A Curse of Blood & Stone (Fate & Flame book 2) By: K.A. Tucker Published: July 12, 2022 464 pages Genre: Romantasy, Fantasy, New Adult Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: “I do not know how to love you and be a good king to my people.” Romeria has fled Cirilea as a traitor. Zander has sacrificed his crown to save her life but dreads what her existence means for the future of his realm. They both know that no immortal will ever welcome her as Islor's queen. Side-by-side as outcasts - yet with a growing distance between them - they watch as a new threat to the kingdom unfurls, one larger than they could have imagined. Guided by an uncertain prophecy and with their allies rapidly losing faith, their company journeys to the Venhorn Mountains in search of answers. Yet with Romeria struggling to wield her newfound abilities and the mortal rebellion growing in strength, it may already be too late. From internationally bestselling autho...

A Fate of Wrath & Flame (Fate & Flame book 1) By: K.A. Tucker Published: May 20, 2021 547 pages Genre: Romantasy, Fantasy Source: Personal Kindle library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Gifted thief Romeria has flourished from her days as a street kid pilfering wallets to survive. Now she thrives, stealing jewels from the rich under the involuntary employ of New York City’s most notorious crime boss. But when an enigmatic woman secures her services at swordpoint, Romeria is plunged into a startling realm of opposing thrones, warring elven, and elemental magic she cannot begin to fathom. Her quest is Steal a stone from Islor’s sacred garden without anyone discovering her true identity, which would earn her certain death. But the identity she has inexplicably assumed is that of the captured Ybarisan princess—an enemy to Islor after she poisoned their beloved king and queen on the day she was to marry the prince. Her betrothed, the newly crowned King Zander, det...

All This Time By: Mikki Daughtry and Rachael Lippincott Published: September 29, 2020 by Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers 336 pages Genre: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult Source: Netgalley ARC ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: From the team behind #1  New York Times  bestseller  Five Feet Apart  comes a gripping new romance that asks: Can you find true love after losing everything? Kyle and Kimberly have been the perfect couple all through high school, but when Kimberly breaks up with him on the night of their graduation party, Kyle’s entire world upends—literally. Their car crashes and when he awakes, he has a brain injury. Kimberly is dead. And no one in his life could possibly understand. Until Marley. Marley is suffering from her own loss, a loss she thinks was her fault. And when their paths cross, Kyle sees in her all the unspoken things he’s feeling. As Kyle and Marley work to heal each other’s wounds, their feelings for each ...

After We Fell (After #3) By: Anna Todd Published: November 25, 2014 by Gallery Books 849 pages Genre: New Adult, Romance, Contemporary Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Book 3 of the After series—newly revised and expanded, Anna Todd's After fanfiction racked up 1 billion reads online and captivated readers across the globe. Experience the internet's most talked-about book for yourself from the writer Cosmopolitan called “the biggest literary phenomenon of her generation.” Tessa and Hardin’s love was complicated before. Now it’s more confusing than ever. AFTER WE FELL...Life will never be the same. #HESSA Just as Tessa makes the biggest decision of her life, everything changes. Revelations about first her family, and then Hardin’s, throw everything they knew before in doubt and makes their hard-won future together more difficult to claim. Tessa’s life begins to come unglued. Nothing is what she thought it was. Not her ...

Royal Bully (Mafia Royals #0.5) By: Rachel Van Dyken Published: March 31, 2020 91 pages Genre: New Adult, Romance, Mafia, Novella Source: Freebie, personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Something dark this way comes. He's gorgeous, mean, and mine. He catches me dreaming about him, and then just like my dream, he decides to make me his. I should have said no when he asked me to swear fealty to him. The knife clued me in first. The blood second. And third, it was the blessing of the most famous mafia bosses in the known world as they sat around the dinner table and told me that I had no choice but to join. Because they knew my secrets. And running meant I was nothing more than target practice. I said yes because of my bully. And he told me he'd keep me safe. But who keeps me safe from him? The prequel to the much anticipated Mafia Royals series. MY REVIEW: It's no secret that I LOVE the Eagle Elite series by Rachel Van Dyken...

All the Little Lights By: Jamie McGuire Published: May 29, 2018 by Montlake Romance 440 pages Genre/Themes: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Mental Illness, Source: Netgalley ARC ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: From #1  New York Times  bestselling author Jamie McGuire comes a riveting tale of first love that starts young but runs deep. The first time Elliott Youngblood spots Catherine Calhoun, he’s just a boy with a camera, and he’s never seen a sadder and more beautiful sight. Both Elliott and Catherine feel like outcasts, yet they find an easy friendship with each other. But when Catherine needs him most, Elliott is forced to leave town. Elliott finally returns, but he and Catherine are now different people. He’s a star high school athlete, and she spends all her free time working at her mother’s mysterious bed-and-breakfast. Catherine hasn’t forgiven Elliott for abandoning her, but he’s determined to win back her friendship…and her heart. Just ...

All Your Perfects By: Colleen Hoover Published: July 17, 2018 by Atria Books 320 pages Genre: New Adult, Romance, Contemporary Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: The #1  New York Times  bestselling author of  It Ends with Us —delivers a tour de force novel about a troubled marriage and the one old forgotten promise that might be able to save it. Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart. The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair. All Your Perfects  is a profound novel about a damaged couple whose potential future hinges on promises made in the past. This is a heartbreaking page-turner that asks: Can a resounding love with a perfect beginning survive a lifetime between two imperfect people? MY REVIEW: The s...

Eulogy (Eagle Elite #9)  By: Rachel Van Dyken Published: February 20, 2018 by Van Dyken Enterprises INC 448 pages Genre: New Adult, Romance Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: The next book in the internationally bestselling mafia series… All is lost. All. I don't recognize myself in the mirror anymore. My thoughts are filled with hatred and dripping with rage. I've lost my soul. She took it to the depths of Hell with her and haunts me with images of what could have been. Sixty lives are mine to take. Sixty lives stand in the way of my vengeance. Sixty lives plus one more. Mine. When the last drop of blood falls — mine will be spilled. Only one person stands in the way. She doesn't realize I'll kill her too. I don't own a heart. And even if I did — I wouldn't fall prey to its lies again. I am Chase Abandonato. Heir to a legacy of betrayal. And I will kill them all. Even if it means pointing the ...

The First Girl Child By: Amy Harmon Published: August 20, 2019 by 47North 391 pages Genre: Young Adult, New Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Fiction, Science Fiction Source: Netgalley ARC ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: From ​the  New York Times  bestselling author comes a breathtaking fantasy of a cursed kingdom, warring clans, and unexpected salvation. Bayr of Saylok, bastard son of a powerful and jealous chieftain, is haunted by the curse once leveled by his dying mother. Bartered, abandoned, and rarely loved, she plagued the land with her words:  From this day forward, there will be no daughters in Saylok. Raised among the Keepers at Temple Hill, Bayr is gifted with inhuman strength. But he’s also blessed with an all-too-human heart that beats with one purpose: to protect Alba, the first girl child born in nearly two decades and the salvation for a country at risk. Now the fate of Saylok lies with Alba and Bayr, whose bond grows deeper with every wh...

Say You Still Love Me By: K.A. Tucker Published: August 6, 2019 by Atria Books 384 pages Genre: Contemporary Romance Source: Netgalley ARC ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Life is a mixed bag for Piper Calloway. On the one hand, she’s a twenty-nine-year-old VP at her dad’s multibillion-dollar real estate development firm, and living the high single life with her two best friends in a swanky downtown penthouse. On the other hand, she’s considered a pair of sexy legs in a male-dominated world and constantly has to prove her worth. Plus, she’s stuck seeing her narcissistic ex-fiancé—a fellow VP—on the other side of her glass office wall every day. Things get exponentially more complicated for Piper when she runs into Kyle Miller—the handsome new security guard at Calloway Group Industries, and coincidentally the first love of her life. The guy she hasn’t seen or heard from since they were summer camp counselors together. The guy from the wrong side of the tracks. The g...

A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes #2; Ember Quartet #2) By: Sabaa Tahir Published: August 30, 2016 by Razorbill 456 pages Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Elias and Laia are running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire. Laia is determined to break into Kauf—the Empire’s most secure and dangerous prison—to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars’ survival. And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed, even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom. But dark forces, human and otherworldly, work against Laia and Elias. The pair must fight every step of the way to outsmart their enemies: the bloodthirsty Emperor Marcus, the merciless Commandant, the sadistic Warden of Kauf, and, most heartbreaking of all, Helene—Elias’s former...

Tower of Dawn (Throne of Glass #6) By: Sarah J. Maas Published: September 5, 2017 by Bloomsbury USA Children's 668 pages Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Chaol Westfall has always defined himself by his unwavering loyalty, his strength, and his position as the Captain of the Guard. But all of that has changed since the glass castle shattered, since his men were slaughtered, since the King of Adarlan spared him from a killing blow, but left his body broken. His only shot at recovery lies with the legendary healers of the Torre Cesme in Antica-the stronghold of the southern continent's mighty empire. And with war looming over Dorian and Aelin back home, their survival might lie with Chaol and Nesryn convincing its rulers to ally with them. But what they discover in Antica will change them both-and be more vital to saving Erilea than they could have imagined. MY REVIEW: After a dud of an end of 2...

Without Merit By: Colleen Hoover Published: October 3, 2017 by Atria Books 384 pages Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness. The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s former nurse, the little half-brother isn’t allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. Then, there’s Merit. Merit Voss collects trophies she hasn’t earned and secrets her family forces her to keep. While browsing the local antiques shop for her next trophy, she finds Sagan. His wit and unapologetic idealism disarm and spark renewed life into her—until she discovers that he’s completely unavailable. Merit retreats deeper into herself, watching her family from...

What It Takes: A Dirt Road Love Story By: Sonya Loveday Published: May 27, 2017 242 pages Genre: New Adult, Contemporary, Romance Source: ebook, ARC from Netgalley ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Gracen Lowell is on the hunt for a man—but not just any man. He has to be ‘the one’. Her only problem is that no one she’s dated has ever measured up to the charming qualities of her best friend.  Slade Owens knows no matter how much he loves Gracen, he’ll never be what she’s looking for. And he dang sure isn’t going to stick around to watch her fall in love with someone else. Slade leaving the Owens’ family farm for an out-of-state job should put enough distance between the two to allow him to move on with his life and Gracen to search for her happily-ever-after.  Gracen knows asking him to stay isn’t fair. Slade thinks leaving her behind is the only thing to do. Inexplicably drawn together, the best friends must decide if they have what it takes to own up to ...

Loving Kalvin (The Kennedy Boys #4) By: Siobhan Davis Published: July 31, 2017 224 pages Genre: New Adult, Romance, Contemporary Source: ebook, ARC from author ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: A second-chance romance from  USA Today  bestseller Siobhan Davis. Standalone with HEA and no cliffhanger.   Lana   I knew it would end in disaster, but I didn’t listen to reason. I didn’t care. Because I loved him so much.  Kalvin Kennedy ruled my heart.  Until he destroyed it.  Shattered it so completely that I became someone else. Someone I loathed. Someone who repeatedly lied to her loved ones.  So, I ran.  From him. From myself. Desperate to hide my new reality.  But I could only run so far.  When he reappears in my life, I’m terrified. Unbelievably scared of facing the consequences of my actions.  Never mind that I still love him and want him so badly—there’s too much at stake now.  How can I tru...