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Reader Favorites – Lena’s Top Five Books of 2024 List - Maryse's Book Blog
LENA’S FAVORITES ARE GOING TO ROCK MY WORLD!! They are mostly ALL new-to-me, but obviously not new to the world ’cause they’re HUGE hits (lots of Goodreads choices & winners & bestsellers here)!!! And it’s been a fun ride looking each one of these up and learning about them (and… wanting to read them too […]
Reader Favorites – Connie’s Best Books of 2024 List - Maryse's Book Blog
Welp. Connie’s a girl after my own heart! Her favorites include so many of my VERY favorite authors ever (like Jewel. E. Ann, Tessa Bailey & Aly Martinez!!) and tropes that are my absolute catnip (grumpy, reclusive men), and I can’t wait to turn her list into my own TBR list. AND!!! A few that […]
Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 01-31-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
HAPPY FRIDAY & HAPPY READING WEEKEND!! It’s finally warm again (well… perfect weather in the 70s here in Florida), so I’m going to take advantage of the weather playing with my landscaping, planting and a bit of boring stuff… resodding an area that’s a hot mess. LOL! But once I’m done with my outside world, […]
Archiving the January 2025 Book Releases - Maryse's Book Blog
JANUARY 2025 Priest and his Anarchist: A Dark Enemies to Lovers Secret Society Romance (Carpe Noctem) by Amo Jones – January 1st 2025 Happy After All: A Novel by Maisey Yates – January 1st 2025 Primal (Wolf Ranch Book 7) by Renee Rose and Vanessa Vale – January 2, 2025 Storm’s Mistake (No Wolves Road […]
Reader Favorites – Krystal's Best Books of 2024 List - Maryse's Book Blog
HAPPY BEST OF 2024 BOOK LISTS!!! This is the first one of the bunch and I’m thrilled to start with it! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE Krystal’s list!! It’s got romance, epic fantasy, horror thrillers and more. HUGE hits and some that are new to me, but I’m loving my favorite that are on here!!! P.S. If […]
Reader Question - The book about the girl with white hair, living a dull life & falls for an angel named Legion... - Maryse's Book Blog
Taneel is looking for this one! Oh I have fallen in love with a few “fallen angels” myself. In fact, one of my all time favorite series in the world (it was so fun!!!) is Jill Myles – Succubus Diaries Series Reading Order <— P.S. I fell for the fallen angel even though the “good” […]
Reader Question - The book about the widow with a baby that finds out her husband's brother is who helped make the baby... - Maryse's Book Blog
Rita is looking for this one! Ooooooh angsty & exciting, and I’m not sure if that’s a twist in the plot line, or if this comes to be known earlier, but either way, yes please!!! She asks: searching for an erotic novel about a woman (nursing mother) whose husband dies and she has to marry […]
Reader Question - The book about the divorced couple & he's visiting his grandmother in a home where she works... - Maryse's Book Blog
Melanie is looking for this one! Oh I love when book samples are so good, that you can’t forget it, so I hope we can find this one for her!! She asks: Hi, RE: Book about second chances I’m trying to find a book. It starts out with a divorced couple. I believe he’s either […]
Latest Romance Book Releases – 01-28-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
HAPPY NEW RELEASE DAY!!! OKAY WOW!! 45 NEW BOOKS & I LOVE TODAY’S LIST… so many more blurb jolts than what I listed here (including a love after loss tearjerker below that has my attention big time). And pretty much ALL of the thrillers I found are right up my alley, so while I have […]
8 Monday Early Bird Book Releases – 01-27-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
HAPPY MONDAY & HAPPY LAST WEEK OF JANUARY!!! Ooooooomph what a month!! It’s that time again, to gather the latest book that just went live early, and I’m thinking I might have just what you’re looking for. Three things: 1.) I want to put together my yearly Best Books of 2024 list. Can you tell […]
"Choose You First" by Michelle Bishop is LIVE & it sounds like the perfect gift we can give ourselves... - Maryse's Book Blog
Choose You First <— IS LIVE!!! MOTIVATIONAL & INSPIRATIONAL & this is the exact thing I LOVE to read. And to celebrate this new release, the author is today’s newsletter sponsor & the book is super-bargain priced & I one-clicked it for myself!! I can’t wait to start it. 😃 She says: This day fills […]
Siena Sloane - Away Series Reading Order - Maryse's Book Blog
NEW MARITAL STRIFE/INFIDELITY SERIES ALERT!! At least new-to-me & oh how I LOVE when I get recommendations like this and this one sounds right up our alley! I mean… those of us that love infuriating romance angst and Kindle-throwing moments. 😉 Margie: I just read two books by a new author Siena Sloane (Tempted and […]
Jewel E. Ann - Sunday Morning Series Reading Order - Maryse's Book Blog
NEW SERIES by one of our absolute FAVORITE authors and book #2 JUST WENT LIVE & is in Amazon’s Kindle TOP 100! The author says: The Apple Tree is LIVE!! I’m so excited for you to fall in love with Eve and Kyle! My all-new small town new adult forbidden romance will have you reading […]
Reader Question - The book about the abused girl in high school that lives in a trailer park & he buys clothes for her... - Maryse's Book Blog
Ivy is looking for this one! Ohhhhh this is one of my favorite tropes!! She asks: High school romance book about girl in high school lives in a trailer park. Her mother’s boyfriend beats her. She has outgrown her clothes but buys clothes instead for younger brother, whose clothes are too small for him. So […]
Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 01-24-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
<— LOOK WHAT JUST WENT LIVE!!! It’s that time again where I round up the latest & great brand new releases, hits, book sales and recommendations, so don’t be shy to let me know if you have one for me. 20 books on today’s list including quite a few latest releases in our favorite tropes […]
Reader Question - The book where her brother & his best friend are in the military and stationed in Afghanistan... - Maryse's Book Blog
Julie needs our book help! Okay so this one could be any book in this trope, ’cause I know I’ve read this blurb over the years while creating our book roundups, so let’s make a list until the right one shows up, shall we? Unless you know it right off the bat. She asks: Help […]
Reader Question - The book where they're stuck driving together to a trip and they don't like each other... - Maryse's Book Blog
Val is looking for this one! Oh I love enemies-to-lovers road trips!! But I don’t know this one. Hopefully it’s enough info to spark someone’s memory. She asks: Hi! I’m looking for a book and my description is vague. -contemporary romance book with 2 couples: FMC and her boyfriend, MMC and his girlfriend -one person […]
Reader Question - The arranged marriage book where they live separately & he summons her for a divorce... - Maryse's Book Blog
Barbara is looking for this one! Oh I feel like I’ve read this one!! I love this trope. But alas, I’m hoping someone here knows it better than I do. She asks: Maryse, please help me locate a book/ author from a faded memory of a blurb. I know it’s not historical, fantasy nor cowboy. […]
Latest Romance Book Releases – 01-21-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
<— HAPPY TUESDAY NEW RELEASE DAY & HOLY MOLY LOOK WHAT JUST WENT LIVE!!!!!!! ONYX STORM IS THE #1 BOOK ON ALL OF AMAZON KINDLE RIGHT NOW!! I suspect everyone will be reading this one, but in case you’re in the mood for something else, I made you this list!😃 BLURB JOLTS & STAND OUTS!!! […]
10 Monday Early Bird Book Releases – 01-20-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
HAPPY MONDAY!!! Well… today’s NEW RELEASE theme is definitely “my family member’s fiancé” 😂 I love it!! Not a huge list today but plenty of tropes for whatever we’re in the mood for. Three things: 1.) It’s a wet and rainy Sunday morning. Not that cold though, but that’s coming tonight. 2.) I’m bored and […]
Unpaved by Anthony Horton is live & will take you on a journey of corporate intrigue & personal growth... - Maryse's Book Blog
Unpaved <— CORPORATE INTRIGUE & PERSONAL GROWTH ALERT!!! As Russell Nowak-McCreary embarks on a journey to a secluded cabin in Canada, memories of lost loved ones intertwine with the healing embrace of nature. P.S. The author is today’s newsletter sponsor. The author says: A significant portion of the book’s royalties will be donated to the […]
Maya Alden - Marriage by Contract Series Reading Order - Maryse's Book Blog
OHHH THIS TROPE IS MY CATNIP!!! Unrequited love and/or arranged marriage and all of the angst and turmoil that comes with it. It’s for me!!! In books. Always only in books. 😂 P.S. BOOK #3 (The Wrong Fiancée) IS LIVE!!!!! Jamie: Hi Maryse, have you read any books by Maya Alden? She writes books with A […]
Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 01-17-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
HAPPY FRIDAY & HAPPY WEEKEND!! I’ll be taking it easy this weekend ’cause the first two weeks of the year have been INSANE at work and I’m exhausted. I’m sitting here in my pajamas, and my cozy zippered hoodie and my dogs nestled, scouring the internet for books, and planning my own next read, while […]
Love, Rekindled: A Second-Chance Romance Collection (1001 Dark Nights) IS LIVE & I have excerpts!! - Maryse's Book Blog
Love, Rekindled: A Second-Chance Romance Collection (1001 Dark Nights) <— HOLY MOLY SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE LOVERS!! IT’S TIME TO REJOICE because here’s a book bundle of love stories from our favorite authors (quite literally!!) and I HAVE EXCERPTS!! Sometimes, the best love stories come with a second chance. In Love, Rekindled, fiery passion meets lost […]
Reader Question - The book where she works in a mental institution & asks a bad boy for help to find her sister... - Maryse's Book Blog
Lindsey is looking for this one! I have no idea though… the last “looking for her sister” book I read was Dark Fever and it was FABULOUS but not at all this story. I don’t know, but maybe you do? She asks: I’m looking for a book. The main character is trying to find out […]
Reader Question - The historical romance book where the widow remarries & she's constantly getting into danger... - Maryse's Book Blog
Jasmin is looking for this one! Historical romance, I don’t have much experience with but maybe this one rings a bell for you? She asks: Hi Maryse! I have a book I’m having finding again. It’s a historical romance, I believe set in Scotland. The story starts with a woman who has been recently widowed. […]
Reader Question - The college romance book where she sneaks into his dark room & sleeps with him... - Maryse's Book Blog
Tom is looking for this one! I love the sound of this trope, but I especially love his response. Ohhhh how clever. 😉 They ask: College Romance ML and FL are texting each other he doesn’t know her identity but she knows his. She sneaks into his dark room and sleeps with him. He puts […]
Latest Romance Book Releases – 01-14-2024 - Maryse's Book Blog
HAPPY NEW RELEASE DAY! OHHHH THIS IS MY FAVORITE LIST IN WEEKS. NO. MONTHS!! Soooooo many blurb jolts, it’s like all my favorite tropes in one fell swoop!!! BLURB JOLTS!!! ➔ Rafferty: A Pittsburgh Titans Novel by Sawyer Bennett (hockey star has a stalker so he kisses the grocery store employee to avoid her!), Beautiful […]
17 Monday Early Bird Book Releases – 01-13-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
HAPPY MONDAY & HAPPY START OF A NEW WEEK! We have a great roster of books (17 of ’em!!) that JUST WENT LIVE EARLY!! <— LIKE THAT ONE!! 😮 YAY!!! 😁 This is our biggest Monday list in ages! But first… Three things: 1.) Ugh… the Christmas tree. It’s still up. I don’t have the […]
Sadie Kincaid - Manhattan Ruthless Series Reading Order - Maryse's Book Blog
BOOK #2 JUST WENT LIVE & IT’S #3 ON ALL OF AMAZON KINDLE RIGHT NOW!! A series of standalone billionaire romances (but probably way more fun to read ’em in order). 😃 About book #1 A Standalone Billionaire, Marriage of Convenience Romance. You want to know the secret to everlasting happiness? Never fall in love. […]
Reader Question - The book where the first responder flirts with the nurse, and they both get hit by a truck... - Maryse's Book Blog
Julianne needs our book help! GAHHHHHH!!! I am having a love/hate moment with this question ’cause I read the spoiler (HOLY MOLY WHAT A TWIST!!) and I hate knowing what happens BUT… it also makes me want to read this book SO bad. She asks: Hi Maryse! I am DESPERATELY trying to find this title […]
Reader Question - The book where the biker's brother died and years later, his girlfriend comes back with his baby... - Maryse's Book Blog
Brooke from our Facebook crew has one she’s looking for! I feel like I’ve read this one, but since it was one of my FAVORITE tropes, I’ve read so many that it’s a jumbled mess of book memories in there. LOL!! She asks: Hi there, I’m trying to find a series that I started reading […]
Vi Keeland's latest "Indiscretion" is LIVE EARLY!! Strangers double-booked together... - Maryse's Book Blog
THIS ONE SOUNDS RIGHT UP MY ALLEY!! DOUBLE BOOKED WITH A HOT STRANGER? YES PLEASE!!! But it’s the blurb-twist that makes me extra giddy. 😉 He’s her boss. She’s his greatest temptation. The first time I met Dawson Reed, we wound up in bed. The problem was, neither of us knew the other were there. […]
Reader Question - The college romance where her boyfriend's friend is keeping an eye on her, and she meets someone she has a connection with... - Maryse's Book Blog
Brittany needs our book help! Definitely sounds like one of our original indie angsty love triangles!!! I LOVE these. Not a ton of detail on this one but hopefully it sparks someone’s memory OR!!! We build a list of books like this. 🙂 She asks: Hi, I was hoping you can help me remember the […]
Reader Question - The book where the famous drummer arranged for Bryan Adams to sing to her... - Maryse's Book Blog
Andrea is looking for this one! Hrmmm… I feel like I’ve read this one back in my early indie days. But back then, I read SOOOOO many rock star romances that they are all intermingling in my head now. The one that I’m thinking of is Mal from Kylie Scott’s Stage Dive series. That was […]
The Rivers Brothers and the Prince of Shadows is LIVE & the author is today's newsletter sponsor! - Maryse's Book Blog
The Rivers Brothers and the Prince of Shadows <— MOM’S LOOKING FOR SOMETHING FOR YOUR KIDS TO READ? This one sounds incredible!! And the author is today’s newsleppet sponsor. The author says: I’m R. Antoine, a Brooklyn-born author who began crafting stories at the tender age of seven. I’ve penned a captivating children’s book about […]
Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 01-10-2025 - Maryse's Book Blog
HAPPY FRIDAY FINDS!! I HAVE A BUNCH OF NEW RELEASES & BARGAIN FINDS FOR US! I’ll be working on today’s list over the next few hours so keep checking back to see what else we found. 🙂 ➔➔ TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT WE FOUND TO READ FOR THE WEEKEND !! ➔➔ Check out […]
Jeneva Rose - The Perfect Marriage Series - Maryse's Book Blog
PSYCH-THRILLER/MARITAL STRIFE ALERT!! Her perfect marriage crumbles when she finds out her husband is having an affair & now his mistress is dead!! Justine: The perfect marriage by Jeneva Rose was a good read. About book #1: Sarah Morgan is one of the best criminal defense attorneys in Washington, DC. With a perfect case record […]
Reader Question - The book where the high school girl has a guardian angel and he falls for her... - Maryse's Book Blog
Bibi needs our book help! Oh I’ve read a few like this (I LOVE the angel and the human trope SO much!!) and the first one that comes to mind is Jamie McGuire’s Providence series except that she says it’s a standalone and not a series (and all the ones I’ve read in a similar […]
Reader Question - The book where he loved her sister but had to marry her instead and thought the sister had died... - Maryse's Book Blog
Addy needs our book help! Oh this one sounds all sorts of tumultuous!! There’s not a ton to go on, but the detail is just crazy enough that I’m sure it will spark someone’s memory. She asks: Whats this book called..? hi so i came here to find a book name ….. I don’t know […]