August 2020 – Page 2 – Have Coffee Need Books

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Release Blitz: Bayou Baby by Lexi Blake

Bayou Baby by Lexi Blake

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On August 25,20 | 0 Comment

Title: Bayou Baby
Author: Lexi Blake
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: 25 August 2020

Summary:

Caught between the woman he’s coming to love and the only family he has left, Harry knows he has to follow his heart.

Bayou Baby, an all-new heartwarming contemporary romance set in Louisiana’s Butterfly Bayou from New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake is available now!

Seraphina Guidry loves Butterfly Bayou. A young, single mom, she’s trying to find a place for herself in the town she cherishes, but past mistakes have made her wary. She adores her son but has sworn off men. She’s dedicated herself to restoring an historic house and building her own business. A quiet life is all she wants.

Harrison Jefferys never expected to find himself in small-town Louisiana, but he has a job to do and a family to reconnect with. After years in the Army, he’s happy to spend time with his Aunt Celeste and his cousins in such an idyllic spot. When he meets Seraphina, he starts to think Papillion might be a great place to call home. But a secret from Sera’s past rears its head and threatens to tear the community apart.

Caught between the woman he’s coming to love and the only family he has left, Harry knows he has to follow his heart and with the help of the crazy, loving, meddling locals find a way to keep them both.

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Release Blitz: Always Crew by Tijan

Always Crew by Tijan

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On August 25,20 | 0 Comment

Title: Always Crew (Crew #3)
Author: Tijan
Genre: New Adult Romance
Release Date: 25 August 2020

Summary:

Always Crew, the all-new emotional and angsty finale of the Crew series by New York Times bestselling author Tijan is available now!

For the longest time, I was Bren Monroe.
I lived in Roussou, California.
I had no parents, no brother, but I had a crew.

Then things started to change.
I never planned for any of it.
I didn’t think I’d fall in love.
I didn’t think I’d have a relationship with my brother again.
I didn’t think that he’d come back.

Now I’m in Cain.
My crew is in college.
They’re growing, going through their own things.
And here I am, figuring out my life.

There’s always hurdles and obstacles to overcome.
That was never my hardship.
That was my regular.
But living? Being content? Being happy?
Those were my challenges now.

Everything was going well…

Until it wasn’t. Again.

A/N: Always Crew is the conclusion of the Crew Series, and a 106k novel.

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Book Review: Deadly Pretenses by Angelique Snowden

Deadly Pretenses by Angelique Snowden

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On August 23,20 | 0 Comment

Title: Deadly Pretenses
Author: Angelique Snowden
Genre: Horror, Paranormal, Romance
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Wow! AHS meets Kelly Creagh’s Nevermore Series meets good ol’ Southern ghost legends.

When shhh gets weird, you know you ain’t in Chicago anymore. The chip on Colette’s shoulder is pretty epic-sized about the move, and what’s worse is that she sees the ghost of the girl who once lived in her house immediately upon arriving. Genesis Long died in a terrible car crash and wanders Savannah, Georgia, searching for her love Sebastian Campbell. Compounding all weirdness is Colette’s inexplicably drawn to Sebastian’s brother, Abel, and he is fascinated by her.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book with some caveats; the author actively regulates the hints and facts she gives out by using the character’s storytelling, which sometimes feels like the author doesn’t know where she is going with the narrative. When someone continually tells you that they can’t tell you something yet, you have to wonder if it’s that you can’t know it yet or they don’t know it yet, which was what was rattling around my head in the book because there were times when the story took strange shifts that seemed ill-conceived.

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Book Blitz: The Promise Kept by Maggie Mae Gallagher

The Promise Kept by Maggie Mae Gallagher

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On August 23,20 | 0 Comment

Title: The Promise Kept (Echo Springs #2)
Author: Maggie Mae Gallagher
Genre: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Release Date: 19 August 2020

Summary:

Cybil Roe gave her heart away thirteen years ago only to have it wind up shattered. With painstaking determination, she has rebuilt her life into something to be proud of today. Yet all her future plans are upended when the only man she has ever loved returns to Echo Springs. Nor does it help that he seems bound and determined to draw her back into his life. Cybil vows to stay away from him, no matter what seeing him all the time does to her resolve.

Miles Keaton wiped the dust of his hometown off his shoes years ago, never expecting that life would lead him back to the place where he had begun. Coming home to Echo Springs, to Cybil, to start a new law practice and a new life is a risk he never thought he’d take. She hates him – with good reason. Years ago, he walked away when she needed him the most. But now is he back, and intends to argue the case of his life, one more important than any he has debated in a courtroom, because she is the one woman he cannot live without.

Can Miles convince Cybil to take a second chance on him, or will a secret she has kept all these years destroy any future they might have?

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Book Review: Bryk by Ava Ross

Bryk by Ava Ross

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On August 22,20 | 0 Comment

Title: Bryk (Mail Order Brides of Crakair #2)
Author: Ava Ross
Genre: Sci-Fi Alien Romance
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I adore these books. Fans of Laurann Dohner will be all over them.

Bryk and his son Weld are looking for a woman. Don’t be crass. They want a wife and mother to make their house a home. But poor Sadie, because the Crakiars are cray cray and the Crakian world is even further insane.

This book isn’t as good as Vork or Axil. I guess Bryk and Disty the draquier don’t do it for me. However, this book introduces so much more of this world. Ava Ross builds on the Crakiar planet, moons, and denizens, filling out everything she’s introduced before. It’s fascinating.

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Book Review: Don’t Fall For Me by Gigi Black

Dont Fall For Me by Gigi Black

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On August 21,20 | 0 Comment

Title: Don’t Fall For Me
Author: Gigi Black
Genre: Contemporary Romance
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Don’t Fall For Me is your typical fake fiancee romance, and there ain’t nothing wrong with that. This Cinderella story with a corporate vibe will please any reader who thirsts for subscription books from Harlequin and Silhouette.

Damien Woods is between a rock and his immovable father–a real despicable cat with nine reprehensible corporate lives–who can make the Woods offsprings’ life hell. His latest proclamation is that Damien finds a wife in the next thirty days or lose his inheritance and place in the company. Damien has just the person in mind. Someone he just reacquainted with, Hazel McCutcheon, the one he burns for, but threw away in high school, she drives him crazy and is desperate enough to go along with his ridiculous plan. Or so he thinks.

Cinderella is overworked. Her dad has cancer; she’s losing her family legacy to pay his medical bills. Hazel works a crap job with no help from her flighty sister, and handouts are still something she’s unready to accept. Worst she loathes Damien Woods. He’s arrogant. Sexy. Wealthy. Too powerful. And he won’t take no for an answer.

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Cover Reveal: Dangerous Magic by Cassandra Faye

Dangerous Magic by Cassandra Faye

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On August 20,20 | 0 Comment

Title: Dangerous Magic
Author: Cassandra Faye
Genre: Dark Paranormal Romance
Release Date: 08 September 2020

A dark pact. A fatal choice. Who will die?

Heather never wanted to be a witch. Her family would have been dysfunctional enough without superpowers, but with them? They’re nightmares.

And all Heather wants to be is normal.

To fall in love without damning the sweet, incredibly hot, and perfectly dominant man who keeps opening his door every time she shows up vulnerable and begging for a distraction.

But the Pritchett family doesn’t get happily ever afters. Bound by a curse that demands blood, they’ll take Heather’s life to keep their gifts if she refuses to doom another.

With time running out to make her choice, will she give in and claim the dangerous magic waiting for her?

Or will she sacrifice herself?

NOTE: This book was previously published under the title The Rite under the Jennifer Bene pen name. It has been updated for re-release under her paranormal romance pen name, Cassandra Faye.

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Book Review: Lords of Summer by Kayla Wren

Lords of Summer by Kayla Wren

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On August 19,20 | 0 Comment

Title: Lords of Summer (Year of the Harem #1)
Author: Kayla Wren
Genre: Reverse Harem, Bully Romance
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

These bully books always kill me with the tension. Knowing that the awful is in the mail is terrible. I think if you’ve had a bully, you have a hard time romancing that crap up. Still, there is a rare breed of us who read bully romance novels for that crack at a happily ever after. Most bullies will never have Layla’s outcome. Mine? We would be lucky to have a PSA outcome. A lot are just statistics, which sucks because bully romances don’t address those sad numbers.

A summer job in Pembroke Bay is Layla MacKenzie’s jam. She’s rocking the freedom of all the woe college has wrought and the hell her bullies, the Birchwood Boys, wreak on her days. This is her summer, and it’s a new Layla, a fresh start, a way to get a breath finally. But nothing could be so easy when her devils are so eager to see her pay for her imagined sins.

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Book Review: Dating Makes Perfect by Pintip Dunn

Dating Makes Perfect by Pintip Dunn

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On August 18,20 | 0 Comment

Title: Dating Makes Perfect
Author: Pintip Dunn
Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Romance
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I’m a huge Pintip Dunn fan, and it doesn’t matter if she’s writing sci-fi or contemporary YA I adore the stories she writes. If there is one thing, Pintip Dunn gets its conveying teen temptation in a repressed and traditional Asian community, and I always appreciate the diversity of her characters. This book is a fantastic introduction to her books if you’ve not read her before!

Dating Makes Perfect characters Winnie and Mat remind me of Alice and Bandit from Malice, but this story has zero sci-fi elements. Like Alice and Bandit, Winnie and Mat are a contentious pair, and Winnie, of course, thinks Mat is the entire problem when the actual issue is Winnie’s arrogance. These two are one of my favorite YA pairs of 2020. Mat is just the sort of book boyfriend you want for your sister, and I say that as a Bunny.

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