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Will Rise From Ashes by Jean M. Grant

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Will Rise From Ashes by Jean M. Grant had so much potential, but it didn’t live up to that with me.  It wasn’t so bad that I didn’t want to finish the book, but it did make me roll my eyes more times than I can even count.  I know that this book is fiction, so anything can happen, but I wished it was more fact-based.   I had a hard time connecting with the characters, and I am sure that I found the plot so far-fetched.  I did enjoy both of the narrators of this book.  I love when they use male & female narrators because it keeps track of who is talking even easier.  I did enjoy the author’s writing; like I have said multiple times now, I just wish that the plot would have been more believable.  I also felt like the ending of the book was rushed as well.  I want to more time would have been spent on the conclusion of the book.  I did feel bad for AJ because of everything that she went through.  I spent most of the book rooting for her and Reid to end up together because I thought they were perfect for each other.  There was one adult scene in this book so if that is something that would bother you then this might not be the right book for you.  If you don’t mind books that couldn’t happen in the real world, you will probably enjoy this book more than I did.

About The Book

Author: Jean M. Grant

Narrators: Caroline Hewitt, Andrew Perkins

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Publisher: Jean M. Grant⎮2020

Genre: Women’s Fiction

Release date: Mar. 16, 2020

Living is more than mere survival…

Young widow AJ Sinclair has persevered through much heartache. Has she met her match when the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, leaving her separated from her youngest son and her brother? 

Tens of thousands are dead or missing in a swath of massive destruction. She and her nine-year-old autistic son Will embark on a risky road trip from Maine to the epicenter to find her family. She can’t lose another loved one.

Along the way, they meet Reid Gregory, who travels his own road to perdition looking for his sister. Drawn together by AJ’s fear of driving and Reid’s military and local expertise, their journey to Colorado is fraught with the chaotic aftermath of the eruption.

AJ’s anxiety and faith in humanity are put to the test as she heals her past, accepts her family’s present, and embraces uncertainty as Will and Reid show her a world she had almost forgotten.

About The Author

Jean has a penchant for the misunderstood be it sharks, microbes, or people (fictional and real). A scientist by training, she now spends her days as an author and champion for her children. She has five published novels in the genres of historical and contemporary romance, and women’s fiction. She also writes for family and travel magazines and websites. When not writing, she enjoys tending to her flower and vegetable gardens, tackling the biggest mountains in New England with her husband, and chilling with her children, while taking snapshots of the world around her and daydreaming about the next story.

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Caroline Hewitt is an actress, audiobook narrator, and adaptor.

Caroline has appeared on television in When You See Us, directed by Ava Duvernay, and The I-Land, on Netflix and New Amsterdam, The Blacklist, and FBI: Most Wanted on NBC. She has appeared on Broadway in Junk and The Front Page. Off Broadway and regional credits include: Lazarus (New York Theatre Workshop, The National Theatre London and DeLaMar Theatre Amsterdam), Tamburlaine the Great (Theater for a New Audience), Against The Hillside and Good Results Are Difficult When Indifference Predominates (Ensemble Studio Theater), and plays at Arena Stage, American Conservatory Theater, Alley Theater, Baltimore Centerstage, Studio Theatre, and Portland Stage, among others.

She has narrated audiobooks for publishers including Penguin Random House, Hachette, Dreamscape, Blackstone, and Audible.

Caroline’s adaptation of Howards End will be produced by the Dorset Theater Festival, and was included on the 2020 Kilroys List.

Caroline majored in French at Vassar College, and holds an Masters in Fine Arts in Acting from American Conservatory Theater.

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Andrew V. Perkins is a Los Angeles-based actor, and singer. He is a graduate of the Meisner Conservatory at Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio. 

Credits include (North) Hollywood, On The Side, None Like Us, the musical You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, Why Him, Denny’s, Realtor.com, the NBC Universal Actor’s Showcase, and other various short films. 

​When he is not on stage or in front of the camera, Andrew is a VIP Studio Tour Guide at Universal Studios; where he has to provide entertainment for guests as they visit the Studio. Andrew also studies improvisation at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade. 

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Sugar Love by Callie Bardot

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Sugar Love by Callie Bardot was a good book.  This is the third book in this series, and so far, this one is my least favorite book.  I enjoyed the narrator of this book.  I found that I had a hard time connecting with the characters in this book.  I am not sure why but I was almost glad when the book was over because I found it hard to stay interested.  I loved that I could turn up the speed so that I could get through this book quicker.  There are several adult scenes in this book that didn’t bother me, but they might bother some people, so I wanted to mention them in my review.  I did wish that there had been more of the characters from the first books in this story.   I have to wonder if that isn’t part of the reason I didn’t enjoy this book as much.  If you love romance books, you might like this one, but it isn’t one that I would listen to again.

About The Book

Author: Callie Bardot

Narrator: Jonathan Tratar

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Publisher: Callie Bardot⎮2020

Genre: Romance

Series: Adrenaline, Book 3

Release date: Aug. 11, 2020 

A USA Today best-selling book!

After Effie D’Archangel’s scholarship gets revoked, she’s screwed. Everything she’s ever worked for is gone. She can’t work more than she already does without falling behind in her classes. With no hope and no plan, she succumbs to a dare to attend a party for billionaires looking for young, sexy sugar babies. Despite being more geek than chic, Effie’s desperate to try anything.

Zander’s money and world-class skill and daring in outdoor adventures can’t shield him from heartbreak. Still bitter from an accident that left him deeply scarred, he accepts a dare to find a sugar baby. When he encounters Effie, she’s everything he’s not used to – and that intrigues him even more.

Agreeing to fund her tuition is a risk he knows he can handle. But as they grow closer and the truth surfaces, will the sugar baby be worth the risk, after all?

While each book is a stand-alone, the series it more enjoyable if you listen to them in order.

About The Author

Give me a gritty story, pushing through obstacles, followed by a chance at true love and I’m a happy woman. I fought for love, long and hard, and found it. Along the way, I had a lot of fun, figuring if something exists to be explored, I may as well explore it. How else can you figure out what you like?

My books have won awards like Romance Reviews Reader’s Choice New Adult Erotic (Blurred Lines) and have landed on the NY Times and USA Today Bestseller’s list, as well as #1 Amazon bestseller categories. If I’m not writing, you can find me under the water, scuba diving, or on land, hiking, saving lives as an EMT, or exploring my breathtaking surroundings in the Pacific Northwest, alongside my sexy, firefighting guy. 

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Making funny voices has always been something I have done, to an almost compulsive level. I would emulate cartoon characters, parents, teachers, politicians, ect. Then focus shifted to martial arts, rock climbing, just other passions and whatnot. In all honesty I feel as though I was lost for a few years. No direction. I then got into the modeling and acting industry. Almost three years as a model/actor, of middling success, before I decided to have a go at being an agent. This move went very very well. Two years later, unfulfilled, I quit my job, bought a mic, and haven’t looked back since.

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A Twist Of Love by Callie Bardot

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A Twist Of Love by Callie Bardot was a great book.  This is the second book in the series, and you don’t have to read them in order if you don’t want to, but the entire series interests you. I would recommend listening to them in order.  I enjoyed the first book, but once I finished this book, this one became my favorite.  I loved Gia in the first book, and I fell in love with her in this book.  She seemed so relatable to me, and I felt so bad for all of the things she went through as a child.  I think that I liked the narrator of this story more than the first book, but that is just a personal preference.  This book has one adult scene in this. It didn’t bother me, but I know some people wouldn’t like being surprised with a scene like that in a book.  I enjoy these characters more than the characters from the first book, but I also loved that you get an update about the first characters in this book.  I love when I book series creates a whole world of characters because it makes the books come to life for me.  I can’t wait to see what happens in the next book.

About The Book

Author: Callie Bardot

Narrator: Leanne Woodward

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Publisher: Sumner McKenzie, Inc⎮2020

Genre: Romance

Series: Adrenaline, Book 2

Release date: October 14, 2020

Synopsis: Forced into rehab by lead singer Dante Vegas, the Marked Love drummer Gia “Styx” Swain wants nothing to do with sobriety—or the gorgeous, kind man she’s been assigned to be with twenty-four hours a day. Her hand forced, unable to deal with her situation, she escapes his care, heedless of the consequences.

Retired Marine Marco Monroe loves helping people get free of their addictions. He’s good at it. Plus, it helps keep his mind off the tragic accident that stole his fiancée away. Being a sober companion to the drummer of one of his favorite rock bands proves challenging…as well as difficult to stay mindful of his boundaries.

With everything on the line, can they possibly yield to the potent attraction between them? Or, would giving into one another destroy everything they’ve sought to create? Find out in a Twist of Love: A Rock Star Romance

While each book is a standalone, the series it more enjoyable if you read them in order.

About The Author

Give me a gritty story, pushing through obstacles, followed by a chance at true love and I’m a happy woman. I fought for love, long and hard, and found it. Along the way, I had a lot of fun, figuring if something exists to be explored, I may as well explore it. How else can you figure out what you like?

My books have won awards like Romance Reviews Reader’s Choice New Adult Erotic (Blurred Lines) and have landed on the NY Times and USA Today Bestseller’s list, as well as #1 Amazon bestseller categories. If I’m not writing, you can find me under the water, scuba diving, or on land, hiking, saving lives as an EMT, or exploring my breathtaking surroundings in the Pacific Northwest, alongside my sexy, firefighting guy. 

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Hide In Place by Emilya Naymark

 

FTC: I received a free copy of this book from Partners In Crime Virtual Book Tours in exchange for my honest review. I received no other compensation and the opinions expressed in this review are one hundred percent true and my own.

Hide In Place by Emilya Naymark was an exciting book.  This moved at the perfect pace for me.  I love it when the author can include the right amount of details, so you don’t get bogged down in too many unnecessary details.  I spent most of the book want more details on what happened to Laney before the book started.  You get those details, but they don’t come all at once, so you have to keep reading to get all of the details.  I was able to figure out what was going on pretty quickly, but that isn’t anything out of the ordinary for me.  This is the first book I have read by this author, and I enjoyed her writing enough that I am going to read more books by her in the future.  Laneys, son Alfie, got on my nerves, but most teenagers in books usually do.  I get annoyed with them because they always make the worst choices, which makes the characters so relatable.  This book didn’t have hardly any suspense, which was kind of a letdown for me.  This book would be perfect for someone who doesn’t like books that have a ton of suspense in them. 

About The Book

Genre: Thriller
Published by: Crooked Lane Books
Publication Date: February 9, 2020
Number of Pages: 278
ISBN: 1643856375 (ISBN13: 9781643856377)

She left the NYPD in the firestorm of a high-profile case gone horribly wrong. Three years later, the ghosts of her past roar back to terrifying life.

When NYPD undercover cop Laney Bird’s cover is blown in a racketeering case against the Russian mob, she flees the city with her troubled son, Alfie. Now, three years later, she’s found the perfect haven in Sylvan, a charming town in upstate New York. But then the unthinkable happens: her boy vanishes.

Local law enforcement dismisses the thirteen-year-old as a runaway, but Laney knows better. Alfie would never abandon his special routines and the sanctuary of their home. Could he have been kidnapped–or worse? As a February snowstorm rips through the region, Laney is forced to launch her own investigation, using every trick she learned in her years undercover.

As she digs deeper into the disappearance, Laney learns that Alfie and a friend had been meeting with an older man who himself vanished, but not before leaving a corpse in his garage. With dawning horror, Laney discovers that the man was a confidential informant from a high-profile case she had handled in the past. Although he had never known her real identity, he knows it now. Which means several other enemies do, too. Time is running out, and as Laney’s search for her son grows more desperate, everything depends on how good a detective she really is–badge or no.

About The Author

Emilya Naymark’s short stories appear in Secrets in the Water, After Midnight: Tales from the Graveyard Shift, River River Journal, Snowbound: Best New England Crime Stories 2017, 1+30: THE BEST OF MYSTORY, and in the upcoming Harper Collins anthology A Stranger Comes to Town.

She has a degree in fine art, and her artworks have been published in numerous magazines and books, earning her a reputation as a creator of dark, psychological pieces.

When not writing, Emilya works as a visual artist and reads massive quantities of thrillers and crime fiction. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her family.

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Crazy Love by Callie Bardot

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Crazy Love by Callie Bardot was a good book.  This book is the first book in the series, and I can’t wait to listen to the other books.  I enjoyed the narrator of this book, and I was able to keep track of who was talking throughout the entire book.  I think this book was predictable, but this is how I feel about most of the books in the romance genre. Even with that being said, I still really enjoyed this book.  I was sad when the book came to an end because I had fallen in love with the characters.  I am hoping that we will get a glimpse of these characters in the books that come next.  This book has adult situations in it that I wouldn’t let teenagers read this book.  I wasn’t offended at all, but some people may get triggered by the talk of using drugs.  I did feel bad for Dante because of everything he had gone through as he was growing up.  I also enjoyed that this book has a small mystery thrown in, which is part of the reason I didn’t want to put this one down until I finished listening.  If you are looking for a romance novel with a mystery aspect to it, I would pick up a copy of this audiobook and listen. 

About The Book

Author: Callie Bardot

Narrator: Jonathan Tratar

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Publisher: Callie Bardot⎮2020

Genre: Romance

Series: Adrenaline, Book 1

Release date: Aug. 20, 2020

Synopsis: Skilled “tiger whisperer” Kennedy Swift is on a mission to get her life on track and escape the people who want to do her harm. Running into Dante Vega isn’t on the plan. When her gaze lands on Dante, the same obsession and longing she experienced in her senior year comes roaring back to life. She simply can’t afford to let him in. End of story.

An unexpected, surprise encounter at a tiger sanctuary in the Bronx leaves mega-superstar musician Dante Vega reeling. Is the tiger charging the woman going to maul her? Is she about to lose her life? And, could this very courageous woman be the same girl he crushed on hard at his exclusive private Manhattan high school before she vanished?

Each of their lives has been marred by tragedy. Each carries secrets, too dark to reveal. Will their secrets tear them apart? Or, will they find the courage to come clean, risking all to find love? Find out in Crazy Love: A Rock Star Romance by USA Today best-selling author Callie Bardot.

While each book is a stand-alone, the series it more enjoyable if you listen to them in order.

About The Author

Give me a gritty story, pushing through obstacles, followed by a chance at true love and I’m a happy woman. I fought for love, long and hard, and found it. Along the way, I had a lot of fun, figuring if something exists to be explored, I may as well explore it. How else can you figure out what you like?

My books have won awards like Romance Reviews Reader’s Choice New Adult Erotic (Blurred Lines) and have landed on the NY Times and USA Today Bestseller’s list, as well as #1 Amazon bestseller categories. If I’m not writing, you can find me under the water, scuba diving, or on land, hiking, saving lives as an EMT, or exploring my breathtaking surroundings in the Pacific Northwest, alongside my sexy, firefighting guy. 

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Making funny voices has always been something I have done, to an almost compulsive level. I would emulate cartoon characters, parents, teachers, politicians, ect. Then focus shifted to martial arts, rock climbing, just other passions and whatnot. In all honesty I feel as though I was lost for a few years. No direction. I then got into the modeling and acting industry. Almost three years as a model/actor, of middling success, before I decided to have a go at being an agent. This move went very very well. Two years later, unfulfilled, I quit my job, bought a mic, and haven’t looked back since.

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Mission: Accept by Stacy Eaton

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Mission: Accept by Stacy Eaton was an exciting book.  This is the second book in the series, and I enjoyed this one as much as I did the first one.  If you want to check out my review of this book, you can click here and check it out.  Once again, I love this narrator, and I can’t wait to listen to more books he reads in the future.  I also am a big fan of the author and her books.  I loved that we got to check up on the characters that we met in the first book because they are like old friends.  I think these are my favorite characters yet.  I did find that this book was predictable because all books in this genre usually are.  Out of the two books in this series, this one is by far my favorite.  I fell in love with the characters right from the start of this book, and I was sad when the book came to an end because I didn’t want to say goodbye to them.  I felt more attached to these characters than I did in the other book, even though I liked those characters.  If you are looking for a different romance novel to listen to, I would recommend this book to you.

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Author: Stacy Eaton

Narrator: Ryan Clark

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Publisher: Nitewolf Novels⎮2020

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Series: Rise Again Warrior, Book 2

Release date: Oct. 28, 2020 

Synopsis: Dana Donahue might be Shane Logan’s cousin, but she’s nothing like him – she’s quite the opposite of him. Her thoughts focus on what money and people can do for her. She never approved of Shane joining the military and knows little about the world he has lived in for most of his life. All that will change when she has to ask him for a job after her father cuts her off. 

Derek Stall lives on the streets by choice – not circumstance. Memories of what he did under order sometimes haunt him, other times give him the strength to move through one more day until he can finish the mission he started.

A chance meeting between Dana and Derek will lead to an unlikely friendship that might just save his life, but the drastic differences between them could be the dividing wedge that keeps them apart. 

When Derek feels he has to leave Rise Again Warrior to complete his mission, he begins to realize that he could be leaving behind more than just a few friends. Could he be leaving behind the possibility of a healthy future before he finally accepts his past?

About The Author

Stacy Eaton is a USA Today Best Selling author and began her writing career in October of 2010. Stacy took an early retirement from law enforcement after over fifteen years of service in 2016, with her last three years in investigations and crime scene investigation to write full time.

Stacy resides in southeastern Pennsylvania with her husband, who works in law enforcement, and her teen daughter. She also has a son who is currently serving in the United States Navy, and two grandchildren.

Stacy is involved in Domestic Violence Awareness and served on the Board of Directors for her local Domestic Violence Center for three years.

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Ryan Clark is a relatively new audiobook narrator having started his first project in 2017. Ryan is currently an Active Duty Non-Commissioned Officer in the United States Air Force He works as instructor of Foreign Language at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey California. 

Ryan resides in Monterey CA with his wife, 9-month-old son, and 2 dogs.  

Ryan is actively involved in the military programs for Veteran Suicide Prevention and Sexual Assault Response.

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