#K. Bromberg

[x-whispers-of-october-x]

OLIVIA APPLEGATE & MICHAEL ROARK as Rylee Thomas & Colton Donavan Driven, Season 2, Episode 1, by K. Bromberg

[sandythereadingcafe]

REVIEW TOUR:

TWISTED KNIGHT (Tangled Hearts 1) by K. Bromberg at The Reading Cafe:

'The premise is dramatic, dark, and grit' The premise is dramatic, dark, and gritty'

[novelstorian]

The One About An F1 Driver: On the Edge by K. Bromberg | Book Review

In the realm of literature, each book is a portal to uncharted territories, offering readers a passport to explore worlds that exist beyond the confines of our regular lives. Today, I extend an invitation to my fellow readers as we embark on a journey into the pages of On the Edge by K. Bromberg Beyond the captivating cover lies a narrative waiting to unfold and characters yearning to be…

[librospdfgratismundoepub]

Forever More - K. Bromberg (2022) [En Español]

Cuando Lyric Evermore se coló en la fiesta de compasión de Angie McIntyre hace cuatro años, nunca pudo imaginar que sería el comienzo de su propia tradición anual. Ninguno de los dos sabía que podría ser el comienzo de algo más significativo… Descargar Forever More – K. Bromberg (2022) [En Español] PDF Y EPUB GRATIS

[jeevesreads]

15 One Night Stand to HEA Romance Books

When it all starts with a one night stand, the path to happily ever after is unpredictable. I love this type of fling to more romance, where one night changes everything for the couple. Sometimes it’s strangers who spend one spicy evening together before discovering that their lives are more tangled than anticipated. Maybe they’re soon to be boss and employee or single dad and nanny. Maybe they…

[okiedreamsreviews]

Last Resort by K Bromberg ~ Cover Reveal

Last Resort by K Bromberg ~ Cover Reveal

LAST RESORT K. Bromberg has revealed the gorgeous paperback cover for Last Resort! Releasing: March 18, 2025 Order now and receive the stunning DELUXE FIRST PRINT RUN while supplies last―featuring gorgeous sprayed edges with stenciled artwork and all new cover design. This breathtaking collectible is only available as part of a LIMITED FIRST PRINT RUN in the US and Canada only, a must-have for…

[readingsparks]

loce racing romance I recommend this formula 1 series by k Bromberg off the grid, off the edge over the limit and coming soon out of control

[clarounette]

REVIEW: Until you by K Bromberg

Click the image to buy on Amazon Summary Crew Madden needs to find a place to recover.For his twin girls.For himself.From the woman who left them without a backward glance.Recovering from a traumatic event, a summer in the small town of Redemption Falls was the perfect solution for him. For his family. The only drawback? The rental cottage at the end of the drive.But then he met its tenant.The…

[mermaidsirennikita]

ARC REVIEW: Twisted Knight by K. Bromberg

4.5/5. Releases 9/24/24 (in audio).

The Vibes: Succession but make it romance, highKEY revenge, legit enemies to lovers in contemporary, match my freak etc etc

Heat Index: 7.5/5

The Basics:

Raised in a privileged but misogynistic community, Rowan Rothschild is determined to pick up the pieces after her grandmother's death and take her spot in the family business... whether or not her family actually supports that. Just as she's about to do so, her brother, Rhett, stabs her in the back with a plan to sell the majority of the company to the mysterious Holden Knight, a man who came out of nowhere to make his money in tech. So what does he want with the Rothschilds' spirits company? Rowan hates him off the bat, and he delights in it—while seeing something in her that the other men in the company don't. As the two enter into an untrusting—and very physical—alliance, both Rowan and Holden hurtle towards a clash with a price neither one is ready to pay.

The Review:

Well. That was a surprise.

I've never read K. Bromberg before, and in truth I kind of just went off the "enemies to lovers with angst" vibe. This was at the time (and maybe still is) categorized as fantasy romance on Goodreads, and the title and cover made me feel like it was? But it's very much not—this is a contemporary, Rich People Problems book. And I am... good with that. Because I gotta say, this kind of knocked it out of the park.

The problem with a lot of billionaire~ romances (and I'm not sure anyone is here—the Rothschilds definitely have a LOT of money, but not that money, and Holden is mentioned to be a multimillionaire but later appears to have more cash than Rowan expected) is that there's a lot of 'em.... and they have become very tropey, I've found. An enemies to lovers book theoretically set around the corporate world would often end up feeling like the heroine is just stomping her foot and saying HMPH, never actually opposing the hero on a serious level. The business is barely noted.

And billionaire alphas? So hard to write well these days. They don't talk like... people. They say the types of things I expect real life men who consider themselves "alphas" to say. But I don't want a real life "alpha male", I want a good one! (A fake one. From books.)

Twisted Knight seems to completely understand these issues and sail over them with ease. Rowan is a FABULOUS heroine. In a way, she gave Shiv Roy, but way more competent and way less of a horrible person (I say as someone who does love Shiv Roy, for the record). She's defiant of her family, but not unrealistically so. She's aware of her privilege... most of the time. But that doesn't mean she wasn't raised in it and doesn't unconsciously (or consciously) indulge in it. She has heart, but she also has her own goals, her self-centered aims, a willingness to, ultimately, be ruthless to get what she wants. And she's QUITE bratty.

Holden, on the other hand, has a more tragic backstory than Rowan... But he's also lost the plot, and the book paints him in a way that's hot and impressive but also HUMAN. Bromberg doesn't write him as if she's fawning over him, as if we should all just be sooooo impressed with this dude. He's a smug bastard. But the book is not smug ABOUT HIM. It's something that's kind of difficult to explain, but you can feel it in the writing. The writing is just... better.

Also, I felt like this guy was one step ahead of everyone for most of the book. But I never felt like he was INFALLIBLE. He could be aggressive with Rowan, but I never felt like she couldn't throw it right back at him (and she usually did). It felt to me like both of them were weakening in the face of love, not just her. Additionally, while they definitely have a caustic dynamic for the first half of the book or so... It's never over the top. Never did I feel like he was BULLYING her. Fucking with her head, yeah. However, these were evenly matched adults going to bat, and that, along with the higher stakes, put this in the category of enemies to lovers versus the softer rivals to lovers or the (in my opinion) dumber bully romance.

(All this being said, he does have a very classic but good revenge motivation, and you know. I supported those wrongs. Mostly.)

The thing is that I actually felt like I could see the progression of Holden and Rowan falling in love. The physical attraction is there off the bat... But even once they start hooking up? It's not love just yet. It's one of my favorite things, when done right: a physical fast burn and an emotional slow burn. And yes, this does it perfectly. These are sharky people, and they don't STOP being sharky people because they're falling in love. They're BOTH deeply uncomfortable with their feelings, not just him (how refreshing!). Rowan being like "oh no ew" to this man being SOFT and HUMAN in the afterglow? Amazing. Holden internally screaming while sitting in his car and watching her turn her lights off after she kicks him out for the night? Fabulous. GIVE ME IDIOTS WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO EMOTION.

At the same time, you have an interesting set of dynamics informing their relationship. There's the pressure from Rowan's family, who want her to settle down, marry the very stable and very boring CHAD WILLIAMS (that name...), there's here delightfully complex relationship with her douchey brother Rhet... I really appreciated that just because Rowan knows her brother is the worst, doesn't mean she doesn't love him. Because what else are you gonna do?

In a way, Holden's frustration with Rowan's loyalty to her family only made me feel like he truly LIKED her more. He respected her enough to know that she could do better.

I will say—while this book isn't a dark romance by any means, it IS angsty in the best possible way. And you do end on a cliffhanger. And as I realized this wasn't going to wrap up in one book, I was so hoping she wouldn't pull the punch, as I'd seen other authors do in the past.

Dude. She did not pull the punch. AT ALL. I was grinning as this ended.

READY. FOR. THE NEXT. NOOOOOW.

(On an audio note: very well done, both actually performed it, and if you like a male narrator who... gets into it.... Patrick Zeller does the work.)

The Sex:

Oh, also, this was stellar. Numerically there are 4 full scenes and one that comes... very close... but stopped short. And not because it was fade to black. Because someone Deserved It. Rowan runs Holden RAGGED, and he's fully aware.

There's a great variety here, not so much in terms of what is done, but in terms of the emotionality. You have the "get it out of our systems (but not really)" vibe, the fun vibe (uhhhh this book has sexy hide and seek, and it was the hottest thing I've read in a contemporary in a while), the "fraught intensity where we can't own our feelings" vibe, the "oh nooooooo we've gotten twisted up in the game" vibe.

Holden is very "I'M IN CHARGE" in the beginning, and as delightful as that was, I did kind of go "maybe this is where the book starts to slip and Rowan just becomes his willing little doll". NAH. She owns him. If you enjoy a scene where the hero gets so worked up that he basically embarrasses himself... YEAH.

I loved all of it.

Look man, I am STRAPPED. IN. Delighted to have found a new author, and excited to gobble up what else she has to offer (her backlist is expansive). Absolutely recommend this, especially if you're trying to find a billionaire romance that WORKS.

Thanks to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

[x-whispers-of-october-x]

Page 1 of 365, here we go!

Happy New Year, may your year be filled with light and everything that’s good! 💗

[sandythereadingcafe]

COVER REVEAL

LAST RESORT by K. Bromberg

What could possibly go wrong when you're forced to work—and live—side by side with a man you can't resist?

Author @kbromberg has revealed the gorgeous paperback cover for Last Resort!

Order now and receive the stunning DELUXE FIRST PRINT RUN while supplies last―featuring gorgeous sprayed edges with stenciled artwork and all new cover design. This breathtaking collectible is only available as part of a LIMITED FIRST PRINT RUN in the US and Canada only, a must-have for any book lover.

Releasing March 18, 2025

Pre-order today!

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3XBtd7s

Barnes & Noble: https://geni.us/LRbnEPB

Target: https://geni.us/LRtEPB

Bookshop.org: https://geni.us/LRbkshpEPB

Booksamillion: https://geni.us/LRbamEPB

Add to Goodreads: https://geni.us/LRAmzEPB

A one night stand turns into so much more in this billionaire, workplace romance by New York Times bestselling author, K. Bromberg. Now with exclusive bonus material.

#KBromberg #Billionaire #WorkplaceRomance #OneNightStand #CloseProximity #valentineprlm @entangled_publishing @valentine_pr_

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 47, 2022

General variability leads to specific adaptation toward optimal movement policies. Abram, S. J., Poggensee, K. L., Sánchez, N., Simha, S. N., Finley, J. M., Collins, S. H., & Donelan, J. M. (2022). Current Biology, 32(10), 2222-2232.e5.

Implicit Counterfactual Effect in Partial Feedback Reinforcement Learning: Behavioral and Modeling Approach. Barakchian, Z., Vahabie, A.-H., & Nili Ahmadabadi, M. (2022). Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16, 540.

Freeing capacity in working memory (WM) through the use of long-term memory (LTM) representations. Bartsch, L. M., & Shepherdson, P. (2022). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 48(4), 465–482.

A theory of consciousness from a theoretical computer science perspective: Insights from the Conscious Turing Machine. Blum, L., & Blum, M. (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(21), e2115934119.

The role of alpha oscillations in temporal binding within and across the senses. Buergers, S., & Noppeney, U. (2022). Nature Human Behaviour, 6(5), 732–742.

Dynamic Distortion of Orientation Representation after Learning in the Mouse Primary Visual Cortex. Corbo, J., McClure, J. P., Erkat, O. B., & Polack, P.-O. (2022). Journal of Neuroscience, 42(21), 4311–4325.

Neural signature of the perceptual decision in the neural population responses of the inferior temporal cortex. Dehaqani, M.-R. A., Emadi, N., Vahabie, A.-H., Zandvakili, A., & Esteky, H. (2022). Scientific Reports, 12, 8628.

A model of working memory for latent representations. Hedayati, S., O’Donnell, R. E., & Wyble, B. (2022). Nature Human Behaviour, 6(5), 709–719.

Origins of direction selectivity in the primate retina. Kim, Y. J., Peterson, B. B., Crook, J. D., Joo, H. R., Wu, J., Puller, C., … Dacey, D. M. (2022). Nature Communications, 13, 2862.

Informative neural representations of unseen contents during higher-order processing in human brains and deep artificial networks. Mei, N., Santana, R., & Soto, D. (2022). Nature Human Behaviour, 6(5), 720–731.

The dorsal premotor cortex encodes the step-by-step planning processes for goal-directed motor behavior in humans. Nakayama, Y., Sugawara, S. K., Fukunaga, M., Hamano, Y. H., Sadato, N., & Nishimura, Y. (2022). NeuroImage, 256, 119221.

Forward planning driven by context-dependant conflict processing in anterior cingulate cortex. Ott, F., Legler, E., & Kiebel, S. J. (2022). NeuroImage, 256, 119222.

Multisensory task demands temporally extend the causal requirement for visual cortex in perception. Oude Lohuis, M. N., Pie, J. L., Marchesi, P., Montijn, J. S., de Kock, C. P. J., Pennartz, C. M. A., & Olcese, U. (2022). Nature Communications, 13, 2864.

Fronto-medial theta coordinates posterior maintenance of working memory content. Ratcliffe, O., Shapiro, K., & Staresina, B. P. (2022). Current Biology, 32(10), 2121-2129.e3.

Spatio-Temporally Efficient Coding Assigns Functions to Hierarchical Structures of the Visual System. Sihn, D., & Kim, S.-P. (2022). Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 16, 61.

Human visual gamma for color stimuli. Stauch, B. J., Peter, A., Ehrlich, I., Nolte, Z., & Fries, P. (2022). eLife, 11, e75897.

Distinct inhibitory pathways control velocity and directional tuning in the mouse retina. Summers, M. T., & Feller, M. B. (2022). Current Biology, 32(10), 2130-2143.e3.

Vestibular Stimulation Causes Contraction of Subjective Time. Utegaliyev, N., von Castell, C., & Hecht, H. (2022). Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 16, 49.

Modulation of biological motion perception in humans by gravity. Wang, Y., Zhang, X., Wang, C., Huang, W., Xu, Q., Liu, D., �� Jiang, Y. (2022). Nature Communications, 13, 2765.

Surprise and recency in novelty detection in the primate brain. Zhang, K., Bromberg-Martin, E. S., Sogukpinar, F., Kocher, K., & Monosov, I. E. (2022). Current Biology, 32(10), 2160-2173.e6.

[my-fair-fiction]

🎸My man Vince can play me like a special edition acoustic guitar any time of the day (and twice on Sundays as his schedule allows)

🎸Bristol (yes like that place in England) is a single mum, doing it all, like any mum in America (sorry but not a big fan of the country's policy on, well. Everything) yeah so, she's juggling school, job and a sweet little baby I would k!dn@p if she'd let me (of she wouldn't. And I shouldn't be keeping babies that don't belong to me just because I thought they were cute)

🎸Vince and Bris are old lovers, both of them scorned in their own way except I think Vince could've grovelled some more. (He's not my favourite K. Bromberg Man but he's okay I guess. Judging from the sex department :)

🎸Yeah so, Bris and Vince have an insane chemistry and well the story is stunningly unique because WHAT IN THE SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE WAS THAT?!

🎸I reread spicy bits about five times because I'm weird like that.

🎸I love Bristol and Vince. And their backgrounds and past afflictions. Vince isn't in the wrong, he's childhood trauma has clearly leached into his personality but, THERE IS GROWTH and that's enough for me.

🎸 This book has made me fall in love with my most hated trope. Secret baby.

⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 (half a star I took away because I wanted some more groveling from Vince. He acted like a douche for half a page and I'm cross)

[jeevesreads]

15 Spicy Sports Romance Books

It’s become a tradition of sorts for me to put up a new sports romance recommendation list this specific week every year, when everyone’s got the big game on their minds. It’s certainly not a hardship; sports romances are popular for a reason – it’s a versatile sub-genre that incorporates many, many different tropes. From college romances to professional athletes to retired players, there are so…

[okiedreamsreviews]

Until You by K Bromberg ~ Cover Reveal

Until You by K Bromberg ~ Cover Reveal

UNTIL YOU K Bromberg Pub Date: February 23, 2023 Cover Designer: Indie Sage PR Photographer: Wander Aguiar Model: Gui Special Edition Paperback: Champagne Book Design   A single dad, forced proximity, standalone romance from New York Times bestselling author K. Bromberg.     ABOUT THE BOOK   Crew Madden needs to find a place to recover. For his twin girls. For himself. From the woman who left…

[suzannerogers]

Throwback Thursday

Rise by Cassandra Robbins Sweet Regret by K. Bromberg Hot Mess by Jaine Diamond  Interception by Lisa Suzanne Truth by S.J. Sylvis Falling in Reverse by Julia Wolf Jersey Six by Jewel E. Ann Thorns & Roses by Charity Ferrell Lilac by B.B. Reid A Stone in the Sea by A.L. Jackson Sing You Home by Ava Hunter Too Good at Goodbyes by R.C. Boldt Fade to Red by Willow Aster Wild by Micalea…