Category: Contemporary
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Review: SAVING RUBY KING by Catherine Adel West
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 for Ruby, it’s a devastating loss that leaves her on her own with her violent…
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Review: OONA OUT OF ORDER by Margarita Montimore
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 promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or…
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Review: MY DARK VANESSA by Kate Elizabeth Russell
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 wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused…
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Review: FISHNET by Kristin Innes
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 in her life—Fiona’s mundane existence is blown apart by the revelation that Rona had been…
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Blog Tour: THE BOOKISH LIFE OF NINA HILL by Abbi Waxman
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 a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than…
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Blog Tour & Review: THE FLATSHARE by Beth O’Leary
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 budget have her wondering if astonishingly colored mold on the walls counts as art. Desperation makes…
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Blog Tour & Review: VALENCIA AND VALENTINE by Suzy Krause
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 turning thirty-five. To confront those fears, Valencia’s therapist suggests that she fly somewhere—anywhere—before her upcoming…
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Blog Tour: ONLY EVER HER by Marybeth Mayhew Whelan
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 to plan. Except that Annie herself has vanished. Did she have second thoughts? Or has…
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Blog Tour: THE ACCIDENTAL BEAUTY QUEEN by Teri Wilson
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 of THE ACCIDENTAL BEAUTY QUEEN by Teri Wilson – all opinions are my own. About…
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Blog Tour & Review: WILDCHILDS by Eugenia Melian
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 Paris. She has created a new life for herself and her daughter, Lou, in California.…