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

5 Star Reads (the ones that keep us up all night) / Adult Contemporary / Celebrations / Reviews / Reviews by Christina / Women's Fiction

May 12, 2022

The Summer Place by Jennier Weiner #FiveBlushRead

Rating: The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner Christina’s 5 Blush Review One of the things I liked most about The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner, was the way she took us back to some of the more frustrating and inconvenient elements of the pandemic quarantine and layered it with humor and endearment. It’s a talent I’ve found signature to Weiner and her books throughout the years. Family drama and strong female characters are front and center in The Summer Place. The actual plot, the wedding of a young couple who met right before quarantine, takes a bit of a back...

5 Star Reads (the ones that keep us up all night) / Celebrations / Dark / Reviews / Reviews by Stephanie

May 2, 2022

Release Blitz & Review ~~ HIS RULE (The Rite Trilogy Book 1) by A. Zavarelli and Natasha Knight

Rating:   HIS RULE (The Rite Trilogy Book 1) by A. Zavarelli and Natasha Knight Release Date: April 26th Genre: Dark Mafia Romance/Secret Society/Captive Romance Stephanie’s 5 Blush Review  Wow! Ashleigh Zavarelli and Natasha Knight pull out all of the stops in His Rule. The journey, the slow burn, hurts sooo good. An enchanting, dark and twisted story. Filled with secret societies, mystery and wild desires. Be warned – it ends on a cliff. One I happily dove off of. There is no cure for a broken spirit. Mercedes and Judge clash as he is entrusted with her care following...

5 Star Reads (the ones that keep us up all night) / Celebrations / Reviews / Reviews by Louisa / Reviews by Tera / Thriller/Mystery

April 26, 2022

#FiveBlushRead ~~ A Honest Lie by Tarryn Fisher

Rating: Louisa’s 5 Blush Review I will read everything and anything by Tarryn and with each release, I become a bigger fan.  This gripping thriller had me within the first few pages, hooked and reading Up All Night. Rainy has a secretive past, one she hasn’t shared with anyone, not even her boyfriend Grant.  She has moved across the country to live with him in a little town. Everyone knows everyone so coming in as the “new” girlfriend is challenging, coming into a tight-knit group of couples proves challenging. The girls invite Rainy to a fun-filled weekend in Vegas…only one...

5 Star Reads (the ones that keep us up all night) / Celebrations / Historical Romance / Reviews / Reviews by Tera / Thriller/Mystery

April 19, 2022

#NewRelease#TrueCrime~~The Unknown Beloved by Amy Harmon

Rating:   The Unknown Beloved by Amy Harmon Amazon: https://amzn.to/3tDW4tJ From the bestselling author of Where the Lost Wander and What the Wind Knows comes the evocative story of two people whose paths collide against the backdrop of mystery, murder, and the Great Depression. Chicago, 1923: Ten-year-old Dani Flanagan returns home to find police swarming the house, her parents dead. Michael Malone, the young patrolman assigned to the case, discovers there’s more to the situation―and to Dani Flanagan herself―than the authorities care to explore. Malone is told to shut his mouth, and Dani is sent away to live with her spinster aunts in Cleveland....

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

March 31, 2022

Blog Tour & Five Blush Review ~~ Beauty and the Baller by Ilsa Madden Mills

Rating: “A sexy, fun romance from an author who always delivers.” —Kirkus Reviews Beauty and the Baller, an all-new moving and smoking hot fake relationship standalone romance from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills is available now!   Stephanie’s 5 Blush Review Beauty and the Baller is funny and romantic. It will pull you in and have you laughing out loud! I really loved everything about it. Ronan Smith is a former NFL quarterback who is now a high school football coach in Blue Belle, Texas. He is smart and generous, but his past has left him heartbroken and full...

5 Star Reads (the ones that keep us up all night) / Audible Review / Reviews / Reviews by Louisa / Reviews by Tera

March 25, 2022

#AudibleReview~~Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Rating: Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Amazon: https://amzn.to/3NkJNlZ Narrators Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer, Pablo Schreiber A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup. Daisy is a girl coming of age in LA in the late ’60s, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s 20,...

5 Star Reads (the ones that keep us up all night) / Celebrations / Fiction / Reviews / Reviews by Louisa / Reviews by Tera / Women's Fiction

March 25, 2022

#TopRead! #NewYorkTimesBestseller~~The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Rating:   From the New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & the Six—an entrancing and “wildly addictive journey of a reclusive Hollywood starlet” (PopSugar) as she reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine. Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly...

5 Star Reads (the ones that keep us up all night) / Celebrations / Reviews / Reviews by Tera / Romantic Comedy

March 25, 2022

#TheHairyCoo~~The Highland Fling by Meghan Quinn

Rating: The  Highland Fling by Meghan Quinn Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Dck629 In this steamy tale by USA Today bestselling author Meghan Quinn, an American searching for her purpose escapes to a Scottish town but finds more questions than answers when she meets a brooding yet handsome handyman. Freshly fired from her third job in a row, Bonnie St. James has lost her way. So when she and her best friend stumble upon a “help wanted” post to run a coffee shop in the Scottish Highlands, they apply on a whim. Who knows? Maybe traveling to a new place is just what she...

5 Star Reads (the ones that keep us up all night) / Audible Review / Reviews / Reviews by Tera / Romantic Comedy

March 25, 2022

#BillionaireRomance#RomCom#TopRead~~A Not so Meet Cute by Meghan Quinn

Rating: A Not so Meet Cute by Meghan Quinn Narrated by Ava Erickson and Aaron Shedlock Amazon: https://amzn.to/3tHqgnK From USA Today bestselling author of The Highland Fling comes a brand new romantic comedy about a desperate billionaire seeking to find a fiancée. This modern day take on Pretty Woman is brilliantly clever and hilariously page-turning. How did you two meet? The quintessential question asked to every couple. And the answer is usually some bubbly, lovey dovey tale of being struck in the bum by Cupid’s arrow. My meet cute (well not so meet cute) is slightly different. I was trolling a wealthy neighborhood in...

5 Star Reads (the ones that keep us up all night) / Celebrations / Fiction / Reviews / Reviews by Christina

March 25, 2022

#5BlushReview~~Wish You Were Here by Jodi Piccoult

Rating: Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She’s not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the Galápagos—days before her thirtieth birthday. Right on time. But then a virus that felt worlds away has appeared in the city, and on the eve of their departure, Finn breaks...

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