On My Bookish BS

Another surprising ARC read for this spooky season! Whatever Whispers by Genna Black helped me get in to the seasonal mood with a dark, creepy and yet kind of sweet twisty romance.  Quinn is a college senior studying Forensic Psychology and a well established nanny in search of a job. Jack is a single dad and one of her professors. He also winds up her boss after a meet cute that would not have been out of place in a Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks movie in the 1990s.  It is probably the only truly wholesome thing that happens in this twisty turny story because wooooo DARK.  Things that you will get in this story? Secret societies. Stalking. Murder. Family drama. Ghosts, maybe?  Quinn and Jack are quite cute together despite all the stuff that goes on around them but they're still dark. Their darkness is the good kind of dark though. And it's a slow burn ... like a sexy Argentinian tango. They dance around each other and when the tension explodes it's so worth the wait.  I c...

Was I looking to read a grumpy/sunshine, actor/publicist, my exes brother romance? Wasn't on my bingo card for the first week of October and yet... here we are. When the author put out the call for ARC readers on Threads I said ... you know what, I really need to see where this goes.  This is A Little Bit Tempting by Courtney Corlew, the third book in the January Studios Series and will be released on October 8th.  Here we Annie and Zayn. Annie is just getting the chance of her career to have her first solo PR client after several years as an assistant/intern at a PR firm. Zayn is an actor trying to rehab his image after a year of being an utter twat to the media or else he loses out on the role that could take his career to the next level. Oh, and Annie used to date his total tool of a brother. After their first public event a picture of the two of them kicks off rumors of them dating and a of COURSE they lean in to it.  Fake dating trope - Activated. Can he help her lau...

I know it's early October and it's barely autumn but when you get a chance to read a cozy, PNW, rom-com love story with lots of snow you grab a warm drink, a fluffy blanket, and a curl up to get moody. When the Snow Settles is a spicy and sweet novella that continues the love story of Holland and Ivy who you can meet in A Lodge Affair also by the lovely Rachel LeBerge.  You still the grumpy/sunshine elements of Ivy and Hollands personalities come through from their main story but also how they've grown and how their love story has evolved. They are dealing with things any couple would be dealing with as their lives go on as well as what many romance stories rely on - dramatic irony and miscommunication. Delicious.  On the eve on one of the biggest events of Ivys career she is dealing with stress, bad weather, and possible major issues with Holland because of things left unsaid and woooooooo boy. Will they talk it out? Will they work it out? Will her job be ok? Will SHE be...

 HAPPY RELEASE DAY TO MADI DANIELLE AND THE BREAK OUT  the newest release in the Denver Dragons series.  I was *SO HONORED* to be an ARC reader for this book and I have read it twice. Once just to squeal and squee and enjoy once to make sure I did it justice when I wrote what I wanted to say about it.  Today when you get to meet Colton and Brynn there are a few things you should know.  He really is a grade-A jackhole. When Brynn says "It really is unfair that the universe decides to give a man that face and body, but his shitty personality" You will feel it with your whole chest along with her and yet ... you're still going to want him to ride you like he rides the mechanical bull.  Brynn is everything you expect her to be from getting pieces parts of her from Brents POV in The Hat Trick and so much more. You will want to protect her from being hurt by a fuck-boi but also know she is capable of doing that all her own - thank you very much.  So what ha...