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MORE THAN THIS BY JAY MCLEAN

11/25/2021

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More Than This is an incredibly tender and emotional read. Experiencing love at a young adult never feels realistic in romance novels but in this one it does.
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: July 21, 2014
Genre: New Adult Romance. Emotional. 

Series: More Than series #1
Pages: 287 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ​Purchased. 
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When Mikayla imagined her prom night, she envisioned a fairy-tale evening full of romance. So when betrayal and tragedy come in quick succession, Mikayla is completely destroyed. Suddenly, everything she loved and everyone she relied on are tragically, irrevocably gone.
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Jake, a handsome boy she just met, happens to witness her loss. With no one to turn to, Mikayla is forced to depend on this near stranger and his family, and he in turn is determined to take care of her. But Mikayla—thrust into adulthood with no one to guide her—is desperate to contain her grief and hide what she considers to be her weakness. Mikayla and Jake both want more, but despite their growing closeness and intense chemistry, she tries to keep her distance and protect her heart. As he does everything in his power to win her trust, Mikayla must choose between remaining alone and safe or letting love in.

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HOPELESS BY COLLEEN HOOVER

11/24/2021

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Who is the one author every person should read in their lifetime? Colleen Hoover. Her books, like this one, are exquisitely breathtaking, realistic, stunning, and all other adjectives associated with the word beautiful.
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: December 18, 2012
Genre: Young Adult Romance. Emotional. 

Series: Hopeless #1
Pages: 418 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Purchased. 
​Sometimes discovering the truth can leave you more hopeless than believing the lies…

That’s what seventeen-year-old Sky realizes after she meets Dean Holder. A guy with a reputation that rivals her own and an uncanny ability to invoke feelings in her she’s never had before. He terrifies her and captivates her all in the span of one encounter, and something about the way he makes her feel sparks buried memories from a past she wishes could just stay buried.

Sky struggles to keep him at a distance knowing he’s nothing but trouble, but Holder insists on learning everything about her. After finally caving to his unwavering pursuit, Sky soon finds that Holder isn’t at all who he’s been claiming to be. When the secrets he’s been keeping are finally revealed, every single facet of Sky’s life will change forever.

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THE FISHERMAN DUET BY JEWELL E. ANN

11/10/2021

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May I introduce to you one of the best books I’ve read in 2021? Because this one right here is it. You need this book if you love age gap, forbidden romances!
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: September 30, 2021
Genre: Age Gap. Forbidden Romance. 

Series: Fisherman duet #1
Pages: 326 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.
USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Jewel E. Ann returns with an addictive new adult romance about a young woman who discovers years of Sunday sermons didn’t prepare her for the many lessons of the crude and sexy man who is now her boss. 

It's official.

I'm eighteen and a young woman with endless possibilities on my way to reunite with my mom in Colorado after five years apart—she had a little weed incident in Nebraska.

At the airport, she springs the news on me ... she's leaving for a month of job training. And me? I'm left on my own in the basement she's renting from the fisherman, aka her landlord who lives upstairs. 

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ALL THE UGLY AND WONDERFUL THINGS BY BRYN GREENWOOD

11/5/2021

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All the Ugly and Wonderful Things is an unexpected, controversial, and overwhelmingly beautiful novel of a love that runs so deep it’s hard for others to understand.
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: August 9, 2016
Genre: Literary Fiction. Taboo/Age Gap Romance.

Series: None. Complete Standalone. 
Pages: 421 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Purchased. 
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​A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives.

As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold.

By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery. When tragedy rips Wavy's family apart, a well-meaning aunt steps 

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HOME BEFORE DARK BY RILEY SAGER

10/31/2021

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Home Before Dark is an insidious and compelling novel that had me questioning everything. This book unnerved me to the core making the perfect pre-Halloween read!
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: June 30, 2020
Genre: Gothic Thriller

Series: None. Complete Standalone. 
Pages: 397 pages
Format: Hardcover. Source: BOTM Box.
In the latest thriller from New York Times bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound—and dangerous—secrets hidden within its walls?

What was it like? Living in that house.

Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity—and skepticism.

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DIAL A FOR AUNTIES BY JESSE Q. SUTANTO

10/20/2021

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Who knew that murder and mayhem could be so funny? Jesse Q. Sutanto kills it with this hilarious and whip smart read! I devoured it in one sitting.
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: April 27, 2021
Genre: Romcom / Murder Mystery

Series: Aunties series #1
Pages: 319 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.
What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family?

You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue!


When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging to dispose of than one might anticipate, especially when it is inadvertently shipped in a cake cooler to the over-the-top billionaire wedding Meddy, her Ma, and aunties are working at an island resort on the California coastline. It's the biggest job yet for the family wedding business—"Don't leave your big day to chance, leave it to the Chans!"—and nothing, not even an unsavory corpse, will get in the way of her auntie's 

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THE PARTY CRASHER BY SOPHIE KINSELLA

10/12/2021

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Sophie Kinsella is hands down one of my favorite authors in the entire world. She writes quirky characters and plots that always make me smile. I loved this book just as much as I’ve loved her others- to pieces!
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: October 12, 2021
Genre: Chick Lit. Family Drama. 

Series: None. Complete Standalone. 
Pages: 368 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ​Publisher (thank you!). 
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Your Life comes a humorous and heartwarming novel about family, set against the backdrop of the most fabulous party you’ve ever snuck into.
 
It’s been over two years since Effie’s beloved parents got divorced, destroying the image of the happy, loving childhood she thought she had. Since then, she’s become estranged from her father and embarked on a feud with his hot (and much younger) girlfriend, Krista. And now, more earth-shattering news: Greenoaks, the rambling Victorian country house Effie called home her whole life, has been sold.
 
When Krista decides to throw a grand “house cooling” party, Effie is originally left off the guest list—and then receives a last-minute “anti-invitation” (maybe it’s because she called Krista a gold-

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DON'T LOOK BY ALEXANDRA IVY

10/9/2021

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Don’t Look is a bone chilling suspense novel that had me guessing until the very end. I enjoyed this one immensely and flew through it in one day!
​Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: December 1, 2020
Genre: Murder Mystery. Suspense. Romantic Suspense. 

Series: Pike, Wisconsin #1 (can stand alone)
Pages: 402 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Purchased. 
​IF YOU’RE ON HIS LIST
A woman’s naked body is discovered, cold and pale as the surrounding snow—except for the crimson scarf around her neck. The weeks that follow bring more victims and evidence of a terrifying pattern. The killer has a list. And every woman on it will get what she deserves . . .

YOU’RE AS GOOD
Dr. Lynne Gale followed in her father’s footsteps to become a vet in Pike, Wisconsin. For years, she’s had little contact with Kir Jansen, son of the town’s late sheriff. Suddenly he’s back, insisting that Lynne’s in danger. She can’t believe anyone would target her, but someone is hunting the women of Pike, savoring every last moment.

AS DEAD
Kir hoped that his father’s frantic calls about a serial killer were just an old man’s delusions. But the body count doesn’t lie. In this quiet town, a monster stalks and kills. And soon, Lynne’s will be the last name on his list . . .

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NOT A HAPPY FAMILY BY SHARI LAPENA

10/4/2021

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Not a Happy Family is a razor sharp who-dun-it that starts off at warp speed and doesn’t release ANY of the tension readers feel upon their bodies until the very last page. Even then… You’ll probably loose your mind!
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: July 27, 2021
Genre: Domestic Thriller. Murder Mystery. 

Series: None. Complete Standalone. 
Pages: 363 pages
Format: Hardcover. Source: BOTM Box. 
The new domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door and The End of Her who has sold more than 7 million copies of her books worldwide

In this family, everyone is keeping secrets—even the dead.
 
Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there, and Fred and Sheila Merton certainly are rich. But even all their money can't protect them when a killer comes to call. The Mertons are brutally murdered after a fraught Easter dinner with their three adult kids. Who, of course, are devastated.
 
Or are they? They each stand to inherit millions. They were never a happy family, thanks to their vindictive father and neglectful 

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MURDER AT THE BEACON BAKESHOP BY DARCI HANNAH

10/1/2021

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I’m so excited about this brand-new culinary cozy mystery series. These are my favorites within the genre, and I have a feeling that this is going to be a series in my top favorite reads for the foreseeable future!
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: February 23, 2021
Genre: Cozy Mystery

Series: Beacon Bakeshop mystery series #1
Pages: 354 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.
After catching her celebrity chef fiancé sizzling in the arms of another woman, Lindsey Bakewell left big city Wall Street for small town Beacon Harbor, Michigan to pursue her own passion as a pastry baker—and gets mixed up in someone’s sweet taste of revenge . . .
 
More interested in kneading dough than adding it up, Lindsey’s breakup inspired her to set up the shop she always wanted in a place that always made her happy. She’d spent many childhood summers near this beach community and converting the old run-down lighthouse into a bakery café and home offers a perfect fresh start for Lindsey and her devoted Newfoundland dog, Wellington.
 
But not everyone in town has a sweet tooth. The preservation society won’t have the lighthouse’s history sugar coated by lattes and cakes—and a protest group crashes Lindsey’s Memorial Day opening. Then her ex-fiancé Jeffrey Plank and his girlfriend Mia Long arrive to trash the place. In the ensuing chaos Mia chokes on a donut and dies.

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