#MMBBR #Review #FirstLine #DarkCircles by #CaiteDolanLeachvia #BallantineBooks and @goodreads

Dark Circles by Caite Dolan-Leach
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

#FirstLine ~ Hello listeners!

What a read. I though the premise was clever and the story engaging. I blew through this book and loved the twists and turns! It was not a story that you can easily figure out. It a bit of thriller, a bit a creepy and lots of fun! A must read!

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#MMBBR #Review #SomethingWilder by @ChristinaLauren via @goodreads and @GalleryBooks

Something Wilder by Christina Lauren
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

What a delight this book was. I loved that it was not the run of the mill romance. It had grit and adventure and a story that was a bit sexy. I loved that there was more to this story than met the eye. A super fun book any reader will wish they could hop right into and experience it for themselves!

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#MMBBR #FirstLine #FamilyOfLiars by @elockhart via @netgalley and @DelacortePress

Family of Liars by E. Lockhart
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

#FirstLine ~ My son Johnny is dead.

I was obsessed with We Were Liars. It was such a great book. One that I have yet to forget about and I read it when it came out. When I saw that there was a prequel coming out I was pumped!!!! I loved this book as much as We Were Liars. It was everything I hoped it would be and more. It had such a compelling story, interesting characters and spectacular setting. I read it super fast and was sad when it ended. A must read and a book I HIGHLY recommend!

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#MMBBR #NewRelease #FirstLine #Showcase #BookTour #TheHomewreckers by @mkayandrews via @StMartinsPress #MaryKayAndrews #StMartinsPress

I cannot wait to dive into this new release. I love EVERYTHING MKA writes, so this will be devoured this weekend I am fairly certain!!! Review coming soon!!! 

#FirstLine ~ Prologue: A Dark and Stormy Night

The wind howled and shrieked and the waves slapped angrily against the seawall, huge, looming masses of clouds al but blotting out the pale yellow crescent moon.

Summer begins with Mary Kay Andrews, in this delightful summer listen about flipping houses, and finding true love.

Hattie Kavanaugh went to work helping clean up restored homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at 18; married the boss’s son at 20; and was only 25 when her husband, Hank, was killed in a motorcycle accident.

Broken hearted, but determined to continue the business of their dreams, she takes the life insurance money, buys a small house in a gentrifying neighborhood, flips it, then puts the money into her next project. But that house is a disaster and a money-loser, which rocks her confidence for years to come. Then, Hattie gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: star in a beach house renovation reality show called The Homewreckers, cast against a male lead who may be a love interest, or may be the ultimate antagonist. It's a question of who will flip, and who will flop, and will Hattie ever get her happily-ever-after.

Filled with Mary Kay Andrews's trademark wit, warmth, junking trips, and house porn, The Homewreckers is a summer beach delight.

Mary Kay Andrews

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MARY KAY ANDREWS is the New York Times bestselling author of 30 novels (including The Homewreckers, The Santa Suit, The Newcomer; Hello, Summer; Sunset Beach; The High Tide Club; The Weekenders; Beach Town; Save the Date; Ladies’ Night; Christmas Bliss; Spring Fever; Summer Rental; The Fixer Upper; Deep Dish; Blue Christmas; Savannah Breeze; Hissy Fit; Little Bitty Lies; and Savannah Blues), and one cookbook, The Beach House Cookbook.

A native of St. Petersburg, Florida, she earned a B.A. in journalism from The University of Georgia. After a 14-year career working as a reporter at newspapers including The Savannah Morning News, The Marietta Journal, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she spent the final ten years of her career, she left journalism in 1991 to write fiction.

Her first novel, Every Crooked Nanny, was published in 1992 by HarperCollins. She went on to write ten critically acclaimed mysteries under her real name, Kathy Hogan Trocheck. In 2002, she assumed the pen name Mary Kay Andrews with the publication of Savannah Blues. In 2006, Hissy Fit became her first New York Times bestseller, followed by twelve more New York Times, USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly bestsellers. To date, her novels have been published in German, Italian, Polish, Slovenian, Hungarian, Dutch, Czech and Japanese.

She and her family divide their time between Atlanta and Tybee Island, GA, where they cook up new recipes in two restored beach homes, The Breeze Inn and Ebbtide—both named after fictional places in Mary Kay’s novels, and both available to rent through Tybee Vacation Rentals. In between cooking, spoiling her grandkids, and plotting her next novel, Mary Kay is an intrepid treasure hunter whose favorite pastime is junking and fixing up old houses. (less)

THE HOMEWRECKERS BOOK TOUR

4/30—Atlanta Launch Party: https://bit.ly/HW_ATL 

5/1—Buena Vista, GA [SOLD OUT!]: https://bit.ly/HW_BuenaVista 

5/2—St. Simon’s Island: https://bit.ly/HW_StSimons 

5/3—Bluffton, SC: https://bit.ly/HW_Bluffton 

5/3—Savannah Launch Party: https://bit.ly/HW_Savannah 

5/4—Cleveland Friends & Fiction Live: https://bit.ly/FFLive_CLE 

5/5—Charleston, SC: https://bit.ly/HW_Charleston 

5/6—Pawley’s Island, SC: https://bit.ly/HW_Pawleys 

5/6—Ocean Isle, NC: https://bit.ly/HW_OceanIsle 

5/7—Southern Pines, NC: https://bit.ly/HW_SPines 

5/7—Raleigh, NC: https://bit.ly/HW_Raleigh 

5/8—Winston, NC Mothers Day lunch: https://bit.ly/HW_Winston 

5/9—Greenville, SC [SOLD OUT!]: https://bit.ly/HW_GvilleAM 

5/9—Greenville, SC: https://bit.ly/HW_GvillePM 

5/10—St. Pete, FL: https://bit.ly/HW_StPete 

5/11—Punta Gorda, FL: https://bit.ly/HW_PuntaGorda 

5/11—Tampa, FL: https://bit.ly/HW_Tampa 

5/12—Fairhope, AL: https://bit.ly/HW_Fairhope 

5/13—Seaside, FL: https://bit.ly/HW_Sundog 

5/14—Wetumpka, AL: https://bit.ly/HW_Wetumpka 

5/14—Birmingham, AL: https://bit.ly/HW_Bham 

5/20—Jersey Shore Friends & Fiction Live: https://bit.ly/FFLive_NJ 

#MMBBR #Showcase #SixDaysInRome #FirstLine by #FrancescaGiacco via @GrandCentralPub

 

#FirstLine ~ Prologue: VIA GIULIA

My name is everywhere here.

In this decadent, deeply evocative novel, a young artist travels to Rome to heal a broken heart, where she ​confronts loneliness and intimacy, rage and desire: “Sensorial as hell . . . A stunningly cool and stylish debut" (Paul Beatty, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout).
 
Emilia arrives in Rome reeling from heartbreak and reckoning with her past. What was supposed to be a romantic trip has, with the sudden end of a relationship, become a solitary one instead. As she wanders, music, art, food, and the beauty of Rome's wide piazzas and narrow streets color Emilia's dreamy, but weighty experience of the city. She considers the many facets of her life, drifting in and out of memory, following her train of thought wherever it leads.

While climbing a hill near Trastevere, she meets John, an American expat living a seemingly idyllic life. They are soon navigating an intriguing connection, one that brings pain they both hold into the light.
 
As their intimacy deepens, Emilia starts to see herself anew, both as a woman and as an artist. For the first time in her life, she confronts the ways in which she's been letting her father’s success as a musician overshadow her own. Forced to reckon with both her origins and the choices she's made, Emilia finds herself on a singular journey—and transformed in ways she never expected.
 
Equal parts visceral and cerebral, Six Days in Rome is an ode to the Eternal City, a celebration of art and creativity, and a meditation on self-discovery.

Francesca Giacco is a graduate of Barnard College and the MFA program at Columbia University. She lives in New York. Six Days in Rome is her first novel.

#MMBBR #Review #FirstLine #DarlingGirl #ANovelOfPeterPan by @MichalskiLiz via @DuttonBooks and @netgalley

Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan by Liz Michalski
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

#FirstLine ~ Prologue: In a very tall tree sits a girl.

I loved this book so much. It is hard describe how it made me feel other than satisfied and sad to see it end. It was beautifully told, original and unforgettable. It is everything you want in a book. It consumes you in the best possible way and holds on tight. You will want your friends to read this book, so you can talk. So, with that being said, I encourage book clubs to pick up this book and read it together. Be ready for some great conversation!!!

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#MMBBR #Showcase #FirstLine #DreamTown by @davidbaldacci via @GrandCentralPub #GrandCentralPub #DavidBaldacci #ArcherNovel

 

#FirstLine ~ It was New Year's Eve, 1952.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Private investigator and World War II veteran Aloysius Archer heads to Los Angeles, the city where dreams are made and shattered, and is ensnared in a lethal case in this latest thriller in #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci’s Nero Award-winning series.  

It’s the eve of 1953, and Aloysius Archer is in Los Angeles to ring in the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when their evening is interrupted by an acquaintance of Callahan’s: Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter in dire straits.
 
After a series of increasingly chilling events—mysterious phone calls, the same blue car loitering outside her house, and a bloody knife left in her sink—Eleanor fears that her life is in danger, and she wants to hire Archer to look into the matter. Archer suspects that Eleanor knows more than she’s saying, but before he can officially take on her case, a dead body turns up inside of Eleanor’s home . . . and Eleanor herself disappears. 
 
Missing client or not, Archer is dead set on finding both the murderer and Eleanor. With the help of Callahan and his partner Willie Dash, he launches an investigation that will take him from mob-ridden Las Vegas to the glamorous world of Hollywood to the darkest corners of Los Angeles—a city in which beautiful faces are attached to cutthroat schemers, where the cops can be more corrupt than the criminals . . . and where the powerful people responsible for his client’s disappearance will kill without a moment’s hesitation if they catch Archer on their trail.

David Baldacci has been writing since childhood, when his mother gave him a lined notebook in which to write down his stories. (Much later, when David thanked her for being the spark that ignited his writing career, she revealed that she’d given him the notebook to keep him quiet, "because every mom needs a break now and then.”)

David published his first novel, Absolute Power, in 1996; the feature film adaptation followed, with Clint Eastwood as its director and star. In total, David has published 44 novels for adults; all have been national and international bestsellers, and several have been adapted for film and television. His books are published in over 45 languages and in more than 80 countries, with 150 million copies sold worldwide. David has also published seven novels for younger readers.

In addition to being a prolific writer, David is a devoted philanthropist, and his greatest efforts are dedicated to his family’s Wish You Well Foundation®. Established by David and his wife, Michelle, the Wish You Well Foundation supports family and adult literacy programs in the United States.

A lifelong Virginian, David is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia School of Law.

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