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January 9, 2017
Release Day: Full Package
FULL PACKAGE by Lauren Blakely is Here!A sexy and funny friends-to-lovers standalone romantic comedy, FULL PACKAGE is about a sexy, witty man as he falls head over heels for a woman, who just happens to be his roommate. It takes everything you love about a Lauren Blakely novel –witty dialogue, smoking hot sex scenes, and heartfelt moments –and puts them into one fantastic book! Told in the guy's POV, with a creative look into Josie’s POV as well, FULL PACKAGE is the laugh-out-loud and insanely hot story of what happens when a sexy ER doc falls madly in love with his gorgeous roommate...and they’re forced to deal with all that simmering desire in a mere six hundred square feet of living space."Lauren Blakely has mastered the recipe for delightful and delicious. It's called Full Package. I can't find words to tell you how much I enjoyed this friends to lovers romance with enough sweet to melt in your mouth and enough spice to melt your panties.”~ iScream Books
“Lauren Blakely nailed it AGAIN. This man man is perfection! HOT, SWEET, FUNNY, SMART.” ~ Queen of Heart s
✮✮✮FULL PACKAGE is here!✮✮✮From the New York Times Bestselling author of MISTER O and BIG ROCK, comes a hot & hilarious new standalone romantic comedy...I've been told I have quite a gift.Hey, I don't just mean in my pants. I've got a big brain too, and a huge heart of gold. And I like to use all my gifts to the fullest, the package included. Life is smooth sailing....Until I find myself stuck between a rock and a sexy roommate, which makes for one very hard...place.Because scoring an apartment in this city is harder than finding true love. So even if I have to shack up with my buddy's smoking hot and incredibly amazing little sister, a man's got to do what a man's got to do.I can resist Josie. I'm disciplined, I'm focused, and I keep my hands to myself, even in the mere five-hundred square feet we share. Until the one night she insists on sliding under the covers with me. It'll help her sleep after what happened that day, she says.Spoiler-neither one of us sleeps.Did I mention she's also one of my best friends? That she's brilliant, beautiful and a total firecracker? Guess that makes her the full package too.What's a man stuck in a hard place to do?
You can find this sexy standalone romantic comedy across all retailers! ✦Amazon US ✦Amazon UK ✦Amazon CA ✦Amazon AU ✦iBooks✦Barnes & Noble ✦Kobo ✦Google Play ✦Amazon Paperback✦Audio (Sebastian York!) ✦or via Audible
“Fresh, fun, flirty, and fabulous.” ~ Karen at Bookalicious Babes Blog
Add it to Goodreads here!https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30283662-full-package
And don’t miss Lauren Blakely’s other standalone Romantic Comedies!BIG ROCK
MISTER O
WELL HUNG
✮✮✮ Enter to win this amazing FULL PACKAGE GIVEAWAY! ✮✮✮ Josie and Chase put together some of their favorite things just for you to celebrate the release of FULL PACKAGE! The FULL PACKAGE is filled with: ✮ $50 Gift Card to Lush: Fresh Handmade Cosmetics for fruity scented bath products that Chase loves so much. ✮ $50 Gift Card to Sugarfina: A Luxury Candy Boutique where you can sample some of Josie's favorite gourmet candy. ✮ A lovely Coach Wristlet containing a $50 Amazon Gift Card for you to spend on whatever your heart desires. ✮ And last but not least, my entire Audiobook Collection minus Full Package on Audible. It is aurally delicious!
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About Lauren Blakely:Since self-publishing her debut romance novel CAUGHT UP IN US over three years ago, Lauren Blakely has sold more than 1.5 million books. She is known for her sexy contemporary romance style that’s full of heat, heart and humor. A devout fan of cake and canines, Lauren has plotted entire novels while walking her four-legged friends. She lives in California with her family. With thirteen New York Times bestsellers, her titles have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Lists more than seventy times. Her bestselling series include Sinful Nights, Seductive Nights, No Regrets, Caught Up in Love, and Fighting Fire as well as standalone hit romances like BIG ROCK, MISTER O, WELL HUNG, and THE SEXY ONE which were all instant New York Times Bestsellers. In January she’ll release FULL PACKAGE, a standalone romantic comedy. To receive an email when Lauren releases a new book, sign up for her newsletter! laurenblakely.com/newsletter.
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January 8, 2017
Book Review: Broken Prince
Broken Prince (The Royals #2)by Erin Watt (Goodreads Author) (Pseudonym), Elle Kennedy (Goodreads Author), Jen Frederick (Goodreads Author) 4.17 · Rating Details · 17,195 Ratings · 2,453 ReviewsThese Royals will ruin you…
From wharf fights and school brawls to crumbling lives inside glittery mansions, one guy tries to save himself.
Reed Royal has it all—looks, status, money. The girls at his elite prep school line up to date him, the guys want to be him, but Reed never gave a damn about anyone but his family until Ella Harper walked into his life.
What started off as burning resentment and the need to make his father’s new ward suffer turned into something else entirely—keep Ella close. Keep Ella safe. But when one foolish mistake drives her out of Reed’s arms and brings chaos to the Royal household, Reed’s entire world begins to fall apart around him.
Ella doesn’t want him anymore. She says they’ll only destroy each other.
She might be right.
Secrets. Betrayal. Enemies. It’s like nothing Reed has ever dealt with before, and if he’s going to win back his princess, he’ll need to prove himself Royally worthy.
Broken Prince (The Royals, #2)
by Erin Watt (Goodreads Author) (Pseudonym), Elle Kennedy (Goodreads Author), Jen Frederick (Goodreads Author)
Lori Clark's review
Jan 08, 2017 · edit
really liked itRead from January 04 to 08, 2017
Great Read!
I highly recommend this series! Broken Prince isn't quite as good as Paper Princess, but it's still an excellent read. I think for me, the reason I didn't like it as much was because some things were a little over the top as something believable that would actually happen.
I liked Ella better in book one, but she's still a take no crap kind of girl.
Thank goodness I have book three ready to read now!
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January 4, 2017
Book Review: Paper Princess
Paper Princess (The Royals #1)by Erin Watt (Goodreads Author) (Pseudonym), Elle Kennedy (Goodreads Author), Jen Frederick (Goodreads Author) 4.16 · Rating Details · 26,942 Ratings · 3,627 ReviewsFrom strip clubs and truck stops to southern coast mansions and prep schools, one girl tries to stay true to herself.
These Royals will ruin you…
Ella Harper is a survivor—a pragmatic optimist. She’s spent her whole life moving from town to town with her flighty mother, struggling to make ends meet and believing that someday she’ll climb out of the gutter. After her mother’s death, Ella is truly alone.
Until Callum Royal appears, plucking Ella out of poverty and tossing her into his posh mansion among his five sons who all hate her. Each Royal boy is more magnetic than the last, but none as captivating as Reed Royal, the boy who is determined to send her back to the slums she came from.
Reed doesn’t want her. He says she doesn’t belong with the Royals.
He might be right.
Wealth. Excess. Deception. It’s like nothing Ella has ever experienced, and if she’s going to survive her time in the Royal palace, she’ll need to learn to issue her own Royal decrees.
Lori's thoughts: This is a book that flew beneath my radar until I started reading all of the book bloggers year end wrap-ups and how many of them chose this as one of their favorite reads of 2016. On a whim, I decided to take a break from the horror and action-packed-no-romance type books I've been reading recently and read Paper Princess. Honestly? I'm so glad I waited to read this after all three of the books in the trilogy were out! I would have been so mad if I finished book one and had to wait... there's a doozy of a cliffhanger!
I think that Ella is one of the best heroines I've read in a very long time. She has moxie! ;) She is tough on the outside and has a heart on the inside. She's had a tough life and winds up in the lap of luxury. But that doesn't mean that her life gets any easier. On the contrary.
Although this book is written about high school characters, it's more mature than YA. I'd classify it as a NA as far as the maturity level of the content.
Highly recommended. I am thankful that I downloaded all three books to my Kindle at the same time! Reading book two in the series right now.
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Release: Duplicity
Book: Duplicity
Author:Lisa J Hobman
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Fin Hunter has spent his life striving for his father's elusive love and approval by following a life path set out for him and not of his own choosing. However, when he is yet again blamed for something out of his control, he snaps. Deciding to stand on his own two feet, he chooses to follow his true passion - music. But will he find real happiness?
Star Mendoza is living her dream in Edinburgh, a place she discovered in British novels while growing up in a small USA town. Now working in a city coffee shop, the tattooed, pink-haired young woman fantasises about the handsome businessman she serves on a daily basis. He's totally out of her league but a girl can dream. Suddenly he stops calling in only to show up again in the most unlikely of places. Could her fantasy now become a reality? Or is the attraction of opposites doomed to fail?
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I'm a happily married mum with two crazy dogs and a thing for men with tattoos! In May 2012 I relocated from Yorkshire to my favourite place in the world, Scotland. The time since then has been a rollercoaster!
I love writing, singing and I'm very passionate about music. My tastes are quite eclectic.
My debut novel Bridge Over the Atlantic was shortlisted in the 2014 RoNA awards and I have written many more since!
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Separation Games by CD Reiss Happy Release
Separation Games
by CD ReissSeries: The Games Duet # 2
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Genre: Contemporary Romance "CD Reiss writes the best erotica I have ever read." Meredith Wild, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hacker Series
Synopsis: The stunning conclusion to the New York Times Bestseller. There’s one, unbreakable rule in the game.Stay collected. Compartmentalize. Think your next move through. Never let your heart dictate your tactics. The heart is impulsive. The heart makes bad decisions. The heart doesn’t see the long game. Because the heart may have decided to get Adam back, but when the endgame comes, the heart’s going to be the first thing to break.
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CD Reiss is a New York Times bestseller. She still has to chop wood and carry water, which was buried in the fine print. Her lawyer is working it out with God but in the meantime, if you call and she doesn't pick up she's at the well hauling buckets.Born in New York City, she moved to Hollywood, California to get her master's degree in screenwriting from USC. In case you want to know, that went nowhere but it did give her a big enough ego to write novels.She's frequently referred to as the Shakespeare of Smut which is flattering but hasn't ever gotten her out of chopping that cord of wood.If you meet her in person, you should call her Christine.
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January 1, 2017
Happy 2017
It should say "Today is the first blank page..."
I didn't read as many books in 2016. I didn't write any books in 2016. I'm hopeful that I'll be able to read more books and perhaps even start writing again. Most of 2016 was devoted to rescuing dogs and moving from one home to another. I'll try to find a way to incorporate everything I love back into my life for 2017.
I'm starting the year by reading this book due to the numerous "favorites" lists it was on:
Paper Princess (The Royals #1)by Erin Watt (Goodreads Author) (Pseudonym), Elle Kennedy (Goodreads Author), Jen Frederick (Goodreads Author) 4.16 · Rating Details · 26,456 Ratings · 3,575 ReviewsFrom strip clubs and truck stops to southern coast mansions and prep schools, one girl tries to stay true to herself.
These Royals will ruin you…
Ella Harper is a survivor—a pragmatic optimist. She’s spent her whole life moving from town to town with her flighty mother, struggling to make ends meet and believing that someday she’ll climb out of the gutter. After her mother’s death, Ella is truly alone.
Until Callum Royal appears, plucking Ella out of poverty and tossing her into his posh mansion among his five sons who all hate her. Each Royal boy is more magnetic than the last, but none as captivating as Reed Royal, the boy who is determined to send her back to the slums she came from.
Reed doesn’t want her. He says she doesn’t belong with the Royals.
He might be right.
Wealth. Excess. Deception. It’s like nothing Ella has ever experienced, and if she’s going to survive her time in the Royal palace, she’ll need to learn to issue her own Royal decrees.
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December 27, 2016
Book Review: Held
Held (Held #1)by Kimberly A. Bettes (Goodreads Author) 3.76 · Rating Details · 955 Ratings · 228 ReviewsNicole Lee, a young wife and new mother, steps out of the mall, squinting against the glare of the midday sun, completely unaware that her life is about to change forever.
In a matter of seconds, she is steeped in fear as the world she knows and the life she loves fades away.
As the panic sets in and the terror takes hold, Nicole tries to keep calm, though she's now in a frantic fight for her life. Locked in a deadly battle of wits with a psychopath, she struggles to keep her sanity as she's held.
A 59,000+ word novel, with over 17,000 words of bonus content.
For mature audiences only.
Held (Held, #1)
by Kimberly A. Bettes (Goodreads Author)
Lori Clark's review
Dec 27, 2016 · edit
it was amazingbookshelves: 5-star, action-packed, crazy, dark, thriller, violence
Read from December 24 to 27, 2016
Sick, twisted, disgusting. Don't judge me. I loved it. There were a few scenes that had me cringing, but I read on. This is a three book series, and I didn't realize that when I read the third book some time ago. It didn't spoil anything for me, book one was still very intriguing.
I can't imagine the horror Nicole faced at the hands of Ron. Walking on egg shells the entire time. Afraid she would answer his questions the wrong way and end up down in the basement. Also, the aftermath must have been terrifying for her. Always looking over your shoulder.
Highly recommended if you can stomach it!
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December 23, 2016
Book Review: Run
Runby Blake Crouch (Goodreads Author) 3.88 · Rating Details · 7,187 Ratings · 740 ReviewsFor fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Thomas Harris, picture this: a landscape of American genocide...
5 D A Y S A G O
A rash of bizarre murders swept the country…
Senseless. Brutal. Seemingly unconnected.
A cop walked into a nursing home and unloaded his weapons on elderly and staff alike.
A mass of school shootings.
Prison riots of unprecedented brutality.
Mind-boggling acts of violence in every state.
4 D A Y S A G O
The murders increased ten-fold…
3 D A Y S A G O
The President addressed the nation and begged for calm and peace…
2 D A Y S A G O
The killers began to mobilize…
Y E S T E R D A Y
All the power went out…
T O N I G H T
They’re reading the names of those to be killed on the Emergency Broadcast System. You are listening over the battery-powered radio on your kitchen table, and they’ve just read yours.
Your name is Jack Colclough. You have a wife, a daughter, and a young son. You live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. People are coming to your house to kill you and your family. You don’t know why, but you don’t have time to think about that any more.
You only have time to….
R U N
This 80,000-word novel also contains a bonus interview with Blake, and excerpts from his other work.
Run
by Blake Crouch (Goodreads Author)
Lori Clark's review Dec 23, 2016 · editit was amazingbookshelves: 5-star, action-packed, violence
Read from December 21 to 23, 2016
I finished one Blake Crouch book and picked up this one right away. I like a good, action-packed, page-turning read, and haven't been disappointed yet.
There are a few things in the book that made me think "Oh, what a coincidence." Sure a few things were a bit too much to believe. But, you know what? I didn't care. The book was entertaining and it is, after all, FICTION. :)
Can't wait to dive into my next Blake Crouch read!
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December 22, 2016
Cover Reveal: Perfect Imperfections
Perfect Imperfections
J & L Wells
Publication date: March 2017
Genres: Adult, Romance
I gaze down into the small diamond solitaire, seeing the way the light manipulates its appearance. One small stone, yet it holds so many facets; a slight of hand, a shift of light and it’s all changed, the creation of a different and totally unique pattern. My eyes glance over this beautiful stone, watching all of its changes, and it transforms in an instant, much as the path of my life will soon transform.Add to Goodreads
At the tender age of twenty-seven, Natasha has twelve weeks until she marries Josh, during which time Josh is offered a fantastic opportunity to run his dad’s company in Florida. Natasha is left at home, but there’s plenty to keep her mind occupied, with her sister’s pregnancy and an artist who paints her portrait – a surprise wedding present to Josh.
Gabriel Owens is a partially sighted artist, who is both sarcastic and short in stature. In his presence, the flaws in his character are exacerbated by Natasha’s seeming ability to say all the wrong things at all the wrong times. But time has a strange way of changing one’s mind, and over the three weeks he is painting her portrait, they become close friends.
Gabriel and Natasha are thrown together, two kindred spirits with very different issues they need to overcome.
Gabriel confesses that he has feelings for her. “Perfect, no, but you’ve no need to be, because, Natasha, I love every one of them … I love them all, every one of your perfect imperfections.”
Gabriel Owens, one hot British Artist. This is the first book in the moment’s series; it can be read as a standalone, no cliff hangers but a heartfelt ending that definately won’t disappoint.
Author Bio:
Laura Wells is a swimming teacher, with a love of books, animals and, of course, Jane Austen. Once a national swimmer, she now runs three swim schools of her own. She enjoys spending her spare time with her family and two mad Shiba Inus. She lives in Staffordshire, England.
Judy Wells works at a school; in her spare time she enjoys writing poetry and novels, and spending time with her animals. She also lives in Staffordshire, England.
Laura and Judy are a mother and daughter duo; with Judy’s love of poetry and writing and Laura’s ideas, they work extremely well together. Time-travel and historical romance novels are their passion, and they hope that after you have read their books, you will feel the same.
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December 21, 2016
Cover Reveal: Beautiful Assassin
Beautiful Assassin
Skyla Madi
(Syndicate #1)
Publication date: January 2017
Genres: New Adult, Romance, Suspense
Spoiler alert. I fall in love with the man who comes in the night.Add to Goodreads
He watches me down the scope of his rifle, and it’s terrifying and exhilarating, not knowing when he’ll squeeze the trigger.
If he’ll squeeze the trigger.
Maybe I’ll die tonight…
…maybe I’ll die next week.
It’s a sick and twisted game, but it’s ours. And just when I think our story ends at a distance, he comes in close, thrusting himself into my life.
We are at war, he and I, and eventually, he’ll have to kill me.
If he doesn’t, someone else will.
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Skyla Madi is an Australian writer from Brisbane, Queensland.
She started her writing career fresh out of high school and at 21 she is a giver of both real and fictional life.
Madi is an Aquarian, lover of the written word and author of the #1 BESTSELLING Consumed trilogy.
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