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Blog Tour with ARC Review: Making Up (Shacking Up World, #4) by Helena Hunting

July 18, 2019April 11, 2024 Mel Age Gap

Making Up (Shacking Up, #4) by Helena Hunting   Released – 16 July 2019   Available now! Amazon US  |  Paperback     Blurb A new standalone, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy by New York Times bestselling author Helena […]

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Release Blitz & ARC Review: Cruel Legacy (Cruel Trilogy, Book Three) by K.A. Linde

July 16, 2019January 4, 2023 Mel Book News

  CRUEL LEGACY (Cruel Trilogy, Book Three) by K.A. Linde   Released  – 16 July 2019   Buy it today! Amazon US  |  Amazon UK  |  Amazon AU  |  Amazon CA Kobo  |  B&N  | […]

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ARC Review: Untamed Delights (Phoenix Pack, #8) by Suzanne Wright

July 14, 2019July 13, 2019 AJ Feeeeeeels

Buy:  Kindle Ebook   |  Paperback  |  Audio Blurb Return to the sensual and feral stirrings of the Phoenix Pack as a woman who’s already bound to one man is tempted by a wolf who’s bound […]

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Audio Review: All Grown Up by Vi Keeland

July 13, 2019 AJ Audio Recommendation

Buy:  Amazon  |  Apple iBooks  |  B&N  |  Google Play  |  Kobo  |  Audio  |  Amazon Paperback Review 4 stars! You’re always guaranteed a good time when you pick up a Vi Keeland book. All Grown […]

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Release & ARC Review: First and Forever (Heartache Duet, #2) by Jay McLean

July 12, 2019July 11, 2019 AJ Drama

  Amazon US  |  Amazon Worldwide  |  Paperback   Blurb Ava Diaz needs saving. She just doesn’t know it yet. Just like she doesn’t know a thing about the boy she sits next to on […]

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Release, Excerpt, ARC Review & Giveaway: All In: Iggy’s Story (A Worth the Fight and Panic Crossover Novel, #1) by Sidney Halston

July 11, 2019July 7, 2019 AJ Badasses

  Amazon US  |  Amazon UK  |  Amazon CA  |  Amazon AU B&N  |  iTunes  |  Kobo   Synopsis Abby: He was my best friend. My first kiss, my first love, my first everything really. […]

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Audio Review: Black Sheep (Dirty Mafia Duet, #1) by Meghan March

July 9, 2019August 29, 2019 AJ Audio Recommendation

Now live as an Audible Original Audible Ebook and Paperback release 27 August 2019 Pre-order: Kindle Ebook  |  iBooks  |  B&N  |  Kobo   Blurb Every family has a black sheep. In the infamous Casso […]

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Audio Review: Heartbreak Warfare by Kate Stewart & Heather M. Orgeron

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019 AJ Audio Recommendation

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback  |  Audio Review “We are perfect, and we are impossible.” 4 stars Straight up – I’m not usually a fan of overly angsty books, and I put off reading this […]

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Blog Tour, ARC Review & Giveaway: Key to Hell (Hell Night, #4) by Alex Grayson

July 3, 2019June 29, 2019 AJ Dark & Gritty

  Amazon  |  Universal   Blurb Death. Destruction. Pain. A soulless void. It’s his life. It’s his reality. Emo doesn’t feel. Anything. His soul is dark and filled with hatred. People in the small town […]

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Release Blitz & ARC Review: Plan B (Best Laid Plans, #2) by Jana Aston

July 2, 2019July 1, 2019 Mel Book News

  Plan B by Jana Aston   A Contemporary Romance Released – 2 July 2019   Buy it today!! Amazon US  |  Amazon UK  |  Amazon CA  |  Amazon AU iBooks  |  B&N  |  Kobo  […]

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ARC Review: Alpha’s Promise (Dark Protectors, #10) by Rebecca Zanetti

June 30, 2019December 29, 2019 AJ Action

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Blurb To hell and back . . . Though he has vampire, demon, and Viking blood rushing through his veins, Ivar Kjeidsen’s soul-crushing trip to hell broke him in ways […]

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Release & ARC Review: Switch Bidder (Jock Hard, #2.5) by Sara Ney

June 29, 2019 AJ LOL Funny

  Amazon  |  iBooks  |  B&N  |  Kobo  |  Books2Read Review 4 ‘I want more!’ stars This is a super-cute, super-short (40 page) short story. It was available in audiobook format on the Read Me […]

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ARC Review: Intersect (Parallel, #2) by Elizabeth O’Roark

June 27, 2019December 19, 2020 AJ Drama

  Amazon US  |  Amazon UK  |  Amazon AU  |  Amazon CA Synopsis The stunning conclusion to Parallel. Someone has torn them apart in the past, and she plans to do it again… As Nick […]

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Blog Tour, Excerpt & ARC Review: Raphael (Deadly Virtues, #1) by Tillie Cole

June 26, 2019June 25, 2019 AJ Dark & Gritty

  Amazon  |  Nook  |  Kobo  |  iBooks   Unable to rate Synopsis They are the Fallen. A brotherhood of murderers whose nature compels them to kill. But guided by their leader, Gabriel, the Fallen […]

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ARC Review: Indefinite (Indefinite Duet, #1) (Salvation, #6) by Corinne Michaels

June 24, 2019 AJ Angsty

Buy:  Amazon  |  Apple Books  |  Kobo  |  Google Play Blurb The day he said he’d never love me is when I vowed Quinn Miller would never break my heart again. I wanted a family—but he wouldn’t […]

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Blog Tour, Excerpt & ARC Review: Nine: The Tale of Kevin Clearwater (King, #9) by T.M. Frazier

June 19, 2019 AJ Badasses

  “Nine was just as hilarious as it was dark and violent. Just as deep and emotional as it was smoking hot. NINE stars!!!”– BB Easton, bestselling author   Nine: The Tale of Kevin Clearwater, […]

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Release Blitz & ARC Review: Letters to Molly (Maysen Jar, #2) by Devney Perry

June 18, 2019June 18, 2019 AJ Drama

  Amazon |  Apple  |  Nook  |  Kobo   Blurb Molly Alcott didn’t expect to open her mailbox one summer morning and find an old letter stuffed between bills and a supermarket flyer. Penned in […]

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Release & ARC Review: Hooked (Love Stories on 7th & Main, #2) by Elizabeth Hunter

June 18, 2019October 15, 2021 AJ Romance

  Hooked: A Love Story on 7th and Main, an all-new standalone opposites attract Contemporary Romance by Elizabeth Hunter is NOW LIVE!   Amazon US  |  Amazon UK  |  Amazon CA  |  Amazon AU Nook  |  Kobo  […]

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Audio Review: The Two Week Arrangement (The Penthouse Affair) by Kendall Ryan

June 15, 2019 AJ Audio Recommendation

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback  |  Audio Blurb Dear Sexy AF Intern, I know you don’t particularly care that I’m the CEO of this company, and you’re just an intern. I also know you’re not […]

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ARC Review: Written With You (The Regret Duet, #2) by Aly Martinez

June 13, 2019June 12, 2019 AJ Drama

  Written With You, the emotional and highly anticipated conclusion to The Regret Duet from USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez, is available now!   Amazon  |  Amazon Worldwide   “Aly Martinez is one of the […]

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ARC Review: The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1) by Abby Jimenez

June 12, 2019April 6, 2021 AJ Drama

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback  |  Audio Review 5 stars! OMG. What did I just read? A fantastically fun friends-to-lovers romance that had me laughing out loud? A chemistry-filled love story between a fabulously snarky […]

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Audio Review: Getting Played (Getting Some, #2) by Emma Chase

June 11, 2019April 22, 2020 AJ Audio Recommendation

  Getting Played, a magnificent new romance by New York Times bestselling author Emma Chase is LIVE in Audio!   Buy now – Audible Original Release   Ebook and paperback releases 8 October Pre-order now! […]

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New Release, Excerpt, Giveaway & ARC Review: Satisfaction Guaranteed by Lauren Blakely

June 10, 2019April 11, 2024 Mel Age Gap

  SATISFACTION GUARANTEED by Lauren Blakely   Released – June 2019   Available Now! Amazon  |  iBooks  |  Kobo  |  B&N  |  Google Play  |  Paperback  |  Audio * Audiobook performed by Andi Arndt and […]

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New Release & ARC Review: Coldhearted Boss by R.S. Grey

June 6, 2019June 6, 2019 Mel LOL Funny

Coldhearted Boss by R.S. Grey   Released – 6 June 2019   AVAILABLE NOW! Amazon *FREE in Kindle Unlimited*     Blurb I’m desperate and destitute when Lockwood Construction rolls into my small town with an […]

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Release & ARC Review: This is Crazy (This Is, #1) by Natasha Madison

June 4, 2019June 4, 2019 AJ Romance

  Amazon  |  Apple  |  B&N  |  Kobo   Blurb From the best selling series, Something So comes the spin-off This is… Zara Stone All my life, I’ve said I will never date a hockey […]

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