Thursday 31 December 2020

LAST POST OF THE YEAR



Dear all,

2020 is now coming to an end, this year has been very difficult for everyone around the world but since we have reached the end of 2020, we can be grateful for our fortunes, families, health, happiness, we survived the global lowest point of our lives and thus we should applaud ourselves.

Reading wise my year wasn't so good if the quantity of the books is considered but it wasn't so bad because not only did I read good books this year, I came back to blogging regularly and started posting on bookstagram this month after taking an unusual-for-me months-long break there and I'm back to reading!


I have a little tradition of reading historical books in the last week of the year or the last day since 2014, and this year too, I'm reading Smythe-Smith series by Julia Quinn, just finished reading Just Like Heaven too!

So! I hope every fellow book blogger and everyone else is happy and healthy in the coming year, and we get to read more the most amazing books of our lives yet in the coming year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Wednesday 30 December 2020

SHELF CONTROL #5 | WEEDING NIGHT BY SOPHIE KINSELLA

 

Welcome to Shelf Control — an original feature created and hosted by Bookshelf Fantasies.

Shelf Control is a weekly celebration of the unread books on our shelves. Pick a book you own but haven’t read, write a post about it (suggestions: include what it’s about, why you want to read it, and when you got it), and link up! For more info on what Shelf Control is all about, check out my introductory post, here.

THIS WEEK'S BOOK IS:




SYNOPSIS OF THE FIRST BOOK:

Lottie just knows that her boyfriend is going to propose, but then his big question involves a trip abroad — not a trip down the aisle. Completely crushed, Lottie reconnects with an old flame, and they decide to take drastic action. No dates, no moving in together, they’ll just get married . . . right now. Her sister, Fliss, thinks Lottie is making a terrible mistake and will do anything to stop her. But Lottie is determined to say “I do,” for better, or for worse.

Why, How and when I got it:

One day when I saw that Sophie Kinsella books in hardcovers I immediately grabbed them and out of them I read the Shopaholic series but have yet to read this one.

RELEASE BLITZ | LA ROCK STAR ROMANCE SERIES BY ELLE GRECO

 

What's better than just one LA Rock Star? Three of them all bundled up together in a box set with some exclusive content! The first LA Rock Star Romance Series box set from Elle Greco is available now and you don't want to miss out on all the behind the scenes and exclusive short story included in the set!

About THE LA ROCK STAR ROMANCE SERIES

The antics of LA’s favorite rock stars, Satan’s Sisters and Rogue Nation, are combined in the first-ever LA Rock Star Romance box set, featuring the first three books in the series: Heartbreak Beat, Love Song, and Songbird.

The box set features a new bonus Holiday short story, Fairytale of LA, as well as the original first five chapters of Songbird (since deleted) that were set in New York!

Are you ready to fall in love with three LA Rock Stars?

Heartbreak Beat: An LA Rock Star Romance (Book 1) Nikki Benson lands her dream gig, drumming on Rogue Nation’s first tour. But falling for front-man Dion Davis was never part of the plan. Will saving his band mean breaking her heart?

Love Song: an LA Rock Star Romance (Book 2) When Jett Benson, songwriter and guitar player for Satan’s Sisters, finds herself unexpectedly homeless and broke, her best frenemy Rafe Davis invites her to crash at his place. Jett needs to get off his couch before she ends up in his bed. Because falling in love is not an option.

Songbird: An LA Rock Star Romance (Book 3) When the music industry nearly destroyed her, Presley Benson, former lead singer of Satan’s Sisters, decamped to New York to start over. Now working for a pop culture auction house, she needs to return to LA and track down a lost Johnny Cash notebook. She escaped LA once, but can she escape falling in love?

Fairytale of LA: An LA Rock Star Christmas Reesie Allen needs a little Christmas magic. Can the Benson sisters — Nikki, Jett, and Presley— help provide it? This heartwarming holiday short is set in the studio, where Satan’s Sisters and Rogue Nation are recording their first holiday single.

Songbird Deleted Scenes The first five chapters of Songbird were originally set in New York City! LA Detective Nico McNair (aka Det. McHottie) flies into town to try to convince Presley Benson to return to LA. When his flight is grounded because of a blizzard, the two of them spend a snow-filled night in the City. Will he give her a reason to go home?

Add the LA Rock Star Romance Series to your TBR!

 

Get the LA Rock Star Romance Series on Amazon!

   

About ELLE GRECO

I write fiction about badass women (and the people they love). Urban Fantasy lovers will know me as Karen Greco, author of the best-selling Hell’s Belle series. My Contemporary Romance books are written under Elle Greco. While the genres are worlds apart, strong female characters are the chain that links all my worlds. These women are magical. They wield wicked weapons. They play a mean drum solo. They fall in love. They rule the boardroom and the bedroom. Whatever they do, they do it with swagger. My storytelling career began when I forced everyone play “make believe” with me when I was a kid. That eventually morphed into banging out short stories on my mom’s old manual typewriter. As I got older, I graduated to penning bad poetry, then not terrible plays as a teenager. I studied playwright in college but my career took a detour and I ended up working in journalism and then entertainment publicity, which kept me busy for 20 or so years. My “day job” has taken me from gritty rock clubs in The Bowery to glam red carpets during movie premieres and awards shows. My background working with talent (and the suits) in the industry has served me well with the LA Rock Star Romance series. A few years ago, I decided to pursue my original passion and a few full-length novels later, here we are. I love anything spooky and impossible to explain. If you love hanging out in cemeteries, the older the better, I’d totally go on a road trip with you. I have two rescue dogs, a patient husband, and an awesome kid. Website | Facebook | Instagram | Goodreads

Monday 28 December 2020

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? #1

 

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? a place to meet up and share what you have been, and are about to be reading over the week. It’s a great post to organise yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment and er… add to your groaning TBR pile! So welcome in everyone. This meme started on J Kaye’s blog and then was hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn here at The Book Date.


I read three Christmas novellas by Jill Shalvis this week:

(click on the cover for the Goodreads link)

It was a nice day, I read them all in one day and I was getting all the Christmas cozy vibes!

I want to read this historical series this week:


Saturday 26 December 2020

STACKING THE SHELVES #17

 



Stacking The Shelves is hosted by  Tynga's Reviews and Reading Reality it's all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

This week I got two classics since I found a good deal of 50% sale, next week I plan on buying a few ebooks(can't wait for the New Year book haul!)

(Click on the links to go to the Goodreads pages of the mentioned books)




I'm slowly collecting classics these days since I feel like reading classic literature, so now, I have four books including these two. I'm currently reading Emma, I can't wait to read more!


These are the new addition to my shelf. I would love to know about yours so comment your post links down below!

Friday 11 December 2020

FRIDAY READS #17 | MISTLETOE IN PARADISE BY JILL SHALVIS

 


Book Beginnings is a book meme hosted by Rose City Reader where participants share the first sentence (or so) of the book, along with initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires.
The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda’s Voice, and the rules are quite simple: Grab a book, any book, turn to page 56 or 56% in your e-reader. Find any non-spoilery sentence(s) and post. 
Book Blogger Hop created by coffeeaddictedwriter, where each week the hop starts on a Friday and ends the following Thursday with a weekly prompt featuring some bookish question.
This week’s book: 





Goodreads Summary: 

Problem Number One – Getting There

Old childhood friends each fly separately to join their families on what’s been an annual holiday themed yacht adventure. Secret ex-lovers, Hannah and James are determined to make the best of things…

Problem Number Two – Getting Stuck.

When everyone but Hannah and James gets held up in an airport snarl, it leaves them stuck together for four days, making Hannah’s already problematic trip a whole lot harder to face. Especially because she comes bearing more than just gifts…

Problem Number Three -- Falling In Love (again)

As the former lovers try to make the best of the Christmas snafu, they soon realize that the best things in life can’t be planned and sometimes love is sweeter the second time around.

BOOK BEGINNINGS:

Christmas, twelve years ago

Fourteen-year-old Hannah Banfield stood at the very edge of a cliff. Not a mental cliff, which would have been less terrifying. 

FRIDAY 56:
"Maybe," she admitted. "But I'm out of dating practice, so..." 
"Don't overthink it." "Hi, have you met me?"
MY THOUGHTS:

I just finished reading it and loved it! It's a great novella for this time if you're looking to catch up with your year-end goals, this is a short and sweet romance story, despite that scary looking beginning.
Book Blogger Hop
This week's question prompt is WHAT WAS THE LAST BOOK YOU STARTED TO READ BUT COULDN'T FINISH?
Since I didn't read many books this year, I haven't DNF'd any this year at least so I can't remember the last book I couldn't finish..

Which book features in your Friday Reads this week? Comment the links to your posts below, I would love to visit your blog!

Wednesday 9 December 2020

COVER REVEAL | THE ENGAGEMENT EMBARGO BY SAMANTHA CHASE

 

New York Times bestselling author Samantha Chase is kicking off a new series in 2021 and we are so excited to be reveal the first cover today! Check out the cover for THE ENGAGEMENT EMBARGO and pre-order your copy today!

About THE ENGAGEMENT EMBARGO

Four failed engagements. One year-long hiatus on women.

Elliott Sullivan loves being in love, but after his latest romantic disaster, his friends and family finally put their foot down—no relationships or proposals for at least a year. Ready for his heart not to be squashed under another sexy high-heel, he agrees to fully embrace life as a perpetual bachelor. Which should be easy—especially when he recruits his sister’s best friend for help. Surely he won’t fall for her, no matter how perfect she seems…

Skylar isn’t sorry to see Elliott’s latest relationship go up in flames. She’s had a crush on him for as long as she remembers—not that anything can ever happen there. So when Elliott asks for her help to stop him from breaking his dating embargo, she jumps at the chance. They’ve spent time together before and nothing has come of it. So what could possibly go wrong this time?

Sticking to his embargo would be fine if all this time with Skye wasn’t making Elliott wonder if maybe the perfect girl had been in front of him all along.

Add THE ENGAGEMENT EMBARGO to your TBR!

Pre-order THE ENGAGEMENT EMBARGO today! Amazon | Apple | Kobo

   

About SAMANTHA CHASE

Samantha Chase is a New York Times and USA Today bestseller of contemporary romance. She released her debut novel in 2011 and currently has more than forty titles under her belt! When she’s not working on a new story, she spends her time reading romances, playing way too many games of Scrabble or Solitaire on Facebook, wearing a tiara while playing with her sassy pug Maylene…oh, and spending time with her husband of 25 years and their two sons in North Carolina. Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Newsletter | BookBub

Tuesday 1 December 2020

TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I WANT TO READ AGAIN


Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created and previously hosted by The Broke and the Bookish is now moved to That Artsy Reader Girl 

Happy December!! This is my favorite month of the year and yet I freaked when I saw that 1st December on the calendar today.. But bookish things always cheer me up and this topic is making me want to reread all the books I searched for today's topic!
This week’s topic is Books I Want to Read Again, I kid you not I am already deciding on which book to reread tonight!!

1. The book that got me into small-town Christmas romances: Simply Irresistible by Jill Shalvis










6,7,8 and 9 are all from Heartbreaker Bay series by Jill Shalvis giving all the Christmas cozy vibes:



And a bonus for 10, its all the Christmas novellas by Jill Shalvis!!

Do we have any of these in common?
What are your top ten books? Leave the links to your posts too!