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Book Tour – The Art of Remembering by Alison Ragsdale
Have you read any of Alison Ragsdale’s books? I have to admit, this was my first experience with her, and she totally blew me away. About the Book Professional ballerina, Ailsa MacIntyre, is at the peak of her career when her world is shattered by a shocking diagnosis. Life-saving surgery leaves her with a fractured memory, little recollection of her husband, Evan, and none of her career as a principal dancer. While recuperating at home, Ailsa hears beautiful music coming from the apartment upstairs, and the sound of the grand piano at the hands of a
COVER REVEAL – Viola Pumpernickel and the Emerald Lady by Jo Baxter
Please tell me you are as excited as I am about this cover reveal…….. It is so amazing……. Friends, take a look at the new cover for Viola Pumpernickel and the Emerald Lady by Jo Baxter…….. This is absolutely AH-MAZE-BALLS!! (I think its worth framing!) So if you’ve never heard about Viola, let me fill you in……. Viola is a people-watcher. She loves to sit on the step of her father’s bakery in Brookwater Lane, creating stories about the weird and wonderful folk who pass by. Her father is secretly impressed by her big imagination but her
SPOTLIGHT: FLYGIRL by R. D. Kardon
As my spotlight book today, with a 5 star rating on Amazon, I am proud to present to you the amazing novel FLYGIRL by R.D. Kardon. About The Book : 1997. International corporate aviation. Pilot Tris Miles tries to crack the blue ceiling and become a captain as she confronts harassment, hidden agendas, and her own haunting loss while integrating an all-male, corporate flight department. Let pilot Tris Miles fly you to new heights in this inspiring story of love, ambition, overcoming obstacles, and the true meaning of success. Pilot Tris Miles is not content with her job as a First Officer for tiny
*BLOG TOUR ~~~~ The Woman in the Park ~~~~BLOG TOUR*
The Woman in the Park by Teresa Sorkin and Tullan Holmqvist Published: August 26, 2019 by Beaufort Books Dates Read: July 4 – 5, 2019 Genre/Category: Psychological Thriller, Crime Thriller, Suspense Thriller Read For: ARC from Beaufort Books ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 4.5 stars This book is INSANE. Truly, just insane. My head still hurts after trying to figure out the culprit. And after finishing, all my theories were completely wrong. I am either losing my touch or these authors are just really good. Sarah Rock’s life is crumbling around her. Her husband is gone all the time and she just knows he is
Layover by David Bell
Published: July 2, 2019 by Berkley Dates Read: June 29 – 30, 2019 Genre/Category: Psychological Thriller, Murder Thriller, Suspense Read For: ARC from Edelweiss/Berkley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4 stars Just total chaos and craziness. Oh David Bell, you frustrate me so much, yet you still get 4 stars. Joshua Fields, real estate, lives in hotels and on airplanes. Takes the same flights weekly for work, same Xanax for the flights. On a typical routine layover, he meets Morgan, a beautiful mysterious woman who he is drawn to immediately. When Morgan passionately kisses Joshua to depart on her flight and regrets she will
Summer of ’69 by Elin Hilderbrand
Published: June 18, 2019 by Little, Brown and Company Dates Read: June 16-17, 2019 Genre/Category: Historical Fiction / Domestic Fiction Read For: ARC from Little, Brown and Company for Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 stars Elin Hilderbrand’s newest novel revolves around the Levin family and the annual summer trip to their grandmother Exalta’s home in Nantucket. But this year things are very different for the Levin family. The eldest sister Blair, newly married to a brilliant astrophysicist is very pregnant with twins and is stuck in Boston all by herself unable to travel, questioning her marriage as she sits alone. Kirby, the
SPOTLIGHT PROMO TOUR
A Forged Affair by MaryAnn Clarke Scott I am so honored to be presenting MaryAnn Clarke Scott’s new novel A FORGED AFFAIR today on its official release day! ABOUT THE BOOK She welcomes any risk, as long as it doesn’t involve her own carefully guarded heart. Adrenaline junkie, Niki Ballantyne is a risk-taker at work and at play. Haunted by guilt over her brother’s tragic death, she’s devoted to saving others in trouble. While on an adventure holiday in the south of France, she meets handsome and charming traveler Luc and his shy friend, the gentle giant Didier. Helping the
The Mother’s Mistake by Ruth Heald
Published: June 11, 2019 by Bookouture Dates Read: June 9, 2019 Genre/Category: Psychological Thrillers Read For: ARC from Netgalley for Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 stars OMG Why is this book NOT all over the internet right now? Psychological thrillers are so extremely popular, I’m shocked this one didn’t pop up in my radar long before its publication date. Ruth Heald may not be a household name, but it will be after this book. This is the story about Claire, married, new baby, trying to get away from the city, trying to get away from the terrible mistake
Whatever It Takes by Jessica Pack
Whatever It Takes by Jessica Pack Published: May 28, 2019 by Kensington Books Genre/Category: Women’s Fiction Read For: NetGalley Review ⭐️⭐️💫 2 ½ stars
I Want You Gone by Miranda Rijks
Published: April 13, 2019 by Inkubator Books Genre/Category: Mystery & Thrillers, Womens Fiction Read For: NetGalley Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 3 1/2 stars Book synopsis from Amazon: The one obituary you never want to read – is your own. Laura Swallow is dead. A life cut tragically short, says the newspaper obituary. But that’s a lie. Estate agent Laura did not die in a car accident. She is alive and well. At first, Laura thinks it’s a sick joke. But multiple announcements of her death are followed by increasingly sinister real-life events. Already fragile, struggling to recover from a recent divorce, Laura is
The Lost Night by Andrea Bartz
The Lost Night by Andrea Bartz Published: February 26, 2019 by Crown Publishing Genre/Category: Mystery & Thrillers Read For: NetGalley Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3 stars Book synopsis from Amazon: What really happened the night Edie died? Years later, her best friend Lindsay will learn how unprepared she is for the truth. In 2009, Edie had New York’s social world in her thrall. Mercurial and beguiling, she was the shining star of a group of recent graduates living in a Brooklyn loft and treating New York like their playground. When Edie’s body was found near a suicide note at the end
Remember Me by D. E. White
Remember Me by D.E. White Published: February 6, 2019 by HQ Digital/Harper Collins Genre/Category: Mystery & Thrillers Read For: NetGalley Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3 stars Book synopsis from Amazon: Fifteen years ago, Ellen Smith vanished from the woods near her small Welsh village. Never to be seen again. Eight people were in the woods that night: eight splintered lives, eight people hiding a terrible secret. But who can remember the truth? Now, Ellen’s best friend, Detective Ava Cole is all grown up back in the village where it all began, and everyone is asking the same question. What really happened to Ellen? Filled
Heroine by Mindy McGinnis
Published: March 12, 2019 by Katherine Tegen Books Dates Read: March 19 – March 20, 2019 Genre/Category: YA Fiction Read For: TBR / Personal Pleasure ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 stars Why I gave a book that enraged me 5 stars….. Book synopsis: Heroine is the story of Mickey, a high school senior who is the girls’ softball team catcher. This year the team is planning on going all the way to winning the state championship, but when an automobile accident gets in the way of Mickey obtaining that goal, she does everything she can to fight back and be ready for the
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane Published: May 28, 2019 by Scribner Dates Read: May 12, – May 19, 2019 Genre/Category: General Fiction (Adult) Read For: ARC from NetGalley for Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4 stars Book synopsis: When Francis Gleason and Brian Stanhope join the NYPD in 1973 neither one could have imagined where their lives would lead, but they end up working in the same precinct and yet again living next door to each other outside the city. Though they were never really close friends, living in the same neighborhood can’t help but allow for their
The Favorite Daughter by Kaira Rouda
Published: May 21, 2019 by HARLEQUIN – Graydon House Books Dates Read: May 9, – May 10, 2019 Genre/Category: General Fiction / Mystery & Thrillers Read For: ARC from Harlequin for Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 4 1/2 stars Another book that knows how to emphasize the word psycho in psychological thriller. Book synopsis: Jane Harris lives in a sparkling home in an oceanfront gated community in Orange County. It’s a place that seems too beautiful to be touched by sadness. But exactly one year ago, Jane’s oldest daughter, Mary, died in a tragic accident and Jane has been grief-stricken ever
Cape May by Chip Creek
Published: April 30, 2019 by Celadon Books Dates Read: May 6 – May 8, 2019 Genre/Category: General Fiction (Adult), Women’s Fiction Read For: ARC /NetGalley Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4 stars 1950’s Shades of Cape May. That’s it, review over. Go home. No, seriously, I can‘t say that, there is some depth to this book and it’s certainly worth the read. Book Synopsis from Amazon: A mesmerizing debut novel by Chip Cheek, Cape May explores the social and sexual mores of 1950s America through the eyes of a newly married couple from the genteel south corrupted by sophisticated New England urbanites. Late
Not Quite Dead by Dawn Harris Sherling
Published: December 10, 2018 by Dawn Harris Sherling/Independent Book Publishers Association Dates Read: May 4 – May 6, 2019 Genre/Category: Medical Fiction, Medical Thrillers Read For: NetGalley Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4 stars I’m a sucker for a good medical mystery. Heck, I could be considered a sucker for a bad medical mystery as well. Not Quite Dead made it onto one of those lists, and with 4 stars I bet you can guess which one. Book synopsis from Amazon: Doctor Autumn Johnson is convinced that someone wants the promising young researcher, Jay Abrams, dead. And as a newly minted
Little Darlings by Melanie Golding
Published: April 30, 2019 by Crooked Lane Books Dates Read: April 30 – May 3, 2019 Genre/Category: Horror, Mystery & Thrillers Read For: ARC / NetGalley Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 4 1/2 stars Little Darlings. Oh, what did I just read? My head is still spinning. I need to talk to Melanie Golding ASAP and pick her brain! Book synopsis from Amazon: Everyone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she needs rest. And they’re right; with newborn twins, Morgan and Riley, she’s never been more tired in her life. But she knows what she saw: that night, in her hospital room,
Better Off Divorced by Marianne Hansen
Published: April 20, 2019 by Simon Watson Publishing Dates Read: April 17, – April 21, 2019 Genre/Category: Women’s Fiction / Women’s Humor Read For: Free copy for Review / Marianne Hansen & KateRockBookTour ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4 stars Do you like Chic-Lit? Well, this is chic-lit at its finest. A quirky new book about love, friendship, and starting over, truly some laugh out loud enjoyable reading. Book synopsis: She’s about to go down the aisle again. But her ex-husband could end up much more than an objection. Grace just wants what’s best for her kids. Now happily engaged and ready
City of Flickering Light by Juliette Fay
Published: April 16, 2019 by Gallery Books Dates Read: April 15 – 16, 2019 Genre/Category: Historical Fiction Read For: Gallery books/Goodreads ARC ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 3.5 stars City of Flickering Light is a tantalizing ride back to the 1920’s Hollywood and the booming silent film industry. It follows 3 characters as they escape a moving train and their stagnant careers in a burlesque show, finding their way to Hollywood in hopes of making it big. Irene, Millie and Henry are bright eyed and optimistic when they land at their destination, but they are not prepared for the hardship, destitution, starvation
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
Published: April 16, 2019 by Sarah Crichton Books Dates Read: April 13 – 14, 2019 Genre/Category: General Fiction/Literary Fiction Read For: NetGalley ARC ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 stars Big Little Lies meets the courtroom thriller mystery in Angie Kim’s debut novel Miracle Creek. DO NOT pass this one up. Easily earns 5 stars. Miracle Creek, a town in rural Virginia. Young and Pak Yoo, immigrants from Korea who live in Miracle Creek and run a privately owned medical device, a chamber for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) treating off label/experimental conditions that hospitals won’t. An explosion. 2 deaths. A murder investigation. A
My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
Published: March 26, 2019 by Berkley Dates Read: April 7 – 10, 2019 Genre/Category: Psychological Thriller/Suspense Read For: Personal Read /TBR List ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 4.5 stars This is where you put strong emphasis on the word PSYCHO in psychological thriller. To use her own words, the author (Samantha Downing) has a very “disturbed” mind. Truth be told, I am outright JEALOUS. Where in the world does one come up with these things????? My Lovely Wife is the story of a married couple who live the good life, with a beautiful home, satisfying jobs, exceptional children, first-rate friends in a
Book Review: Beautiful Bad by Annie Ward
Published: March 5, 2019 by Harlequin – Trade Publishing Dates Read: April 7 – 10, 2019 Genre/Category: Psychological Thriller/Suspense / Psychological Fiction Read For: NetGalley Free Copy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 stars Stop the presses! Psychological thrillers have a new contender! Every author always strives to write the next best psychological thriller. We’ve been inundated with so many that the plots have become expected and outcomes predictable. As readers we almost certainly experience burnout, but we are dedicated and we keep on reading. Beautiful Bad by Annie Ward is absolutely not your typical psychological thriller, there is a different type
Book Review: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green Published: September 25, 2018 by Dutton/Penguin Random House Genre/Category: Speculative Fiction Dates Read: March 27 – 29, 2019 Read For: Book Club and Personal ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 stars You know when I close a book and say WOW that I am going to give it 5 stars. WOW So I chose this book for the book club I have been running for 6 years now. Most of us don’t really like SciFi or Fantasy, so I wasn’t sure how some of the theme of this one was going to go over, but it had
Book Review: I’m Fine and Neither are You
I’m Fine and Neither Are You by: Camille Pagan Published: April 1, 2019 by Lake Union Publishing Genre/Category: Literary Fiction Dates Read: March 22 – 24, 2019 Read For: March Amazon First Read Pick ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Stars 3 Initially I feel like I was duped. The synopsis about this book led me to believe it was a bit more Chic Lit and lighthearted than it was, but it didn’t start out that way. In the beginning I couldn’t put it down, I felt like I was about to read an amazing story about a horribly relevant topic. Yeah, no. My
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