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New Release: Resurrection Girls by Ava Morgyn

Resurrection Girls by Ava Morgyn
Resurrection Girls by Ava Morgyn
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Title: Resurrection Girls
Author: Ava Morgyn
Genre: YA, Fantasy, YA Magical Realism
Release Date:
October 1, 2019

Synopsis:

Olivia Foster hasn’t felt alive since her little brother drowned in the backyard pool three years ago. Then Kara Hallas moves in across the street with her mother and grandmother, and Olivia is immediately drawn to these three generations of women. Kara is particularly intoxicating, so much so that Olivia not only comes to accept Kara’s morbid habit of writing to men on death row, she helps her do it. They sign their letters as the Resurrection Girls.

But as Kara’s friendship pulls Olivia out of the dark fog she’s been living in, Olivia realizes that a different kind of darkness taints the otherwise lively Hallas women—an impulse that is strange, magical, and possibly deadly.

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New Release: Hating the Boss by Kristen Granata

Hating the Boss by Kristen Granata
Hating the Boss by Kristen Granata
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Title: Hating the Boss
Author: Kristen Granata
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: September 27, 2019

Synopsis:

One night. 

That’s all it was supposed to be. 
Imagine my surprise when Mr. Sexy in a Suit breezed through the door on the first day of school. 
Ladies and gentlemen, meet my new boss. 
Not only does he instantly recognize me, but he accuses me of stealing something valuable from him the morning I walk-of-shamed out of his apartment. 
When bullying me into a confession doesn’t work, he turns my life into a living nightmare – as if that will coax me into returning what I supposedly stole. 
But this is my school, and the only thing I’ll be returning is payback. 

Game. On. 

There’s only one problem. I wanted him before I hated him, and even now, a part of me still wants him. Somehow, through all of our fighting, through the anger and the pranks, I think I’m falling in love with the enemy.

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Book Review: A Hurt So Sweet by Betti Rosewood

A Hurt So Sweet by Betti Rosewood
A Hurt So Sweet by Betti Rosewood
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Title: A Hurt So Sweet
Author: Betti Rosewood
Genre: Dark Romance
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

TL;DR?

I received this novel from Booksprout in exchange for an honest review.

I have looked at a lot of reviews written by others regarding A Hurt So Sweet, I am clearly not part of the majority. I firmly believe that a reviewer does an author no service in gaslighting stories that are half way to maturation. I will be critiquing A Hurt So Sweet in favor of Betti Rosewood and not in an attempt to flat out slam this novel.

I have no issue regarding the subject matter, subgenre and tropes in relation to this story. I have no prejudice regarding dark romance. I love bully books. I thoroughly enjoy broken heroes. I love despicable antiheroes who cross lines of humanity. I need push and pull between characters and conflict. But I want the complete package. I want to unwrap a book and I want to hate to love the feral madness in with I’m gifted.

The backstory in regards to the plot is that Eden Falls is a particular place with a strict patriarchal hierarchy; the First Born of the founders having ultimate and complete power. It is within the same world as Betti Rosewood’s Lords of Wildwood but outside the common society that we know from those books. I am saying that characters mentioned in both novels know one another but you would be wrong to assume that these two series share the same level of dark romance or bullying. The plot itself–while somewhat a stretch–could easily be rumors regarding a salacious ‘secret society’. 

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New Release: The Limbonian by Mikki Noble

Limbonian by Mikki Noble
Limbonian by Mikki Noble

Title: Limbonian (Vessel of Lost Souls #2)
Author: Mikki Noble
Genre:
YA Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy
Release Date:
September 15, 2019

Synopsis:

I am not completely useless.

Although, I feel like it lately. I lose more and more control over my emotions every day and I don’t know why. Is it because my best friend was murdered just steps away from me, or because my father has been taken? Maybe it’s because I had magic for about five minutes and lost it.

Everyone has a plan to follow. Me? Try to get my powers back or sit around waiting with my tail between my legs—and that’s just not going to happen. If getting my magic back is going to help my friends, then that’s what I have to do.

How do I fend off an anger that is so compelling and powerful it makes me forget just who the heck I am before I chase off everyone I love? How can I save two people I am destined not to?

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Interview: Moon Water by Pam Webber

Moon Water b Pam Webber

Ali: Introduce yourself, please.Pam: Hello Have Coffee Need Books followers – I am Pam Webber, author of the bestselling debut Southern novel, The Wiregrass, a Historical Novels Review Editors’ Choice, and Read of the Month at Southern Literary Review. My second novel, Moon Water, just released August 20th. I have also published extensively in nursing and am an award-winning educator and family nurse practitioner. I was pleased to present on a panel at Virginia Festival of the Book after my debut release. My husband, Jeff, and I live in the Northern Shenandoah Valley.

Ali: Describe your writing style in three words. 
Pam: Immersive, contextual storytelling

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Book Review: Wonderland Academy: Year One by Melanie Karsak

Wonderland Academy by Melanie Karsak
Wonderland Academy Year One by Melanie Karsak
Title: Wonderland Academy: Year One
Author: Melanie Karsak
Genre: New Adult & College Fantasy
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Just putting this out there–I am a huge Alice and Wonderland freak. I lurve Alice and everything Wonderland. I have copies of the books in other languages. I collect figurines. I have commissioned artwork. 

HUGE. ALICE. FREAK!

Having this passion for the Lewis Carroll novels I either crazy love or absolutely loathe the treatment other authors give to the lore of this magical world. It’s easy to misinterpret the archetypes Carroll fashioned his characters  causing the retelling to slaughter something I feel is sacred. But this book Melanie Karsak has written is brilliant. 

Also Karsak’s Alice and I coincidentally share a very similar name, mine Ali Lucia Crean (pronounced crane) and hers Alice Lacey Crane; therefor FIVE STARS!

No, really now. 

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Cover Reveal: Reign of Brayshaw by Meagan Brandy

Reign of Brayshaw by Meagan Brandy

Title: Reign of Brayshaw
Author: Meagan Brandy
Genre: High School Romance
Release Date:
October 3, 2019

Synopsis:

“Trust only those who earn it.”
A sentiment I follow without direction but holds more consequence than ever before.

One decision, five lives, three futures. 
This is what’s at stake. 

One night, one choice, four broken Brayshaws. 
That is where we’re headed.

Unless I stop it.
I 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 to stop it.
I have to remind him of what he’s chosen to forget.

My town. My choice. 𝘔𝘺 ending.

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Cover Reveal: When Wishes Bleed by Casey L. Bond

When Wishes Bleed by Casey L. Bond
When Wishes Bleed by Casey L. Bond

Title: When Wishes Bleed
Author: Casey L. Bond
Genre: YA Fantasy
Release Date:
November 1, 2019

Synopsis:

One Prince. One Witch. One Fate. 

The upheaval in my life began the moment a prince stumbled into my house and asked me to read his fortune. Any other night, I might have made an excuse to get him to leave, but this was no normal visit. My fingers prickled to touch him. So, I granted his request by handing him a single wishbone. When he snapped it, the wish … bled. 

Hearing me suck in a shocked breath, he asked what it meant. Such an ominous omen could only mean one thing: his death was imminent. Fate revealed that he wouldn’t die of natural causes. Someone wanted him dead. Stunned by the revelation, the man I now knew as Prince Tauren disappeared into a night I feared he wouldn’t survive. The following day, I received an invitation to the castle. While it seemed the prince believed I could intervene and uncover who was plotting his death, his motives didn’t stop there. I was being summoned to join twelve other women in vying for the opportunity to be his wife and future queen. 

Going could mean jeopardizing my plans to reclaim my heritage and resurrect the House of Fate. But staying would guarantee Tauren’s death, and the blood of his wish would be on my hands.

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Interviews: Tijan and Wolf Crew Chat

Crew Princess by Tijan
Crew Princess by Tijan
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Ali: Hey guys. Are you all excited about Crew Princess, the next book in your story?
Tijan and Crew: Of course! Hopefully. We’ll see. 🙂

Ali: Tijan do these characters behave when you are writing them or do they take your plans and do whatever the hell they want?
Tijan: Usually not! They do what they want, like all my characters. I let them.

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Cover Reveal: Ghosts Like it Hot by Erin McCarthy

Ghosts Like it Hot by Erin McCarthy
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Title: Ghosts Like it Hot
Author: Erin McCarthy
Genre: Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Paranormal
Release Date:
November 18, 2019

Synopsis:

Bailey Burke, reluctant spiritual medium, escapes the frozen Cleveland winter with her boyfriend, Detective Marner.

But in a city like Key West, murder and ghosts don’t take a vacation… 

Book 6 in the Murder By Design series continues with Bailey’s hilarious adventures in mystery solving!

Preorder GHOSTS LIKE IT HOT now!

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