Tag: Paranormal Romance

[New Post] ARC Review: Ghosted by Sarah Ready

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Title: Ghosted

Author: Sarah Ready

Page count: 457

Published: September 26th, 2023

Publisher: Netgalley

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 2/5

Jillian Nejat is the only dating and relationship expert on the planet who is incapable of speaking to men. If they’re living, if they’re breathing, it’s game over. With her bank account at zero, her career a dumpster fire, and her dating life in a ten-year slump, she moves into a tiny, dirt-cheap NYC apartment. Unfortunately, the apartment is already occupied. Daniel (no-last-name) is a sexy, shirtless, six-pack wielding heartthrob who is also…dead. He isn’t living. He isn’t breathing. He’s a ghost. He’s also the only man on the planet who Jillian can talk to. Soon, Daniel’s convinced that it’s his afterlife mission to resurrect Jillian’s love life. He knows, if he helps her fall in love then he can move on. Jillian agrees. The last thing she needs is a Lothario ghost haunting her living room. But then, one practice date leads to another, one confession leads to more, and suddenly Jillian fears she’s falling for the one man she can never have.

I’m not sure how I feel about this one. I have read books that are part of ghost romance and I loved them, I just don’t know what happened with this one and why I didn’t have a great time reading it.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Filthy Rich Vampire by Geneva Lee Albin

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Title: Filthy Rich Vampire

Author: Geneva Lee Albin

Page count: 429

Published: May 24th, 2022

Publisher: Netgalley

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 2/5

Newly edited, and for the first time in print, discover the smash-hit series.

Julian Rousseaux has a problem. He’s single, and for the world’s wealthiest vampires, the social season is about to begin. Julian would rather stake himself than participate in the marriage market. But as the eldest eligible Rousseaux, he’s expected to find a wife before the season ends―whether he likes it or not.

When cellist Thea literally stumbles into his life at a gala, he knows she’s the last person he could ever fall in love with. She’s too innocent, too kind, and way too human. But now that she knows about his world, she’s also a walking target. She needs protection. He needs a fake girlfriend to discourage overzealous vampire matchmaking.

So, Julian makes Thea an irresistible offer: pretend to be his lover and he’ll change her life. For one year, they’ll attend the season’s social events together in exchange for his protection and a way out of her mother’s crippling medical debt.

She can’t say no. But the vampire world is impossibly decadent and darker than Thea ever imagined, and Julian’s filthy rich vampire family wants her out of the way. But with each moment they share, new dangers emerge: a desire as forbidden as their stolen touches, an awakening of a long-dead heart, and secrets that could tear them both apart.

Sensual, dangerous, provocative ― step into a daring new world of dark magic, primal attraction, and breathtaking romance.

This for me sadly is a DNF at 35%

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[New Post] ARC Review: The Lovely Return by Carian Cole

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Title: The Lovely Return

Author: Carian Cole

Page count: 524

Published: November 29th, 2023

Publisher: Grey’s Promo

Genre: Contemporary Romance

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

Rating: 3/5

What if death doesn’t do you part?

They say be careful what you wish for. But on December 5, Alex Fox makes a wish in the midst of a devastating tragedy. Little does he know that his wish will come true.

Six years after that fateful day, a little girl wanders into Alex’s studio. With her quirky personality, endless questions, and adorable smile, Penny Rose becomes an enchanting yet bittersweet distraction.

Penny Rose is an odd girl—at least, that’s what her parents say. Penny herself doesn’t feel particularly odd; she simply feels misplaced. As if somehow, in some way, she is living in the wrong place… in the wrong life.

As the years pass, Alex and Penny develop a friendship. But it becomes harder and harder for them to ignore their undeniable chemistry, no matter how off limits it is. Alex believes he’ll never find love again, let alone fall for a girl half his age. But Penny is everything he could ever want or need. Not only is she caring, witty, and beautiful, but she accepts the past that haunts him.

Penny couldn’t be happier. She’s been head over heels for sexy, brooding artist Alex Fox for as far back as she can remember. But when her childhood dreams and visions start resurfacing again—dreams of a life with Alex way before they ever met—she starts to think they’re not dreams at all.

They’re memories.

Penny’s revelation to Alex threatens to tear them apart, making them question the impossible and unbelievable. Can love truly transcend time and death, giving them a second chance at their happily ever after? Or is Penny battling a broken mind that has led her down a path of heartbreaking delusion?

This was beautifully written it had me on a rollercoaster of emotions. This may be an age gap read but it didn’t seem like it while reading. This was a beautiful slow burn romance.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Mayhem by Estelle Laure

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Title: Mayhem

Author: Estelle Laure

Page count: 304

Published: July 14th, 2020

Publisher: Netgalley

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 2/5

A YA feminist mash up inspired by The Lost Boys and The Craft.

It’s 1987 and unfortunately it’s not all Madonna and cherry lip balm. Mayhem Brayburn has always known there was something off about her and her mother, Roxy. Maybe it has to do with Roxy’s constant physical pain, or maybe with Mayhem’s own irresistible pull to water. Either way, she knows they aren’t like everyone else. But when May’s stepfather finally goes too far, Roxy and Mayhem flee to Santa Maria, California, the coastal beach town that holds the answers to all of Mayhem’s questions about who her mother is, her estranged family, and the mysteries of her own self. There she meets the kids who live with her aunt, and it opens the door to the magic that runs through the female lineage in her family, the very magic Mayhem is next in line to inherit and which will change her life for good. But when she gets wrapped up in the search for the man who has been kidnapping girls from the beach, her life takes another dangerous turn and she is forced to face the price of vigilante justice and to ask herself whether revenge is worth the cost.

From the acclaimed author of This Raging Light and But Then I Came Back, Estelle Laure offers a riveting and complex story with magical elements about a a family of women contending with what appears to be an irreversible destiny, taking control and saying when enough is enough.

Ooook so, I get the vison with what the author wanted to have with the book but it just wasn’t done right. This was a DNF at 45%, I just couldn’t make it any further.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Memories of a Life by Jewel E. Ann

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Title: Memories of a Life

Author: Jewel E. Ann

Page count: 370

Published: September 19th, 2022

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Contemporary Paranormal Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

The girl I met when we were nine is now the woman who said “yes” to being my wife.

But Josie’s not planning our wedding; she’s too consumed by things that happened over a century ago.

She has terrible dreams and unrelenting visions of the unspeakable. I believe her, but I don’t understand her.

If I can’t understand her, I can’t stop her.

If I can’t stop her, I can’t save us.

And without us … well, I can’t imagine that world.

My emotions while reading this was all over the place and still are. Josie and Colton are the definition of true love and what it means to find your one and only. Colton and Josie are trying to move on and have their HEA, they just have some hiccups along the way but they both have to make some decisions they won’t want to make. This book has so much happening that your head is on a swivel not knowing what was going to happen other than your heart gets ripped out and stomped on then getting slowly put back together.

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