2017 New Release Challenge: Third Quarterly Recap

The 2017 New Release Challenge is hosted by Lexxie at Unconventional Book Views and Stormi at Books, Movies, Reviews Oh My. This is the third quarterly recap already for this challenge. I am doing great, I almost reached the upper boundary of my goal and I’ll see how many new releases I can read before the end of the year. Previous quarterly recaps: First Quarterly Recap – January, February and March – 21 new releases read Second Quarterly Recap – April, May and June – 20 new releases read How am I doing so far? Goal: 31-60 books per year […]

Posted September 30, 2017 by Lola in Challenges / 6 Comments

Review: Chasing Christmas Eve by Jill Shalvis

Chasing Christmas Eve (Heartbreaker Bay #4) by Jill Shalvis Rating: 3 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Blurb: Meet cute… Run for the hills—temporarily. That’s Colbie Albright’s plan when she flees New York for San Francisco. Wrangling her crazy family by day and writing a bestselling YA fantasy series by night has taken its toll. In short, Colbie’s so over it that she’s under it. She’s also under the waters of a historic San Francisco fountain within an hour of arrival. Fortunately, the guy who fishes Colbie out has her looking forward to Christmas among strangers. But she’s pretty sure Spencer Baldwin […]

Posted September 28, 2017 by Lola in Contemporary, Coyer, Review, Romance / 12 Comments

Review: Dial Meow for Murder by Bethany Blake

Dial Meow for Murder (Lucky Paws Petsitting Mystery #2) by Bethany Blake Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Blurb: Even an experienced pet sitter like Daphne Templeton can be fooled by animal behavior: how can an adorably tiny fuzz ball named Tinkleston be capable of sudden flying leaps with cat claws bared? But human behavior remains even more mysterious, especially when Tinkleston’s owner is murdered on the night of a gala fundraiser for Fur-ever Friends Pet Rescue. Accompanied by her unflappable basset hound, Socrates, Daphne plans to take charge of Tinks the Terror and leave the crime-solving to handsome detective […]

Posted September 26, 2017 by Lola in Coyer, Mystery, Review / 12 Comments

Sunday Post #249

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. What happened this week? This week was a bit less busy than last week, which was kinda nice. But for some reason I was really tired this week, it felt like I had caught a cold, but like I was stuck at that stage right before the full symptoms hit. So I […]

Posted September 24, 2017 by Lola in Sunday Post / 27 Comments

Review: Curveball by Jordan Ford

Curveball (Barlow Sisters #1) by Jordan Ford Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Blurb: Maddie Barlow is used to being in control. So when her father uproots their family to the small, troubled town of Armitage, just six months from her high school graduation, she’s struggling to cope. Worse yet, he insists the coach makes room for all of his daughters on the boys’ baseball team. The close-knit Armitage Pitbulls don’t want three girls messing up their season, and they’re going to do everything in their power to make sure the girls don’t make them look bad…especially Holden Carter—the smooth, […]

Posted September 22, 2017 by Lola in Contemporary, Coyer, Review, Romance / 10 Comments

Review: Rituals by Kelley Armstrong

Rituals (Cainsville #5) by Kelley Armstrong Rating: 4 stars Genre: Urban Fantasy Blurb: Olivia Jones must make a choice. Caught between two rival supernatural forces, Liv has been given a brief period in which to make her decision. Now that time has run out. Whichever side she chooses, someone she loves will pay. Her lover, Ricky. Gabriel Walsh – the man she knows she cannot, must not love. Her parents – already trapped in prison. And now there is a new, terrifying power rising – one that doesn’t distinguish between good and evil intentions. It feeds on chaos and destroys […]

Posted September 20, 2017 by Lola in Fantasy, Review / 12 Comments

Sunday Post #248

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. What happened this week? This week was very busy, but mostly because of good things. I celebrated Lola’s Blog Tours 4 year anniversary. I did a post about it on my site, sent out newsletters to my tour host and authors list about and I am celebrating with a discount on book […]

Posted September 17, 2017 by Lola in Sunday Post / 24 Comments