That said, while i\u2019m almost done the book that I\u2019m reading<\/a> (and enjoying about a 4-star level), not much reading will be had today for me, so I thought I\u2019d do a check-in to see who else is reading right now, what it is, and are you loving it, and there are some new-to-mes on here PLUS some feedback on recent releases.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Maryse: Awesome author so I KNOW this one will rock our fantasy romance worlds!!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Maryse: Forbidden love??!! YES PLEASE!! This sounds great and I think my sister will LOVE them. I\u2019m going to show her these. Thank you Niki!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Rae:<\/strong> Just finished Born For Lace: A Dark Love Story (The Cradled Common)<\/a><\/strong> by Nicki Harris Maryse:<\/strong> Oh I remember this one from a recent list I posted. THIS gave me a blurb jolt. How did you like it? I feel like I should start that one next.<\/p>\n Rae:<\/strong> incredible Maryse. Book 3 out later this year. That\u2019s going to be a very emotional read. \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Maryse:<\/strong> Another hugely popular author amongst our crew!! You can\u2019t go wrong with her!! Jill:<\/strong> Totally, she\u2019s a go-to Author for me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Maryse: Thank you so much Linda!! That is one of the most popular series on my blog!! Randi:<\/strong> Book related, Black Dagger Brotherhood on Passionflix<\/a><\/strong>!!! First episode out today!!!! Casting is interesting and it was over in the blink of an eye!!! Needed more Maryse:<\/strong> For sure!!! The more I see the pics of the actors in BDB-mode the more I agree on the picks. Especially Z. I wasn\u2019t sure at first but oh yes!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u2026a Dark Romantic Suspense and Packed with Action. It starts with six Navy Seals on the same team are leaving for Mexico to find a kidnapped young woman. Her well-off daddy wants her found and brought home the sooner the better. Hunter Knox is very good at his job. His team calls him Cookie since they all have nicknames.<\/p>\n To go to the jungle of Mexico and find and retrieve the daughter named Julie wasn\u2019t at all going to be easy. Cookie knows this part of a job would be hard and dangerous. She had been kidnapped by human traffickers, so their time was to get in and then out as fast as possible\u2026<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \n\t\t\tFANTASY ROMANCE BY DEVNEY PERRY!\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n FANTASY ROMANCE BY DEVNEY PERRY & IT’S GOING TO BE A MOVIE! AND!! <\/strong>IT’S THE #5 BOOK ON ALL OF AMAZON KINDLE<\/u> RIGHT NOW!!<\/strong><\/p>\n Cybill: <\/em><\/strong>Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry was sublime I can\u2019t wait to read the rest of the series<\/em><\/p>\n Now in development as a feature film with Amazon MGM Studios, with\u00a0John Wick<\/em>\u00a0screenwriter Derek Kolstad attached to write the script!<\/strong><\/p>\n Shield of Sparrows<\/em>\u00a0is a slow-burn, high-stakes romantasy perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros\u2014where enemies become lovers, monsters stalk a cursed realm, and a forgotten princess finds the strength to tear off her crown and become the warrior she was never meant to be.<\/strong><\/p>\n The gods sent monsters to the five kingdoms to remind mortals they must kneel. I\u2019ve spent my life kneeling\u2014to their will and to my father’s. As a princess, my only duty is to wear the crown and obey the king.<\/em><\/p>\n I was never meant to rule. Never meant to fight. And I was never supposed to be the daughter who sealed an ancient treaty with her own blood. But that changed the fateful day I stepped into my father\u2019s throne room.<\/em>..”<\/span><\/p>\n The author <\/strong>says<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n “…for anyone who doesn’t read romantic fantasy, don’t worry. This is still very much my book with a BIG romance.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tWe earn a commission if you make a purchase, at no additional cost to you.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n\t\t\tSCI-FI FORBIDDEN LOVE!!\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n SCI-FI FORBIDDEN LOVE!! SERIES CONCLUSION…<\/strong><\/p>\n “…The final book of the\u00a0Horde Kings of Dakkar<\/em>\u00a0series is here\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n High in the icy northlands of Dakkar, I\u2019ve lived a sheltered, predictable, and safe life. My days are spent caring for an ancient temple and staying out of the priestesses\u2019 way. My nights are spent pouring over the great stories of warrior kings and the queens that stole their hearts.<\/em><\/p>\n But I have a secret.<\/em><\/p>\n I\u2019m a hybrid female. Half-Dakkari, half-human, the first of my kind. The priestesses have risked everything to keep me hidden from the dangerous hordes that roam the wild lands and the greedy king that sits on the throne in\u00a0Dothik. I am the secret they could never let free.<\/em><\/p>\n Then a horde king\u2014with molten eyes and the body of a battle god\u2014shows up at the temple\u2019s gates, demanding entry.<\/em>..”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tWe earn a commission if you make a purchase, at no additional cost to you.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n\t\t\tTIJAN’S LATEST!!\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n TIJAN’S LATEST IS BACK ON THE LIST ‘CAUSE & JILL IS LOVING IT!!<\/strong> THE MAFIA IS AFTER BOTH OF THEM SO HE KIDNAPS HER…<\/strong><\/p>\n Jill: <\/em><\/strong>Started the new Tijan book yesterday. Loving it so far, guessing I won\u2019t be disappointed by the end.<\/em><\/p>\n “…I\u2019m just hoping to distract myself from my heartbreak. That is, until I met Jake Worthing. Grumpy. Hot. A total jerk. Did I mention hot? Also, extremely presumptuous. Just because I\u00a0look\u00a0like I\u2019m a thought away from a total meltdown does not mean I need an ambulance. He had the\u00a0audacity\u00a0to ask if I needed medical treatment. Well, good riddance to him. I don\u2019t ever have to see him again.<\/em><\/p>\n Except, well, I do when I\u2019m taken to the police station for a total misunderstanding. He walks in and\u2026gah. He\u2019s the same that I remember from our first meeting. Brooding.\u00a0Still gorgeous. (The universe is not fair sometimes.) He\u2019s stirring up emotions that I didn\u2019t know were still inside of me. Then someone tries to shoot him and I\u2019m a witness, and\u2026er, how is it that I\u2019m the one being kidnapped? And\u00a0by Jake?<\/em>…”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tWe earn a commission if you make a purchase, at no additional cost to you.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n\t\t\tREADER RECOMMENDATION!!\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n LIVE & IT’S A READER RECOMMENDATION!!<\/strong> HOLY MOLY HOW DID I MISS THIS ONE??<\/strong><\/p>\n Linda: <\/em><\/strong>Reading the latest Boys of Tommen series by Chloe Walsh’s Releasing 10. They all have difficult subject matter but so very good!! Important to read in order.<\/em><\/p>\n Maryse: <\/em><\/strong>Thank you so much Linda!! That is one of the most popular series on my blog!! \ud83d\ude03 <\/em><\/p>\n Sabrina: <\/em><\/strong>Seriously these are the best recommendations. I binged the Boys of Tommen series and can\u2019t wait for more books in the series.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n “He was her anchor. She was his storm. Together, they were everything\u2014and it still wasn’t enough.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n From Chloe Walsh, the international bestselling author of the viral Boys of Tommen series, comes a devastatingly raw, achingly beautiful love story that will rip your heart out and patch it back together.<\/strong><\/p>\n Lizzie Young has always felt she was too much everything. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder at a young age, she’s never fit in with her family, her friends, her community. Lizzie wants to be accepted and understood, but with few family or friends in her corner, she carries her burdens and her trauma on her own.<\/em><\/p>\n But when she meets a kind boy on the school bus, things start to look bright for the first time in her life<\/em>\u2026”<\/p>\n Marion:<\/em><\/strong> I can\u2019t recommend this series enough, you will laugh, you will cry and you will feel young love at its purest. Brilliant writing by the author. I can\u2019t wait for the rest of the series<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tWe earn a commission if you make a purchase, at no additional cost to you.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n\t\t\tBLACK DAGGER BROTHERHOOD TV SERIES\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n BLACK DAGGER BROTHERHOOD TV SERIES!!<\/strong><\/p>\n Based on the #1 NYT bestselling book, Dark Lover, by J.R. Ward, Wrath, unwilling King of the vampires, is tasked with saving the half breed daughter of his fellow Brother, Darius. But being half human, Beth has no knowledge of her vampire heritage. Getting her through the transition won\u2019t be easy, and the fight against the lessers grows more challenging with the loss of one of their own.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Randi: <\/em><\/strong>Thank you for the info about Passionflix on Amazon. yay!!!! Getting ready for Black Dagger Brotherhood premiere and was about to buy a subscription!! …<\/em><\/p>\n Randi:<\/em><\/strong> Book related, Black Dagger Brotherhood on Passionflix!!! First episode out today!!!!<\/em><\/p>\n Maryse:<\/em><\/strong> Ohhhhh how did you like it??!!<\/em><\/p>\n Randi: <\/em><\/strong>casting is interesting and it was over in the blink of an eye!!! Needed more\ud83d\ude2d<\/em><\/p>\n Maryse:<\/em><\/strong> For sure!!! The more I see the pics of the actors in BDB-mode the more I agree on the picks. Especially Z. I wasn’t sure at first but oh yes!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tWe earn a commission if you make a purchase, at no additional cost to you.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n\t\t\tMILITARY ROMANCE!!\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n MILITARY ROMANCE!!<\/strong><\/p>\n “…Fiona Storm resigned herself to the fact that it was highly unlikely she would make it out of the jungle alive. Kidnapped by human traffickers, abused, and without family or friends looking for her, Fiona knew wishing for rescue was as realistic as having a big, juicy hamburger fall from the sky. <\/em><\/p>\n Unbeknownst to Fiona, the SEAL team, including Cookie, were on the way, but their assignment didn’t consist of rescuing her.<\/em><\/p>\n **Protecting Fiona is the 3rd book in the SEAL of Protection Series. It can be read as a stand-alone, but it\u2019s recommended you read the books in order to get maximum enjoyment out of the series.”<\/em><\/p>\n Nancy:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Finished\u00a0<\/em>Protecting Fiona (SEAL of Protection Book 3) by Susan Stoker<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. <\/em>One of those books I stayed up late till THE END! My 5* Review<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/91wkFtBmBLL._SL1500_.jpg\")
HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE!!<\/strong> I\u2019m specially happy \u2019cause we made a last minute decision to spruce up our weekend, and we (my husband and I and friends) are heading to the Metallica\/Pantera\/Suicidal Tendencies concert tonight (the only band I haven\u2019t seen yet is Metallica). I AM SO EXCITED!!<\/p>\nWhat we\u2019re reading right now:<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Cybill: Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry<\/a><\/strong> was sublime I can\u2019t wait to read the rest of the series<\/p>\n\n
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Niki:<\/strong> Recently finished \u201cThrone of the Horde King\u201d by Zoey Draven<\/a><\/strong>. Great book and ending of a great series!!<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Jill:<\/strong> Started the new Tijan<\/strong> book yesterday (A Captive Situation (Kings of New York)<\/a>.<\/strong> Loving it so far, guessing I won\u2019t be disappointed by the end.<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Linda:<\/strong> Reading the latest Boys of Tommen series by Chloe Walsh\u2019s Releasing 10<\/a><\/strong>. They all have difficult subject matter but so very good!! Important to read in order.<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Nancy:<\/strong> WHAT I JUST FINISHED READING NOW: Securing Caite: A Navy SEAL Romance<\/a><\/strong> by Susan Stoker \u2026I\u2019d think some of you know I\u2019m a big fan of Susan Stoker. It is not that I don\u2019t have good books to read, but I can\u2019t make myself read them just yet until I finish a few more of Susan Stoker\u2019s books!<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/81FSo5A2spL._SL1500_.jpg\")
<\/a>Nancy:<\/strong> Finished Protecting Fiona (SEAL of Protection Book 3) by Susan Stoker<\/a><\/strong>. One of those books I stayed up late till THE END! My 5* Review Below:<\/p>\n\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThrone of the Horde King (Horde Kings of Dakkar Book 6)<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tReleasing 10: An Epic, Emotional, and Addictive Romance from TikTok Phenomenon! (Boys of Tommen Book 6)<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tProtecting Fiona (SEAL of Protection Book 3)<\/a><\/p>\n
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