Review: Postcards from the sky by Erin Seidemann

Postcards from the sky by Erin Seidemann

Release date: November 10, 2015

Publisher: She Writes Press

My rating:5

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Synopsis:

The aviation world is a man’s world―it always has been, and it continues to be so today. In fact, women make up a mere 5 to 6 percent of the total pilot population worldwide. But from the first time Erin Seidemann experienced what it was like to see the world from a small plane’s perspective, she was hooked―and she’s spent much of her time since then fighting her way into becoming one of that 5 to 6 percent. Postcards from the Sky: Adventures of an Aviatrix tells of the struggles and adventures one encounters as a woman in the male-dominated space of aviation. With humor and equanimity, Seidemann recounts her varied experiences as a female pilot―from the chauvinistic flight instructor she makes the mistake of falling in love with to the many, many customs agents who insist she can’t possibly be her plane’s owner (“Where’s your boyfriend?”)―while at the same time giving insight about just what makes flying so incredible . . . and so very addictive. Frank, funny, and full of adventure,Postcards from the Sky is an entertaining foray into a world few women have dared enter.

My Thoughts:

I am all for a girl breaking into a "mans world". That is exactly what Erin Seidemann did.

 I have always been fascinated with the whole world of flying and I have even debated taking flying lessons. After reading this beautiful memoir I'm regretting not doing it. While this book is about Erin's love of flying, it also goes deeper than that. There were times in the book that I was cracking up.

 Erin seems like the type of woman I would love to be friends with. I wish there were more people like her, great role models from the upcoming generation. My goal was to read more memoirs and I am so glad that I signed up to read this awesome book. This is a book that I would recommend to anyone. 

Review: Surrender my love by Melissa Foster

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Love in Bloom: The Bradens #14

Melissa Foster

Releasing on January 13, 2016

World Literary Press 

Annalise “Leesa” Avalon never realized that one sentence could change her life until one of her students revealed his crush—and within twenty-four hours she finds herself under fire. After a grueling investigation that turns her life upside down, she steals away to Peaceful Harbor, Maryland, with a new identity to try to pull herself back together and figure out her next step.

From the outside, Cole Braden lives a charmed life. He’s a top orthopedic surgeon with a thriving practice, strong family ties, and friends he adores. But there’s a lonely spot inside Cole that no one can see. He has an enormous heart—and a painful past—but the desire to love and be loved is too strong to ignore.

A chance encounter brings Leesa and Cole together, and the attraction is immediate and intense. But a relationship is the last thing Leesa needs—and the only thing Cole wants. Long talks, heated moments, and deep connections are hard to resist, but the harder Cole tries, the more Leesa pulls away. Cole might truly be the right man for Leesa, but is Leesa the right woman for him?

My Thoughts:

Every time I read a Melissa Foster book I immediately have a new favorite, but then comes another great book and that one becomes my favorite. It's a never-ending cycle. 

When I read what this book was about I just knew I had to read it and I'm so happy I did. Ms. Foster has a way of making you adore her characters, from the leading characters to the supporting characters. Leesa and Cole have to be my favorite (until I read another of her books) couple. There was such a gentleness and kindness about Cole that made me want to cuddle him. Leesa has such a huge heart and even though she was cleared of any wrongdoing, the whole situation shook her faith in herself. Leesa though that she could start over in Peaceful Harbor, but she didn't realize how much she needed to go back and find the closure of her old life. I think everyone of us could relate to Leesa in one way or another. These characters both had some problems in relations, but from the moment Cole gave Leesa his muffin you just knew that they could help heal each other. 

Siiiigh. I really did find this book lovely and every character unique. 

My rating: 4

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Melissa Foster is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling and award-winning author. She writes contemporary romance, new adult, contemporary women’s fiction, suspense, and historical fiction with emotionally compelling characters that stay with you long after you turn the last page. Her books have been recommended by USA Today’s book blog, Hagerstown Magazine, The Patriot, and several other print venues. She is the founder of the World Literary Café and Fostering Success. When she’s not writing, Melissa helps authors navigate the publishing industry through her author training programs on Fostering Success. Melissa has been published in Calgary’s Child Magazine, the Huffington Post, and Women Business Owners magazine.

Melissa hosts an Aspiring Authors contest for children and has painted and donated several murals to The Hospital for Sick Children in Washington, DC. Melissa lives in Maryland with her family.

Visit Melissa on social media. Melissa enjoys discussing her books with book clubs and reader groups, and welcomes an invitation to your event.

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Book Blast: A duchess in name by Amanda Weaver

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The Grantham Girls #1

Amanda Weaver

Releasing on January 18, 2016.

Carina Press

Victoria Carson never expected love. An American heiress and graduate of Lady Grantham's finishing school, she's been groomed since birth to marry an English title—the grander the better. So when the man chosen for her, the forbidding Earl of Dunnley, seems to hate her on sight, she understands that it can't matter. Love can have no place in this arrangement.

Andrew Hargrave has little use for his title and even less for his cold, disinterested parents. Determined to make his own way, he's devoted to his life in Italy working as an archaeologist. Until the collapse of his family's fortune drags him back to England to a marriage he never wanted and a woman he doesn't care to know.

Wild attraction is an unwanted complication for them both, though it forms the most fragile of bonds. Their marriage of convenience isn't so intolerable after all—but it may not be enough when the deception that bound them is finally revealed.

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Amanda Weaver has loved romance since she read that very first Kathleen E. Woodiwiss novel at fifteen. After a long detour into a career as a costume designer in theatre, she’s found her way back to romance, this time as a writer.

A native Floridian, Amanda transplanted to New York City many years ago and now considers Brooklyn home, along with her husband, daughter, two cats, and nowhere near enough space.

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Book Blitz: The virgin auction by Jessa Fox

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Jessa Fox 

Releasing on January 15, 2016

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She’s selling her virginity. He’s been secretly obsessed with her for years. They’ve only got one night together, better make it count.

She’s the last virgin on earth, at least that’s what it feels like to Kyle. Now she’s auctioning her virginity online in order to pay for medical school and give money to charity. She has no idea what she’s getting herself into, but she’s committed, and now there’s no turning back.

Caspian has been secretly obsessed with Kyle since the day they met years ago. He’s kept tabs on her for all of these years, and when he sees she’s auctioning her virginity, he knows there’s no way he’s going to let anyone else touch her. Ever.

The rules state that he gets one night with her, but rules are made to be broken.

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Hi, my name is Jessa Fox. I’m a professional by day and an erotica writer by night. There’s nothing I love more than writing all of the smutty stories that are in my head and bringing them to life. I specialize in writing down all the taboo, sexy scenarios that we all wish we could experience, at least once.

But maybe that’s just me.

I’m also a wife and mom, and dutiful member of the Parent’s Association. Shh, don’t tell.

Jessa Fox is my pseudonym, because no one knows about all of the kinky stories and characters I love to create. They would never imagine all of the dirty thoughts running through my mind.

I hope you enjoy my stories as much as I love writing them. If you’re looking for a quick smutty treat, you came to the right place.

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Mini review: This is where it ends by Marieke Nijkamp

This is where it ends by Marieke Nijkamp

Release date: January 5, 2016

Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire

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My rating: 3.5

Synopsis:

10:00 a.m.
The principal of Opportunity, Alabama's high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve.

10:02 a.m.
The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class.

10:03
The auditorium doors won't open.

10:05
Someone starts shooting.

Told from four perspectives over the span of 54 harrowing minutes, terror reigns as one student's calculated revenge turns into the ultimate game of survival.

My Thoughts:

I usually don't like books that have multiple points of views in them, but this one sort of worked for me. We follow 4 different students in different places at the school while there's a shooter. For some reason this book reminded me of Nineteen minutes by Jodi Picoult. When reading about school shootings in book it always stops me and makes me thing about things. It was brutal reading about people being shot for no reason. This is one of those books where you really just have to read it. I really can't find the right words to say, just read it. 

Review: Not okay, Cupid by Heidi R. Kling

Not okay, cupid by Heidi R. Kling

Release date: January 11, 2016

Publisher: Entangled Publishing

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My rating: 3.5

Synopsis:

Hazel McCallister loves her life. Perfect grades. Perfect best friend. Perfect boyfriend. Until her perfect boyfriend cheats on her with her perfect best friend. Now Hazel's in free fall-until her best friend's brother, Felix, gives her the perfect idea. Reclaim her power by taking revenge on her cheating ex. Felix James loves his life. Casual relationships. Loads of surfing. He's as drama-free as they come. But he can't stand by when his sister steals her best friend's boyfriend, and the dude insists it was Hazel's fault. So Felix vows to help turn Hazel into a girl her ex can't resist-so then she can break his heart. With an alliance in place, Hazel's revenge is all but assured. But with each piece of payback, she feels a stronger attraction to Felix, even though revenge will turn her into a girl Felix could never be with. And soon Hazel has to make an impossible choice: revenge...or Felix, the boy who's stolen her heart. WARNING! This book contains betrayal, revenge, and that most tempting vice of all, the bad boy you know you can't have.

My Thoughts:

This book was revenge at it's best. I really loved Hazel and Felix. When Hazel finds out that her boyfriend has been cheating on her with her best friend, Felix, her best friends brother, comes to Hazel's side. Felix concocts the perfect revenge plan. The two of them should start dating. What's funny about that plan is that Hazel and Felix can hardly stand each other, but you know what they say, there's a fine line between love and hate. 

Hazel doesn't really have that high of an opinion about Felix, but as they spend more time together they both learn that there's a lot more to each other than they originally thought. This book was really the perfect high school love\revenge plot. Do yourself a favor and read this book. It'll make you laugh and want to hand the perfect boyfriend and best friend up by their toes. 

Mini Review: Ex-billionaire escort by Leigh James

Ex-Billionaire Escort by Leigh James 
Publication date: October 14th 2015
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
Synopsis:
Rising actress Lowell Barton has problems… Lots of them.
One night, she tries to solve them with margaritas… Lots of them. Unfortunately, she throws them up all over a police officer’s shoes. And then a video of the incident shows up all over the Internet.
Now she needs to do damage control. Fast. What she needs is a story juicy enough to throw the press off. A new boyfriend—a perfect, smoking hot new boyfriend—that’d be just the thing.
Unfortunately, it’s just the thing she doesn’t have.
Deciding to throw caution to the wind and money at her mounting problems, Lowell hires a date. But when sexy escort Kyle Richards steps out of her past and onto her doorstep, she finds herself in a fresh hell she couldn’t have even imagined.

Is he the stepbrother-escort from hell, or just the thing to save her career—and herself?

Lowell’s about to find out. One thing she knows for sure: only desperate times call for measures this desperate.

My Thoughts:

For some reason I have been really into reading books about step-brother\father kind of things. This book was good and I was surprised with how much I actually liked it. Lowell is an actress that is rebelling against Hollywood's typical standards for women's body types. During a night out with her friend she gets white girl wasted and pulled over by the police and someone records it and posts it online. She decides she needs a distraction for the press, so she hires an escort to throw them off. Only she ends up hiring her ex-step brother. Kyle was just delicious. I really enjoyed him. I especially loved how it tried to do the right thing in the end for Lowell. If you're in the mood for a hot romance, check this book out. 

My rating: 3.5