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Showing posts with label Amanda Ashby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amanda Ashby. Show all posts

Thursday, November 15, 2018

Feature and Giveaway: Entangled Publishing's August Imprint Book Launch



After her carefully ordered world imploded, Paige Taylor cracks up. On her tenth self-help book, it seemed like a good idea at the time to reinvent herself––move from Manhattan to the tiny beachside town of St. Clair––and take over the local bookstore.

But instead of discovering her spiritual Nirvana, she’s neck-deep in a floundering business, the locals treat her like a plague victim, and her mom’s suddenly decided to visit––with no end in sight––and keeps coming home with one surprise after the next.

Added to that pot of crazy, the one guy who sets her pulse racing has sworn off women forever. He’s got a Samsonite filled with baggage, but damn he looks good hauling it down the street. And giving her those sexy half-smiles. And tempting her to take him for a test ride.

Soon Paige discovers that reinventing herself takes more than just a change of address and a pithy quote on Instagram. She needs to face the truth about her life, and that’s something she can’t do alone.

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Friday, November 17, 2017

Fall into Romance Event with Amanda Ashby


Amanda Ashby was born in Australia but now lives in New Zealand where she writes romance, young adult and middle grade books. She also works in a library, owns far too many vintage tablecloths and likes to delight her family by constantly rearranging the furniture.

She has a degree in English and Journalism from the University of Queensland and is married with two children. Her debut book was nominated for a Romantic Times Reviewers Choice award, and her first young adult book was listed in the New York Public Library Stuff for the Teen Age. Because she’s mysterious she also writes middle grade books under the name, Catherine Holt and hopes that all this writing won’t interfere with her Netflix schedule.

Friday, January 13, 2017

Feature and Giveaway: Falling for the Best Man by Amanda Ashby



He’s the best man and her secret fling—who said being a wedding planner was easy?

What's worse than running into your ex-hookup at the airport? When said 'hookup" is the best man for the most important wedding of your career, and he's on the hunt for a fake girlfriend. Between a hysterical bride and a wedding party gone wild, wedding planner Emmy Watson can’t afford any more disasters if she wants to save her beloved Wishing Bridge Farm. Which is why she puts the best man on lockdown. Unfortunately, he also happens to be the one guy who can make her forget everything except the way his kisses make her feel.

All Christopher Henderson needs is a fake girlfriend to convince his bosses that his bad boy reputation is a thing of the past so he can land his dream job. What better place to find said companion than at a wholesome vintage wedding. The only thing he didn't count on was seeing Emmy, the woman who dumped him. The one he hasn’t been able to get off his mind.

There's no denying the spark between them, but he’s a globetrotter and she’s a homebody, and falling in love is something neither of them has in their plans.

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Sunday, July 3, 2016

ARC Review: Dating The Guy Upstairs by Amanda Ashby


This is a perfectly, absolutley decent book in a totally unremarkable way. This is a friends to lovers/pretend to real romance novel. The writing is pretty good the characters are reasonably interesting and the plot is ok. On the scale of 1-10, this book is oatmeal with raisins.

Riley has been Will's reliable best friend for two years. Riley has commitment issues because of the terrible decisions her Mom made. Riley s understanding of relationships is that they ruin your life. Will has commitment issues because he was betrayed in a pretty awful way by his former fiance. Will doesn't want to be harassed by his family about settling down so he gets Riley to pretend to be his girlfriend and blah blah blah, you know the rest.

There really isn't anything interesting I can tell you about this book. If you have read ANY book in this genre, you've read this one. In order for this book to rise above the point of being wholly indistinct, it needed SOMETHING. I kept waiting to see if there was going to be some big twist or a part of this book that made it stand out, but it never happened. I'm not saying this is a bad book, it isn't. This just isn't a book that you can remember if you put it down for 2 seconds. If you like the friends to lovers troupe, this is perfect but don't expect a revolution.

**ARC provided by Publisher**

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