Tina B.
Flawed human, okayest mom, depression fighter, and lover of coffee. Singing, reading, and baking keep me mostly sane.
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Book Spotlight: The Lady in Pink by J.A Kazimer
Happy Friday readers! Today I have an exciting new mystery for your reading pleasure. Are you ready for some suspense? For some action? For some wild hair colors? I’ve got you covered. Coming home to find a dead body in your living room isn’t the best way to end a long day’s work, especially when that work is as New Never City’s premier blue-haired PI. It’s even worse when the corpse is your intern, electrocuted to death, and you’re the one with enough voltage flowing through your veins to power Fairyland. Blue Reynolds has nabbed his fair share of criminals—with…
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Book Review: Taking the Heat by Victoria Dahl
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Taking the Heat Author: Victoria Dahl Publisher: HQN Books Pages: Paperback; 384 Release Date: July 28, 2015 Source: Publisher/Netgalley —————————————— Genre: Romance- 18+ recommended HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy books that are sweet, funny and full of chemistry. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes All revved up for bright lights and steamy nights, writer Veronica Chandler chased her dreams to New York City. When she hit a dead end, reality sent her back home to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Saving her pride and her new gig—writing a relationship advice column!—requires some faking. No one can know the truth about her big-city flop…
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Book Review & Tour: Exposing the Heiress (Entangled Ignite) by Jennifer Apodaca
Media Type: Kindle (ARC) Title: Exposing the Heiress Author: Jennifer Apodaca Publisher: Entangled Ignite Pages: paperback; 198 Release Date: August 4, 2015 Source: Publisher/ Author ————————————————— Genre: Romantic Suspense Content Screening: Sexual Situations 18+ HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a little suspense with a steamy romance. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes This Marine will protect her at all costs… When wealthy heiress Alyssa Brooks finds out her stepfather has been paying her fiancé to marry her, she’s humiliated and betrayed. She quickly breaks the engagement, only to be blackmailed by her now exfiancé, who threatens both Alyssa and the son she gave…
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Book Review: Write for Me by Michelle Holt
Media Type: ebook Title: Write for Me Author: Michelle Holt Publisher: Self Pages: Paperback, 242 Release Date: July 24, 2015 Source: Author ——————————————- Genre: Contemporary Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good love story under unfortunate circumstances Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes My name is Bently Young. I wouldn’t say I’m an angry person. In fact my life had been like a bubble gum infused sundae topped with happiness sprinkles up until the age of when I could date. And I started to date a lot. Guys were fun at first, a nice dinner, someone to tell me I was pretty and laugh…
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Book Review & Tour: Welcome to Fat Chance Texas by Celia Bonaduce
Media Type: Kindle/Paperback Title: Welcome to Fat Chance, Texas Author: Celia Bonaduce Publisher: Lyrical Press Pages: paperback, 268 Release Date: July 21, 2015 Source: Author/PUYB ——————————————- Genre: Contemporary- Fiction/Humor HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy an eclectic group of characters in unusual circumstances. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes “A fresh, heartwarming voice.” —Jodi Thomas, New York Times bestselling author For champion professional knitter Dymphna Pearl, inheriting part of a sun-blasted ghost town in the Texas hill country isn’t just unexpected, it’s a little daunting. To earn a cash bequest that could change her life, she’ll have to leave California to live in tiny, run-down Fat…
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Book Review: The Perfect Bargain (Entangled Lovestruck) by Jessa McAdams
Media Type: ebook (ARC) Title: The Perfect Bargain Author: Jessa McAdams Publisher: Entangled Lovestruck Pages: ebook, 179 Release Date: June 30, 2015 Source: Netgalley/Publisher ——————————————- Content Screening: Sexual Situations HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Romance readers who enjoy a man in a kilt Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes American lass seeks brawny Scot…As if being newly single isn’t brutal enough, Sloane Chatfield’s friends are getting obnoxious about setting her up. When Sloane insists she’s waiting for a certain sexy fictional Highlander to come along, her friends surprise her with a trip to Scotland to find her a new boyfriend. She’d rather have a root canal. But if…
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Book Review: Bridesmaid Blues by Boone Brux
Media Type: ebook (ARC) Title: Bridesmaid Blues Author: Boone Brux Publisher: Entangled Lovestruck Pages: Paperback, 152 Release Date: June 30, 2015 Source: Netgalley/PUYB ——————————————- Content Screening: Sexual Situations HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for a light, fun read Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes A wedding. An ex. And a secret. Maid-of-Honor Dani Brown can handle anything that comes her way when it comes to her best friend’s wedding. That is, until the bride asks for a huge favor-Dani needs to distract the best man, who happens to be Dani’s ex. The ex she has fantasized dismembering for a year now. The ex she’ll…
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Book Excerpt and Giveaway: BlindSight by Susan Peterson Wisnewski
Go ahead, celebrate. We’re half way through the week! If there’s one thing I love about Wednesday is that we’re one step closer to Friday. Today we have Susan Peterson Wisnewski’s and her book, Blindsight. This book intrigued me as soon as I read the description and I am looking forward to reading it! If you’ve been following the tour, this is stop number 18! Life is already bad enough after Tisha Adams loses both her job and her beautiful Manhattan apartment. Living in a musty garage apartment and working for her uncle in Queens, her life is upended when she witnesses a…
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Book Review: Backward Compatible by Sarah Daltry & Pete Clark
Media Type: ebook Title: Backward Compatible Author: Sarah Daltry & Pete Clark Publisher: Self Pages: Paperback, 314 Release Date: December 10, 2013 Source: Author ——————————————- Content Screening: Strong Language and some Sexual Situations HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are into video game culture and sarcasm Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Not too long ago, in a town that, depending on your current location, is either not super far or actually quite close… It is a time of chaotic hormones. Two nerdy gents home for winter break have discovered a female gamer at a midnight release. During the break, the gamer trio manages to reveal the game’s…
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Book Review: Days Like This by Danielle Ellison
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Days Like This (A Landslide Novel) Author: Danielle Ellison Publisher: Bookish World Press Pages: ebook; 241 Release Date: June 2, 2015 Source: Publisher / Netgalley ———————————————- Genre: New Adult/Romance HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are interested in the struggles of dealing with family members with mental illness. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Sometimes the only thing standing between fear and hope is yourself. Almost a year ago, nineteen-year-old Cassie Harlen had a lot to deal with. A stack of college acceptance letters waiting for answers, a proposal from the boy next door, and a mother whose most recent bipolar episode left…