Author: firewhiskeyreader

  • ARC Reviews: American Royalty, After Hours Temptation, and Eclipse the Moon

    ARC Reviews: American Royalty, After Hours Temptation, and Eclipse the Moon

    Considering how long ago I read Eclipse the Moon, you might think I would have already posted my review to the blog, but, well… That didn’t happen. So here we are to finally talk about American Royalty by Tracey Livesay, After Hours Temptation by Kianna Alexander, and Eclipse the Moon by Jessie Mihalik. You should…

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  • Let’s Talk: Marketing Romance Novels

    I think I’ve known that people in my romance reader circles have had feelings about marketing romance novels (and women’s fiction) for a while, but when I posted my Heavier Topics in Romance thoughts a couple weeks ago, it became clear that so many of us have thoughts about marketing. The thing is, those of…

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  • June Wrap Up & July TBR

    June Wrap Up & July TBR

    I always knew that I am so lucky to have the family that I do, but June has really brought that home for me. And when I say family, I mean the friends who are like family too. Work has been stressful and will be even more so during the next month and I’ve really…

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  • Checking In with My Winter and Spring Most Anticipated Lists: Did I Read Them? Were They Great?

    As y’all may know, I make lists for every season of anticipated reads and I try to also check in to see if I’m actually reading and making progress on those books. So this check in is with my Winter and Spring lists. I included ten books on the main winter list, but one of…

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  • Contemporary ARC Reviews: Boyfriend Lessons, As Seen on TV, D’Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding, and An Island Summer

    Contemporary ARC Reviews: Boyfriend Lessons, As Seen on TV, D’Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding, and An Island Summer

    Normally I only review three books at once, but one of these was a DNF so I figured it was only fair to put all four of these together for your reading pleasure. First up, we have Boyfriend Lessons by Sophia Singh Sasson, which is a Harlequin Desire that actually came out in May. Then…

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  • Mid-Year Freak Out Tag

    It’s the middle of the year and therefore time to complete this tag that I’ve done the last few years and that is super popular on YouTube. The original tag was created by Earl Gray Books. I really enjoy this check in with my reading. I think I’m currently at just shy of 150 books…

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  • Favorite Contemporary Romance Project

    Favorite Contemporary Romance Project

    If you read my figuring out my all time favorites post, then you may have seen that, probably unsurprisingly, I have a lot of favorite contemporary romances and I am not sure how to really whittle those down into a top five or a top ten list. So I wanted to start a reading project…

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  • Historical Romance ARC Reviews: A Daring Pursuit, A Lady for a Duke, and The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes

    Historical Romance ARC Reviews: A Daring Pursuit, A Lady for a Duke, and The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes

    I’ve gotten a bit behind in my reviews again, oops, but I am excited to share with you my thoughts today on three recent releases that you can get your hands on! First up, we have A Daring Pursuit by Kate Bateman, out from St. Martin’s Press. This is the second book in a series…

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  • Narrowing Down My All Time Favorites

    Narrowing Down My All Time Favorites

    One of my favorite booktubers to watch is Books and Lala and a couple of years ago, she made a Tier Ranking Video where she went back to all of her old favorites list and ranked them into five categories. She then has re-read ten of them that she put into the need to re-read…

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  • June TBR: WhateverAThon, Reading the Rainbow, and some other reading challenges…

    June TBR: WhateverAThon, Reading the Rainbow, and some other reading challenges…

    Am I doing too much with my reading this month? Undoubtedly. But I thought I would share these very cool reading challenges with you in case you haven’t seen them and might want to participate. And then we’re going to talk about the handful of books I have that will cover prompts across the challenges.…

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