Waiting on Wednesday {57}: Until There Was You

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine. It is showcases upcoming releases of books that I'm looking forward to. It is somewhat similar to one of my previous posts, Anxiously Awaiting. {Button courtesy of Bewitched Bookworms}

Until There Was You
Kristan Higgins
October 25, 2011

She’s having serious prom-night déjà vu…

Posey Osterhagen can’t complain. She owns a successful architectural salvaging company, she’s surrounded by her lovable, if off-center, family and she has a boyfriend—sort of. Still, something’s missing. Something tall, brooding and criminally good-looking… something like Liam Murphy.

When Posey was sixteen, the bad boy of Bellsford, New Hampshire, broke her heart. But now he’s back, sending Posey’s traitorous schoolgirl heart into overdrive once again. She should be giving him a wide berth, but it seems fate has other ideas...

Review: Only Mine by Susan Mallery

Only Mine
Susan Mallery
Series: Fool's Gold #4
Publisher: HQN
Publication Date: July 26, 2011
Mass Market Paperback {p.379}
Source: Publicist
Genre: Contemporary
Characters: Dakota Hendrix, Finn Andersson
Challenge: 100+, Summer Reading

You can’t win if you don’t play…

Her town’s lack of men may make headlines, but it isn’t news to Dakota Hendrix. The beautiful blonde has bigger problems to deal with, such as overseeing the romance reality competition filming in Fool’s Gold. Screening eligible bachelors is a difficult enough task, but Dakota hits an unexpected snag when a sexy stranger comes to town.

Finn Anderssen will do anything to keep his twin brothers—the perfect contestants—off the show. Despite Dakota’s better judgment, she finds herself drawn to the mysterious outsider. Like her, Finn knows about heartbreak and how a family can fall apart, so she doesn’t dare to hope for anything more than a fling. After all, even in the Land of Happy Endings, finding true love is never as easy as it looks on TV.

Once again I'm moving to Fool's Gold! The is an integral character in and of itself. The vivid description of Fool's Gold and amazing storyline of the people who reside there, never cease to amaze me.

Dakota and Finn had an easy-going, fun kind of relationship. You could tell that they truly enjoyed the other's company. With Finn's dry sense of humor, they were matched perfectly. One of Finn's strongest attributes was his love and commitment to his family, and with Dakota coming from a large close-knit family, it was key the the man for her would have that same commitment.

When I wasn't totally engrossed with watching Finn and Dakota fall in love, I was engrossed with his little brother fall in love. It was like getting two love stories for the price of one. I hope to see more of Stephen and Aurelia in future Fool's Gold novels.

Witnessing Dakota's struggles were truly heart wrenching which made her getting her happy ever after all the more sweeter.

Summer Giveaway Hop

Welcome to the Summer Giveaway Hop hosted by I am a Reader not a Writer and BookHounds. This hop will run from August 1-7 and has 319 participating blogs.

I will be giving away a box of romance novels. All the books are new that I happened to have duplicate copies of. You do not have to be a follower to enter. But if you are, tell me in a seperate comment for an extra entry.

WANT TO WIN A BOX OF BOOKS?

{August 1-7, 2011}

• Only residents of the U.S. are eligible to win
• Winner will have 48 hours to respond to email or a new winner will be chosen
• Giveaway copies will be sent USPS
• Winners will be randomly selected using random.org and contacted via email.  

  To win, please complete the following:

Mandatory Entries:

1. In the comments section, please leave your email address (If you win, I will need to be able to contact you), and your answer to the following question:

What book has been your favorite so far this summer?

Extra Entries:

1. Tweet this giveaway. Leave the link to your tweet in a separate comment. {If your tweets are set to private/protected, and I cannot view them, they will be discarded and will not count.}
2. GFC Friend Follow me {Also leave that in a seperate comment}

In My Mailbox {59}

In My Mailbox (IMM) is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi @ The Story Siren. Every week I'll post what books I've received either by mailbox/library/store.

I'll try to post an entry of IMM every Sunday that I receive books by mail of that week.

Books via Borders

Burning Down the Spouse by Dakota Cassidy

Kade Armed & Dangerous by Cheyenne McCray

Trinity by Lauren Dane

Books via Public Library

10th Anniversary by James Patterson

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

And the Winner is...

How to Seduce a Scoundrel

Maureen

Chelsea B

Carol L

No One's Gonna Love You ~ What's Your Song? {20}

Weekly meme hosted by Amber

No One's Gonna Love You by Band of Horses

It's looking like a limb torn off
Or altogether just taken apart
We're reeling through an endless fall
We are the ever-living ghost of what once was

But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do
No one's gonna love you more than I do

And anything to make you smile
It is my better side of you to admire
But they should never take so long
Just to be over then back to another one

But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do
No one's gonna love you more than I do

But someone,
They could have warned you
When things start splitting at the seams and now
The whole thing's tumbling down
Things start splitting at the seams and now
If things start splitting at the seams and now,
It's tumbling down
Hard.

Anything to make you smile
You are the ever-living ghost of what once was
I never want to hear you say
That you'd be better off
Or you liked it that way

But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do
No one's gonna love you more than I do

But someone
They should have warned you
When things start splitting at the seams and now
The whole thing's tumbling down
Things start splitting at the seams and now
If things start splitting at the seams and now,
It's tumbling down
Hard