Recent Release: Summer's List by Anita Higman

Most of the time when a new and exciting book has been released I share one - or a lot of - recent releases posts. Of course, this goes straight to my too large TBR-pile, but oh well. It's books - we need 'em.

Series: stand-alone

Genre: Romance, Women's Fiction

Publisher: River North

Publication Date: June 1st 2015

Length: 288 pages

Synopsis:

A dying wish alters the course of a young woman's life. 

Life hadn't been easy for Summer Snow. In acts of selflessness-caring for her ailing parents and running her grandmother's bookstore-she had forfeited her youth and dreams for the needs of others. And the only tries she had at love... didn't turn out. She had the bookstore, she had her beloved granny, but she was missing something-or someone.

Opportunity strikes when Granny sends Summer on an unexpected adventure with one Martin Langtree, a kind but gangly young man from Summer's past. A childhood friendship is rekindled, a romance is sparked, and mysteries are solved in one magical Texas summer. Will Summer strike out on love again, or will things finally go her way?

With lovable characters and surprising twists, Summer's List is a simple delight. 

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Recent Release: Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

Most of the time when a new and exciting book has been released I share one - or a lot of - recent releases posts. Of course, this goes straight to my too large TBR-pile, but oh well. It's books - we need 'em.

Series: stand-alone

Genre: Adult, mystery, thriller

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: May 12th 2015

Length: 352 pages

Synopsis:

HER PERFECT LIFE

IS A PERFECT LIE.

As a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, Ani FaNelli endured a shocking, public humiliation that left her desperate to reinvent herself. Now, with a glamorous job, expensive wardrobe, and handsome blue blood fiancé, she’s this close to living the perfect life she’s worked so hard to achieve.

But Ani has a secret.

There’s something else buried in her past that still haunts her, something private and painful that threatens to bubble to the surface and destroy everything.

With a singular voice and twists you won’t see coming, Luckiest Girl Aliveexplores the unbearable pressure that so many women feel to “have it all” and introduces a heroine whose sharp edges and cutthroat ambition have been protecting a scandalous truth, and a heart that's bigger than it first appears. 

The question remains: will breaking her silence destroy all that she has worked for—or, will it at long last, set Ani free?

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Recent Release: The Merit Birds by Kelley Powell

Most of the time when a new and exciting book has been released I share one - or a lot of - recent releases posts. Of course, this goes straight to my too large TBR-pile, but oh well. It's books - we need 'em.

Series: stand-alone

Genre: YA, contemporary

Publisher: Dundurn Group

Publication Date: May 2nd 2015

Length: 240 pages

Synopsis:

Eighteen-year-old Cam Scott is angry. He's angry about his absent dad, he's angry about being angry, and he's angry that he has had to give up his Ottawa basketball team to follow his mom to her new job in Vientiane, Laos. However, Cam's anger begins to melt under the Southeast Asian sun as he finds friendship with his neighbour, Somchai, and gradually falls in love with Nok, who teaches him about building merit, or karma, by doing good deeds, such as purchasing caged "merit birds." Tragedy strikes and Cam finds himself falsely accused of a crime. His freedom depends on a person he's never met. A person who knows that the only way to restore his merit is to confess. "The Merit Birds" blends action and suspense and humour in a far-off land where things seem so different, yet deep down are so much the same.

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Recent Release: Trail of Broken Wings by Sejal Badani

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Series: stand-alone

Genre: Adult, women's fiction

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing

Publication Date: May 1st 2015

Length: 387 pages

Synopsis:

When her father falls into a coma, Indian American photographer Sonya reluctantly returns to the family she’d fled years before. Since she left home, Sonya has lived on the run, free of any ties, while her soft-spoken sister, Trisha, has created a perfect suburban life, and her ambitious sister, Marin, has built her own successful career. But as these women come together, their various methods of coping with a terrifying history can no longer hold their memories at bay.

Buried secrets rise to the surface as their father—the victim of humiliating racism and perpetrator of horrible violence—remains unconscious. As his condition worsens, the daughters and their mother wrestle with private hopes for his survival or death, as well as their own demons and buried secrets.

Told with forceful honesty, Trail of Broken Wings reveals the burden of shame and secrets, the toxicity of cruelty and aggression, and the exquisite, liberating power of speaking and owning truth.

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Recent Release:

Most of the time when a new and exciting book has been released I share one - or a lot of - recent releases posts. Of course, this goes straight to my too large TBR-pile, but oh well. It's books - we need 'em.

Series: The Asylum Saga #1

Genre: YA, paranormal

Publisher: Bookish Group Press

Publication Date: April 28th 2015

Length: 261 pages

Synopsis:

She meant to help a ghost...not unleash a curse.

Amelia Dupree hasn’t seen the Woman in White since the night her brother died. 

The ghost seems to have disappeared from the woods surrounding Asylum, Pennsylvania—that is, until Charlie Blue moves into the creepy old MacAllister House next door. Amelia can’t help liking him, even though she spent her childhood thinking his grandmother was a witch. And she definitely can’t ignore the connection between his arrival and the Woman in White’s return. 

Then Amelia learns that the Woman in White is a prisoner, trapped between the worlds of the living and the dead. Devastated by the idea that her brother could be suffering a similar fate, Amelia decides to do whatever it takes to help the Woman in White find peace--and Charlie agrees to help her.

But when Amelia’s classmates start to drown in the Susquehanna River, one right after another, rumors swirl as people begin to connect the timing of Charlie’s arrival with the unexplained deaths. As Charlie and Amelia uncover the dark history of Asylum, they realize they may have unleashed an unspeakable evil. One they have to stop before everything they love is destroyed.

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Review: Hard Ride - part 1, 2, & 3 by Opal Carew

My rating: ★★★+0.75
Genre: Adult, romance; erotica
Series: 3-part novel
Shelves on Goodreads: boyfriends, ebooks, finished-in-one-day, inteeeeense-erotica-novels, male-protagonist, netgalley-titles, read, stayed-up-all-night

Blurb from Goodreads:
Liv never expected to find herself trapped in an alley facing a band of rough bikers. And she certainly never expected to see him again...

When Shock encounters an old flame in a dark alley, it sends him spiraling. She's still as beautiful as ever, but she seems to have fallen on hard times since college, and he's concerned about the risks she seems to take. In order to keep her safe and finally have her for himself, he makes a sensual deal: his help for her complete submission. But will Liv be able to let go of the past and fall for the hard rider?

 

My review: 

I don't really have that much to say about this. It was good. I liked the story line, some of the characters and some of the events. It didn't really give me that much to reflect and at some times I found myself with an uneasy feeling.
I didn't like the main character that much and that bothered me. When reading a book I can't be annoyed with the main character. It brings down the whole story. Even if the story is great I give it a lower review if I don't like the main character. 

I found the whole concept was a bit cheesy(??) and was very annoyed with it at times. Now, I said I liked the story line, yes, but as ever before, I am cheesy so I don't have a problem with cheesiness or cliches. But some this just didn't work for me. 

See, I didn't have that much to reflect on. I personally thought they could've been much longer, but that's just me. 

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USA GIVEAWAY // INTERNATIONAL GIVEAWAY

Now, the entry post for the USA giveaway is live HERE! So if you'd like to join everything you'll need to know will be there!

And of course, the entry post for the INTERNATIONAL giveaway is also live HERE! If you'd like to join everything you'll need to know will be there!

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Love,

sofia

Review: Ready to Reach by Inglath Cooper

My rating: ★★★★
Genre: NA, romance, music
Series: Nashville #1
Shelves on Goodreads: boyfriends, ebooks, finished-in-one-day, male-protagonist, netgalley-titles, read, reviewed-on-blog, stayed-up-all-night

Blurb from Goodreads:
Nineteen-year old CeCe Mackenzie leaves Virginia for Nashville with not much more to her name than a guitar, a Walker Hound named Hank Junior and an old car she'd inherited from her grandma called Gertrude. But Gertrude ends up on the side of I-40 in flames, and Nashville has never seemed farther away. Help arrives in the form of two Georgia football players headed for the Nashville dream as well. When Holden Ashford and Thomas Franklin stop to offer CeCe and Hank Junior a ride, fate may just give a nod to serendipity and meant to be.

My review:

"We take this life one moment, one day at a time."

This won't be the longest review since there wasn't much to reflect on. And this will be a pathetic review, I know. 

I really liked this. It is a four-part novella series which is exciting. In this book/novella, whatever you want to call it, we're introduced to the main characters - tree very likable characters. The whole thing about how they met was incredibly funny. It wasn't funny that her car exploded, okay, but the rest of it was hilarious. 

"My mama and I never had much, but if I said I wanted to fly to the moon, she'd start helping me make the wings."

The music element in this book/novella was fantastic. I love music. Like literally LOVE. L-O-V-E. I've always appreciated books about musicians and this was no different. I admire their want and their dreams. I admire how they know that the good always comes to the ones who wait. I felt so poetic during this I don't know. 

Oh my God, I want to write so much more but I don't know if I can. I'm gonna write about some other things happening around this instead. 

So, right now, Smith Publicity (the publishers) are hosting a blog tour. Exciting, exciting, I know. I got an email about this asking me if I wanted to take part in this. Yes, yes, yes I am way beyond excited. This now means that I am currently preparing for hosting a giveaway. I am planning to have the giveaway on my Instagram page (@forbidden.books). It's extremely simple, really. The end date will sometime after April 19th. More information about this will come later. 

I know this was more of an informational blogpost than an actual review. Sorry, about that. 

"Someone once said that every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. The trick then has to be letting go of the safe, the known and reaching out for what we can't yet see."

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Recent Release: The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma

Most of the time when a new and exciting book has been released I share one - or a lot of - recent releases posts. Of course, this goes straight to my too large TBR-pile, but oh well. It's books - we need 'em.

Series: stand-alone

Genre: YA, paranormal

Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers

Publication Date: March 24th 2015

Length: 336 pages

Synopsis:

“Ori’s dead because of what happened out behind the theater, in the tunnel made out of trees. She’s dead because she got sent to that place upstate, locked up with those monsters. And she got sent there because of me.”

The Walls Around Us is a ghostly story of suspense told in two voices—one still living and one long dead. On the outside, there’s Violet, an eighteen-year-old dancer days away from the life of her dreams when something threatens to expose the shocking truth of her achievement. On the inside, within the walls of a girls’ juvenile detention center, there’s Amber, locked up for so long she can’t imagine freedom. Tying these two worlds together is Orianna, who holds the key to unlocking all the girls’ darkest mysteries.

We hear Amber’s story and Violet’s, and through them Orianna’s, first from one angle, then from another, until gradually we begin to get the whole picture—which is not necessarily the one that either Amber or Violet wants us to see.

Nova Ren Suma tells a supernatural tale of guilt and innocence, and what happens when one is mistaken for the other.

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Recent Release #1: After Dark by M. Pierce

Every Thursday I share a recent release that I'm excited about. Of course, this goes straight 
to my too large TBR-pile, but oh well. It's books - we need 'em. 

Series: Night Owl #3

Genre: Adult, romance; erotica

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Publication Date: March 24th 2015

Length: 272 pages

Synopsis:

At twenty-nine, Matt Sky is trying to return to normal, having faked his death and come back to life. He and Hannah move to a simple house in the suburbs, and strive to grow their relationship into something durable and honest. They become more and more entangled, in the best ways possible.

At twenty-eight, Hannah finally has the life she's always wanted: she's pursuing her career as a literary agent at Granite Wing Agency, she is writing her first solo novel, and she is living with her hot, passionate lover. For the first time, Matt and Hannah are able to explore intimacy without inhibitions—without lies, secrets, or jealousy—and the results are explosive.

Still life together is not as easy as it seems. Matt is estranged from his brothers in the wake of his cruel stunt; Seth Sky, embittered by his failed pursuit of Hannah, makes a play for Hannah's sister; and the topic of Hannah's novel—her relationship with Matt and the Sky family—is driving a wedge between her and Matt. The lovers are devoted to one another, having come through many ordeals, but is their bond strong enough to last a lifetime?

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Cover reveal: Absolute Lovers by S. J. Hooks

This Wednesday I have the pleasure to reveal the cover for the final installment of the Absolute Series by S. J. Hooks. The first book is called Absolute Beginners and you should check it out 'cause it is hot! And obviously it's extremely amazing but yeah. Read it. 

Oh God am I excited for this book. June, please come NOW!!

Series: Absolute #2 Genre: Adult, romance; erotica Publisher: Full Fathom Five Digital Publication Date: June 25th 2015 Length: 286 pages
Synopsis:

Professor Stephen Worthington has been schooled in the bedroom by free-spirited student Julia Wilde. But what started as a casual arrangement has turned into so much more—at least for Stephen. Head over heels, Stephen is tired of being just “sex buddies.” Julia’s resisting, but her blithe attitude towards keeping it casual may just be a front. Can he prove to her that their amazing sexual chemistry can mix with romance and ultimately win her heart? 

In this eagerly awaited sequel to S.J. Hooks’ successful first novel, Absolute Beginners, readers will find themselves riding alongside Stephen and Julia’s highs and lows as their friends-with-benefits relationship reaches a crossroads. Absolute Lovers’ humor and romance will tease and delight both dedicated fans and new readers alike. Absolute Lovers is the final installment in the Absolute Novels series. 

 Connect with SJ on her Website, Facebook, and Twitter!

About the author:

Although she is a native of Denmark, SJ Hooks has always had a keen interest in the English language. She has a BA in English Literature and is close to finishing her MA in American Studies. As a student and a working mother of two special needs children, her days are busy. At night, when she isn’t passed out on the couch, she’s in front of her computer, writing stories of love, humor and passion—the best things in life. Her dream is to build a career as a full-time author and give her children the life they deserve.

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Unblocked - Episode One by Marni Mann

My rating: ★★★+0.5

Genre: Adult, romance; erotica
Series: Timber Towers #1
Shelves on Goodreads: boyfriends, ebooks, finished-in-one-day, hella-anticipated-2015, inteeeeense-erotica-novels, male-protagonist, netgalley-titles, read

Blurb from Goodreads:
Derek Block seeks revenge. Frankie Jordan seeks professional dominance. He wants her, she wants him. Lines that can't cross begin to blur. Things start heating up as real estate gets real…

My review:

I don't really have that much to say about this so excuse me if this review is too short. 

This is the first part of a five-parts book so this was mainly introduction to the characters and story etc etc. But it was a good beginning. Meaning that had this been a the beginning of a full book I would've been eager to continue. Of course I am eager to continue, but I'm a tad annoyed about it being split up. 

When we first were introduced to Frankie Jordan I was impressed. She's a really awesome character; she's independent and trusts that what she does is good which screams self-confidence (this is a good thing). 

Although this is a small part of the full book it was incredibly well written. The writing was incredibly descriptive and "painting". We got a good look at how the characters are and what they look like - we all have different prospects of this but you know what I mean. 

Negative thing, Frankie's ex was an asshole. I got a bit of an abuser feeling from him so he's not on my thumbs-up list right now. 

Another negative thing. The cover. I don't know how many times I've complained about the incredibly ridiculous erotica cover. But oh well, I like the books and that's what matters. 

The reason I'm only giving three and a half stars to this is because it was just the beginning. If Marni Mann continues like this I'll probably give the second part four stars. And then when all the parts are written and published she book will hopefully be around 500 pages and will probably be butterflying fantabulous (that is a real word, yes).

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sofia