Category: Reviews by Sandy

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March 10, 2023

#NewRelease~~What Happened to Ruthy Ramierez by Claire Jimenez

Rating: A deeply powerful, raw debut novel of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their long‑missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and they set out to bring her home. The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen‑year‑old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spots a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show. She rushes to tell her younger sister, Nina: This woman’s hair is dyed red,...

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March 7, 2023

#NewReview~~Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan

Rating: Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade found that love alone couldn’t solve or save everything. It couldn’t save their marriage. Yasmen wasn’t prepared for how her life fell apart, but she is finally starting to find joy again. She and Josiah have found a new rhythm, co-parenting their two kids and running a thriving business together. Yet like magnets, they’re always drawn back to each other, and now they’re beginning to wonder if they’re truly ready to let go...

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October 28, 2022

Release Blitz ~~ Blood Orange by Karina Halle

Rating: His death is her destiny. Blood Orange, a sizzling and captivating modern retelling of Dracula from New York Times Bestselling author Karina Halle is now available! Once there was a man who fell deeply in love with a woman he could never have. When their affair was uncovered she was brutally murdered in front of him, and he discovered he was cursed, doomed to live forever as a vampire. Over the centuries, he found his love again, and lost her again, until he was so broken he gave up on love entirely, sinking into the depths of depravity, losing...

4 / Blog Tours / Fantasy / Reviews / Reviews by Sandy

July 13, 2022

#ReleaseBlitz ~~ A Curse of Blood & Stone (Fate & Flame #2) by K.A. Tucker

Rating:   A Curse of Blood & Stone by K.A. Tucker is now live!   Sandy’s 4.5 Blush Review Curse of Blood & Stone picks up right where A Fate of Wrath & Flame (Book #1) ended.  I recommend a re-read of Book #1, so it’s all fresh in your mind. Zander saved Romy and sacrificed his crown in one fell swoop.  The plan?  Revenge of course! Gather friends, soldiers, and munitions, and take out Atticus and ALL the baddies who staged the coup.  Are you thinking this is the plot for most of these types of books?  You’d be...

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November 1, 2021

Blog Tour ~~ Rebel North by JB Salsbury

I’m not who I led her to believe. I’m sin wrapped in silk. Betrayal masked by beauty. And she’s not the only one with scars… Rebel North, an all-new stunning and seductive standalone romance from New York Times bestselling author JB Salsbury is available now! In a city where image is everything, Gabriella turns heads for all the wrong reasons. The marks that slash across her neck and face turn people away. But I see the beauty that lies beneath, feel a kinship to her pain. I regret the way she found me—mugged and left for dead. I should walk...

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November 1, 2021

#Reviews~~ ????? ?? ??????? by Jessica Ruben

Rating: ?NOW AVAILABLE? ????? ?? ???????, by International best-selling author Jessica Ruben, is live! This is a new enemies-to-lovers, arranged-marriage, stand-alone romance—with a Mafia twist, that you won’t want to miss! Stephanie’s 4.5 Blush Review Break on Through is a stand-alone in the Sex.Rock.Mafia series. Set in the Mafia world. The men are manly, dominating, strong and in very much “in charge.” The story is a roller coaster of emotions and intensity. Jessica Ruben’s writing will have you picturing the rich cultures and traditions laced throughout the book. Honor, loyalty and family will all be tested. Leo has been betrayed...