NEW: Moonshot by Alessandra Torre

Baseball isn’t supposed to be a game of life and death…

The summer that Chase Stern entered my life, I was seventeen. The daughter of a legend, the Yankees were my family, their stadium my home, their dugout my workplace. My focus was on the game. Chase … he started out as a distraction. A distraction with sex appeal poured into every inch of his six foot frame. A distraction who played like a god and partied like a devil.

I tried to stay away. I couldn’t.

Then, the team started losing.

Women started dying.

And everything in my world broke apart.

          

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Alessandra Torre is an award-winning New York Times bestselling author of thirteen novels. Her books focus on romance and suspense, all with a strong undercurrent of sexuality. Torre has been featured in such publications as Elle and Elle UK, co-hosted Dirty Sexy Funny with Jenny McCarthy, as well as guest blogged for the Huffington Post and RT Book Reviews. She is also the Bedroom Blogger for Cosmopolitan.com.

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NEW: The Bourbon Thief by Tiffany Reisz

OUR REVIEW

Shel: If you're like me, then you 'know' Tiffany Reisz through her Original Sinners series. And maybe, if you're like me, you think you have an idea of what to expect in The Bourbon Thief which, to be fair, is very much a Tiffany Reisz book stylistically--it has her wit, is set up in the frame narrative she tends to use, and is excellently written, paced, and edited--but OHMYSHIT it is so much more than I expected.  Court: I didn't know what to expect at all. I think that is what I most come to expect from Tiffany Reisz...expect the unexpected and enjoy the shit out of it. I am completely blown away by this book, and I just kept turning the page and could never quite get a handle on what might come next. Also know... this story has Tiffany's usual number of layers...which is a lot, and they each add so much life to the story that I am just covered in the essence of The Bourbon Thief and never want to wash it off.

Shel: The story of The Bourbon Theif is one that begins and ends with an evening when Paris (the thief) tells Cooper (the owner) a tale so rich and engrossing I couldn't get enough of it-- and I am still very disheartened that the story ended. It's a story of entitlement and desire and power and wealth and family and race and tradition and expectation ... and so much more. Primarily, though, it's the story Paris tells of Tamara and Levi and who they are, how they know each other, and how they ended up in the way that they did. I was so immersed in their convoluted love story, their history, the Maddox family history, the twists and the turns, and how all of the pieces and parts fit together that when it came time for it to end I felt incredibly satisfied and yet sad that I had no more pages to read. Court: I felt this book was complete, but I agree, I could've read a hundred more pages about them. I probably could've read a thousand more pages about them. The story is deep. The story will make you feel every single emotion you can name, and really make you feel each other those emotions for every single character that you will meet. No one is perfect. There are several antiheroes. But..I noticed they were all so brutally honest, and still found ways to keep deep dark secrets from each other.

Shel: I loved the historical elements, the sense of magic/insanity that seemed to exist in the background, the running commentary of race and womanhood in the south, the ideas of family and how those bonds can make us or break us, and last but not least, all of the illustrative details of the setting--as a southerner I easily identified the landscape, the heat, and the smells of the south. I am right there with you, Shel! You nailed it. And the bourbon in the blood, and the blood in the bourbon really came alive with these themes. There is such dark history in the south, and the stories are plentiful. This one had a great twist with liquor, and how it is made, and how those who make it will do anything to keep it...y'all...they be cray.

Shel: Reisz didn't just fill our hearts and minds with the wild and wonderful characters and their struggle to gain their freedom and to feel that deep comfort that comes when you feel a sense of belonging, she also filled our hearts and minds with a historical perspective that felt so real and detailed that it's hard to imagine that it's fiction. There is absolutely everything to love about The Bourbon Thief and it's whet my thirst to go back and read everything I've not read of Tiffany Reisz and has me thirsty for all of the things she's working on now. Court: Amen. I regretfully am so behind you Shel on the Original Sinners, but I liked how different this world was, and how rejuvenated reading something so rich and such beautiful prose, and how each sentence added so much to the story...a lot of thought went into this book and I am better for it. Give us more anything, Tiffany + Co

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SYNOPSIS:
From the internationally celebrated author of the Original Sinners series comes a brand-new tale of betrayal, revenge and a family scandal that bore a 150-year-old mystery

When Cooper McQueen wakes up from a night with a beautiful stranger, it's to discover he's been robbed. The only item stolen—a million-dollar bottle of bourbon. The thief, a mysterious woman named Paris, claims the bottle is rightfully hers. After all, the label itself says it's property of the Maddox family who owned and operated Red Thread Bourbon distillery since the last days of the Civil War until the company went out of business for reasons no one knows… No one except Paris. 

In the small hours of a Louisville morning, Paris unspools the lurid tale of Tamara Maddox, heiress to the distillery that became an empire. But the family tree is rooted in tainted soil and has borne rotten fruit. Theirs is a legacy of wealth and power, but also of lies, secrets and sins of omission. The Maddoxes have bourbon in their blood—and blood in their bourbon. Why Paris wants the bottle of Red Thread remains a secret until the truth of her identity is at last revealed, and the century-old vengeance Tamara vowed against her family can finally be completed.


Find out more about Tiffany Reisz: http://www.tiffanyreisz.com/

June 2016 Favorites

This month we had many more hits than we had misses and this last week we read a ton of great reads that we'll be reviewing next month. If any of these look interesting click on the graphic and it'll take you to the Amazon synopsis and buy links.

 

We're officially hooked on all things Renee Carlino. Our infatuation started with Before We Were Strangers and Swear On This Life sealed the deal. It's a story within a story. It's emotional and interesting and gave us a lot to think about--the intensity of first/true loves, the definition of family, the hardships of poverty and loss, to name a few--and we're still thinking about this book and these characters.

We love Dahlia Adler for so many things and one of the things at the top of that list is her books. Out on Good Behavior gave us the perfect end to this series--a last look at all of these friendships we've come to love, a fantastic f/f story, a wonderfully diverse cast, and the witty dialogue that we've come to count on in her novels. We're sad to see this series go and yet we know Adler must have some great things coming in the future.

  

Into The Tomorrows is Whitney Barbetti's best book to date, in our humble opinions. It ended on the most interesting to be continued we've seen in a while and we're dying to see where she takes the rest of this. This first book in the series began and ended with a promise of a tale of discovery and loss and there's more of that tale to be told. Sign us up for the next part!

Can Mercy Brown do any wrong? Uhhh, no. This series has been a great blend of romance and humor and music and we're hoping that it isn't over with Stay Until We Break. It brings us back to our footloose and fancy free days of college and dive bars and all of the things that go with that scene. Please give us more, Mercy Brown..or give us anything; we're loving what you're putting out there.

Paper Princess and Broken Prince have been the most deliciously wicked and fun reading we've had in a while. It's most definitely not a guilty pleasure because we feel absolutely no guilt about reading and promoting these books AT ALL. This series is like a 1980's night time soap opera updated to 2016 and it's completely addictive. The cliffhangers are so cliffy that if we didn't love the writers who make up Erin Watt we might want to push them off the cliff...instead we'll endure their torture and beg them for more.

We're looking forward to our July reads--they look promising. Until then, happy reading~~

NEW + GIVEAWAY: Chasing Impossible by Katie McGarry

   

CHASING IMPOSSIBLE, the highly anticipated fifth book in the Pushing the Limits Series by Katie McGarry has arrived! In true McGarry fashion this book will have you flipping pages well into the night. Grab your copy today!

     

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About CHASING IMPOSSIBLE:

Tough and independent, 17-year-old Abby lets very few people into her inner circle. It’s common knowledge in her Kentucky town that she deals drugs, but not even her closest friends know why. But when a deal goes south and Abby’s suddenly in danger, she finds herself reluctantly forced to lean on daredevil Logan—a boy whose restless spirit matches her own.

Logan has his own reasons for wanting to keep Abby at arms’ length. But he never expected to find in her the one person who might help him face the demons he’s tried so hard to run from.

Together, Abby and Logan will have to make a decision: let their current circumstances weigh them down forever…or fight for the future they both thought was impossible.

 

 

 

And don’t forget to read the first books in the Pushing the Limits Series…

PUSHING THE LIMITS

CROSSING THE LINE

BREAKING THE RULES

DARE YOU TO

CRASH INTO YOU

TAKE ME ON

   

EXCERPT: Abby People near the stage scream and clap and I’m about ready to throw my cell against the wall. Stupid, stupid boy and stupid me for stupidly somewhat liking him and him thinking he can get away with not answering me. “Give it up for our boy Logan.” My eyes rip up, go for the stage, and my mind shifts into reverse, fast-forward, rewind, and then that smile that’s associated with the devil slides across my face. Logan stands strong on the stage. Guitar strapped across his chest. Baseball cap backwards on his black hair. And when he strikes the strings of the guitar, those biceps flex beautifully. That chord just struck a lot deeper than anyone could have imagined. Past my bones, past my muscles, and it’s created a nice warmth that’s curling around my belly. Liquid warmth. The logical part of my brain demands that I walk away, but he’s the one that scared me by not answering back. He’s the one that’s causing all these alien emotions stirring in my veins. Yeah, I shouldn’t kiss Logan. I should definitely leave a boy like that alone. But he returned and he’s the one that climbed onto the stage and is looking addictively sexy with that guitar. Yep, shouldn’t kiss him, but I already told Rachel, I’m going to kiss the guitarist tonight. Wouldn’t want that one to be a lie, now, would I?    

About Katie McGarry: Katie McGarry was a teenager during the age of grunge and boy bands and remembers those years as the best and worst of her life. She is a lover of music, happy endings, reality television, and is a secret University of Kentucky basketball fan. Katie is the author of full length YA novels, PUSHING THE LIMITS, DARE YOU TO, CRASH INTO YOU, TAKE ME ON, BREAKING THE RULES, and NOWHERE BUT HERE and the e-novellas, CROSSING THE LINE and RED AT NIGHT. Her debut YA novel, PUSHING THE LIMITS was a 2012 Goodreads Choice Finalist for YA Fiction, a RT Magazine's 2012 Reviewer's Choice Awards Nominee for Young Adult Contemporary Novel, a double Rita Finalist, and a 2013 YALSA Top Ten Teen Pick. DARE YOU TO was also a Goodreads Choice Finalist for YA Fiction and won RT Magazine’s Reviewer’s Choice Best Book Award for Young Adult Contemporary fiction in 2013.  

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