Sunday, January 31, 2021

Infamous by Ivy Wild

 

Title: Infamous
Series: Kings of Capital
Author: Ivy Wild
Genre: Friends to Lovers, Second Chance Romance, Office Romance, Hollywood Romance
Release Date: January 30, 2021


My name is Sophie Strong
and I sold my soul to a record company
For fame
For fans
For fortune
For a life I thought I wanted.
I sold out in the worst possible way
Leaving everything I loved behind.
Turning myself into someone I wasn’t
Just to watch the world turn itself on me.
Now the whole world hates me and I can’t escape them.
I can’t escape this.
And no matter how fast I run
Connor Driscoll always seems to find me.
He’s the man I left behind and the one I don’t deserve.
He says he loves me but he shouldn’t.
Because once you become famous,
all that’s left to do is become
INFAMOUS

 



 
Goodreads Review - “I absolutely LOVED this book, it was a rollercoaster of emotions with some sharp turns and surprises!”

Book Addict Reviews - “I absolutely adore Connor and Sophie. Their story took me on a crazy roller coaster that I hoped would never end.”

Goodreads Review - “Wow what a OUTSTANDING book.”






Writer of all things untamed, romantic and free, Ivy Wild never planned on becoming a romance novelist. In fact, she hated romance as a kid and was quite proud of that fact. Basically, life is weird.

Married to her own alpha hero, she currently lives in various places of the world at various times thanks to his military career.

Her current side hustle is being a lawyer.



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Hold It Close by ML Nystrom

 


Title: Hold It Close
Author: ML Nystrom
Series: MacAteer Brothers #3
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 30, 2021
Publisher: Hot Tree Publishing
Cover Designer: BookSmith Design
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A man recovering from a toxic relationship and slowly healing. A woman recovering from a divorce and seeking a new life.  When their worlds collide, will Garrett and Bertie finally heal and find their happily ever after? 

Garrett MacAteer has rejoined his family and is trying to rebuild his life after escaping a toxic relationship that has left him scarred, vulnerable, and with nothing more than the clothes on his back and the strength of his hands.  

After Bertie Shore's marriage descends into an unfulfilling placeholder in her life, she takes a big leap and finds a new direction and leaves to pursue her lifelong ambition of owning a bed-and-breakfast inn.

Neither is looking for a connection, but one night they find it.  Can they survive the challenges they face long enough to accept new love, take it, and hold it close?




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Run With It (bk 1)

Ready For It (bk 2)
Risk It All (bk 4)
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I've had stories in my head since I was a child.  All sorts of stories of fantasy, romance, mystery and anything else that captured my interest.  I'm a voracious reader, and have spent many hours in my life devouring books, therefore it's only fitting I should write a few myself!  

I've spent most of my life as a performing musician and band instrument repair technician, but that doesn't mean I'm pigeon-holed into one mold.  I've been a university professor, belly dancer, craftsperson, soap maker, singer, rock band artist, jewelry maker, lifeguard, swim coach, and whatever else I feel like exploring.  As one of my students said to me once, "Life's too short to ignore the opportunities."   I have no intention of ever stopping so welcome to my story world.  I hope you enjoy it!



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Saturday, January 30, 2021

There is No Cloud by Kat Wheeler

 


Author: Kat Wheeler
Title: There is No Cloud
Genre: Tech Mystery
Release Date: January 12, 2021

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You never know what’s listening….

As a sales rep for SmartTech, the world’s largest home automation company, Cameron Caldwell’s job is to keep customers happy… and buying. That means the current bane of her existence is a rival company’s home AI device, the HomeTech Hub. Her customers want to use the HTH’s voice commands to control the electronics she’s selling them—and if she wants to keep selling to them, she needs to make sure that happens. Why can’t they just ask it the weather and be happy with that?

While attempting to get tech support for one of her clients, Cameron finds something strange in a HomeTech Hub and is immediately curious. Is there something about the product no one’s supposed to know? But when people start dying, she knows something far more complex is going on, and she’s determined to find out what the technology the whole world has let into their homes actually does.

As Cameron digs deeper into something she never thought would be possible, she starts to wonder what she’s gotten herself into… and whether she’ll be able to get out.


Rating: 4.5*


I like to mix things up every now and then and take a step back from my favourite genre of romance and indulge in a suspense/thriller read.  I needed a change when I got the opportunity to read this and I was not disappointed.

This book wove its story around the fact that technology is in every part of our lives and we rely on it so much but equally we are producing so much data around what we are doing at every moment online. But what happens if this could all be collected - the power it could wield for the person collecting it. It explores power beyond the big techs' data collection and the power they wield. 

Cameron is a sales rep for a home automation company who comes across devices that won't integrate as they should. Closer investigation reveals an extra chip in the devices. What Cameron quickly discovers is that those behind the chip have already killed once and won't hesitate to kill again to keep their secret and power. With the tech savvy behind the scenes, it doesn't look likely that anyone will get close enough to the killer, until Cameron starts to close in.

This was a book with present day relevance. It kept me on the edge of my seat throughout and kept me guessing. There were plenty of twists and turns along the way that had me hooked and not wanting to put it down.



Kat has worked for eighteen years in sales in the AV industry, her love for technology starting early with her first computer, a Commodore64 at age six.  She loved it until she realized you could put a magnet to the screen and it made pretty colors.

Kat spends a lot of her time traveling. She’s been to forty-six states and lived in six.  She loves yoga, poker, sports, and all things technology.  Her dreams are to one day stop travelling so much and be able to own a dog and to be the first woman to win the World Series of Poker Main Event.

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