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  • Blog Tour: These Vengeful Hearts- Katherine Laurin

    Title: These Vengeful Hearts Author: Katherine Laurin Publisher: Inkyard Press Pages: 336 Rating: 4/5 A YA thriller? YES PLEASE!The Red Court….a secret society..a cult..mean girls… (whatever you want to call them) are based at Hellar Hall. They grant favors in exchange for suture favors. The Red Court only seems to come together when there’s a…

  • The Wrong Kind of Woman Blog Tour- Sarah McCraw Crow

    Title: The Wrong Kind Kind of Woman Author: Sarah McCraw Crow Publisher: Mira Books Pages: 320 Rating: 5/5 A book set in the 1970’s.Virginia has lost her husband to an aneurism. She’s widowed and alone. Many have offered comfort in their own blind ways. She’s trying to rediscover herself and wants to finish her Ph.D.…

  • Harlequin Blog Tours ARC Review: The Code for Love and Heartbreak- Jillian Cantor

    Title: The Code for Love and Heartbreak Author: Jillian Cantor Publisher: Inkyard Press Pages: 304 Rating: 4/5 I’ve yet to read Emma or any of the Jane Austen books so, I can’t make any comparisons with this book as everyone else has. We meet Emma Woodhouse whose a math whiz and does coding. She simply…

  • ARC Review: Confessions on the 7:45- Lisa Unger

    Title: Confessions on the 7:45 Author: Lisa Unger Publisher: Park Row Pages: 368 Rating: 4/5 Selena Murphy is married and has kids.She has a lot on her plate which include her demanding kids, a full-time job, a husband who has no job and won’t take care of the kids despite being home all the time.…

  • ARC Review: Grown- Tiffany D. Jackson

    Title: Grown Author: Tiffany D. Jackson Publisher: HarperCollins Pages: 384 Rating: 5/5 TW/CW: Microaggressions, attempted sexual assault, grooming of a minor, controlling relationships, emotional, physical, and mental abuse “One thing I know about fish: you keep them on land too long, they’ll die”. Let’s just say that this book is still on my mind long…

  • ARC Review: Vampires of Portlandia- Jason Tanamor

    Title: Vampires of Portlandia Author: Jason Tanamor Publisher: Parliament House Press Pages: N/A Rating: 4/5 TW/CW: death, death of a loved one, murder, grief Vampires of Portlandia is a own voices based on the Filipino culture and Aswang lore. The story is about a young man named Percival. Hw works full-time, has siblings, his a…

  • Review: Prefect- D.D. Larsen

    Title: Perfect Author: D.D. Larsen Publisher: N/A Pages: 301 Rating: 4/5 TW/CW: Forcible sexual situations, underage drinking, coma situations  Let’s start off by saying to not let the cover fool you. It looks like a sweet contemporary story, but within the pages lies some extremely hot and steamy sex scenes that definitely made me hot…

  • ARC Review: Ash- Joel Thomas Feldman

    Title: Ash Author: Joel Thomas Feldman Publisher: Self-published Pages: 246 Rating: 5/5 After 12 year old Sam loses her mother, her faith in magic has diminished. She accompanies her father on another one of his excursions to find a mythical creature that everyone is familiar with. This mythical creature is in trouble because of her…

  • ARC Review: Furia- Yamile Saied Mendez

    Title: Furia Author: Yamile Saied Mendez Publisher: Algonquin Books Pages:368 Ratings: 5/5 ** spoiler alert ** “I’d leave this house the first chance I got, but not by chasing after a boy, including my brother. I’d do it on my own terms, following my own dreams, not someone else’s”.-Camila (Furia) Let’s just start off by saying…

  • ARC Review: His Only Wife- Peace Adzo Medie

    Title: His Only Wife Author: Peace Adzo Medie Publisher: Algonquin Books Pages: 288 Rating: 5/5 Afi lives in a small town in Ghana. Her and her mother have lived in poverty for a while, depending on the help of her extended family especially Aunty, who is a major money maker in their town. Aunty wants…

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