Author: Lisa Mandina

Weekly Wrap-Up #224 – May 18th, 2025

Weekly Wrap-Up #224 – May 18th, 2025

I’m connecting once again with Kimberly at Caffeinated Reviewer. Sunday was another beautiful day outside. Perfect for having mother’s day dinner at my brother’s for my mom, sister-in-law, and her mother as well. I spent the morning doing some blogging. Dora is doing well enough that I was able to let her kind of pick […]

Posted May 18, 2025 by Lisa Mandina in Weekly Wrap Up / 22 Comments
ARC Review:  Love, Canter, Action by Katie Gilbert

ARC Review: Love, Canter, Action by Katie Gilbert

Blurb: Saddle up for this swoony enemies-to-lovers romance, full of giggles, snark, and heart, perfect for fans of Kasie West and Emma Lord. Nora Green wants out. Out of rural Georgia—and, more importantly, out of the house she’s been resentfully occupying with her father and his wife. It’s been five months since her mama died and […]

Posted May 16, 2025 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 10 Comments
Blog Tour Author Interview with Giveaway:  Just Another Meet Cute by Jenn P. Nguyen

Blog Tour Author Interview with Giveaway: Just Another Meet Cute by Jenn P. Nguyen

Just Another Meet CuteJenn P. NguyenPublication date: May 20th 2025Genres: Comedy, Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult Boy saves girl stuck on a disastrous hike. What could go wrong? So. Much. Just Another Meet Cute is the joyful and funny story about what happens when you realize you’re dating the wrong twin. When seventeen-year-old Nina Riley gets […]

E-galley Review:  Death in the Cards by Mia Manansala

E-galley Review: Death in the Cards by Mia Manansala

Blurb: The young adult debut from the award-winning author of Arsenic and Adobo! When a high school tarot reader’s latest client goes missing after a troubling reading, she must apply everything she’s learned from her private investigator mother to solve a case of her own.B Danika Dizon is a natural problem-solver. Thanks to her private investigator […]

Posted May 13, 2025 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 8 Comments
Weekly Wrap-Up #223 – May 11th, 2025

Weekly Wrap-Up #223 – May 11th, 2025

I’m connecting once again with Kimberly at Caffeinated Reviewer. Sunday morning I was still kind of dealing with our house guest Rolla as he wouldn’t be picked up till the afternoon/early evening after I went to a movie with some people including his owner/mom. The plan was she’d come pick him up after the movie. […]

Posted May 11, 2025 by Lisa Mandina in Weekly Wrap Up / 24 Comments
E-galley Review:  The Romance Rivalry by Susan Lee

E-galley Review: The Romance Rivalry by Susan Lee

Blurb: She’s read every romance…except her own… Irene Park loves romance novels—so much so she’s made a career of them as an online book reviewer with a massive following. But Irene’s real life dating story? Non-existent. So when she starts her freshman year of college, she sets her sights on finding true love using the […]

Posted May 10, 2025 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 2 Comments
ARC Review:  Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry

ARC Review: Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry

Blurb: Shield of Sparrows is a slow-burn, high-stakes romantasy perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros―where enemies become lovers, monsters stalk a cursed realm, and a forgotten princess finds the strength to tear off her crown and become the warrior she was never meant to be. The gods sent monsters to the five […]

Posted May 3, 2025 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 9 Comments