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Thank you @avonbooks for this copy of EB Asher's n

Thank you @avonbooks for this copy of EB Asher's new release, This Will Be Fun. If you like:
✅ Questmates with benefits
✅ Magical truth or dare
✅ Pumpkin spice brews
✅ Spicy bathtub scenes
✅ Gossip-rag parchment scrolls
this is a book you'll want to check out.

📖 Currently Reading 📖 #currentlyreading #b

📖 Currently Reading 📖

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📖 Currently Reading 📖

📖 Currently Reading 📖

#currentlyreading this upcoming release from Abiga

#currentlyreading this upcoming release from Abigail Owens. THE SHADOWS RULE ALL is the 3rd book in the Dominion series (which I've loved). If you haven't picked this one up, I highly recommend it.

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spice: 🌶.5 I haven't read

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice: 🌶.5

I haven't read a Sophie Jordan book in a while and this one had me hooked!

#currentlyreading the latest release from Claire L

#currentlyreading the latest release from Claire Legrand. Has anyone read this series?

Picked up this book @bnranchocucamonga today. It’s a Snow White retelling~ish. I think I’m going to skip the TBR pile and start this.

Current situation. Dinner and the new KMM.

Current situation. Dinner and the new KMM.

Forgotten Desires by Corinne Michaels is now live!

Forgotten Desires by Corinne Michaels is now live!

He’s a billionaire in need of a wife …
And I’m his ex who can’t say no to him.
Ten years ago Carson Knight was my one great love, but he abandoned me without a trace.
Now he’s a billionaire single-dad in need of a temporary wife.
And he’s at my house on one knee with a proposal…
Marry him, so he’s more likely to win full custody of his daughter, keeping her safe from her unstable mother. In return, he’ll take care of the medical expenses for a surgery my father needs to survive.
Reluctantly, I agree to tie the knot, on one condition. Once those custody papers are signed, we go our separate ways. Because he’s even more gorgeous, charming, and sweeter than he was back then, and I don’t trust myself not to fall for my fake husband.
Especially when I hear him say “my wife.”
Or feel his hands on my skin. Taste his kiss or see the way he looks at me with those blue eyes and know that our carefully crafted rules will shatter.
Right alongside my heart.

Download today or read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited

📖 Curreny Reading 📖. The sprayed edges grabb

📖 Curreny Reading 📖. The sprayed edges grabbed my attention. Story isn’t that bad either. #currentlyreading #bookstagram #booknerd #book #fantasyromanceseries #bibliophile

Triple stamps weekend meant I dragged my husband o

Triple stamps weekend meant I dragged my husband on date night to @bnmontclairplace to see what goodie I could find. Been hearing a lot of good things about this book. Can’t wait to start it.

I have a really long weekend for the holiday, so I

I have a really long weekend for the holiday, so I have no distractions. Let’s see if Soren has finally practiced his patience.

📖 Series Review 📖 Kingdom of Lies by Stacia

📖 Series Review 📖
Kingdom of Lies by Stacia Stark
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice: 🌶 🌶

This is one of those KU finds where you ask yourself why you didn't find it sooner. i adored the series. If you enjoy enemies to lovers, found family and fated mates, you are going to want to pick this up.

Prisca was raised to fear her magic an keep it hidden. When the worst happens, she's forced to flee her village and hope her brother's friend in the city can help her. What she discovers is nothing is what she had been told and she is so much more than the village seer's daughter.

Prisca does a lot of growing up through the 3 books, but she's had to go through that journey to finally step into the role she was meant to have (even if she's still trying to deny it). Lorian helps her with that, at first taunting her but then becoming that voice in her head needed to push forward).

The love story between Lorian and Prisca was not an easy journey. Both of them were fighting everything they felt for a long time, but when they both decided to give in they really became the perfect team.

The fourth and final book in the series comes out 5/30. I'm clearing the deck that day so I can find out how this ends.

📖 Currently Reading 📖 The Haunting Moon by

📖 Currently Reading 📖

The Haunting Moon by Susan Dennard
book 2 in the Luminaries series.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58163757-the-hunting-moon

📖 Currently Reading 📖 A Kingdom This Cursed

📖 Currently Reading 📖

A Kingdom This Cursed & Empty by Stacia Stark

I really enjoyed the first book and jumped right into this next book. I can't wait to see what happens next with Prisca.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123385361-a-kingdom-this-cursed-and-empty

The series is part of Kindle Unlimited.

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📖 Currently Reading 📖 I borrowed this from

📖 Currently Reading 📖

I borrowed this from KU last year and it's still sitting on my Kindle app unread. With the last book in the series coming out at the end of the month, I figured it was a good time to start it.

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Day 1 of Apollycon in the books. Panels were grea

Day 1 of Apollycon in the books. Panels were great, Nite of the Rite with a JLA Q&A was fun. Bookish Box shopping event was a bust, but we’ll hope I can get my pre-orders tomorrow.

Just looking at my bookshelf makes me happy!!

Just looking at my bookshelf makes me happy!!

The Beloved has put the BDB back on the rails! Ay

The Beloved has put the BDB back on the rails! Aye, Nalla. You are your parents’ daughter..:remember that!

📖 Currently Reading 📖 Five Broken Blades by

📖 Currently Reading 📖

Five Broken Blades by @maicorland
Release Date: May 5, 2024

Thanks @redtowerbooks for this copy of Five Broken Blades.

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Review: Forbidden by Lauren Smith

Posted December 13, 2015 by Shannon in Reviews, Shannon / 0 Comments

Review: Forbidden by Lauren Smith

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