Book Blitz ~ Take the Honey and Run by Jennie Marts ~ Excerpt | Giveaway
Book Tour ~ The Maddie Swallows Mysteries by Kat Bellemore ~ Guest Post | Giveaway
First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala
My name is Lila Macapagal and my life has become a rom-com cliché.
Not many romantic comedies feature an Asian-American lead (or dead bodies, but more on that later, but all the hallmarks are there.
Girl from an improbably named small town in the Midwest moves to the big city to make a name for herself and find love. Check.
Girl achieves these things only for the world to come crashing down when she walks in on her fiancé getting down and dirty with their next-door neighbours (yes, plural)? Double check.
Girls then moves back home in disgrace and finds works reinvigorating her aunt’s failing business. Well now we’re up to a hat trick of clichés.
And to put the cherry on top, in the trope of all tropes, I even reconnected with my high school sweetheart after moving back to town and discovered the true meaning of Christmas.
OK, that last part is a joke, but I really did run into my high school sweetheart. Derek Winter, my first love.
Monday’s First Sentence ~ The Bookshop and the Barbarian by Morgan Stang
Maribella Waters arrived at her newly purchased bookshop to find it infested with incredibly rude goblins.
Monday’s First Sentence ~ A Pirate’s Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne
There were days when Reyna missed the heart-pounding thrill of guarding a queen.
