Falling in Love with Books, One Story at a Time
Falling in Love with Books, One Story at a Time
Books rated four stars.
If you want a Cowboy Romance that really turns up the heat, you should add Corralled by Lorelei James to your TBR right away. The book first had a hot cowboy model on the cover, but now it’s been republished with an illustrated one. Everyone has their favorite type of cover. I’ll always love the model covers more than the illustrated ones, but I get why authors switch things up to match what readers want these days.
If you are looking for a SciFi/Cozy Mystery with a mature heroine who is down to earth, then check out Breathing Space by Kristen Painter.
I’ve really missed A. Jade/Ashley Jade, and I’m so happy she released The Consequence and is writing again. Whenever I pick up one of her books, I know I won’t be able to put it down until I finish, and that’s exactly what happened with this one. The wait was totally worth it. The emotional rollercoaster in this book, just like the first, made me want to throw my Kindle at the wall, but I managed not to! When a story and its characters make me feel so much, I know the author is an auto-buy for me.
I always enjoy reading about Elena and Raphael, and I love reading how much they’ve grown since the first book. They really are the ultimate power couple. This book reminded me why I love them together and how they always protect each other and their family.
The Hearts We Fumble is the final installment in Brooke O’Brien’s Braysen U series. Once again, I got a book with a great mix of sweet and spicy, packed with some of my favorite tropes. It also helps to listen to the book with narrators perfectly cast for the characters. Lee Samuels and Stefanie Kay brought Zane and Wyatt to life, and they did a fabulous job. I loved listening while following along with the ebook thanks to it being in KU.
A Vow of Eternal Night is Lily Crozier’s debut novel delivering a Beauty and the Beast retelling, but this time the beast is a vampire. If vampires are coming back in popularity in Romance/Fantasy novels, I’m here for it. As a reader who never gave up her obsession with vampires and always picks up books featuring them, I couldn’t pass up Vow of Eternal Night by Lily Crozier. The book cover alone sold me before I even read the synopsis.
If you haven’t picked up the In Death series by J.R. Robb, you are missing out on a suspenseful series with a great cast of characters and an established married couple that you will love immediately.
I can’t believe it took me this long to pick up the first book in Paige Tyler’s X-Ops series, Her Perfect Mate. After I finished reading it, I definitely need to read the rest of the books in this series, especially if each book is just as action-packed, full of mystery and drama, and includes kickbutt characters, such as the ones in this book. I should have known this book would be, though, since I’ve read other books from Paige Tyler.
If you enjoy Small Town Romance with tense moments, mystery, suspense, and characters that are hard not to love, then check out the McBride Brother Lumberjacks Trilogy now.
Soulgazer is the first book in Maggie Rapier’s The Magpie and the Wolf’s Duology and her debut novel. I’ve had this book on my shelf since its release, and I finally made time to read it. The second I started it, I knew it would consume me until I finished it, especially since it has Celtic-inspired mythology and pirates, both of which I always enjoy reading about.
The Singles Table is the final installment in Sara Desai’s Marriage Game Series, and I really enjoyed it. It was delightful, light-hearted, and funny, and I loved both characters. Zara and Jay are complete opposites, and that is clear from their first meeting while paintballing. Zara has a fun, quirky personality and works at a law firm that fits her perfectly, while Jay is grumpy, reserved, and a workaholic at his security company, which he’s trying to grow internationally. They keep ending up near each other at their friends’ weddings, and Zara makes it a point to matchmake Jay so she can prove she can do it better than the Aunties. However, both characters eventually fall for one another, though it takes one of them a while to realize the other is attracted to them. I rooted for them the whole time because they were an adorable couple, even if they initially didn’t like one another.
The Ember and The Emerald is the second installment in Gena Showalter’s No Monsters Like Hers Trilogy. If you haven’t read the first book, The Great And Terrible, you’ll need to before reading this one, since the second book picks up where the first left off. The second I knew Gena Showalter was writing a Wizard of Oz retelling, I knew I had to pick up the first book, and then I couldn’t wait to read this one. She’s one of my auto-buy authors, and I’ll read whatever she writes, so I’m glad she decided to venture into the Wizard of Oz. It was one of the movies I used to watch over and over again and drive my parents crazy. =)
Thanks to authors like Jeaniene Frost, my love for vampires endures because of books like this one. I was always the kid who wanted to be a vampire, not a princess, which my parents always found weird. They still find me weird, and so does my husband. =)
If you haven’t read Jeaniene Frost’s books and enjoyed shows like Buffy, Angel, or The Vampire Diaries, you’re missing out on fantastic stories with some memorable characters in the Night Huntress series and its spin-offs.
The Games Gods Play is the first installment in Abigail Owen’s The Crucible Trilogy. I should have picked this book up sooner, especially since it features Greek Mythology in a fantasy world with a romantic subplot. Something I always enjoy reading because I love it when authors put their spin on Greek Mythology, and Abigail Owen has the Greek Gods choosing mortals to compete in deadly trials to determine which will be the next ruler of Olympus. If you are like me, you’ll despise the Gods for making mortals do the deadly trials for them.
