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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Contemporary”

Review: SAVING RUBY KING by Catherine Adel West

Janelle July 4, 2020 BLOG TOUR, Book Reviews, Coming-of-Age, Contemporary, Finished Copy, From Publisher, Literary Fiction, Park Row Leave a Comment

Thank you so much Park Row Books for my free copy.  Description: When Ruby King’s mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago’s South Side, the police dismiss it as another act of violence in a black neighborhood. But …

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Review: OONA OUT OF ORDER by Margarita Montimore

Janelle March 16, 2020 Book Reviews, Book Sparks, Coming-of-Age, Contemporary, Finished Copy, Flatiron Books, Science Fiction, Suspense Leave a Comment

Thank you so much Book Sparks and Flatiron for my free copy. Description: It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead …

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Review: MY DARK VANESSA by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Janelle March 16, 2020 Advance Copy, Book Reviews, Contemporary, From Publisher, Literary Fiction, William Morrow Leave a Comment

Thank you so much William Morrow for my free copy. Description: 2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising …

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Review: FISHNET by Kristin Innes

Janelle December 1, 2019 Book Reviews, Contemporary, Finished Copy, From Publisher, Gallery Books, Mystery Leave a Comment

Thank you so much Gallery Books for providing my copy. Description: Rona Leonard was only twenty-years-old when she walked out of her sister Fiona’s flat and disappeared. Six years later—worn down by a tedious job, childcare, and an aching absence …

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Blog Tour: THE BOOKISH LIFE OF NINA HILL by Abbi Waxman

Janelle July 17, 2019 Berkley Publishing, BLOG TOUR, Book Reviews, Book Spotlight, Contemporary, Finished Copy, From Publisher, Humor Leave a Comment

Thank you so much Berkley Publishing for my free copy.  Description:  The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and …

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Blog Tour & Review: THE FLATSHARE by Beth O’Leary

Janelle June 19, 2019 BLOG TOUR, Book Reviews, Contemporary, Finished Copy, Flatiron Books, From Publisher Leave a Comment

Thank you so much Flatiron Books for my copy.  Description:  Tiffy and Leon share an apartment. Tiffy and Leon have never met. After a bad breakup, Tiffy Moore needs a place to live. Fast. And cheap. But the apartments in her …

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Blog Tour & Review: VALENCIA AND VALENTINE by Suzy Krause

Janelle June 19, 2019 Amazon Publishing, BLOG TOUR, Book Reviews, Contemporary, Finished Copy, From Publisher, Lake Union Authors, TLC Book Tours 2 Comments

Thank you so much TLC Book Tours, Lake Union Publishing, and Amazon Publishing for my copy.  Description:  Valencia, a timid debt collector with crippling OCD, is afraid of many things, but the two that scare her most are flying and …

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Blog Tour: ONLY EVER HER by Marybeth Mayhew Whelan

Janelle May 23, 2019 Amazon Publishing, BLOG TOUR, Book Reviews, Contemporary, Lake Union Authors, Mystery, TLC Book Tours 3 Comments

Description: Annie Taft’s wedding is four days away, and it will be one of the grandest anyone can remember in her small South Carolina town. Preparations are in order. Friends and family are gathering in anticipation. Everything is going according …

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Blog Tour: THE ACCIDENTAL BEAUTY QUEEN by Teri Wilson

Janelle December 9, 2018 BLOG TOUR, Book Reviews, Contemporary, From Publisher, Gallery Books, Humor, Women's Fiction Leave a Comment

The Accidental Beauty Queen by Teri Wilson On Sale: December 4, 2018 Gallery Books | Trade Paperback Original ISBN: 9781501197604 | $16.00 E-ISBN: 9781501197611 | $7.99 Audio-ISBN: 9781508283553 | $17.99 Thank you very much Gallery Books for my free copy …

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Blog Tour & Review: WILDCHILDS by Eugenia Melian

Janelle October 11, 2018 BLOG TOUR, Book Reviews, Coming-of-Age, Contemporary, Finished Copy, Publicist, Smith Publicity Services Leave a Comment

Thank you so much Smith Publicity for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own.  Description:  Seventeen years ago, Iris was forced to abandon Gus, the love of her life, and her career as a top model in …

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