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FAKE AROUND AND FIND OUT BY S.M. SHADE

9/27/2023

S.M. Shade has written some of the funniest romcoms I've ever read and Fake Around & Find out is a new favorite! If you're looking for a hilarious neighbors to lovers/rivals to lovers romcom then read this one!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: August 18, 2023
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Series: Happy Haven series #1
Pages: 308 pages
Format: eBook Source: Kindle Unlimited.

An enemies-to-lovers, fake relationship romantic comedy.

The Happy Haven Trailer Park is not where I hoped to be at age twenty-five.
Circumstances have left me without a job or a car in a small town where work is scarce. When my insufferable neighbor approaches me with a very indecent proposal to co-star in his videos on the Lonely Hands app, I have to resist the impulse to punch him in the mouth.
I'll admit, Monroe is hot with his dark eyes and quick grin, but he's the most infuriating man I've ever met.
After weeks of no luck finding a new job, I finally accept his offer with one condition. Nobody can know what we're doing.
Now, I'm stuck faking a relationship to hide the real reason that I'm spending so many nights at the home of a man I despise.
It's going to be a long summer.

Can be read as a standalone romance.

THE ONLY ONE LEFT BY RILEY SAGER

9/5/2023

The Only One Left is one of my favorite books of 2023. This one keeps coming with the twists and I couldn't think straight after reading it! Riley Sager slayed this gothic thriller!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: June 20, 2023
Genre: Thriller
Series: None
Pages: 398 pages
Format: Hardcover Source: Book of the Month Box

Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier.

At seventeen, Lenora Hope
Hung her sister with a rope

Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.

Stabbed her father with a knife
Took her mother’s happy life

DARK CORNERS BY MEGAN GOLDIN

8/16/2023

Megan Goldin is one of my favorite thriller authors! Her books are always top notch and exciting. I can't get enough. While I do recommend reading The Night Swim before this one I honestly can stand alone.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: August 8, 2023
Genre: Thriller
Series: Rachel Krall series #2
Pages: 347 pages
Format: Hardcover Source: Book of the Month Box

Rachel Krall, the true crime podcaster star of Megan Goldin’s acclaimed The Night Swim, returns to search for a popular influencer who disappears after visiting a suspected serial killer.

Terence Bailey is about to be released from prison for breaking and entering, though investigators have long suspected him in the murders of six women. As his release date approaches, Bailey gets a surprise visit from Maddison Logan, a hot, young influencer with a huge social media following. Hours later, Maddison disappears, and police suspect she’s been kidnapped—or worse. Is Maddison’s disappearance connected to her visit to Bailey? And why was she visiting him in the first place?

When they hit a wall in the investigation, the FBI reluctantly asks for Rachel Krall’s help in finding the missing influencer. Maddison seems to only exist on social media; she has no family, no friends,

THE BLOCK PARTY BY JAMIE DAY

8/12/2023

The Block Party by Jamie Day is a solid suburban thriller. I really enjoyed reading this one and am looking forward to many more books by the author in the future. Wait until you read the twist!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: July 18, 2023
Genre: Suburban Drama and Thriller
Series: None.
Pages: 367 pages
Format: eBook Source: St. Martins Press

"Like a firecracker on a hot summer night . . . If you like my novels, you’ll love THE BLOCK PARTY.” ―Elin Hilderbrand, #1 Bestselling author of THE HOTEL NANTUCKET

This summer, meet your neighbors.

The residents of the exclusive cul-de-sac on Alton Road are entangled in a web of secrets and scandal utterly unknown to the outside world, and even to each other.

On the night of the annual Summer block party, there has been a murder.

But, who did it and why takes readers back one year earlier, as rivalries and betrayals unfold—discovering that the real danger lies within their own block and nothing—and no one—is ever as it seems.

THE HANDYMAN METHOD BY NICK CUTTER & ANDREW F. SULLIVAN

8/8/2023

I really enjoyed this one! It reminded me a little of Bentley Little's books (he's one of my favorite horror writers). It's dark, disturbing, but has an edge of humor so things don't become too bleak. I most definitely recommend it.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: August 8, 2023
Genre: Horror
Series: None.
Pages: 261 pages
Format: eBook Source: Gallery Books

A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror.

When a young family moves into an unfinished development community, cracks begin to emerge in both their new residence and their lives, as a mysterious online DIY instructor delivers dark subliminal suggestions about how to handle any problem around the house. The trials of home improvement, destructive insecurities, and haunted house horror all collide in this thrilling story perfect for fans of Nick Cutter’s bestsellers The Troop and The Deep.

SHE STARTED IT BY SIAN GILBERT

7/20/2023

She Started It is a Juicy summer thriller about one woman who is hellbent on revenge. This book does deal with difficult topics but it's such a thrilling read!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: June 13, 2023
Genre: Thriller (Getaway/Summer/Revenge)
Series: None.
Pages: 347 pages
Format: Hardcover Source: BOTM Box

A hot, twisty summer debut thriller about a Caribbean bachelorette party that takes a sinister turn. It’s Lord of the Flies meets And Then There Were None...but with Instagram and too much prosecco.
The party of a lifetime is nothing like what they expected...

Annabel, Esther, Tanya, and Chloe are best friends—or were, as children. Despite drifting apart in adulthood, shared secrets have kept them bonded for better or worse, even as their childhood dreams haven’t quite turned out as they’d hoped. Then one day they receive a wholly unexpected—but not entirely unwelcome—invitation from another old friend. Poppy Greer has invited them all to her extravagant bachelorette party: a first-class plane ticket to three days of white sand, cocktails, and relaxation on a luxe private island in the Bahamas.

None of them has spoken to Poppy in years. But Poppy’s Instagram pics shows that the girl they used to consider the

A LIKEABLE WOMAN BY MAY COBB

7/11/2023

When a woman returns home for a friends vow renewal, she ends up searching for answers about her late mother's death. Little does she know how close the murder is to home.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: July 11, 2023
Genre: Thriller
Series: None.
Pages: 381 pages
Format: eBook Source: Berkeley Publishing

Kira’s back in her affluent hometown for the first time in years and determined to unravel the secrets of her mother’s death--hidden in the unpublished memoir she left behind-- even if it kills her. . . .

After her troublemaker mother’s mysterious death, Kira fled her wealthy Texas town and never looked back. Now, decades later, Kira is invited to an old frenemy’s vow renewal celebration Though she is reluctant to go, there are things pulling her home. . . like chilled wine and days spent by the pool . . . like sexy Jack, her childhood crush. But more important are the urgent texts from her grandmother, who says she has something for Kira. Something related to her mother’s death, something that make it look an awful lot like murder.

When her grandmother gives Kira a memoir that her mother had been working on before she died, Kira is drawn into the past and all

HELLO STRANGER BY KATHERINE CENTER

7/7/2023

Katherine Centers' books are like a warm hug! It's got all the cozy, fuzzy vibes that make readers feel good! It's not wonder people are addicted to her stories!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: July 11, 2023
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Series: None.
Pages: 325 pages
Format: eBook Source: SMP Romance.

Love isn’t blind, it’s just a little blurry.

Sadie Montgomery never saw what was coming . . . Literally! One minute she’s celebrating the biggest achievement of her life―placing as a finalist in the North American Portrait Society competition―the next, she’s lying in a hospital bed diagnosed with a “probably temporary” condition known as face blindness. She can see, but every face she looks at is now a jumbled puzzle of disconnected features. Imagine trying to read a book upside down and in another language. This is Sadie’s new reality with every face she sees.

But, as she struggles to cope, hang on to her artistic dream, work through major family issues, and take care of her beloved dog, Peanut, she falls into―love? Lust? A temporary obsession to distract from the real problems in her life?―with not one man but two very different ones. The timing couldn’t be worse.

CIAO FOR NOW BY KATE BROMLEY

7/5/2023

Ciao for Now is the perfect romcom for those looking for a book set abroad and in the world of fashion design! I recommend this to those who enjoy a forced proximity, enemies-to-lovers romcom!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: June 6, 2023
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Series: None.
Pages: 310 pages
Format: Paperback Source: The Publisher

When an American interning at a fashion house in Rome butts heads with her professor's surly son, sparks fly!

With her thirties rapidly approaching and a mountain of student debt looming over her, Violet Luciano’s dream of finishing design school and working in fashion has cost her everything. So when she lands an internship at an up-and-coming fashion brand in Rome, she brings her A game to Italy. With nothing left to lose, Violet plans to win the competition among the interns for the ultimate prize—a job at a New York label.

But when a coffee run goes wrong and Violet accidentally destroys a stranger’s laptop, all of the apology Americanos in the world won’t help her. Because it turns out that the man from the café is Matteo, her professor’s eternally grumpy son, who thinks she’s a clumsy American…and maybe a stalker. Their animosity (and

LOVE, THEORETICALLY BY ALI HAZELWOOD

6/30/2023

Love, Theoretically by the talented Ali Hazelwood is the perfect romcom and will put a smile on every readers face! Make sure to grab this gem of a read if you enjoy the enemies-to-lovers trope!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: June 13, 2023
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Series: None.
Pages: 400 pages
Format: eBook Source: Berkley Pub

Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain.

The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs.

Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig—until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who

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