[New Post] ARC Review: Irresistibly Dangerous by J. Saman

January 19, 2024August 8, 2024 LatteandbookzLeave a comment

Title: Irresistibly Dangerous

Author: J. Saman

Page count: 326

Published: January 15th, 2024

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

For the record, I knew I never should have touched her.
She was everything good in this world and I was everything but.
I was too broken to care about how off limits my best friends’ cousin was.
But I didn’t know how to stop.
She was the air I needed while drowning in darkness.
Until I broke her heart and finally forced myself to do the right thing and walk away.
Six years later she’s on my doorstep asking me for a favor I can’t say no to.
Only a marriage of convenience to Georgia Monroe is anything but convenient.
Not with how I still crave her despite the promises I made to never touch her again.
Not with the dangers lurking around us, coming after her in ways she knows nothing about.
I’m the only one who can help her.
Her dark knight. A silent hacker.
The cold, broody man who never felt worthy of her love.
But now everything is different.
I’ll do whatever it takes to keep her safe and prove I deserve a second chance at owning this irresistibly dangerous woman’s heart.
No matter what comes my way.

After reading the books in the series, I have to say that the best was saved for last. Lenox and Georgia have a special connection, Georgia gets her heart broken bad by Lenox but when she appears that she is sitting in his living room when he gets home, he wants to help her in any way that he can even marriage? but also show that he’s sorry for how things ended previously. Lenox and Georgia have a lot they need to work through with the past and the present, their able to weave and reconnect when they both secretly need help.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Reviving Hearts by Lea Coll

January 18, 2024August 8, 2024 LatteandbookzLeave a comment

Title: Reviving Hearts

Author: Lea Coll

Page count: 270

Published: January 9th, 2024

Publisher: Self Published

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

This Christmas, I’d better not fall in love with my brother’s best friend… again.A long time ago I fell in love with my brother’s best friend, Heath. We kept our relationship a secret, knowing my brother would never approve. I had faith that in time we would come clean and declare our love to the world, but Heath broke things off before that could ever happen. I fled from my hometown and vowed never to return.

Now I’ve inherited my grandmother’s Inn and I have no choice but to go back. It’s not as simple as just selling the property, it needs to be renovated first. When the realtor said he knew just the guy, I never suspected it would be Heath. The moment he steps back into my life, I can’t deny that the attraction is even greater than it was all those years ago.

While renovating the Inn, Heath is determined to remind me of everything I loved about my grandmother’s property and his family’s Christmas tree farm. Nothing has ever felt more like home, than when I’m with Heath. Could these feelings be real or is it the magic of the holidays fooling me into falling in love with Heath again?

This was a beautiful second chance at romance with Heath and Marley, who had dated in secret back in high school but broke up when things got to be too much for Heath. They went to separate ways and Marley went away to college because she was completely devastated and never wanted to look back. 10 years have passed, and Marley needs to return home due to a passing in the family. When she bumps into Heath again when she gets back to town, Heath is just as attracted to her as he was all those years ago, he feels bad about how things ended with Marley and wants to make things right and to get there they had some struggles, When Heath asked Marley to stay a little bit longer shocked me in the best way because I knew then that Heath was going to do whatever it took to win her back. The title of the book truly fits the story perfectly.

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[New Post] Books That I Wasn’t a Fan Of In 2023

January 16, 2024January 14, 2024 LatteandbookzLeave a comment

These are books that just fell flat to me, I wasn’t able to connect to the story/characters and some were a DNF and various points of the story.

1. Half Truths: Now by Elena M. Reyes

I wasn’t able to get past 65% in this one.

2. And Clouds Passed Above by Thomas Van Der Hof

For me, the synopsis and the actual story were completely different.

3. Confessions of a Christmasholic by Joss Wood

This wasn’t the RH that I thought it was going to be.

4. Sincerely Yours, Anna Sherwood by Beth Reekles

This was a book that was like The Office.

5. Filthy Rich Vampire by Geneva Lee Albin

I wasn’t able to get past a certain part of the book because it was kind of a snooze.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Saved by Love by Kelly Elliot

January 15, 2024August 8, 2024 LatteandbookzLeave a comment

Title: Saved by Love

Author: Kelly Elliot

Page count: 260

Published: January 11th, 2024

Publisher: Grey’s Promo

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the Publisher/Author in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

My momma used to say, “Out of every tragedy, a miracle of love would come.” The last ten years of my life have been nothing but tears and pain. I lost hope and wanted to give up on waiting for my miracle to come. Finally, a light is shining at the end of the tunnel. After leaving Texas and my past behind, I’ve started a new life journey in Estes Park, Colorado. I have a second chance and don’t plan to waste it. I found work as a live-in nanny for a darling little girl named Hadley. Her father, Aiden, is a single dad with a troubled past he is desperately trying to move on from. When I find myself drawn to Aiden in a way I’ve never experienced before, I long to help him see what a wonderful father he is. But Aiden’s past keeps him from forgiving himself and moving on with his life. If I can help save him from a dark road of torment, my journey will have been worth it. My name is Emma, and this is my story. Love alone, sometimes isn’t enough.

Author Kelly Elliot has gone under a new pen name, so I knew had to get this book because Kelly writes fantastic stories. Aiden never thought that he would be able to find love again but with an accidental bump into Emma he gets that spark of hope that maybe I can fall in love again? So, he hires Emma to take care of his daughter. As Aiden watches his daughter with Emma, he starts to see that she has never been happier so it could be possible for him too? Following these two and seeing all the trials and tribulations they had gone through to get where they are now was an emotional journey that felt real. I’m beyond excited to see what other books are going to be coming our way this year.

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[New Post] ARC Review: And Clouds Passed Above by Thomas Van Der Hoof

January 14, 2024January 28, 2025 LatteandbookzLeave a comment

Title: And Clouds Passed Above

Author: Thomas Van Der Hof

Page count: 313

Published: September 2023

Publisher: Netgalley

Genre: Magical

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 2/5

In a tale of mystery, there’s a choice that reaches to a past that’s been missing for a boy who sees a world of faraway tales and present secrets. Until now as a young man, he finds a task set before him by the enigmatic figure of his grandfather. On a journey that leads away from his small village on a quiet fiord, to forgotten routes high among mountain passes and their towering cities, across ancient desert lands and the lingering echoes of lost kingdoms, to a city in the clouds and its riddle for a few who are drawn within. And to many other wonderful and desolate places until his destination is at last reached on a hidden and secret island, in the completion of his grandfather’s request.

Along this winding path he finds what things are within life – of fears and love, friendship and ambition, adventure and creativity, spirituality and darkness, sorrow and regret. And a choice, in a moment that comes to each. Reminiscent of a present-day fairytale, And Clouds Passed Above shares thematic similarities with magical realism and The Alchemist, 1Q84 and Life of Pi. Where each place is part of a choice in how to spend a life, and whether something else may lie beyond. With a contemplative pace, at its heart is the way the world seems as a child, the way each moment and experience has a feeling and texture, magic and mystery, and wondering if this might stay each day, waiting to be rediscovered.