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Delays, returns and news
Delays, returns and news
It’s been several weeks (I know) since I last posted to the blog. But – I have a very solid, and good, reason This Happened   That is two broken fingers and a very swollen hand in a splint.  While fortunately, not the dominant hand – the pain and swelling – and immobilization – made setting posts and managing to type reviews a near impossibility without 2+ hours to spend on each.  While I feel…
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gaeleatiamindeed · 3 years
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How to Find a Princess: Runaway Royals #2 by Alyssa Cole
How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole @AvonBooks #AvonAddict #WeNeedDiverseReads #LGBTQ @alyssacolelit
Alyssa Cole returns to the blog with the second in her Runaway Royals series – this one using the tale of Anastasia as inspiration with How to Find a Princess Makeda has had a bad day, or series of them. Job gone, girlfriend gone, and nothing seems to be right – now there’s a private investigator wanting to hear (again, for the millionth time) the story her grandmother told her and that enchanted…
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gaeleatiamindeed · 3 years
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Long Live the Queen: The Immortal Empire #3 by Kate Locke
Long Live the Queen by Kate Locke @audiobooks @OrbitBooks @HachetteAudio #UF #Fave @MoiraQuirk @alterkate
We’ve come to the end of the Immortal Empire series by Kate Locke with the third book in the series – where Xandra gets all the answers, we get a happy ending, and everything becomes clearer in this plague-ridden alternate universe story with Long Live the Queen Things are hotting up for Xandra, and she’s got plenty of decisions to make. Trying to discover the “WHO” behind the laboratories, who…
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gaeleatiamindeed · 3 years
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The Queen is Dead: The Immortal Empire #2 by Kate Locke
The Queen is Dead by Kate Locke @audiobooks @HachetteAudio @Orbitbooks @Moiraquirk @AlterKates
Kate Locke returns with the second in The Immortal Empire series where Xandra finds more news, more danger, more answers and more questions in   The Queen is Dead   I’ve already said I’m obsessed with this series, and this book fit right in. We’ve learned that Xandra is “extra special” beyond the usual half-blood, and that she’s been picked (or born to) the position of Queen of the Goblins by the…
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gaeleatiamindeed · 3 years
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God Save the Queen: The Immortal Empire #1 by Kate Locke
God Save the Queen by Kate Locke #FAVE #UF #AltUniverse @audiobooks @HachetteAudio @OrbitBooks @alterkates @copatter
Just so you all are aware- this is the beginning of a week where I share my latest obsession! This series has me coming back for more and more because it is just SO FUN! It’s not perfect, and there are some things that are just beyond the beyond – but it is exactly what I needed (what we all do) a dash of escape and fun in a world that isn’t quite ready for prime-time.   Kate Locke comes to the…
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gaeleatiamindeed · 3 years
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A Letter to the Last House Before the Sea: Heaven’s Cove #2 by Liz Eeles
A Letter to the Last House Before the Sea by Liz Eeles #BritishBooks #FamilySecrets #SmallTown @Bookouture @LizEelesAuthor
Liz Eeles returns to the blog with the second in her Heaven’s Cove series, set on the Devon coast with   A Letter to the Last House Before the Sea   We return to Heaven’s Cove with Lettie, still grieving the loss of her aunt who, although she left the cove years ago never to return, spoke so glowingly of the place that Lettie needed to see it for herself. Hoping to find that a tiny necklace key…
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gaeleatiamindeed · 3 years
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The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun @AtriaBooks #WeNeedDiverseReads #MMRomCom #SweetlyFunny #MentalHealth @alisoncochrun
Alison Cochrun comes to the blog with a story of reality television, Cinderella, dreams coming true and fate taking over with   The Charm Offensive   To start with – I ADORED both of the MC’s in this story: Charlie and Dev are both a bit ‘lost boy’, with their own individual issues of anxiety, depression, OCD, family struggles and romantic dearth, and while Dev is successfully producing a…
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gaeleatiamindeed · 3 years
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The Dating Dare: A Sweet Mess #2 by Jayci Lee
The Dating Dare: A Sweet Mess #2 by Jayci Lee @StMartinsPress #RomCom #WeNeedDiverseReads #Lighthearted @authorjaycilee
Jayci Lee returns to the blog with the second in her A Sweet Mess series with   The Dating Dare   If you want low-angst and low-tension romance with plenty of family interference (even from away) and two people who are perfect together (if not completely discovered within the pages) then this is the story for you.    Taking a leap (albeit a pushed one) into a games night with her best friend and…
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gaeleatiamindeed · 3 years
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The Library by Bella Osborne
The Library by Bella Osborne @Aria_Fiction #BritishBooks #Friendship #Books #Healing @osborne_bella
Bella Osborne returns to the blog with a story of friendship and healing, and how libraries (and books) help two souls heal and fill the holes in their lives with   The Library   Tom is a sixteen-year-old boy left motherless at eight, and content to fade into the background in his life. His father, however, wants Tom to be the outgoing little boy he remembers from years ago, and pushes Tom to…
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gaeleatiamindeed · 3 years
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Waiting for a Scot Like You: Union of the Rakes #3 by Eva Leigh
Waiting for a Scot Like You: Union of the Rakes #3 by Eva Leigh @AvonBooks #OlderHeroine #TropeLaden #AvonAddict @EvaLeighAuthor
Eva Leigh returns with the third book in her Union of the Rakes series with   Waiting for a Scot Like You  I’ve loved this author’s writing since I first read her Wicked Quills of London series, and this one is a mix of tropes, nods to contemporary films, and laden with plenty of laughter, hi jinks and plenty of steam.  Also, in this story we have an older heroine with a younger hero – both of…
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gaeleatiamindeed · 3 years
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Incense and Sensibility: The Rajes #3 by Sonali Dev
Incense and Sensibility: The Rajes #3 by Sonali Dev @WmMorrowBks #AustenInspired #WeNeedDiverseReads @Sonali_Dev
Sonali Dev returns to the blog with the third in her Austen-inspired series, The Rajes with   Incense and Sensibility  Taking a page from Austen, Dev has used the basic themes, modernized them and woven them with Indian traditions, beliefs and even customs to bring us a whole new and modern series to find as enjoyable and thought-provoking as the originals. I love Dev’s insights into customs and…
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gaeleatiamindeed · 3 years
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Weekend Arrangement by Sophie Penhaligon
Weekend Arrangement by Sophie Penhaligon #Self-Published #RomCom @Sophpen
Sophie Penhaligon comes to the blog with a story of second chances and unlikely pairings with   Weekend Arrangement  Freelance writer and part-time librarian Olivia is at loose ends. After finding her boyfriend in a public and very compromising position, she’s got to make changes, and now’s the time. But an unexpected contact from a publisher expressing interest in her writing and her travel…
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gaeleatiamindeed · 3 years
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Songbirds by Christi Lefteri
Songbirds by Christi Lefteri @RandomHouse #Gripping #Refugee #Cyprus #Hopeful @christy_lefteri
Christi Lefteri returns to the blog with another story of struggle, hope, desperation and courage with   Songbirds  When you see the images on television of people, women, children – desperate to find a safe life and opportunity elsewhere who risk everything: violence, lives, friendships, and money – just to start again – do you ever wonder? I always do – just how desperate and horrible things…
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gaeleatiamindeed · 3 years
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Only For You: Sapphire Springs #2 by Barb Curtis
Only For You: Sapphire Springs #2 by Barb Curtis @ReadForeverPub #SmallTown #FakeRelationship
Barb Curtis comes to the blog with the second in her Sapphire Springs series,  Only For You  A lovely series that keeps the setting the same as the couples in focus change, there are no issues with reading each of these books as a standalone, although the town and its people will encourage you to want more.  In this book we have town residents Emily and Tim.  Owner of the local bakery and truly a…
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gaeleatiamindeed · 3 years
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The Wrong Marquess: The Mating Habits of Scoundrels #3 by Vivienne Lorret
The Wrong Marquess: The Mating Habits of Scoundrels #3 by Vivienne Lorret @AvonBooks #AvonAddict @VivLorret
Vivienne Lorret comes to the blog with the third book in her series, The Mating Habits of Scoundrels with   The Wrong Marquess  Having read the first two in this series, I simply adore Lorret’s ‘scoundrels’ and find that the women they ultimately choose to marry (and have fallen in love with) are equal in intelligence, bravado and boldness to the men.  Now, in this book we have Elodie’s story:…
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An Island at War by Deborah Carr
An Island at War by Deborah Carr @OneMoreChapter_ #Historic #Occupation #BritishBooks #Epistolary @DebsCarr
Deborah Carr comes to the blog with a story of World War II, the channel island of Jersey and occupation with   An Island at War   Told in an epistolary format, with letters and real-life experiences from family members adding to the story of Estelle, left behind after her little sister is evacuated to Britain for safely before the German Occupation of Jersey.  If you’ve ever visited Guernsey or…
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Radar Girls by Sara Ackerman
Radar Girls by Sara Ackerman @harlequinbooks #Historic #Friendship #WorldWarII @ackermanbooks
Sara Ackerman returns to the blog with another World War II story based in Hawaii with   Radar Girls   The third book I’ve read from this author, all have been based in Hawaii during World War II, and are based in truth, and each was such a wonderful read and full of ordinary people who experienced and performed extraordinary deeds. And this book is no exception. After Pearl Harbor, the country…
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