Review + Amazon Giveaway - The Best Part of Me (McKenna #1) by Jamie Hollins

This is my stop during the blog tour for The Best Part of Me by Jamie Hollins. This blog tour is organized by Lola's Blog Tours. The blog tour runs from 10 till 23 October, you can view the complete tour schedule here: http://www.lolasblogtours.net/blog-tour-the-best-part-of-me-by-jamie-hollins/

The Best Part of Me (McKenna #1)

by Jamie Hollins

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Age category: Adult

Release Date: September 20, 2016

Blurb:

He’s content to stay in the shadows…

Ewan McKenna’s days and nights are filled with drink orders, beer kegs, and noisy bar customers. Now that he’s put his tumultuous past behind him, he’s more than happy to live a solitary existence running his family’s pub. After years of walking the line between good and bad, Ewan now needs control and order to rest peacefully at night. What he doesn’t need is the fiery, intriguing woman who’s found her way into his thoughts and his bed.

She’s ready to step back into the light…

Spending the summer getting her hands dirty in her aunt’s garden in a tiny town outside Boston is exactly what Quinn Adler needs. She’s ready to shake off the grief of losing the people who meant the most to her and to start feeling again. What she doesn’t expect is to find a man who sets all her senses on fire. When the pieces seem to be nearly in place for a bright future, everything falls apart.

Will Quinn’s love be bright enough to cut through the darkness of Ewan’s past?

"If sex were a living thing with arms and legs , if it could breathe,eat and talk, then it would surely look like Ewan McKenna."

Whenever I crack open a romance novel, I know it will be a quick and fun read. I am not looking for anything too deep or anything that can't be interrupted by a needy 3 year old or a load of laundry. This book fit my romance novel needs and more. It was a fun read that wasn't over the top and wasn't too unbelievable. In fact, I could totally see this story line playing out and that made it even more fun. 

Quinn is a young woman that has had a hard year and is looking for some peace when moving in with her Aunt for the summer. Instead, she finds the damaged and good looking (duh) Ewan who has never really connected with a female besides in the bedroom and is not looking to be saved. Without giving too much away, there is some hidden drama and steamy sex scenes throughout the book that make this a definite page turner.

Like any romance novel there are parts that you will roll your eyes and think to yourself, "Ya, right!" But, there are also pages where you find yourself dying to know the ending and what happens with Quinn and Ewan. It was a good mix for me and I am looking forward to next book in the series.

You can buy The Best Part of Me here:

- Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Best-Part-Me-McKenna-Book-ebook/dp/B01KY7Z5MQ/

- Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Part-Me-McKenna-Book-ebook/dp/B01KY7Z5MQ/

- B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-best-part-of-me-jamie-hollins/1124652956

- Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/the-best-part-of-me

Jamie Hollins was born and raised in rural Northeast Ohio. After graduate school, she embarked on a perilous career in Human Resources where she met plenty of real life characters. When she’s not writing or chasing after her toddler, she enjoys reading and golfing. Jamie lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, son, and their dog, Winston. Jaime Hollins is an up and coming author that you for sure want to follow.

You can find and contact Jamie here:
- Website
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Goodreads
- Pinterest

- Instagram

Giveaway
There is a tour wide giveaway for the blog tour of The Best Part of Me. One winner will win a 50$ amazon gift card and a signed copy of The Best Part of Me by Jamie Hollins. This giveaway is open international.

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Happy reading,

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. All thoughts and reactions are my own! 

The Dating Intervention Review - Blog Tour

This is my stop during the blog tour for The Dating Intervention by Hilary Dartt. This blog tour is organized by Lola's Blog Tours. The blog tour runs from 1 till 14, you can view the complete tour schedule on the website of Lola’s Blog Tours.

This is the first book in the Intervention series.

There is a tour wide giveaway for the blog tour of The Dating Intervention. Make sure to enter the giveaway, for a chance to win a $10 Amazon Gift Card

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The Dating Intervention (The Intervention series #1)

by Hilary Dartt

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Age category: Adult

Release Date: August 1, 2015

Blurb:

When Delaney Collins’s fail-proof dating system fails completely, her best friends Summer and Josie take absolute control of her dating life through The Dating Intervention. Although Delaney’s intuition is always right on when it comes to men, she never listens to it. If she doesn’t start now—with her friends’ help—she’s in danger of ending up alone and lonely in a sea of men with stained neckties and cumbersome baggage.

You can find The Dating Intervention on Goodreads

This book can be purchased on amazon.com! 

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Review:

Let me start by saying that this is completely my type of book! I love a book about good friends, dating life, and the occasional scene of sultry sex. That being said, I need to also have a good laugh and read a book that is well-written and basically all around fun! The dating intervention, hit all of those marks for me.

I knew I would like the book when the first scene was three girlfriends sitting in a bar having a happy hour drink and discussing their problems. Delaney, Josie and Summer have been friends since childhood and their most recent mission is to help Delaney fix her life, starting with the men whom she chooses to date. Throughout the book there were times that I could relate to each of the woman,  depending on what they were going through. I thought this was a level of the book that really made sense, it kept me hooked because I felt as if I had, "been there, don't that." 

While it took a bit for me to get to the "must read" stage, once there I read 80% of the book in one night. I love the comfort that I felt throughout the book, the town of Juniper was a place that I wanted to live. I could see myself grabbing a drink with the girls at Rowdy's and enjoying the small town life. 

All in all I think the book is profoundly about friendship. Our friends see the best in us and they see the worst. If they are good enough friends, they help us overcome the worst and become the people we are meant to be. My only question is how long do we have to wait for the other books to be released?!

 Go and buy this book, it is a great summer read and sure to put a huge smile on your face. Let me know how you like it!

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I think one of my favorite things about becoming a "runner" is the people that you are able to meet through the hobby. Whether this be through social media or through races that I have done. One of these people is Hilary Darrt. She is amazing, we spent a whole weekend together, smashed in a 12 passenger van, running Ragnar - Del Sol. She is one of those people who lights up the room(or can), and you are immediately drawn to her and her personality. When I noticed she had authored a new book and was looking for bloggers to review, I jumped on the opportunity. The Dating Intervention is a solid FIVE stars for me!  

About the Author:
Hilary Dartt is an author and freelance writer who grew up among the redwoods and hippies of California and now lives among the cacti and cowboys of the wild west. She and her husband live in Arizona’s high desert with their children and an assortment of pets, including five chickens. To maintain sanity and quiet her inner critic, Hilary runs, drinks wine and eats chocolate. She’s the author of The Intervention Series: The Dating Intervention, The Marriage Intervention and The Motherhood Intervention. Learn more at http://www.hilarydartt.com/.


You can find and contact Hilary here:
- Website
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Newsletter

I received an advance copy of this book via Lola's Blog Tours in exchange for my honest review. Thanks to the author for the opportunity to read and review their work!

Goodreads review here.