Book of The Month by Jennifer Probst Review

From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst, discover Book of the Month…

She’s desperate for another bestseller… and she’ll go to any length to get it. Even if it means sacrificing her pride to chase the hottest bachelor in town and get him to break her heart…


Once the literary world’s golden girl, Aspen Lourde can’t seem to produce another successful book, and the pressure’s on to prove she’s not just a one-hit-wonder. But there’s a catch: her bestseller was a heartbreak hit, straight from her own love life disaster. Without any fresh romantic turmoil to fuel her pen, Aspen needs inspiration quick enough to create a book her agent can sell to her publisher. So she escapes for the summer to the Outer Banks with a plan to live a story worth writing.

Brick Babel is a romance novelist’s dream: a local heartthrob with a reputation as wild as the horses running free in the town. He’s everything Aspen needs for a muse kickstart—gorgeous, moody, and notoriously unattainable. His affairs are legendary in the small town, and every woman warns her off, including her sister.

Too bad a good heartbreak is exactly what she needs to meet her deadline.

But Brick refuses to play the game, rejecting all of her advances. When Aspen hears his tour company is on the verge of bankruptcy, she offers him a deal: fake a whirlwind summer romance, then ditch her, drama guaranteed.

Desperate to save his grandfather’s business, Brick agrees to the ridiculous deal. What starts as a contractual fling spirals out of control as lines blur and real feelings emerge. Brick’s falling hard, and Aspen’s rethinking her plot twist. The novel might be her ticket back to the top, but at what cost?

Because Aspen’s finally found her muse, but some stories may be too true to share.

Book of the Month isn’t just about finding love where you least expect it.
It’s about finding yourself in the pages of life’s unexpected chapters.

I LOVED this story! 

Small Town romance ✔

Grumpy guy ✔

Dramady ✔

This has all the fun f eels  .

 A  very  popular, # 1 New York Times bestseller now has a major, stressful job of fulfilling one more contract, a third book to win over the hearts of the people and do what she did with her first bestseller.

 The problem is, she's lost her mojo, she's in a funk and can't get out. So she decides to go to her sisters, get out of the city, out of her depressive life and take a break. 

Her sister Sierra lives in a small, beach town. Everyone knows everyone. After having some much needed sister time, she decides what she needs to write that award winning book. 

This is where the fun starts. In comes Brick, yes the name says it all. The love hate that starts winds up being a little more than they bargained for.

Not saying any more . Fun, steamy, did I say STEAMY?!! read. Love Aspens sister tho, and I'm definitely  looking forward to reading Sierra's story!

10 stars! Thank you to Netgalley and Blue Box Press for this wonderful book.

Get it on Amazon today! HERE

Well its that time again! Monday Monday.... So what am i reading?

Currently reading:

This is starting out slow for me. I 'm having a hard time getting into it.

Next up is :
From Amazon Review: From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. At the start of Freely's complex, often riveting novel set in contemporary and Cold War Turkey, a journalist known only as Miss M returns to Istanbul in 2005 after a long absence at the request of Jeannie Wakefield, whose father, William, was an American spy. Jeannie hopes that Miss M will write an article to help her husband, once Miss M's lover, who's been detained in the United States and sent to Guantánamo. A few months later, Jeannie disappears, leaving behind a long letter detailing events from the 1960s. The main narrative threads—extracts from Jeannie's letter; Miss M's memories of Istanbul from that same period and her present-day account of investigating Jeannie's long-ago indoctrination into a Communist cell, which was at one point charged with the infamous but possibly apocryphal Trunk Murder—interweave toward a quietly stunning conclusion. Both mystery/thriller and mainstream literary readers will be well rewarded. Freely is the English translator of Nobel Prize–winner Orhan Pamuk's novel, Snow. (May)

Oh i'm editing my reads for the week. Went to the library and picked up Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen. I've wanted to read this badly and it was finally at the library! I also snagged Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel by Lisa See. I've seen some great reviews by this author so i thought i would see what it's all about. Happy Reading!!!


~~Anyway, last weekend we were supposed to go camping. It was a new camping spot, we've never been there and when we pulled in, the spot was too small for us to get into! Talk about a huge disappointment. My son was crying, poor guy. Sooo we ended up going to the town rodeo and staying the night by the river in a pull out. It wasn't so bad but its not camping!!


Have a happy week!!

Book Review : Names My Sisters Call Me

I thought the name of the book was interesting and decided i had to read it.
Lucas proposes to Courtney in the front of her oldest sisters house one cold afternoon.
Courtney is the youngest of 3 sisters and she hasn't seen her middle sister, Raine for 6 years after she moved to San Francisco after "ruining" her oldest sisters wedding.
Courtney wants her family to reunite at her engagement party and thats when the problems begin. Emotions run wild when she has to deal with her ex-boyfriend, her dead father, her older bossy sister and her mother.
It was an interesting read. Not much more i can say about it.
On a scale of 1-10 i would give this one a 4, so so.

Book Review : Tender Graces by Katherine Magendie : Original post 6/16/2009

Tender Graces


What can i say? This book was one of the best books I've read in a very long time. I didn't want it to end, i wanted to keep reading , to follow the rest of Virginia Kates life.
Virginia Kate, along with her older brother Micah, younger brother Andy live with their Daddy Frederick and Momma Katie in West Virginia.
Their Momma and Daddy met when Grandma Faith invited Daddy to their house for supper . They were married shortly after but the happiness didn't last forever, they soon were arguing and fighting which escalated day by day and Daddy ends up leaving to Texas to live his Mom while finishing school. Everything goes downhill from there. I wanted to hug Virginia Kate and tell her everything will be ok and i wanted to slap Katie for destroying their kids life. I also wanted to slap their dad too and throw every bottle of booze in the garbage.
A passage from Chapter 1 : All my tired flies out the window when i see Grandma Faith standing in the mountain mists that drift in and out of the trees. She's as she was before, like one lick of fire hasn't touched her, whole and alive and wanting as she beckons me. Grandma whispers her wants as she's done all my life. I put my hand out the car window as Momma used to do, and say "Wheeee..." then holler to the owl flying in the night. "I'm Virginia Kate, and i'm a crazy woman." He keeps his wings spread to find his supper. I don't feel silly one bit.........

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Book Review : The Red Scarf by Kate Furnivall : Original post 6/12/2009

The Red Scarf By Kate Furnivall

What an awesome story. Loved every minute of it. I wanted to run to Anna and rescue her from that horrible place and i wanted to help Sofia convince Vasily to help her rescue Anna. The story is touching and sad and happy and heartbreaking, of course everything you want in a good book.

The story set in Russia, during the reign of Stalin. The labor camps for so called "criminals" were harsh and torturous, similar to the holocaust camps. Sofia and Anna as slaves, living hour by hour, minute by minute. Anna is dangerously ill and Sofia decides that she must escape to find Vasily , Annas lost love, to help her rescue Anna before she dies.

Sofia finds the town Tivil, where Anna says Vasily is living and falls in love with Mikhail who she thinks is Vasily. WELL you'll have to read the story to find out what happens to Anna, Sofia, Vasily and Mikhail. You won't be able to put it down.

Theater Thursday

Release date June 26, 2009 is the movie from the book My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult. I loved the book as well as all of Picoults books.
I can't wait to see it!

Starring: Cameron Diaz as Sara Fitzgerald , Sofia Vassilieva as Kate Fitzgerald, Alec Baldwin as Campbell Alexander, Jason Patric as Brian Fitzgerald, Abigail Breslin as Anna Fitzgerald .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdZZLdjBfCI

Book Review : The Red Scarf by Kate Furnivall

The Red Scarf

Well I'm half way thru the book and i can hardly put it down. Its so powerful, sad, exciting! Its about Sofia and Anna are in a labor camp in Siberia, Soviet Union. The girls in this camp have to endure horrible living conditions, crammed in a hut with dirt floors and rats, with sickness especially TB and walking 2 miles to where they endure hard labor while sick, weak and starving . I dont' want to tell to much exept Anna decides she needs to escape and try to get someone to help get Sofia out who is ailing.

I can't wait to read the rest and see what happens!

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