ARC Review: This Could Be Us

Storygraph bookshop.org Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She's a domestic goddess who's never met a party she couldn't host or a charge she couldn't lead. The one with all the answers and the perfect vinaigrette for that summer salad. But…

Author Recommendations: Black Authors to Read All Year Long

I'm copying this straight from my IG post earlier in the month. I wanted to share these authors on the blog too! Here in the US, February is Black History Month. In honor of that, I put together a list of some of my favorite Black authors that people should read all year long. This…

ARC Review: The Friendship Study

storygraph Bookshop.org A former firefighter at loose ends and an academic with a confidence problem join a friendship study—and quickly become more than just friends—in this steamy, emotional romance from Ruby Barrett Jesse Logan doesn’t want a fresh start. He wants his old life back—the life where he was a firefighter, before an injury made that…

ARC Review: The Catch

Storygraph Bookshop.org A grumpy lobster fisherman tosses a fashion influencer’s impeccably curated life overboard in the next romantic comedy from international bestselling author Amy Lea. In a last-ditch effort to rescue her brand from the brink of irrelevance, Boston fashion influencer Melanie Karlsen finds herself in a rural fishing village on the east coast of…

ARC Review: How You Get the Girl

Storygraph Bookshop.org Chemistry sizzles in this workplace rom-com set in the world of high school basketball from the author of Love & Other Disasters, named a "must-read" by USA Today, PopSugar, SheReads, and Harper Bazaar.  When smart-mouthed Vanessa Lerner joins the high school basketball team Julie Parker coaches, Julie’s ready for the challenge. What she’s not ready for…

ARC Review: Sex, Lies and Sensibility

Storygraph Bookshop.org Two sisters roll up their sleeves to run a dilapidated, beach town inn but must learn to work with the locals in this deliciously spicy Sense and Sensibility inspired rom-com by Nikki Payne.There’s never a good time to learn you’re your father’s secret second family—especially not at the reading of the will. To add insult to injury,…

24 books in 2024

?> In all my years of reading, I have never done a read as many books as in the year challenge (e.g. 23 books in 2023). As a mood reader, I always found it overwhelming. How could the books I picked to read at the end of one year be the same books I'd want…

Book Review: Big Nick Energy

storygraph Goodreads Amazon Summary: When Connor Finch insists his one-time Tinder match, Shae, comes to his dad’s house for Thanksgiving with her two daughters, it’s because he refuses to let them be alone on her first-holiday post-divorce. But when she arrives at the Christmas tree farm and ranch he grew up on, she meets his…

ALC Review: The Worst Kept Secret

STORygraph BOOKSHOP.org I’ve had a crush on the single dad next door, ever since I was thirteen years old.  Theo Graham is charming. Sweet. Absolutely gorgeous.  But, I’m not a little girl anymore.  I shouldn't want him.  I can't have him.  I should know better than to want my best friend’s dad.  My best friend, Theo’s…

ARC Review: An Education in Malice

storygraph bookshop.org Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insatiable hungers from S.T. Gibson, author of the cult hit A Dowry of Blood.Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua's College. Isolated and ancient, it is not a place for timid girls. Here, secrets are currency, ambition…

Arc Review: Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend

Storygraph GoodReads Amazon Summary: Gwen has a brilliant beyond brilliant idea.  It’s 1857, and anxious debutante Beth has just one season to snag a wealthy husband, or she and her mother will be out on the street. But playing the blushing ingenue makes Beth’s skin crawl and she’d rather be anywhere but here.  Gwen, on…

Winter 2024 Anticipated Releases

*Starts another blog post by jokingly roasting myself* I am the absolute worst at keeping up with upcoming releases... Every year, I spend hours scrolling through any possible list on the internet of releases for the upcoming year. I add them to my TBR, a hopeful smile lingering on my lips. Then, I immediately forget…