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Release Day Review! ROUGH AROUND THE HEDGES by Emma HartRough Around the Hedges by Emma Hart.

Release Day Review! ROUGH AROUND THE HEDGES by Emma Hart

Published by beckymmoe on 06/19/2025

He’s the city boy who wants to destroy the place she loves most. She’s the countryside girl who is determined to break him first. But when hearts are involved, can either of them truly win? I, Rose Matthews, have always considered myself a perfectly reasonable person. Until the day Oliver de Havilland—the hottie I wham, bam, thank you ma’am’d two weeks ago—shows up at Hanbury Allotments and hands me a closure notice. In two months, he’s going to shut down the place I love the most—the very place that keeps the dwindling community of our village alive. Long story short;…

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New Release Review! THE BAD BOY RULE by Maren Moore (Hellcats Hockey #1)

Published by beckymmoe on 06/16/2025

The Bad Boy Rule by Maren Moore is now live! A deliciously sexy, bad boy/good girl, hockey romance from Amazon Top 20 bestselling sports romance author, Maren Moore. LennonSaint Devereaux has a reputation that precedes him.Orleans University’s resident bad boy on and off the ice.And I know to stay far away.Until there’s a mixup and we’re forced to share our ice time.I can’t stand his cocky attitude, or how annoyingly attractive he is.He’s the reason the Bad Boy Rule exists.Because guys like him will break your heart.But the more time I spend with the hot, tattooed enforcer, the more I…

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Release Day Review! HER MOUNTAIN RESCUER by Alyson Archer (Honey Ridge #1)Cover of Her Mountain Rescuer by Alyson Archer.

Release Day Review! HER MOUNTAIN RESCUER by Alyson Archer (Honey Ridge #1)

Published by beckymmoe on 05/30/2025

I went on a hike to clear my head. But then a storm blows in, and now I’m taking shelter with my rescuer—my dad’s best friend. My goal was to clear my head. To figure out what I want in life—besides mountain ranger Beau Cameron, that is. He’s my dad’s best friend, more than twenty years older than me, and it’s not like he returns my feelings. Beau and I are never going to happen. I need to let it go. Move on. But I get caught in a life-threatening deluge of wind, rain, and hail. Soon, I’m lost, freezing,…

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New Release Review! BUILT TO LAST by Lexi Blake (Park Avenue Promise #3)

Published by beckymmoe on 05/28/2025

From New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake, discover The Park Avenue Promise Series… Three young women make a pact in high school—to always be friends and to one day make it big in Manhattan Built to LastHarper Ross has always dreamed of working on one of the magnificent brownstones of Park Avenue. Now one of her closest friends has bought the house of her dreams and hired Harper to do the construction work. She wants to showcase the renovation on a television show for her brand-new production company. It’s the same grand home she and her friends promised themselves…

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Memorial Day Throwback Review–THE LAST LETTER by Rebecca Yarros

Published by beckymmoe on 05/26/2025

Yes, I’ve already posted this review here (just over 6 years ago). But it’s Memorial Day, and IMHO the perfect time to revisit my favorite Rebecca Yarros book (no, I haven’t read The Fourth Wing books…yet. I do have a hardcover copy and the audiobook of the first one so I probably will eventually. But they’re not really my kind of book like this one is). I’ve included a short promo video here for a fabulous organization that really and truly helped my children and me during a difficult time of our lives and is always there when we need…

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Release Day Review! UNTIL THE RAKE SURRENDERS by Darcy Burke (The Rogue Rules #5)Until the Rake Surrenders by Darcy Burke cover.

Release Day Review! UNTIL THE RAKE SURRENDERS by Darcy Burke (The Rogue Rules #5)

Published by beckymmoe on 05/22/2025

When a young lady is ruined, her friends vow none of them will ever be ensnared by a scoundrel again. They will resist every gentleman’s charms even—and especially—if it means gaining a reputation for being impossible to woo. It will take extraordinary rogues to break their rules… It will take nothing less than the promise of a heart-stopping, breath-catching, happily ever after to woo Lady Minerva Halifax into marriage, but that dream seems doomed. She only attracts money- and position-hungry rogues because she’s the daughter of a wealthy duke. Then her friend’s dashingly irrepressible brother, Evan Price, is injured showing…

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Release Day Review! TIME LOOPS AND MEET CUTES by Jackie Lau

Published by beckymmoe on 05/06/2025

The “masterful, inspiring, and full of heart” (Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author) Jackie Lau returns with a thoroughly unique love story about a woman reliving the same Friday over and over again—and the intriguing man who can’t quite remember her. Noelle Tom really shouldn’t have eaten those dumplings at the night market. But the old woman at the stall said they’d give her what she needed most, and what Noelle desperately needed after another long workweek was food. Except now she’s reliving the same Friday. Every morning her alarm goes off at 6:45, and the Wordle answer is…

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Release Day Review! THE UPGRADE by Tawna Fenske (The Jilted Brides Honeymoon Club #1)

Published by beckymmoe on 05/02/2025

Just one thing tastes sweeter than revenge on my ex;Forbidden fruit in the form of my best friend’s older brother. It started innocently enough.Kit needed a fake date for his ex’s glamorous party.I needed a practice swing fling to launch my trip to an exclusive sex resort.I know what you’re thinking.Eve’s not that kind of girl.But my ex’s betrayal has me speeding down scandalous paths I’ve never explored.A luxury, fantasy retreat where women’s pleasure comes first.And so will I.The Jilted Brides Honeymoon Club boasts a fantasy menu to fulfill my wildest desires.Sensuous massage, group play, same-sex pleasures…it’s all here for…

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Release Day Review! HARDLY A GENTLEMAN by Eloisa James (Accidental Brides #2)

Published by beckymmoe on 04/29/2025

New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James returns to the Accidental Brides series with a romance about a forced marriage between a feisty heroine and a Scottish laird… neither of whom have plans to marry, let alone fall in love. Desperate after her Season comes to a spectacularly disastrous end, the Honorable Miss Clara Vetry jumps into a carriage hired to take a housekeeper to Scotland. The laird of Castle CaerLaven has no interest in a wife, especially a love match—but when Caelan sees his new housekeeper, he changes his mind. Marriage to a delectable bookworm strikes him as a perfect…

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New Release Review! SO RIGHT by Darcy Burke (Ribbon Ridge #9)

Published by beckymmoe on 04/23/2025

Kelsey McDade realizes that her love life is one and done. Her last—and only—relationship left her broken and afraid and more than ready to be alone for the long haul. But sexy-charming vineyard manager Luke Westcott pushes all of her buttons in the right way and makes her wonder if she ought to try again. In nearly twenty-eight years, Luke’s most successful romance has been with the outdoors. Currently single, he’s happy to pour all of his energy into his new winery until Kelsey provokes feelings he didn’t know he was capable of. He can envision their future together—if she’ll…

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