Month: April 2022

ARC Review: Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf

ARC Review: Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf

Blurb: They Wish They Were Us meets The Queen’s Gambit in the world of competitive Scrabble when a teen girl is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend a year after the fact when her Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages. CATALYST13 pointsnoun: a person or thing that precipitates an event […]

Posted April 21, 2022 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 4 Comments

Cover Reveal: My Paris Romance by Olivia Spring

My Paris Romance: Falling in love with a billionaire… Cassie swore she’d never fall for another rich guy. Her heart has other ideas. After a whirlwind holiday romance with hot billionaire Frenchman Nico, personal assistant Cassie receives an invitation to visit him in Paris. Although she’d love a fairy-tale reunion, Cassie cannot fall for Nico. They live […]

Posted April 20, 2022 by Lisa Mandina in Blog Tour / 2 Comments
Review:  Parks and Provocation (Green Valley Heroes #2) by Juliette Cross

Review: Parks and Provocation (Green Valley Heroes #2) by Juliette Cross

Parks and Provocation, an all new enemies-to-lovers small town romance from Juliette Cross, is available now in Kindle Unlimited! Blurb: Lola Landry stares through the window of her locked car with the keys in the ignition and the radio blaring Beck’s “Loser.” While standing there and sweltering in the soupy Tennessee humidity, she wonders how […]

Posted April 18, 2022 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 6 Comments

Weekly Wrap-Up #63 – April 17th, 2022

Once again I’ll be linking this up with the Sunday Post (hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer) and with Stacking the Shelves (hosted by Reading Reality). As I mentioned last weekend, I was at the Missouri Association of School Librarians at the beginning of this week. It was very invigorating at getting me pumped up for […]

Posted April 17, 2022 by Lisa Mandina in Weekly Wrap Up / 28 Comments

Promo Post: The Alabama Black McGruders by J.R. Rothstein, Susan Tichy, and Kevin McGruder

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Redstone Publishing (February 13, 2022) Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 517 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1735398667 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1735398662 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.43 pounds Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.49 x 10 inches The Alabama Black McGruders tells the story of Charles McGruder Sr. (1829 – 1900-c), his […]

Posted April 13, 2022 by Lisa Mandina in promo post / 2 Comments
ARC Review:  Gone Dark by Amanda Panitch

ARC Review: Gone Dark by Amanda Panitch

Blurb: Dry meets Hatchet in this thrilling tale of survival following a teen girl who must lead her friends across country to the safety of her estranged father’s survivalist compound after a mass power failure leaves the country in chaos. When seventeen-year-old Zara escaped her father’s backwoods survivalist compound five years ago, she traded crossbows and skinning hides […]

Posted April 11, 2022 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 6 Comments