Review: WILDFLOWERS: An End of the World Romance by Kylie Scott!

WILDFLOWERS: An End of the World Romance By Kylie Scott
Release Date: July 8

Don’t miss this heart pounding apocalyptic romance from New York Times bestselling author Kylie Scott!

Blurb:

There’s only one person Dean Wallace wants to save from the end of the world: sunshine girl from across the street. She’s always smiling. Who knows, maybe she can teach him a thing or two about how to live? But saving her against her will is harder than he expected.

Astrid Hardy doesn’t know what to think when she wakes up in her hot neighbor’s basement. He says he wants to protect her from the deadly virus threatening to collapse society. But that sounds like paranoid conspiracy theory nonsense, and losing her sh*t seems like the correct response.

As they watch the downfall of the world play out online, hear approaching gunshots, and smell smoke from nearby burning buildings, it all starts to seem horribly realistic. With almost everyone they know dead, and law and order gone…how will they navigate this new world together?

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Author website: https://kyliescott.com/books/wildflowers-an-end-of-the-world-romance

Review:

This is a well written (but light hearted) depiction of what life could be like after an apocalypse.

I'm not a fan of the zombie apocalypse type genre, nor TV like the walking dead. (So if you are hoping for dark gritty horror, this is not for you).

but I like the the way Kylie Scott has written this from the start, makes it feel like this could be possible, (well we've already been through Covid, God help us if we do get something worse).

But, I was hooked from the first chapter.

Dean - good choice of name, my mind conjures up a cross between Dean Winchester ( I may say I don't like zombies, but I am definitely a paranormal fan) and a combination of my favorite military alpha males, honourable, but willing to do what needs to be done to save someone.

Astrid - l like her character, she's the average girl next door - but I read her as being way younger than the age she's actually in the book (but she's easy to relate to, kept herself to herself, but had a life she enjoyed) the first actual encounter with Dean was such a great read) 

The story is quite fast paced, it doesn't linger on the nitty gritty of the situation, but it does make you think about what you would do if heaven forbid the world doe turn to crap.

Overall I enjoyed the book, it's been the first book this year that kept me up reading till 3am!

Meet Kylie Scott:

Kylie is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today best-selling, Audie Award winning author. 

She has sold over 2,000,000 books and was voted Australian Romance Writer of the year four times by the Australian Romance Reader’s Association. Her books have been translated into sixteen different languages. She is based in Queensland, Australia; living and working on land traditionally owned by the Jagera people.

Contact her at info@kyliescott.com

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𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘮 by Author J C Reed BOOK Release & Review

 ★★  𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒎 𝒊𝒔 𝑳𝑰𝑽𝑬! ★★ 

𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘮 by @authorjcreed is live!

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Synopsis

“I don’t trust my instincts around the man behind the wheel. He’s too good-looking. Too confident. Too everything I’ve always tried to avoid in a man."

"He’s perfection. Everything about him is, from his looks to his singing and the way he carries himself.”

★ Rockstar x City Girl
★ Small Town
★ Forced Proximity
★ Enemies to Lovers

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙔𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿 @𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗷𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗺, 𝗮 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹-𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗻, 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗲𝘀-𝘁𝗼-𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲!

The guy I just met at the mansion I inherited from a complete stranger?

He's drop-dead gorgeous. Sexy. And rude with a Capital R.
Turns out he's not the hot gardener as I wrongly assumed.
He's not only a famous rockstar who grew up in the house, he's also ready to fight for it. And being both hot-headed and Irish, he's going to fight hard and dirty.
I'm not moving out. Full Stop.
But neither is he.

So we agree on some simple rules.
We'll play roommates for a while.
What could possibly go wrong?

Living together with an Irish Hothead will surely cause a major storm. Let's hope bracing that storm won't turn into a hurricane.

Review 

🌟🌟🌟🌟♥️ Four Stars out of five 

Lori inherited a mansion from a lady she met and helped once in her cafe, her life was in tatters, so she left it all behind to go find out how, Sell up and sort out her life back home? 

But the mansion came with extra baggage 😉

He's drop dead gorgeous. Sexy. And rude with a Capital R.

Turns out he's not the hot gardener as Lori wrongly assumed. He's the famous rock star who grew up in the house, he's also ready to

fight for it. And being both hot-headed and Irish, he's going to fight… 😁. 

And there the fun begins...

This is the first book I read from this author, and I will be reading the second instalment...

Yes it ended in a cliff hanger 😭.

But don't let that put you off, this was a light fun read, I didn't put it down.

The writing flowed, the characters draw you into the dilemma that Lori has to face, as well as the attraction towards each other.

Patrick grew on me eventually.

There's a lot of unanswered questions that I imagine book 2 will reveal.

But overall I recommend reading the book, hopefully book 2 will be out soon 🙏 

𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒎 by J.C. REED is now live everywhere!

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That Girl Who Ran Off and Kissed a Vampire by K.R.S. McEntire My rating: 3 of 5 stars

 

That Girl Who Ran Off and Kissed a Vampire by K.R.S. McEntire
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

this book sounded like something that would be right up my street, and although I did enjoy the story, it took a long time for the story to get going, and then it ended with a cliffhanger 🫣.

the MC is 18 years old, but was very naive and trusting, I don't know many Neurodivergent people but I just thought she was just a bit socially awkward, shy and being adopted felt like she 'had to be good'. I Saw a lot of my teenage self in her insecurities. and my brain never shuts up 🤷, if this is what being ND means maybe I'm one? but anyway whether the author wanted to label Raven or not, she was a likable character.

one thing didn't understand was the blurbs first paragraph
'quote' Eighteen-year-old Raven has always had a college, a stable job, and marriage to her high school sweetheart—all within the safe boundaries of her comfort zone'- unquote. this didn't make sense to me as:

1- she puts off college... to stay with her friend/boyfriend? so she's not got college?
2 - the stable job, she's had it for 3 weeks?
3 - she's not married, hasn't even got as far as sleeping with the boyfriend?

the blurb also says that Raven is adopted into a family of high achievers, which was an odd way to describe a librarian and a teacher, but anyway the family dynamics were a briefly described and not many scenes were with the parents, so you don't really get to show the family dynamics worked.

anyway onto the actual storyline:

so after the slow start the story got more interesting once she was in the other realm.

Hunter the vampire was an interesting character, he's lying to Raven, but also attracted to her, there was a bit of the 'Bella/Edward/twilight ' theme going on with them aka Hunter not being able to manipulate/read her mind...
shes attracted to him but he's using her, so it's sometimes a bit icky, but as the story progresses we meet more characters, and that brings more than just their attraction towards each other to the storyline, I thought the singing scene was good and I liked the unicorn a lot 😉.

as I said the book was a bit slow at getting going, but when at the end we are getting into more of the adventure, and I am getting into the book, it ends. 😔

I'm not a fan of cliffhanger book's, but the world and the characters that were introduced are enough that if asked I would review the next book.

thanks to the author and Gladys #XOXOtheNerdGirl #NerdGirlOfficial for the opportunity to review the book.
this is honest opinion and I have not received any compensation for this review.

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ITS LIVE! QUICKSILVER Book 1 in the Fae & Alchemy Series

 QUICKSILVER

Book 1 in the Fae & Alchemy Series

Release Date: June 04 2024

Purchase Link: https://amzn.to/4dplG2k

BLURB: 

From USA TODAY Bestselling Author Callie Hart comes a brand new, highly addicting enemies-to-lovers Romantasy with razor-sharp banter, heart-stopping action, and blistering hot romance that you won’t be able to put down!

Do not touch the sword.

Do not turn the key.

Do not open the gate.

In the land of the unforgiving desert, there isn’t much a girl wouldn’t do for a glass of water.

Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen’s reservoirs for as long as she can remember.

But a secret is like a knot.

Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone.

When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently reopens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of nightmares…but it turns out they’re real, and Saeris has landed herself right in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed.

The first of her kind to tread the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a thousand years, Saeris mistakenly binds herself to Kingfisher, a handsome Fae warrior, who has secrets and nefarious agendas of his own. He will use her Alchemist’s magic to protect his people, no matter what it costs him… or her.

Death has a name.

It is Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate.

His past is murky.

His attitude stinks.

And he’s the only way Saeris is going to make it home.

Be careful of the deals you make, dear child.

The devil is in the details…

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/212127083-quicksilver

N.B. Quicksilver contains depictions of graphic violence/adult situations and is therefore recommended for readers 17+.

Review of Stolen by the Billionaire by Blair Babylon

  

Stolen By The Billionaire by Blair Babylon is now live!

Synopsis 

I am an American Navy SEAL, and I will not be blackmailed by a goddamn Russian mafia boss.

Years ago, I parlayed a loan into a billion-dollar crypto fortune. The head of the White Russian Syndicate is demanding I pay it back in illegal military-grade weapons, but I won’t. I will not be responsible for adding to the misery of innocents.

It’s time to hit back at the head of the White Russian Syndicate.

So I kidnap the mafia boss’s niece.

Who I did not realize is my best friend’s estranged little sister.

Who he’s never mentioned.

Not even once.

Sarah is a sweet little hayseed right off her Iowa farm, but when the mafia boss decides she’s a liability to eliminate, she becomes my responsibility to protect.

We’re on the run. But with each passing day, with each attack I defend her from, every hotel room with only one bed, I’m starting to fall for her.

The Russian mafia wants Sarah dead, and her brother is going to murder me when he finds out I’ve gone too far with his sister.

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Review 

This is the 5th installment of the Twisted Billionaire series.

We meet Blaze a SEAL, who is currently being blackmailed by a goddamn Russian mafia boss, who has targeted his old school friends who when they first left school accepted loans from one his friends grandfather, upon his death, Mary Vavara Bell took over and is now the thorn in his side, Blaze decides it’s time to hit back, so he kidnaps Ms Bells neice. 

Who I did not realize was best friend’s estranged little sister!

Sarah is a sweet, very naive, who's lived on her inherited Iowa farm, she's struggling to keep it going, but is determined not to fail... even if it runs her into the ground.

After Blaze's attempt to use her, to get out of his situation, it royally backfires as the mafia boss decides she’s a liability and sends her goons to eliminate her.

Luckily Blaze finds out in time and manages to rescue her, and her horse and cow! 

(I love the cows name, it is a super name for a cow...)

They're on the run. He's using the resources he has available to get her to her brother, but as time goes by, their attraction for each other grows. 

It's a fast paced book, with some laughs and a big TWIST at the end... 

I'm now hanging on for book 6 to find out what the heck will happen next.   

Meet Blair Babylon 

"I'm passionate about books and literature. Books delve into what it means to be human and connect us to each other. I write intense, deeply imagined romance novels for serious readers because the world needs more love." ~~Blair Babylon 

For readers of JS Scott, E.L. James, Rina Kent, Nicole Snow, Sadie Kincaid, Catharina Maura, and Shantel Tessier, Blair Babylon is an award-winning, USA Today bestselling author who used to publish literary fiction. Because professional reviews of Blair's other fiction usually included the caveat that there was too much deviant sex and too much interesting plot, she decided to abandon all literary pretensions, let her freak flag fly, and write hot, sexy, suspenseful romance. 

 

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Website | https://blairbabylon.com/   

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Here for the Right Reasons by Jodi McAlister #Netgalley #Review

Marry Me, Juliet

In this witty, sparkling series of rom-coms set on the same season of a reality dating show called Marry Me, Juliet, our couples find love in... well, the most likely of places.

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Blurb

A hilarious and heart-warming romantic comedy that examines how the unlikeliest of loves can bloom in – well, the most likely of places. Perfect for fans of The Hating Game and The Spanish Love Deception.

When Cece James agrees to be cast as a ‘Juliet’ on the next season of the hit television show Marry Me Juliet, it’s certainly not for the right reasons. She’s knee-deep in debt and desperate for the associated paycheck. The last thing on her mind is the hunky ‘Romeo’ waiting for her at the end of the gravel driveway.

But Dylan Jayasinghe Mellor isn’t your usual fame-hungry TV star. An Olympic gold medallist with calloused hands, kind eyes, and a propensity for panic attacks, it turns out he’s not here for the right reasons either. As a spokesperson for a men’s mental health foundation and the franchise’s first non-white male lead, Dylan’s got a charity to plug and something to prove.

When Cece gets eliminated on the first night, it seems like her and Dylan’s awkward first meeting will be their last conversation. But a global pandemic sees the TV set thrown into lockdown, and suddenly Cece and Dylan get a little more time together than they’d expected.

Will love bloom when the cameras stop rolling?

Review

Here for the Right Reasons by Jodi McAlister
Kats rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is the first Jodi McAlister book I have read.
As the book opened - during the Pandemic, I could relate to the anxiety and stress that Cece and her flatmates Aro and Flick, their drunken decision to enter a reality tv show Mary Me Romeo ( the title was a bit weird to me since the end of Romeo and Juliet is tragic! but hey ho it's just a made up show)
Cece ends up being a contestant - and due to the pandemic, they are all in an "estate" on large lands with two houses on it - one the main mansion and then the smaller house that the rejected contestants get sent to. ( I had to giggle at that name for the house that held the rejected Juliets, it was aptly named)
The storyline does have a bit of 'Romeo and Juliet' angst as Dylan and Cece aren't able to officially continue to create their romance on the show as Dylan sent her home the first night!
Cece ends up being asked to be the "friend" as in the show normally Romeo's are able to get help from friends and family but since they are all in quarantine that's not possible.
The storyline is a good one, showing both the realities of staring in a TV show, and how that would be affected by the lockdown, there are plenty of funny parts, heartwarming parts and then some sad realities too, and the characters in the book are able to relate quite a few issues that the current world has created - or pre-exist, such as Racial issues, anxiety, and depression. All well written into the story so that it was relatable to the reader.
Cece's history, as a child who had grown up in the foster/care home system, was very well written. she felt very real and one memory had me in tears as I read it. The author Jodie McAlister did a great job in making Cece real to me.
Dylan though, he came across as a bit wooden to me, and although his past is explained in the book I really didn't get the same feeling towards him as I did to Cece.
I really enjoyed the book, but as the story came towards the end, Dylan came across as being shallow for not stepping up, yes he may redeem himself at the end but it still for me wasn't soon enough. The ending was a bit anti-climatic but it did round the story off for the pair, so all in all this has been a great rom-com read, it would make a great holiday beach read.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher & author for a copy of this book, my review is my honest thoughts only.

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Author Bio

Jodi is an author of romantic fiction for adults and young adults, as well as being an academic.

Jodi has recently started writing rom-coms for adult audiences. Her debut in this space is Here For The Right Reasons (out July 2022), which will be followed by Can I Steal You For A Second? (out July 2023). These are both set on the same season of a reality dating show where, in a massive twist, it turns out no one can leave – even eliminated contestants. Here For The Right Reasons is the love story of Cece, a contestant eliminated on the first night, and Dylan, the star of the show. In Can I Steal You For A Second? two of the frontrunner contestants for Dylan’s affection fall in love with each other instead.

In her author life, she’s the author of the Valentine series, a young adult paranormal romance/urban fantasy series about smart girls, small towns, and scary fairies. There are three books in the series available: Valentine (2017), Ironheart (2018), and Misrule (2019), all published by Penguin Teen Australia. If Picnic at Hanging Rock meets Holly Black sounds like something you’d be into, these are the books for you.

She’s also the author of Libby Lawrence Is Good At Pretending (2022), a young adult contemporary romance with university-aged characters, published by Wakefield Press. It’s about a lot of things, but chief among them is theatre kids having too many emotions. Jodi wrote the first draft of this book when she was a theatre kid with too many emotions, so – even though it’s been revised and rewritten many, many times since then – it’s very close to her heart.

find out more at https://jodimcalister.com.au/about-jodi/ 

The One to Heal by Author: Liz Lovelock Release Blitz

 

Title: The One to Heal

Series: Rose Ridge Ranch #1

Author: Liz Lovelock

Genre: Sweet Contemporary Romance

Release Date: August 11, 2022

BLURB

A heart can only take so much.

Delilah Reily was a broken soul. The only person keeping her pushing forward is her daughter, Olive. She returned to her family home. A place that holds so many memories, some good and some bad. It was now time to mend fences while also trying to fix a beyond repairable heart.

Sebastian King, Formula One racer, was a single father. He met Delilah on the worst day of his life. A day he’d never forget. A day that left him raising a five-year-old and a newborn—it seemed things had gotten a whole lot more complicated. After a year of healing and being unable to continue with his career as a race driver, he decided it was best to be with his girls. Without any plans in place, he booked a holiday at Rose Ridge Ranch and left the following day.

Sebastian never thought he’d see Delilah again. But fate had other plans. Sometimes love needs a kickstart with a horseback ride.

Rose Ridge Ranch is a place for the broken to be mended. The special to blend in. Love to be found in the most unlikely places. The heart to find a home.

Can Sebastian and Delilah help each other overcome the things that hold them back?

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Liz Lovelock is from bright sunny Queensland in Australia. She is the mother of three little monsters, a wife to an amazing husband and very much a lover of everything books and reading. Liz has always loved books and, from a very young age she began reading comic books and then in high school her passion grew. She was given Tomorrow When The War Began by John Marsden for an assignment but, when that was done she continued to discover new books to fall in love with. 

Liz always has a book she is currently enjoying and, a notebook beside her bed for in her hand bag for when inspiration hits at those crazy times. She is a stationary addict and will buy more notebooks and pens then what she needs. Her one click finger likes to go crazy as well.

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