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The Book Swap by Tessa Bickers 

US pub date - 9/3/24 

Show me a book about books and I’m there, ready to read it. 

Though marked as a “romance”, this is more of women’s fiction with some romance. It’s a book 

of trauma, growth, and healing. 

I loved the nods to so many classics but I had a difficult time connecting with the characters. 

I enjoyed this, but didn’t love it. 

Thank you to Graydon House and NetGalley for the DRC 

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Excerpt: Zeta's Till We Die by Amber and Danielle Brown

#NewRelease #Excerpt Zetas Till We Die by Amber & Danielle Brown Click the Link to Read an Excerpt #Mystery #Thriller #GraydonHouse #HTPBooks #HarperCollins

About the Book: It’s been ten years since Priscilla and her Zeta Phi Zeta sorority sisters graduated college. Ten years since they were all in the same room together. Ten years since one of them died. And now Lupe’s killer has been released from prison on a technicality, days before their ten-year reunion. Priscilla decides that the party must go on; Lupe would have wanted it to. And besides,…

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#BookReviewTour ~ Good Half Gone by Tarryn Fisher @HarlequinBooks @GraydonHouse

My Thoughts The beginning of Good Half Gone is set on an interesting premise that takes your attention almost in one second. Nonetheless, as you go further into the narrative, you spot the flaws in the way it was carried out. The pace of the narrative needs to be addressed. The sum of my troubles was the time spent on details that, although intriguing, do not add a lot to the plot or the…

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#TheSunshineGirls #MollyFader #BookReview #AudiobookReview #HistoricalFiction #Romance #ChickLit #GraydonHouse #HarlequinAudio

1967 Iowa. Nursing school roommates BettyKay and Kitty don’t have much in common. But they form an unbreakable bond. #TheSunshineGirls #MollyFader #BookReview #HistoricalFiction #chicklit #graydonhouse #harlequinaudio #audiobookreview #AudibleDeals

1967 Iowa. Nursing school roommates BettyKay and Kitty don’t have much in common. A farmer’s daughter, BettyKay has risked her family’s disapproval to make her dreams come true away from her small rural town. Cosmopolitan Kitty has always relied on her beauty and smarts to get by and to hide a devastating secret from the past that she can’t seem to outrun. Yet the two share a determination to…

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Spotlight Review: THE BOYFRIEND CANDIDATE by Ashley Winstead 

Spotlight #bookreview: THE BOYFRIEND CANDIDATE by Ashley Winstead, a terrific, fast-paced, unputdownable romance sure to appeal to politicos everywhere! @ashleywinstead @HarperCollins #GraydonHouse #fakedating #Texas #romance #romcom #mustread

CLICK TO PURCHASE From the publisher: A Sizzling Slow-Burn Romantic Comedy  A laugh-out-loud rom-com about learning to embrace living outside your comfort zone. As a shy school librarian, Alexis Stone is comfortable keeping out of the spotlight. But when she’s dumped for being too meek—in bed!—she decides she needs to change. And what better way to kick-start her new more adventurous life…

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"The Vanishing Hour" by Seraphina Nova Glass - Book Review @GraydonHouse @HarperCollins #TheVanishingHour #BookReview @SeraphinaNova

“The Vanishing Hour” was a missing persons thriller with a melancholy vibe that was peopled with empathetic and interesting characters. Four young women and two elderly men have vanished from one of the town’s seedier streets over the course of several years. All of them have disappeared between 10:00 and 11:00 pm – the press have coined it ‘the vanishing hour‘. Of these, two of the young women…

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Salena!!! Yes, we read and really enjoyed Black Candle Women....check out our @instagram live with Diane Marie Brown! Conjure Women is definitely on our radar! And though the time periods are very different, there are a lot of similarities to Black Candle Women and Conjure Women! Also, we are 100% here for #blackwitches. 

If you are looking to get your hands on these books, we are in stock! Link in bio: @sistahscifi | www.sistahscifi.com. Better yet, be like Salena and check them out from your local library!

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Book Showcase: TOKEN by Beverley Kendall

Read an #excerpt from the newly-released TOKEN by #BeverleyKendall, published by @GraydonHouse | @HarperCollins. #blogtour #bookexcerpt #fiction #romance #romanticcomedy #multiculturalromance #newrelease

Token by Beverley KendallISBN: 9781525899973 (trade paperback)ISBN: 9780369720528 (ebook)ISBN: 9781488218248 (digital audiobook)ISBN: 9798212222815 (MP3 audiobook CD)ASIN: B0B8QM22WT (Audible audiobook)ASIN: B0B1JM2HDF (Kindle edition)Page Count: 352Release Date: January 3, 2023Publisher: Graydon House/HarperCollinsGenre: Fiction | Multicultural & Interracial Romance | Romance She’s brilliant,…

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The Wives Book Review

SPOILERS AHEAD!

My first thought upon finishing this book was “Wow this book was fucking crazy!” (in the best way possible Thursday). The blurb on the book mentions a straight forward concept: a wife is in a polygamist marriage but soon things are not so simple and drama ensues causing the wife to doubt her husband. This book is so much more than that. There were so many moments I could recount but the things I enjoyed the most were the pacing and anticipation since page one. 

“He comes over on Thursday every week. That’s my day. I’m Thursday.” 

Immediately the readers are told two things. One, that “He” only comes on Thursdays and second, that the narrator identifies as Thursday. These two details accomplish two things. The readers or at least I, believe the narrator, sympathizes with her and gets the feeling this is something that gets her through the week and she takes it seriously. Throughout the rest of the chapter, Thursday explains her views on her marriage and readers learn that even though Thursday has a rough time not putting on a show. 

“...I am queen of presentation, after all. Everything is just right, the way he likes it, and thus, the way I like it. It’s not that I don’t have a personality; it’s just that everything I am is reserved for him. As it should be.”

Readers get it. Thursday lives to please Seth. It is a rough start. The narrator stakes her life on this man but does so without apology. I know some readers can find this chapter cringy but that’s how secrets can be. They can be shameful and things that bring shame can be difficult to witness. This makes us, the readers feel like we’re confidants. We know something she refuses to share with her best friend. This connection helps lead to a great payout climax wise.

As the story goes on Thursday starts to become visibly disturbed by all that she keeps discovering. Seth starts to look dubious and like a friend we start to worry and cheer on Thursday’s rebelling of her circumstances. This behavior unlike what she showed in chapter one comes off as her finally standing up for herself and it adds to the anticipation and our ideas of what could Seth be possibly up to.

“It takes a minute for things to sink in: the first that today is not Thursday; the second that, Seth is not smiling; and the third-there is a bandage on the knuckles of his right hand. I lick my lips. my brain working frantically. He knows!”

One of the best scenes filled with tense and action is when Thursday comes home to find Seth in her condo clearly livid. The tension is overwhelming and Thursday fears that Seth knows he’s been caught. I felt like jumping out of my skin and I literally paused after the bandaged hand line to make eye contact with my fiancee’ to gasp “He knows!” to his valid bewilderment. The book was a thrilling ride that makes you grip the book and read uninterrupted until the very end.

“Her laughter hurts my ears. I cover them with my palms, pressing hard, trying to block out the sound...I’m shaking when I rear back, slamming my head against Regina’s nose. The force slams my jaw together. I bite through my bottom lip and feel the shards of a broken tooth...I am helping. I’m helping myself.”

Thursday experiences another violent moment at the end and it’s horribly violent but satisfying. She lashes out on Regina who refuses to admit any responsibility.  Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out it switches it up. These plot twists aren’t cliches either. Thankfully by the end, I was satisfied with the way things turned out. 

Our rating: 4.5 stars (5 stars means perfection not possible)

Keywords: devious, brilliant, & jolting

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[simoneandherbooks]

Happy Monday! I just posted my thoughts on my most recent read HOT MESS by @emilybelden on my blog. Definitely check it out if you’re interested a quick and easy read about a girl who starts a new career in the restaurant industry. Also it’s got a lot of food in it which I’m always a fan of. Do you like to cook? . . . . . . #emilybelden #hotmess #tlcbooktours #fiction #graydonhouse #foodiefiction #booksandfood #books #reading #chicago #bookish #bookworm #bookclub #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #badassbookbabes

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Excerpt: Famous in a Small Town by Viola Shipman

#NewReleases Famous in a Small Town by Viola Shipman Read an Excerpt! #Fiction #ContemporaryFiction @HarperCollins @HarlequinBooks @GraydonHouse @Viola_Shipman

About the Book: In 1958, 15-year-old Mary Jackson became the first woman ever crowned The Cherry Pit Spittin’ Champion of Good Hart, Michigan, landing her in the Guinness Book of World Records, and earning her the nickname Cherry Mary. Nearly 80 years old at the story’s start, Mary runs The Very Cherry General Store, a business that has been passed through three generations of women in the…

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Can best friends, Paris and Naira defy society, their families, and biology to bring a new life into the world? Can their friendship survive it? 💕@authorfalguni explores the complexities of surrogacy and relationships in her new novel #ObjectofYourAffection, on the T today. #booksontheT . . . #newfiction #surrogacy #fiction #newbook #paperback #graydonhouse #igreads #instabooks #bookstagram #reading https://www.instagram.com/p/BuEW8iSngrZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zo5eaudewy59

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#NowThatYouMentionIt by #KristinHiggins #AudiblePlus #BookReview #ChickLit #BeachRead #GraydonHouse

Nora will discover that tackling old pain makes room for promise...and the chance to begin again. Another great selection from the Audible Plus collection! #NowThatYouMentionIt by #KristinHiggins #BookReview #AudiblePlus #contemporaryromance #Audiobook

One step forward. Two steps back. The Tufts scholarship that put Nora Stuart on the path to becoming a Boston medical specialist was a step forward. Being hit by a car and then overhearing her boyfriend hit on another doctor when she thought she was dying? Two major steps back. Injured in more ways than one, Nora feels her carefully built life cracking at the edges. There’s only one place to…

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Spotlight Review: JOHANNA PORTER IS NOT SORRY by Sara Read

Spotlight #BookReview: JOHANNA PORTER IS NOT SORRY by Sara Read, a tight, fast-moving debut novel with intriguing characters that is part mystery, part romance, & a very good read. @sarareadauthor @GraydonHouse #romance #bookdiscussion #debutnovel

CLICK TO PURCHASE From the publisher: The headlines dubbed it the art heist of the decade… Twenty years ago, Johanna Porter was a rising star in the art world. Now she’s an unknown soccer mom. When an invitation arrives for an elite gallery opening for her former lover, the great Nestor Pinedo, Johanna wants to throw it in the trash where it belongs. But with some styling help from her…

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"The Last Heir to Blackwood Library" by Hester Fox - Book Review @GraydonHouse @HarperCollins #TheLastHeirToBlackwoodLibrary #BookReview

“Heaven truly was an untouched stash of books, just waiting to be opened and read.” This is a gothic ghost story with fantastical elements. There were many parts of this novel that I really appreciated. The protagonist’s bibliophilia for one. This is an homage to books and those who love them. It is easy to discern the author’s love of the classics, many of which were mentioned within the pages.…