#Marissa Farrar

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[book review] No Second Chances by Marissa Farrar

4⭐️/5

I love second chance romance, but depend on how and why and the level of groveness. And this story is okay for me.

A disable veteran and ex-criminal who had history together way back during their high school. So, we can conclude that they are high school sweetheart which had a lots of drama during their time together. You do stupid things during high school but drug? Desperate time made people took desperate measure.

To be honest, I can't really feel the passion or sexual tension between them. Maybe it just me. Gabi don't really give the vibe of veteran and Cole could do better. But, hey! Everyone has their own trauma. To deal with PTSD is a huge deal. Not all people can stick with us while dealing with it. And alcohol. Boy, that stuff can killed you, physically, mentally and socially.

You can give this book go if you want contemporary romance.

Disclaimer: All the opinion about this book is based on my personal view!

[musingsofmonica]

September 2023 Diverse Reads

September 2023 Diverse Reads:

•”Coleman Hill” by Kim Coleman Foote, September 05, Sjp Lit, Literary/Historical/Saga/African American/Own Voice

•”Land of Milk and Honey” by C. Pam Zhang, September 26, Riverhead Books, Literary Dystopian/Asian American

•”The Museum of Failures” by Thrity Umrigar, September 26, Algonquin Books, Contemporary/Women/Family Life/Asian American/Cultural Heritage

•”This Is Salvaged: Stories” by Vauhini Vara, September 26, W. W. Norton & Company, Short Stories, Literary/Women/Family Life

•”Evil Eye” by Etaf Rum, September 05, Harper, Contemporary/Women/Family Life/Cultural Heritage

•The Fraud” by Zadie Smith, September 05, Penguin Press, Literary/Sagas/Historical/Biograpical/Britain/Janaica

•”Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation” by Tiya Miles, September 19, W. W. Norton & Company, History/Women's Studies/Human Geography/19th Century/20th Century

•”The Devil of the Provinces” by Juan Cárdenas, Davis (Translator), September 12, Coffee House Press, Literary/Noir/Crime/World Literature/Colombia

•”And Then She Fell” by Alicia Elliott, September 26, Dutton, Literary/Horror/Native American & Aboriginal

•”Wednesday's Child: Stories” by Yiyun Li, September 05, Farrar Straus and Giroux/ Literary/Short Stories/Asian American

•Three Holidays and a Wedding” by Uzma Jalaluddin & Marissa Stapley, September 26, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Romance

•”What Start Bad a Mornin'” by Carol Mitchell, September 19, Central Avenue Publishing, Contemporary/Immigration/Women/African American/ United States/Trinidad/Jamaica

•”The Book of (More) Delights: Essays” by Ross Gay, September 19, Algonquin Books, Personal Memoir in Essays/Cultural, Ethnic & Regional/African American & Black

•”What You Are Looking for Is in the Library” by Michiko Aoyama, translated by Alison Watts, September 05, Hanover Square Press. Literary/Coming of Age/Friendship/World Literature/Japan

•”Thank You for Sharing” by Rachel Runya Katz, September 12, St. Martin's Griffin/Romance/Jewish/POC/Multicultural 

•”The Name Drop” by Susan Lee, September 12, Inkyard Press, Romance/Family/Parents/Social Themes/Class Differences/Diversity & Multicultural

•”The Golden Gate” by Amy Chua, September 19, Minotaur Books, Historical/Thrillers/Suspense/Mystery/Detective

•”South” by Babak Lakghomi, September 12, Rare Machines, Political/Dystopian

•”The Death I Gave Him” by Em X. Liu, September 12, Solaris, Science Fiction/Crime/Mystery/Thrillers/Technological

“A lyrical, queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller.”

•”Others Were Emeralds” by Lang Leav, September 05, Harper Perennial, Literary/Coming of Age/Family Life/Siblings/Friendship/Cultural Heritage/World Literature - Australia

Happy reading, Mo✌️

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Bad Alpha Dads

A Baby For The Alpha

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#SixforSunday---Books with Red Covers

#SixforSunday—Books with Red Covers

SixforSundays is a meme hosted by A Little But A Lot. Every month there is a theme and that is broken down on Sundays into categories. This week’s theme is: Books with Red Covers So, here I am, a day late with this prompt. I was (and still am) sick and didn’t feel like turning on my computer. When I saw today’s prompt, I was excited. I like doing prompts with colors in them. There are so many…

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Prowlers & Growlers Boxed Set

Prowlers & Growlers Boxed Set

Grab this special pre-order price before it goes up! 99c   Join the dark side with ***ALL NEW*** stories from some of your favorite NY Times, USA Today, and Award Winning, Bestselling authors. Step into the shadows with witches, werewolves, shifters, vampires, and soul mates: the sizzling hot alphas you love. Are you fated to find your fantasy lover in these seductive, steamy pages bursting with…

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I think my book total for the year was one hundred and twenty-four. I’m absolutely tickled pink.

the book list, with the most recent at the top and recommendations marked by an asterisk, is below the cut:

*Thomas Aquinas, and What I Saw In America, G.K. Chesterton *White Cat and Red Glove, Holly Black *Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke *Sunshine, Robin McKinley How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories, Holly Black *The Hawthorne Legacy, Jennifer Lynn Barnes *The Last Graduate, Naomi Novik *The Man in the Queue, Josephine Tey In the Last Analysis, Amanda Cross *The Seer and the Sword, Victoria Hanley Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell Call Down the Hawk and Mr. Impossible, Maggie Stiefvater The Box in the Woods, Maureen Johnson *Gaudy Night, Dorothy Sayers The Box in the Woods, Maureen Johnson *Something New, P.G. Wodehouse *The Witness for the Dead, Katherine Addison Not Like the Movies, Kerry Winfrey *A Deadly Education, Naomi Novik *Frederica, Georgette Heyer *Heretics, G.K. Chesterton *Crocodile on the Sandbank, Elizabeth Peters *Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses, Kristen O'Neal Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams *The Blatchford Controversies, G.K. Chesterton *The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume V: The Outline of Sanity, The Appetite of Tyranny, The Crimes of England, The End of the Armistice, Utopia of Usurers Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro *Would Like To Meet, Rachel Winters *The Nine Tailors, Dorothy Sayers The City of Brass, S.A. Chakraborty *Brat Farrar, Josephine Tey Big Summer, Jennifer Weiner *The Ordinary Princess, M.M. Kaye Princess of Thorns, Stacey Jay Well Met, Jen DeLuca The Unexpected Everything, Morgan Matson *The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis *Black Sheep, Georgette Heyer Strange Practice, Vivian Shaw *The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume III: Where All Roads Lead, The Catholic Church and Conversion, Why I Am A Catholic, The Thing: Why I Am A Catholic, The Well and the Shallows, The Way of the Cross *Murder Must Advertise, by Dorothy Sayers *Garment of Shadows, by Laurie King *Renegades, Archenemies, and *Supernova, by Marissa Meyer *The Fixer and *The Long Game, Jennifer Lynn Barnes How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge, K. Eason American Primitive, Mary Oliver *Have His Carcase, Dorothy Sayers *The Martian, Andy Weir *The Theft of Sunlight, Intisar Khanani *The Switch, Beth O'Leary *A Scholar of Magics, Caroline Stevermer Magic for Liars, Sarah Gailey *Bath Tangle, Georgette Heyer *A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, Abbi Waxman The Lovely and the Lost, Jennifer Lynn Barnes *The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis Moon Over Soho, Ben Aaronovitch The Five Red Herrings, Dorothy Sayers *How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse, K. Eason *The Silence of St. Thomas, Josef Pieper Tiny Pretty Things, Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton *A Thousand Mornings and *Felicity, by Mary Oliver *Eugenics and Other Evils, G.K. Chesterton *Thorn, Intisar Khanani Midnight Riot, Ben Aaronovitch *The Night Country, Melissa Albert *Regency Buck, Georgette Heyer *If These Wings Could Fly, Kyrie McCauley *Pirate King, Laurie R King The Unhoneymooners, Christina Lauren *Strong Poison, Dorothy Sayers *A College of Magics, Caroline Stevermer *Therese, Dorothy Day *Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour, Morgan Matson Killer Instinct, *All In, and Bad Blood, Jennifer Lynn Barnes *The Superstition of Divorce, G.K. Chesterton *Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen *The Grand Sophy, Georgette Heyer *The Lost Husband, Katherine Center *The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Dorothy Sayers The Naturals, Jennifer Lynn Barnes Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho *The God of the Hive, Laurie R. King *The Flatshare, Beth O'Leary *Dare We Hope, Hans Urs von Balthasar *The Leaf and the Cloud, Mary Oliver *Unnatural Death, Dorothy Sayers *Dark Lord of Derkholm, Diana Wynne Jones *Devil's Cub, Georgette Heyer *The Everlasting Man, G.K. Chesterton *The Light Princess, George Macdonald The Rest of Us Just Live Here, Patrick Ness Save the Date, Jenny B. Jones Save the Date, Morgan Matson *Deadly Little Scandals, Jennifer Lynn Barnes *An Enchantment of Ravens, Margaret Rogerson Stately Pursuits, Katie Fforde *The Language of Bees, Laurie R. King *Clouds of Witness, Dorothy Sayers *Little White Lies, Jennifer Lynn Barnes The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, Garth Nix *Given, Wendell Berry These Old Shades, Georgette Heyer *The Hazel Wood, Melissa Albert *Since You've Been Gone, Morgan Matson Simon the Coldhearted, Georgette Heyer Camp So-and-So, Mary McCoy The Girl in Blue, P.G. Wodehouse *The Inheritance Games, Jennifer Lynn Barnes House of Salt and Sorrows, Erin A. Craig

I might do a favorites write-up like I did last year, stay tuned!

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Book Review: Wolf Snatched

Book Review: Wolf Snatched

Title: Wolf Snatched [Dark Ridge Wolves 1]

Author: Marissa Farrar

Genre: Paranormal, Romance, Werewolves

Rating: 2 Stars

Description/Synopsis:

Taken:

A punctured tire in the middle of nowhere… a hand over her mouth… dumped in the trunk of a car… Curvy wolf-shifter Alyssa finds herself divided from the pack she’s grown up with for the past eighteen years, and tied to a chair in a barn in the…

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Craving Security Anthology is out now! @authoragorman @AReeceAuthor @AprylBaker @CamilleTaylorAu @Evan76Grace @LCardiff_author @MarissaFarrar @SaraNSchoen @shanescollins @Shelly_Morgan34 @TayMHenderson @lovekissedbooks

Craving Security Trained To Defend & Built To Kill

BLURB: Protection duty like you’ve never experienced before…

Their instinct is to protect. It’s in their nature, their blood, the need to keep others safe. There’s no margin for error, or mistakes, and failure is not an option.

This is a collection of stories about men and women trained to defend, and built to kill.

Whether it’s the…

[jolieeason]

WWW Wednesday: October 14th, 2020

WWW Wednesday: October 14th, 2020

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words.

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next?

Personal

Miss R has adjusted to having her lip bumper/retainer in. There were a couple of days where the retainer hurt her and the lip bumper rubbed her bottom lip. But by Saturday, she was…

[aussiewitches]

Hello im a aussie baby witch and I wondering how do we aussies celabrate yule when its hot as hell and not snowing as the northen hemisphere peps keep talking about Thankyou for your time♡

Hi! Thanks for asking this, Phoenixanimechick! When I first started I was confused about this too. Turns out, technically we don’t celebrate Yule at this time of year. Yule for us (Australia) is around June 20th. Our December celebrations fall under Litha, also known as Midsummer. See, because we’re in the Southern Hemisphere, all the sabbats are reversed for us. We have Yule in June because it’s winter for us then, and Litha because it’s summer. Sabbats relate to seasons rather than dates. There’s a good little app for Android and IOS called Wicca Calendar that allows you to change the hemispheres from Northern to Southern so the dates for the sabbats are correct. It’s a little disappointing, I know, because our Yule doesn’t align with theirs, but Litha (while not a major sabbat like Yule) is much more fun anyway. It focuses around celebration and bounty. If you follow Wicca, it’s the time of marriage between the God and the Goddess. I’d suggest reading ‘The Witches Bible’ by Janet and Stewart Farrar, or Scott Cunningham’s ‘Book of Shadows’ if you want to learn more about the sabbats. Though the dates in the books will be wrong, the celebrations and rituals will be the same. Know this: being an Australian witch is confusing. Most of the reading material we work off is from the Nothern hemisphere, so be prepared to be confused and get some stuff wrong. I still do. A lot. But we’ll always be here to answer your questions, and if both of us don’t know then we’ll learn together! Good luck!

- Marissa (@toomuchlamenotenoughbears)

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Review: Book: With A Dragon's Heart- Marissa Farrar

Review: Book: With A Dragon’s Heart- Marissa Farrar

  Title: With a Dragon’s Heart

Series: Chronicles of the Four #2

Author’s Name: Marissa Farrar

Publisher: Warwick House Press

Genre: Reverse Harem Fantasy

Page Count:  256 Pages

ISBN:  B07D9SNJLV

Author or Book Website: http://www.marissafarrar.com/

Link to Amazon purchase page: With A Dragon’s Heart

Link to Goodreads: With A Dragon’s Heart

Release Date: June 28, 2018

How I Got the Book: ARC

Sum…

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Night Terrors - Release Blitz

Night Terrors – Release Blitz

Title: Night Terrors: An Anthology Authors: Kristin Jacques, Thomas S. Flowers, Sara Schoen, Taylor Henderson, Erin Lee, Nykki Mills, D.A. Roach, Jackie Sonnenberg, Samie Sands, Elizabeth Roderick, Jennifer Loring, Joshua Macmillan, and Marissa Farrar Genre: Horror and Dark Fiction Release Date: September 26, 2017

Publisher: Limitless Publishing

They’re watching you. They see the way you…

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Defaced (The Monster Trilogy #1) by Marissa Farrar

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I read this for free on Amazon.

I love books about men with flaws. This had it in spades. Monster lived in a room for all of his life, his father training him to be ruthless. His flaw on half his face is how he got his name. His father keeping him hidden away from everyone claiming it as a weakness.

You started to feel for the man he became. I have a few issues with this book that seem insignificant. Like his birthmark, I don’t see it as a weakness. I felt that in a way it made him more ruthless. Also when Lily came to him, he was supposed to punish her and he did no such thing. Touch was supposed to be the punishment. If he wanted to scare her, giving her pleasure wasn’t the way to do it.

I did enjoy this book in the end though, the way that Lily helped Monster, and he helped her was a beautiful story. It ends on a cliff hanger I could have done without. I normally don’t care, either way, cliff hanger or not I come to new authors when the series had already been written. I am always way late to that party.

I’d still recommend this book but not as a dark romance. I am sure there are some triggers to some people in this but I felt it’s more of a Healing type romance.

The only parts that made this a darkish kind of book were in the beginning when Lily was taken. She was kept in a shipping container with a few other girls before she was transported to Monster. That is where the dark from me ended, after that it was more grey than anything else.

I am going to move on to the next book because I need to know where it goes, also I will be buying this series on paperback because really these covers and the story is something I need to be able to touch and hold in my hand.

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