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♦️ The Law of Moses by Amy Harmon ♦️


This is my pick for August as part of the "Unleash The Mods™" Challenge. Hope you enjoy it!
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♠️ Blurp ♠️

If I tell you right up front, right in the beginning that I lost him, it will be easier for you to bear. You will know it’s coming, and it will hurt. But you’ll be able to prepare.

Someone found him in a laundry basket at the Quick Wash, wrapped in a towel, a few hours old and close to death. They called him Baby Moses when they shared his story on the ten o’clock news – the little baby left in a basket at a dingy Laundromat, born to a crack addict and expected to have all sorts of problems. I imagined the crack baby, Moses, having a giant crack that ran down his body, like he’d been broken at birth. I knew that wasn’t what the term meant, but the image stuck in my mind. Maybe the fact that he was broken drew me to him from the start.

It all happened before I was born, and by the time I met Moses and my mom told me all about him, the story was old news and nobody wanted anything to do with him. People love babies, even sick babies. Even crack babies. But babies grow up to be kids, and kids grow up to be teenagers. Nobody wants a messed up teenager.

And Moses was messed up. Moses was a law unto himself. But he was also strange and exotic and beautiful. To be with him would change my life in ways I could never have imagined. Maybe I should have stayed away. Maybe I should have listened. My mother warned me. Even Moses warned me. But I didn’t stay away.

And so begins a story of pain and promise, of heartache and healing, of life and death. A story of before and after, of new beginnings and never-endings. But most of all...a love story.

♦️ Whiskey Girl by Adriane Leigh ♦️

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♠️ Blurp ♠️

Fallon Gentry has spent the last decade reliving one dark night in his head. The moment he lost the woman he loved when a single blink cascaded into a series of events that stole both of their lives. Now his nights are spent playing music in southern honky-tonks and nursing the memory of her the only way he knows how-at the bottom of a whiskey bottle.

A brief stint in Nashville, a hit song, and a brush with Hollywood couldn't bring him closer to God, but when the ghost of Augusta Belle Branson appears in his corner of another lonely dive bar late after dark, he's forced to confront everything he thought he knew about that fateful night, and a few things he didn't.

A firestorm of emotion consumes them when they come together after ten lost years, every moment more revealing, more unpredictable, more intoxicating than the next until the only reckoning left for Fallon is the one he must make with himself. But this time, fate may have left an after-burn too bitter to swallow. This time, he may lose his whiskey girl for good.

The theme chosen for August in The Auxiliary Challenge was FAE / FAERIES / ELVES.


The winning book is: A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1) by Sarah J. Maas

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A Court of Thorns and Roses

When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin—one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world.

As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But an ancient, wicked shadow grows over the faerie lands, and Feyre must find a way to stop it . . . or doom Tamlin—and his world—forever.

Our theme/prompt for September will be:


DEATH / GRIM REAPER


Does the protagonist wear a lot of black, cary a scythe & escorts and/or kills people as a full time job?
If the answer is yes then that is the right choice, so go ahead and drop your nomination below!


**Note: The book you suggest needs to have a hero/heroine that is accociated with death: Death as a figure/deity etc, Grim Reaper(s), Angel of Death and so on.


Each person can nominate only ONE book!


What this is, Rules & How it works can be found HERE.


Nominations: 01.08 to 10.08
Voting: 11.08 to 20.08

NEW BOOK SERIES!





To survive where I live, you have two options.

You can be a Normal—a cheerleader, jock, member of the debate team, or on the yearbook committee. You pretend everything is normal.

Or you can be crew.
You insult us? We hurt you.
You hurt us? We really hurt you.
And if you f*ck with us, we will end you.

My name is Bren.
I'm the only female in the Wolf Crew—the best, fiercest, and most dangerous crew there is—and we have a rule: There's no falling in love.

Well… too late.


Expected publication: August 27th 2018


Goodreads: Crew
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Release Date: August 27th 2018

Goodreads: Crew
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Crew (Crew #1)


To survive where I live, you have two options.

You can be a Normal—a cheerleader, jock, member of the debate team, or on the yearbook committee. You pretend everything is normal.

Or you can be crew.
You insult us? We hurt you.
You hurt us? We really hurt you.
And if you f*ck with us, we will end you.

My name is Bren.
I'm the only female in the Wolf Crew—the best, fiercest, and most dangerous crew there is—and we have a rule: There's no falling in love.

Well… too late.


Publiced: August 27th, 2018

✨ August 2018 Nominations: ✨
These are the nominations for the August Poll



Heart of the Fae (The Otherworld #1) by Emma Hamm
Bound by Faerie (Stolen Magic #1) by W.B. McKay
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1) by Sarah J. Maas
Wicked Lovely (Wicked Lovely #1) by Melissa Marr
Cold Iron (Cold Iron #1) by D.L. McDermott
Elusion (Facets of Feyrie #1) by Zoe Parker
The Iron King (The Iron Fey #1) by Julie Kagawa
Rosemary and Rue (October Daye #1) by Seanan McGuire

~~ Nominations are now CLOSED ~~

There were nominations but even so I will be adding a few more at random to fill out the poll.

I nominate this:

Heart of the Fae (The Otherworld #1) by Emma Hamm

Our theme/prompt for August will be:


FAE / FAERIES / ELVES


Does it have pointy ears, is inhumanly beautiful, colder than Alaska at any given time and wouldn't recognise humour & sarcasm even if it hit it in the face?
If the answer is yes then that is the right choice, so go ahead and drop your nomination below!


Each person can nominate only ONE book!


What this is, Rules & How it works can be found HERE.


Nominations: 01.07 to 12.07
Voting: 13.07 to 24.07

The theme chosen for July in The Auxiliary Challenge was DRAGONS.


The winning book is: Onyx & Ivory (Rime Chronicles #1) by Mindee Arnett

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Onyx and Ivory

They call her Traitor Kate. It’s a title Kate Brighton inherited from her father after he tried to assassinate the high king of Rime.

Cast out of the nobility, Kate now works for the royal courier service. Only the most skilled ride for the Relay and only the fastest survive, for when night falls, the drakes—deadly flightless dragons—come out to hunt. Fortunately, Kate has a secret edge: She is a wilder, born with forbidden magic that allows her to influence the minds of animals.

And it’s this magic that leads her to a caravan massacred by drakes in broad daylight—the only survivor Corwin Tormaine, the son of the king. Her first love, the boy she swore to forget after he condemned her father to death.

With their paths once more entangled, Kate and Corwin must put the past behind them to face this new threat and an even darker menace stirring in the kingdom.

♦️ That Guy by Kim Jones ♦️

This is my pick for July as part of the "Unleash The Mods™" Challenge. Hope you enjoy it!
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♠️ Blurp ♠️

He’s That Guy.

You know, the hero in almost every romance novel. The super-rich, powerful CEO who is beyond sexy. Lives in a penthouse. Is wicked in bed. Has massive…feet. Is kind of a jerk, but really he’s not because he harbors some major secret that, once revealed, explains why he is the way he is—therefore completely redeeming himself and making all the readers who hated to love him swoon….

Yeah. That one.

Well, I found him.

I’m a writer who has spent years searching for the perfect muse.

Now that I know he exists, I have a mission.

To make him fall in love with me.

This should be easy. I mean, I have issues, but above all, I’m a great catch.

Problem is, I did a stupid thing.

And now he hates me.

Unfortunately for him, he’s my That Guy.

And he’s going to love me….

Whether he wants to or not.

♦️ Kulti by Mariana Zapata ♦️

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♠️ Blurp ♠️

“Trust me, I’ve wanted to punch you in the face a time or five.”

When the man you worshipped as a kid becomes your coach, it’s supposed to be the greatest thing in the world. Keywords: supposed to.

It didn't take a week for 27-year-old Sal Casillas to wonder what she'd seen in the international soccer icon - why she'd ever had his posters on her wall or ever envisioned marrying him and having super-playing soccer babies.

Sal had long ago gotten over the worst non-break-up in the history of imaginary relationships with a man who hadn't known she'd existed. So she isn't prepared for this version of Reiner Kulti who shows up to her team's season: a quiet, reclusive shadow of the explosive, passionate man he'd once been.

♦️ Getting Schooled by Emma Chase ♦️

This is my pick for July as part of the "Unleash The Mods™" Challenge. Hope you enjoy it!
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♠️ Blurp ♠️

Head of the class...

Garrett Daniels has this whole life thing figured out.

The cocky, charismatic former high school star quarterback is an idolized football coach and "cool" teacher in the hometown where he's not just a golden boy—he's platinum. He has good friends, a great house on the lake, and the best damn sidekick a man could ask for: Snoopy, the albino beagle.

Then...Callie Carpenter comes home.

And knocks him right on his tight end zone.

Back to school...

Callie has a pretty sweet life herself...on the other side of the country. But circumstances—that she'd prefer to never speak of again—have brought her back home, helping out her parents and substitute teaching at her old high school.

Now she's facing bickering, raging hormones, constant gossip, awkward weirdness, and drama galore...and that's just the teachers.

Just like old times...

When Garrett offers to show his former high school sweetheart the secrets of his winning teacher ways, Callie jumps at the chance—and then has to stop herself from jumping him.

Good friends are all they can ever be.

Or...these teachers just might end up getting schooled—hard—by love.

~~~December 2018~~~

UTM™ Challenge

Christmas In Evergreen by Nancy Naigle (Whitney)

Talon (Talon #1) by Julie Kagawa (Maraya)

Anointed by Charity B. (Kylie)


Auxiliary Challenge

Bound by Faerie (Stolen Magic #1) by W.B. McKay

~~~November 2018~~~

UTM™ Challenge

City of the Lost by Debbie Cassidy (Maraya)

The Girl and Her Ren by Pepper Winters (Kylie)

The Trouble with Mistletoe by Jill Shalvis (Whitney)


Auxiliary Challenge

Grave Mercy (His Fair Assassin #1) by Robin LaFevers

~~~October 2018~~~

UTM™ Challenge

The Boy and His Ribbon by Pepper Winters (Kylie)

Bat Out of Spell by Amanda M. Lee (Whitney)

City of Demons by Debbie Cassidy (Maraya)


Auxiliary Challenge

The Ugly Stepsister Strikes Back by Sariah Wilson

~~~September 2018~~~

UTM™ Challenge

Naked in Death by J.D. Robb (Whitney)

Elusion by Zoe Parker (Maraya)

Dirty Girl by Meghan March (Kylie)


Auxiliary Challenge

Death has a Daughter by Candice Burnett

Hey Nancy, welcome to the group!
True i believe most peoples first read were FCH - mine wasn't, still haven't read it tbh. Nothing wrong to have a system on how you rate books of similar elk! :D