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Romance Book Review!! ~ Fake Southern Fiancé by Brittany Holland

April 2024 writinstuff Leave a comment

Title: Fake Southern Fiancé
Series: Magnolia Grove
Author: Brittany Holland
Genre/Tropes: Small Town Romance, Fake Fiancé, One Night Stand
Release Date: March 28, 2024
Cover Design: Sarah Paige

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201803369-fake-southern-fianc

Blurb:

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.

Buy Links: Kindle Unlimited

Universal: https://mybook.to/FakeSouthernFiance
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJD3YDVQ
Amazon CA: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0CJD3YDVQ
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CJD3YDVQ
Amazon AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CJD3YDVQ

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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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Blog Tours, book reviews, New Releases, Romance, small town romance

New Release & Review!!! ~ Sweet Southern Memories (Magnolia Grove) by C.A. Harms

February 2024 writinstuff Leave a comment

Title: Sweet Southern Memories
Series: Magnolia Grove
Author: C.A. Harms
Genre/Tropes: Second Chance -Small Town Romance – Single Mom – Hot Doctor – Friends to Lovers – Angst
Release Date: February 8, 2024
Cover Design: Sarah Paige
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200855296-sweet-southern-memories
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/books/sweet-southern-memories-by-c-a-harms

Blurb:

Zoey

Life doesn’t always go according to plan, a lesson I learned the hard way during my divorce. My first love returns home just in time to watch me pick up the pieces, and the moment I lay eyes on him every memory rushes back.

Jayson Lincoln, the man who still makes my heart beat fast, after all these years. But he’s Doctor Lincoln now and I’m a far cry from the carefree girl he left behind.

I’m learning to navigate life as a single mother of twin girls and he’s reluctantly home to take over the family practice. We may be back in the same small town, but we’re still worlds apart.

Jayson

It’s always been her. No one could ever measure up to Zoey Harding.

And I’ll always regret walking away from her and our hometown, for the big city to chase my dreams.

The longer I’m back, the more the echoes of our past whisper what could have been. But it’s not just about us, and her daughters steal my heart and mend what’s been broken for far too long.

Zoey’s afraid to trust me, but I’m determined to heal the fractures of her heart and prove that this time I’m not going anywhere.

Buy Links: Kindle Unlimited

Universal: https://mybook.to/SweetSouthernMemories

Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3SB4VHY

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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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Blog Tours, book reviews, Holiday, New Releases, Romance

Romance Release & Review!!! ~ The Matchmaking Heirs by Whitley Cox & Ember Leigh

December 2023 writinstuff Leave a comment

Title: The Matchmaking Heirs
Series: Winter Harbor Heroes, Book 4
Authors: Whitley Cox & Ember Leigh
Release: December 1, 2023
Genre: Christmas, holiday, winter, matchmaking, small town, mystery, family secrets, feel-good, inspirational, warm and fuzzy
Cover Design: EmCat Designs

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150381114-the-matchmaking-heirs

Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/books/the-matchmaking-heirs-first-christmas-in-winter-harbor-winter-harbor-heroes-book-4-by-whitley-cox-and-ember-leigh

Blurb:

It’s the Winters brothers first Christmas in Winter Harbor!
They’ve reconciled, found love, found a purpose and are winning over the hearts of the townspeople. What more could they ask for?

Perhaps even an inkling of an idea what to get their better half for Christmas for starters.

And now they’ve been tasked with a matchmaking quest that seems downright impossible. Maribel has put it on the brothers and their lady loves to help widow Drucilla Crombie finally get the man she’s pined over for nearly sixty years. But old Mr. Gentry is oblivious and ornery and, according to Maribel, would need a map and a compass to find the nose on his own face, so he’s completely hopeless when it comes to love.

Now, it’s up to Callum, Carson, Colton and their women to help bring the two Winter Harborites together once and for all. But it won’t be easy. And if that’s not hard enough, there’s a journalist in Summer Hills hell-bent on dragging the Summers and Winters family names through the mud. So they need to figure out what his problem is and put a stop to it before things escalate and ruin Christmas for everyone.

Get ready for laughter, swoony moments, and one unforgettable Christmas in the quirky small coastal town of Winter Harbor, Oregon as the brothers and their loves unravel mysteries, play matchmakers and sneak moments under the mistletoe for the first time ever.

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Blog Tours, Fiction, New Releases, Romance, Romantic Comedy/RomCom

Book Tour Release & Review!! ~ Love, Lies, and Lattes by Karen Cimms

September 2023 writinstuff Leave a comment

Title: Love, Lies, and Lattes
Author: Karen Cimms
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Tropes: Opposites Attract, Grumpy/sunshine (she’s the grump), Meet Cute, Forced Proximity, Friends to Lovers, Hidden Identity
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150189564-love-lies-and-lattes
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/books/love-lies-and-lattes-by-karen-cimms

Blurb:

One way to make a lasting impression on a guy…make him a killer latte.

That’s exactly what the barista with the espresso-colored eyes did. She made me a latte with almond milk instead of the nut-free vanilla latte I ordered, putting her job—and my life—on the line.

If that wasn’t bad enough, she has no idea who I am. Me. Aiden Winchester. Hollywood heartthrob, son of cinematic royalty, and soon-to-be—hopefully—a Broadway star.

The next time I ran into my would-be assassin—literally—she reamed me out for not watching where I was going.

What did I do? I apologized and invited her to dinner.

Now she thinks I’m a struggling nobody when the only thing I am struggling with is not falling in love with the beautiful barista who served me a deadly drink and proving my feelings for her aren’t just an act.

Love, Lies, and Lattes was originally released as Broadway Beans.

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Blog Tours, book reviews, New Releases, Novellas, Romance, small town romance

Romance Book Review ~ Beards & Babies by Heather Lauren

September 2023 writinstuff Leave a comment

ABOUT:

The bare naked buns of my brother’s best friend greet me in Florida.

I haven’t seen Soren Mathews since the most embarrassing night of my life. Now ten years older, he’s all grizzly man. With a sexy beard and new scars, he draws me right back under his spell.

For one night, the storm keeps us under one roof. Our bodies beg for each other in a blaze of heat, but in the morning he’s gone.

I try to move forward with a new life in Candy Cane Key but less than two months later I’m terrified that it’s much more then the common cold making me feel so sick…

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Blog Tours, book reviews, New Releases, Romance, romantic suspense, small town romance

Book Review ~ Fighting For The Truth by A.B. Medley

August 2023 writinstuff Leave a comment

Title: Fighting for the Truth
Author: A.B. Medley
Genre/tropes: childhood friends to enemies to lovers, small town meets big city, romantic suspense, hints of second chance
Release Date: August 18, 2023
Cover Design: Cover Me Darling (Marisa Wesley)
Photographer: Wander Aguair
Cover Model: Andrew Biernat

Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/books/fighting-for-the-truth-childhood-friends-to-enemies-to-lovers-finding-the-truth-series-book-4-by-a-b-medley

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126216778-fighting-for-the-truth

Blurb:

You’ve always been mine to love and to hate…
Small towns have a way of making you face your past.
And there’s two sides to every story.
Hawk and Brittney met as kids in a time when they both needed someone.
Their worlds were already in a state of unrest when an unexpected betrayal stripped them bare.
Words of hate were uttered and promises broken, leaving them bitter enemies.
One is left fighting for the truth, while the other is left with nothing but a dream.
But time and distance can’t separate them forever and fate seemingly intervenes.
Lines blur as they realize things may not have been what they seemed, and old feelings are resurrected.
But amid salvaging their connection comes another fight.
Hawk’s murky past catches up to him and Brittney is thrust in the middle, leaving him no choice but to fight once more to save the girl he realizes he’s always loved.
Even if it means destroying her dreams and wrecking her heart.
Fighting for her is the only thing that matters, and this is one battle he won’t lose.

Winner takes heart.

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book reviews, Comedy fiction, Fiction, Romance, Romantic Comedy/RomCom

Romance Book Review! ~ Rockaway Bride by Pippa Grant

August 2023 writinstuff Leave a comment

ABOUT:

A Rock Star Kidnaps a Runaway Bride…Kidnapping the bride seemed like a good idea at the time.
Her fiancé stole my fortune, so I stole his woman.

Tit for tat. Or tat for tit. However you want to look at it.

The one thing I didn’t expect?

Willow Honeycutt, preschool teacher, boy band super fan, is completely crazy.

And somehow she’s turned the tables on me.

Now, she’s holding me hostage, and she won’t let me go until we hit every item on her sparkly new, completely insane bucket list.

And that last item?

That last item might cost me more than any fortune.

It very well might cost me my heart.

Rockaway Bride is a romping fun romance between a down-on-his-luck rock star and a boy band-loving preschool teacher, complete with a road trip, handcuffs, and fun with nuns. This romantic comedy stands alone with no cheating or cliffhangers and ends with a rockin’ awesome happily ever after.

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