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THANK YOU to all the tagged [Partner] publishers, publicists, and authors for these gifted books:

Always Never Yours, If I’m Being Honest, and Never Vacation with Your Ex (4/4) by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka

Famous for a Living by Melissa Ferguson (5/16)

A Novel Proposal By Denise Hunter (3/21)

All We Could Still Have by Diane Barnes (6/13)

Ladies’ Day by Lisa Williams Kline (6/20)

Where Waters Meet by Zhang Ling (5/1)

Citizen Orlov by Jonathan Payne (5/23)

The Enneagram and Your Marriage by Jackie Brewster (3/21)

Liquid Shades of Blue by James Polkinghorn (5/16)

Beyond Happiness by Dr. Jennifer Guttman (5/30)

Retribution by Robert McCaw (6/6)

Lonely Dove by Sonee Singh 

The Horoscope Writer by Ash Bishop (7/18)

Go As A River by Shelley Read

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez 

A Likely Story by Leigh McMullan Abramson (3/14)

Every Woman a Theologian by Phylicia Masonheimer 

The Instructor by T.R. Hendricks (4/11)

Unspeakable by Jessica Willis Fisher 

☕Y’all know I’m a coffee lover, so I was beyond thrilled when the people at Javy Coffee reached out to me and gifted me an original coffee concentrate. Their coffee concentrate can be enjoyed hot, cold, boozy and even baked into treats! Check out their site @enjoyjavy and grab yours today.

 ☕𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚏𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚍𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚎 𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚎𝚊?     

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐯𝐞 | Review & Tour Stop

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐯𝐞

𝐁𝐲 𝐒𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐪𝐚 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧

𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫: 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫

𝐏𝐮𝐛 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝟐.𝟕.𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑

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Thank you @tlcbooktours @tlcdiversity

@sadeqasays and @simonandschuster for a spot on tour and a gifted book. 

𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥-𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘠𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘞𝘪𝘧𝘦, 𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘴𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯 1950𝘴 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘰𝘯, 𝘋𝘊, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘢𝘭.

Set in the 1950s, we follow two young Black women from different upbrings, yet they both suffer when they fall for men who others deem “acceptable” for them. 

Ruby is a bright high schooler, but her home life and poverty are holding her back. She has a chance at a scholarship, to becoming an ophthalmologist, but the consequences of a forbidden affair may destroy her one shot at her dreams. 

Eleanor is attending Howard University in Washington D.C. and having her eyes opened to the fact, “that Negroes separated themselves by color.” When she falls for William, a boy from a rich, popular family, it may seem too good to be true, until she meets his family. 

Ruby and Eleanor’s stories touch on such emotional and complex issues, but these women were kind, graceful, and intelligent. I just kept flipping the pages needing to know what these two tenacious women would do next.

And then…how Sadequa Johnson tied not only the two women together, but she also linked Yellow Wife into the story too!

🧳𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊 𝚜𝚞𝚒𝚝𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚎?

𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 | Book Review

𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞

𝐁𝐲 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥

𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫: 𝐀𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬

𝐏𝐮𝐛 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝟐.𝟕.𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑

Thank you (partner) @bookclubfavorite @simonandschuster and @atriabooks for the free book.

And thank you @librofm for the complimentary audiobook.

𝘼 𝙙𝙚𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙮 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜-𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧, 𝙖 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧’𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙩 𝙣𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙛𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙨𝙚—𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨.

I highly recommend this book to all, regardless of your views on this subject. As the author states in the Author Notes, “Looking for Jane is about motherhood. About wanting to be a mother and not wanting to be a mother, and all the gray areas in between.”  

The story centers on three women, decades apart, who have all been affected by pregnancy and the struggle to control their own choices. From in vitro fertilization and adoption to the historical underground Jane Network that supplied women with safe abortions, Heather Marshall covers a heated topic with grace and compassion. It was hard not to be moved by these women’s stories and struggles. 

☎️𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈 𝐬𝐚𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 “𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞.” 𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞?

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 | Book Review

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭

𝐁𝐲 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐳

𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫: 𝐀𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚

𝐏𝐮𝐛 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝟐.𝟐𝟏.𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑

𝐻𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎 𝒫𝓊𝒷 𝒟𝒶𝓎!

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Thank you (partner) @simonandschuster and @bookclubfavorite for the free book. And thank you @librofm for the complimentary audiobook.

When Roza Vallo, a famous feminist horror author, invites Alex to an exclusive month-long writing retreat, Alex believes this may be her chance to jump-start her writing career.

Alex is taken aback to find that her former friend Wren is in attendance. But Alex is even more shocked when Roza announces that her guests must finish a complete novel within the month and the author with the best novel will win a huge publishing contract.  

The competition begins as the women begin to write. Until bizarre and odd things happen – strange behavior from Roza, mind games, stories of hidden rooms, and hauntings. And then, it escalates when one guest disappears into the snowy night. 

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 checked off quite a few boxes. It’s a book about authors writing their books, which I love. It also deals with some unhinged characters. I was never sure who could be trusted. It has a claustrophobic, foreboding, but slightly sexy feel – a wild debut!

🏕️𝙷𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚐𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚗 𝚊 𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚍? 𝙰𝚗𝚢 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎?

𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 | Book Tour

𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡

𝐁𝐲 𝐊𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠

𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫: 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬

𝐏𝐮𝐛 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝟐.𝟏𝟒.𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 𝒪𝓊𝓉 𝒩𝑜𝓌!

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Thank you @tlcbooktours and @post_hill_press for a spot on tour and a gifted book by @kimberlyyoungauthor. 

📖 When the Recession crushes their splashy event business in Silicon Valley, Liz Becker and Gabbi Rossi realize that parties are on hold—but funerals must go on.

Planning a memorial with flowers, music, and food isn’t that different from a wedding, right? But Liz has had a crippling fear of death since losing her younger sister in a childhood tragedy. Knowing her husband and twin sons depend on her income, she reluctantly agrees to produce end-of-life events. As Gabbi promised, the money starts rolling in. When an old real estate tycoon hires them to plan his “after party,” Liz finds an unlikely mentor. Just as things are looking up, she learns that someone she loves has a serious illness. Death planning gets personal.

🗓️ 𝙸𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚗 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚛 – 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚢𝚙𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚎𝚗𝚓𝚘𝚢 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐?

Book Mail

 📬 ᗷOOK ᗰᗩIᒪ 📬

THANK YOU to all the tagged [Partner] publishers, publicists, and authors for these gifted books:

Good Night, Sister by Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt

Maame by Jessica George

The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson

The Laughter by Sonora Jha (2/14)

The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz (2/21)

Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones 

Down a Bad Road by Regina Buttner (5/4)

A Dangerous Education by Megan Chance 

Luck of the Draw by Frank Murphy (2/28)

Goodnight From Paris by Jane Healey (3/7)

Five First Chances by Sarah Jost (4/18)

A Single Life to Live by Hannah Schermerhorn  (2/14)

What’s Not Lost by Valerie Taylor 

Circus Home by Jason Ollander-Krane

The Forgotten Life of Eva Gordon by Linda MacKillop (5/17)

The Distance Between Us by A.C. Burch (5/16)

Daughters of Nantucket by Julie Gerstenblatt (3/14)

Sea Magic by Heidi McIntyre 

Love Is Wilder by Larissa Hommes

Home is a Made-Up Place by Ronit Plank (2/28)

A Home for the Twins by Danielle Thorne (3/28)

📘🏈 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝚘𝚛 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚒𝚐 𝚐𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚋𝚎 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚞𝚙 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎?

𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐬 | Book Review

𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐬

𝐁𝐲 𝐉𝐞𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧

𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫: 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐧𝐞𝐫

𝐏𝐮𝐛 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝟐.𝟕.𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 𝒪𝓊𝓉 𝒮𝑜𝑜𝓃!

Although I enjoyed 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐬, I’m slightly at a loss as to how to describe it. Is it supposed to be satirical, with a deep philosophical meaning? Or was it just a quirky, sex-infused comedy? I walked away from it thinking the latter, but something buzzed in my head that I had missed something; maybe it was all the talk of bees and bugs.

In short, this is about Greta, who transcribes sessions for Om, a sex therapist. Listening in on some of the sessions provides much of the humor, especially as Greta interjects her own thoughts and feelings. But the story takes off when Greta becomes fascinated with a patient she has nicknamed “Big Swiss.”

When the two meet each other by chance, they embark on a somewhat peculiar affair. Greta knows Big Swiss’s deepest, most personal thoughts, all things she has shared with Om, but Big Swiss doesn’t know that Greta knows this or that she even works for Om. This will not bode well in the end, as you can imagine. 

Beagin’s writing is sharp and witty, but if you’re looking for a cute romance, I think you need to see this as more eccentric. The characters themselves are interesting. Both Greta and Big Swiss have trauma in their pasts, and this plays out in the narrative. But Om’s character is the one that had me laughing most often; he was definitely the comic relief.

*TW includes assault, suicide, stalking, and multiple sex scenes. 

Thank you @bookclubfavorites and @simonandschuster for a gifted copy. And many thanks to @librofm for the complimentary audiobook.  

📘 𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝?

𝐕𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐬: 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 | Audiobook Review

𝐕𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐬: 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝

𝐁𝐲 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝

𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫: 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨

𝐏𝐮𝐛 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝟏.𝟐.𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑

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It was great to be back in the world of vampires! 

𝐕𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐬 has all the makings for a dark academia read – an elite vampire academy in the Swiss Alps, a new student, and of course, the paranormal element. 

Dillion has just turned eighteen and his father is sending him away to Vamps, a Vampire Academy. The problem is Dillion knows nothing about being a vampire! Dillion is a Dhampir (totally new term to me); he is half human/half vampire. He was raised by his human father never knowing his mother.

Watching Dillion come into his vampire-ness was entertaining, but soon as he did, it caused trouble for him. Someone or something does not want Dillion to succeed. But Dillion has a big heart and apparently some powerful lineage surging through that blood of his.

This is not the literature of the classic Dracula, but it was fun, a little sexy, and the audiobook was well done.

Thank you @simon.audio and @libro.fm for this complimentary audiobook. 

🧛🏻‍♂️𝔻𝕠 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕒 𝕗𝕒𝕧𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕖 𝕧𝕒𝕞𝕡𝕚𝕣𝕖 𝕠𝕣 𝕒 𝕗𝕒𝕧𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕖 𝕞𝕠𝕧𝕚𝕖 𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕧𝕒𝕞𝕡𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕤?

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 | Audiobook Review

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞

𝐁𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞

𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫: 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 

𝐏𝐮𝐛 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞:𝟏.𝟐.𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑

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The Blackhouse is my second of Carole Johnstone’s mysteries, and once again she has managed to unnerve me. The atmosphere of an isolated Scottish island and a woman struggling with mental illness and visions all set a gothic tone.

Maggie MacKay was only five when she claimed a man was murdered on the Isle of Kilmeray. It grabbed a lot of attention, but how would Maggie know such a thing, as she had never been to the island? 

Robert Reid moves his family to the small community of Kilmeray hoping to farm the land and for peace. But thoughts and memories of some past misdeed haunt him.

Now, as an adult, Maggie has come to Kilmeray determined to get to the truth, but the truth goes far deeper than she imagined. 

The setting alone is enough to send a few shivers up your spine: a remote island in the chilly Atlantic, with a very tight-knit community that is keeping some dreadfully dark secrets. Although the pace is unhurried, I found the elements of mental health, possible reincarnation, and locals-gone-rogue to be very interesting. Plus Maggie was a character that I found myself rooting for.

🎧If you want the full atmospheric experience, grab the audiobook, the narrator has a great accent!

Thank you @simon.audio for the complimentary audiobook and @bookclubfavorites for a gifted book.

😴 𝙳𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚜? 𝙰𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚒𝚗 𝙲𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚛?

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 | Book Review

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 

𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐚 𝐓𝐚𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐦

𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫: 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐚𝐦 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 / 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 

𝐏𝐮𝐛 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝟏.𝟑.𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑

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This was such a fun love triangle romance. Don’t be put off by “love triangle” if that’s usually not your thing, because it’s not Zahra’s thing either!

Zahra, a Bengali princess living in Jersey, is trying to earn money so that she can take writing classes, as she wants to be a writer, but her mother is convinced she just needs a good love match. 

Her mother and the auntie network plan and scheme to set Zahra up with Harun, a wealthy, nerdy, but very cute boy. But Zahra finds herself falling for Nayim, the new dishwasher at the tea shop she works at. 

Harun and her devise a plan to convince everyone that they aren’t a good match, which includes fake dating. As the two spend time together though, her feelings get very mixed up as to which boy her heart desires.

I loved the descriptions of the Bengali community, family, and culture woven into the narrative. This is a clean, sweet, romance that hits on being true to yourself and not rushing into love. 

Thank you @bookclubfavorites for this gifted copy and @simon.audio for the complimentary audiobook.

🍵 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒂?