Tag: books

— Adult, ARC review, book review —

Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert (ARC Review)

July 25, 2020

Danika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. Romantic partners, whatever their gender, are a distraction at best and a drain at worst. So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits—someone who knows the score and knows their way around the bedroom. When brooding security guard Zafir Ansari rescues Dani from a workplace fire drill gone wrong, it’s an obvious sign: PhD student Dani and ex-rugby player Zaf are destined to sleep together… Read More Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert (ARC Review)

— book review, young adult —

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (Review)

July 21, 2020

Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute.… Read More The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (Review)

— Adult, ARC review, book review —

From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout (ARC Review)

July 20, 2020

Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy’s life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by the gods. But the choice has never been hers. The entire kingdom’s future rests on Poppy’s shoulders, something she’s not even quite sure she wants for herself… Read More From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout (ARC Review)

— blog tour, excerpt, young adult —

The Lost City by Amanda Hocking (Blog Tour: Excerpt)

July 8, 2020

Ulla Tulin was left abandoned in an isolated Kanin city as a baby, taken in by strangers and raised hidden away like many of the trolls of mixed blood. Even knowing this truth, she’s never stopped wondering about her family. When Ulla is offered an internship working alongside the handsome Pan Soriano at the Mimirin, a prestigious institution, she jumps at the chance to use this opportunity to hopefully find her parents. All she wants is to focus on her job and the search for her parents, but all of her attempts to find them are blocked when she learns her mother may be connected to the Omte royal family… Read More The Lost City by Amanda Hocking (Blog Tour: Excerpt)

— TBR post —

Monthly TBR: July 2020

July 7, 2020

Welcome to my monthly TBR post for July 2020! Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t posted one of these since April. Things got a little away from me. But I won’t ramble about it here. You can check out my most recent wrap-up/update post if you want more details about what happened.… Read More Monthly TBR: July 2020

— Adult, ARC review, book review —

Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev (ARC Review)

July 7, 2020

Chef Ashna Raje desperately needs a new strategy. How else can she save her beloved restaurant and prove to her estranged, overachieving mother that she isn’t a complete screw up? When she’s asked to join the cast of Cooking with the Stars, the latest hit reality show teaming chefs with celebrities, it seems like just the leap of faith she needs to put her restaurant back on the map. She’s a chef, what’s the worst that could happen? Rico Silva, that’s what. Being paired with a celebrity who was her first love, the man who ghosted her at the worst possible time in her life, only proves what Ashna has always believed: leaps of faith are a recipe for disaster… Read More Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev (ARC Review)

— ARC review, book review, young adult —

Date Me, Bryson Keller by Kevin van Whye (ARC Review)

July 6, 2020

Everyone knows about the dare: Each week, Bryson Keller must date someone new–the first person to ask him out on Monday morning. Few think Bryson can do it. He may be the king of Fairvale Academy, but he’s never really dated before. Until a boy asks him out, and everything changes. Kai Sheridan didn’t expect Bryson to say yes. So when Bryson agrees to secretly go out with him, Kai is thrown for a loop. But as the days go by, he discovers there’s more to Bryson beneath the surface, and dating him begins to feel less like an act and more like the real thing… Read More Date Me, Bryson Keller by Kevin van Whye (ARC Review)

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Girls Save the World in This One by Ash Parsons (ARC Review)

July 5, 2020

June’s whole life has been leading up to this: ZombieCon, the fan convention celebrating all things zombies. She and her two best friends plan on hitting all the panels, photo ops, and meeting the heartthrob lead of their favorite zombie apocalypse show Human Wasteland. And when they arrive everything seems perfect, though June has to shrug off some weirdness from other fans—people shambling a little too much, and someone actually biting a cast member. Then all hell breaks loose and June and her friends discover the truth: real zombies are taking over the con. Now June must do whatever it takes to survive a horde of actual brain-eating zombies—and save the world… Read More Girls Save the World in This One by Ash Parsons (ARC Review)