Genre: YA Contemporary Romance

Blog Tour Review with Giveaway:  Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon

Blog Tour Review with Giveaway: Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the INSTRUCTIONS FOR DANCING by Nicola Yoon Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway! Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook Find it:Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N Exclusive Signed Edition, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org Synopsis: #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun is […]

Posted June 14, 2021 by Lisa Mandina in Blog Tour, giveaway, Review / 5 Comments
ARC Review:  We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This by Rachel Lynn Solomon

ARC Review: We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Synopsis: A wedding harpist disillusioned with love and a hopeless romantic cater-waiter flirt and fight their way through a summer of weddings in this effervescent romantic comedy from the acclaimed author of Today Tonight Tomorrow. Quinn Berkowitz and Tarek Mansour’s families have been in business together for years: Quinn’s parents are wedding planners, and Tarek’s own […]

Posted June 7, 2021 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 3 Comments
ARC Review:  Made in Korea by Sarah Suk

ARC Review: Made in Korea by Sarah Suk

Synopsis: Frankly in Love meets Shark Tank in this feel-good romantic comedy about two entrepreneurial Korean American teens who butt heads—and maybe fall in love—while running competing Korean beauty businesses at their high school. There’s nothing Valerie Kwon loves more than making a good sale. Together with her cousin Charlie, they run V&C K-BEAUTY, their school’s most successful […]

Posted May 17, 2021 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 6 Comments
Blog Tour Review:  Gutter Girl (Twin River High #1) by Lynn Rush and Kelly Anne Blount

Blog Tour Review: Gutter Girl (Twin River High #1) by Lynn Rush and Kelly Anne Blount

Synopsis: Star football player Jace Rovers has a secret. And not just any secret—a shocking secret… He writes romance. The kind with swords. And dresses. And kissing.  Nobody knows. Not the other kids at Twin River High. Not his overbearing parents. And certainly not the millions of fans who’ve read his book on the writing platform […]

Posted May 12, 2021 by Lisa Mandina in Blog Tour, Review / 6 Comments
ARC Review:  Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter

ARC Review: Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter

Synopsis: In this rom-com about rom-coms, in the spirit of Kasie West and Jenn Bennett, a hopeless romantic teen attempts to secure a happily-ever-after moment with her forever crush, but finds herself reluctantly drawn to the boy next door. Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, […]

Posted May 3, 2021 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 12 Comments
ARC Review:  Slingshot by Mercedes Helnwein

ARC Review: Slingshot by Mercedes Helnwein

Synopsis: An exciting debut contemporary young adult novel perfect for fans of Rainbow Rowell and Mary H. K. Choi  Grace Welles had resigned herself to the particular loneliness of being fifteen and stuck at a third-tier boarding school in the swamps of Florida, when she accidentally saves the new kid in her class from being […]

Posted April 25, 2021 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 2 Comments
Blog Tour Review with Giveaway:  Wallflower by Cookie O’Gorman

Blog Tour Review with Giveaway: Wallflower by Cookie O’Gorman

Synopsis: Wallflower (wohl-flou-erh): Identifier for someone who is shy and/or awkward. For reference, see Viola Kent. Seventeen-year-old Viola Kent likes being invisible. Well, not literally, but she’s content being a loner, reading her books, and hanging out with the animals at the shelter. She just wants to keep her head down and get through her […]

Posted March 25, 2021 by Lisa Mandina in Blog Tour, giveaway, Review / 2 Comments