Lola’s Ramblings: How I experience settings in books part two

Lola’s Rambings is a feature on Lola’s Review where I talk about me. Usually these posts are everything that doesn’t fall under any standard header, like blog tours, book blitzes, cover reveals or reviews. Lola’s Ramblings posts are are personal discussions of a certain topic. Sometimes about book related topics and sometimes about non-book related topics. This feature was previously known as About Me. The banner for this feature is designed by Michelle from Limabean Design. Last week I already talked about how I experience settings in books, but as there were so many settings I wanted to address today […]

Posted April 30, 2015 by Lola in Lola's Ramblings / 12 Comments

Bookish Resolutions Challenge: April Recap

The 2015 Bookish Resolutions Challenge hosted by A Reader Lives A Thousand Lives and Because Reading is Better Than Real Life. Every month on the 30th I will be doing my recap of that month. You can check out my goal post here February Recap Accept no more than 1 book with a deadlines each month. I already failed this goal in February when I signed-up for two deadline books in March and in April. I did complete this goal for February and January. I had quite some deadlines for this month and so far I have two deadline books […]

Posted April 30, 2015 by Lola in Challenges / 16 Comments

Blog Tour: Runaway Brides by Catherine Mann and Joanne Rock

Today is my stop durign the Runaway Brides review tour. I review both How to Lose a Groom in 10 Days (Runaway Brides #0.5) and The Wedding Audition (Runaway Brides #1) by Catherine Mann and Joanne Rock How to Lose a Groom in 10 Days (Runaway Brides #0.5) by Catherine Mann and Joanne Rock Blurb: He thought their love was a grand slam, until his bride called foul… After an impulsive courthouse wedding with one of baseball’s rising stars, landscaper Melanie Webb wonders if she’s fallen victim to lust at first sight. She hardly knows Grady Hollis, the Atlanta outfielder […]

Posted April 29, 2015 by Lola in Blog Tour, Contemporary, Review, Romance / 14 Comments

Blog Tour: Dragons Are People, Too by Sarah Nicolas

Today is my tour stop during the blog tour for Dragons Are People, Too by Sarah Nicolas. I share my review of this book with you and there’s a tour wide giveaway. You can check out the tour schedule here. Dragon Are People, Too by Sarah Nicolas Blurb: Never judge a dragon by her human cover… Sixteen-year-old Kitty Lung has everyone convinced she’s a normal teen—not a secret government operative, not the one charged with protecting the president’s son, and certainly not a were-dragon. The only one she trusts with the truth is her best friend—and secret crush—the über-hot Bulisani […]

Posted April 28, 2015 by Lola in Contemporary, Fantasy, Review / 12 Comments

Review: One Good Cowboy by Catherine Mann

One Good Cowboy (Diamonds in the Rough #1) by Catherine Mann Blurb: From Ex to Eternity? To inherit his family’s empire, Texas cowboy-turned-CEO Stone McNair must prove he has a heart beneath his ruthlessly suave exterior. His trial? Finding homes for his grandmother’s rescue dogs. His judge? Johanna Fletcher, the woman whose heart he broke. Sure, Johanna can handle a week traveling the country with her ex-fiancé to fulfilll his dying grandmother’s request. She and Stone want different things—plain and simple. But there’s nothing plain about Stone, or simple about the heat that still flares between them. One week may […]

Posted April 27, 2015 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 14 Comments

Sunday Post #123

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? I did some more cleaning and found a whole lot of candies in one of our cabinets that were about a year or longer past their expiration date, oops. The cabinets in our kitchen are pretty deep so we didn’t realize we had so much left. Beside that […]

Posted April 26, 2015 by Lola in Sunday Post / 38 Comments

Review: Midnight Frost by Jennifer Estep

My To-Be Read List is a meme hosted by Because Reading is Better Than Real Life where at the beginning of the month visitors can choose which book I’ll be reading this month. On the first saturday of a month the poll will be up, then on the second saturday of the month I’ll announce the book that won and on the last saturday of the month I’ll post my review of the book. Midnight Frost (Mythos Academy #5) by Jennifer Estep Blurb: Here we go again … Just when it seems life at Mythos Academy can’t get any more […]

Posted April 25, 2015 by Lola in Fantasy, My To-Be Read List, Mythology, Review / 18 Comments