#BookReview: Blade Breaker (Realm Breaker #2) by @victoriaaveyard

The fate of the world rests on a blade's edge.

Fighting beside her band of unlikely companions, Corayne is learning to embrace her ancient lineage and wield her father's powerful sword.

But while she successfully closed one of the Spindles, her journey is far from over.

Queen Erida's army marches across Allward with her consort, Taristan, right beside them, opening more portals into nightmarish worlds, razing kingdoms to the ground.

Corayne has no choice but to assemble an army of her own if she's to save the realm as she knows it. But perilous lands await her and the companions, and they face assassins, otherworldly beasts, and tempestuous seas all as they rally a divided Ward to fight behind them.

But Taristan has unleashed an evil far more wicked than his corpse armies. Something deadly waits in the shadows; something that might consume the world before there's any hope for victory.

Books, Life, and a Little Bit of Chaos with @ReaderLatte

✨ Welcome to This Week’s RoundUp! ✨

Get ready for Books, Life, and a Little Bit of Chaos with @ReaderLatte—your double dose of bookish chatter, life updates, and everything in between!

📅 Saturdays are all about reflection—I’ll be rounding up the week’s highlights, from the books I’ve devoured to the little moments that made life interesting. Then, on Sundays, I’ll give you a peek at what’s coming next—upcoming reads, site updates, and whatever chaos the new week has in store.

With daily posts back in full swing, I’m just filling up the calendar and embracing the whirlwind! So grab a coffee, settle in, and enjoy my rambling bits of bookish and life musings. Let’s chat, share, and make this space as lively as our TBR piles! 📚☕✨

#ReleaseBlitz for The Drummer's Heart by @penelopewardauthor

Title: The Drummer's Heart

Author: Penelope Ward

Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance

Tropes: Rockstar Hero/"My Wife"/Small Town

Close Proximity/Slow Burn/One Bed

Release Date: February 23, 2025

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From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward comes a new, STANDALONE novel…

Don’t say her name.

That was the one rule my bandmates followed, because they knew how much it messed me up to think about her, especially on tour.

My ex, Nicole.

The one who got away and the woman who still owned every piece of my heart.

After our divorce, I threw myself into the rock scene, trying to forget my heartbreak.

Three years after we split, a phone call from Nicole changed everything.

She told me her grandmother wasn’t doing well.

Mimi was still family to me, and she apparently had one wish before dying: to spend time with us—Nicole and me.

With Mimi’s caretaker away on vacation, it would be the ideal time for us to move in with her for a couple of weeks.

Of course, I couldn’t refuse.

But there was a catch.

Nicole apparently never told her that we’d gotten a divorce.

She hadn’t believed Mimi could handle it, because her grandmother loved me so much.

So, not only would I have to see Nicole again, but I’d be pretending to still be her husband.

Two weeks in a tiny house in a small town with the woman who broke my heart. Or was it me who broke hers?

It was complicated.

And it was about to be a heck of a lot more complicated sharing one bed in the guest room with a woman who wasn’t mine anymore.

#ReleaseBlitz for Ink & Stardust by Melissa Toppen @melissa_toppen @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Ink & Stardust

Series: Ink & Ashes #1

Author: Melissa Toppen

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Trope: College Romance

Release Date: February 21, 2025

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Fate is a funny little thing.

It had a good laugh when I found my boyfriend of four years in bed with my best friend.

It was rolling on the floor when the same backstabbing beasts stole my dream school, landing me in a different state, where I didn’t know a single soul.

You’d think after all that, it’d cut me a break, right?

Wrong.

Enter its next jest, and this one’s a doozy.

Kai Elliot. Campus womanizer. Self-proclaimed bad boy. And the new bane of my existence—but not for the reason you might think.

Kai is as beautiful as the ink that mars his skin. Perfect lines. Vibrant colors. Designs as intricate as the man who bears them. I knew from the first moment I laid eyes on him that he was dangerous. A man who would destroy everything I stood for, stripping me bare for the world to see, and that’s exactly what he does.

I don’t love him. Hell, I don’t even like him. But that doesn’t stop me from injecting him into my veins like he’s my own personal brand of narcotics. Nothing can top the high he gives me, which is why I keep coming back for more, even when I know I shouldn’t.

And just when I think maybe fate isn’t that bad after all, it goes and gets my traitorous heart involved. Because the only thing worse than loving a man who betrays you- is loving a man who will never love you back.

If fate is real, I’m pretty sure it hates me.

Books, Life, and a Little Bit of Chaos with @ReaderLatte

✨ Welcome to This Week’s RoundUp! ✨

Get ready for Books, Life, and a Little Bit of Chaos with @ReaderLatte—your double dose of bookish chatter, life updates, and everything in between!

📅 Saturdays are all about reflection—I’ll be rounding up the week’s highlights, from the books I’ve devoured to the little moments that made life interesting. Then, on Sundays, I’ll give you a peek at what’s coming next—upcoming reads, site updates, and whatever chaos the new week has in store.

With daily posts back in full swing, I’m just filling up the calendar and embracing the whirlwind! So grab a coffee, settle in, and enjoy my rambling bits of bookish and life musings. Let’s chat, share, and make this space as lively as our TBR piles! 📚☕✨