Grace by Jennifer Hanks: A Review

I love the DiMarco series by Jennifer Hanks! I’m always so excited when I see that a new one is coming.

Grace is no different than any of the others. I was really excited for her story since she’s been slightly in the background of all the others. Having seven brothers will put you in the background. Grace makes her self known in this book.

You meet Tyler a retired football player who causes trouble almost everywhere he goes. He’s living the life when a tragedy forces him to grow up and be a big brother to his younger half siblings. He’s lost. In swoops Grace in full DiMarco fashion.

With Grace comes the whole DiMarco family.

This book is so good about redemption, love, family and breaking out of your shell. It was a fast read for me but I wish I would have savored it.

The DiMarco series is a favorite of mine that I could read over and over again. I seriously can’t wait for Ben’s story!!!

4 stars

Wooing Cadie McCaffrey by Bethany Turner: a review

“Sweet Home Alabama and The Proposal hasn’t given him much to work with. What was he supposed to do? Try and get them struck by lightning? Pretend he was Canadian and beg her to marry him so he didn’t get deported? She’s probably by him a Mountie hat and a one-way ticket to Niagara Falls.”

I absolutely loved Cadie McCaffrey!!! Bethany Turner takes inspirational fiction to another level. I loved how Bethany Turner took a situation between Cadie and Will and didn’t turn it into a omg I can’t believe she wrote that in the book and made it apart of the story line but not too overpowering.

Will loves Cadie and would do anything for her. Until she doesn’t want him anymore. Will works to get Cadie back because he wants to spend the rest of his life with her.

On the advice on Cadie’s best friend, Will and his friends watch every romantic comedy to give Will a ton of ideas to get Cadie back. He uses them but Cadie smells a rat and doesn’t want to fall for any of his wooing.

Can all of Will’s chick flick watching get his girl back and they live happily ever after? You’ll just have to read it to find out!!!

4 stars

All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover: a review

“If you only shine light on your flaws, all your perfects will dim.”

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This book literally shattered me. This is my second Colleen Hoover and it’s a gorgeous book. It’s raw emotion and you are taken between now and then with Graham and Quinn and their journey of love, loss and devastation. Can love be enough for them?

A kit to surviving this book:

1. a box of Kleenexes.
2. another box of Kleenexes because you will use all the other ones.
3. Don’t read this book before having to go to work or a social function because you will ugly cry.

I had picked this book up on a whim from the store. I had been wanting to read more of CoHo since reading Verity (I still have PTSD from that book). She doesn’t disappoint and I can see how she is in a lot of autobuys for people.

This book does have triggers of infidelity and infertility.

This book gets all the stars and more!

When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton :review

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Review:

When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton is the perfect follow-up to Next Year in Havana. You learn about Beatriz’s story and you find out how leaving Cuba and losing her brother shaped her into the woman she became. You also get a peek at the Perez family life after they left Cuba. You laugh, you cry and you feel for Beatriz. You learn about her espionage days and receive a history lesson along the way.

I love how Chanel weaves in actual events that were happening during that time and how the Perez family were integrating into American culture. I fell in love with the Perez family in Next Year in Havana and loved When We Left Cuba one can only hope that Chanel will continue to let us into the lives of the Perez Family.

Like I said your heart will break for Beatriz as she tries to figure out who she is and you will have to wait to read to see if she receives her happy ending.

PS…Chanel, please write more about the Perez family!!!

There is a Rafflecopter giveaway for the tour for a $100 Amazon Gift Card, Lilly Pulitzer palm tree necklace and earrings set, When We Left Cuba coffee mug, Besame cosmetics vintage-inspired lipstick, signed When We Left Cuba recipe cards, and signed When We Left Cuba bookmarks. The giveaway will run from April 7th-20th. 

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Meet Cute by Helena Hunting: A review

Meet Cute is so cute!

It follows Kailyn and Daxton as they reconnect after law school. Well…Kailyn is Daxton’s biggest fan until after law school. Tragedy happens when Daxton’s parents tragically killed in a car accident leaving Daxton to take care of his thirteen year old sister. Kailyn is appointed the conservator of his sister’s trust and they are forced to reconnect.

As Daxton is navigating trying to figure out a teenager, Kailyn creeps back into his life and they have a “meet cute” moment.

This is a great rom com and is so stinking cute. Will Kailyn become Daxton’s biggest fan again? Will Daxton figure out how to take care of a teenager?

I guess you will just have to read it! It comes out April 9th.

Thank you to the publisher and netgalley for the advance e-galley.

4 stars

Ban this Book: a review

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

I think anyone and everyone who has thought that a book should be challenged or ban should read this book! You can’t let one person ruin it for everyone else.

Amy Anne and her friends saw the need to stand up and fight for what they wanted. Books are the gateway to our imagination. Books help the mind to grow and learn and to take you places that you never thought you could go.

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler is one of my most favorite books. I love how the author used it to centralize around the banning of books from a school library.

The craziest thing about reconsideration forms is that most the time people don’t want to fill them out because they don’t want to take the time.

Read the book…you won’t regret it!

The Adults by Caroline Hulse: a review

Thank you to random house for the advanced reader’s edition and physical copy of The Adults. 

So what could go seriously wrong with a divorced couple going on a holiday together with their new significant others so they could both spend it with their daughter?

EVERYTHING!!!!!

It’s like a National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation meets Modern Family rolled into a British Comedy.

Claire and Matt want their daughter Scarlett to have kinda of a normal Christmas. So they plan a vacation with their significant others to give Scarlett that.

Alex, Matt’s girlfriend, wasn’t really on board with it and Patrick, not Pat, was really creepy. Oh and he was obsessed with training for an Ironman.

Scarlett and her imaginary bunny, Posey, watch as the adults try to get along and well they try and make Alex leave.

Then you’re trying to figure out what happened the last night of their vacation. One of them was hit with an arrow and one of the other three are responsible. You will also read in between the chapters interviews of people who were also at the holiday resort to try and piece together what really happened.

It’s a quick read and you figure it out really quick but it’s still very good!

4 out of 5 stars.

#NSFW Book Tour Wrap up

Thank you BookSparks for these lovely books! Also thank you for having me on your #nsfw book tour!!!!

Fetish Girl: a memoir of sex, domination, and motherhood by Bella LaVey

Fetish Girl is not for the faint of heart and it intrigued me although I did have a hard time reading this book. It’s just not my cup of tea of what I usually read. Sure I’ve read 50 Shades but I didn’t know anything about BDSM until I read 50 Shades. It’s so much more than BDSM, erotic wrestling and stripping. It’s a story of survival. It’s a story of a woman who does what she needs to do to survive in this world.

I give it 3.5 stars.

The Spiritual Vixen’s guide to an unapologetic life by Maureen Muldoon

I really didn’t know what to think of this book because of the cover. I sometimes judge the book by its cover. I thought the book was going to be saucy and sexy. The cover really didn’t match the story. Its really a story of divorce and getting away for a horrible life. Rising from the ashes is the theme of this book.

I give it 3.5 stars.

Sadie: a review

So Sadie was a very enjoyable experience to listen to. The podcast that is associated with the book is integrated into the audiobook and it was a whole cast instead of just one person. So you hear from Sadie and everyone involved in the podcast. 

I felt as if this book could have been more of an adult than a teen at times because of a few of the themes though most of the teens today do deal with the issues of being made fun of for a stutter, sexual abuse, and abandonment. Allow with murder. 

You really have two questions through the whole story and those are what happen to Mattie? What happen to Sadie? 

You know that Mattie was murdered but you don’t know why or by who. Sadie has disappeared and you know she’s looking for a man from her past that had dated her mom. Someone who she thinks may know what happened to Mattie. 

Sadie would do anything for Mattie even if it’s going to the end of the earth to avenge her death. 

I give Sadie 5 out of 5 stars. 

An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena: a review

An Unwanted Guest is another great book by Shari Lapena! She may be the reason why I actually started reading thriller/suspense novels. I’ve read so many since reading The Couple Next Door. 

You are keep guessing through the whole book of who the unwanted guest may have been. You meet an old married couple who well just the wife are trying to keep their marriage together, an engaged couple, a couple who are dating, a lawyer on a weekend getaway, an author trying to write a novel, two best friends and the son and father who run the inn. There is a snow storm that strands everyone there and then things start to happen. 4 are dead and you have no idea who the killer may be. You think that there is someone extra there at the inn with them or at least you may be lead to think that.

Each time I thought I had it all figured out Shari Lapena throws a curve ball at you and leaves you to start over. Maybe you can figure it all out but I sure was startled to learn the truth because I wasn’t expecting it!

Like all other Lapena books you are left wanting more and trying to figure out what she has not concluded for you.

My one question was what was Gwen’s story? We never learned her story.

4 stars out of 5.