They’re back! Epic is a novella about your favorite hockey duo! Jamie and Wes are having a blast living and working in Toronto. Until a scout for another team swoops in to make one of them an offer that might complicate the life they’ve built together.
Review : I loved this short story with Wes and Jamie I also love the side characters Blake they are all so fun . So Jamie has an opportunity to play Hockey again but he really wants this promotion at work that hes sure to get but he doesn’t his boss gives it to a newish hire his boss tells him there is a better job opportunity for him . He tells wes this and wes tells him to come with him when he plays for his game and then something crazy happens Jamie is called in to play goalie for the opposite team . Wes prepares that Jamie would be playing hockey again but no Jamie loves coaching more and he gets a Job as head coach.
Quotes : Life is good. No, it’s epic.
We’d never see each other. If you were in prison I’d be allowed more conjugal visits than we’d get if I move to Ottawa.”
Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike.
Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold. Clara doesn’t want to follow in her mother’s footsteps. Her predictable mother doesn’t have a spontaneous bone in her body.
With warring personalities and conflicting goals, Morgan and Clara find it increasingly difficult to coexist. The only person who can bring peace to the household is Chris—Morgan’s husband, Clara’s father, and the family anchor. But that peace is shattered when Chris is involved in a tragic and questionable accident. The heartbreaking and long-lasting consequences will reach far beyond just Morgan and Clara.
While struggling to rebuild everything that crashed around them, Morgan finds comfort in the last person she expects to, and Clara turns to the one boy she’s been forbidden to see. With each passing day, new secrets, resentment, and misunderstandings make mother and daughter fall further apart. So far apart, it might be impossible for them to ever fall back together.
Review: This book is beautiful I love colleen Hoover’s books and this is now one of my new favorites of hers it’s so raw and beautiful. This is a duel POV book about a mother and daughter
Its starts out when morgan the mother figures out she’s pregnant at 17 and she’s at this party with her boyfriend his friend and her sister . There are these moments she has with Jonah that she feels something there . Then we get to where her daughter Clara is 16 and she is driving and sees this guy she has a crush on Miller and she gives him a ride home . Tragedy happens when there is a car crash Chris and Jenny were in a crash they were in the car together and they were having an affair Jonah and Morgan were at the hospital when they found this out they died and Morgan is crushed and hurt and doesn’t know what to do . Clara spends her dad’s funeral getting high with Miller her mom finds her and she’s pissed . Clara is so angry at herself cause she thinks her aunt and father dying is her fault . Jonah snaps one day and brings Elijah his son to Morgan saying he cant do this anymore cause Elijah isnt his kid its Chris’s kid what the hell . Clara knocks some sence in him and tells him to pick up his kid and Jonah does . Miller has a girlfriend but she ended up breaking up with him but then they get back together but Clara likes Miller but he keeps sending her these mix signals and she tells him to figure it out so he does and he breaks up with his girlfriend and him and Clara talk and kiss and they finally get together hes liked her since he was 15 . Jonah and Morgan have this moment again where they almost kiss . Miller and Clara work on film project together. Jonah kisses Morgan and clara walked in on them and thinks they were having an affair and then Clara calls Miller to have him come over cause she wants to have sex with Miller to make her mom angry I dont see the reasoning in that . Clara gets drunk and tells her mom she is the reason that her aunt and Dad are dead she asks clara the next day and Clara tries to hide back the tears but she tells her mom but Morgan told her that her dad was driving and then Clara asks why they were in the car together and figures it out they were having an affair she’s angry and sad she asks her mom to drive her to Miller and she does Morgan goes back to the movie theater and talks with clara . Jonah and Morgan talk and are together officially and Elijah says his first word . Clara and Miller show there film and it’s weird but funny and Jonah likes it . But then miller shows Clara his promposal and when he first fell in love with her it was sweet and adorable. Millers gramps has been joking he was leaving miller air but actually is air to land and he can go to his college he wants to now I loved this book .
Quotes:I wonder if humans are the only living creatures that ever feel hollow inside. I don’t understand how my body can be full of everything bodies are full of—bones and muscles and blood and organs—yet my chest sometimes feels vacant, as if someone could scream into my mouth and it would echo inside of me.
don’t know if Miller realizes what his attention (or lack thereof) can do to a person. When he looks at you, he does it in such a way that it makes you feel like the most interesting thing he’s ever seen. He puts his entire body into the look, somehow.
He’s got a sucker in his mouth, which isn’t unusual. I find his addiction to suckers amusing, but it also gives off a cocky vibe. I don’t feel like insecure guys would walk around eating candy as much as he does, but he always shows up to school eating a sucker and usually has one in his mouth at the end of lunch.
It’s unfair how one event . . . one second . . . can shake the world around you. Toss everything on its head. Ruin every happy moment that led up to that earth-shattering second.
He waves a hand toward Elijah. “He smiled for the first time tonight.” He pauses, as if what he’s about to say next is too painful to put into words. “Elijah—my son—has Chris’s fucking smile.”
For some reason, sadness in music eases the sadness in my soul. It’s like the worse the heartache in a song is, the better I feel. Dramatic songs are like a drug, I imagine. Really bad for you, but they make you feel good.
“I’ve never hated watermelon Jolly Ranchers. I only saved them because I knew they were your favorite.”
It makes me sad, because if there’s one thing Jonah Sullivan shouldn’t have to worry about, it’s the way I feel about him
“So? I guess you finally saw the video of when Miller fell in love with you?” I laugh and lean into Miller. “Your grandson is a romantic.” Gramps laughs. “No, my grandson is a nitwit. Took him three years to finally ask you out.” “Patience is a virtue,” Miller says.
Please stop by my house and pick up your suit. If you thought I was going to run it to the dry cleaners for you after you left it on my bedroom floor, you’ve got another think coming.
Best, Noel Winter
Review: I loved the last of this series it was really cute .Noel’s coworker hired her brother to be Santa. An older lady at her work is trying to hook Noel with her grandson . So santa shows up and hits on Noel after they go for hot chocolate and then they hook up and she runs out of her own house oh god . Her coworker tells her she’s sorry that her brother ditched on the Santa event and Noel is confused but it turns out the guy Noel slept with and liked was the womans grandson and his name is Theodore but lets Noel call him teddy and they decide to start dating . A year later ginger is married and pregnant Holly is engaged and Noel is wondering when Teddy is going to so she asks him and he proposes it was adorable. Quotes : It’s also clear why Jillian sent the Santa padding along with the costume because her brother does not have the body to play Santa. Unless it was a male stripper version of Santa—
I ask Teddy if I can see his North Pole
Perhaps I could hire him to be my sex elf, then he’d have a job and I’d have a sex elf.
I will not fall for him, no matter how charming or irresistible or famous he is. I will not be swayed by his skills in the kitchen or by his British accent. I’m going to win the Great Gingerbread Bake Off and no one is going to stand in my way. Not even Keller.
All kisses are off. I mean all bets. All bets are off. And his clothes, those are off too.
Grr, never mind. I’ll figure this out myself.
XOXO, Ginger Winter
Review: I loved this one as well even a bit more so this is about ginger winter who is Holly’s younger sister from book one she is competing in a gingerbread competition and she meets a guy named keller who she has the hots for hes British he has his own tv show on food network. Keller likes Ginger and teases her a bit calls her adorable I like them together. They are competing against each other . Ginger shows keller around her town and to this is old auto shop which is her dream place for her Bakeshop but it’s to big for just that . Keller and Ginger sleep together and Ginger confesses to her sister Noel that she’s falling for keller but Noel is distracted cause she slept with Santa . Ginger sees keller buying the auto shop and she’s pissed the last competition is make a gingerbread house and Keller makes a replica of the auto shop and he wants to make it a breakfast place and Bakeshop for them to run together and she says yes such a cute story.
Quotes:
Sweet Pillsbury Doughboy, this is my idea of porn. Keller James sitting before me, praising my baking. If my bakery plan falls apart I know what my next venture will be. Bakery porn. It’ll be nothing but attractive men eating my cookies. The camera will zoom in as their tongues flicker over their lips, sweeping up every last morsel. They’ll probably be shirtless too. I bet I can get subscribers to pay at least four ninety-nine a month for such a service.
I might have zoned out a little with my bakery porn scheme. Fine, I might also have been imagining him shirtless
I wasn’t flirting. You were flirting.” There. That’ll show him. That I’m twelve. Way to spar, Ginger. “Oh, I was definitely flirting,”
Oh, for elf’s sake. Did I really just say “single and ready to mingle?”
I’m having a lovely time. Thank you for inviting me, Ginger.” “I didn’t invite you,” I remind him. “You invited yourself.” “Oh, Gingersnap, you little flirt
Just because my dreams are smaller in nature doesn’t make them any less important or valid.
I’m fairly certain that the only thing I’d enjoy more than bantering with you is kissing you.”
Please bring me a new boss for Christmas. Mine is the worst. The worst, hidden in a six foot tall package of male perfection. It’d be easier if he looked like an old Scrooge, wouldn’t it?
Nick Saint-Croix doesn’t look like an old scrooge. He’s hot as-
Um, never mind. Just bring me a new boss. Please.
Sincerely, Holly Winter
Review : This book was so cute I love this Christmas romance. Holly has to go to Germany with her jerky boss who is also hot for a business trip. When they get to Germany things start to get hot for Nick and Holly and Nick kisses Holly hes liked her since he met her and then they have sex twice .But then Holly starts to act weird and says that sleeping with Nick will never happen again. Holly finally realizes how she feels and tells Nick and she makes him a sexy advent calendar. Such a fun book
Quotes :I work at Flying Reindeer Toy Company. Which means my scrooge of a boss runs a toy company. Actual toys, not sex toys.
my name is Holly Winter. And I might as well just tell you now… I have two sisters named Ginger and Noel.
I get paid to work on projects involving cafés and teddy bears.
Kissing Nick is like finding out that Santa is coming twice this year.
Why did you do that? Why did you kiss me?
“Because I wanted to.” Not even a flinch. His voice is smooth
How long have you wanted to kiss me?” I ask, my voice barely audible. Wondering if this interest of his is going to disappear as fast as it’s appeared. “Since the first day.
It’s not a scowl when it’s directed at you. It’s pent-up sexual frustration,” he murmurs into my ear.
Did you just procure a condom from an Advent calendar?”
Miss Winter, did you buy me a dirty Advent calendar?”
Lindsey is getting into her groove as the director of the Briar Creek Public Library when a New York editor visits town, creating quite a buzz. Lindsey’s friend Beth wants to sell the editor her children’s book, but Beth’s boyfriend, a famous author, gets in the way. When they go to confront him, he’s found murdered—and Beth is the prime suspect. Lindsey has to act fast—before they throw the book at the wrong person.
Review : A mystery set in my state I loved it this book is about a librarian named Lindsey who is settling into her new life at Brior creek there are a bunch of crazy characters and not as warm ones Mrs coal . Lindsey best friend Beth is dating this dickwad who is mad she got an interview with his editor so he breaks up with her what a prick .Mary’s older brother takes Lindsey and Beth home cause there is a bit storm out Lindsey and sully have chemistry but Lindsey has sworn off men after her fiancee cheated on her . Beth’s meeting with the editor didn’t go that well she said it was similar to Rick’s book but he stole her book what an ass and Beth wants to talk to him so sully Lindsey and Beth go on a boat to see him and he is dead the chief policeman is not very bright and Beth is is top suspect he doesn’t think there is anyone else but Lindsey does her research and Rick isnt actually Rick his name is Ernie Beth and Lindsey go to his previous apartment and they get his old stuff filled photographs . Lindsey apartment got broken into and the intruder took the box but she still has the photographs which is an old photo of Rick and Sydney who is his editor. Her and her and Beth go to his old school where they meet Tim who tells them that isnt Sydney its Astrid and she shoots Tim and takes Beth and Lindsey hostage to go to the library . Astrid killed him cause he stole all her work and made it his own like he did with beth she tries to kill Lindsey and beth at the library but ms. Coal hits Astrid with a oxford English dictionary perfect weapon. Loved this book cant wait to read the rest of the series.
Quotes : As always , Lindsey felt all her trouble ease once she was back among the familiar. Just seeing the names on the spines of the books was like calling hello to old friends.
Road trips required a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes—oh, and directions.”
“It was funny how none of her classes in library science has prepared her for this sort of thing, dead bodies, staff under suspicion, crazed reporters. Really, they needed to consider expanding the curriculum.
Working the graveyard shift at a local shopping mall isn’t as bad as you think, and 29 year old security guard Millie has plenty of hobbies to help her pass the lonely hours each night. Need a hand-knit animal hat? She’s got you covered. But the best part of her late night job is tuning in to hear bad boy radio personality, Doctor Dave, give out unorthodox dating and sex advice on his live call-in show. With her 30th birthday fast approaching, she’s quickly giving up on finding true love for herself. Tonight, however, she’s giving it one more chance before taking extreme measures. Will dialing up the sexy Doctor Dave finally provide the right prescription?
Review: Milly works security at the mall she is a virgin and she is planning on calling Doctor Dave a radio host who gives advice she loves his voice . There has been some pretzel creep who has been bothering milly. Milly calls Doctor Dave and explains her situation that she’s a virgin has very overprotective brothers .Dave is very intrigued by Milly and likes her and ends up getting her off over the phone. Milly notices something and it was pretzel creep who is a psychopath. Dave goes to get milly she stun guns pretzel creep and the police come. Milly and David get a little comfortable and start fooling around. The epilogue includes David has quit radio and Milly and David are married with a baby on the way very cute story.
Bonus novella for a couple from a previous book Let’s Get Textual.
Super fun, light.
Narrated by Elizabeth Hart
Review: loved this novella you can listen to it on read me romance podcast. Delia hasn’t really thought of marriage but now she wants to and she’s worried he doesn’t want to . Apparently zach and Delia are hosting a BBQ so all there friends came for a Bbq and zach is being secretive. Zoe and Delia talk and she runs up to zach and says she wants to marry him and he was planning a surprise wedding it was so sweet and cute .
This is also part of the “All Wrapped Up” set with six standalone holiday short stories.
Thanks to my hectic schedule as a pro hockey player, my girl and I are spending more time apart than together. Luckily, I have a solution–a romantic New Year’s Eve getaway in the mountains, just me and Grace and plenty of sexytimes. Except this blizzard has other ideas…
Review : it was nice to be back with grace and Logan in this short story. Grace and Logan have been missing each other Logan is on the road with hockey. They plan a trip but then they get snowed in their car and end up spending new years in the car until they can get help it was cute and they talked about how they miss each other and want to spend all the time together when they can be together it was cute .
A missing girl on a journey of revenge and a Serial-like podcast following the clues she’s left behind.
Sadie hasn’t had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she’s been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water.
But when Mattie is found dead, Sadie’s entire world crumbles. After a somewhat botched police investigation, Sadie is determined to bring her sister’s killer to justice and hits the road following a few meager clues to find him.
When West McCray—a radio personality working on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America—overhears Sadie’s story at a local gas station, he becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl. He starts his own podcast as he tracks Sadie’s journey, trying to figure out what happened, hoping to find her before it’s too late.
Courtney Summers has written the breakout book of her career. Sadie is propulsive and harrowing and will keep you riveted until the last page.
Trigger warning pedophilia sexual assault Review: This book was a really interesting read I highly recommend the audiobook it was really highly produced . So this book is told in two POV a podcast called the girls and Sadie’s point of view. Sadie’s younger sister maddie has been murdered and sadie knows who it was and wants to kill him . West the guy doing the podcast is trying to find out about sadie . Sadie finds out information about Keith who is really jack from a woman who dated him and left him cause of his interest. Sadie finds Marley brother silas but first she found his kids and a guy named Javi who she let herself for awhile like but then she stalks silas and finds some unsettling things and tells javi to call the police on him and he does get arrested thankfully. West is still finding out information about sadie and interviewing people she was using her middle name with people she was meeting . Sadie gets a motel room and finds this is a place Keith/jack stayed she has to get into that room so she does and she finds trofies from other girls hes abused with that she finds him and there was an altercation and I think we can guess what happened. West finds the last woman he was with Amanda and her daughter who was abused also jack is dead from an untreated stab wound probably from sadie . The ending yes it’s not satisfying but I think its realistic cause sometimes girls dont get found but I think we can guess jack killed sadie and he killed madie the DNA matched that so at least that was solved .
Quotes : And it begins, as so many stories do, with a dead girl
But love is complicated, it’s messy. It can inspire selflessness, selfishness, our greatest accomplishments and our hardest mistakes. It brings us together and it can just as easily drive us apart.
I wish this was a love story. A love story about lovers whose mouths meet like two puzzle pieces fitting perfectly into place, about the electric feeling of one person’s name on the other’s tongue because no one has ever spoken them out loud like that before. About people who spend the night together looking at the stars until entire constellations exist within them. Everyone is perfect in that indistinct way most characters are and every perfectly constructed scene in their fictional lives is somehow more real than anything you’ve known or lived. Love stories, romances, leave a person secure in the knowledge they’ll end Happily Ever After and who wouldn’t want a story like that? I wish this was a love story because I know how it goes in one like mine, where the only moments of reprieve are the spaces between its lines. But here’s the thing I tell myself to dull the sharp edges of everything that’s surely left to come: The worst has already happened.
And Sadie, if you’re out there, please let me know. Because I can’t take another dead girl.”
November 6 Part Two of the Windy City Holiday Duet!
Joy is a happy little cookie baker in her happy little Cookie Cottage. Every holiday season, she delivers sweet confections and Christmas cheer from one end of the city to the other. One day, she gets a surprise visit from a health inspector who turns her life, her livelihood and her heart, upside down.
Brady is a health code inspector who receives a complaint about a local cookie baker. When he investigates, he comes face to face with his high school crush. The old flames of attraction rekindle, but there’s one problem. He’s bound by law to close her shop until further notice.
Go ahead, take a bite out of this sweet and saucy holiday romance! It’s chock full of Christmas cheer, filthy talk and possessive alpha hotness! I triple dog dare ya!
And don’t forget Joy’s best friend’s story, Pumpkin and Spice, Part One of The Windy City Holiday Duet! It’s a deeply satisfying Thanksgiving-themed treat!
Review : This book was so cute I loved the characters this is about Joy who is max’s best friend from book one .Brody and Joy went to school together and he had a thing for her now hes a health inspector. This creepy guy who lives next to Joy keeps trying to get him to go out with her so he is a big creep when he reports her to the health inspector and guess who shows up Brody . They catch up and they end up kissing and then he shuts down her business and then tries to save it . Brody and Joy start to get closer and end up having some sexy times . That creep Frank comes back but Brody is going to take care of it he gets her cookie place up to code . And on Christmas he proposes such a cute series .
November 5-6 Maxine “Pumpkin” Novak is coming home to Chicago to do three things: eat turkey with her family; chill with her best friend, Joy; and avoid all the awful people who gave her that childhood nickname. But a run-in with a dreamy old classmate sidetracks her plans in a heartbeat, and gets her heart pounding.
Bartender Talbot “Stoner” Spice has out-performed his high school epithet and whooped his childhood demons. Dividing all his time between running the neighborhood bar and caring for his widowed mother, he has never seen the need for a serious relationship. That all changes when his high school crush, Max, returns from California and walks into his bar two days before Thanksgiving. She doesn’t know it yet, but she’s not getting away from him again.
Review : this short and cute book was sexy and sweet. Max leaves her hometown after graduating hoping to never see anyone again . Talbot aka stoner has been through a lot hes loved max forever and when she comes back into town he gets his chance to be with her . And they are adorable together. Another advertising company wants to buy max’s company and she doesn’t want to go back to California without Talbot. Talbot proposes it was so cute max is pregnant with twins such a cute story.
Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. “A place,” he said, “where learning is a game.”
Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with the frightening pseudonym “Truly, Devious.” It became one of the great unsolved crimes of American history.
True-crime aficionado Stevie Bell is set to begin her first year at Ellingham Academy, and she has an ambitious plan: She will solve this cold case. That is, she will solve the case when she gets a grip on her demanding new school life and her housemates: the inventor, the novelist, the actor, the artist, and the jokester. But something strange is happening. Truly Devious makes a surprise return, and death revisits Ellingham Academy. The past has crawled out of its grave. Someone has gotten away with murder.
The two interwoven mysteries of this first book in the Truly Devious series dovetail brilliantly, and Stevie Bell will continue her relentless quest for the murderers in books two and three.
Review : I freaking loved this book it was a crazy book of twists and turns . This book is taken place in the present and in the past . Ellingham academy is where the Ellingham murders took place where Albert Ellingham family were taken and murdered. Stevie Bell is looking forward to coming to Ellingham to solve the murder. Her family doesn’t get stevie they work for a politician who Stevie doesn’t support. Stevie gets to the school she makes some friends she get suspicious of one guy David he doesn’t have any social media and he’s very secretive. Hayes a guy who got famous from a online zombie show he made asks stevie to work with him to make a show on the Ellingham murders and she agrees and has her friend Nate write for the show. Then something bad happens Hayes died a malfunction with dry ice or maybe something else happened. David and Stevie made out oh my God. Stevie goes through David’s stuff and he gets mad which I understand David tells Stevie his parents died . Stevie starts to figure out some stuff . Ellie might be involved with Hayes death . Ellie helped Hayes write his show and then she runs away and then someone shows up the politician that Stevie doesn’t support shows up cause David is his son what the fuck.
Quotes :
Albert Ellingham said knowledge was his religion and libraries were his church, so he built a church.”
Did they know that Arthur Conan Doyle went on to investigate mysteries in his real life and absolved a man for a crime for which he has been convicted? Did they know how Agatha Christie brilliantly staged her own disappearance in order to exact an elegant revenge on a cheating husband? They probably did not. And no one was going to discount Stevie Bell, who had gotten into this school on the wings of her interest in the Ellingham case, and who had been a bystander at a death that was now looking more and more suspicious.”
I annoy people,” he said. “Believe me. I’m aware. It’s an effective way to communicate if you don’t have any other options. If you can’t get in through the door, throw a rock through the window. And I think maybe you’re the same way.
Every autumn, all through high school, they’ve worked together at the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world. (Not many people know that the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world is in Omaha, Nebraska, but it definitely is.) They say good-bye every Halloween, and they’re reunited every September 1. But this Halloween is different—Josiah and Deja are finally seniors, and this is their last season at the pumpkin patch. Their last shift together. Their last good-bye.
Josiah’s ready to spend the whole night feeling melancholy about it. Deja isn’t ready to let him. She’s got a plan: What if—instead of moping and the usual slinging lima beans down at the Succotash Hut—they went out with a bang? They could see all the sights! Taste all the snacks! And Josiah could finally talk to that cute girl he’s been mooning over for three years . . .
What if their last shift was an adventure?
Review : this graphic novel was such a cute one perfect for the fall season . So this is about Deja and Josiah who are seasonal friends who work at this fair and Josiah has a had a crush on this girl fudge girl and Deja tells him he need to talk to her but she’s not there so they both go around this fair where things happen to find fudge girl . But when Josiah finds fudge girl she isn’t what he thought and he jumps off the hay ride to get to Deja and he kisses her . To cute
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