Nina's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 06 Apr 2025 07:42:54 -0700 60 Nina's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg The Only One Left 63933648 400 Riley Sager 0593474473 Nina 0 4.19 2023 The Only One Left
author: Riley Sager
name: Nina
average rating: 4.19
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]]> <![CDATA[The Pumpkin Spice Latte Disaster: Roman | In dieser cosy RomCom treffen Stars Hollow-Vibes auf die Enemies to lover-Trope (German Edition)]]> 230923354 Pumpkin Spice and everything Gilmore Girl-Vibes x Enemies to lovers

GemĂĽtliche Sonntage, geschmĂĽckte Häuser und buntes Laub â€� das bedeutet der Herbst in Lower Whilby. Nichts davon verändert Judes Bild von der kleinen Sie will nie wieder in ihren Heimatort zurĂĽckkehren. Besonders nicht fĂĽr die perfekt orchestrierte Hochzeit ihrer entfremdeten Schwester. Doch als sie erfährt, dass James Cartwright mittlerweile das CafĂ© im Ort betreibt, wittert sie eine Chance. Denn James ist der Sohn eines legendären Brit Pop-Elternpaares, und fĂĽr Judes Musik-Podcast könnte sein Insiderwissen den Durchbruch bringen. James ist jedoch ebenso attraktiv wie verschlossen â€� und Jude beiĂźt sich an dem Mann mit der falsch herum sitzenden Baseballkappe die Zähne aus. Aber mit jedem Tag, den die beiden streitend nebeneinander arbeiten, verändert sich die Stimmung zwischen ihnen. Und das gefährdet fĂĽr Judes Pläne ... Ěý

Du schaust jeden Herbst Gilmore Girls, liebst die Energie zwischen Lorelei und Luke und wĂĽnschst dir ein Buch, das noch viel mehr bietet? Dann ist The Pumkin Spice Latte Disaster dein Fall-Read 2025!Ěý]]> Kyra Groh 3989780468 Nina 0 to-be-published 0.0 The Pumpkin Spice Latte Disaster: Roman | In dieser cosy RomCom treffen Stars Hollow-Vibes auf die Enemies to lover-Trope (German Edition)
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]]> Fake Dates and Fireworks 222517268 Bei dieser Fake Dating-Romance knistern nicht nur die Bestsellerautorin Kyra Grohs neuer Roman

Becca und Nils sind beste Freunde â€� die jedes Jahr an Silvester miteinander im Bett landen. Zum zehnten Jubiläum ihres jährlichen One-Night-Stands kratzt Erzieherin Becca ihr gesamtes Erspartes zusammen, um Nils in einem romantischen Alpenchalet endlich ihre Liebe zu gestehen. Doch alles kommt Erst trifft Becca dort ausgerechnet Raphael, den unausstehlichen Onkel eines ihrer Kita-Kinder. Und dann reist Nils auch noch mit seiner Verlobten an, die er nie zuvor erwähnt hat.Ěý

Um die Situation irgendwie aufzulösen, bittet Becca ausgerechnet Raphael, ihren Fake-Boyfriend zu spielen. Dumm nur, dass die beiden bisher immer aneinandergeraten sind. Und dass das Knistern zwischen ihnen plötzlich alles andere als gespielt wirkt �

Du liebst die Trope Fake Dating? Und Enemies to lovers? Viel SpaĂź mit Becca und Raphael!]]> 400 Kyra Groh 3958188338 Nina 5 So ein gutes Buch 4.53 Fake Dates and Fireworks
author: Kyra Groh
name: Nina
average rating: 4.53
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So ein gutes Buch
]]> <![CDATA[The Dagger and the Flame (The City of Fantome #1)]]> 174547967 From the number one bestselling author Catherine Doyle comes the most fiery enemies-to-lovers romantasy of the year. Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Leigh Bardugo and Stephanie Garber.ĚýĚý

In the dark underbelly of a beautiful city, two rival assassins are pitted against each other in a deadly game of revenge, where the most dangerous mistake of all is falling in love�

In Fantome, a kingdom of cobbled streets, flickering lamplight, beautiful buildings, and secret catacombs, Shade-magic is a scarce and deadly commodity controlled by two enemy the Cloaks and the Daggers � the thieves and the assassins. On the night of her mother’s murder, 17-year-old Seraphine runs for her life. Seeking sanctuary with the Cloaks, Sera’s heart is set on revenge. But are her secret abilities a match for the dark-haired boy whose quicksilver eyes follow her around the city?

Nothing can prepare Sera for the moment she finally comes face-to-face with Ransom, heir to the Order of Daggers. And Ransom is shocked to discover that this unassuming farmgirl wields a strange and blazing magic he has never seen beforeâ€� Among rumours of monsters stalking the streets and the rival guilds grappling for control of Fantome’s underworld, Sera and Ransom are drawn together by something more than just magic and must face a deadly choice - forgiveness or vengeance? Kiss or kill? Dagger or Flame? Ěý]]> 509 Catherine Doyle 1398528455 Nina 0 to-read 3.87 2024 The Dagger and the Flame (The City of Fantome #1)
author: Catherine Doyle
name: Nina
average rating: 3.87
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]]> Just Our Luck 215361843 A lottery ticket + donuts = love in this steamy new fake dating romance from beloved author Denise Williams.

Who needs love? Not Sybil Sweet. After years of bouncing from job to job in search of something that feels right and from man to man in search of something special, Sybil is embracing her role as the directionless, floundering member of her family. All she really wants now is a little financial stability and carb comfort. Lucky for her, she’s got just enough in the bank to buy a lottery ticket, and the late-night donut store is open.

Kiran Anderson abandoned his dreams of becoming a doctor to take over running his family’s bakery, and after two years of fighting a losing battle to save the place, he’s exhausted and broke. But when a whirlwind of a woman sweeps in late one night, flirty energy gives way to more…until she runs out the next morning, leaving behind her winning lottery ticket.

Lucky for Kiran, his attempt to return the ticket looks like a grand romantic gesture and goes viral, sending sales through the roof. In an effort to keep the store afloat and to get Sybil’s family off of her back, they agree to fake a relationship for three months. Even with hundreds of millions of dollars, finding each other might end up being the sweetest bit of luck for both of them.]]> 400 Denise Williams 0593641434 Nina 3 arc, read-in-2025 ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner

This was a quick read and I liked the writing style but I just had a very hard time connecting with the characters and thus didn’t really care about the romance in this book. ]]> 3.58 2025 Just Our Luck
author: Denise Williams
name: Nina
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2025
rating: 3
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This was a quick read and I liked the writing style but I just had a very hard time connecting with the characters and thus didn’t really care about the romance in this book.
]]> Swept Away 215805795 Two strangers find themselves stranded at sea together in this epic new love story by bestselling author Beth O’Leary.

What if you were lost at sea…with your one-night stand?

Zeke and Lexi thought it would just be a night of fun. They had no intentions of seeing each other again. Zeke is only in town for the weekend to buy back his late father’s houseboat. Lexi has no time for dating when she needs to help take care of her best friend's daughter.

Going back home with a stranger seems like a perfect escape from their problems. But a miscommunication in the dark, foggy night means no one tied the houseboat to the dock. The next morning, Zeke and Lexi realize all they can see is miles and miles of water.

With just a few provisions on the idle boat, Zeke and Lexi must figure out how to get back home. But aside from their survival, they’re facing another challenge. Because when you’re stuck together for days on end, it gives you a lot of time to get to know someone—and to fall in love with them.]]> 384 Beth O'Leary 0593640144 Nina 0 to-read, arc, digital-tbr ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner ]]> 3.73 2025 Swept Away
author: Beth O'Leary
name: Nina
average rating: 3.73
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]]> It's a Love Story 218153839 USA Today bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script, a novel about a former adolescent TV punchline who has left her awkwardness in the rearview mirror thanks to a fake-it-till-you-make-it mantra that has her on the cusp of success, until she tells a lie that sets her on a crash-course with her past, spending a week in Long Island with the last man she thinks might make her believe in love.

Rules for a love story: There are none. It’s all a lie.

Jane Jackson knows that true love is a lie. Laughter is the only truth—you can’t fake a belly laugh. Jane should know, she spent her adolescence as "Poor Janey Jakes," the barbecue-sauce-in-her-braces punchline on America's fifth-favorite sitcom. Now she’s a Creative Executive at Clearwater Studios and she’s living by a new mantra: Fake it till you make it.

Except, she might have faked it too far. Desperate to get her first project greenlit and riled up by pompous cinematographer and one-time crush Dan Finnegan, she opened her mouth and a big fat fib fell out. She claimed that Jack Quinlan, hottest popstar of the moment, has promised to write an original song for the soundtrack. Jack may have been her first kiss—and greatest source of shame—but she hasn’t spoken to him in twenty years.

Now, Jane must turn to the last man she’d ever want to owe: Dan Finnegan. Because Jack is playing a festival in Dan’s hometown on Long Island, and Dan has an in. A week in close quarters with Dan while facing down her past is Jane's idea of hell, but Dan just might surprise her. While covering up her lie, can they find something true?]]> 368 Annabel Monaghan 0593714105 Nina 0 to-read, arc, digital-tbr ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner ]]> 4.31 2025 It's a Love Story
author: Annabel Monaghan
name: Nina
average rating: 4.31
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]]> What Happens in Amsterdam 217245608 Falling in love with your husband is anything but convenient in this steamy romance from the New York Times bestselling author of Business or Pleasure.

Dani Dorfman has somehow made it to her thirties without knowing what she wants to do with her life. So when an office romance ends poorly and gets her fired, she applies for a job in Amsterdam, idly dreaming of escaping the mess she’s created, but never imagining she'll actually get it.

Except she does. By the end of her first week in Amsterdam, she’s never felt more adrift or alone. Then she crashes her bike into her high school ex-boyfriend—and suddenly life is blooming with new opportunities.

Wouter van Leeuwen was a Dutch exchange student Dani’s family hosted, a forbidden love that ended in a painful breakup. Years later, there’s still sizzling chemistry between them, and okay, maybe a little animosity. More importantly, Wouter needs to be married to inherit a gorgeous family home on a canal—and when Dani's job falls apart, she needs a visa.ĚýAs the marriage of convenience pushes them together in unexpected ways, Dani must decide whether her new life is yet another mistake—or if it's worth taking a risk on a second chance.]]> 384 Rachel Lynn Solomon 0593548558 Nina 0 to-read, arc, digital-tbr ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner ]]> 4.10 2025 What Happens in Amsterdam
author: Rachel Lynn Solomon
name: Nina
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]]> Birthday 43924017
Born on the same day, at the same time, in the same place. They’ve always shared this one day together, but as they grow up they begin to grow apart.

Everyone expects Eric to get a football scholarship, but no one knows he’s having second thoughts.
Former quarterback Morgan feels utterly alone, as she wrestles with the difficult choice to live as her true self.

Both of them are struggling to be the person they know they are. Who better to help than your best friend?

Told on one day every year, over six years, this is a story about how change pulls people apart� and how love brings them back together.

An LGBTQ+ YA One Day perfect for fans of Love, Simon, Birthday is a beautiful love story by the best-selling #ownvoices author of If I Was Your Girl.]]> 300 Meredith Russo 1474967418 Nina 4 read-in-2025 Such an emotional book! 4.22 2019 Birthday
author: Meredith Russo
name: Nina
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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Such an emotional book!
]]> Her One Mistake 40381901
It all started at the school fair�

Charlotte was supposed to be looking after the children, and she swears she was. She only took her eyes off of them for one second. But when her three kids are all safe and sound at the school fair, and Alice, her best friend Harriet’s daughter, is nowhere to be found, Charlotte panics. Frantically searching everywhere, Charlotte knows she must find the courage to tell Harriet that her beloved only child is missing. And admit that she has only herself to blame.

Harriet, devastated by this unthinkable, unbearable loss, can no longer bring herself to speak to Charlotte again, much less trust her. Now more isolated than ever and struggling to keep her marriage afloat, Harriet believes nothing and no one. But as the police bear down on both women trying to piece together the puzzle of what happened to this little girl, dark secrets begin to surface—and Harriet discovers that confiding in Charlotte again may be the only thing that will reunite her with her daughter....

This breathless and fast-paced debut—perfect for fans of Big Little Lies and The Couple Next Door—takes you on a chilling journey that will keep you guessing until the very last page.]]> 320 Heidi Perks 1501194224 Nina 0 3.82 2018 Her One Mistake
author: Heidi Perks
name: Nina
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> Der Seelenbrecher 4842437 Der Seelenbrecher)

Drei Frauen - alle jung, schön und lebenslustig - verschwinden spurlos. Nur eine Woche in den Fängen des Psychopathen, den die Presse den Seelenbrecher nennt, genügt: Als man die Frauen wieder aufgreift, sind sie verwahrlost, psychisch gebrochen - wie lebendig in ihrem eigenen Körper begraben. Kurz vor Weihnachten wird der Seelenbrecher wieder aktiv, ausgerechnet in einer psychiatrischen Luxusklinik. Ärzte und Patienten müssen entsetzt feststellen, dass man den Täter unerkannt eingeliefert hat, kurz bevor die Klinik durch einen Schneesturm völlig von der Außenwelt abgeschnitten wurde. Verzweifelt versuchen die Eingeschlossenen einander zu schützen - doch in der Nacht des Grauens, die nun folgt, zeigt der Seelenbrecher, dass es kein Entkommen gibt ...]]> 368 Sebastian Fitzek 3426637928 Nina 0 4.17 2008 Der Seelenbrecher
author: Sebastian Fitzek
name: Nina
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2008
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]]> Passagier 23 22022939 Noch nie ist jemand zurĂĽckgekommen .... bis jetzt!
Passagier 23
Eine Transatlantikpassage wird zum Albtraum.
Packender Psychothrill auf hoher See - ein Ort, wie geschaffen fĂĽr das perfekte Verbrechen - ohne Polizei und ohne Entkommen.]]> 426 Sebastian Fitzek 342619919X Nina 0 4.06 2014 Passagier 23
author: Sebastian Fitzek
name: Nina
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2014
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]]> Splitter 6296151
Viel stärker als der Splitter, der sich in seinen Kopf gebohrt hat, schmerzt Marc Lucas die seelische Wunde seines selbst verschuldeten Autounfalls - denn seine Frau hat nicht überlebt. Als Marc von einem psychiatrischen Experiment hört, das ihn von dieser quälenden Erinnerung befreien könnte, schöpft er Hoffnung. Doch nach den ersten Tests beginnt das Grauen: Marcs Wohnungsschlüssel passt nicht mehr. Ein fremder Name steht am Klingelschild. Dann öffnet sich die Tür - und Marc schaut einem Alptraum ins Gesicht…]]> 375 Sebastian Fitzek Nina 0 3.79 2008 Splitter
author: Sebastian Fitzek
name: Nina
average rating: 3.79
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]]> Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3) 209439446
Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do anything to save what she loves—her dragons, her family, her home, and him.

Even if it means keeping a secret so big, it could destroy everything. They need an army. They need power. They need magic. And they need the one thing only Violet can find—the truth. But a storm is coming...and not everyone can survive its wrath.]]> 527 Rebecca Yarros 1649374186 Nina 0 4.18 2025 Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
author: Rebecca Yarros
name: Nina
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2025
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]]> <![CDATA[Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)]]> 214331246 When you’ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?

As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes.

Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves.

When Haymitch’s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.]]> 382 Suzanne Collins 1546171460 Nina 0 4.67 2025 Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
author: Suzanne Collins
name: Nina
average rating: 4.67
book published: 2025
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]]> <![CDATA[When The King Falls (Vampire Royals #1)]]> 134734747 Ich bin seine Auserwählte. Ich bin sein Schicksal. Ich bin sein Tod �
London, Gegenwart. Seit Jahrhunderten herrschen die Vampire mit harter Hand über die Menschheit. Doch im Untergrund hat sich eine Rebellion gebildet. Eine Gruppe von Menschen, die nicht länger bereit ist, diese Unterdrückung hinzunehmen. Auch Florence ist Teil des Widerstands und wurde von Geburt an auf ihre bevorstehende Aufgabe vorbereitet. Mit ihr hat die Rebellion erstmals die Chance, eine Attentäterin ins Crimson Heart, das Schloss des Vampirkönigs einzuschleusen. An jeder Wintersonnenwende wählt der König eine neue Blutbraut aus, von der er sich nähren wird. Und dieses Jahr gehört Florence zu den Kandidatinnen. Sie soll ihn dazu bringen, sich für sie zu entscheiden, sie zu begehren, ihr zu vertrauen. Und sie wird all das gegen ihn benutzen, um ihn zu töten. Es sei denn, ihr eigenes Herz verrät sie …]]> 411 Marie Niehoff 3499011751 Nina 0 3.93 2023 When The King Falls (Vampire Royals #1)
author: Marie Niehoff
name: Nina
average rating: 3.93
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]]> Yellowface 195930484 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody.

White lies
When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song.

Dark humour
But as evidence threatens June’s stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.

Deadly consequences�
What happens next is entirely everyone else’s fault.

With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. R.F. Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.]]> 322 R.F. Kuang 0063250837 Nina 0 3.75 2023 Yellowface
author: R.F. Kuang
name: Nina
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> Heavy & Light (Westwell #1) 59465159
Als Helena Weston nach New York zurückkehrt, hat sie nur ein Ziel: den Ruf ihrer Schwester wiederherstellen, koste es, was es wolle. Zweieinhalb Jahre ist es her, dass Valerie und ihre große Liebe Adam nach einer Partynacht tot in ihrer Hotelsuite aufgefunden wurden, und seitdem lässt Adams Familie keine Gelegenheit aus, Valerie die alleinige Verantwortung am tragischen Tod der beiden zu geben. Einzig Helena glaubt fest an die Unschuld ihrer Schwester, und sie setzt alles daran, herauszufinden, was in jener schicksalhaften Nacht wirklich geschehen ist. Aber auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit kommt ihr ausgerechnet Jessiah Coldwell � Adams jüngerer Bruder � in die Quere. Helena weiß, dass sie Jess eigentlich mit jeder Faser ihres Seins hassen müsste. Und doch weckt er Gefühle in ihr, gegen die sie schon bald machtlos ist �
Band 1 der WESTWELL-Reihe von SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Autorin Lena Kiefer]]> 477 Lena Kiefer 373631762X Nina 0 4.20 2022 Heavy & Light (Westwell #1)
author: Lena Kiefer
name: Nina
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Erwählt vom Licht der Wälder (Iron Empire, #1)]]> 203098766
Als ein Flugzeug in ihrer Heimat abstürzt, ändert sich Kaeliahs Leben schlagartig. Denn der Passagier ist niemand geringeres als Hunter, der Prinz des Eisernen Imperiums, welches seit Jahrhunderten die Wispernden Wälder zerstört und damit auch die Lebensgrundlage ihrer Bewohner. Kae, die erst kürzlich zur Seherin ernannt wurde und vergeblich um die Akzeptanz ihres Volkes kämpft, sieht ihre Chance, sich zu beweisen. In der Hoffnung ihre Heimat zu retten, begleitet sie den Prinzen zurück in sein Reich und merkt dabei schnell, dass ihre Verbindung weit über Diplomatie hinausgeht. Doch als Kae am kaiserlichen Hof ankommt, findet sie dort nichts als Intrigen und ein Land an der Schwelle zum Krieg, während der Menschheit buchstäblich die Luft zum Atmen ausgeht � Der Auftakt der packenden Romantasy-Dilogie mit opulent gestaltetem Farbschnitt in limitierter Auflage]]> 416 Emily Bähr 3570315681 Nina 0 3.59 Erwählt vom Licht der Wälder (Iron Empire, #1)
author: Emily Bähr
name: Nina
average rating: 3.59
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]]> Bunny: A Novel (Bunny, #1) 46047959 305 Mona Awad 1984878735 Nina 3 read-in-2025 3.32 2019 Bunny: A Novel (Bunny, #1)
author: Mona Awad
name: Nina
average rating: 3.32
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/23
date added: 2025/03/23
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]]> <![CDATA[Pretty Scandalous: Heißer als Rache (Manhattan Elite, #1)]]> 201466446 Nichts ist heißer als Rache � außer vielleicht der reichste Bad Boy Manhattans �Sarahs Welt bricht zusammen, als ihre Zwillingsschwester nach einem Jahr Funkstille verängstigt und mit blauen Flecken übersäht wieder auftaucht. Payton wollte sich an der Columbia University in New York ihren Traum vom Architekturstudium erfüllen, doch ausgerechnet ihre elitären neuen Freunde haben sie zugrunde gerichtet. Wutentbrannt beschließt Sarah, sich als Payton auszugeben, um den verwöhnten High-Society-Zöglingen das Handwerk zu legen. Doch in New York angekommen, häufen sich die Skandale und Geheimnisse. Und dann stolpert Sarah auch noch dem attraktiven Monroe in die Arme � und dessen Lächeln könnte weitaus mehr gefährden als nur ihre Rachepläne �Mit Playlist im Buch!

Nie war der Enemies-to-Lovers-Trope skandalöser � Die Manhattan-Elite-Reihe bei Band 1: Pretty Scandalous � Heißer als RacheBand 2: Pretty Savage � Süßer als VerratBand 3: Pretty Shameless � Gefährlicher als Liebe]]> 608 Tami Fischer 3641301653 Nina 0 4.42 2024 Pretty Scandalous: Heißer als Rache (Manhattan Elite, #1)
author: Tami Fischer
name: Nina
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2024
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]]> The Rom-Commers 214170348 She’s rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own?

Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She’s spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies―good ones! That win contests! But she’s also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care. Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie Yates―The Charlie Yates! Her personal writing god!―it’s a break too big to pass up.

Emma’s younger sister steps in for caretaking duties, and Emma moves to L.A. for six weeks for the writing gig of a lifetime. But what is it they say? Don’t meet your heroes? Charlie Yates doesn’t want to write with anyone―much less “a failed, nobody screenwriter.� Worse, the romantic comedy he’s written is so terrible it might actually bring on the apocalypse. Plus! He doesn’t even care about the script―it’s just a means to get a different one green-lit. Oh, and he thinks love is an emotional Ponzi scheme.

But Emma’s not going down without a fight. She will stand up for herself, and for rom-coms, and for love itself. She will convince him that love stories matter―even if she has to kiss him senseless to do it. But . . . what if that kiss is accidentally amazing? What if real life turns out to be so much . . . more real than fiction? What if the love story they’re writing breaks all Emma’s rules―and comes true?]]> 336 Katherine Center 1250363195 Nina 4 read-in-2025
I just love Katherine Centerâ€s writing style! ]]> 4.18 2024 The Rom-Commers
author: Katherine Center
name: Nina
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/15
date added: 2025/03/15
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
*** 4.5 STARS ***

I just love Katherine Centerâ€s writing style!
]]> The Favorites 211399784 448 Layne Fargo 0593732049 Nina 4 read-in-2025 4.19 2025 The Favorites
author: Layne Fargo
name: Nina
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2025
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/14
date added: 2025/03/14
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
A very emotional and captivating story.
]]> <![CDATA[First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1)]]> 213243908 A hopeless romantic meets a jaded radio host in this cozy, Sleepless in Seattle-inspired love story from beloved author B.K. Borison.

Aiden Valentine has a secret: he's fallen out of love with love. And as the host of Baltimore's romance hotline, that's a bit of a problem. But when a young girl calls in to the station asking for dating advice for her mom, the interview goes viral, thrusting Aiden and Heartstrings into the limelight.

Lucie Stone thought she was doing just fine. She has a good job; an incredible family; and a smart, slightly devious kid. But when all of Baltimore is suddenly scrutinizing her love life-or lack thereof—she begins to question if she's as happy as she thought. Maybe a little more romance wouldn't be such a bad thing.

Everyone wants Lucie to find her happy ending... even the handsome, temperamental man calling the shots. But when sparks start to fly behind the scenes, Lucie must make the final call between the radio-sponsored happily ever after or the man in the headphones next to her.]]> 448 B.K. Borison 0593641191 Nina 0 to-read, digital-tbr 4.09 2025 First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1)
author: B.K. Borison
name: Nina
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/09
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]]> Convenience Store Woman 63282871 Meet Keiko.

Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years.

Keiko's family wishes she'd get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won't get married.

But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she's not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store...]]> 163 Sayaka Murata Nina 3 read-in-2025 3.5 STARS 3.60 2016 Convenience Store Woman
author: Sayaka Murata
name: Nina
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/08
date added: 2025/03/09
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
3.5 STARS
]]> Träume aus Gold (Chosen, #1) 210842056 417 Emily Bähr 3641321328 Nina 4 read-in-2025 *** 4.5 STERNE ***

Was für ein Ende, ich bin gespannt auf den zweiten Teil!! ]]> 4.25 2025 Träume aus Gold (Chosen, #1)
author: Emily Bähr
name: Nina
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2025
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/08
date added: 2025/03/08
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
*** 4.5 STERNE ***

Was fĂĽr ein Ende, ich bin gespannt auf den zweiten Teil!!
]]> Haus aus Asche (Chosen, #2) 221207241
Nach dem Attentat auf Cillian und der Enthüllung, dass Cylus der wahre Thronfolger ist, setzt der König alles daran, die Integrität der Royal Games zu wahren. Iris wird vor eine brutale Wahl gestellt: Entweder sie nimmt weiterhin an den lebensgefährlichen Spielen teil oder sie wird zum Tode verurteilt. Ein Sieg, und damit ein Leben an Cylus� Seite, ist jedoch ausgeschlossen. Während Iris vor der Kamera die Fassade der toughen Teilnehmerin aufrechterhält, fällt es ihr dahinter zunehmend schwerer, ihre Gefühle für den Prinzen zu verbergen, der ihr nach dem Anschlag auf Cillian zutiefst misstraut. Doch wenn sie die Spiele nicht nur überleben, sondern auch ein für alle Mal beenden will, muss sie alles daransetzen, ihn wieder auf ihre Seite zu ziehen. Auch wenn es sie am Ende ihr eigenes Herz kostet …]]> Emily Bähr 3641321840 Nina 0 to-be-published 0.0 Haus aus Asche (Chosen, #2)
author: Emily Bähr
name: Nina
average rating: 0.0
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/08
shelves: to-be-published
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]]> Hello Girls 36596442
Winona has been starving for life in the seemingly perfect home that she shares with her seemingly perfect father, celebrity weatherman Stormy Olsen. No one knows that he locks the pantry door to control her eating and leaves bruises where no one can see them.

Lucille has been suffocating beneath the needs of her mother and her drug-dealing brother, wondering if there’s more out there for her than disappearing waitress tips and generations of barely getting by.

One harrowing night, Winona and Lucille realize they can’t wait until graduation to start their new lives. They need out. Now. All they need is three grand, fast. And really, a stolen convertible to take them from Michigan to Las Vegas can’t hurt.]]> 325 Brittany Cavallaro Nina 3 read-in-2025 3.41 2019 Hello Girls
author: Brittany Cavallaro
name: Nina
average rating: 3.41
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/02
date added: 2025/03/02
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
This was a quick and entertaining read about a strong female friendship, but I kind of lost interest in the story towards the end of the book.
]]> Confess 22609310
For once, Auburn takes a chance and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is hiding a huge secret. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything Auburn loves most, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it—but can she do it?]]> 306 Colleen Hoover 1476791457 Nina 5 read-in-2016 4.14 2015 Confess
author: Colleen Hoover
name: Nina
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2016/11/07
date added: 2025/03/02
shelves: read-in-2016
review:
Sometimes I'm asking myself if Colleen Hoover is even capable of writing a book that isn't awesome ... and I think the answer is no. Confess is a beautiful book with a very gripping storyline. And once again one of Colleen's books made me grin like an idiot before almost making me cry. She just always manages to make you fall in love with the protagonists before breaking not only their hearts but also yours. She always manages to give me all the feels and even though I hate her for always sending me on a ride on an emotional rollercoaster, i also love her for doing it because I just can't get enough of her writing style and she can happily continue breaking my heart if it means she's going to keep writing such amazing books! 5 out of 5 stars for this gem!
]]> Exes & Foes 200555278
Emma has been a thorn in Caleb’s side since middle school. Having tarnished their friendship in eighth grade, she’s now little more to him than an unkempt, unruly, disastrous bisexual mess. Over the years, she’s gotten in the way of every romantic relationship he’s attempted to settle into, using little more than mischievous charisma to lure them into her clutches.

To Emma, Caleb sets the record for World’s Largest Stick in the Mud. Uptight, unbearably tidy, and a rule-follower, he’s exactly the kind of boring person her mother wishes she was. When she discovers they’re both after Juliet, the new girl, Emma proposes a competition to nudge him out of the way. Whoever can get Juliet to kiss them first wins, and the opposition must bow out with the promise of never talking to her again.

But plans go awry when Juliet seems mostly interested in hanging out with both of them together. Emma and Caleb just have to figure out whether winning Juliet’s heart is worth the torment of constantly dealing with each other, and the risk of reopening wounds from a past they thought they had left behind.]]> 384 Amanda Woody 0593403142 Nina 4 read-in-2025 A very cute book! 3.80 2024 Exes & Foes
author: Amanda Woody
name: Nina
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/28
date added: 2025/02/28
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
A very cute book!
]]> They Hate Each Other 55923615
There are plenty of words Jonah Collins could use to describe Dylan Ramírez. “Arrogant,� “spoiled,� and “golden boy� to name a few. Likewise, Dylan thinks he has Jonah accurately labeled as an attention-seeking asshat who never shuts his filthy mouth. Their friends are convinced Jonah’s and Dylan’s disdain for one another is just thinly veiled lust—a rumor that surges like wildfire when the two wake up in one bed after homecoming. Mutually horrified, Dylan and Jonah agree to use the faux pas to their advantage by fake dating. If they can stay convincing long enough to end their “relationship� in a massive staged fight, they can prove their incompatibility to their friends once and for all. But the more time they spend together, the more their plan begins to fall apart—and the closer they come to seeing each other clearly for the first time.]]> 352 Amanda Woody 0593403096 Nina 0 to-buy 4.22 2023 They Hate Each Other
author: Amanda Woody
name: Nina
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/28
shelves: to-buy
review:

]]> Not in Love 198971010 A forbidden, secret affair proves that all’s fair in love and science—from New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood.

Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down.

Eli Killgore and his business partners want Kline, period. Eli has his own reasons for pushing this deal through—and he’s a man who gets what he wants. With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he can’t stop thinking about. The woman who’s off-limits to him.

Torn between loyalty and an undeniable attraction, Rue and Eli throw caution out the lab and the boardroom windows. Their affair is secret, no-strings-attached, and has a built-in deadline: the day one of their companies will prevail. But the heart is risky business—one that plays for keeps.]]> 379 Ali Hazelwood 0593550420 Nina 3 read-in-2025 3.5 STARS 3.69 2024 Not in Love
author: Ali Hazelwood
name: Nina
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/22
date added: 2025/02/22
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
3.5 STARS
]]> The Perfect Rom-Com 216052747 She's written dozens of smash hit novels as a ghostwriter. Too bad no one knows it.

Aspiring author Bryony Page attends her first writers conference bursting with optimism and ready to sell her manuscript with long-shot dreams of raising awareness for The Bridge, her grandmother's financially-struggling organization where she teaches ESL full-time. But after a disastrous pitching session, she stumbles into correcting another author's work in a last-ditch attempt to make a good impression with the agent. And she, as it turns out, is spot on.

No one is more surprised than Bryony when the agent offers her the opportunity to be a ghostwriter for Amelia Benedict, popular rom-com novelist. Bryony agrees on one she'll write books for this vain, demanding woman just as long as Jack Sterling, literary agent of the legendary Foundry Literary Agency, works to sell her own book too.

What nobody predicted, however, was that Bryony's books would turn Amelia Benedict into the Amelia Benedict, household name and bestselling author with millions of copies sold around the world.

And just like that, the Foundry Agency can't let her go.

But on a personal note, Jack is realizing he can't either.]]> 304 Melissa Ferguson 0840716885 Nina 4 arc, read-in-2025 ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed this one and it was a perfect read for valentine’s week. ]]> 3.74 2025 The Perfect Rom-Com
author: Melissa Ferguson
name: Nina
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2025
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/16
date added: 2025/02/16
shelves: arc, read-in-2025
review:
ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed this one and it was a perfect read for valentine’s week.
]]> The Familiar 201329699
What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez, the disgraced secretary to Spain's king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England's heretic queen—and Pérez will stop at nothing to regain the king's favor.

Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the line between magic, science, and fraud is never certain. But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition's wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive—even if that means enlisting the help of Guillén Santángel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.]]> 385 Leigh Bardugo 0241655315 Nina 3 read-in-2025 *** 3.5 STARS ***

A well-written book with a good plot. I really liked the characters and enjoyed reading their story. However, the final third of the novel was a bit weak and overall, I feel like I’ll forget about this book pretty easily. ]]> 3.72 2024 The Familiar
author: Leigh Bardugo
name: Nina
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/15
date added: 2025/02/16
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
*** 3.5 STARS ***

A well-written book with a good plot. I really liked the characters and enjoyed reading their story. However, the final third of the novel was a bit weak and overall, I feel like I’ll forget about this book pretty easily.
]]> Deep End 212808709 A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis.

Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from the injury that almost ended her career. She has no time for relationships—at least, that’s what she tells herself.

Swim captain, world champion, all-around aquatics golden boy, Lukas Blomqvist thrives on discipline. It’s how he wins gold medals and breaks records: complete focus, with every stroke. On the surface, Lukas and Scarlett have nothing in common. Until a well-guarded secret slips out, and everything changes.

So they start an arrangement. And as the pressure leading to the Olympics heats up, so does their relationship. It was supposed to be just a temporary, mutually satisfying fling. But when staying away from Lukas becomes impossible, Scarlett realizes that her heart might be treading into dangerous water...]]> 464 Ali Hazelwood Nina 5 ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner

Omg, this was so good!! ]]> 3.96 2025 Deep End
author: Ali Hazelwood
name: Nina
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2025
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/02
date added: 2025/02/02
shelves: arc, best-of-the-best, read-in-2025
review:
ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner

Omg, this was so good!!
]]> A Quiet Kind of Thunder 30197201 Steffi doesn't talk, but she has so much to say.
Rhys can't hear, but he can listen.
Their love isn't a lightning strike, it's the rumbling roll of thunder.

Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life - she's been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He's deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she's assigned to look after him. To Rhys, it doesn't matter that Steffi doesn't talk, and as they find ways to communicate, Steffi finds that she does have a voice, and that she's falling in love with the one person who makes her feel brave enough to use it.

From the bestselling author of Beautiful Broken Things comes a love story about the times when a whisper is as good as a shout.]]> 307 Sara Barnard 1509810986 Nina 4 read-in-2025 Really enjoyed this one! 3.93 2017 A Quiet Kind of Thunder
author: Sara Barnard
name: Nina
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/26
date added: 2025/01/31
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
Really enjoyed this one!
]]> Graveyard Shift 219520939 Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery to unearth the secrets lurking in an open grave.

Every night, in the college’s ancient cemetery, five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a bartender, a rideshare driver, a hotel receptionist, the steward of the derelict church that looms over them, and the editor-in-chief of the college paper, always in search of a story.

One dark October evening in the defunct churchyard, they find a hole that wasn’t there before. A fresh, open grave where no grave should be. But who dug it, and for whom?

Before they go their separate ways, the gravedigger returns. As they trail him through the night, they realize he may be the key to a string of strange happenings around town that have made headlines for the last few weeks—and that they may be closer to the mystery than they thought.

Atmospheric and eerie, with the ensemble cast her fans love and a delightfully familiar academic backdrop, Graveyard Shift is a modern Gothic tale in If We Were Villains author M. L. Rio’s inimitable style.]]> 123 M.L. Rio 1035424177 Nina 2 read-in-2025 3.32 2024 Graveyard Shift
author: M.L. Rio
name: Nina
average rating: 3.32
book published: 2024
rating: 2
read at: 2025/01/31
date added: 2025/01/31
shelves: read-in-2025
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Reappearance Of Rachel Price]]> 203382770
Lights. Camera. Lies.

18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness, but she has no memory of it. Rachel is gone, long presumed dead, and Bel wishes everyone would just move on.

But the case is dragged up from the past when the Price family agree to a true crime documentary. Bel can’t wait for filming to end, for life to go back to normal. And then the impossible happens. Rachel Price reappears, and life will never be normal again.

Rachel has an unbelievable story about what happened to her. Unbelievable, because Bel isn’t sure it’s real. If Rachel is lying, then where has she been all this time? And � could she be dangerous? With the cameras still rolling, Bel must uncover the truth about her mother, and find out why Rachel Price really came back from the dead . . .

From world-renowned author Holly Jackson comes a mind-blowing masterpiece about one girl’s search for the truth, and the terror in finding out who your family really is.]]> 430 Holly Jackson 0593810465 Nina 4 read-in-2025 4.13 2024 The Reappearance Of Rachel Price
author: Holly Jackson
name: Nina
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/19
date added: 2025/01/19
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
This was a very entertaining and gripping read! The only reason I deducted a star is because the reveal was good but not very surprising because I’d kinda been able to guess what had happened after a while.
]]> <![CDATA[QualityLand 2.0 (QualityLand - Saga, #2)]]> 56481539 Kikis Geheimnis
Zurück in die Zukunft! Die große dystopische Erzählung geht weiter ...
Schwer was los in QualityLand, dem besten aller möglichen Länder. Peter Arbeitsloser darf endlich als Maschinentherapeut arbeiten und schlägt sich jetzt mit den Beziehungsproblemen von Haushaltsgeräten herum.
Kiki Unbekannt schnüffelt in ihrer eigenen Vergangenheit und gerät dabei ins Fadenkreuz eines seltsamen Killers. Martyn Vorstand versucht verzweifelt ein Level aufzusteigen, um das Recht auf Vergessen werden nutzen zu dürfen. Und Aisha Ärztin fragt sich, was aus John of Us wurde, wie man die immer noch nervige Klimakrise lösen kann und warum zum Teufel die Verteidigungs-Algorithmen den Dritten Weltkrieg losgetreten haben.

Marc-Uwe Klings lustige Dystopie um Menschen und Maschinen in einer Big-Data-Welt geht in die zweite Runde! Ein Buch voller kluger Einfälle, skurriler Figuren und verblüffenden Plot-Twists.]]> 432 Marc-Uwe Kling 3550201028 Nina 3 read-in-2025
Eine sehr unterhaltsame Buchreihe! ]]> 4.01 2020 QualityLand 2.0 (QualityLand - Saga, #2)
author: Marc-Uwe Kling
name: Nina
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/19
date added: 2025/01/19
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
*** 3.5 STERNE ***

Eine sehr unterhaltsame Buchreihe!
]]> Not Quite Dead Yet 220223963 The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder—now a hit Netflix series—returns with her first novel for adults: a twisty thriller about a young woman trying to solve her own murder.

In seven days Jet Mason will be dead.

Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time.

Until Halloween night, when Jet is violently attacked by an unseen intruder.

She suffers a catastrophic head injury. The doctor is certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a deadly aneurysm.

Jet has never thought of herself as having enemies. But now she looks at everyone in a new light: her family, her former best friend turned sister-in-law, her ex-boyfriend.

She has at most seven days, and as her condition deteriorates she has only her childhood friend Billy for help. But nevertheless, she’s absolutely determined to finally finish something:

Jet is going to solve her own murder.]]> 400 Holly Jackson 059397705X Nina 0 to-be-published 4.42 2025 Not Quite Dead Yet
author: Holly Jackson
name: Nina
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2025
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/12
shelves: to-be-published
review:

]]> For One Night Only 211025438 GLITTER BATS REUNION CONCERT—SOLD OUT! When two former bandmates—and bedmates—are thrust back into each other's lives in a fake dating scheme for publicity, they'll be forced to face the music. After her recurring role in tabloid headlines, Valerie Quinn’s musical TV show is on the network chopping block. Desperate for good press, she hastily reassembles her wildly beloved pop punk band, Glitter Bats. A reunion concert could be the former lead vocalist’s ticket to a media makeover, especially if it renews public speculation around her iconic situationship with bassist Caleb Sloane.The only problem? They haven’t spoken in six years. Caleb had the makings of a rock god, but fallout from the messy Glitter Bats breakup left him broke, anxious, and resentful of the industry. But when Valerie shows up at Caleb’s doorstep with that devastating smile and a plea for help, he reluctantly agrees to put on one last show. So what if the fandom assumes the two of them are back together too? They’ll play along. You know...for the press. Making music together not only revives the harmony between them, but also the discord that led to the band’s downfall. With their futures—and the Glitter Bats—in the balance, can they survive a romantic reprise?]]> 368 Jessica James 0593817710 Nina 1 arc, read-in-2025 ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner

The premise of this book sounded so good but unfortunately, I didn’t enjoy it at all. It took me a very long time to even get into the story because I was struggling to warm up to the characters. Especially the female main character was very unlikable from the start and it didn’t get any better throughout the book. She was annoying and I honestly would’ve liked this book better if the love interests hadn’t ended up together and everyone had just gone their separate ways in the end. ]]> 3.77 2025 For One Night Only
author: Jessica James
name: Nina
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2025
rating: 1
read at: 2025/01/11
date added: 2025/01/12
shelves: arc, read-in-2025
review:
ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner

The premise of this book sounded so good but unfortunately, I didn’t enjoy it at all. It took me a very long time to even get into the story because I was struggling to warm up to the characters. Especially the female main character was very unlikable from the start and it didn’t get any better throughout the book. She was annoying and I honestly would’ve liked this book better if the love interests hadn’t ended up together and everyone had just gone their separate ways in the end.
]]> QualityLand 45696372
In der Zukunft läuft alles rund: Arbeit, Freizeit und Beziehungen sind von Algorithmen optimiert. QualityPartner weiß, wer am besten zu dir passt. Das selbstfahrende Auto weiß, wo du hinwillst. Und wer bei TheShop angemeldet ist, bekommt alle Produkte, die er haben will, zugeschickt, ganz ohne sie bestellen zu müssen. Superpraktisch! Kein Mensch ist mehr gezwungen, schwierige Entscheidungen zu treffen - denn in QualityLand lautet die Antwort auf alle Fragen: OK.

Trotzdem beschleicht den Maschinenverschrotter Peter immer mehr das Gefühl, dass mit seinem Leben etwas nicht stimmt. Wenn das System wirklich so perfekt ist, warum gibt es dann Drohnen, die an Flugangst leiden, oder Kampfroboter mit posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung? Warum werden die Maschinen immer menschlicher, aber die Menschen immer maschineller?

Eine Zukunftssatire ĂĽber die VerheiĂźungen und die Fallstricke der Digitalisierung.]]> 384 Marc-Uwe Kling 3548291872 Nina 4 read-in-2025 Sehr unterhaltsam! 4.04 2017 QualityLand
author: Marc-Uwe Kling
name: Nina
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/07
date added: 2025/01/12
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
Sehr unterhaltsam!
]]> <![CDATA[Was bisher verloren war (Vergissmeinnicht, #2)]]> 84278630 528 Kerstin Gier 394946509X Nina 0 4.15 2023 Was bisher verloren war (Vergissmeinnicht, #2)
author: Kerstin Gier
name: Nina
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/12
shelves: to-read, fantasy-scifi-tbr, physical-tbr
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3)]]> 211164792 Two feuding second-grade teachers (and neighbors) find themselves teaming up in this rivals-to-lovers romance.

Emily Walker hates having her carefully crafted world disrupted by anyone, most of all her legendary nemesis, Jack Bennett. He's the opposite of the wonderful heroes she dreams up in her double life as a romance writer, which is why Emily was perfectly happy when Jack left Rome, Kentucky, mid-school year, with his fiancée. The last thing Emily saw coming was Jack’s return at the start of the summer after calling off the wedding and ending his relationship, but he’s here to stay—as her colleague and her neighbor.

Jackson Bennett is glad to be back, eager to renovate his house and work on the next mystery novel under his bestselling pen name. But when he realizes he’s now neighbors with the one woman who has always pushed his buttons, he discovers something he’s even more excited for—thwarting Emily and her petty plans to sabotage his return.

With their chemistry-fueled animosity at an all-time high, Emily accidentally sends an email to their school’s principal that could reveal her secret literary side hustle. She needs to steal back her manuscript, and Jack—she hates to admit—is just the man to help her. Surprisingly, Jack agrees. Will their unlikely alliance put an end to their rivalry? Or could it lead to a steamy plot twist they never saw coming?]]> 384 Sarah Adams 0593723694 Nina 0 4.08 2025 Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3)
author: Sarah Adams
name: Nina
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/08
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]]> Views 210822100
Die 16-jährige Lena Palmer verschwindet spurlos. Drei Tage später taucht sie in einem verstörend brutalen Video wieder auf, welches in atemberaubendem Tempo viral geht.Ěý

BKA-Kommissarin Yasira Saad soll Lena finden und die Täter identifizieren. Ihr bleibt wenig Zeit, denn schon gibt es erste gewalttätige Demonstrationen in deutschen Städten. Eine rechtsradikale Gruppierung namens »Aktiver Heimatschutz« gewinnt rasant an Zulauf. Kann Yasira die Täter verhaften, bevor der Lynchmob zuschlägt und der Rechtsstaat zu wanken beginnt?Ěý]]> 273 Marc-Uwe Kling 3843732280 Nina 4 read-in-2025 4.07 2024 Views
author: Marc-Uwe Kling
name: Nina
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2024
rating: 4
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date added: 2025/01/04
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Sehr spannend und gut geschrieben, aber das Ende wirkte etwas ĂĽberstĂĽrzt und unrund.
]]> Every Last Secret 52347808 Welcome to the neighborhood. Watch your husband, watch your friends, and watch your back.

Cat Winthorpe has worked hard to get what she has: a gorgeous home; social standing; and William, her successful, handsome husband. Then a friendly new couple moves into the estate next door. While cautious, a good neighbor like Cat greets them with open arms and warm hospitality.

Neena Ryder isn’t a fellow lady of leisure. A life coach with off-the-rack dresses, personal issues, and a husband who hasn’t delivered, she’s anxious to move up in the world. This beautiful new town is a step in the right direction. It’s also making Neena aware of what she doesn’t have. Namely, William. When Neena’s infatuation escalates into obsession, it’s just a matter of eliminating a few obstacles to get the life she wants. The life next door.

As Neena’s secret fixation grows, so does her friendship with Cat. But beneath their cordial interactions is a wealth of temptations, secrets, and toxic jealousy. For both women, the desire for a perfect life can turn perfectly dangerous.]]> 291 A.R. Torre 1542020182 Nina 3 read-in-2024 3.95 2020 Every Last Secret
author: A.R. Torre
name: Nina
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/25
date added: 2024/12/26
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]]> The Five Year Lie 195853534 Bestselling romance author Sarina Bowen’s debut thriller, about one woman’s search for the truth after receiving a text from her deceased ex.

She thought it was love. Then he vanished.

On an ordinary Monday morning, Ariel Cafferty's phone buzzes with a disturbing text message. Something’s happened. I need to see you. Meet me under the candelabra tree ASAP. The words would be jarring from anyone, but the sender is the only man she ever loved. And it's been several years since she learned he died.

Seeing Drew’s name pop up is heart-stopping. Ariel’s gut says it can’t be real. But she goes to the tree anyway. She has to.

Nobody shows. But the text upends everything she thought she knew about the day he left her. The more questions she asks, the more sinister the answers get. Only two things are clear: everything she was told five years ago is wrong, and someone is still lying to her.

The truth has to be out there somewhere. To safeguard herself—and her son—she’ll have to find it before it finds her. And with it, the answer to what became of Drew.

With a heart-stopping romance that only Sarina Bowen can execute, The Five Year Lie is a page-turning, spine-tingling thriller that will have you guessing until the very end.]]> 421 Sarina Bowen 0063280604 Nina 0 to-read, mystery-thriller-tbr 3.84 2024 The Five Year Lie
author: Sarina Bowen
name: Nina
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> The Lost Bookshop 65137920 The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets.

â€The thing about books,â€� she said â€is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.â€�

On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found�

For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives.

But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world of wonder� where nothing is as it seems.]]> 432 Evie Woods 0008609209 Nina 0 4.04 2023 The Lost Bookshop
author: Evie Woods
name: Nina
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> The Night She Disappeared 55877562
Kim watches her daughter leave and, as late evening turns into night, which turns into early morning, she waits for her return. And waits.

The next morning, Kim phones Tallulah's friends who tell her that Tallulah was last seen heading to a party at a house in the nearby woods called Dark Place.

She never returns.

2019: Sophie is walking in the woods near the boarding school where her boyfriend has just started work as a head-teacher when she sees a note fixed to a tree.

'DIG HERE' . . .

A cold case, an abandoned mansion, family trauma and dark secrets lie at the heart of Lisa Jewell's remarkable new novel.]]> 465 Jewell Lisa 1529125782 Nina 0 4.17 2021 The Night She Disappeared
author: Jewell Lisa
name: Nina
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Pumpkin Spice Café (Dream Harbor, #1)]]> 198100928 A spicy small-town romance and TikTok phenomenon, perfect for fans of Hannah Grace and Stephanie Archer.

When Jeanie's aunt gifts her the beloved Pumpkin Spice Café in the small town of Dream Harbor, Jeanie jumps at the chance for a fresh start away from her very dull desk job.

Logan is a local farmer who avoids Dream Harbor's gossip at all costs. But Jeanie's arrival disrupts Logan's routine and he wants nothing to do with the irritatingly upbeat new girl, except that he finds himself inexplicably drawn to her.

Will Jeanie's happy-go-lucky attitude win over the grumpy-but-gorgeous Logan, or has this city girl found the one person in town who won't fall for her charm, or her pumpkin spice lattes�

The Pumpkin Spice Café is a cozy romantic mystery for fans of Gilmore Girls, with a grumpy x sunshine dynamic, a small-town setting and a HEA guaranteed!

Tropes:

� grumpy x sunshine
� small town
� found family
� spicy]]> 360 Laurie Gilmore 0008610673 Nina 0 3.48 2023 The Pumpkin Spice Café (Dream Harbor, #1)
author: Laurie Gilmore
name: Nina
average rating: 3.48
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> The Golden Couple 71296795 The next electrifying novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author duo behind The Wife Between Us.Wealthy Washington suburbanites Marissa and Matthew Bishop seem to have it all—until Marissa is unfaithful. Beneath their veneer of perfection is a relationship riven by work and a lack of intimacy. She wants to repair things for the sake of their eight-year-old son and because she loves her husband. Enter Avery Chambers.Avery is a therapist who lost her professional license. Still, it doesn’t stop her from counseling those in crisis, though they have to adhere to her unorthodox methods. And the Bishops are desperate.When they glide through Avery’s door and Marissa reveals her infidelity, all three are set on a collision course. Because the biggest secrets in the room are still hidden, and it’s no longer simply a marriage that’s in danger.]]> 416 Greer Hendricks 1529056101 Nina 0 3.89 2022 The Golden Couple
author: Greer Hendricks
name: Nina
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea]]> 198099855 Alternative cover editions for this ASIN can be found here and here.
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For generations, deadly storms have ravaged Mina's homeland. Her people believe the Sea God, once their protector, now curse them with death and despair. To appease him, each year a maiden is thrown into the sea, in the hopes that one day the 'true bride' will be chosen and end the suffering.

Many believe Shim Cheong - Mina's brother's beloved - to be the legendary true bride. But on the night Cheong is sacrificed, Mina's brother follows her, even knowing that to interfere is a death sentence. To save her brother, Mina throws herself into the water in Cheong's stead.

Swept away to the Spirit Realm, a magical city of lesser gods and mythical beasts, Mina finds the Sea God, trapped in an enchanted sleep. With the help of a mysterious young man and a motley crew of demons, gods and spirits, Mina sets out to wake him and bring an end to the storms once and for all.

But she doesn't have much time: a human cannot live long in the land of the spirits. And there are those who would do anything to keep the Sea God from waking . . .

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea is a magical feminist retelling of a classic Korean legend, perfect for fans of Uprooted and Miyazaki's Spirited Away.]]> 337 Axie Oh 1529391733 Nina 0 4.10 2022 The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
author: Axie Oh
name: Nina
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Murder at the Bookstore (Bookstore Mystery, #1)]]> 61425008 326 Sue Minix 0008584621 Nina 0 3.01 2023 Murder at the Bookstore (Bookstore Mystery, #1)
author: Sue Minix
name: Nina
average rating: 3.01
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Was die Welt zusammenhält (Vergissmeinnicht, #3)]]> 216860536 Im groĂźen Finale der Vergissmeinnicht-Trilogie werden alle Geheimnisse aufgedeckt.Ěý

Wenn Quinn nach seinen Abenteuern im Saum eines weiß, dann Matilda ist seine große Liebe, ganz egal, wie anstrengend ihre Familie ist. Eigentlich sollten sich die beiden gerade nur auf den großen Schulball freuen. Wenn da nicht dieses rätselhafte Sternentor-Ritual wäre, durch das Quinn als angeblicher Auserwählter die Welt retten soll. Und flüchtige Schwarzalben, die versteckt werden wollen, sowie ein ominöses Orakel, das im entscheidenden Moment immer wieder verschwindet. Mit anderen ein ganz normaler Dienstag. Dann gerät Matilda auch noch ins Visier mächtiger Feinde. Zusammen mit Quinn muss sie Geheimnisse entschlüsseln, die den Unterschied zwischen Leben und Tod bedeuten könnten …]]> 528 Kerstin Gier 3949465197 Nina 0 4.17 2024 Was die Welt zusammenhält (Vergissmeinnicht, #3)
author: Kerstin Gier
name: Nina
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> Guy's Girl 140600306 The boy who couldn’t love and the girl who wouldn’t.

Ginny Murphy is a total guy’s girl. She’s always found friendships with boys easier to form and keep drama-free � as long as they don’t fall for her, and she doesn’t fall for them. She and her best guy friends have stuck to that. But then she meets Adrian Silvas, the only one who’s ever made her crave more, and Ginny begins to question her own rules.

Piece by piece, Ginny and Adrian begin to fall into something intoxicating, something dangerous. Ginny threatens to destroy the belief Adrian's held ever since witnessing his own mother’s heartbreak: that love isn’t worth the risk. For Ginny, the stakes could be even higher. Letting Adrian get close could mean exposing a secret she’s long protected: her disordered eating.

Ginny isn’t looking to be saved by someone. But maybe she and Adrian can help each other � if they don’t destroy each other first.

Heartfelt and evocative, Guy's Girl is a powerful story about true love, self-love, and growing up.]]> 380 Emma Noyes 0593639006 Nina 0 3.96 Guy's Girl
author: Emma Noyes
name: Nina
average rating: 3.96
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]]> The Sun Down Motel 54734795 Something hasn't been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls.

Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. But something isnĘĽt right at the motel, something haunting and scary.

Upstate New York, 2017. Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv, who mysteriously disappeared from the Sun Down before she was born. She decides to move to Fell and visit the motel, where she quickly learns that nothing has changed since 1982. And she soon finds herself ensnared in the same mysteries that claimed her aunt.]]> 326 Simone St. James 0440000203 Nina 0 4.08 2020 The Sun Down Motel
author: Simone St. James
name: Nina
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> The Worst Best Man 45446379 USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

"A romantic comedy that's fun and flirty, young and fresh." � PopSugar

Named one of the Best Romances of 2020 by EW, Cosmo, OprahMag, Buzzfeed, Insider, and NPR!

Mia Sosa delivers a sassy, steamy #ownvoices enemies-to-lovers novel, perfect for fans of Jasmine Guillory, Helen Hoang, and Sally Thorne!

A wedding planner left at the altar? Yeah, the irony isn’t lost on Carolina Santos, either. But despite that embarrassing blip from her past, Lina’s offered an opportunity that could change her life. There’s just one hitch� she has to collaborate with the best (make that worst) man from her own failed nuptials.

Marketing expert Max Hartley is determined to make his mark with a coveted hotel client looking to expand its brand. Then he learns he’ll be working with his brother’s whip-smart, stunning—absolutely off-limits—ex-fiancée. And she loathes him.

If they can nail their presentation without killing each other, they’ll both come out ahead. Except Max has been public enemy number one ever since he encouraged his brother to jilt the bride, and Lina’s ready to dish out a little payback of her own.

Soon Lina and Max discover animosity may not be the only emotion creating sparks between them. Still, this star-crossed couple can never be more than temporary playmates because Lina isn’t interested in falling in love and Max refuses to play runner-up to his brother ever again...

"The Worst Best Man is rom-com perfection. . . Sosa has a gift with words that’s infectious and wry, one that keeps the pages turning in delight." � Entertainment Weekly]]> 359 Mia Sosa 0062909878 Nina 4 read-in-2024 3.62 2020 The Worst Best Man
author: Mia Sosa
name: Nina
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/22
date added: 2024/12/22
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review:
I finally finished my 100th book of 2024 and I’m glad it was a good one
]]> <![CDATA[The Housemaid's Wedding (The Housemaid, #2.5)]]> 220921867 The Housemaid’s Wedding is a winter-themed short story meant to fill in the long gap between Book 2 of the Housemaid series (The Housemaid’s Secret) and Book 3 (The Housemaid is Watching). It can be read either between Book 2 and Book 3, or after Book 3.

Today is supposed to be the happiest day of my life.

I'm engaged to the man of my dreams, and in a few short hours, I'm going to stand before a judge, who will declare us husband and wife, till death does us part. Despite some bumps in the road, this day is everything I dreamed it would be.

There's only one problem:

Someone out there doesn't want me to live long enough to say my vows.

And if I'm not careful, they may very well get their wish.]]> 76 Freida McFadden Nina 3 read-in-2024 3.39 2024 The Housemaid's Wedding (The Housemaid, #2.5)
author: Freida McFadden
name: Nina
average rating: 3.39
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/15
date added: 2024/12/22
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]]> Mexican Gothic 60007818
Noemí is also an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she’s also tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí; and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemi’s dreams with visions of blood and doom.

Her only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family’s youngest son. Shy and gentle, he seems to want to help Noemí, but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family’s past. For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family’s once colossal wealth and faded mining empire kept them from prying eyes, but as Noemí digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness.

And Noemí, mesmerized by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place, may soon find it impossible to ever leave this enigmatic house behind.]]> 301 Silvia Moreno-Garcia 1529402689 Nina 3 read-in-2024 Mexican Gothic. It was a good book overall but it took me quite a while to get into it and it didn’t feel like a horror novel until I’d reached the final 100 pages when suddenly everything happened at once. ]]> 3.68 2020 Mexican Gothic
author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
name: Nina
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2024/01/19
date added: 2024/12/18
shelves: read-in-2024
review:
I rarely ever read horror books and maybe it just isn’t the genre for me but I expected a bit more from Mexican Gothic. It was a good book overall but it took me quite a while to get into it and it didn’t feel like a horror novel until I’d reached the final 100 pages when suddenly everything happened at once.
]]> <![CDATA[The Bride Bet (Girl Meets Duke, #4)]]> 48999553 How to lose a duke in ten years…without losing your heart.

Once upon a time, two sworn enemies—the bookish daughter of a scholar and the devilish heir to a duke—made a pact: If they were both still single in ten years, they would marry each other.

It was a joke, Nicola thought. A duchess? Her?

But when the Duke of Westleigh returns a decade later, he’s serious. He needs an heir, so he’s holding her to their marriage bargain—diamond ring, lavish gown, engagement ball, and more. Nothing Nicola says can dissuade him. When she calls him arrogant, he praises her honesty. When she makes social stumbles, he catches her fall. And when she gets exasperated, the duke can’t seem to get enough. For reasons she can’t fathom, he claims that no other woman will do.

He’s betting he can change her mind, with logic and passion.

She’s betting she can change his mind, just by being herself.

And as the clock ticks down to a wedding day, neither is counting on losing their heart.]]> 384 Tessa Dare Nina 0 to-be-published 4.41 2026 The Bride Bet (Girl Meets Duke, #4)
author: Tessa Dare
name: Nina
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2026
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Training The Heart (Silver Pines Ranch, #2)]]> 213893480 Escape to the wild west with a sizzling cowboy romance that will leave you breathless�
If you love Elsie Silver you will fall head over heels for Paisley Hope’s Silver Pines series.

Wade Ashby is a closed book. With the weight of the family business on his shoulders, and his ongoing battle to escape a failed marriage, he only has time for one looking after his ranch.

Life has dealt Ivy Spencer some tough blows. So when the opportunity to work on the Silver Pines ranch presents itself, she grabs it by the horns. Nothing will stand in the way of her dream of training a racehorse on route to the Kentucky Derby.

Wade might be determined to keep his heart under lock and key, but Ivy’s constant presence soon ignites a passion he thought he’d lost long ago.

And once she starts tearing down his walls, there’s no going back. . .

Because the only way he’ll open up his heart again is if it stays that way forever.

]]> 416 Paisley Hope 180495375X Nina 0 to-buy 4.25 Training The Heart (Silver Pines Ranch, #2)
author: Paisley Hope
name: Nina
average rating: 4.25
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]]> Pictures of You 197155885 If you knew then what you know now, would you make the same choices? Imagine having a second chance with the one you never forgot.

From the author of the global breakout bestseller The Last Love Note comes the story of a young woman struggling to piece her life back together in the wake of a tragic accident, and the man who gives up everything to help her.

When Evie Hudson wakes in an unfamiliar hospital room, she thinks she’s fresh out of a teenage party with her best friend, Bree. Except, Bree isn’t around anymore and high school was years ago. Evie had just survived the crash that killed her husband, Oliver—whom she can't remember either. After suffering a traumatic loss of memory, she’s left to connect the dots. But how?

Drew, a promising photographer whose chance encounter with Evie unravels the elusive details of her marriage and her husband’s death. As Drew watches Evie stitch the story of her life together, secrets emerge that might shatter both of their worlds.

This tangled second-chance romance leads Evie to question every decision she ever made. This time around, she’s seeing all the things she missed–and the life she gets to choose...again.]]> 416 Emma Grey 1958506478 Nina 0 to-buy 4.13 2024 Pictures of You
author: Emma Grey
name: Nina
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Honeymoon Crashers (Unhoneymooners, #1.5)]]> 128138997
A perfectionist maid of honor and a carefree, surfer-bro best man team up to plan a wedding and end up finding a spark of their own in the first audio original from author duo Christina Lauren, a full-cast sequel to theirĚýNew York TimesĚýbestsellerĚýThe Unhoneymooners.

Ami is determined to break the Torres family wedding curse. Her own disaster of a reception ended with all the guests getting food poisoning, and she left her cheating husband soon after. But even though she’s still processing her own divorce, Ami won’t let her twin sister Olive’s day be anything but perfect. Olive may think she wants a private ceremony in Maui, where she and her fiancé Ethan first fell in love, but Ami knows better and secretly flies the whole Torres family out to surprise the couple. Now she and her meticulously organized binder have less than two weeks to get everything together for the big day, thousands of miles from home.

Enter Brody, Ethan’s best man, who happens to be living in Maui and insists on helping with the preparations. His playfully elaborate schemes and happy-go-lucky attitude are the last thing Ami needs. When sparks start to fly, could it derail all her carefully laid plans?

Equal parts hilarious and swoon-worthy, this full-cast production is your ticket to the ultimate destination wedding, bringing to life both a captivating couple and an unforgettable family.ĚýThe Honeymoon CrashersĚýis Christina Lauren at their charming, hilarious best.]]> 5 Christina Lauren 1797158147 Nina 4 read-in-2024 3.56 2023 The Honeymoon Crashers (Unhoneymooners, #1.5)
author: Christina Lauren
name: Nina
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/14
date added: 2024/12/15
shelves: read-in-2024
review:
I really enjoyed this one and it was fun to listen to a book that was specifically written to be an audiobook (listening to some of the sound effects on double speed definitely made this book even more entertaining).
]]> Floored 38909799
Sasha, who is desperately trying to deliver a parcel; Hugo, who knows he's the best-looking guy in the lift and is eyeing up Velvet, who knows what that look means; Dawson, who used to be on TV, used to be handsome, and is sincerely hoping no one recognizes him; Kaitlyn, who's losing her sight but won't admit it; and Joe, who shouldn't be here at all, but who wants to be here the most.

And one more person, who will bring them together again on the same day every year.]]> 385 Sara Barnard 1509862307 Nina 3 read-in-2024 3.80 2018 Floored
author: Sara Barnard
name: Nina
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/15
date added: 2024/12/15
shelves: read-in-2024
review:
This was a very quick read and while I definitely enjoyed it, the ending was a bit too abrupt for my liking.
]]> Atmosphere 220817728 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s Space Shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.

Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s Space Shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.

Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easy-going even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane.

As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.

Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changes in an instant.

Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, with complex protagonists, telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love, this time among the stars.]]> 352 Taylor Jenkins Reid 0593158717 Nina 0 to-be-published 4.44 2025 Atmosphere
author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
name: Nina
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> One by One 54197718
A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation.

She thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot tubs with two other couple friends. It sounded like heaven.

Then Claire’s minivan breaks down on a lonely dirt road. With no cell reception, the group has no choice but to hike the rest of the way to their hotel. But it turns out the woods aren’t as easy to navigate as they thought.

Hours later, they are lost. Hopelessly lost.

And as they navigate deeper into the woods, the members of their party are struck down mysteriously one by one. Has a wild animal been hunting them? Or is the hunter one of them?

But as more time passes, one thing becomes clear:

Only one of them will return home alive.]]> 295 Freida McFadden Nina 4 read-in-2024 3.87 2020 One by One
author: Freida McFadden
name: Nina
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/13
date added: 2024/12/13
shelves: read-in-2024
review:
An entertaining and fast-paced thriller that you can easily read in one sitting.
]]> Under Loch and Key 209455891 A woman discovers that not all monsters are her enemy—the opposite, in fact—in this new paranormal romance by Lana Ferguson, author of The Fake Mate.

Keyanna “Key� MacKay is used to secrets. Raised by a single father who never divulged his past, it’s only after his death that she finds herself thrust into the world he’d always refused to speak of. With just a childhood bedtime story about a monster that saved her father’s life and the name of her estranged grandmother to go off of, Key has no idea what she’ll find in Scotland. But repeating her father’s mistakes and being rescued by a gorgeous, angry Scotsman—who thinks she’s an idiot—is definitely the last thing she expects.

Lachlan Greer has his own secrets to keep, especially from the bonnie lass he pulls to safety from the slippery shore—a lass with captivating eyes and the last name he’s been taught not to trust. He’s looking for answers as well, and Key’s presence on the grounds they both now occupy presents a real problem. It’s even more troublesome when he gets a front row seat to the lukewarm welcome Key receives from her family; the strange powers she begins to develop; and the fierce determination she brings to every obstacle in her path. Things he shouldn’t care about, and someone he definitely doesn’t find wildly attractive.

When their secrets collide, it becomes clear that Lachlan could hold the answers Keyanna is after—and that she might also be the key to uncovering his. Up against time, mystery, and a centuries old curse, they’ll quickly discover that magic might not only be in fairy tales, and that love can be a real loch-mess.]]> 415 Lana Ferguson 0593816862 Nina 3 arc, read-in-2024 ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner

*** 3.5 STARS ***

I probably didn’t read the synopsis closely enough before starting this book because I’m not a fan of paranormal romances similar to this one but thankfully, the whole “monster� thing wasn’t very prominent. So overall, this definitely was an enjoyable romance. ]]> 3.71 2024 Under Loch and Key
author: Lana Ferguson
name: Nina
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/07
date added: 2024/12/13
shelves: arc, read-in-2024
review:
ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner

*** 3.5 STARS ***

I probably didn’t read the synopsis closely enough before starting this book because I’m not a fan of paranormal romances similar to this one but thankfully, the whole “monster� thing wasn’t very prominent. So overall, this definitely was an enjoyable romance.
]]> Designs on You 209455925 Sparks fly when an interior designer and a game designer cross paths, but they must learn if they can design a happily ever after in this heartfelt romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Jaci Burton.

Natalie Parker is in her mid-thirties, divorced, and firmly focused on her newly resurrected career and her two children. When her sister asks her to help design the backyard in the new home she shares with her boyfriend, Linc, Natalie’s more than happy to take on the project. What she isn’t prepared for is Linc’s younger brother, video game designer Eugene Kennedy. He’s smart, incredibly good-looking, and constantly flirts with Natalie. He’s also too young for her, which makes him totally off-limits.

Eugene is intrigued by Natalie’s beauty, smarts, and especially her sarcastic wit. When he teases her, she throws it right back at him. Besides that, they have an instant chemistry, butĚýshe keeps trying to get rid of him despite the sparks that fly between them. And Eugene never backs down from a challenge.Ěý

Natalie is running out of reasons to think being with Eugene is a bad thing. Her kids adore him, her sister loves him, and even her always negative mother does, too. The only person holding her back is...her. Maybe it’s time she take that leap and design herself a love for the ages. After all, if she can create the perfect home, she sure as hell can design a happily ever after.]]> 347 Jaci Burton 0593439627 Nina 4 arc, read-in-2024 ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner

What a cute story, I really enjoyed this book!]]> 3.78 2024 Designs on You
author: Jaci Burton
name: Nina
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/13
date added: 2024/12/13
shelves: arc, read-in-2024
review:
ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner

What a cute story, I really enjoyed this book!
]]> Steve Jobs 11084145 630 Walter Isaacson 1451648537 Nina 0 dnf-no-rating 4.15 2011 Steve Jobs
author: Walter Isaacson
name: Nina
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2011
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/08
shelves: dnf-no-rating
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Cross the Line (Lights Out, #1)]]> 208516646 Her brother’s best friend sends her heart racing in this sparkling Formula 1 romance.

Formula 1 driver Dev Anderson’s career is on the line. After a social media disaster leaves him with an angry team and sponsors threatening to jump ship, he needs someone to help save his image. At a party in Monaco, he bumps into the woman who can fix it all. There’s just one problem: she’s his best friend’s little sister. And, okay, maybe there’s another problem—he kissed her last year and hasn’t been able to stop thinking about it since.

Recent college grad Willow Williams needs a job. She may have a talent for seeing the bright side of any bad situation, but it’s hard to stay positive when she’s struggling to get hired. So when Dev offers her a temporary solution, she can’t help but say yes. Even if it means ignoring the crush she’s had on him since childhood.

Willow and Dev are determined to keep things strictly professional, regardless of old feelings and the blazing chemistry between them. But in the glittering and high-stakes world of Formula 1, some lines are meant to be crossed…]]> 416 Simone Soltani 0593818148 Nina 0 3.57 2024 Cross the Line (Lights Out, #1)
author: Simone Soltani
name: Nina
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/05
shelves: to-read, physical-tbr, romance-tbr
review:

]]> Spectacular (Caraval, #3.5) 203578793 Welcome, welcome back to the mysteriously enchanting world of CARAVAL! Return to the legendary magic and the whimsical wonder with this beautifully illustrated holiday novella.

Snowflakes are falling.
Invitations are arriving.
And holiday magic is swirling in the capital city of the Meridian Empire.

It’s Great Holiday Eve Eve. Scarlett Dragna is planning a spectacular Holiday celebration for the city. Donatella is searching for the perfect gift. Julian is looking ridiculously handsome in green. And Legend . . .

Well, sadly Legend is not fond of the Great Holiday. Tella is hoping her perfect gift will change his mind. Unfortunately, she hasn’t found this perfect gift just yet. But it is Great Holiday Eve Eve . . . surely there’s some holiday magic swirling around.

Welcome, welcome back to the world of Caraval, where even holidays are not as they seem.

Set after Stephanie Garber's #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling Caraval series, this delightful novella will take readers on the ultimate holiday adventure full of clockwork boys, poisoned candy, impish snow globes, merriment, and―if Tella gets her way―love.

Gorgeously illustrated by Rosie Thorns, SPECTACULAR is the perfect edition for collectors, readers, dreamers, and lovers of holiday magic.]]> 207 Stephanie Garber 1250893402 Nina 0 3.72 2024 Spectacular (Caraval, #3.5)
author: Stephanie Garber
name: Nina
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/03
shelves: to-read, fantasy-scifi-tbr, physical-tbr
review:

]]> The End of Loneliness 42139898 From internationally bestselling author Benedict Wells, a sweeping, heartbreaking novel of friendship, memory, and the lives we never get to live

At eleven years old, Jules Moreau loses his parents in a tragic accident, and in an instant, his childhood is shattered. Leaving a comfortable home in Munich and holidays in the south of France far behind, he and his siblings, Marty and Liz, are enrolled in a bleak boarding school, where the trio begin to lose each other, as well as themselves. Marty throws himself into academic life; Liz is drawn to dark forms of escapism; and Jules, though once vivacious and fearless, turns inward, becoming a ghost of his former self...until he meets Alva. Shy, intelligent, and enigmatic, and concealing a dark childhood of her own, Alva pulls Jules out of his shell and the two bond over books and writing, always with an unspoken understanding of the other's pain. Eight years later, at the precipice of their friendship becoming more, Alva abruptly turns her back, and the two leave school on separate paths.

As they enter adulthood, Jules, Marty, and Liz, still strangers to one another, struggle to contend with who they are becoming. Jules is adrift, growing into a directionless young man, anchored only by two desires: to be a writer, and to have Alva back in his life. It isn't until Liz hits rock bottom that the three siblings finally find their footing as a family, and Jules finds the nerve to reach out to Alva -- fifteen years after they last spoke. Invited by Alva to join her and her husband, an esteemed author, at their home in Switzerland, Jules finds his way back to his own writing, and to his closest friend. As life begins to fall into place, just as it seems that they can make amends for time wasted, the past catches up with them, and fate -- or chance -- once again intervenes.

A kaleidoscopic and heartfelt family saga, as well as a deeply felt meditation on the power of memory, The End of Loneliness explores the invisible forces and currents that can change our lives in an instant, and asks us all to consider, If you spend all your life running in the wrong direction, could it be the right one after all?]]> 230 Benedict Wells 1473654041 Nina 0 4.24 2016 The End of Loneliness
author: Benedict Wells
name: Nina
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/03
shelves: to-read, contemporary-tbr, physical-tbr
review:

]]> The Family Game 60507844
Harry is a novelist on the brink of stardom; Edward, her husband-to-be, is seemingly perfect. In love and freshly engaged, their bliss is interrupted by the reemergence of the Holbecks, Edward's eminent family and the embodiment of American old money. For years, they've dominated headlines and pulled society’s strings, and Edward left them all behind to forge his own path. But there are eyes and ears everywhere. It was only a matter of time before they were pulled back in...

After all, even though he's long severed ties with his family, Edward is set to inherit it all. Harriet is drawn to the glamour and sophistication of the Holbecks, who seem to welcome her with open arms, but everything changes when she meets Robert, the inescapably magnetic head of the family. At their first meeting, Robert slips Harry a cassette tape, revealing a shocking confession which sets the inevitable game in motion.

What is it about Harry that made him give her that tape? A thing that has the power to destroy everything? As she ramps up her quest for the truth, she must endure the Holbecks� savage Christmas traditions all the while knowing that losing this game could be deadly.]]> 382 Catherine Steadman 1471189856 Nina 0 3.81 2022 The Family Game
author: Catherine Steadman
name: Nina
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/03
shelves: to-read, mystery-thriller-tbr, physical-tbr
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]]> Summer Romance 198563734
There aren’t enough labeled glass containers to contain the mess that is Ali Morris’s life. Her mom died two years ago, then her husband left, and she hasn’t worn pants with a zipper in longer than she cares to remember. She’s a professional organizer whose pantry is a disgrace.

No one is more surprised than Ali when the first time she takes off her wedding ring and puts on pants with hardware—overalls count, right?—she meets someone. Or rather, her dog claims a man for her in the same way he claimed his favorite of her three children: by peeing on him. Ethan smiles at Ali like her pants are just right—like he likes what he sees. The last thing Ali needs is to make her life messier, but there’s no harm in a little Summer Romance. Is there?]]> 321 Annabel Monaghan 0593714083 Nina 0 4.02 2024 Summer Romance
author: Annabel Monaghan
name: Nina
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/03
shelves: to-read, physical-tbr, romance-tbr
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Apprentice to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #2)]]> 203147386
Evie Sage has never been happier to be the assistant to The Villain. Who would have thought that working for an outrageously handsome (shhh, bad for his brand) evil overlord would be so rewarding? Still, the business of being bad is demanding, the forces of good are annoyingly persistent, and said forbidding boss is somewhat…er, out-of-evil-office.

But Rennedawn is in grave trouble, and all signs―Kingsley’s included―point to catastrophe. Something peculiar is happening with the kingdom’s magic, and it’s made The Villain’s manor vulnerable to their enemies...including their nemesis, the king.

Now it’s time for Evie to face her greatest challenge: protecting The Villain’s lair, all of his nefarious works, and maybe (provided no one finds out) the entire kingdom. No pressure, Evie.

It’s time to step out of her comfort zone and learn new skills. Like treason. Dagger work. Conspiring with the enemy. It’s all so…so…delightfully fun.

But what happens when the assistant to The Villain is ready to become his apprentice?]]> 368 Hannah Nicole Maehrer 1649377177 Nina 0 4.07 2024 Apprentice to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #2)
author: Hannah Nicole Maehrer
name: Nina
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/03
shelves: to-read, mystery-thriller-tbr, physical-tbr
review:

]]> How to Kill Your Family 58862845
When I think about what I actually did, I feel somewhat sad that nobody will ever know about the complex operation that I undertook. Getting away with it is highly preferable, of course, but perhaps when I’m long gone, someone will open an old safe and find this confession. The public would reel. After all, almost nobody else in the world can possibly understand how someone, by the tender age of 28, can have calmly killed six members of her family. And then happily got on with the rest of her life, never to regret a thing.

When Grace Bernard discovers her absentee millionaire father has rejected her dying mother’s pleas for help, she vows revenge, and sets about to kill every member of his family. Readers have a front row seat as Grace picks off the family one by one � and the result is as and gruesome as it is entertaining in this wickedly dark romp about class, family, love� and murder.

But then Grace is imprisoned for a murder she didn’t commit.

Outrageously funny, compulsive and subversive, perfect for fans of Killing Eve and My Sister, the Serial Killer.]]> 368 Bella Mackie 0008365946 Nina 3 read-in-2024 *** 3.5 STARS ***

It took me a while to get into this one but overall, it definitely was an entertaining story. ]]> 3.48 2021 How to Kill Your Family
author: Bella Mackie
name: Nina
average rating: 3.48
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/01
date added: 2024/12/01
shelves: read-in-2024
review:
*** 3.5 STARS ***

It took me a while to get into this one but overall, it definitely was an entertaining story.
]]> <![CDATA[Only Santas in the Building (Under the Mistletoe Collection, #5)]]> 220389090
All Evie Cruz wants for Christmas is a nap. And maybe some ornaments for her naked Christmas tree. And while she’s making a list, she wouldn’t mind unwrapping her sexy upstairs neighbor like a present. Luckily, the building’s Santa-themed party and a surprise sprig of mistletoe give her just the opening she needs to make all her wishes come true.

Alexis Daria’s Only Santas in the Building is part of Under the Mistletoe, a stirring collection of December romances that thrill and tingle all the way. They can be read or listened to in one swoony sitting.]]> 65 Alexis Daria 1662529376 Nina 3 read-in-2024 <b>3.5 STARS </b> 3.36 2024 Only Santas in the Building (Under the Mistletoe Collection, #5)
author: Alexis Daria
name: Nina
average rating: 3.36
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/01
date added: 2024/12/01
shelves: read-in-2024
review:
3.5 STARS
]]> <![CDATA[Merriment and Mayhem (Under the Mistletoe Collection, #4)]]> 220389457
When Everleigh Dangerfield’s baking disaster necessitates a call to 911, firefighter Griffin Brantley douses the flames in the kitchen, but the ones he stokes in Everleigh are an entirely different story. Unfortunately, Everleigh’s only visiting and doesn’t do casual hookups, no matter how smoldering the temptation. But Everleigh’s holiday mishaps have just begun. And Griffin is seemingly always on call. If Everleigh is game for a change of plans, he can give her the merriest Christmas of her life.

Alexandria Bellefleur’s Merriment and Mayhem is part of Under the Mistletoe, a stirring collection of December romances that thrill and tingle all the way. They can be read or listened to in one swoony sitting.]]> 58 Alexandria Bellefleur 1662529341 Nina 3 read-in-2024 <b>3.5 STARS</b> 3.28 2024 Merriment and Mayhem (Under the Mistletoe Collection, #4)
author: Alexandria Bellefleur
name: Nina
average rating: 3.28
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/01
date added: 2024/12/01
shelves: read-in-2024
review:
3.5 STARS
]]> <![CDATA[All by My Elf (Under the Mistletoe Collection, #3)]]> 220389455
Nina and William are underpaid adjunct professors at the same university, where winter break is no break at all: ’tis the season to make extra money. When their holiday side hustle has them stranded by a blinding blizzard in the middle of nowhere, there’s nothing to do but cuddle up for warmth and play a game of Never Have I Ever to pass the time. But in the game of love, secrets never stay secret for long�

Olivia Dade’s All by My Elf is part of Under the Mistletoe, a stirring collection of December romances that thrill and tingle all the way. They can be read or listened to in one swoony sitting.]]> 55 Olivia Dade 166252823X Nina 2 read-in-2024 2.58 2024 All by My Elf (Under the Mistletoe Collection, #3)
author: Olivia Dade
name: Nina
average rating: 2.58
book published: 2024
rating: 2
read at: 2024/11/30
date added: 2024/11/30
shelves: read-in-2024
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Merry Ever After (Under the Mistletoe Collection, #2)]]> 220389465 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey.

Evie Crowe is starting over in a strange town with her newborn, and men are the furthest thing from her mind. If only the quiet, hulking farmer, Luke Ward, would stop coming into the thrift shop and piquing her reluctant interest. Evie wants to stay single all the way—she can’t trust anything more than friends-with-holiday-benefits. But Luke is in it for the long haul. He’s fixed on making this a Christmas Evie will remember forever. If she gives him a chance.

Tessa Bailey’s Merry Ever After is part of Under the Mistletoe, a stirring collection of December romances that thrill and tingle all the way. They can be read or listened to in one swoony sitting.]]> 59 Tessa Bailey 1662528736 Nina 2 read-in-2024 2.79 2024 Merry Ever After (Under the Mistletoe Collection, #2)
author: Tessa Bailey
name: Nina
average rating: 2.79
book published: 2024
rating: 2
read at: 2024/11/30
date added: 2024/11/30
shelves: read-in-2024
review:
I’m still searching for the plot � this was just one long, cringy sex scene but I didn’t really expect anything else from Tessa Bailey.
]]> A Queen's Game 205307699 The New York Times bestselling author of the American Royals series invites you to visit 19th-century Europe amid the glamour and intrigue of the Victorian era. In this historical romance inspired by true events, three princesses struggle to find love—and end up vying for the hearts of two future kings.

In the last glittering decade of European empires, courts, and kings, three young women are on a collision course with history—and with each other.

Alix of Hesse is Queen Victoria’s favorite granddaughter, so she can expect to end up with a prince . . . except that the prince she’s falling for is not the one she’s supposed to marry.

Hélène d’Orléans, daughter of the exiled King of France, doesn’t mind being a former princess; it gives her more opportunity to break the rules. Like running around with the handsome, charming, and very much off-limits heir to the British throne, Prince Eddy.

Then there’s May of Teck. After spending her entire life on the fringes of the royal world, May is determined to marry a prince—and not just any prince, but the future king.

In a story that sweeps from the glittering ballrooms of Saint Petersburg to the wilds of Scotland, A Queen’s Game recounts a pivotal moment in real history as only Katharine McGee can tell it: through the eyes of the young women whose lives, and loves, changed it forever.]]> 368 Katharine McGee 0593710703 Nina 3 arc, read-in-2024 ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner

*** 3.5 STARS ***

It took me a while to get into the story but I definitely enjoyed it and I’m looking forward to the sequel. ]]> 3.66 2024 A Queen's Game
author: Katharine McGee
name: Nina
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/24
date added: 2024/11/30
shelves: arc, read-in-2024
review:
ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner

*** 3.5 STARS ***

It took me a while to get into the story but I definitely enjoyed it and I’m looking forward to the sequel.
]]> <![CDATA[Cruel Winter with You (Under the Mistletoe Collection, #1)]]> 220389458 New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood.

All newly minted pediatrician Jamie Malek wants is to borrow a roasting pan for Christmas dinner. Unfortunately, that requires her to interact with Marc—her best friend’s troublemaking brother, who’s now a tech billionaire. He’s the one who got away. She’s the one who broke his heart. Outside, a howling blizzard. Inside, a crackling fire. Suddenly, being snowbound with the man she never expected to see again might not be such a bad way to spend a winter’s night.

Ali Hazelwood’s Cruel Winter with You is part of Under the Mistletoe, a stirring collection of December romances that thrill and tingle all the way. They can be read or listened to in one swoony sitting.]]> 73 Ali Hazelwood 1662528396 Nina 4 read-in-2024 So cute! 3.68 2024 Cruel Winter with You (Under the Mistletoe Collection, #1)
author: Ali Hazelwood
name: Nina
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/30
date added: 2024/11/30
shelves: read-in-2024
review:
So cute!
]]> Pi mal Daumen 211160472 Bestseller-Autorin Alina Bronsky legt eine Komödie über zwei Menschen vor, die aus unterschiedlichen Welten stammen � und am Ende nicht mehr ohne einander sein wollen. Warmherzig, rasant und höchst unterhaltsam.

Sie begegnen sich zum ersten Mal in einer Der hochbegabte Oscar ist 16, hat einen Adelstitel und ist noch nie mit der U-Bahn gefahren. Moni Kosinsky hat drei Enkel, mehrere Nebenjobs und liebt knalligen Lippenstift und hohe Absätze. Sie ist fest entschlossen, sich heimlich den Traum von einem Mathe-Studium zu erfüllen.

Doch im Hörsaal wird Moni für eine Putzfrau gehalten und belächelt. Wie kommt sie dazu, sich für eines der schwierigsten Fächer überhaupt einzuschreiben? Und woher kennt sie den berühmtesten Professor der Uni?

Bald muss nicht nur Oscar feststellen, dass Monis Verstand und Beharrlichkeit größer sind als ihre WissenslĂĽcken. Denn Mathematik schert sich nicht um Fragen der Herkunft, des Alters und des Aussehens. Oscar dagegen kämpft mit dem Alltag und findet ausgerechnet in der warmherzigen Moni eine Vertraute, die seinem Leben eine entscheidende Wendung gibt. Bald verbindet die beiden AuĂźenseiter eine Freundschaft, die niemand fĂĽr möglich gehalten hätte.Ěý


Ein leichtfüßiger, raffinierter, tragikomischer Roman über eine schillernde Heldin und eine ungewöhnliche Freundschaft, die weit über Fragen nach der vierten Dimension und schlechtes Mensa-Essen hinaus durchs Studium und Leben trägt.]]> 267 Alina Bronsky 3462311336 Nina 3 read-in-2024 3.91 Pi mal Daumen
author: Alina Bronsky
name: Nina
average rating: 3.91
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/17
date added: 2024/11/17
shelves: read-in-2024
review:

]]> Darkly 208430757
As Dia and her fellow interns delve into the heart of Darkly, they discover hidden symbols, buried clues, and a web of intrigue. Who are these other teens, and what secrets do they keep? Why were any of them really chosen? The answers lie within the twisted labyrinth of Darkly.]]> 399 Marisha Pessl 0593706552 Nina 4 arc, read-in-2024 ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner

Darkly had a very interesting premise and an interesting setting that I really enjoyed. It was also very well-written and I loved that it was a bit of a mixed media novel. The story kept me hooked and overall, it was a quick and entertaining read that is perfect for this time of the year. I’d definitely be interesting in reading some of the author’s other books in the future. ]]> 3.71 2024 Darkly
author: Marisha Pessl
name: Nina
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/10/27
date added: 2024/11/10
shelves: arc, read-in-2024
review:
ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner

Darkly had a very interesting premise and an interesting setting that I really enjoyed. It was also very well-written and I loved that it was a bit of a mixed media novel. The story kept me hooked and overall, it was a quick and entertaining read that is perfect for this time of the year. I’d definitely be interesting in reading some of the author’s other books in the future.
]]> The Wives 215204286 Lies, secrets, deadly decisions�

When Natasha meets Daniel, she knows her life is made. Rich, handsome and charming, Daniel will make the perfect husband. Even if she won’t make the perfect wife�

She is thrilled when Daniel suggests an all-expenses paid cruise for Natasha, her friends, Barbara, Tracy Ann and Michelle, and their husbands. What better way to show everyone that Natasha has finally made it?

But as the ship sets sail, she learns that far from being the perfect husband, Daniel has terrible secrets that are about to be revealed. And each of the wives has their own reasons for wanting him dead.

This trip might cost more than any of them ever imagined�

A gripping new story from the psych thriller queen that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Perfect for fans of Frieda McFadden, J.A. Baker and Sue Watson.]]> 298 Valerie Keogh 1805494449 Nina 1 arc, read-in-2024 ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Unfortunately, this was one of the worst thrillers I’ve read in 2024. The story was boring, I didn’t like any of the characters and the reveal didn’t shock me at all. ]]> 3.79 2024 The Wives
author: Valerie Keogh
name: Nina
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2024
rating: 1
read at: 2024/11/02
date added: 2024/11/10
shelves: arc, read-in-2024
review:
ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Unfortunately, this was one of the worst thrillers I’ve read in 2024. The story was boring, I didn’t like any of the characters and the reveal didn’t shock me at all.
]]> Birdwatching with Benefits 209680551 A divorcee embarks on her “year of yes� and crosses paths with a shy but sensitive birdwatcher who changes her life in this charming rom-com that is perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Ali Hazelwood.

Newly divorced, almost-empty-nester Celeste is finally seeking adventure and putting herself first, cliches be damned. So when a friend asks Celeste to “partner� with his buddy John for an event, Celeste throws herself into the role of his temporary girlfriend. But quiet cinnamon roll John isn’t looking for love, just birds—he needs a partner for Tucson’s biggest bird-watching contest if he’s ever going to launch his own guiding business. By the time they untangle their crossed signals, they’ve become teammates…and thanks to his meddling friends, a fake couple.

Celeste can’t tell a sparrow from a swallow, but John is a great teacher, and the hours they spend hiking in the Arizona wilderness feed Celeste’s hunger for new adventures while giving John a chance to practice his dream job. As the two spend more time together, they end up watching more than just the birds, and their chemistry becomes undeniable. Since they’re both committed to the single life, Celeste suggests a status upgrade: birders with benefits, just until the contest is done. But as the bird count goes up and their time together ticks down, John and Celeste will have to decide if their benefits can last a lifetime, or if this love affair is for the birds.]]> 336 Sarah T. Dubb 1668072009 Nina 3 read-in-2024 3.79 2024 Birdwatching with Benefits
author: Sarah T. Dubb
name: Nina
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/10
date added: 2024/11/10
shelves: read-in-2024
review:
A cute romance but nothing special.
]]> The Atheist's Mass 25140319 'This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an unbeliever.'



A stunning pair of short stories about faith and sacrificial love.



Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.



Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850). Balzac's works available in Penguin Classics are Old Man Goriot, Cousin Bette, History of The Thirteen, Selected Short Stories, Cousin Pons, A Harlot High and Low, Eugenie Grandet, The Wild Ass's Skin, The Black Sheep and Lost Illusions.

(Penguin Little Black Classics)]]> 57 Honoré de Balzac Nina 0 3.52 1836 The Atheist's Mass
author: Honoré de Balzac
name: Nina
average rating: 3.52
book published: 1836
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Notorious Virtues (The Notorious Virtues, #1)]]> 48580056 A glamorous media darling, a surprise heiress, and the magical competition of a lifetime.

At sixteen, Honora “Nora� Holtzfall is the daughter of the most powerful heiress in all of Walstad. Her family controls all the money–and all the magic–in the entire country. But despite being the center of attention, Nora has always felt like an outsider. When her mother is found dead in an alley, the family throne and fortune are suddenly up for grabs, and Nora will be pitted against her cousins in the Veritaz, the ultimate magical competition for power that determines the one family heir.

But there’s a surprise contestant this time: Lotte, the illegitimate daughter of Nora’s aunt. When Lotte’s absent mother retrieves her from the rural convent she’d abandoned her to, Lotte goes from being an orphan to surrounded by family. Unfortunately, most of them want her dead.

And soon, Nora discovers that her mother’s death wasn’t random–it was murder. And the only person she can trust to uncover the truth of what happened is a rakish young reporter who despises everything Nora and her family stand for.

With everyone against her, Lotte’s last hope is hunting for the identity of her father. But the dangerous competition–and her feelings for Theo, one of the Holtzfalls� sworn protectors–turns her world upside down.]]> 320 Alwyn Hamilton 0451479661 Nina 0 to-read, arc, digital-tbr ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.]]> 4.29 2025 The Notorious Virtues (The Notorious Virtues, #1)
author: Alwyn Hamilton
name: Nina
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> Unromance 212924099 not a meet-cute but a chance encounter with a charming man whom she will sleep with exactly onceĚýand go on her way. Easy enough...until she runs into him again at a Christmas market straight out of a Hallmark holiday movie.Ěý]]> 343 Erin Connor 153875942X Nina 0 to-be-published 3.81 2025 Unromance
author: Erin Connor
name: Nina
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/10/27
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]]> <![CDATA[Midnight at Tiffany's (From Manhattan with Love, #0.5)]]> 27741647
So when she meets gorgeous millionaire Chase Adams, she decides to channel them and act on their sizzling attraction! One magical night later, she's living the dream, but will a trip to Tiffany's make it a reality?]]> 87 Sarah Morgan 1474048463 Nina 3 read-in-2023 3.85 Midnight at Tiffany's (From Manhattan with Love, #0.5)
author: Sarah Morgan
name: Nina
average rating: 3.85
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2023/02/06
date added: 2024/10/23
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]]> Fang Fiction 204640575 She’s out for adventure. He’s out for blood.

The world of your favorite fantasy novels is real, and you’re invited to visit. The only catch? It’s filled with thirsty vampires. Devour this page-turning romance from the bestselling author of One to Watch.

Tess Rosenbloom is no stranger to the dark. An assault survivor and grad school dropout, she spends her nights managing a chic Brooklyn hotel and her days curled up with her favorite vampire novels, Blood Feud. Tess even dabbles in online conspiracies that Blood Feud is real—it’s fun to hunt for clues! But deep down, Tess doesn’t believe vampires actually exist�

Until one walks through her door.

It turns out Blood Feud is real, and the sexy villain of the novels is trapped. Eager to escape her life, Tess agrees to help rescue him, and soon she’s in a fantasia of lavish palaces and enchanted forests, on a secret island where the sun never shines and she’s surrounded by deadly vampires—and against her better judgment, she’s falling in love with one of them. (And unbeknownst to Tess, her estranged best friend is having a sapphic affair with a beautiful vampire of her own back in New York.)

Visiting the world of your favorite story is any fan’s dream, but will Tess be able to outrun the demons of her past (and vampires of her present) before it becomes a nightmare? In this darkly glamorous rom-com, Tess will find out whether it’s worth risking her neck—and her heart—for a chance to reclaim her future.]]> 400 Kate Stayman-London 0593729129 Nina 2 arc, read-in-2024 ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner

*** 2.5 STARS ***

I really loved Kate Stayman-London’s debut novel and her style of writing but this book just couldn’t keep up with her first release.

I definitely understand that the excerpts from the book series this story centres around were supposed to read like a typical fan fiction story but I really wish the rest of the book hadn’t felt that way. The story itself was fun at times and it was a very quick read though I ended up only skimming the last 15% of the book because I’d lost interest in the story at that point. The characters were okay but I just never really connected with them. Something I really enjoyed however were the snippets from the book series, podcasts, Reddit posts etc. the author incorporated into the book. ]]> 3.53 2024 Fang Fiction
author: Kate Stayman-London
name: Nina
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2024
rating: 2
read at: 2024/10/08
date added: 2024/10/20
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*** 2.5 STARS ***

I really loved Kate Stayman-London’s debut novel and her style of writing but this book just couldn’t keep up with her first release.

I definitely understand that the excerpts from the book series this story centres around were supposed to read like a typical fan fiction story but I really wish the rest of the book hadn’t felt that way. The story itself was fun at times and it was a very quick read though I ended up only skimming the last 15% of the book because I’d lost interest in the story at that point. The characters were okay but I just never really connected with them. Something I really enjoyed however were the snippets from the book series, podcasts, Reddit posts etc. the author incorporated into the book.
]]> Chasing Lucky 52386214
What she doesn’t plan for is a run-in with the town bad boy, Lucky Karras. Outsider, rebel…and her former childhood best friend. Lucky makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the newly returned Josie. But everything changes after a disastrous pool party, and a poorly executed act of revenge lands Josie in some big-time trouble—with Lucky unexpectedly taking the blame.

Determined to understand why Lucky was so quick to cover for her, Josie discovers that both of them have changed, and that the good boy she once knew now has a dark sense of humor and a smile that makes her heart race. And maybe, just maybe, he’s not quite the brooding bad boy everyone thinks he is…]]> 406 Jenn Bennett 1534425179 Nina 3 read-in-2024 *** 3.5 STARS ***

It was a quick and fun read and I definitely enjoyed it. However, it was a bit too long for my liking and I kind of lost interest in the story towards the end of it.]]> 3.74 2020 Chasing Lucky
author: Jenn Bennett
name: Nina
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2024/10/20
date added: 2024/10/20
shelves: read-in-2024
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*** 3.5 STARS ***

It was a quick and fun read and I definitely enjoyed it. However, it was a bit too long for my liking and I kind of lost interest in the story towards the end of it.
]]> What If I Never Get Over You 210693963 One Day meets a contemporary Bridgerton in this high-drama, escapist wonder of a love story, Paige Toon’s best yet.

Three days to fall in love. Six years to try to forget.

Ellie didn’t expect to fall in love while interrailing through Europe. But she also didn’t expect to meet a man like Ash. Three blistering days in Lisbon is all it takes to form an unforgettable connection—a bond deep enough for them to scrap their itineraries and plan to meet again in Spain. But Ellie arrives late, and Ash is nowhere to be found.

Six years later, Ellie has landed her dream job working as a gardener for a viscount and viscountess on their sprawling five-hundred-year-old estate in Wales. She finds peace amongst the towering topiary hedges and colorful gardens, but her idyll is shattered when Ash crashes back into her life. And when it becomes clear why he didn’t show in Madrid, her heart breaks anew—for what the truth means for her, and for his fate.

But they have never been able to resist each another, and when the sparks of their attraction fly, Ellie’s life will catch flame. She will have to make a choice.]]> 416 Paige Toon 1804947873 Nina 0 to-read, arc, digital-tbr ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner ]]> 4.15 2025 What If I Never Get Over You
author: Paige Toon
name: Nina
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/10/16
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]]> <![CDATA[Nothing Like the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #2)]]> 207293948
Flash forward months later, and Wes and Liz find themselves in college, together. In a healthier place now, Wes knows he broke Liz’s heart when he ended things, but he is determined to make her fall back in love with him.

Wes knows Liz better than anyone, and he has a foolproof plan to win her back with rom-com-worthy grand gestures she loves. Only . . . Liz will have none of it! Wes has to scheme like a rom-com hero to figure out how to see her. Even worse, Liz has a new friend . . . a guy friend.

Still, Wes won’t give up, adapting his clever plans and going hard to get Liz’s attention and win back her affection. But after his best efforts get him nowhere, Wes is left wondering if their relationship is really over for good.]]> 442 Lynn Painter 1665947136 Nina 0 3.99 2024 Nothing Like the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #2)
author: Lynn Painter
name: Nina
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/10/09
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]]> Intermezzo 215366091 An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.]]> 448 Sally Rooney 0571365477 Nina 0 4.04 2024 Intermezzo
author: Sally Rooney
name: Nina
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Podium Finish (Chequered Flag Series)]]> 216774310
The new owner of Cavalgio Nero, Daniel Conte is determined to cleanse the team of corruption and fill a void that haunts him from his past.

Miriam Lefebvre thought she had it all: a successful career, the job of her dreams, and a future laid out before her - but something was missing from her life.

Miriam and Daniel find themselves on the same team but on opposite sides of the track, when the unspoken truths from his past, threaten to ignite a fire that could consume them both.

Can they set aside their differences and confront their past before it's too late?]]> 405 Rhae Aeden Nina 0 kindle-unlimited 3.62 Podium Finish (Chequered Flag Series)
author: Rhae Aeden
name: Nina
average rating: 3.62
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/10/07
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]]> The Bletchley Riddle 205064698 This middle grade historical adventure follows two siblings at Bletchley Park, the home of WWII codebreakers, as they try to unravel a mystery surrounding their mother’s death.

Remember, you are bound by the Official Secrets Act�

Summer, 1940. Nineteen-year-old Jakob Novis and his quirky younger sister Lizzie share a love of riddles and puzzles. And now they’re living inside of one. The quarrelsome siblings find themselves amidst one of the greatest secrets of World War II—Britain’s eccentric codebreaking factory at Bletchley Park. As Jakob joins Bletchley’s top minds to crack the Nazi's Enigma cipher, fourteen-year-old Lizzie embarks on a mission to solve the mysterious disappearance of their mother.

The Battle of Britain rages and Hitler’s invasion creeps closer. And at the same time, baffling messages and codes arrive on their doorstep while a menacing inspector lurks outside the gates of the Bletchley mansion. Are the messages truly for them, or are they a trap? Could the riddles of Enigma and their mother's disappearance be somehow connected? Jakob and Lizzie must find a way to work together as they race to decipher clues which unravel a shocking puzzle that presents the ultimate challenge: How long must a secret be kept?]]> 392 Ruta Sepetys 0593527542 Nina 4 arc, read-in-2024 ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner

The Bletchley Riddle was a very informative and well-written novel which wasn’t surprising since Ruta Sepetys has never let me down before. I’ve always really enjoyed her books and she once again didn’t disappoint but her writing also worked very well with that of her co-author Steve Sheinkin. The characters in this book were lovely, it was a very quick read and I learned about an interesting topic that I hadn’t known much about prior to reading this book so overall, this was a very good read. ]]> 4.12 2024 The Bletchley Riddle
author: Ruta Sepetys
name: Nina
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/10/05
date added: 2024/10/06
shelves: arc, read-in-2024
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ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner

The Bletchley Riddle was a very informative and well-written novel which wasn’t surprising since Ruta Sepetys has never let me down before. I’ve always really enjoyed her books and she once again didn’t disappoint but her writing also worked very well with that of her co-author Steve Sheinkin. The characters in this book were lovely, it was a very quick read and I learned about an interesting topic that I hadn’t known much about prior to reading this book so overall, this was a very good read.
]]> Heir (Heir Duology, #1) 206780522 An orphan.
An outcast.
A prince.

And a killer who will bring an empire to its knees.

Growing up in the Kegari slums, AIZ has seen her share of suffering. An old tragedy fuels her need for vengeance, but it is love of her people that propels her. Until one hotheaded mistake lands her in an inescapable prison, where the embers of her wrath ignite.

Banished from her people for an unforgivable crime, SIRSHA is a down-on-her-luck tracker who uses magic to trace her marks. Destitute, she agrees to hunt down a killer who has murdered children across the Martial Empire. All she has to do is carry out the job and get paid. But when a chance encounter leads to an unexpected attraction, Sirsha learns her mission might cost her far more than she's willing to give up.

QUIL is the crown prince of the Empire and nephew of a venerated empress, but he’s loath to take the throne when his aunt steps down. As the son of a reviled emperor, he, better than anyone, understands that power corrupts. When a vicious new enemy threatens the survival of the Empire, Quil must ask himself if he can rise above his tragic lineage and be the heir his people need.

Beloved storyteller Sabaa Tahir interweaves the lives of three young people as they grapple with power, treachery, love, and the devastating consequences of unchecked greed, on a journey that may cost them their lives―and their hearts. Literally.]]> 484 Sabaa Tahir 0593616944 Nina 3 arc, read-in-2024 ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner

*** 3.5 STARS ***

It took me quite a while to get into Heir but once I’d understood how the different point of views fit together, I definitely started to enjoy the book a lot more.

I really liked the characters and the writing in this book and I guess I should really try to read An Ember In The Ashes at some point in the near future. The story itself was a bit boring at first but really picked up around three quarters of the way through the book and I could barely put it down at that point. I also really liked the world building and would definitely be interested in reading the sequel once it comes out. ]]> 4.25 2024 Heir (Heir Duology, #1)
author: Sabaa Tahir
name: Nina
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2024/10/03
date added: 2024/10/06
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review:
ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. #PRHInternationalPartner

*** 3.5 STARS ***

It took me quite a while to get into Heir but once I’d understood how the different point of views fit together, I definitely started to enjoy the book a lot more.

I really liked the characters and the writing in this book and I guess I should really try to read An Ember In The Ashes at some point in the near future. The story itself was a bit boring at first but really picked up around three quarters of the way through the book and I could barely put it down at that point. I also really liked the world building and would definitely be interested in reading the sequel once it comes out.
]]> The Boyfriend 208503280 She's looking for the perfect man. He's looking for the perfect victim.

Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She’s seen it men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot.

Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect. He's charming, handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital. Sydney is swept off her feet.

Then the brutal murder of a young woman―the latest in a string of deaths across the coast―confounds police. The primary suspect? A mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them.

Sydney should feel safe. After all, she is dating the guy of her dreams. But she can’t shake her own suspicions that the perfect man may not be as perfect as he seems. Because someone is watching her every move, and if she doesn’t get to the truth, she’ll be the killer’s next victim...

A dark story about obsession and the things we’ll do for love, #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden proves that crimes of passion are often the bloodiest…]]> 368 Freida McFadden 1728296226 Nina 0 kindle-unlimited 3.95 2024 The Boyfriend
author: Freida McFadden
name: Nina
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/10/06
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]]> <![CDATA[Immortal Dark (Immortal Dark Trilogy, #1)]]> 204593711
It began long before my time, but something has always hunted our family.

Orphaned heiress Kidan Adane grew up far from the arcane society she was born into, where human bloodlines gain power through vampire companionship. When her sister, June, disappears, Kidan is convinced a vampire stole her—the very vampire bound to their family, the cruel yet captivating Susenyos Sagad.

To find June, Kidan must infiltrate the elite Uxlay University—where students study to ensure peaceful coexistence between humans and vampires and inherit their family legacies. Kidan must survive living with Susenyos—even as he does everything he can to drive her away. It doesn’t matter that Susenyos’s wickedness speaks to Kidan’s own violent nature and tempts her to surrender to a life of darkness. She must find her sister and kill Susenyos at all costs.

When a murder mirroring June’s disappearance shakes Uxlay, Kidan sinks further into the ruthless underworld of vampires, risking her very soul. There she discovers a centuries-old threat—and June could be at the center of it. To save her sister, Kidan must bring Uxlay to its knees and either break free from the horrors of her own actions or embrace the dark entanglements of love—and the blood it requires.]]> 432 Tigest Girma Nina 0 maybe 3.67 2024 Immortal Dark (Immortal Dark Trilogy, #1)
author: Tigest Girma
name: Nina
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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