BLOG TOUR: Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel @stephwrobel @BerkleyPub #DarlingRoseGold #blogtour #bookreview #bookreviewer #bookblogger #bookblog #booksonthebookshelf

PUBLISHER: Berkley

PUBLICATION DATE: March 17th, 2020

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Happy Publication Day to this amazing book!!

Thank you to Berkley for inviting me to be a part of this exciting blog tour for Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel and for sending me a copy of this book to read andn share my review. This book is available now, so be sure to grab your copy today! You’ll enjoy this one!

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ABOUT THE BOOK:

For the first eighteen years of her life, Rose Gold Watts believed she was seriously ill. She was allergic to everything, used a wheelchair and practically lived at the hospital. Neighbors did all they could, holding fundraisers and offering shoulders to cry on, but no matter how many doctors, tests, or surgeries, no one could figure out what was wrong with Rose Gold.

Turns out her mom, Patty Watts, was just a really good liar.

After serving five years in prison, Patty gets out with nowhere to go and begs her daughter to take her in. The entire community is shocked when Rose Gold says yes.

Patty insists all she wants is to reconcile their differences. She says she’s forgiven Rose Gold for turning her in and testifying against her. But Rose Gold knows her mother. Patty Watts always settles a score.

Unfortunately for Patty, Rose Gold is no longer her weak little darling…

And she’s waited such a long time for her mother to come home.

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MY REVIEW:

A dark and twisted novel that takes you into the lives of a twisted and sinister mother-daughter duo. Both Rose Gold and her mother Patty each have their own issues – they are dark, twisted, edgy, sinister, great liars, and so very devious. So… Who to believe? Do we believe Patty, that she did everything and anything possible that was needed to help her daughter be the healthiest and the best that she could be? Were all the lies about Patty just that – utter lies to destroy her? Did she have her daughters best interests at heart? Or do we believe Rose Gold? The poor innocent daughter of Patty who was a victim of so much heartache and mistreatment from her mother Patty over all of those years, from infancy to her teenage years?

This book had me HOOKED as I devoured the pages and I loved how the chapters went back and forth between Patty and Rose Gold’s point of view, and also varying timelines from past and present. It built up the suspense and gave in depth info of each character, and I loved the fast paced nature of this book. Their relationship was definitely full of drama, lies aaand betrayals, and I LOVED IT!! So, who would you believe? Is one truly innocent and one to blame? Are they each to blame in their own twisted ways? Are they both out for revenge? You’ll have to read this highly anticipated novel to find out and believe me, you will love it!!

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MY RATING: 5/5 stars

Blog Tour & Book Review: My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing @BerkleyPub @smariedowning #MyLovelyWife #MyLovelyWifeBlogTour #BlogTour #bookreview #bookreviewer #bookblogger #bookblog #booksonthebookshelf

PUBLISHER: Berkley Publishing

PUBLICATION DATE: March 3rd, 2020 in paperback – original publication date March 26th, 2019

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Hi there and welcome to my stop on the Blog Tour for the exciting paperback release of My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing. Thank you to Berkley Publishing for gifting me a beautiful hardcover copy of this book when I was a part of the hardcover publication date blog tour last March, and for inviting me to be a part of this exciting blog tour to celebrate the paperback release of this amazing novel with an exciting new and dark cover! Such a beautiful new cover for such an amazing, incredible book!

This amazing book is now available in both hardcover and paperback copies, so be sure to go and grab your very own copy (or both!) today! Trust me, you won’t regret it and will LOVE this book!

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ABOUT THE BOOK: 

Dexter meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this wildly compulsive debut thriller about a couple whose fifteen-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting…

Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest dreams, and our darkest secrets. And then we got bored.

We look like a normal couple. We’re your neighbors, the parents of your kid’s friend, the acquaintances you keep meaning to get dinner with.

We all have secrets to keeping a marriage alive.

Ours just happens to be getting away with murder. 

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MY REVIEW:

Addictive, thrilling, exciting, and edgy! Wow, this book was amazing! I loved it. My Lovely Wife is a thrilling and addictive thriller that will have you not wanting to stop reading! Page after page, this book will have you hooked from the first chapter!

Imagine being married and being a seemingly “normal” couple. Married with children, well known in their neighbourhood with many friends and acquaintances. They have dinner parties, attend popular work and neighbourhood functions, and are well liked. But they share a sinister secret. They enjoy hunting down the perfect person to murder, and what’s even more…they are addicted to the thrill of not being caught and getting away with it. The selection process is a lengthy and a selective one. The perfect person they will murder next has to pass a series of checks and and tests. They will not just kill anyone, but they will watch the person for some time to see if they are the perfect person for the next kill.

I enjoyed this book so much! I was immersed in the dark edginess of this book, and I loved the Dexter meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith vibe in this book. It was so difficult for me to put this book down, I just wanted to sit and read this in one sitting! I enjoyed reading the interesting and sinister dynamics of their marriage and the lengths they both went to in order to keep their marriage alive.

I loved reading the husband’s selection process in choosing their next victim. It was comical yet dark and edgy, and I loved it! A true masterpiece of a novel that I really did enjoy straight through to the end. And that ending.. WOW!! I definitely didn’t see that coming, and what an ending it was!

You definitely need to check this book out!! Samantha Downing killed it (see what I did there… haha) with her debut novel. Way to go Samantha! I am so very excited to read your next book He Started It which is released in April!

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MY RATING: 5/5 stars

BLOG TOUR: Who Slays The Wicked by C.S. Harris @BerkleyPub @csharris2 #WhoSlaysTheWicked #WhoSlaysTheWickedBlogTour #blogtour #bookblog #bookblogger #bookreview #bookreviewer #booksonthebookshelf

PUBLISHER: Berkley

PUBLICATION DATE: March 3rd, 2020 (paperback)-(hardcover published April 2nd, 2019)

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Thank you to Berkley for inviting me to be part of this blog tour! HAPPY PAPERBACK PUBLICATION DAY!!

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ABOUT THE BOOK:

When the handsome but dissolute young gentleman Lord Ashworth is found brutally murdered, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is called in by Bow Street magistrate Sir Henry Lovejoy to help catch the killer. Just seven months before, Sebastian had suspected Ashworth of aiding one of his long-time friends and companions in the kidnapping and murder of a string of vulnerable street children. But Sebastian was never able to prove Ashworth’s complicity. Nor was he able to prevent his troubled, headstrong young niece Stephanie from entering into a disastrous marriage with the dangerous nobleman.

Stephanie has survived the difficult birth of twin sons. But Sebastian soon discovers that her marriage has quickly degenerated into a sham. Ashworth abandoned his pregnant bride at his father’s Park Street mansion and has continued living an essentially bachelor existence. And mounting evidence–ranging from a small bloody handprint to a woman’s silk stocking–suggests that Ashworth’s killer was a woman. Sebastian is tasked with unraveling the shocking nest of secrets surrounding Ashworth’s life to keep Stephanie from being punished for his death.

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MY REVIEW:

Although this book is part of a series, none of which I had previously read prior to this novel, I quite enjoyed reading this book. I now want to go back and read all the other books in this series, to understand more about each character, and how they relate to one another and to get a better understand of what makes them tick, and what makes them who they are.

Sebastian St. Cyr, after finding out that his niece Stephanie’s husband Lord Ashworth was murdered, is tasked with helping to catch the killer. All of the evidence points towards a female suspect, and even Stephanie herself is a suspect. It is up to Sebastian to find the killer and prove Stephanie’s innocence before it is too late and she is punished for his death. So who is responsible??

I loved reading along as the story unfolded and the mystery of who is responsible for killing Lord Ashworth. There were many interesting characters that were fun to read about, and since they were all new-to-me characters I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was entertaining reading about Sebastian St. Cyr and his determination to find the murder suspect. I love a good murder mystery and trying to guess who the murderer is, and then finding out I was wrong only to guess again. And this one keeps you guessing. I love that in a book and if you do too then this book is perfect for you!

This book is on sale today! SO be sure to go and check it out!

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MY RATING: 4/5 stars

Blog Tour: Wicked As You Wish by Rin Chupeco @RaincoastBooks @SourcebooksFire @RinChupeco #WickedAsYouWish #WickedAsYouWishBlogTour #booksonthebookshelf #blogtour #firereads #getbooklit #bookreview #bookreviewer #bookblog #bookblogger

PUBLISHER: Sourcebooks Fire

PUBLICATION DATE: March 3rd, 2020

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Thank you to the publisher for gifting me a beautiful ARC copy of this book to read and share my review, and for inviting me along on the blog tour!

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ABOUT THE BOOK:

Tala Warnock has little use for magic – as a descendant of Maria Makiling, the legendary Filipina heroine, she negates spells, often by accident. But her family’s old ties to the country of Avalon (frozen, bespelled, and unreachable for almost 12 years) soon finds them guarding its last prince from those who would use his kingdom’s magic for insidious ends.

And with the rise of dangerous spelltech in the Royal States of America; the appearance of the firebird, Avalon’s deadliest weapon, at her doorstep; and the re-emergence of the Snow Queen, powerful but long thought dead, who wants nothing more than to take the firebird’s magic for her own – Tala’s life is about to get even more complicated….

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MY REVIEW:

First of all I want to bring attention to the beautiful cover of this novel. It is stunning! I also loved the author’s writing style and the cute titles at the beginning of each chapter. This novel is full of a wide variety of characters, and it was interesting to read about them all. I loved the world building in this novel as Chupeco takes you on a magical journey. Tala especially was an interesting character that was fun to read about and I loved reading her story and that of her family.

This novel brings you into a whole new fantasy world that was fun and interesting to read about. It was full of mythology, culture and history, and I enjoyed reading about the Filipino culture in the novel. I also enjoyed the fairy-tale vibe to the book and all the magic it entailed.

Thank you for reading my review and be sure to be on the lookout for this book. I hope you enjoy reading this book as well!

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MT RATING: 4/5 stars