Weekly Review: His Fair Assassin Series by @RLLaFevers

This week on Weekly Review is the His Fair Assassin series by Robin LaFevers. 

#BookBlitz: The Confessional by @kimber_nilsson @XpressoTours #Giveaway

The Confessional
K. Nilsson
Publication date: February 20th 2019
Genres: Adult, Romance, Suspense
Psychology student, Grace Fleming, is addicted to meaningless hook-ups in random places, impulsively following a script for self-destruction and bad behavior. She suffers from nightmares and a patchwork of flashbacks that leave her in a fugue state. Unsure what they mean, she goes to therapy, seeking answers. Is her mind conjuring them up or are they past encounters she’d blocked out?
Saint is a private investigator of dubious character. He will take almost any case, but his favorite includes entrapping married women into infidelity. Saint is hired to keep a watchful eye on Grace while keeping his identity a secret. The paradox tempts him; is Grace, a devil in disguise or an angel with a crooked halo? When he finds himself in a compromising position, Saint quits. He soon regrets resigning when he discovers a sinister threat to her safety, and it may be the reason for the nightmares.

#CoverReveal: Love Lock Duet by @SMWestAuthor @GiveMeBooksPR #Giveaway

Title: Love Block
Series: Love Lock Duet #1

Author: S.M. West

Genre: Contemporary Romance
Cover Design: PopKitty Design
Photo: Lindee Robinson Photography
Models: Brian Boynton & Krista Lauren

Release Date: June 4, 2019

Blurb

I’m screwed.

Pippa just showed up uninvited with plans of staying the weekend.

I can hardly handle an hour with her, let alone two days.

Despite more than a year of dodging her, nothing has changed.

She’s the only woman I want.

Smart and sexy and bold.

My best friend’s little sister.

Forbidden.

Denying my desire for her is torture.

And she doesn’t make it easy; she wants me too.

The thing is, making her mine means ruining my best friend.

Love Block is the first book in the Love Lock Duet. 

#SaleBlitz: Anastasia Phoenix Series by @dianarwallach @YABoundToursPR

Some secrets are best kept hidden...

Anastasia Phoenix has always been the odd girl out, whether moving from city to international city with her scientist parents or being the black belt who speaks four languages. 

And most definitely as the orphan whose sister is missing, presumed dead.

She's the only one who believes Keira is still alive, and when new evidence surfaces, Anastasia sets out to follow the trail-and lands in the middle of a massive conspiracy. Now she isn't sure who she can trust. At her side is Marcus, the bad boy with a sexy accent who's as secretive as she is. He may have followed her to Rome to help, but something about him seems too good to be true. 

Nothing is as it appears, and when everything she's ever known is revealed to be a lie, Anastasia has to believe in one impossibility.

She will find her sister.

#WaitingOnWednesday with @RLLaFevers @CCHunterBooks @HollyBlack

This week has been very slow! Our AC died and our scum landlord took forever to fix it.  So it was not a good place to read or sleep with it being 84 in the house.  So this week I am finally up to an upcoming book! 

#BookBlitz: Child of Mine by @JanaRichards_ @XpressoTours #Giveaway

Child of Mine
Jana Richards
Publication date: February 20th 2019
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Lauren didn’t intend to sleep with her brother-in-law Cole on the day of her husband’s funeral. But now that she is pregnant, she’s not sorry. Cole’s given her a baby, a long-wished-for miracle. He’s been her friend forever, though she never told him or anyone else how unhappy her marriage to his cheating brother was. And she’s afraid to tell the small town that considered her husband a hero that the baby isn’t his.
Cole’s been in love with Lauren since he was sixteen. It kills him that everyone believes the baby is his dead brother’s. All he wants is to claim the baby, and Lauren, as his own. Though she marries him, will Lauren’s heart ever be his?
Lauren must tell the truth or risk losing Cole. Is her newly-discovered love for him greater than her fear of scandal in her hometown?

#BookBlitz: Virginia Woolf in Richmond by @peterjfullagar @RABTBookTours

Biography

Published: November 30, 2018

Publisher: Aurora Metro Books

Although more commonly associated with Bloomsbury, Virginia and her husband Leonard Woolf lived in Richmond-upon-Thames for ten years from the time of the First World War (1914-1924). Refuting the common misconception that she disliked the town, this book explores her daily habits as well as her intimate thoughts while living at the pretty house she came to love – Hogarth House. Drawing on information from her many letters and diaries, the editor reveals how Richmond’s relaxed way of life came to influence the writer, from her experimentation as a novelist to her work with her husband and the Hogarth Press, from her relationships with her servants to her many famous visitors.

#ReleaseBlitz: Overture by @skye_warren @GiveMeBooksPR #Giveaway

Title: Overture

Series: North Security #1
Author: Skye Warren

Genre: Contemporary Erotic Romance

Release Date: February 19, 2019

Blurb

Forbidden fruit never tasted this sweet…

The world knows Samantha Brooks as the violin prodigy. She guards her secret truth—the desire she harbors for her guardian.

Liam North got custody of her six years ago. She’s all grown up now, but he still treats her like a child. No matter how much he wants her.

No matter how bad he aches for one taste.

Her sweet overtures break down the ex-soldier’s defenses, but there’s more at stake than her body. Every touch, every kiss, every night. The closer she gets, the more exposed his darkest secret.

She’s one step away from finding out what happened the night she lost her family. One step away from leaving him forever.

#ReleaseBlitz: Twisted by Natasha Knight @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Twisted

Author: Natasha Knight

Genre: Dark Romance Standalone
Release Date: February 19, 2019

Blurb

My brother was right. I always wanted my own Willow Girl.

What happened on that island didn’t break me.

It twisted me.

Corrupted me.

Made me into a monster.

Although, I guess it’s true what she says. You can’t become something that wasn’t inside you all along.

This was always going to happen.

I was always going to take Amelia Willow.

History and destiny sealed her fate. Sealed both of ours.

For months, I’ve been waiting.

Watching.

Preparing.

And tonight, everything will change.

Because tonight, I’ll collect my own Willow Girl.

Author’s Note: Twisted is a standalone spinoff of the Dark Legacy Duet. No cliffhanger!

#CoverReveal: Possess by Olivia Ryann @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Possess
Series: Protect #3

Author: Olivia Ryann

Genre: Dark Romance
Cover Design: Arijana, Cover It! Designs

Release Date: March 1, 2019

Blurb

This dark tale of obsession, beauty, and lust is by Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Bestseller Vivian Wood. She writes dark romance as OLIVIA RYANN.

There is something blooming between my captor and I, hot and wet and fragile.

Lust. Obsession. Maybe it’s even love.

But there are still secrets that stand between us, looming large over whatever happiness we might find together.

Dangerous secrets. Things worth killing over.

If I reveal my secret to Dryas, he very well might die to protect me.

The last thing I want is to confront those that hurt me without him at my side.

But I might not get a choice, if Dryas has his way…

#CoverReveal: The Heiress Duet by Nana Malone @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Protecting the Heiress

Series: The Heiress Duet #1
Author: Nana Malone

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: March 18, 2019

Blurb

All I ever wanted was family. But one mistake cost me everything I’ve ever worked for.

To get it all back, I’ll have to return home and protect the most stubborn woman on the face of the planet. To do that effectively, I’ll need to go undercover as…a Manny.

I didn’t mean to fall for her or the kid. I really should have known better. When you get this close, it’s easy to get burned.

But I’ll do anything to protect them, even if it costs me everything…again.

#BookReview: Valiant by @merriedestefano

Title: Valiant

Author: Merrie Destefano
Genres: Young Adult, Science Fiction
Pages: Paperback, 304
Published: December 4, 2018
Publisher: Entangled: Teen
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Add to Goodreads
Buy from Amazon

Synopsis:  The Valiant was supposed to save us. Instead, it triggered the end of the world.

Earth is in shambles. Everyone, even the poorest among us, invested in the Valiant’s space mining mission in the hopes we’d be saved from ourselves. But the second the ship leaves Earth’s atmosphere, our fate is sealed. The alien invasion begins. They pour into cities around the world through time portals, possessing humans, forcing us to kill one another.

And for whatever reason, my brother is their number one target.

Now the fate of the world lies in the hands of me, a seventeen-year-old girl, but with the help of my best friend, Justin―who’s suddenly starting to feel like more―maybe if we save my brother, we can save us all…

#ReleaseBlitz: Breaking the Billionaire's Rules by @Annika_Martin @jennw23

Breaking a Billionaire’s Rules, a laugh-out-loud romantic comedy by New York Times bestselling author Annika Martin is live!

This standalone romcom is set in the same world as The Billionaire's Wake-up-call Girl and Most Eligible Billionaire.

Max Hilton is my high school nemesis turned billionaire. And tomorrow I deliver his lunch order. In a cat costume.

You know he’s going to love it. He’ll smile that smirky smile, sitting there all superior in his gleaming tower, the wealthiest and most notorious playboy in all of New York, the king of everything.

Turns out it wasn’t curiosity that killed the cat—it was mortification.

I’m almost ready to quit my lunch delivery job, but then my roommate tosses me a copy of The Max Hilton Playbook: Ten Golden Rules for Picking up the Hottest Girl in the Room.

It’s the book that catapulted him to stardom. And it’s my new bible.

I’m going to use his own techniques against him. I’ll wrap him around my little finger, bring him to his knees, and crush his steely heart. Call it payback for all the single girls who had to endure legions of losers wielding his legendary tactics.

But seeing Max every day, I’m discovering a side of him I didn’t even know existed--he’s not the jerky guy I thought he was. He has this smile he shows only to me, and it melts my heart. His touch sends shivers down my spine. And those forbidden kisses are driving me wild.

Falling for him was not in my plan.

Am I breaking his rules or will his rules break me first?

#BookReview: The Lantern's Ember by @ColleenHouck

Title: The Lantern's Ember

Author: Colleen Houck
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy 
Pages: Hardcover, 386
Published: September 11, 2018
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Add to Goodreads
Buy from Amazon

Synopsis:  Welcome to a world where nightmarish creatures reign supreme.

Five hundred years ago, Jack made a deal with the devil. It’s difficult for him to remember much about his mortal days. So, he focuses on fulfilling his sentence as a Lantern—one of the watchmen who guard the portals to the Otherworld, a realm crawling with every nightmarish creature imaginable. Jack has spent centuries jumping from town to town, ensuring that nary a mortal—or not-so-mortal—soul slips past him. That is, until he meets beautiful Ember O’Dare. 

Seventeen, stubborn, and a natural-born witch, Ember feels a strong pull to the Otherworld. Undeterred by Jack’s warnings, she crosses into the forbidden plane with the help of a mysterious and debonair vampire—and the chase through a dazzling, dangerous world is on. Jack must do everything in his power to get Ember back where she belongs before both the earthly and unearthly worlds descend into chaos.

#ReleaseBlitz: Overture by @skye_warren @jennw23

Forbidden fruit never tasted this sweet...

 

Overture, the first in all-new sexy series from New York Times bestselling author Skye Warren, is available now!

The world knows Samantha Brooks as the violin prodigy. She guards her secret truth—the desire she harbors for her guardian.

Liam North got custody of her six years ago. She’s all grown up now, but he still treats her like a child. No matter how much he wants her.

No matter how bad he aches for one taste.

Her sweet overtures break down the ex-soldier’s defenses, but there’s more at stake than her body. Every touch, every kiss, every night. The closer she gets, the more exposed his darkest secret.

She’s one step away from finding out what happened the night she lost her family. One step away from leaving him forever.

OVERTURE is the first novel in a brand new series from New York Times bestselling author Skye Warren.

#Top10Tuesday: Books I LOVED with Fewer than 2,000 Ratings on Goodreads with @ArtsyReaderGirl

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

#ReleaseBlitz: Star Marque Rising by Shami Stovall @gameoverstation @RABTBookTours #Giveaway

Science Fiction

Date Published: February 19, 2019

Publisher: CS Books

The future is governed through a genetic hierarchy—superhumans at the top, humans, and defects at the bottom. Welcome to an all-new military science fiction novel from critically-acclaimed author Shami Stovall.

Clevon Demarco, a genetically modified human, has a cocksure attitude and the combat skills to back it up. With his unparalleled skills, he makes his living as a ruthless gunrunner on a shady space station near the edges of the quadrant. Stronger, faster, and wittier than most sad sacks, no one even comes close to Demarco’s abilities—until he crosses paths with the captain of the notorious Star Marque, Endellion Voight.

Captain Voight arrests Demarco and offers him a choice: go to a prison planet for his crimes, or join her starship, the Star Marque, working as mercenaries for the superhumans. But she didn't pick him at random. She has a plan to become a planet governor; a title no human has held since the superhumans won the war. It doesn’t matter the cost—assassinations, extortion, blackmail—she’s determined to claw her way to the top.

All Captain Voight needs is Demarco’s help to carry out her machinations, and she’ll give him everything he’s ever wanted in return.

A fast-paced space opera for those who enjoy Old Man’s War by John Scalzi, Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds, or anything by Robert A. Heinlein.

#ReadMore #BookClub: The Cruel Prince by @HollyBlack

This week we have a book that I just totally love!! The Cruel Prince by Holly Black is one of the best fantasy books out there and I can say with confidence that I know once you read this one if you fall in  love with it you will want to read book two!  Make sure to join us this week on the group! Facebook Group or join us in person at the Winter Haven Library in Winter Haven, FL at 10am EST on the 23rd! 

#BookBlitz: A Queen’s Trust by Alexa Ryder @XpressoTours #Giveaway #Adult #Paranormal #Romance

A Queen’s Trust
Alexa Ryder
Publication date: February 10th 2019
Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance
Andi’s been a fighter for as long as she can remember. Her greater size, speed, and stamina make her irreplaceable on the field and a key player in her father’s war against the rival Lion clan. When her father fell in battle, it became her duty to lead and protect her people. After a decade of bloodshed, both sides are ready for peace. But the patriarchal Lions won’t treat with a female, even if she is queen. Finding a mate and bearing heirs wasn’t an option when the survival of her clan was at stake. Now Andi needs a mate, and she’s waited so long there are no eligible males left.
Troy, a former slave taken from his clan at a young age, needs answers, answers only his own kind can provide. Without them, he risks losing the most precious thing he has. He treks south, dodging Human patrols for unchipped shifters. With time growing short, his desperation rises. In a Human bar, he finally finds what he’s looking for. A chance meeting with another Panther leads to a night of passion, but in the morning, he’s left with nothing but an empty bed and a name.
Andi.
They should be the answer to each other’s woes, but it’s hard to trust when hidden truths threaten the survival of an entire race.

#ReleaseBlitz: The Partners by Jack Polo @RABTBookTours

      

Mystery, Thriller

Publisher: Black Rose Writing

Release Date: February 19, 2019

Two detectives’ steamy past complicates their hunt for a psychotic killer and puts them in an assassin’s deadly sights.

Would you trust a former lover who'd betrayed you? Detectives Cole Trane and Mollie Simmons have no other choice. They're after a ruthless killer tied to the Russian mafia who leaves behind a bloody trail of victims as he races to escape to Canada. Their only hope is to have each other's back like they once had each other's heart -- especially when they discover that they, in turn, are being pursued by a deadly assassin who wants to get them in his sights.