Based on Fisher's discovery of old journals she wrote during the filming of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, The Princess Diarist is a candid and poignant look into the mindset of a 19 year-old girl at the brink of international acclaim.

Focusing mostly on Fisher's affair with Harrison Ford, readers won't find a lot of tawdry details but will revel in Fisher's candidness on how it affected her. A large section of the book is devoted to a reproduction of Fisher's journal entries, I only wish we got more.

Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC.

Raven's dad ran away with Dalton's mom, both ending up dead in a horrific car accident. Raven hates the Pierce Brothers because of this, but they do not know she is the daughter of the man who they believe "stole" their mother away from them. Now Raven is a successful business owner and she needs her antique bar restored for an upcoming feature news story. Dalton is the best, but can she put aside her personal feelings, and his all too tempting flirting aside?

This had all my favorite things - enemies to lovers, witty banter, really great build-up to the sexy times, and an awesome lady who basically has her shit together and the man is more of a bonus. There was also a man-bun hahaha.

Adelina has now conquered a vast swatch of land and kingdoms but is evermore plagued by the demons in her head and to her inner villain. Meanwhile, the her old band of Young Elites may have found the reason, and the solution, to the sicknesses causing them to become increasingly weak. This will require an alliance of enemies, one that will cost many their lives.

I only wish this was a bit longer, and perhaps a bit more thought out? I found the 'solution' and ultimately the ending to be a bit too perfectly laid out, but overall still a fairly satisfying end to a very unique trilogy.

Kennedy was the shy wall-flower foil to Brent's cocky, self-assured self, but now some many years later, she is back in his life with a new hairstyle, colored-contact lenses, and representing the opposite side of a high-stakes legal case.

Fairly typical plot, but a fun read. The entire book is from Brent's POV, which isn't normally the case, and I found it really refreshing that Brent has a prosthetic leg but it is hardly made an issue besides some brief mentions of how he keeps it on or takes it off while having sexy times. Other than that, I kind of found him to be an ass, but I overall I was invested enough to finish.

A bit too jumbly and pretentious for me.

A rapid read gives a glimpse into Lauren Graham's thought process and experiences, mostly revolving around her career as a TV star. I enjoyed most of the chapters, but I did feel like I was reading a Lorelei Gilmore book. Perhaps Lorelei IS Lauren Graham, or vice versa, but still a fun read.

I also had to tear up a little bit when Graham referenced President Hillary Clinton as her best guess, as this book was finalized prior to the election results. Sigh.

One of those books I can't believe I finished, because it has so many things I detest, but once I did finish I saw the appeal.

A loose retelling of 1001 Arabian Nights, except with an annoying female protagonist who is SO FUCKING BEAUTIFUL. Did you read the description of how beautiful she is? Her hair, oh her hair. The jewels. The sparkles, THE OUTFITS! Throw some more adjectives.

She is also very certain of how special she is and so is everyone else. But, besides the pretty and a hot temper, that is about it. She's volunteers to be the next bride-sacrifice of the murderous Caliph who killed her best friend, along with many other young girls, because she's different and she's going to kill his ass, but of course he is also super beautiful. And despite the fact he rapes her (perfunctorily) the first and second night of her stay and doesn't kill her immediately at dawn like the others, she immediately starts to fall for him and have angry inner-dialogue about how she is still going to kill him, but never, ever does. He's so intriguing, strangers tell her to trust him, he has never actually slept with any of the other girls he's had killed (so romantic). He has SECRETS, so so what if she's kept waiting for him in a bedroom for the majority of the first half of the book? And then he stops sleeping with her when he realizes it means something (WHAT?)

Sigh.

However, despite all this annoyance, I was still entranced and really wanted to know how the story ended (with a terrible flippin' cliff hanger). Also, after getting over that first part I genuinely bought the chemistry between Shazi and Khalid, and the scenes between them are great in the latter half of the book.

Gah. So, basically a hate-read. Also the narrator for the audio book didn't really differentiate the voices of the different characters which is a huge annoyance, but did have a lovely voice.

Emmaline lives in a castle-turned hospital for children displaced by WWII in the UK, a gray place where many come to stay, but most never leave. Emmaline can see beautiful winged horses in the castle's many mirrors and believes there is a secret land just on the other side of these reflective surfaces. Emmaline's world collides with the the land of the horses when she finds a beautiful white horse with a damaged wing in the castle's garden. She also finds a note from the Horse Lord begging her to find special objects to help protect Foxfire from the sinister Black Horse who has also crossed over into Emmaline's world.

A lyrically masterful novel for mid-grade readers, I adored how you never quite found out if the horses were an object of Emmaline's fantasies, spurred by her own illness that slowly becomes more apparent to the reader as the pages go on, or if they were indeed real. The ending is also ambiguous enough that readers can draw their own conclusions on the fate of Foxfire and Emmaline.

Both hauntingly sad and beautiful, this is a perfect book for both adults and more mature mid-grade readers, akin to The Secret Garden or The Little Princess.

Two FBI agents who detested each other during their training at Quantico six years ago find themselves partnered up for a white collar under-cover operation. Jessica, recently divorced and newly transferred to the Chicago FBI office, remembers John as a cocky ex-Marine who irritatingly challenged her both mentally and physically. John, soon to be leaving Chicago to start training for an elite part of the FBI similar to SEAL Team 6 remembers Jessica as the hyper-intelligent and frosty woman who rebuffed his offer of camaraderie on day one of training, and embarrassed him in front of their entire class. He said, she said has never been hotter.

My first Julie James, and I loved it! The characters were both intelligent, professional, and had such simmering sexual tension I could feel it oozing off the page. The story, while a bit too bloated with technical information and side stories, was dramatic and exciting. I am sucker for FBI stories (thanks X-Files), but this is the first traditional romance book I've found featuring agents that aren't doing absolutely crazy missions that just seem too ridiculous to be true.

Thank you to Negalley for the ARC!