#BookReview: Like Other Girls by @brittashipsit

Synopsis: "What if I played football?" I ask. As soon as it's out of my mouth, I feel stupid. Even suggesting it feels like I've overstepped some kind of invisible line we've all agreed not to discuss. We don't talk about how Mara is different from other girls. We don't talk about how Mara is gay but no one says so. But when I do stuff like this, I worry it gets harder for us all to ignore what's right in front of us. I direct my gaze to Quinn. "What do you think?"
"I think it's frickin' genius," he says.


After getting kicked off the basketball team for a fight that was absolutely totally not her fault (okay maybe a little her fault), Mara is dying to find a new sport to play to prove to her coach that she can be a team player. A lifelong football fan, Mara decides to hit the gridiron with her brother, Noah, and best friend, Quinn-and she turns out to be a natural. But joining the team sets off a chain of events in her small Oregon town-and within her family-that she never could have predicted.

Inspired by what they see as Mara's political statement, four other girls join the team. Now Mara's lumped in as one of the girls-one of the girls who can't throw, can't kick, and doesn't know a fullback from a linebacker. Complicating matters is the fact that Valentina, Mara's crush, is one of the new players, as is Carly, Mara's nemesis-the girl Mara fought with when she was kicked off the basketball team. What results is a coming-of-age story that is at once tear-jerking and funny, thought-provoking and real, as Mara's preconceived notions about gender, sports, sexuality, and friendship are turned upside down.


Britta Lundin's sophomore novel will give readers all the feels, and make them stand up and cheer. 

#BookBlitz: With Emma Trilogy by @tlmahrt @XpressoTours #Giveaway $20 Amazon gift card

Withstanding The Enemy
T.L. Mahrt
(With Emma, #1)
Publication date: January 31st 2020
Genres: Adult, Romance, Suspense

Can Emma withstand a lifetime with her captor?

Emma Andrews was orphaned at a young age with no family to turn to. Tired of the broken foster-care system, and believing it was her only option, she runs to a multi-millionaire with a reputation of hiring young women. It is only then that she learns what real monsters look like…

Emma uses her overactive imagination to help her get through the toughest of days. By daydreaming a life full of love and freewill, she manages her colorless prison, but even in her wildest dreams, she would have never imagined it could become a reality. That is, until she meets Chance, a man willing to lay his life down to save hers.

But what Emma doesn’t expect is to fight her own personal demons—her heart.

#BookBlitz: Undiagnosed Love by Jacqueline Lee @XpressoTours #Giveaway $20 Amazon gift card and 5 eBook copies of Undiagnosed Love

Undiagnosed Love
Jacqueline Lee
Publication date: July 1st 2021
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

What happens when you fall for the one person you can’t have?

Anna has always tried to do everything right, working hard through medical school, and now in her career as a doctor. She’s worked hard at her eight-year relationship with her fiancé Phil too, and can’t wait to get married and become part of Phil’s extended family. Then the unthinkable happens. Phil breaks up with her three months before their wedding.

Luckily, Phil’s younger brother Seth works at the same hospital and is there to help her through the aftermath.

Seth’s always been the laid-back, jokey one in contrast to his more serious brother. He’s always secretly envied Phil’s relationship with Anna because she’s his epitome of the perfect girl. When he sees how devastated Anna is after his idiot brother dumps her, he does everything he can to get her smiling again. But the more time they spend together, the more their connection grows.

Your brother’s ex-fiancée is off-limits. Everyone knows that.

The problem is when you accidentally cross that line, the repercussions can be immense.

#BookBlitz: Absolute Truth by @Joab_Russo @RABTBookTours

 

Spirituality, Self-Help, Inspirational, Motivational

Is there any kind of trauma or lack in your life?

Recurring and undesired challenges you just can’t seem to be able to solve? Perhaps you lost someone close to you, and find it difficult to recover, accept and move on. Maybe you are trying so hard to find that special someone, or that coveted job or career, or even just some genuine meaning in your daily routine, yet achieve little to no success or fulfillment in doing so? Does everyone else around you seem to have some or all of it figured out, while you yourself feel left disadvantaged, disillusioned and dissatisfied? Or maybe you are mostly content in your life, and are seeking answers about yourself, your reality and your world that no science, religion, belief or nature has provided yet?

Enter Absolute Truth, providing you with the unequivocal, undisputable and everlasting answers to your personal questions, challenges and life events. By redefining your life, reality and existence with meaning of Absolute Truth, you may allow yourself to simply, clearly and easily:

– Know how and why anything does or doesn’t ‘happen’ to you.

– Regain conscious control of your life and your power of choice.

– Understand how your beliefs influence your life experience.

– Recognize and apply the most powerful tools at your disposal to sustainably achieve and experience your desires and true wants.

– Discover what your ‘unconscious’ truly is and rediscover the eternal foundations of your non-physical existence.

– Find out the personality choices you made even before you were born, how they affect your choices in physical life, and what the experience of ‘death’ actually is.

– Allow yourself an unprecedented sense of security, self-worth, freedom and fulfilment, even in the midst of the most challenging personal, social, mass and global events.

– Get to know the true purpose and experience of your sexuality and emotions, your inner senses, your energy centers and much, much more …

Absolute Truth takes you on your ultimate journey of self-discovery and self-trust, for it holds the simple, generic principles by which only you choose and create all of your own reality.

#ReleaseBlitz for Stars & Sparks Forever by @authorkkendrick and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Stars & Sparks Forever

A Man of the Month Series Standalone

Author: Kara Kendrick

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: July 1, 2021

BLURB

I’m a jaded divorce attorney, a single dad, and the new guy in town, moving to sleepy Starlight Bay to open a law office for bickering couples dividing their assets.

So yeah, dating isn’t on my radar.

Until I meet my son’s incredibly beautiful, but way too young for me swim instructor, Lana. She’s the ray of sunshine I didn’t know I needed and suddenly, I find myself thinking about her all the time.

When my nanny bails on the Fourth of July, Lana steps in to help me out. Sparks fly between us and for the first time, I can see the possibility of a brighter future. For me and my son.

But I shouldn’t get involved.

She’s too young, too beautiful, too bright—and I’ve already been burned once before. My number one priority is protecting my son.

Besides, everyone knows you can’t hold onto sunshine.

Right?

#ReleaseBlitz for Slingshot by @klsavage_author and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Slingshot

Series: Ruthless Kings MC #14

Author: K.L. Savage

Genre: Dark Romantic Suspense/Organized Crime

Release Date: July 2, 2021

BLURB

She slingshotted her way into my heart.

I’m a laid back kind of guy.

I don’t like to take life too seriously.

I’ve experienced serious and I’ve gone through the bad life has to offer.

I’m ready for the good in life.

I wear my heart on my sleeve just so someone can take it.

And someone does…

Natalia Moretti.

Out of all the people for me to love, why does it have to be her?

The frenemy’s daughter.

I’m screwed.

I’m risking my life to be with her.

But if life isn’t about taking risks, then what the hell else are we supposed to do?

Love with her isn’t simple.

There’s blood.

War.

Revenge.

Anger.

And that’s not the worst of it.

Her Uncle Maximo poses a threat along with someone who I thought was long gone out of my life.

Protecting the ones I love means I could die.

Death doesn’t scare me. I’ve come close one too many times to be afraid of it.

I face it head on.

And if I do, heaven better have tacos.