Fragments Of Life

  Hello Readers! Welcome to the Release Day Celebration for About Last Summer by Patricia B. Tighe presented by Swoon Romance! Check out the excerpt below, and find your next read!     Happy Book Birthday, Patricia!       Pretend to be from Spain? Act like she can barely speak English? Sure, why not? It wouldn’t be the first time Gabby Vega had agreed to a challenge from her best friend, Kenzie. Besides, it’s only for a week of vacation with Kenzie’s cousins. Gabby will prove to Kenzie she can keep up the fake identity for the whole trip—that she’s not a quitter. There’s just one major surprise. Noah Jernigan is also staying with Kenzie’s cousins. Noah, the boy she fell in love with at drama camp last summer and the boy she had to dump when it was over. The boy who knows who she really is. Noah can’t believe it when Gabby appears at the Bryson’s vacation home in the New Mexico mountains. He hasn’t seen her in a year. It practically took that long just to g...

Product details : Publisher :  Bloomsbury Paperback, 380 pages. Release date : June 1st 2017. Rating: 3 out of 5. Ages : 13+ Source: Received from publisher for review.   From acclaimed author Emery Lord comes a vibrant, compelling story of love, loss, faith, and friendship. Lucy Hansson was ready for a perfect summer with her boyfriend, working at her childhood Bible camp on the lake. But when her mom’s cancer reappears, Lucy falters—in faith, in love, and in her ability to cope. When her boyfriend “pauses” their relationship and her summer job switches to a different camp—one for troubled kids—Lucy isn’t sure how much more she can handle. Attempting to accept a new normal, Lucy slowly regains footing among her vibrant, diverse coworkers, Sundays with her mom, and a crush on a fellow counselor. But when long-hidden family secrets emerge, can Lucy set aside her problems and discover what grace really means? Emotionally-charged and unforgettable, Emery Lord’s story...

The Almost Boyfriend by Christina Benjamin Genre: YA contemporary romance Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07258X4TP/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_SFrczb4NDQ5EG Nobody likes Devon James, including Devon James. And why should they? He had it all and took it for granted—money, girls, popularity and a future with endless possibility. Now he’s just a washed up has-been. Or so everyone thinks. No one knows the real reason the handsome soccer star quit the team and dumped the hottest girl in school, but they’re not about to forgive him for it either. That’s why he’s perfect for Samantha Connors. Sam Connors always follows the rules. But when her father forces her to leave Boston to finish her senior year of high school at a posh prep school in Ireland she has no choice but to rebel. And bad boy Devon James is just the guy to help her break all the rules. Sam is determined to get her life back and return to Boston by any means necessary. Her plan is crazy, but she’s convinced it will work— almost. A...

Hello Readers! Welcome to the Cover Reveal for Marked Beauty by S.. Larsen presented by Ellysian Press! Be sure to check out the giveaway detail at the end of the post! Here we go!! Uncovering hidden secrets can sometimes kill you . . . or worse, steal your soul. Anastasia Tate has a secret. She can feel the emotions of others through their life energy auras. Not a welcome gift for a teenager. Especially when a sinister presence begins stalking her. Viktor Castle also has a secret. He’s tasked with protecting humanity yet cursed by an ancient evil to destroy it. After Viktor saves Ana’s life, her abilities grow stronger. Drawn together, she senses Viktor has answers to lifelong questions. Only he shuns her at every turn, knowing he has saved her only to put her in more danger. As Ana struggles with her attraction to Viktor, he tries everything to bury his unexpected feelings for her. But they must find a middle ground. For only together can they combat the dark forces threatening both ...

Hello Readers! Welcome to the Cover Reveal for The D.B. List by Rebekah L. Purdy presented by Swoon Romance! Be on the look out for this upcoming title! What do you think of the cover? Seventeen-year-old Ellie Gebhardt has spent the last three years of high school in psychotherapy, trying to fix a very broken her. And her shrink (or therapist as she likes to be called) seems to think that in order to totally heal, she needs to recognize all the good and bad things that have led her to this point. As if a trip down memory lane will suddenly make her better. She’s given a “homework” assignment to create two lists. One with nothing but happy memories and thoughts on it (otherwise known as the ‘happy rainbow farting unicorns list’). And the other with everything negative that Ellie thinks contributed to “the” day she could no longer cope. So begins Ellie’s Douche Bag list (or D.B. List for short). And once she gets started, it’s hard to stop remembering all the jerks, the petty crap, the ...

Hello Readers! Welcome to the Release Day Blitz for #YOLO by K.M. Pyne! Be sure to enter the giveaway found at the end of the post! HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY, K.M. PYNE! Once again Ruby Knight finds herself dragged into her Mam’s World. This time someone at her school is out for revenge! Ruby, along with her friends, have to work out who is murdering students ... Why they are murdering them? ... What do they ultimately want? At the same time relationships are made and some are broken, but will Ruby find the killer in time? Or will someone else have to perish at the hands of a killer? #YOLO by K.M. Pyne Publication Date: May 8, 2017 Chapters | Amazon | B&N | Kobo | iBooks OTHER BOOKS IN THE SERIES: When Ruby Knight's best friend, Catriona Taylor disappears Ruby knows something isn’t right. Time is ticking and the race is on to find Catriona. Has she run away? Is she really on a holiday with her parents? Has something more sinister happened to her? These are the questions facing Ru...

Oh, hello there! It's been a while, hasn't it?  The reason for my unscheduled blog break is a pretty boring one, really: while I have been reading, I haven't been reading any books that I can review RIGHT NOW, and so I don't have any reviews to post. Patience, patience, reviews will come all in good time... I'm holding my review for Emery Lord's The Names They Gave Us until a little bit closer to (UK) publication date and the next book on my TBR is Into the Water by Paula Hawkins (The Girl on the Train), so I should have a review of that one very soon.  In the meantime, here are a selection of new and upcoming releases that have piqued my interest of late.  Added any must-read books to your wish list of late? Let me know in comments! ***** The Wildling Sisters by Eve Chase || Release date: August 2017 An evocative novel in the vein of Kate Morton and Daphne Du Maurier, in which the thrill of first love clashes with the bonds of sisterhood, and all will be tested...

Hello Readers! Welcome to the Cover Reveal for About Last Summer by Patricia B. Tighe presented by Swoon Romance! Be on the look out for this upcoming title! What do you think of the cover? Pretend to be from Spain? Act like she can barely speak English? Sure, why not? It wouldn’t be the first time Gabby Vega had agreed to a challenge from her best friend, Kenzie. Besides, it’s only for a week of vacation with Kenzie’s cousins. Gabby will prove to Kenzie she can keep up the fake identity for the whole trip—that she’s not a quitter. There’s just one major surprise. Noah Jernigan is also staying with Kenzie’s cousins. Noah, the boy she fell in love with at drama camp last summer and the boy she had to dump when it was over. The boy who knows who she really is. Noah can’t believe it when Gabby appears at the Bryson’s vacation home in the New Mexico mountains. He hasn’t seen her in a year. It practically took that long just to get over her. And now she’s Gabriela from Spain? All he wants i...