It Started With Goodbye By: Christina June   Published: May 9, 2017 by Blink 272 pages Source: ebook, Netgalley ARC from publisher   ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Sixteen-year-old Tatum Elsea is bracing for the worst summer of her life. After being falsely accused of a crime, she’s stuck under stepmother-imposed house arrest and her BFF’s gone ghost. Tatum fills her newfound free time with community service by day and working at her covert graphic design business at night (which includes trading emails with a cute cello-playing client). When Tatum discovers she’s not the only one in the house keeping secrets, she finds she has the chance to make amends with her family and friends. Equipped with a new perspective, and assisted by her feisty step-abuela-slash-fairy-godmother, Tatum is ready to start fresh and maybe even get her happy ending along the way. A modern play on the Cinderella story arc, Christina June’s IT STARTED WITH GOODBYE shows us that some...

Time for our fifth Monthly Wrap Up for the 2017 Series Enders Reading Challenge hosted by Sandy @ Somewhere Only We Know and Holly @ Words Fueled by Love ! Since the April Wrap Up , neither Holly nor Sandy have finished any series enders. We have a couple of announcements/reminders that we'd like to mention this month. Please make sure we have a valid email address or other means of contacting you if you choose to participate. Linking up to Goodreads is perfectly fine, but we have found that Goodreads is not a reliable source for contacting someone should you be selected as one of the monthly giveaway winners. This could be due to your Goodreads notification settings or Goodreads themselves could be at fault. We're not sure which. And since we want to make sure that everyone who is eligible for one of the giveaways will receive their prize should they win one month or the grand prize at the end of the year, it is up to you to ensure that we can contact you an...

Sunday Post is a weekly post hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer . Each week bloggers participate to share any books received and news from their week. Click on the book cover to be taken to its Goodreads page. ~PURCHASED~ Boys South of the Mason Dixon #1 by Abbi Glines Preorder Buy Link: Amazon  ($.99 deal) ~FOR REVIEW~ Cinderella.com by River Laurent Buy Link: Amazon Keeping Kyler (The Kennedy Boys #3) by Siobhan Davis Preorder Buy Link: Amazon RECAP OF WEEK: SUNDAY: Sunday Post #113 THURSDAY: ARC Thursday Review: When It's Real by Erin Watt (4 stars) We finally made it to summer! Well, nearly....as in two days of exams left for my kiddos. And then I have 4 days left with the little boy I've kept for nearly 5 years. That chapter is closing as he will start Kindergarten in the fall. Not sure what the next chapter will be but I look forward to it. And just like that I have a 10th grader and an 8th grader!  T...

When It's Real By: Erin Watt Published: May 30, 2017 416 pages Source:  ebook, Netgalley ARC from publisher   ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Wealth, fame and a real-life romance she never expected—seventeen-year-old Vaughn Bennett lands it all when she agrees to become a pop star's fake girlfriend in this smart, utterly addictive novel from #1  New York Times   bestselling author duo Erin Watt     Under ordinary circumstances, Oakley Ford and Vaughn Bennett would never even cross paths.  There's nothing ordinary about Oakley. This bad-boy pop star's got Grammy Awards, millions of fangirls and a reputation as a restless, too-charming troublemaker. But with his home life disintegrating, his music well suddenly running dry and the tabloids having a field day over his outrageous exploits, Oakley needs to show the world he's settling down—and who better to help him than Vaughn, a part-time waitress trying to help her family get by? Th...

Sunday Post is a weekly post hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer . Each week bloggers participate to share any books received and news from their week. Click on the book cover to be taken to its Goodreads page. ~FOR REVIEW~ The Butterfly Project by Emma Scott Preorder Buy Link: Amazon RECAP OF WEEK: SUNDAY: Sunday Post #112 This week was mostly the same as with our normal routines and such. My husband and I had planned a date night for Friday night. He has been pretty sick but we went anyway. We went to eat and to see King Arthur, and of all things to Home Depot. UGH! Home Depot wasn't for fun home projects but just for items needed for maintenance. I told my husband that we are gonna have to come up with things to do that are more exciting. So tell me. If you are married with kids and have those oh, so rare date nights, what do you do? Saturday I took my Mom and Dad out for a late lunch at a Japanese Steakhouse and for dessert afterward...

Sunday Post is a weekly post hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer . Each week bloggers participate to share any books received and news from their week. Click on the book cover to be taken to its Goodreads page. ~FOR REVIEW~ Dividing Eden #1 by Joelle Charbonneau Preorder Buy Link: Amazon RECAP OF WEEK: No Posts This past week was good. We are in the home stretch for my kids school year. 13 school days left. I've gotten out of my reading slump, though I'm not blasting through books either. In other news, my husband and I have been consistently working out for 38 days now. That may not seem like much to some, but for those who battle being consistent with exercise will understand my excitement over this. Oh and lastly I finally started listening to the Podcast Up and Vanished (after a cousin continually posted on social media that it was as good or better than Serial). Friday and Saturday I pretty much binge listened to it. If you like true...