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Review: Truly Madly Magically

Synopsis: A witch cursed to tell the truth, and the man who won’t let her lie to herself anymore… Cursed by her own mother to always tell the truth and one of the only half-witches around, Ellowyn Good has never considered herself an equal part of the Riverwood coven. But when the evil ruling coven of the witching world targets her directly, she begins to wonder why they want her gone. She’ll…

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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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Review: Someone Had To Do It by Amber Brown and Danielle Brown

Authors: Amber Brown and Danielle BrownPublisher: Graydon HouseReleased: December 27th, 2022Received: NetGalley Book Summary: Two women with very different lives are about to find their futures twined together. Brandi Maxwell has worked hard to get to where she is, and by all appearances, she has “it all.” This includes a dream job (cleaning up after models) in fashion (which is racist) and…

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Gothic fiction at its finest

The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Hester Fox is one of the best modern-day examples of Gothic fiction. The heroine’s name, Ivy Radcliffe, reeks of a Gothic story as it exudes innocence and privilege. Then it takes place on the Yorkshire moors because of course it does. All that aside, Ms. Fox’s story is fantastic. She cleverly uses certain aspects of her story to keep you guessing.…

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Small Town, Big Magic by Hazel Beck (ARC Review)

Title: Small Town, Big Magic Author: Hazel Beck Type: Fiction Genre: Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Paranormal Publisher: Graydon House Date published: August 23, 2022 This post is sponsored. A complimentary physical copy of this book was kindly provided by HarperCollins Canada in exchange for an honest review. Witches aren’t real. Right? No one has civic pride quite like Emerson Wilde. As a local…

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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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March 2024 Diverse Reads

March 2024 Diverse Reads:

•”The Great Divide” by Cristina Henriquez, March 05, Ecco Press, Literary/Historical/Sagas/Hispanic & Latino

•”Anita de Monte Laughs Last” by Xochitl Gonzalez, March 05, Flatiron Books, Literary/Historical/Coming of Age/Hispanic & Latino/Multiple Timeliness

•”Thunder Song: Essays” by Sasha Lapointe, March 05, Counterpoint, Essays, Anthropology/ Ethnic Studies/Indigenous Studies/Popular Culture/Cultural, Ethnic & Regional/Native American & Aboriginal

•”James” by Percival Everett, March 19, Doubleday Books, Literary/Historical/Satire

•”Parasol Against the Axe” by Helen Oyeyemi, March 05, Riverhead Books, Literary/Magical Realism/Friendship

•”36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem” by Nam Le, March 05, Knopf Publishing Group, Poetry, Asian American/European/English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

•The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems” by Hala Alyan, March 12, Ecco Press, Poetry, Middle Eastern/Family/Places

•”Ward Toward: Volume 118” by Cindy Juyoung Ok, March 05, Yale University Press, Poetry/Asian/Women/Spaces/Mental Health/Hospitalization/Cultural & Social Themes

•”There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension” by Hanif Abdurraqib, March 26, Random House, Personal Memoir/Ethnic Studies/African American Studies/Basketball

•”You Get What You Pay for: Essays” by Morgan Parker, March 12, One World, Essays/Ethnic Studies/African American Studies/Cultural, Ethnic & Regional/African American & Black

•”Pride and Joy” by Louisa Onomé, March 12, Atria Books, Contemporary/Women/Family Life/African American 

•”Like Happiness” by Ursula Villarreal-Moura, March 26, Celadon Books, Literary/Coming of Age/Feminist/LGBT/Hispanic & Latino

•”Memory Piece” by Lisa Ko, March 19, Riverhead Books, Literary/Women/Asian American

•”The Angel of Indian Lake” by Stephen Graham Jones, March 26, S&S/Saga Press, Horror/Thriller/Suspense/Native American & Aboriginal

•”Women of Good Fortune” by Sophie Wan, March 05, Graydon House, ContemporaryWomen/Crime/Friendship/Feminist/World Literature/Asia/China

•”Victim” by Andrew Boryga, March 12, Doubleday Books, Literary/Satire/Humorous/Black Humor

•”The Emperor and the Endless Palace” by Justinian Huang, March 26, Mira Books, Historical/Fantasy/Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology/Romance/LGBT/Asian American/Cultural Heritage

•”Until August” by Gabriel García Márquez & Anne McLean (Translator), March 12, Knopf Publishing Group, Literary/Women/Family Life/Marriage & Divorce

•”A A Year of Last Things: Poems” by Michael Ondaatje, March 19, Knopf Publishing Group, Poetry/Death, Grief, Loss/Love & Erotica/America/World Heritage

•”Green Frog: Stories” Gina Chung, March 12, Knopf Publishing Group, Short Stories/Family Life/Folktales/Fantasy/American/Korean American

Happy reading!

Monica ✌️

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Sabretooth War part 7

this was a big waste of a book. not of time, but of potential

Lavalle is the lead? really now, sorta felt like it had Percy's fingerprints more...then again the last book felt the other way, so yes they were co-writing i guess after all

so we pick up where we left off last time. Victor besting up Logan after zapping him with the no-powers gun

heh his narration box border is cute

anywhos, beating him up, lamenting about things not being rough and dirty enough, yadda yaddda, yadda

we cut to Laura breaking out of her box and having lots of internal thoughts as she crawls through air vents

cut to the Pit Gang lamenting tehir dead, and Nekra saying nuts to all this i'm getting ride of Sabretooth and fighting with Oya

cut to Quiten's Cuckoo girlfriend who's resting back at the Green House?? (was she incapacitated? it's so hard to remember or care). Quinten laments that he's a head and how Vic's gonna make him whammy Logan

(i may have mixed up the order of operations on those....again so hard to remember or care)

cut back to Vic making Quiten whammy Logan. he's down for the moment but then Nekra swoops in and uses the Death Seed McGuffin from the first part of the trilogy and...

it summons Audrey Two to eat Victor. ok.... (i mean good timing with the eclipse, but...wut?)

we cut to the SabreSquad (or what's left of it) with the Graydon reveal...

he's as melodramatic as always, yeesh. and (AoA Graydon) Horror Show was a way better name. Graydon can sync to the ship's bluetooth so he's got the clone army on his wifi plan again

oh hey look, someone remembered that there were OTHER female!Sabretooths in the clone army

Savage gets called away to go find Laura and...

the title cover fight is this. Laura yet again, just kills one of the more interesting members of the SabreSquad with one swipe. i...i love Laura, don't get me wrong, but SERIOUSLY???? this is such a waste. now all three from the second part of the trilogy are dead, and we've only got the new guy Camo that no one cares about. and Savage was the only one left with a braincell, so yeah whatever plans they got going on are out the door for sure now. this is bad. just...uhg

isn't Jefferies their ship?? i think he's allowed to be annoyed with you for forgetting that

but anyways, the Pit Gang escapes with Logan. he's not dead, but says he needs some new toys because depowered and what not

Graydon catches Laura after she phones home and he's all "haha good i want more people to come here" because he too is an idiot (but that is par for the course for him, so it's fine)

this was bad and a waste of so much potential. the Logan and Victor fight was over in a blink, the Laura and Savage fight was over in half a blink, and Graydon isn't impressive and cyborg-Conan. the Quinten detour slowed things down, but this was like the fist time i felt like the Pit Gang served a purpose in fulfilling what was started in the first parts of the trilogy; they trapped Vic in the Audrey Two...now what?

Three parts left, and i'm at a loss. idk where this story is going, there doesn't feel like a resolution is even in focus. i just don't know, and for the third time, it's so hard to care at this point.

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Willow 2022 and The Wizard of Oz

This idea was born from the simple fact that the four villains we meet in the first episode are "The Gales" and the primary heroine of the Oz books is Dorothy Gale.

Four Gales. Four witches of Oz. (Also Four cardinal directions, Four winds, Four elements...that's all well and good and worth an analysis post by someone else.)

During the story, one of the four is destroyed. In Oz Dorothy drops a house on the Wicked Witch of the East. In Andowyne, Gradyon disintegrates the Dag.

Dorothy is separated from her family and whisked away to the Land of Oz. Graydon is flicked away into the Realm of the Wyrm.

Dorothy traveled with her friendly dog Toto, Graydon travelled with his friendly mudmander Kenneth.

Dorothy traveled with a cowardly lion who had more courage than her thought, Graydon traveled with Boorman.

Dorothy traveled with a scarecrow who had more brains than he thought, Graydon traveled with Elora.

Dorothy traveled with a tin woodsman who had more heart than he thought, Graydon traveled with Kit. (and Jade I guess, not sure where she fits)

Dorothy met a Wizard who acted like he had more power than he had, Graydon met Willow.

Dorothy faced down the Wicked Witch of the West and won by trying to save the scarecrow from fire, Graydon faced down the Crone and failed to destroy her with a direct attack (instead of just trying to protect Elora).

It's probably nothing, there weren't two "good gales" in willow and two bad ones. But if season 2 rolls around and Graydon gets something I can equate to the ruby slippers then WATCH OUT!

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Review: Principles of Emotion

Synopsis: A brilliant mind needs a strong heart. Mathematical genius Dr. Meg Brightwood has just completed her life’s work—a proof of a problem so impenetrable it’s nicknamed the Impossible Theorem. Reclusive and burdened by anxiety, Meg has long since been dismissed by academia. Now everyone wants to get their hands on what she alone possesses—especially her own mathematician father. Having…

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Rating: 4/5

Book Blurb: "Ciao for Now was an absolute delight to read from start to finish, but a quick warning: This book will make you hungry for pasta, a vacation in Rome, and a lot of steamy romance."  Erin De La Rosa, author of For Butter or Worse When an American interning at a fashion house in Rome butts heads with her professor's surly son, sparks fly! With her thirties rapidly approaching and a mountain of student debt looming over her, Violet Luciano’s dream of finishing design school and working in fashion has cost her everything. So when she lands an internship at an up-and-coming fashion brand in Rome, she brings her A game to Italy. With nothing left to lose, Violet plans to win the competition among the interns for the ultimate prize—a job at a New York label. But when a coffee run goes wrong and Violet accidentally destroys a stranger’s laptop, all of the apology Americanos in the world won’t help her. Because it turns out that the man from the café is Matteo, her professor’s eternally grumpy son, who thinks she’s a clumsy American…and maybe a stalker. Their animosity (and undeniable chemistry) grows as together they’re forced to face a summer of chic parties, adventures through Rome and sharing a home…with the person they can’t stand the most.   The more time she spends with him, the more distracted she finds herself. With her chance to win the competition slipping out of her grasp, Violet has to decide whether to say ciao to Matteo—or ciao to her dreams. 

Review:

A summer internship in Italy for a fashion student soon turns into something more when she has an unexpected run in with the grumpy son of her professor. Violet Luciana is in her thirties and has finally decided to chase her dreams, after being dumped by her long time boyfriend for “not being ambitious enough” its time for a change. She is now pursuing her dream of becoming a fashion designer. She is given the opportunity to intern at a fashion house in Rome but she has an unfortunate run in with a cute but grumpy guy at a cafe... who later turns out to be her professor’s son who is going to be living with her and the other two interns for the summer. After accidentally destroying his laptop, and getting a bit of a rough start, what starts off as tricks and banter soon turns into something more as Violet and Matteo spend more time together and begin to not only go on cute dates but get to know each other. This was a cute and fun read, I think it would make the perfect summer read and it really made me want to book a trip to Rome and possibly meet a cute stranger in a cafe. Violet and Matteo were cute, they know how to tease each other but also support one another. Overall, it’s a cute read and perfect for the summer!

*Thanks Netgalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing, Graydon House for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

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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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Review: On a Quiet Street by Seraphina Nova Glass

Author: Seraphina Nova GlassPublisher: Graydon HouseReleased: May 17, 2022Received: NetGalley Who doesn’t love a chilling thriller set in a calm and quiet neighborhood? Okay, maybe those aren’t the best if you’re trying to sleep soundly… On a Quiet Street, written by Nova Glass, is an intriguing mystery waiting to be solved. Where there is one secret, there are hundreds. Cora has a sinking…

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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