home to cover it for her podcast and to see if she can mend her broken heart.  Beckett never left, and he never forgot his first love and the one that got away.  With the help of their friends, a meddling Aunt, and a bit of an unsolved mystery Everly and Beckett are able to clear the air and open up about how they really feel.

This is a novella but I could have spent several novels worth of time in Rose with the characters, I really connected with them and the town and didn't want to leave when it was over.  I really enjoyed the main and side characters and the town of Rose.  Everly and Beckett were fun as they danced around each other before really confronting their feelings, given the novella length some of the scenes felt a bit under developed, but I think the author did a good job given the overall length of the book.  I think had this been a full length novel, we would have seen the full development of those conversations and confrontations as we typically do in the author's work.

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Review: The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict

The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I was provided both an ARC and an ALC of this book via Netgalley and the SMP Influencers Program, all opinions are my own.

I really enjoyed the narrator and thought she did a great job voicing not only Dorothy, but the other Queens and characters as the story unfolds.  It made it really fun to go on this adventure with these ladies as they solved this crime and try to sort out all of the evidence as well as build each other up and establish their friendships.

This was delightful!  If you are a fan of historical fiction and classic mysteries this will take you on a fun adventure through England and France to solve a murder with some of the most famous mystery writers of all time.  Dorothy Sayers, whom I didn't know anything about prior to this book, was a real person, a successful mystery writer, and a founding member of the very real writer's group The Detection Club which apparently still exists to this day.  Dorothy is appalled that The Detection Club initially is not open to admitting female writers despite their success outside of Dorothy and the also famous Agatha Christie, so she invites 3 additional writer friends to join her to solve a real murder case to prove to the men that they are not only worthy of membership in the club but a cut above.   The group of five capable ladies makes up the Queens of Crime.

This story is told from Dorothy's point of view as the Queen's gather information about the victim and the crime scene as and piece together the solution as the characters from their novels would.  The victim is being painted in a poor light by the French police and in the newspapers, but the Queen's will not give up on justice for May Daniels.  With all the makings of a locked room mystery that they are all familiar with writing, they have to work together as a team to put the puzzle pieces together to solve May's murder and tell her story.  I loved the way the women worked together.  Their group was so realistic as the story unfolded.  Their interactions were filled with snark and jokes, pain when secrets were kept, and concern and compassion when one of their own was in need.  I was engaged the entire time, trying to figure out the mystery and who-dun-it myself.  I loved the characters and their interactions and felt like I was there with them as they traveled between London and France to gather clues and investigate.

As with all historical fiction books, I highly recommend reading the author's note to understand what liberties were taken with the facts, what was fabricated, and what was factual.  This book has inspired me to look into these women and read some of their books, as the only one I was aware of prior was Agatha Christie.  The author's research into the time and the women clearly shows as the story is told.

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