Tagged: Renee Carlino

February 1, 2019

#SuperSundayFunday on Super Bowl Sunday #blushingbabesreadingroom

What’s the reader in us to do on Super Bowl Sunday?? I know! I know! *Jumps up and down in excitement* You can join us Babes in The Blushing Babes Reading Room. What’s that, you ask? Its Blushing Babes are Up All Night’s facebook group, you can find it by clicking here! What will we do there? You will have the opportunity to interact with today’s hottest authors. There will be giveaways and prizes to win. There will be book teasers and fun games to play. What’s better than football? The answer is books! ALWAYS BOOKS! Who will be there?...

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August 22, 2018

#BlogTour~~Blind Kiss by Renee Carlino

Rating: From the national bestselling author of Before We Were Strangers, Swear on this Life, and Wish You Were Here comes a powerful story of two people who spend years denying their scientifically-proven chemistry. Penny spends her afternoons sitting outside a sandwich shop, surrounded by ghosts. Fourteen years ago, this shop was her childhood dance studio—and she was a dancer on the rise. Now she’s a suburban housewife, dreading the moment her son departs for MIT, leaving her with an impeccably-decorated McMansion and a failing marriage. She had her chance at wild, stars-in-her-eyes happiness, but that was...

5 Star Reads (the ones that keep us up all night)

September 11, 2017

Wish You Were Here, A novel by Renee Carlino

Rating: You know when you’re looking at someone and you can’t help but smile at how oblivious they are to their own charm? That’s what was happening to me, and it was making me feel…happy. Euphoric. Something indescribable. It was like we already knew each other, like we had met in a previous life. Memories that didn’t exist began exploding in my mind like fireworks. Charlotte has spent her twenties adrift, searching for a spark to jump-start her life and give her a sense of purpose. She’s had as many jobs as she’s had bad relationships, and now she’s...

5 Star Reads (the ones that keep us up all night) / Adult Contemporary / Celebrations / Reviews / Reviews by Dawn / Reviews by Louisa / Reviews by Tera

August 15, 2017

Blitz~~ Wish You Were Here by Renee Carlino

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May 7, 2017

Early ARC Review~~Wish You Were Here by @Renayz

Rating: Wish You Were Here Renee Carlino You know when you’re looking at someone and you can’t help but smile at how oblivious they are to their own charm? That’s what was happening to me, and it was making me feel…happy. Euphoric. Something indescribable. It was like we already knew each other, like we had met in a previous life. Memories that didn’t exist began exploding in my mind like fireworks. Charlotte has spent her twenties adrift, searching for a spark to jump-start her life and give her a sense of purpose. She’s had as many jobs as she’s had...

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January 9, 2017

Blog Tour ~~ Lucian Divine by Renee Carlino

Rating: “My guardian angel is a drunk.” Evelyn Casey’s life is at a standstill. She’s in her mid-twenties, struggling with the dating scene in San Francisco. Nothing seems to be working out, and she’s starting to think that she’ll live out her days in her crummy apartment with her overbearing roommate, Brooklyn. It’s absurd, but sometimes Evey longs for a guardian angel to show up and save the day. And then he does. Seriously. His name is Lucian and he’s a guardian angel, been on the job for two thousand years. His sudden presence in her life is both...

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August 4, 2016

Review ~~ Swear On This Life by Renee Carlino

Rating: ABOUT SWEAR ON THIS LIFE: From USA TODAY bestselling author Renée Carlino (Before We Were Strangers), a warm and witty novel about a struggling writer who must come to grips with her past, present, and future after she discovers that she’s the inspiration for a pseudonymously published bestselling novel. When a bestselling debut novel from mysterious author J. Colby becomes the literary event of the year, Emiline reads it reluctantly. As an adjunct writing instructor at UC San Diego with her own stalled literary career and a bumpy long-term relationship, Emiline isn’t thrilled to celebrate the accomplishments of a young and gifted writer. Yet...

Before We Were Strangers by Renee Carlino

5 Star Reads (the ones that keep us up all night) / Adult Contemporary / Dawn / Reviews by Dawn

August 22, 2015

Before We Were Strangers by Renee Carlino

Rating: BLURB: From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed...

Adult Contemporary / Mature Adult

November 12, 2014

After the Rain by Renee’ Carlino

Rating: From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a deeply emotional contemporary romance about the second chances waiting beyond the shattered dreams of youth. Under the bright arena lights of a rodeo show, young Avelina Belo falls for a handsome cowboy with a larger-than-life personality. After a whirlwind courtship, she happily moves away from her family in northern California and settles into married life with her cowboy on a seven-thousand-acre cattle ranch in Montana. One freak accident later, Avelina’s hopes for the future come to an end. Nate Myers graduated from UCLA medical...

Authors Asking Authors **An interview by Penny Reid***

interviews

September 3, 2014

Authors Asking Authors An interview by Penny Reid*

I’m curious. This is a perpetual problem for me because sometimes I ask questions that make other people uncomfortable. Therefore, you can imagine how excited I was when I was asked by the ladies at Up All Night Book Blog to pointedly ask several of my author sister-wives a question that would—without a doubt—make them uncomfortable AND assuage my own curiosity about a sensitive topic. The subject: 1 star reviews The brave authors: Tina Reber, LH Cosway, Amy Harmon, Belle Aurora, Renee Carlino, and RS Grey The question: If you were in a room with all people who gave you...