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FARM TO TROUBLE BY AMANDA FLOWER

7/30/2021

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Amanda Flower has outdone herself with Farm to Trouble; the first book in a brand-new series! I love the idea of organic farming and am excited to see where Shiloh and her family take the farm in the next novel!
​Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: February 23, 2021
Genre: Cozy Mystery

Series: Farm to Table Mystery series #1
Pages: 263 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Purchased.
First in a new cozy mystery series from USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower!​

Coming home to a run-down farm, gossipy neighbors, and a shady investor is a lot to handle... but a murderer on the loose is the final straw!

Shiloh Bellamy cashed in her big city job and 401K to return home to Michigan to save the family farm, but turning Bellamy Farms into a sustainable, organic operation—complete with a farm-to-table café—is no small feat. Especially when her new investor is found dead among the flowers just hours after the contract is signed. Everyone knows her father had a grudge against the investor, and word travels fast in a small town...
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Now, Shiloh must clear her family's name and track down the real killer before her organic farm dreams wilt before her very eyes. But with her father trying to stop any progress on his land, her cousin belittling her every effort, the farmhouse falling down around her, 

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THAT SUMMER BY JENNIFER WEINER

7/28/2021

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That Summer is a timeless novel that encompasses the #metoo movement. While I felt some of the book to be on the slower side, I think the message it sends it exquisite.
​Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: May 11, 2021
Genre: Women's Fiction

Series: None. Complete standalone. 
Pages: 429 pages
Format: Hardcover. Source: ​Purchased.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Summer comes another deliciously twisty novel of intrigue, secrets, and the transformative power of female friendship.

Daisy Shoemaker can’t sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be distant, her work can feel trivial, and she has lots of acquaintances, but no real friends. Still, Daisy knows she’s got it good. So why is she up all night?

While Daisy tries to identify the root of her dissatisfaction, she’s also receiving misdirected emails meant for a woman named Diana Starling, whose email address is just one punctuation mark away from her own. While Daisy’s driving carpools, Diana is chairing meetings. While Daisy’s making dinner, Diana’s making 

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RUNAWAY FATE BY ELIZABETH HUNTER

7/28/2021

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Elizabeth Hunter is a new to me author and I’m so glad I discovered her books! I’ve been in the mood for paranormal books lately and this one satisfied my cravings! I’m excited to read more in the series.
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: October 27, 2020
Genre: Paranormal Mystery. Women's Fiction. 

Series: Moonstone Cove series #1
Pages: 344 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ​Purchased. 
It’s paranormal women’s fiction for lovers of magic, mayhem, and a solid afternoon nap (when they can squeeze one in.)

Katherine wasn’t looking for anything extraordinary in her life. She had a job she loved, a husband she adored, and a home in the beautiful seaside town of Moonstone Cove.

Okay yes, she worked too much and had fallen out of touch with all her friends, but that happened to everyone, right? And sure, she was feeling a little creaky in the mornings and couldn’t drink coffee after noon, but that was just life in middle age.

Four minutes was all it took for fate to run away with anything that resembled normal.

Now Katherine is trying to place mysterious psychic visions into her previously ordered life. She’s playing referee between a displaced Southern mama and a sarcastic mechanic with a chip on her 

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CHOOSE ME BY TESS GERRITSEN & GARY BRAVER

7/26/2021

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Tess Gerritsen and Gary Braver pen a scandalous murder mystery with Choose Me! This book held me captive! I’m so glad I chose it as one of my amazon first reads.
​Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: July 1, 2021
Genre: Crime

Series: None. Complete Standalone. 
Pages: 290 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Amazon First Reads
From New York Times bestseller Tess Gerritsen and acclaimed thriller writer Gary Braver comes a sexy murder mystery about a reckless affair and dangerous secrets.
Taryn Moore is young, beautiful, and brilliant…so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene to investigate the girl’s fatal plunge from her apartment balcony, she knows in her gut there’s more to the story. Her instincts are confirmed when surprise information is revealed that could have been reason enough for Taryn’s suicide—or a motive for her murder.
To English professor Jack Dorian, Taryn was the ultimate fantasy: intelligent, adoring, and completely off limits. But there was also a dark side to Taryn, a dangerous streak that threatened those she turned her affections to—including Jack. And now that she’s dead, his problems are just beginning.
After Frankie uncovers a trove of sordid secrets, it becomes clear that Jack may know the truth. He is guilty of deception, but is he capable of cold-blooded murder?

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YOU HAD ME AT HOLA BY ALEXIS DARIA

7/24/2021

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You Had Me at Hola is one of those books that you can’t help but read in one sitting (which is exactly what I did!). Being immersed in the culture and following Jasmine and Ashton as they come to terms with their careers and love lives was so much fun.
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: August 4, 2020
Genre: Cultural & Diverse Romance. Co-workers. Actors.

Series: None (at this time). 
Pages: 387 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Purchased. 
​RITA® Award Winning author Alexis Daria brings readers an unforgettable, hilarious rom-com set in the drama-filled world of telenovelas—perfect for fans of Jane the Virgin and The Kiss Quotient.

Leading Ladies do not end up on tabloid covers. 

After a messy public breakup, soap opera darling Jasmine Lin Rodriguez finds her face splashed across the tabloids. When she returns to her hometown of New York City to film the starring role in a bilingual romantic comedy for the number one streaming service in the country, Jasmine figures her new “Leading Lady Plan” should be easy enough to follow—until a casting shake-up pairs her with telenovela hunk Ashton Suárez. 

Leading Ladies don’t need a man to be happy. 

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FOR YOUR OWN GOOD BY SAMANTHA DOWNING

7/21/2021

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Snarky thrillers? Who knew that could be a thing! Well, Samantha Downing has proved that is can be and this novel shows it! I honestly couldn’t put this one down!
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: July 21, 2021
Genre: Mystery. Thriller. 

Series: None. Complete standalone. 
Pages: 384 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ARC.
​USA Today bestselling author Samantha Downing is back with her latest sneaky thriller set at a prestigious private school—complete with interfering parents, overeager students, and one teacher who just wants to teach them all a lesson…

Teddy Crutcher has won Teacher of the Year at the prestigious Belmont Academy, home to the best and brightest.
 
He says his wife couldn’t be more proud—though no one has seen her in a while.
 
Teddy really can’t be bothered with a few mysterious deaths on campus that’re looking more and more like murder or the student digging a little too deep into Teddy’s personal life. His main focus is pushing these kids to their full academic potential.  

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YOU LOVE ME BY CAROLINE KEPNES

7/18/2021

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Joe Goldberg is the anti-hero we have all grown to love! Readers will be pleased to see that while Joe has grown up a bit, his stalking tendencies, and the iffy ways he goes about love haven’t changed at all! I hope the author is planning another book.
​Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: April 6, 2021
Genre: Suspense

Series: You series #3 (must be read in order)
Pages: 387 pages
Format: Hardcover. Source: ​Purchased.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The highly anticipated new thriller in Caroline Kepnes’s hit You series, now a blockbuster Netflix show—a compulsively readable trip into the deviant mind of the uniquely antisocial, savvy bookseller Joe Goldberg.

Joe Goldberg is done with the cities. He’s done with the muck and the posers, done with Love. Now he’s saying hello to nature, to simple pleasures on a cozy island in the Pacific Northwest. For the first time in a long time, he can just breathe.

He gets a job at the local library—he does know a thing or two about books—and that’s where he meets her: Mary Kay DiMarco. Librarian. Joe won’t meddle, he will not obsess. He’ll win her the old-fashioned way . . . by providing a shoulder to cry on, a helping hand. Over time, they’ll both heal their wounds and begin their happily ever after in this sleepy town.

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SPRING AT SADDLE RUN BY DELORES FOSSEN

7/15/2021

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Delores Fossen has written a unique and irresistible cowboy romance with Spring at Saddle Run! I love how the story not only has a slow burning romance but a bit of a mystery too!
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: May 25, 2021
Genre: Small Town. Cowboy/Rancher Romance

Series: Last Ride Texas #1
Pages: 316 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Purchased. 
​The truth about a small-town scandal unleashes one wildly unexpected romance.

Millie Parkman Dayton is still healing from the fatal car accident that claimed her husband and turned her into the focus of local gossip. But when she’s thrown together with the sexy rancher who shares in her tragic past, new rumors begin to fly in Last Ride, Texas.

Single dad Joe McCann is focused on running his ranch and raising his daughter. He has no desire to help Millie unearth his late wife’s past, especially if it means revealing painful secrets. Until his daughter teams up with Millie and the widower cowboy finds himself agreeing to help them with their project—and opening the door to a deep attraction he thought he’d never find again.

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THE FINAL GIRL SUPPORT GROUP BY GRADY HENDRIX

7/13/2021

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The Final Girls Support Group is a bingeable read but the horror aspects don’t translate to the pages like I hoped. When a book is marketed towards the horror genre it should read like one. This one doesn’t. It’s more of an action book with a little suspense than horror.
Rating: ★★★
​Release Date: July 13, 2021
Genre: Horror. Action. Suspense. 

Series: None. Complete Standalone. 
Pages: 352 pages
Format: eBook Source: ​Publisher
​In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives…but what happens after?

Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From chain saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films—movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream.

Lynette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived 

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TANGLED BY LAURA PAVLOV

7/9/2021

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I adore Laura Pavlov’s stories. She mixes the right amount of heat and charm, and the swoon factor is on point! Gigi and Grey stole my heart with their hard-earned love story and I’m looking forward to the next installment.
​Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: May 27, 2021
Genre: New Adult, College Romance. Brother's Best Friend.

Series: Willow Springs series #2 (can stand alone)
Pages: 224 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ​Kindle Unlimited. 
​Forbidden bad boy. Best friend's little sister. An undeniable attraction. He's determined to push her away. She's determined to stay.

I’ve known Gray Baldwin my entire life.

He’s an arrogant frat boy with a red Solo cup permanently attached to his hand.

And he’s my brother’s best friend.

He’s made it his personal mission to annoy me and when he sets his mind to something, he rarely fails.

But when Gray and I end up at the same college, we can’t seem to stay away from one another.

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