Format: ARC

Review:  The Wedding Shake-up (Wedding Meet Cute #2) by J.J. Knight

Review: The Wedding Shake-up ..

Posted September 26, 2023 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 2 Comments

Blurb: In a breathtaking island paradise, it’s easy for a handsome local and a sexy tourist to get swept away in a tart and tempting romance by a USA Today bestselling author. A destination wedding on La Jarra Island for Tillie James’s sister has its drawbacks: hair-wrecking ocean spray and pincher crabs. And its perks: sexy, hotheaded […]

ARC Review:  Secrets Never Die by Vincent Ralph

ARC Review: Secrets Never Die..

Posted September 23, 2023 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 6 Comments

Blurb: We call it the Dark Place. I don’t know who built it or when but, for us, it’s special. Every year Sam Hall and his friends hold funerals for their secrets in an abandoned hut in the woods that they call the Dark Place. But this year, their secrets are coming back from the […]

ARC Review:  Thank You For Sharing by Rachel Runya Katz

ARC Review: Thank You For Sha..

Posted September 13, 2023 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 4 Comments

Blurb: A chemistry-filled childhood friends to enemies to lovers debut romance about two people forced to confront their pasts to save both their relationship and careers. Daniel Rosenberg and Liyah Cohen-Jackson’s last conversation—fourteen years ago at summer camp—ended their friendship. Until they find themselves seated next to each other on a plane, and bitterly pick […]

ARC Review:  For Girls Who Walk Through Fire by Kim DeRose

ARC Review: For Girls Who Wal..

Posted September 4, 2023 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 4 Comments

Blurb: Those who would suppress and destroy you stand not a chance when confronted with the power that lies within these pages . . .  Elliott D’Angelo-Brandt is sick and tired of putting up with it all. Every week, she attends a support group for teen victims of sexual assault, but all they do is […]

Blog Tour Review with Giveaway:  Pride & Prejudice & Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott

Blog Tour Review with Giveaway..

Posted August 28, 2023 by Lisa Mandina in Blog Tour, giveaway, Review / 10 Comments

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the PRIDE & PREJUDICE & PITTSBURGH by Rachael Lippincott Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway! Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook Blurb: From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Feet Apart and She Gets the Girl comes a fresh and inventive sapphic […]

ARC Review:  The Reunion by Kit Frick

ARC Review: The Reunion by Ki..

Posted August 26, 2023 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 8 Comments

Blurb: From the author of I Killed Zoe Spanos comes a YA thriller in the vein of The White Lotus and Karen M. McManus’s The Cousins following a doomed family reunion at a posh Caribbean resort, where old grudges and dangerous secrets culminate in murder. Eleven Mayweathers went on vacation. Ten came home. It’s been […]

ARC Review:  The Shadow Sister by Lily Meade

ARC Review: The Shadow Sister..

Posted July 4, 2023 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 11 Comments

Blurb: Sutton going missing is the worst thing to happen to Casey, to their family. She’s trying to help find her sister, but Casey is furious. And she can’t tell anyone about their argument before Sutton disappeared. Everyone paints a picture of Sutton’s perfection: the popular cheerleader with an entourage of friends, a doting boyfriend, […]

ARC Review:  Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano

ARC Review: Dead Eleven by Ji..

Posted June 28, 2023 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 9 Comments

Blurb: On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, hoping to learn the truth about her son’s death–but finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into the bizarrely insular community and their complicated rules… Clifford Island. When Willow Stone finds these words written on the floor of […]

ARC Review:  Kismat Connection by Ananya Devarajan

ARC Review: Kismat Connection..

Posted June 23, 2023 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 6 Comments

Blurb: In this charming YA debut, a girl who’s determined to prove her star chart wrong ropes her longtime best friend into an experimental relationship—not knowing that he has been in love with her for years. Is it possible to change your fate? Madhuri Iyer is doomed. Doomed for her upcoming senior year to be a […]

ARC Review:  The Wedding Confession (Wedding Meet Cute #1) by J.J. Knight

ARC Review: The Wedding Confe..

Posted June 20, 2023 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 8 Comments

Blurb: She sparkles. He growls. Baring their true feelings could be the start of a wild love story—or the end of it—in a sexy romantic comedy by a USA Today bestselling author. One spilled glass of wine and bridesmaid Ensley James is ejected from a country club wedding in the rain. Ensley looks on the bright side. […]