November 2017 Favorites

I'm keeping this short and sweet because you're going to get our year end review post in a matter of weeks. Let me just stress, though, that this month was one of the absolute BEST reading months I had all year. Every book linked here kept me up late and had me up early because I just could not stop reading. Click on the image if one of the looks appealing.

American King by Sierra Simone: American King, Sierra Simone's final installment of her New Camelot series, has been one of the most widely anticipated novels of the year and Simone rewarded her readers with a meticulously detailed emotional read. (from our review )

Citywide by Santino Hassell:  I'm truly, madly, deeply in awe of Santino Hassell and his writing skills. It doesn't matter what he writes, he always nails it. (from our review )

An Exaltation of Larks by Suanne Laqueur: These characters repeatedly healed my heart and broke it and I'm not 100% recovered yet...( from our review )

A Charm of Finches by Suanne Laqueur: There are some writers who immediately grab your heart and know exactly what to do with it. Suanne Laqueur has, in two books, earned my trust and my instant purchase of anything she writes. (from our review )

SEPTEMBER 2017 FAVORITES

Hello friends, once again I find that I'm posting this way later than October 1st (which is my imaginary deadline) but I have a good-ish excuse. I went to my first writing conference aaaaand had to prep for the possibility of a hurricane hitting our area. Luckily, the hurricane turned out to be a non-issue and the writing conference was amazing.

As school continues to pass week by week, and the amount of grading I'm doing continues to increase, my ability to keep up with my reading declines. That being said, there were several books in September that I'd recommend again and again. Take a look and if anything looks great, click on the image and grab it off on Amazon.

  

Tate by Ella Frank: "Logan and Tate, in Tate, felt more real than romance.  We got to see a little more of their daily grind, their worries and challenges, and their love. " More from our review here.

The Outskirts by T.M. Frazier: "The Outskirts is also interesting because of all the moving pieces and parts that I found myself putting together as I read. The closer to the end I got, the more was revealed until I got to the last page and .... I WAS NOT PREPARED. " More from our review here.

Speed by BB Easton: "I can't help but admire how fearless B.B. Easton is to put a variation of her life and truth out into the world in such a funny and raw way." More from our review here.

Fingers crossed that my grading load gets lighter and my reading speed gets faster! In the meantime, happy reading, y'all.

2017 July Favorites

One of us is truly very sad to see July go, mainly because that means the day job resumes and summer vacay is over. The lazy days of reading all day, hanging with the girls, and having no obligations is the absolute best! Also the best? Our picks for this month are really great reads. If you see something that looks good, click on the cover and it'll take you to Amazon.

 

 

The Red by Tiffany Reisz-- "The Red is a short novel that will check off many boxes for many readers: interesting characters and situations (I'm betting google image search will be used often by readers) and sensual erotica in blending of fantasy and reality that will hook you in from the first chapter." Our review is here.

Give Me Hell by Kate McCarthy-- "I didn't realize how much I'd missed the Badass Brigade and their hot mamas until I started reading Give Me Hell and within one paragraph I was completely entrenched in their world and simultaneously trying to speed up my reading to see how everything would be resolved, and slow down because I knew I'd be sad when it was over. Unfortunately? Fortunately?, my desire to see what would happen with Jake and Mac superseded everything and I COULD NOT STOP READING until I was finished. And guess what?! I loved every second of this read and am, in fact, really fucking sad that it's over. Seriously sad, y'all." Read more from this review here.

Trust by Kylie Scott-- "What makes this novel so readable, though, is that those harder emotional moments are balanced out with a lot of humor and vulnerability and awkwardness and I think that, especially, is something that teens will relate to. It's that jumble of all sorts of emotions that may not always seem to go together (and they way she expresses them) that makes Edie so fun to read. " From our review here.

Until It Fades by K.A. Tucker-- "KA Tucker can write anything. Right? Aren't we all in agreement? I mean seriously everything she writes has me glued to my kindle and completely absorbed--so absorbed that when I reach the ending I'm always trying to tap for the next pages and am sad when there aren't any." Take a look at what else we thought in our review, here. 

The Darkest Sunrise Duet by Aly Martinez-- "The moral of this story is that Aly Martinez knows how to pack an emotional punch and she will not hesitate to knock you out with it. She'll hit you with the sads, the happys, and the laughies and I'm telling you once you start this duet you will not be able to stop. The story of Charlotte and Porter and all of the people impacted by the disappearance of Lucas is one that will grab your attention quickly and you won't be able to put it down until you're finished (so block out some time to read uninterrupted so you don't have to yell at people when they are trying to do things like talk to you). Grab this duet and enjoy!" Our reviews for this duet are here and here.

The Unrequited by Saffron A. Kent-- "Starting The Unrequited at 7 pm probably wasn't my smartest idea ever because once I started it I had to finish it. There was no way I was going to sleep without knowing how Kent was going to end this story. Having never read anything by her, I wasn't entirely convinced there would be a HEA...maybe a HFN but HEA? I wasn't sure. And you know what, because of the way Layla and Thomas were written, I was really going to be okay with however it ended with them because I believed the characters could handle it.  So I read all evening and early morning until I finished, which was about 3 am and holy hot hell, Layla and Thomas are some fucked up characters (and I mean that in the nicest way possible, I think)." Find our review here.