♦️🔹 NEW RELEASE GIVEAWAY 🔹♦️
I’ve received so many nice messages about last week’s video and giveaway, I decided to do it again.
(The video has music so turn down the volume if you are in a quiet place.)
➜ TO ENTER for a chance to win your choice of a NEW RELEASE ebook listed below:
➜ LIKE this post AND my DIRTY BLONDE BOOKS page (if you don’t already)
**must be a “liker” to win – https://www.facebook.com/dirtyblondebooksblog/
➜ COMMENT BELOW WITH THE BOOK TITLE of which new release you would like.
✦ BONUS ENTRIES (not required to enter) for:
❥ tagging a friend
❥ sharing this post
✦ ✦ The winner will be chosen at random on 11/13.
If you win but have already bought your choice, you may pick a different book.
Good Luck!! 
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NEW RELEASES 11/7 – 14
KU = Kindle Unlimited
AU = Available in Audiobook
✦ THE OUTPOST by Devney Perry:
http://amzn.to/2iMnQ5o
✦ COMPLICATED by Kristen Ashley:
http://amzn.to/2igEAxB
✦ HOOKING UP by Helena Hunting:
http://amzn.to/2z2wZgq
✦ PRINCE ROMAN (1,001 DARK NIGHTS) by CD Reiss:
http://amzn.to/2iJwoKd
✦ AN EX FOR CHRISTMAS by Lauren Layne:
http://amzn.to/2yfuat9
✦ JACOB’S LADDER: GABE by Katie Ashley:
http://amzn.to/2ybtUau
✦ MISADVENTURES ON THE NIGHT SHIFT by Lauren Rowe(AU):
http://amzn.to/2yD2SwM
✦ HOLIDAY WISHES by Jill Shalvis (AU):
http://amzn.to/2znkcVY
PRE-ORDER LINKS:
✦ THE OUTLIERS by TM Frazier (KU):
http://amzn.to/2zmr5EU
✦ CRANK by Adriana Locke:
Link available on 11/10
✦ LOVE ON THE EDGE OF TIME by Julie Richman:
iBooks: http://apple.co/2ynBAdU
✦ DEFIANT QUEEN by Meghan March (AU):
http://amzn.to/2zoUXCM
✦ WISH YOU WERE MINE by Tara Sivec:
http://amzn.to/2zCc7gY
✦ BODYGUARD by CD Reiss (KU) (AU)
http://amzn.to/2iBk0si
✦ WICKED TORTURE by J. Kenner
http://amzn.to/2hgmEa6
✦ CHERISH HARD by Nalini Singh:
http://amzn.to/2AnkqKC
✦ ROCK SOLID by Carly Phillips & Erika Wilde:
http://amzn.to/2znaVND
✦ AT YOUR SERVICE by Lexi Blake:
http://amzn.to/2znb83n
★ GIVEAWAY CLOSED ★
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Congratulations Marika Nespoli!!
Please send me a private message with your email address.
Thanks everyone for entering, tagging and sharing.
Check back soon for more giveaways.
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NEW RELEASE GIVEAWAY ♦️
Thank you guys so much for participating in Kristy Bromberg’s takeover of my page last night.
I’m so excited that I’d like to GIVE A NEW RELEASE TO SOMEONE (even if you didn’t participate).
** Also, I have a signed book giveaway I’m posting on Thursday, so be sure to check in to see which author.
➜ TO ENTER:
➜ LIKE my DIRTY BLONDE BOOKS page (if you don’t already)
**must be a “liker” to win – https://www.facebook.com/dirtyblondebooksblog/
➜ COMMENT BELOW WITH THE BOOK TITLE of which new release you would like.
✦ BONUS ENTRIES (not required to enter) for:
❥ each tagged reader friend
❥ for sharing this post
✦ ✦ The winner will be chosen at random on 11/6.
If you end up buying the new release you wanted, you can, of course, pick a different book.
Good Luck!!
NEW RELEASES
10/31 – 11/7
✦ THE FORTUNATE ONES by RS Grey (KU):
http://amzn.to/2gO9UDC
✦ MISS FIX-IT by Emma Hart:
http://amzn.to/2zTxlD0
✦ RIPPLES by Aleatha Romig:
http://amzn.to/2zSy9rN
✦ AMERICAN KING by Sierra Simone:
http://s.ripl.com/3nj0od
✦ THE OTHER BROTHER by Meghan Quinn (KU):
http://amzn.to/2iKPuQm
✦ THIRTY DAY BOYFRIEND by Whitney G:
http://amzn.to/2gO67q4
✦ BUTTERFLY by Cambria Hebert (KU):
http://amzn.to/2gPx8JR
✦ THE OUTPOST by Devney Perry:
http://amzn.to/2iMnQ5o
✦ COMPLICATED by Kristen Ashley:
http://amzn.to/2igEAxB
✦ HOOKING UP by Helena Hunting:
http://amzn.to/2z2wZgq
✦ PRINCE ROMAN (1,001 DARK NIGHTS) by CD Reiss:
http://amzn.to/2iJwoKd
✦ AN EX FOR CHRISTMAS by Lauren Layne:
http://amzn.to/2yfuat9
✦ MICHAEL’S WINGS by Tiffany Reisz:
http://amzn.to/2z1Y3fK
(The video has music so turn down the volume if you are in a quiet place.)
✦ FAVORITE AUTHORS ✦
I was hoping not to get tagged because there’s no way I can narrow down my favorite authors to just 10, so I didn’t. I’m a rebel that way.
Sorry Lily. This is actually after I had to omit several.
Also, I felt bad about the order, so I listed them alphabetically.
But, after spending the 1st 26 years of my life with a last name that started with a “Z” and always being last, I felt bad for Mariana.
Then I remembered that not only have I bought every one of her ebooks, but also each of them in an audiobook, so I figured she won’t mind. 
😉
* Kristen Ashley
* Jana Aston
* Leylah Attar
* K. Bromberg
* Kristen Callihan
* Emma Chase
* Brittainy C. Cherry
* Alice Clayton
* Claire Contreras
* LH Cosway
* J. Daniels
* Katy Evans
* Tarryn Fisher
* T.M. Frazier
* RS Grey
* Karina Halle
* Melanie Harlow
* Amy Harmon
* Staci Hart
* Kim Holden
* Colleen Hoover
* Helena Hunting
* Julie Johnson
* Vi Keeland
* Elle Kennedy
* Christina Lauren
* K.A. Linde
* Jodi Ellen Malpas
* Meghan March
* Aly Martinez
* Leisa Rayven
* Penny Reid
* Tiffany Reisz
* Julie Richman
* M. Robinson
* Rainbow Rowell
* Sierra Simone
* Ginger Scott
* L.J. Shen
* Nikki Sloane
* Sally Thorne
* B N Toler: Author
* Alessandra Torre
* Penelope Ward: Author
* Nicole Williams
* Mariana Zapata
I’m slightly intimidated when posting on Instagram.
As a book blogger, it’s sort of expected to include an eye catching photo with maybe an artfully arranged book, beside a mug of coffee with either a colorful flower or a comfy looking blanket scrunched up “just so”.
It’s like creating a ⭐️Promposal⭐️ for every post.🤔
I do think I’ll start trying the “Rule of Thirds” tip – (which, by the way is sadly not the title of a MFM book 😳)
(I also laugh whenever I read the IG tip term, “Flat Lay”.
As a romance reader, that is soooo not wanted.)
♦️♦️NEW RELEASES & PRE-ORDERS♦️♦️
➜ NEW RELEASES – LIVE NOW
✦ HARD WOOD by Lauren Blakely (audiobook live now, ebook/pb 10/23)
✦ DRIVE by Kate Stewart: http://amzn.to/2zdmun9 (KU)
✦ 218 FIRST HUGS by E.L. Todd: http://amzn.to/2yspcb3
✦ CRAVE Part 2 by E.K. Blaire: http://amzn.to/2ztxeiq (KU)
✦ SHIVER by Ella Frank & Brooke Blaine: http://amzn.to/2zuWCnQ (KU)
✦ SOL by Leslie McAdam: http://amzn.to/2ys71lC ($0.99)
✦ POET by Author A M Johnson: http://amzn.to/2ysamRH (KU/$0.99)
✦ HOLD TIGHT by Alexa Riley: http://amzn.to/2zth4Ft
✦ MOST OF ALL YOU by Mia Sheridan: http://amzn.to/2ze1pJr
✦ BURN FOR YOU by J.T. Gessinger: http://amzn.to/2zcaS3O (KU)
✦ RUTHLESS KING by Meghan March: http://amzn.to/2gK54Ys
✦ DIGNITY by Jay Crownover: http://amzn.to/2xIS7nH
✦ IN TOO DEEP by Jordan Marie: http://amzn.to/2zf6gdf
✦ MISADVENTURES OF A BACKUP BRIDE by Shayla Black : http://amzn.to/2zuvi9g
✦ THE COMPANY by JA Author J. A. Huss: http://amzn.to/2yN5Z51
✦ SCORED by Sloane Howell: http://amzn.to/2ysnq9X
✦ CURTAIN CALL by Denise Grover Swank – Author: http://amzn.to/2ysnq9X
✦ SLEEPER by Lexi Blake: http://amzn.to/2zsFmQ5
✦ MAVERICK by Karina Halle: http://amzn.to/2zff1Ux
✦ BOUNTIFUL by Sarina Bowen: http://amzn.to/2yrSer3
✦ SWEET LITTLE LIES by Abbi Glines: http://apple.co/2yrVEdn (iBooks)
✦ UNINTENDED by Georgia Cates: http://amzn.to/2ysRtOF (KU)
➜ RELEASING WITHIN A WEEK
✦ THE FINAL FIGHT by J.B. Salisbury: http://amzn.to/2yqJDmW 10/23
✦ MOVE THE STARS by Jessica Hawkins: http://amzn.to/2zefyGs 10/23
♦️🏁🏎 RACER WILL BE LIVE AT MIDNIGHT!!! 🏎🏁♦️
Who’s ready for a sexy alpha male to visit you later tonight?
🙋🏼♀️😍🙋🏼😍🙋🏼😍🙋🏼
Sigh.
Wait until you read how sexy Racer is as a seducer.
It wasn’t even me he was using his tongue on and I felt myself getting stupid. 🤓
I’ve included my spoiler-free review.
Pre-order Racer & Lana’s story by Katy Evans now:
(charged when received)
📘 Amazon Ebook: http://amzn.to/2fbOD6v
📗 Paperback: http://amzn.to/2wjhpYK
🎧 Audibook: http://amzn.to/2gW7Z3t
📒 iBooks: http://apple.co/2fxcGQP
#racer #katyevans #preorder #newrelease
Goodreads link and included below:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2115119576
If you fell in love with Remy Tate when reading REAL, MINE and REMY back in 2013, get ready to fall in love with his son, RACER. (Uh, he’s a grown man now, of course)
Katy writes the BEST men. 😍
Remy, Maverick, Saint and Matt are just a few of the men I’ve wished were REAL. See what I did there? 😉
To read them is to love them and I’ve loved them all.
Racer lives up to his unique name.
Despite Remy’s wishes for him to follow in his foot steps and become a fighter, Racer craves the adrenaline and control of racing cars.
I loved the relationship of the entire loving and supportive Tate family.
I was so happy to re-visit Brooke and Remy ,still completely in love with one another even after all these years.
I also hope that Racer’s 18 year old sister Iris gets her own book in the future.
The female character, Lana comes from a racing family.
She, her Dad and 3 brothers all work for a racing team that hasn’t had a winning season for quite awhile.
Lana decides to search for a new talented driver to bring to their team and that’s how they meet.
Racer is street racing illegally, but Lana sees right away (and Googles) that he’s amazingly talented and not so bad to look at.
I don’t like reviews that spoil the book, so I’ll just say the mutual attraction is hard to ignore but is somewhat forbidden since she is technically his boss and her family is watching.
Racer definitely inherited his Dad’s feral foreplay moves.
He’s a singularly possessive and intense alpha who knows what to do to a woman that makes it hard for her to say no.
That tongue and his dirty talk – um, yes please!! 😍
Their steamy sexy times are “face-fanning” hot and will surely make your heart “race”.
I’m typically not a fan of insta-love, but if you read “Real”, it’s like father, like son.
They know when they know and there’s no stopping them from winning the woman they want – -except maybe themselves.
After reading the book, you’ll realize why the cover model has a hood on half his face.
I’ll leave it at that.
If you don’t figure it out, message me. Lol.
Remy:
“Patience, I hear my father say.
Rome wasn’t built in a day … and nobody said it was easy to fall in love with a Tate.”
* I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
I was lucky enough to receive an ARC for The Outskirts and I devoured it in 1 sitting.
T.M. Frazier, the author that gave us King, Bear, Preppy and Jake has once again created a broken soul that you can’t help but love.
Finn, bless his heart, for the last 2 years has become a hermit in a swamp shack, refusing to move on and drinking away his guilt and shame. Once a small town baseball playing, golden boy, he feels responsible for the death of his high school girlfriend and has removed himself from his friends and the entire town.
Enter innocent, but brave 21 year old Sawyer to turn his world upside down. Fresh from her mother’s funeral and her strict father’s beatings, she’s looking for freedom. Freedom away from her father’s religious views and subservient treatment of women as second class citizens. After discovering that her late mother left her an old truck, a tiny camper and a deed to a plot of swamp land neighboring Finn Hollis’s shack, she swiped the church’s money she was told to deposit and headed for Outskirts, FL.
The swamp, described so vividly, becomes another one of T.M.’s worlds that even in the grittiness, you find beauty.
This book brought me out of my reading slump.
It sucked me in from page 1 and expertly flowed, peeling back the layers of the story. Told in dual POV, Sawyer and Finn’s tale grips your heart with the healing power of love and before you know it, you’ve forgotten to make dinner and the sun is setting.
The secondary characters were so lovable, I can’t help but hope they receive their own happy ending.
Miller, Finn’s friend, reminds me a little of Preppy with his hilarious inappropriate banter. I’m hoping in the 2nd book, he’ll reveal his similar fondness of pancakes.
Josh, whose real name is Brittany, the town’s Deputy is a strong, feisty, sassy female who befriends Sawyer and helps guide her out of her previous sheltered world.
Critter, the sweet protective local restaurant owner that hires Sawyer, despite her previous work experience and is hiding his own secrets.
One of my favorite things about the book is the “Tings”. You’ll have to discover what they are on your own, but know that they are such an awesome idea.
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Here’s some of my favorite quotes –
“Sawyer laughed with me and the sound was like the best part of a song, the kind you always wanted to sing along to even if you didn’t know any of the other words.” – Finn
“I’ve never met anyone like you. I’ve never even seen anyone like you. These freckles… This mouth… You make me want things, Say. Crave things. Things I haven’t thought about in a long time.” – Finn
“I have learned in my life that there are two kinds of people. The weak and the strong. Those who are truly strong try and lift others to make them feel just as strong. Those who are weak do their best to make others feel as helpless as they do. Surround yourself with the strong. Fall in love with the strong.” – Sawyer’s mother.
“Fear shouldn’t be involved in faith. Being a decent human only because you’re afraid of what will happen to you still makes you a bad person, just a bad one pretending to be a good one.” – Sawyer
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Gaaah!! That ending!! I whisper shouted Whaaaaaat?!
I can’t wait for the conclusion in “The Outliers”, releasing 11/1.
There is a deleted Preppy scene at the end of the book which eased me back out of the swamp, but also made me miss that world, as well.
I’ll always one-click anything she writes.
I wrote a really good review immediately after reading this book and posted to Goodreads while on a cruise ship to Bermuda, I just now realized it never posted.
Sigh. It must be out there in the Bermuda Internet Triangle somewhere.
I LOVED this dual POV, 2nd chance romance.
It’s the 3rd book in the Jamison Valley series, but each book can absolutely be read as a standalone.
You’ll fall in love with the down to earth characters in this small Montana town and if you have read the other 2 books, you’ll enjoy catching up with some of the folks you’ve met before.
Devney may be a fairly new author, but you’d never know it while devouring her fast moving plots filled with angst, romance and suspense.
Her fantastic character development, full of swoony alphas and feisty females effortlessly weave in realistic problems while taking you on an emotional rollercoaster.
I also love that the characters are older, filled with life experience. It’s sad that it seems like 95% of all romances have characters between the ages of 18 – 25.
The Lucky Heart is about Silas and Felicity who have a complicated past dating back to high school.
Silas is loyal, devoted and patient. Felicity is stubborn, feisty and strong willed.
Silas left town for 10 years to serve in the military. He’s back home and he and his father are having differences on how to run the family ranch.
I absolutely loved swoon worthy Silas, Felicity, not so much at first. She was a mean girl back in high school and left Silas without an explanation.
She used bitchiness as a shield when she popped back into town over the last 16 years and when she returned home for good after her ex-boyfriend’s funeral.
She wants to make amends for her past mistakes and by the end of the story, I couldn’t help but root for her and their HEA.
I can’t wait to read the next book, The Outpost releasing on 11/7.
It features Beau and Sabrina, cooped up in the Montana wilderness hiding from criminals after Sabrina exposed them in an investigative news report.
I see slow burn and witty banter in our future.
Devney also has gorgeous book covers and has become an automatic one-click author for me.
I was lucky enough to receive an ARC of Cocky Chef and I LOVED it!!
I’ve been a fan of JD’s since his first release and in my opinion, this is his best book yet.
If I didn’t know that he used to work in the corporate world, I would assume he had been a chef.
The foodgasms he caused by expertly describing the entrees and sides were so on point, I’m thinking his next release should be a recipe book called “ALPHArodisiac Spreads”.
The sexy times scenes were painted so vividly, they were just as drool worthy.
While reading the book, I couldn’t decide if I was in the mood to seduce my husband or lick the beaters on my mixer.
The story is about Cole Chambers, chef and owner of the hottest restaurant in LA called, Knife.
He’s also a well known TV personality from a show where he taught ex-convicts how to cook professionally.
He’s very particular in not only his recipes, but in every facet of life.
Willow, Knife’s newest chef, moved to L.A. from Idaho after her own restaurant failed.
When she couldn’t locate an ingredient for one of Cole’s recipes, she took it upon herself to find a substitute.
This makes Cole angry at first, but later, he becomes fascinated with not only her looks, but her passion for creating unforgettable food.
One of my favorite qualities about JD as a writer is his efficient use of adjectives that describe the character, sets the mood and sucks you into the scene.
From page 1, the story grabs you right away with well chosen words.
You instantly understand who/what/why/where Cole is at the present and by describing his restaurant, “The hardships that glued the bricks together. The betrayals, broken friendships and resilient determination that laid its foundation.” touches on what has happened to him in the past.
My favorite books are the ones that jump right into the action without a chapter or two of fluff.
When I love a book, I tend to be a little wordy and overuse commas and run-on sentences so I’m going to use bullet points for the other things I adored ~
* Cole is a cocky, arrogant alpha, but as we get to know him and he opens up about his past, you learn he can be a playful, heart melting guy who isn’t emasculated or intimidated by a strong female character and isn’t afraid to share his feelings.
* I loved Willow. She’s strong, smart, passionate and doesn’t back down from what she believes. She’s a badass in the kitchen and is never a doormat.
Here’s a good example about concise, but descriptive adjectives in the description of Willow – “Doe-brown eyes set in an oval shape, lips that pout like they’re mid-kiss, and a slightly upturned nose so demurely imperfect that only an artist could have made it.”
* Even the intimate moments had some great poetic descriptors – ”I pull her lips to mine, taste them softly like a chardonnay, swirling tongues in each other’s mouths.” and “thick with the whole evening’s worth of desire.” (I’ll let you guess what was thick)
* I also loved the great secondary characters. Tony, Willow’s long time fellow chef friend and Chloe, the young girl Cole mentors from a Young Chefs program were both colorful and full of personality.
* Without spoilers, I loved the anticipatory anxiety of how the story was unfolding and how I couldn’t turn off my Kindle until I found out what happens.
* Lastly, I loooooove the book cover.
Goodreads link to review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2035082215
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