I Can't Believe It's Taken This Long For Me To Pick Up This Book

 

This book has been on my TBR list forever. Why I never read it when it was fan fiction, I don't know. I read another story from this author back then and enjoyed it. This one, however, just didn't sound as appealing to me.

 

But...I'm taking the plunge. Hopefully, I'll like this one as well as I did her other story.

 

Have you read Wallbanger by Alice Clayton?

 

Caroline Reynolds has a fantastic new apartment in San Francisco, a Kitchen Aid mixer to die for, and no O (and we’re not talking Oprah here, folks).

She has a flourishing design career, an office overlooking the bay, a killer zucchini bread recipe, and no O. 

She has Clive (the best cat ever), great friends, a great rack, and no O.

 Adding insult to O-less, she also has an oversexed neighbor with the loudest late-night wallbanging she’s ever heard. Every moan, spank, and—was that a meow?—punctuates the fact that not only is she losing sleep, she still has—yep, you guessed it—no O. 

Enter Simon Parker. When the wallbanging threatens to literally bounce her out of bed, Caroline, clad in sexual frustration and a pink baby-doll nightie, confronts her heard-but-never-seen neighbor. 

Their late-night hallway encounter has…well…mixed results. Because with walls this thin, the tension’s gonna be thick. 

A delicious mix of silly and steamy, this is an irresistible tale of exasperation at first sight.

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Next on my TBR list is The Diamond Courier by Hannah Byron. I'm going out of my comfort zone with this book. It's historical fiction with a touch of romance and is written by one of my fellow podcast co-host. I can't wait to dive in!

 

England, 1939

Would you settle for a marriage of convenience even if your intended is your best friend?

Restless and independent, Lili Hamilton dreams of becoming a radical journalist. To avoid the scandal of her broken engagement to Scotsman Iain Brodie, her traditional parents send her to finishing school in Switzerland. On the way to her exile, she meets the dashing Leo Oppenheim, leader of the British Communist party, and a whole new world opens up for Lili.

As the rhetoric of Hitler booms across the Continent and World War II erupts, Lili flees to Leo in London, embracing communist ideals and free love. But causes need money to thrive, and Leo has set his sights on a daring raid of the biggest diamond center in war-torn Europe: Antwerp.

Lili infiltrates the Jewish community in Belgium and befriends both the Goldmunz family and Gestapo leader Ulrich Lemberg. Despite the horrors of war, despite witnessing the murder of a comrade, she becomes the diamond courier between Antwerp and London.

With terrible consequences…

The Diamond Courier is a young woman’s fight to liberate herself from her privileged upbringing, for which she pays the highest price. Will love conquer over politics?

 

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What's Next On My TBR List? #FridayReads

I decided to try something new this week and let my reader group pick the next book I would read from my TBR list. If you want to weigh in on what I'll read next, make sure you're part of the Sherri Hayes Book Club over on Facebook. 

 

This week, my book club group chose Out of Bounds by Kris Pearson for me to read. I have to say the cover has me thinking this is going to be an emotional read.

 

Jetta Rivers has inherited half a house. Big problem: she has to share it with co-owner Anton Haviland, and her past has left her terrified of men.

Gorgeous Anton is a confident sexy architect, and he might be exactly who Jetta needs to put her crippling fear to rest.
But can she allow him near enough? And would he even want to try?

A midnight disaster leaves her no option when he drags her off to the only bed left in the now-damaged house.
She’s appalled to find how much she craves the man who plans to smash her inheritance to pieces.
Anton is equally shocked when his sharp-tempered housemate attempts to seduce him.

 

Have you read it?

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Next on my TBR list is a book I've been wanting to read for the last ten years. I was bummed when Stephenie Meyer decided not to publish Midnight Sun all those years ago after someone leaked her draft to the public, but as an author I understood. The betrayal she must have felt had to be tremendous. 

 

My joy over this book finally being published is not only because I can't wait to read Twilight from Edward's point of view, but also because Twilight is what ultimately led me to publishing my first novel. After reading the Twilight series, I, like other fans, wanted more, so I began writing Twilight fan fiction. And it was that Twilight fan fiction that got me noticed by a small publisher. Without that, who knows if I'd have ever become a published author.

 

Have you read Midnight Sun and if not, do you plan to read it?

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