Author: Lisa Mandina

Blog Tour Review:  This is Not a Holiday Romance by Camilla Isley

Blog Tour Review: This is Not a Holiday Romance by Camilla Isley

Blurb: Two sworn enemies, snowed in over Christmas with chemistry that will melt the ice! Nina Thompson has one Christmas wish: to avoid her brother’s obnoxiously handsome best friend, Tristan, like the plague. From the moment he humiliated her as a teenager to their escalating revenge schemes, Nina and Tristan’s relationship can only be defined […]

Posted September 7, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Blog Tour, Review / 0 Comments
E-galley Review:  No More Mr. Chai Guy (The Coffee Loft:  Fall Collection) by J.P. Sterling

E-galley Review: No More Mr. Chai Guy (The Coffee Loft: Fall Collection) by J.P. Sterling

Blurb: An All-Star football player. A popular cheerleader. Can they finally move from the friend zone to the end zone?  Gia Bella I’ve been working this low-wage-going-nowhere job for ten years. Don’t even ask about my dating life. Yes, sir, life is pretty…uneventful. That is until my hoarding dad accidentally burrito-wraps himself in his collection […]

Posted September 4, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 12 Comments
Top Ten Tuesday:  Books Involving Food (That are Not Cookbooks) and Tell Me Something Tuesday:  How do you keep up with your favorite blogs?

Top Ten Tuesday: Books Involving Food (That are Not Cookbooks) and Tell Me Something Tuesday: How do you keep up with your favorite blogs?

I’m linking up with Top Ten Tuesday, which was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. Check out upcoming Top Ten themes on Jana’s blog! For me, I love finding the top 10 books that I can do a cover search, so I’m picking 10 books I’ve […]

Posted September 3, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Top 10 / 14 Comments
The Looooong and the Short of It + a Giveaway: August 2024 Wrap-Up Post and Looking Forward to September

The Looooong and the Short of It + a Giveaway: August 2024 Wrap-Up Post and Looking Forward to September

Did I say the summer went by fast? August sped by as well! Probably because it feels like we spent so much time in back to school meetings instead of actually getting classrooms/my library ready for students. I finished my last graduate class and should see the raise on my second paycheck this month I […]

Posted September 2, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in End of the month post, giveaway / 18 Comments
L-L-L-Little Reviews #65: August 2024

L-L-L-Little Reviews #65: August 2024

Here are the books I read this past month that were not part of scheduled reviews. Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix My Review: So I bought this back when I still worked at Barnes & Noble. And I had to get it because there was a time I was obsessed with horror novels. And […]

Posted August 30, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 12 Comments
ARC Review:  The Lies of Alma Blackwell by Amanda Glaze

ARC Review: The Lies of Alma Blackwell by Amanda Glaze

Blurb: Atmospheric and sweepingly romantic, this gothic mystery tells the story of a girl poised to inherit a famously haunted California mansion and a stranger who arrives with a dark warning… For over a century, the Blackwells have protected the town of Hollow Cliff from vengeful spirits. Seventeen-year-old Nev is ready to take over for […]

Posted August 27, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 8 Comments