Month: July 2024

E-Galley/Audiobook Review:  Do Me a Favor by Cathy Yardley

E-Galley/Audiobook Review: Do Me a Favor by Cathy Yardley

Blurb: Cathy Yardley, author of Role Playing, serves up a delectable rom-com about a widowed cookbook writer and a divorced handyman who find that it’s never too late for a fresh start. Willa Lieu-Endicott moved from California to the Pacific Northwest to start over. Since her husband’s death, she’s been struggling to get back her old career as a cookbook ghostwriter. Unfortunately, her latest project—ghostwriting for a viral cooking […]

Posted July 18, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 4 Comments
E-galley Review:  The Backtrack by Erin La Rosa

E-galley Review: The Backtrack by Erin La Rosa

Blurb: Life, rewound … Nearly twenty years ago, Sam Leto left her small hometown of Tybee Island, Georgia, to pursue her dreams of becoming a pilot. While she’d prefer to keep flying away from her painful childhood memories, her beloved grandmother Pearl decides it’s time to sell the family home. Reluctantly, Sam is summoned back to pack up […]

Posted July 17, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 4 Comments
E-galley Review:  The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce

E-galley Review: The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce

Blurb: Estranged exes must stick close together to save their best friend’s wedding after a string of disasters in this swoony and steamy second-chance romance from the USA Today bestselling author of You, with a View . Georgia Woodward lives by her lists, none more so than the one about her ex, Eli Mora. It’s […]

Posted July 15, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 6 Comments
Weekly Wrap-Up #178 – July 14th, 2024

Weekly Wrap-Up #178 – July 14th, 2024

I’m connecting up once again with Kimberly at Caffeinated Reviewer. Sunday was another nice “cool” day for summer. If my crazy dogs didn’t eat stuff off the ground, we could have sat outside and enjoyed the morning. Instead I came back in and did a load of laundry, started my counter top icemaker up, and […]

Posted July 14, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Weekly Wrap Up / 32 Comments
E-galley Review:  Hold Me If You Can by Cheryl Terra

E-galley Review: Hold Me If You Can by Cheryl Terra

Blurb: Nellie Belanger and JP Marchand have the perfect arrangement: 1. She comes to Montreal2. He makes sure she comes when she’s in Montreal.3. That’s it. Despite missing out on her life-changing internship and committing herself to a summer of social obligations and stuffy events so she can afford to finish her final year of […]

Posted July 12, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 2 Comments
Audiobook/E-galley Review:  If You Want Me (Toronto Terror #2) by Helena Hunting

Audiobook/E-galley Review: If You Want Me (Toronto Terror #2) by Helena Hunting

Blurb: A standalone age-gap, dad’s best friend hockey romance. There’s no one more off limits than my best friend’s daughter. Peggy Aurora Hammerstein. The Toronto Terror’s unofficial team princess. I would never do anything to mess with our team dynamics this late into the hockey season, but seeing her work in the front office changed […]

Posted July 11, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 4 Comments
2024 Mid Year Book Freak Out Tag

2024 Mid Year Book Freak Out Tag

So I don’t think I’ve done this in a year or two, and I’m a bit late this year, but I saw a couple of blogs I follow doing it, so I decided to jump in and do it again, even if I’m a bit late too. # of books read so far: I’ve dropped […]

Posted July 10, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Tag / 16 Comments
ARC Review:  The Five Stages of Courting Dalisay Ramos

ARC Review: The Five Stages of Courting Dalisay Ramos

Blurb: Evan Saatchi can’t keep his eyes off his new co-worker, Dalisay Ramos. Newly arrived from Manila to lead their travel app’s Asia division, nothing matters more to Dalisay than tradition and family. When Evan asks her out, she soundly rejects him for his cheek. Evan learns from his Filipino friends that Dalisay expects more […]

Posted July 8, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 6 Comments