Tuesday, June 08, 2021

#BookReview: Five Ways to Fall Out of Love by Emily Martin






Synopsis: This whip-smart rom-com explores the risks and rewards of letting love in, for fans of Jennifer E. Smith, Julie Buxbaum, and Sandhya Menon.

How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways…

Aubrey Cash learned the hard way not to rely on love. After all, Webster Casey, the new boy next door she’d been falling for all summer, stood her up at homecoming in front of everyone with no explanation. Proving her theory that love never lasts seems easy when she’s faced with parents whose marriage is falling apart and a best friend who thinks every boy she dates is “the one.” But when sparks fly with a boy who turns out to be Webster’s cousin, and then Webster himself becomes her lab partner for the rest of senior year, Aubrey finds her theory—and her commitment to stay single—put to the test.

As she navigates the breakdown of her family, the consequences her cynicism has on her relationship with her best friend, and her own confusing but undeniable feelings for Webster, Aubrey has to ask herself: What really happened the night Webster stood her up? And if there are five ways to fall out of love…could there perhaps be even more ways to fall back in?


#ReleaseBlitz: The Diversity Playbook by @hephzipemberton @equalitygroupgl @authorparul @RABTBookTours #Giveaway



 


Transforming Business with Inclusion and Innovation

Non-fiction / Business / Leadership / Diversity and Inclusion

Date Published: June 8, 2021


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Hephzi Pemberton’s first nonfiction, business book The Diversity Playbook provides an empowering and uplifting experience. It contains proven expertise, factual examples and practical tools to transform your business and leadership approach with inclusion and innovation as a central shared goal and priority.

Her book demonstrates with clarity, relevant case studies and the latest research, as well as an applicable exercise in each chapter, to show how leaders and firms who embrace and embed inclusion and diversity into their business will benefit. They will be the businesses that innovate and adapt more rapidly. They will have a workplace culture that the latest talent seeks out and stays with. They will reach a wider set of customers and clients who feel valued and understood. They know that to achieve these benefits and many others besides, leaders and businesses now and in the future will have to take inclusion and diversity seriously.

#ReleaseBlitz for Deadly Memories by @amanda_siegrist and @GiveMeBooksPR







Title: Deadly Memories
Series: Lucky Town #4
Author: Amanda Siegrist
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: June 8, 2021


BLURB

Love is scary…death is terrifying.

Deke Sumnter only has casual sex. Anything beyond that, he’s not interested. Until Charlotte. She’s smart, sexy, and something he’s always craved. But one time was all he could give her. He should’ve known it wouldn’t be enough. Now, she won’t even talk to him. He’d take just being friends over the silent treatment.

When trouble starts brewing again in their small town, this time targeting the woman he swears he doesn’t love, he won’t let anything stop him from protecting her, even if everything inside of him says he needs to stay as far away from her as possible.

#ReleaseBlitz for Of Light and Dark by Danah Logan @GiveMeBooksPR







Title: Of Light and Dark
Series: The Dark Series #3
Author: Danah Logan
Genre: New Adult Contemporary
Romantic Suspense
Release Date: June 8, 2021


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My name is Lilly.
What is my last name, you ask?
I. Don’t. Know.

I lost track of who I am months ago. I thought I was a McGuire until my brother let me in on the secrets that drove a wedge between my family so many years ago.

Consumed with the need for answers, I made decisions others would’ve called reckless—and they’re probably right.

The feeling of betrayal sat too deep for me to see reason. I should’ve told my parents, informed the authorities, but trust is a fragile thing. Once it’s broken, is there really a chance of rebuilding it?

Then I met him.

He gave me answers, but he had questions of his own. The more time we spent together, the more we bonded…until the lines were blurred.
Home was no longer tied to a place but to two individuals.
Throughout our search for the truth, I almost lost the boy that means everything to me.
Hunted by the media, tormented by Rhys’s psychotic ex and her followers, I became a target, and my need to run put everyone at risk.

No one could’ve expected what actually happened over a decade ago. How one decision started a chain of events that led to me being the pawn in her game.


Find out what really happened ten years ago in this angst-filled, romantic-suspense story full Of Light and Dark.


**AUTHOR’S NOTE:
Dear Reader, Of Light and Dark is the THIRD book and CONCLUSION of Lilly and Rhys’s trilogy within The Dark Series. The first three books in the series are one continuous story, with In the Dark being the first book.
This book is intended for MATURE readers and features strong language, sexual scenes, and situations that may be considered TRIGGERS for some. Reader Discretion is advised.

#TeaserTuesday: Monet & Oscar (The Essence of Light) by @joembyrd @RABTBookTours



 


Historical Fiction

Date Published: March 11, 2021

Publisher: Giverny Books



A young WWI veteran searches for his French Impressionist father through encounters with Claude Monet and some of that movement’s key figures.



#ReleaseBlitz for My Rebound by @CarrieAnnRyan and @GiveMeBooksPR






Title: My Rebound
Series: On My Own #2
Author: Carrie Ann Ryan
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: June 8, 2021


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A rebound isn’t supposed to last. Though, sometimes, fate has other ideas.

It wasn’t supposed to happen this way.
I started planning my future at the age of six. I knew the college I wanted, the career I needed, and the boy I would marry.
Only he wasn’t supposed to break up with me in such a spectacular fashion. Now, I’m tossing my planner and breaking my rules.
First up: Pacey Ziglar.
Too bad I fell for my rebound along the way

I never meant to say yes.
I know exactly what Mackenzie Thomas wants when she asks me out on a date. She won’t be my first no-strings-attached relationship, and if things work out the way we both want, she won’t be my last.
Yet the more I get to know her, the more I want her. But she’s not looking for me to be her forever.
And when the past comes back for both of us, I’m afraid forever might end far too soon.