READ-2-REVIEW - CONTEMPORARY - BARRETT (Broken Falls, #4) by Laramie Briscoe

Barratt
Broken Falls, #4 
by Laramie Briscoe 
Release Date: July 26th 2024 
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Barrett Grant is wild AF with hips he knows how to use, and he’s also eleven years younger than me…

Gabby

Get Baked is the culmination of every dream I had as a twenty-something. A dream my ex-husband stomped like a bug beneath the tip of his expensive Italian leather shoe. When I left with nothing more than my dignity and a vintage stand mixer I found at a thrift store, all I wanted was to be happy. Promised myself I wouldn’t settle until that happened.

Years later, it’s finally happening in the small town of Broken Falls, WV. My dreams are coming true, my happiness is so close I can reach out and touch it.

But my secrets? They won’t stay buried forever. Especially where Barrett Grant is concerned.

Barrett

I messed up big time with Gabby, the hot, older, owner of Get Baked. I had no business swiping right if I wasn’t going to take our relationship and her feelings seriously. When I reacted badly to a waitress who questioned if she was my mother, I should’ve let it go. 

But I didn’t, and now I can’t. Not when I miss the f*ck out of her, and lost a year off my life the night Get Baked was broken into. This time, I promise myself, I’ll give us the shot we should’ve gotten the first time.

If only she gives me a second chance.

 

Tropes Included

• small town
• blue collar
• second chance
• reverse age gap
• golden retriever hero

Barrett is book four in The Broken Falls Series: a series of interconnected standalones following a group of friends who have become family in small-town West Virginia, and the women who bring them to their knees. You do not have to read them in order, but each book builds upon the relationships of the last.

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The Book Junkie Reads . . . Review of . . . BARRETT (Broken Falls, #4) . . .  We get to the next story of the series. We see what Barrett has been holding in and hanging on to. Come dive in and see what small-town America has to offer the older woman, younger man scenario. 

Gabby had a blow to her self-esteem by an ex, then again by the mother of the man she was seeing. A second chance came around to allow for them to have the chance with each other. 

Barrett was in a hard place. His mother or the woman he was falling in love with. He had a lot to think about and come to a conclusion about. Come see all this happen with the fourth installment in small town life. 

I am excited to see more of Valentina and Vaughn. I want some more of Noland, single dad and Hank. What is he really all about?

Laramie Briscoe is the USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of over 30 books, with sales of over half a million copies.

Since self-publishing her first book in May of 2013, Laramie has appeared on the Top 100 Bestselling E-books Lists on Apple Books, Amazon Kindle, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble. Her books have been known to make readers laugh and cry. They are guaranteed to be emotional, steamy reads.

When she's not writing alpha males who seriously love their women, she loves spending time with friends, reading, and marathoning shows on Netflix. Married to her high school sweetheart, Laramie lives in Bowling Green, KY with her husband.

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READ-2-REVIEW - CONTEMPORARY SUSPENSE - A FIERCE MAN (Appalachian STAR, #7) by Deanndra Hall

A Fierce Man
Appalachian Star, #7 
by Deanndra Hall
Release Date: July 16th 2024  
Genre: Romantic Suspense 

The world needs more people who care, but does she care too much? 

PRIEST

Redemption

I did my time—hard time—for a long time. I'm not an innocent man, but I paid the price. I'm working on a new, squeaky-clean résumé. After 28 years, I learned how to behave, and how to inspire others. And that's what I do. It's who I am. Enduring years of never-ending, horrific abuse in prison, I can safely say that I'd do anything to protect weaker individuals from danger.

AGGIE

Redemption

I'm the happiest when I'm in front of my students, changing lives and making a difference. That's what I do and who I am. After being burned by my ex-husband, I focus my life—and heart—on my pupils, kids who truly need me.

But when an outreach project brings me face-to-face with an ex-convict, something shifts. Maybe, just maybe, my heart isn't as shattered as I imagined. Priest seamlessly weaves his way into my world. However, a dangerous student with a vendetta threatens to sabotage our newfound connection. Suddenly, my life hangs in the balance. With the help of the Appalachian STAR team and a determined Priest, I just might be absolved of all of my fears. Can I let down my guard for this persistent, Fierce Man?

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Deanndra Hall is a working author living in the far western end of the beautiful Bluegrass State with her husband of over 35 years and small menagerie of weird little dogs. When she’s not writing, she’s editing. When she’s doing neither of those two things, she’s having dinner with friends, spending time with family, kayaking, eating chocolate, drinking beer or moonshine, or looking for something that she put in the wrong place and can’t seem to find (which is pretty much everything she owns).

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READ-2-REVIEW - CONTEMPORARY - TO HAVE AND LET GO (The Women of Boone County, #2) by Julieann Dove

To Have and Let Go
Women of Boone County, #2
by Julieann Dove
Release Day July 9th 2024

BLURB

Chelsea Hayes is no stranger to running away from her problems. That could explain why she moved six states away from Boone County. And the reason she works a second job to go talk in circles to a therapist bi-weekly, to avoid hitting the dead end and facing her demons. 

Unfortunately for Chelsea, a call back from home forces her to hang up her running shoes and return to face some ghosts that never left, even if she did.

Patrick Jergan is new in town. Someone to take away some of the tension from all the things spinning out of control in Chelsea’s life. But like Chelsea, he’s fighting his own set of problems. The two might make a good match, except for one thing…or one person. He’s the topic her therapist knows nothing about. In fact, no one in town knows of their past. If they did, there would be no end to the tongues wagging. 

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The Book Junkie Reads . . .  Review of . . .  TO HAVE AND LET GO (The Women of Boone County, #2) . . . If you haven't yet, pick up The Women of Boone County book one. It is not totally necessary but it gives you a place to start falling in love with the writing, the characters, the county, and the friendship of these women. I have to admit that before I started book two for the first time, I went back and re-read book one of the series. 

With this trip to The Women of Boone County we have a look in on the life of Chelsea. She is a woman that don't stay around when things get a little tough. She has own reasoning behind making a run for it. With some time and patience she begin to unravel the past to have a future. Then there's a new comer to the county, Patrick.  The two have much in common. Come find out what To Have and Let Go have in store for the Women of Boone County.

 

Author Info

Julieann Dove takes great pleasure in writing about love and all the mess that goes along with it. How else does happily ever after become realized, if not for some type of hardship and journey? When she’s not writing, she loves playing with fabric at her sewing machine, baking new recipes, and playing in the dirt, trying to get things to grow. Julieann loves old movies, and never tires of listening to music—it’s where she finds most of her inspiration for her books.

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