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[New Post] ARC Review: Second Chance at the Riverview Inn by Molly O’Keefe

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Title: Second Chance at the Riverview Inn

Author: Molly O’Keefe

Page count: 246

Published: May 10th, 2021

Publisher: Netgalley

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

An emotional standalone romance about finding second chances where we least expect them…

Four years ago tragedy hit Helen Larson – hard. But she has her beautiful baby girl, the love and support of her family and a job she’s great at as the fundraiser for Haven House Charity. When she gets a letter from Micah Sullivan, the bad boy, lead singer of her favorite band – Band of Outlaws, offering a sizeable contribution to Haven House, she’s not sure it’s real. But then he invites her to watch rehearsal and things get very real.

Micah Sullivan is a man with some secrets: Helen has saved his life. Twice. Once she doesn’t know about and the other she clearly doesn’t remember. He’s also a man with a problem. When he needs someone to bail him out of jail he takes the opportunity to get Helen back into his life.

It’s not supposed to be serious. It’s not supposed to be love. But the chemistry between them is real and soon, so are their feelings. But if there’s going to be a real second chance between them, he has to come clean about his secrets.

And Helen has to forgive him.

What in the actual feels was that? are the other book in the series like this? I must know.
Micah is a lead singer of Band of Outlaws, and Helen is a charity fundraiser who hasn’t had it easy since her fiance passed while she had been pregnant. They are complete opposites which make this even more wonderful. The thing about these two is that they have met before when they were kids, it’s just that Helen doesn’t remember but when she does this turns into something magical and takes you on a beautiful adorable emotional rollercoaster that I want/need to have more of.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Day Zero by Kelly Devos

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Title: Day Zero

Author: Kelly Devos

Page count: 432

Published: November 12th, 2019

Publisher: Netgalley

Genre: Thriller

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 1/5

If you’re going through hell…keep going.

Seventeen-year-old coder Jinx Marshall grew up spending weekends drilling with her paranoid dad for a doomsday she’s sure will never come. She’s an expert on self-heating meal rations, Krav Maga and extracting water from a barrel cactus. Now that her parents are divorced, she’s ready to relax. Her big plans include making it to level 99 in her favorite MMORPG and spending the weekend with her new hunky stepbrother, Toby.

But all that disaster training comes in handy when an explosion traps her in a burning building. Stuck leading her headstrong stepsister, MacKenna, and her precocious little brother, Charles, to safety, Jinx gets them out alive only to discover the explosion is part of a pattern of violence erupting all over the country. Even worse, Jinx’s dad stands accused of triggering the chaos.

In a desperate attempt to evade paramilitary forces and vigilantes, Jinx and her siblings find Toby and make a break for Mexico. With seemingly the whole world working against them, they’ve got to get along and search for the truth about the attacks—and about each other. But if they can survive, will there be anything left worth surviving for?

This book just wasn’t for me, it may have been the political part of the book or maybe it was the stuff about the doomsday training and the drills. This book all around was just a boring book to me. I did finish it only because I wanted to know how it was going to end and even that was eh.

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[New Post] New Review: When Elephants Fly

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Title: When Elephants Fly

Author:  Nancy Richardson Fischer

Page count:  400

Published: September 4th, 2018

Publisher: Harlequin Teen

Genre: Teen

Received: E- Arc/Netgalley

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Rating: 2/5

Summary:

  1. Lily Decker is a high school senior with a twelve-year plan: avoid stress, drugs, alcohol and boyfriends, and take regular psych quizzes administered by her best friend, Sawyer, to make sure she’s not developing schizophrenia. Genetics are not on Lily’s side.

    When she was seven, her mother, who had paranoid schizophrenia, tried to kill her. And a secret has revealed that Lily’s odds are even worse than she thought. Still, there’s a chance to avoid triggering the mental health condition, if Lily can live a careful life from ages eighteen to thirty, when schizophrenia most commonly manifests.

    But when a newspaper internship results in Lily witnessing a mother elephant try to kill her three-week-old calf, Swifty, Lily can’t abandon the story or the calf. With Swifty in danger of dying from grief, Lily must choose whether to risk everything, including her sanity and a first love, on a desperate road trip to save the calf’s life, perhaps finding her own version of freedom along the way

 

My Thoughts:

Before I get into my review I feel like I need to say that If you are dealing with mental illness, there is always someone that you can talk too. You Are Not Alone.

The mental health aspect of this for me was interesting because Lucy was trying to connect with Swifty. The way that the author intertwined the mental health aspect of the story was really fascinating. It kept me reading.

Lily has a 12 year plan its consisted of running 3 miles everyday, meditating, an avoid stressful situations. She is doing all of this because she doesn’t want to become like her schizophrenic mother. Whom happened to kill her when she was 11.

Lily then gets a job at the newspaper and that takes her to the zoo. As she’s there she see’s this mother elephant attempting to kill her 3-week-old calf. I wish that Lily and Swifty were able to have more development then what they did have.

Over all, I did enjoy this book. If you like to read books about mental illness or the description peak your interest then I suggest that you pick this one up.

 

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Oh my gosh I can’t believe that I got this. When I first started doing book reviews I did it for myself. I case I ever forgot what a book was about. To be able to have authors contact me to review their book is amazing, for authors to enjoy my reviews is another feat in its own. I’m truly honored.

[New Post] Review: Brave Enough

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Title:  Brave Enough

Author:  Kati Gardner

Page count: 320

Published: August 21st 2018

Publisher: Flux

Genre: YA

Received: E-Arc/ Netgalley

Purchase:  Amazon

Rating: 4.5/5

Summary:

Teenager Cason Martin is the youngest ballerina in the Atlanta Ballet Conservatory. She never really had a choice of whether she learned to dance or not. Her mother, the conservatory’s artistic director, has made all the decisions in Cason’s life. But that’s about to change. Cason has been hiding an injury, and it’s much worse than anyone imagines.

Davis Channing understands all too well what it’s like to give up control of your life. He’s survived cancer, but his drug addiction nearly killed him. Now he’s been sober for seven months and enjoying his community service at the hospital. But just when he thinks he’s got it together, Davis’s ex-girlfriend, who is still battling her addiction, barrels back into his life.

Cason and Davis are not friends. But, as their worlds collide, they will start to depend on one another. Can they both be brave enough to beat the odds?

My Thoughts: Okie first off, the cover to this is stunning. Its one of the most beautiful ones that I have seen in a while. The book follows Cason and Davies as the main character their stories are remarkable. Cason is a ballerina that gets diagnosed with Bone Cancer, and Davies is the one that is a cancer survivor and also recovering from an addiction to drugs.  Being in the heads of both of these two people an getting to see how they are with having cancer and dealing with addiction was amazing. We get to see Cason’s life as a high school student and her love of dance. She is a ballerina that is preparing for her audition for the American Ballet Theater. She only wants to dance and doesn’t have time for anything else. She’s not going to let the pain in her knee stop since she thinks is just a sprain. When she does find out what it truly is it changes everything. Davis is one of the lucky ones that was able to conquer cancer, but now he has a different type of problem. He has an addiction. He has to do community service at the hospital that he got treaded at a few years ago. Davis has an ex-girlfriend who I found to be rather annoying because she would always come at the worst times for Davis asking for help/money.  Cason is getting chemo at the hospital where Davis is doing his community service and when they meet you can tell there is an instant connection. Even with the both of them having their own stories they still find love in one another, aside from one another knowing what the other is going through. Kati wrote an outstanding book. I’m surprised that this was her debut book. I can’t wait to see what other works she has up her sleeve. I was able to connect and feel for these characters and you don’t always have that happen with this type of book. At the end of the book we get to know that this was something that actually happened to Kati just as Cason. Finding that out blew me away. With this book being one that deals with cancer/depression it may not be a book for everyone.

*I received this book in exchange for an honest review form Netgalley and the publisher. *