ELLES BOOK BLOG
  • Home
  • THE BLOG
    • Book Reviews >
      • Book Reviews (2022)
      • Book Reviews (2021)
    • Book Promotions
    • All Posts
  • Upcoming Books
    • April Releases
    • May Releases
    • June Releases
    • July Releases
  • Top Reads
    • Best Books of 2023
    • Best Books of 2022
    • Best Books of 2021
    • Best Books of 2020
    • Best Books of 2019
    • Best Books of 2018
    • Best Books of 2017
    • Best Books of 2016
    • Best Books of 2015
  • QUICK LINKS
    • Recent Releases
    • Book Lists
  • About
    • For Review Requests

THE EX HEX BY ERIN STERLING

9/28/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
Erin Sterling has cast a spell on me because I couldn’t stop reading this one! Filled with magic and romance this is going to be THE book to read in the lead up to Halloween! I loved it so much.
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: September 28, 2021
Genre: Romantic Comedy. Witches. Magic. 

Series: None. Complete Standalone. 
Pages: 318 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Publisher. 
​New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins, writing as Erin Sterling, casts a spell with a spine-tingling romance full of wishes, witches, and hexes gone wrong.

Nine years ago, Vivienne Jones nursed her broken heart like any young witch would: vodka, weepy music, bubble baths…and a curse on the horrible boyfriend. Sure, Vivi knows she shouldn’t use her magic this way, but with only an “orchard hayride” scented candle on hand, she isn’t worried it will cause him anything more than a bad hair day or two.

That is until Rhys Penhallow, descendent of the town’s ancestors, breaker of hearts, and annoyingly just as gorgeous as he always was, returns to Graves Glen, Georgia. What should be a quick trip to recharge the town’s ley lines and make an appearance at the annual fall festival turns disastrously wrong. With one calamity 

Read More
0 Comments

THEY'LL NEVER CATCH US BY JESSICA GOODMAN

9/25/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
While I found They’ll Never Catch Us to be slow in the beginning it picked up and became a fast-paced mystery that I couldn’t stop reading. I just had to get past 100 pages first!
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: July 27, 2021
Genre: Young Adult Mystery and Thriller

Series: None. Complete Standalone. 
Pages: 336 pages
Format: Hardcover. Source: Purchased.
From rising star Jessica Goodman, author of They Wish They Were Us, comes a new fast-paced thriller about two sisters vying for the top spot on their cross-country team—until a teammate’s disappearance throws their lives off course.

Stella and Ellie Steckler are only a year apart, but their different personalities make their relationship complicated. Stella is single-minded, driven, and she keeps to herself. Cross-country running is her life and she won't let anything get in the way of being the best. Her sister Ellie is a talented runner too, but she also lets herself have fun. She has friends. She goes to parties. She has a life off the course.

The sisters do have one thing in common, though: the new girl, Mila Keene. Both Stecklers' lives are upended when Mila comes to town. At first, Ellie and Stella view the new star athlete as a threat. But soon Ellie can't help but be drawn to her warm, charming 

Read More
0 Comments

FAIRY GODMOTHERS INC. BY SARANNA DEWYLDE

9/22/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
Fairy Godmothers Inc. is a magical start to a brand-new series that I am so excited about! I love how this one FELT like a true fairytale and others who enjoy reading books like this won’t want to miss this one!
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: December 29, 2020
Genre: Romantic Comedy. Magic. Paranormal. 

Series: Fairy Godmothers Inc. #1 
Pages: 306 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.
First in a magical new series full of edgy and hilarious antics, this is the read you need to finally give your year the fairy-tale ending it deserves! An enchanting story of love, dreams, and second chances—a delightful read for cold winter nights that fans of Christina Lauren, Tessa Bailey, and Kerry Winfrey can’t miss…

If love is the source of all the magic in the universe, and the town of Ever After, Missouri, is the epicenter of enchantment, then the locals are in dire need of a reboot. At least according to resident fairy godmothers Petunia, Jonquil, and Bluebonnet. Their solution? Blow a bit of fairy dust in the direction of those in need of romance. . . . What could possibly go wrong?
 
SOME KIND OF AWFUL . . .
 
Lucky Fujiki’s first name is a cosmic joke. Her luck is so bad, even 

Read More
0 Comments

WHEN SPARKS FLY BY HELENA HUNTING

9/20/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
I love the best friends to lover’s trope because I get to see how the dynamics change from friend to lover. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. In this case, it worked but it lacked the chemistry I was hoping for.
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: September 21, 2021
Genre: Romantic Comedy

Series: None. Complete Standalone. 
Pages: 320 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Publisher.
​Charming, hilarious, and emotional...When Sparks Fly is Helena Hunting at her very best!

Avery Spark is living her best life. Between her friends, her sisters, and Spark House, the event hotel her family owns, she doesn’t have much time for anything else, especially relationships. She’d rather hang out with her best friend and roommate, Declan McCormick, than deal with the dating scene. But everything changes when she is in a car accident and needs someone to care for her as she heals.

Declan avoids relationships, giving him a playboy reputation that he lives up to when he puts a one-night stand ahead of a promise he made to Avery. While he may not have been the one driving the car, he feels responsible for Avery’s injuries and is determined to make it up to her by stepping into the role of caretaker.

Read More
0 Comments

THE GOOD LIE BY A.R. TORRE

9/18/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
While I love the darker side of Alessandra Torre’s novels this one wasn’t as compulsively readable as her former release. It’s good, but not my favorite of hers.
Rating: ★★★
​Release Date: July 20, 2021
Genre: Crime. Serial Killer Thriller.

Series: None. Complete standalone.  
Pages: 254 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ​Kindle Unlimited. 
​Six teens murdered. A suspect behind bars. A desperate father. In a case this shadowy, the truth is easy to hide.

Psychiatrist Dr. Gwen Moore is an expert on killers. She’s spent a decade treating California’s most depraved predators and unlocking their motives—predators much like the notorious Bloody Heart serial killer, whose latest teenage victim escaped and then identified local high school teacher Randall Thompson as his captor. The case against Thompson as the Bloody Heart Killer is damning—and closed, as far as Gwen and the media are concerned. If not for one new development…

Defense attorney Robert Kavin is a still-traumatized father whose own son fell prey to the BH Killer. Convinced of Thompson’s innocence, he steps in to represent him. Now Robert wants Gwen to interview the accused, create a psych profile of the killer and his victims, and help clear his client’s name.

As Gwen and Robert grow closer and she dives deeper into the

Read More
0 Comments

FUNNY BUSINESS BY KAYLEY LORING

9/16/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
Funny Business is exactly that- FUNNY! Kayley Loring has written quite a few of my favorite romcoms and she’s never disappointed! I highly recommend her if you like laugh out oud funny books!
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: July 15, 2021
Genre: Romantic Comedy

Series: The Brodie Brothers series #1
Pages: 316 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ​Purchased. 
​A single dad, a model, and a comedian walk into a bar… They’re all Owen Brodie.
It’s only funny if you aren’t the hilarious struggling comedian who has been hired to be his son’s nanny for the stand-up tour.



Dear Ms. Hogan,

I’m emailing to offer you the job as my son’s nanny because Sam had a temper tantrum when I told him I can’t hire you to come on my stand-up tour with us. “She heckled me at a club a few years ago,” I wanted to say. “She is the sassy little turd who trolls me on Twitter,” I could have told him. “She’s an even bigger pain in the butt when we’re face-to-face,” I thought to myself. What I would never tell him is--things could get complicated. For reasons.

Let me know if you want the job.

Read More
0 Comments

A LOT LIKE ADIOS BY ALEXIS DARIA

9/14/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
A Lot Like Adios is the perfect companion to You Had Me at Hola. It was so much fun to go back to the city with these hilarious characters and their charming romances.
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: September 14, 2021
Genre: Romantic Comedy

Series: Can Stand Alone.
Pages: 416 pages
Format: eBook Source: Publisher.
​The national bestselling author of You Had Me at Hola returns with a seductive second-chance romance about a commitment-phobic Latina and her childhood best friend who has finally returned home.

Hi Mich. It’s Gabe.

After burning out in her corporate marketing career, Michelle Amato has built a thriving freelance business as a graphic designer. So what if her love life is nonexistent? She’s perfectly fine being the black sheep of her marriage-obsessed Puerto Rican-Italian family. Besides, the only guy who ever made her want happily-ever-after disappeared thirteen years ago.

It’s been a long time.

Gabriel Aguilar left the Bronx at eighteen to escape his parents’

Read More
0 Comments

THE GOSSIP BY NANCY BUSH

9/12/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
Nancy Bush knows how to write an intense suspense novel and it shows through her work! The Gossip is one of a kind and I enjoyed it immensely.
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: June 29, 2021
Genre: Suspense. 

Series: River Glen series #2
Pages: 332 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Purchased. 
Every word you whisper
In high school, rumors can make or destroy a reputation. A thoughtless nickname can turn each day into a living hell. Gossip is irresistible—and contagious. But sometimes, gossip can kill . . .
 
Every secret you share
Mackenzie Laughlin, formerly with Oregon’s River Glen police department, has reluctantly agreed to investigate a local woman’s disappearance. The case reconnects her with Jesse James Taft, a P.I. gifted at getting under Mac’s skin. But when the body is found tangled in river weeds, Mac and Taft realize that the case has changed, from one missing woman to a hunt for a terrifying and relentless killer . . .
 
Could be your last
In his old school yearbooks, they were the pretty, popular ones, confident and callous. Back then, they held the power. But now, it’s 

Read More
0 Comments

NO MORE WORDS BY KERRY LONSDALE

9/11/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
No More Words is a novel of family secrets and lies! Just when you think you have it all figured out POOF you find out your wrong! I’m interested to see the “other side of the story” in future novels.
Rating: ★★★
​Release Date: July 6, 2021
Genre: Women's Fiction. Family Drama. Suspense. 

Series: No More series #1
Pages: 327 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ​Kindle Unlimited. 
​From the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author comes the first book in a trilogy about love, betrayal, and the secrets families keep.

Forced to choose between abortion or adoption, Olivia Carson’s younger sister, Lily, runs away from home. Sixteen and pregnant, she never returns. But she writes. Once a year, Lily mails a picture of her son, Josh, to Olivia until his thirteenth year. Then it’s Josh himself who arrives at Olivia’s house, alone, terrified, and in possession of a notarized declaration from Lily. It begins, “In the event I go missing…”
​

Josh has difficulty talking. He can’t read or write, but he’s a prolific artist, exhibiting skill beyond his age. His drawings are as detailed as they are horrific. Olivia soon realizes Josh’s artwork tells a story. There’s more to his arrival and to Lily’s untimely disappearance than it seems. Using the drawings as a road map, Olivia traces 

Read More
0 Comments

IT HAPPENED ONE SUMMER BY TESSA BAILEY

9/10/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
It Happened One Summer is the perfect beach read and exactly what I was looking for in terms of a lighter, funnier romance. I’m so excited to see what happens with Piper’s sister in the next book!
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: July 13, 2021
Genre: Romantic Comedy

Series: It Happened One Summer series #1 (stand alone)
Pages: 419 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Purchased. 
​Tessa Bailey is back with a Schitt’s Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood “It Girl” who’s cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn’t belong. 

Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar... in Washington.

Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won’t last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So what if Piper can’t do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. How bad could it really be? She’s determined to show her

Read More
0 Comments
<<Previous

    ARCHIVES

    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020

    CATEGORIES

    All
    5+ Stars
    Age Gap
    All Romance
    Amazon First Reads
    Based On Truth
    Beach Reads
    BOTM Box
    British Chick Lit
    Chick Lit
    Childhood Friends
    College
    Co-Workers
    Cozy Mystery
    Crime
    Dark Romance
    Diversity And Culture
    Domestic Suspense
    Emotional
    Enemies
    Family Drama
    Family Saga
    Forbidden Romance
    Friendships
    Gothic Thriller
    Historical
    Horror
    In The City
    Laugh Out Loud
    LGBTQ
    Literary Fiction
    Love Triangle
    Magic
    Ménage Romance
    MM Romance
    Modern Folklore
    Murder Mystery
    Mystery
    New Adult
    Paranormal
    Paranormal Mystery
    Police-Detectives
    Procedural
    Reverse Harem
    Romantic Comedy
    Romantic Suspense
    Second Chances
    Slow Burn
    Small Towns
    Southern
    Sports
    Suspense
    Thriller
    Tortured Hero
    True Crime
    Weddings
    Wholesome
    Witches
    Women's Fiction
    Young Adult

    RSS Feed

COPYRIGHT
All content on this blog was created by Elle's Blook Blog, unless otherwise stated. Reproduction, duplication and/or republication without written permission are prohibited, with the exception of authors and publishers who may use parts of reviews for quotations where full and clear credit is given to this blog. 
DISCLOSURE
All books reviewed on this blog are personally purchased or received from authors or publishers in exchange for my unbiased review. I do not receive any payment for any book reviews. This blog is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees.
Picture

Copyright © 2015-2023 · ELLE'S BOOK BLOG

  • Home
  • THE BLOG
    • Book Reviews >
      • Book Reviews (2022)
      • Book Reviews (2021)
    • Book Promotions
    • All Posts
  • Upcoming Books
    • April Releases
    • May Releases
    • June Releases
    • July Releases
  • Top Reads
    • Best Books of 2023
    • Best Books of 2022
    • Best Books of 2021
    • Best Books of 2020
    • Best Books of 2019
    • Best Books of 2018
    • Best Books of 2017
    • Best Books of 2016
    • Best Books of 2015
  • QUICK LINKS
    • Recent Releases
    • Book Lists
  • About
    • For Review Requests