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book reviews, Fiction, friends to lovers, New Releases, Romance, Romantic Comedy/RomCom, small town romance

ROMANCE BOOK REVIEW!! ~ Until It Was Love by Pippa Grant

April 2024 writinstuff Leave a comment

ABOUT:

There are a million reasons why I shouldn’t date Fletcher Huxley.

He’s a growly-faced, stubborn-streaked, international rugby legend trying to revive his flailing career in the US after being canned by his team overseas.

While he might have the good kind of thunder thighs, intriguing tattoos, and a booty of steel, he also holds the top position on my very short nemesis list thanks to what happened the first time we met.

Plus, his mustache is as terrible as the reason he’s picked me to be the woman he wants to date.

But he has one big checkmark in the why this date is a good idea column: he’s my brother’s new teammate.

They already hate each other.

And my brother has made an unfortunate habit of interfering with my love life recently.

So a revenge date with Fletcher to make my brother mad? While letting Fletcher think this date is merely for the good of the team?

Yep.

I’m in.

I’m moving to London for work in a month. And it’s just one date. What could possibly go wrong?

Until It Was Love is a banter-tastic romcom featuring an overgrown snack of a man with a soft spot for his purse dog, a normally optimistic life coach trying to live her best life, a mustache catastrophe, and one little tiny fainting spell. It stands alone and comes complete with a swoony happily ever after that will leave your heart in a happy puddle of joy.

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Blog Tours, book reviews, friends to lovers, New Releases, Romance, small town romance

NEW RELEASE!!! ~ Rugged Southern Charmer by Fabiola Francisco

April 2024 writinstuff Leave a comment

Title: Rugged Southern Charmer
Series: Magnolia Grove
Author: Fabiola Francisco
Genre/Tropes: Childhood friends to lovers, small town romance
Release Date: April 25, 2024
Cover Design: Sarah PaigeGoodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201814207-rugged-southern-charmer

Blurb:

I never imagined I’d be back in my hometown, unemployed, and feeling like a failure. Getting involved with someone at work is a huge mistake, especially when he’s a famous football player, and I’m just a therapist they can easily replace.

The silver lining is reconnecting with my best friend…even if he is hot now. I can ignore that detail, right? I hope so because Dean’s helping me fix my grandma’s old cabin so I have a place to stay, and between seeing him shirtless and working with his hands, I might just give in to temptation.

Crossing that line should be awkward, but when he kisses me on a dare, I feel like he’s sparked life into me.

My time in Magnolia Grove is temporary while I figure out my next steps, and falling for Dean is not a part of my plans.

But sometimes challenges lead us back to where we’re meant to be.

Universal: https://mybook.to/RuggedSouthernCharmer

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NEW RELEASE!!! ~ Fake Southern Fiancé by Brittany Holland

March 2024 writinstuff Leave a comment

Title: Fake Southern Fiancé

Series: Magnolia Grove

Author: Brittany Holland

Genre: Small Town Romance

Tropes: Fake Fiancé, One Night Stand

Release Date: March 28, 2024

Cover Design: Sarah Paige

When you’re a famous wedding planner, planning your own wedding, everyone expects it to be the event of the year.

Just one problem… I don’t actually have a groom.

I did—but then he decided to walk away before I even walked down the aisle.

Now if I want to save my reputation, and my business, I need to find someone willing to play the part of my fake southern fiancé and pull off my small town wedding without a hitch.

In the heart of Alabama, lies a charming little town on the river, where everyone knows your name… and your business.

Follow the intertwined lives of its beloved residents as they navigate first love, second chances, and all the unexpected surprises that their small-town holds.

Welcome to Magnolia Grove, where every neighbor has a story worth unraveling, the roots run deep, and love blossoms around every corner.

Join the Magnolia Grove Reader Group to find out more!

Author Brittany Holland is a southern Illinois girl, born and raised. Her passion for reading and an active imagination inspired her to pursue her dream of writing.

A lover of fairytales and hopeless romantic, Brittany pens steamy happily ever afters with a modern twist.

In her free time, she enjoys traveling with her husband and two children, dabbling in photography, perfecting her latte making skills at home and binge-watching Netflix.

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Romance Book Review!! ~ Salvation by Skye Turner

March 2024 writinstuff Leave a comment

ABOUT:

My heart belongs to two men.
They are darkness and light personified.
I know I must choose.
One is my curse. He says I’m his salvation. The other loves me just as fiercely.
Things aren’t always black and white.
Am I strong enough to follow my heart when my head scream that I can’t have it both ways?
What price am I willing to pay?

**Salvation, A Dark Twisted Love Triangle Romance is a dark romance with a love triangle. One woman is intimately involved with two men. Dark and delicate topics are covered. This book contains violence, strong language, and explicit sexual encounters. Reader discretion is advised.

*Salvation, A Dark Twisted Love Triangle Romance was formerly titled His Only Salvation. It has been revised, reformatted, and rebranded.

Get your copy HERE!https://amzn.to/4cuvBn0

Salvation is first and foremost a love triangle and it is a really well done love triangle. This isn’t just a girl who wants her cake and the icing, though there’s nothing wrong with that. Hope loves both of her men and she can’t pick between them so she doesn’t. She loves the dark and she loves the light and neither man can or will change themselves, and she doesn’t ask them to.

Hope accepts both men for who they are and that’s a beautiful thing to read even if you know it can’t last.

This is a love triangle and a friendship, even a brotherhood to a certain extent. These three are a family and as families do, they go in their own directions. The ending was expected but it still got me all up in my feels when it arrives. It was my first real foray into dark and angsty romance and I enjoyed it from beginning to end.

Get more from Skye Turner HERE!

book reviews, Fiction, New Releases, Romance

Romance Book Review ~ In The Spotlight by Sophie An

March 2024 writinstuff Leave a comment

ABOUT:

Connor Knightly
Hollywood’s biggest star, and a product of Hollywood legends.
Connor needed the right actress for his new movie. He didn’t want the hottest or most popular actress, he wanted the perfect one, and Judy was the perfect woman for the role. This movie was his baby, and Judy was his star. He just needs to remember to keep his hands off of her. He didn’t want another relationship in the spotlight.

Judy Roux
The product of two people who needed to divorce.
Judy was ready to throw in the towel and give up on her Hollywood dreams, but not without a last hurrah. She took a chance, and it paid off. She was a relatively unknown actress, daughter of a porn film maker, a stepping stool for A-list celebrities, and she was going to star in a movie with The Connor Knightly. She wasn’t just going to star in the movie with him, she was going to be the star.

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Blog Tours, book reviews, friends to lovers, New Releases, Romance, romantic suspense

NEW RELEASE & BOOK REVIEW! ~ The Sexy Billionaire by JA Low

February 2024 writinstuff Leave a comment

Title: The Sexy Billionaire
Series: Italian Nights Series Book 2
Author: JA Low
Release: February 18, 2024
Genre: Billionaire/2nd Chance Romance
Designer: Simply Defined Art
Photographer: Wander Book Club Photography
Model: Leonardo

Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/books/the-sexy-billionaire-a-second-chance-romance-italian-nights-series-book-2-by-ja-low

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/204258214-the-sexy-billionaire

Blurb:

Giorgio

I’ve always been the dutiful son, living my life for everyone else but me.

So, walking in on my fiancée with someone else during our engagement party should have filled me with devastation, but instead, I felt relieved.

When a drunken message to the woman whose heart I broke all those years ago comes back with a reply, will this be the second chance I’ve always hoped for, or is it too late?

Paige

This isn’t at all how I saw my life playing out.

It started with discovering I’ve inherited my Great Aunt’s estate in Italy.

Then I walk into our restaurant and find my husband giving his French baguette to our sous chef.

And because I hadn’t suffered enough, the universe decides to bring back into my life the one man I swore I’d never speak to ever again.

Except now he’s a sexy billionaire.

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Romance, small town romance

Small Town Romance NOW on KOBO! ~ Let It Be Love (Mustang Prairie Book 5) by N.D. Jackson

February 2024 writinstuff Leave a comment

Hello readers, reviewers and fellow book lovers! Just dropping in to tell you that book 5 in my Mustang Prairie series, Let It Be Love is now on Kobo. Technically it’s on Kobo again but either way, it’s there and if Kobo is your preferred retailer for romance books you can get it here.

ABOUT LET IT BE LOVE

Eric
Falling in love with a pop starlet has its drawbacks
Lack of privacy, for one
Gossip, for another
But falling in love with Kiki Ramirez was the best thing I’ve ever done
And the stupidest
One story planted by her agent and now I look like a fool
Played by the starlet
Looking like a simp for the world to see
But none of its true and I can’t defend my woman how I want
The urge to fight for her, to defend her is too strong
Even against the Hollywood machine working hard to keep us apart

Kiki
Falling in love with a civilian wasn’t part of the plan
I didn’t believe in love
Not for me and not for my life
But a small town mayor was the man who’d torn down my walls
Snuck past my defenses
And now with our future hanging in the balance its up to me to find a way to make it all work
A crazy agent
A ravenous paparazzi
And a pregnant belly I’m powerless to hide
I want Eric and the life I see for us
But how can I invite this madness into his quiet, small town life?

AVAILABLE in paperback & e-book ~ https://books2read.com/u/mg7xK6

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book reviews, enemies to lovers romance, Fiction, New Releases, Romance

Romance Book Review ~ Bad Boy’s Accidental Baby by Alyssa Cobb

January 2024 writinstuff Leave a comment

ABOUT

He ruined my life, and now it’s my chance to ruin his… But I never thought I’d fall for him.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I never wanted to go back to my hometown. I told myself that I would do whatever it took to stay. So, when I lost everything because of a pompous, arrogant actor, I saved myself by landing a position at a sleazy publishing company, the Hollywood Star. However, I had no idea…

It would take me right back to him—the guy who almost ruined my life.

Now, I’m stuck faking it as his girlfriend to get the story. Thankfully, I don’t have to pretend to like him. Jasper Banks is the epitome of spoiled and lives up to his bad boy image, but…

I can’t deny the chemistry.

And before I even realize what’s happening, I’m intertwined with the man who I vowed to seek revenge on. I catch glimpses of someone completely different when I get him alone—and it’s getting under my skin. But just when I think I have it under control…

Everything comes to the surface.

Is it possible for our connection to withstand the lies it was built on? Or will I lose everything before we even have a chance?

Read Bad Boy’s Accidental Baby HERE!!!

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book reviews, Comedy fiction, friends to lovers, Romance, Romantic Comedy/RomCom, sports romance

Book Review ~ I Pucking Love You by Pippa Grant

January 2024 writinstuff Leave a comment

ABOUT:

You know those stories where an adorably misunderstood clumsy girl needs a fake date to a wedding so she asks her brother’s best friend and they accidentally fall in love?

I wish that was the kind of life I lead, but it’s not.

I don’t need a date to a wedding. I need a date to a funeral.

Clumsy sometimes fits, but then, that’s true for all of us, right? But adorable? No. Misunderstood? Nope again. I’m just your average girl, standing in front of a funeral invitation, asking it to be a winning lottery ticket instead.

And I don’t have a brother, or a best friend with a brother available, which means I’m stuck with Tyler Jaeger.

Sure, he’s a professional hockey player who also knows advanced calculus, but let’s say we’re not compatible and leave it at that. I should know. I am a matchmaker.

Not a very good one, but that’s beside the point.

I know a mismatch when I see one.

Still, Tyler’s what I’ve got, and I am not going to this funeral solo, so he’s what I’ll take.

After all—what could go wrong at a funeral?

I Pucking Love You is a hilariously wrong romantic comedy about the world’s worst matchmaker, a hockey player with a problem he doesn’t want to talk about, and an awkward date-of-convenience that everyone would prefer to forget. It comes complete with a cat working his way through his nine lives, all the sexy times, fish and chips, and a swoony happily-ever-after.

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99 cents, Novellas, Romance

Sassy, Sexy, Southern Romance!! ~ Sweet Tea & Tattoo Ink (Rebel Girlz Book 1) by N.D. Jackson

January 2024 writinstuff Leave a comment

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What to Expect:

*Sassy southern artist
*Hot tattoo artist
*Long, hot summer nights
*The Big Easy
*Beignets

ABOUT:

Dixie Covington is a redheaded spitfire with a sultry southern drawl. She loves her family, her small piece of the world and her art. But what Dixie desires more than anything is the freedom to fall in love with a man of her own choosing. So when her parents announce her engagement to a man she’s not even dating, Dixie and her closest friends pack their bags and head to The Big Easy for summer of fun and who knows what else.

Taz Nicorescu is another born and bred in New Orleans artist. With his exotic good looks and skills with a tattoo gun, he has no trouble finding female companionship when he wants it. Taz loves his life just the way it is, living with his best friend and running his well known Ink by Taz tattoo shop. He couldn’t have known a simple neighborly request would change everything he thought he knew about love and attraction.

What starts out as summer romance just might be true love!