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Release & ARC Review: Until August (Love and Chaos, #3) by Emery Rose

January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 AJ Drama

  UNTIL AUGUST by Emery Rose is live! A standalone story in the Love and Chaos world, this book brings all the feels. A second chance at love story for two lost and broken souls […]

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Blog Tour & ARC Review: Made For Me (Made For #1) by Natasha Madison

December 28, 2022December 28, 2022 AJ Feeeeeeels

  From Wall Street Journal and USA TODAY bestselling author Natasha Madison comes a brand new stand-alone friends to lovers sports romance. A spin-off from the Only One series   Amazon US  |  Amazon UK  […]

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ARC Review: Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales

November 27, 2022November 24, 2022 AJ Friends-to-Lovers

Buy:  Amazon  |  Audio Review 3.5 stars This is such a fun read! A witty comedy featuring a bachelor-ish reality show where a semi-wannabe-celebrity dates his ex-girlfriends in the hopes of finding the one who […]

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Audio Review: The Rules of Dating (The Law of Opposites Attract, #1) by Vi Keeland & Penelope Ward

November 26, 2022November 23, 2022 AJ Audio Recommendation

Buy:  Amazon  |  Paperback  |  Audio Review 4.5 stars! Oh, what a gorgeous romance! Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward deliver another fun, chemistry-filled, functional, passionate, and swoony love story that completely captured my heart. Billie has […]

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New Release & ARC Review: The Good Guy Challenge (The Dating Games, #3) by Lauren Blakely

November 8, 2022January 23, 2023 Mel Friends-to-Lovers

THE GOOD GUY CHALLENGE, the second standalone book in The Dating Games Series, from #1 NYT bestselling author Lauren Blakely is NOW LIVE and FREE in KU!!     Make sure to grab this all-new, […]

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Release & ARC Review: Mine to Love (Southern Wedding, #4) by Natasha Madison

November 1, 2022December 14, 2022 AJ Brother/Best Friend

  Mine to Love by Natasha Madison is live! Funny and heartfelt, this one really brings the feels as a woman who is terrified to love is forced to confront her feelings for the man […]

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Blog Tour, Excerpt & ARC Review: Fractured Sky (Tattered & Torn, #5) by Catherine Cowles

October 26, 2022August 28, 2025 AJ Drama

Fractured Sky, a moving and passionate, small-town contemporary romance from USA Today bestselling author Catherine Cowles, is out now   Amazon  |  Amazon Worldwide  |  Apple Books  |  Nook  |  Kobo  |  Google Play   […]

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New Release & ARC Review: Folk Around and Find Out (Good Folk, #2) by Penny Reid

October 20, 2022November 21, 2022 Mel Book News

Folk Around and Find out, a small town, contemporary romance from New York Times bestselling author Penny Reid is LIVE!     Grab your copy today! Amazon US  |  Amazon Worldwide  |  iBooks  |  Nook […]

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Release & ARC Review: Simply Mine (Honey Mountain, #4) by Laura Pavlov

October 20, 2022October 20, 2022 AJ Brother/Best Friend

  Simply Mine by Laura Pavlov is live! The fourth standalone in the Honey Mountain series, this is a gorgeous best-friend’s-brother, friends-to-lovers romance that is sweet and sexy and beautifully romantic. I love these characters, […]

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Release & ARC Review: A Little Too Wild (Madigan Mountain, #3) by Devney Perry

October 16, 2022 AJ Brother/Best Friend

  A Little Too Wild by Devney Perry is live! A fantastically entertaining, passionate and romantic story that combines brother’s-best-friend, it-started-with-a-hookup, small-town and sports romance. I adored these characters, I loved their story, and this […]

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ARC Review: A Cosmic Kind of Love by Samantha Young

October 15, 2022October 15, 2022 AJ Friends-to-Lovers

  A Cosmic Kind of Love by Samantha Young Releasing 18 October   Sweet, fun, sexy and intense, it’s an emotional friends-to-lovers romance with characters that you cannot help but love, and I was captivated […]

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Blog Tour & ARC Review: Fall Twice by Evey Lyon

October 12, 2022October 11, 2022 AJ Friends-to-Lovers

  Fall Twice by Evey Lyon is live! A complete standalone second-chance novella that celebrates the season of change, Autumn. It will give you all the feels with a dose of steam. Ideal for lovers […]

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Release & ARC Review: In a Jam (Friendship, Rhode Island, #1) by Kate Canterbary

September 20, 2022February 4, 2025 AJ Fake Relationship

  In a Jam by Kate Canterbary is live! A small-town, slow-burning, friends-to-lovers, single-dad romance with all the feels, I am completely obsessed with these characters, and I absolutely adored this book!   Amazon US  […]

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New Release & ARC Review: Memories of a Life: Colton & Josie: Part Two (Life Series, Book Four) by Jewel E. Ann

September 19, 2022September 27, 2022 Mel Angsty

  Memories of a Life, part 2 of the new duet in The Life Series by Jewel E. Ann is LIVE!!   Released – September 19, 2022   Grab your copy today! Amazon  |  Amazon […]

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New Release & ARC Review: Northern Stars (Compass, #4) by Brittainy C. Cherry

September 15, 2022September 17, 2022 Mel Book News

  Brittainy Cherry   Released – September 15, 2022   Amazon  |  Amazon Worldwide   Blurb Hollywood’s biggest star first belonged to me. Breaking up with your high school sweetheart was one thing. Breaking up […]

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Release ARC Review: Rebel (The Boys of Welles, #2) by Ginger Scott

September 8, 2022 AJ Drama

  Rebel by Ginger Scott is now live! An emotional, YA, friends-to-lovers, forbidden romance. With wonderful characters, an engaging, heartfelt story and lots of feels, I loved it.   Amazon Free in KU   Blurb […]

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Release & ARC Review: Let Me Love You (Excess All Areas, #5) by Scarlett Cole

August 30, 2022August 30, 2022 AJ Angsty

Let Me Love You by Scarlett Cole is live!   He’s loved her forever. Now she’s marrying another man.     The fifth and final book of the Excess All Areas series, this is an […]

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Release & ARC Review: Make You Mine (Honey Mountain, #3) by Laura Pavlov

August 25, 2022April 11, 2024 AJ Age Gap

  Make You Mine by Laura Pavlov is live! This is such a beautiful story! A heartfelt friends-to-lovers, single dad romance that made me laugh, cry and swoon. I fell in mad love with these […]

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Review: Blind Side (Red Zone Rivals, #2) by Kandi Steiner

August 14, 2022January 30, 2023 AJ Audio Recommendation

Buy:  Amazon  |  Paperback Review 4.5 sweet, fun, tropey stars! I love this book! A fake-dating, lessons-in-seduction, friends-to-lovers college sports romance that is fun, sexy, and gorgeously emotional. It made me laugh and made me […]

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New Release & ARC Review: The Virgin Next Door (The Dating Games, #1) by Lauren Blakely

August 12, 2022September 29, 2023 Mel Book News

HOT NEW RELEASE!! THE VIRGIN NEXT DOOR from #1 NYT bestselling author Lauren Blakely is LIVE! Don’t miss this all-new flirty, dirty, hilarious romance between a clever, book-loving heroine and a hot, nerd of a […]

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Release & ARC Review: Mine to Hold (Southern Wedding, #2) by Natasha Madison

August 2, 2022July 19, 2022 AJ Friends-to-Lovers

  Mine to Hold by Natasha Madison is live! Funny, sexy and beautifully romantic with fantastic characters, this best-friends-to-lovers romance had me laughing and fanning myself as two friends find passion and love when they […]

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Review: Weight of Regret (Camp Bexley, #1) by K.K. Allen

July 31, 2022April 11, 2024 AJ Age Gap

Buy:  Amazon Review 3 “no regrets” stars An angsty friends-to-lovers, almost-second-chance romance that is sexy and heartfelt, I enjoyed this one. This is the first book in the Camp Bexley, which spins off from book #4 […]

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ARC Review: The Redo (Winslow Brothers, #4) by Max Monroe

July 24, 2022 Mel Favourite

Buy: Amazon   Blurb  Put a finger down if you’ve ever been a single woman who got stuck in a New York City elevator in the middle of a summer blackout with your former high school sweetheart—whom […]

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Release & ARC Review: Be With Me (Adair Family, #4) by Samantha Young

July 12, 2022July 12, 2022 AJ Feeeeeeels

  Be With Me by Samantha Young is live! I adored this book! A breathtakingly emotional and passionate friends-to-lovers story that absolutely stole my heart!   Amazon  |  Apple  |  Nook  |  Kobo   Blurb […]

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New Release & ARC Review: Tease (Cloverleigh Farms, #8) by Melanie Harlow

July 11, 2022August 28, 2025 Mel Book News

I didn’t mean to say I was engaged to a hot billionaire–it just slipped out.   TEASE, an all new billionaire, fake engagement, small town romantic comedy from USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author […]

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