• Book Reviews

    Book Review: Inconvenient Wife by Natasha Boyd

    Media Type: ebook Title: Inconvenient Wife Author: Natasha Boyd Publisher: Self Pages: paperback, 260 Release Date: June 28, 2018 Source: Purchased ——————————————— Genre: Contemporary Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy friends to lovers stories with a lot of build. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N All Beau Montgomery, one of Charleston’s most eligible bachelors, wants to do is build boats. He has no interest in marriage whatsoever … until it means he might not get his inheritance and he can kiss his boat building dreams goodbye. But the hungry hordes of Charleston debutantes looking to score a Montgomery scare him sh*tless. Gwen has loved Beau Montgomery…

  • Ramblings

    Birthdays and Anniversaries, Oh my!

    Greetings my bookish friends! It has been a bit since I’ve done a personal update and today happens to be my birthday so instead of working on the several reviews I need to do, I decided a fun post was in order. I actually made that cake in the picture for my little ones 3rd birthday a few weeks ago. Yes, she’s 3 now. CRAZY right? When we asked Peanut what kind of party she wanted she said “a rainbow monster cake to scare my friends cause that would be funny”. I enjoy baking as a hobby so I figured…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: Yeled Tov by Daniel M. Jaffe

    Media Type: Print Book Title: Yeled Tov Author: Daniel M. Jaffe Publisher: Lethe Press Pages: Paperback; 320 Release Date: May 12, 2018 Source: TLC Book Tours / Author ——————————————— Content Screening: Brief Sexual Acts, Mild Adult Language HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who want a well-written glimpse into the life of a 1970’s LGBTQ young man. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon 1974 and Jake Stein wants to be a good Jewish boy, but he finds himself struggling to reconcile his traditional beliefs and his strong faith in God with his growing attraction to other…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures #1) by Peter Bunzl

    Media Type: Ebook Title: Cogheart    *Series: The Cogheart Adventures #1 Author: Peter Bunzl Publisher: Usborne Pages: Paperback; 366 Release Date: September 1, 2016 Source: NetGalley ————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Young readers who enjoy quick moving reads with plenty of twists and turns. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon Lily’s life is in mortal peril. Her father is missing and now silver-eyed men stalk her through the shadows. What could they want from her? With her friends—Robert, the clockmaker’s son, and Malkin, her mechanical fox—Lily is plunged into a murky and…

  • Ramblings

    On October 1st…

    This blog is going to get spooky. Guys I LOVE this time of year. I love cool weather and I love Halloween! You know that I’ve been playing Halloween bingo, and so I now have a backlog of spooky and horrific books that I’ve read that are just itching for reviews. So expect October to be full of those, as well as a bunch of posts of my favorite horror movies. We’re doing this time of year right.

  • Feature Posts/Weekly Memes

    Waiting on Wednesday 9/26/18

    Okay, this is a VERY SPECIAL WoW post, because the release date of this book is so darn close! I’ve been chomping at the bit for The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy since I finished Mackenzi Lee’s first book. Oh, goodness. I’m in love with Percy and I don’t care who knows it! I can’t wait to see what kind of mischief Felicity gets up to in her own story though. I CAN’T WAIT! Felicity Montague is through with pretending she prefers society parties to books about bone setting—or that she’s not smarter than most people she knows, or that…

  • Ramblings

    Some Monday Ramblings

    Lately I’ve been doing a whole lot of this: and not so much of this: I’ve been in this space where I just want to CONSUME ALL THE BOOKS, but reviews aren’t coming as easily as they normally do. That might be because of what I’ve been reading lately. Halloween Bingo always brings out books that are outside of what I normally read and, while that’s fantastic, I don’t always know how to process them. I’m a Fantasy/YA/MG kinda gal. Give me a Southern Noir book, that has me bawling by the ending, and you have a babbling mess. I…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough

    Media Type: Physical Book Title: Cross Her Heart Author: Sarah Pinborough Publisher: William Morrow Pages: Hardcover; 341 Release Date: September 4, 2018 Source: Publisher / TLC Book Tours ——————————————— Genre: Thriller / Mystery HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy slow burn thrillers with excellently executed twists. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Lisa lives for her daughter Ava, her job, and her best friend Marilyn, but when a handsome client shows an interest in her, Lisa starts daydreaming about sharing her life with him too. Maybe she’s ready now. Maybe she can…

  • Book Blitzes/Promo Posts

    Book Blitz + Giveaway: Three Mages and a Margarita by Annette Marie

    Three Mages and a Margarita Annette Marie (The Guild Codex: Spellbound #1)Publication date: September 14th 2018Genres: New Adult, Urban Fantasy Broke, almost homeless, and recently fired. Those are my official reasons for answering a wanted ad for a skeevy-looking bartender gig. It went downhill the moment they asked me to do a trial shift instead of an interview—to see if I’d mesh with their “special” clientele. I think that part went great. Their customers were complete dickheads, and I was an asshole right back. That’s the definition of fitting in, right? I expected to get thrown out on my ass.…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: Louisiana’s Way Home by Kate DiCamillo

    Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Louisiana’s Way Home Author: Kate DiCamillo Publisher: Candlewick Press Pages: Hardcover; 240 Release Date: October 2, 2018 Source: NetGalley/Publisher ————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy real characters who face real life issues, with a touch of magic. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo comes a story of discovering who you are — and deciding who you want to be. When Louisiana Elefante’s granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that…