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Fascinating. This is a book that basically argues that Noam Chomsky had some great ideas, but ultimately was quite a bit wrong and quite a bit of

For this #FallIntoChristmasRomance blog tour, we're looking at a strong amalgamation of A Christmas Carol, The Grinch, and Up - with a romance tacked on + an even stronger romance that "romance" purists will claim is just a love story. For this blog tour, we're looking at A Little Christmas Spirit by Sheila Roberts.

A Christmas Carol / The Grinch / Up Mashup. If you go into this book expecting a romance - how it was marketed to me - ... ummmm.... yeah, this isn't really that. The "romance" here is fully tacked on in the last 20% of the book, with the guy barely mentioned at all before that point (and even in the "romance" here, the rest of the plot of the book is still truly the driver). But if you go into this as more of a women's fiction / Christmas type book, it works quite a bit better. The focus is largely on Stanley, who is an amalgamation of the memorable parts of Scrooge (from A Christmas Carol, including a Christmas Ghost in the form of his dead wife), The Grinch (and his too-small-due-to-pain heart), and Carl from Pixar's Up (grump old widower who doesn't really like kids... at first). Then we're introduced to Lexie and her son Brock, and from that point on Stanley's life will never be the same again. But the majority of the book really is spent on Stanley, Lexie, and Brock, with the edge to Stanley and his memories of his wife (and interactions with her ghost). Here, it really does work to be a heartwarming tale (or heartworming, f

This week we're looking at a nearly 400 page romance with lots of secondary love stories embedded within it that reads much faster than its page count suggests. This week we're looking at Snowbound With Her Mountain Cowboy by Patricia Johns.

Slow Burn Clean Second Chance Romance - With A Disaster. This is exactly what I noted in the title - a slow burn romance where the couple never really gets together until the very end, clean in that there is barely any kissing and certainly nothing beyond that (sorry, fans of near-erotica level steam), and featuring a couple that has been divorced far

For this blog tour, we're looking at a slow burn psychological suspense that could be incredibly difficult for some readers but which ultimately turns out to be a solid tale. For this blog tour, we're looking at Nanny Dearest by Flora Collins.

Slow Burn Psychological Suspense. This is one psychological suspense that features a tremendous amount of active gaslighting, so be aware of that up front. The actual conflict here is slow, told in two perspectives in two different time periods - from the nanny's perspective in the mid-late 1990s, and the child's perspective as a now-adult circa 2020. In the present, we see the child as a sort of aimless, emo-chic drifter overwhelmed by recent events (personal, not global - the real-world insanities of the era are never mentioned here, thankfully) and the nanny appears to be perfect... at first. In the past, we see how non-perfect the nanny actually is... and discover quite a bit that ratchets up the tension for the reader in the present day scenes. Solid work that fans of the genre will likely enjoy. Very much recommended.

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For this blog tour, we're looking at a strong tale of second chances and taking risks... in more ways than one. For this blog tour, we're looking at Forever Home by Elysia Whisler.

Lots Of Moving Parts And Yet It All Works. This book has a *lot* of moving parts with a primary romance, a secondary romance setup, two different tragic female backstories to encounter and mostly resolve, and a primary mystery and a secondary one to boot. And yet Whisler somehow manages to make all of that work, though the fact that she has 400 or so pages to play with here probably plays into this working as well as it does. The story is well paced - if you don't mind a very slow burn primary romance. As in, not so slow that there is zero "piano playing" at all, but slow burn enough that this doesn't actually happen until the last 15% or so of the book. So for the clean/ sweet crowd... eh, *all* of these characters have enough rough edges you're likely not going to like this one. For those that *like* a bit more edginess... yep, this one is for you, particularly if you're closer to the clean/ sweet side but like to get brave occasionally. :) Overall a great tale that never overly

For this blog tour, we're looking at a tale that is essentially a retelling of the Biblical story of Job... in a modern action thriller context. For this blog tour, we're looking at The Hostage by John Ryder.

What Would Job Do? For those unfamiliar

For this blog tour we're looking at a very Hallmark Christmas type tale that happens to be a two-for-one romance, with *two* couples' stories told at once. For this blog tour, we're looking at The Christmas Wedding Guest by Susan Mallery.

Two-For-One Christmas Romance. This is one of those Christmas Romance novels that almost seems destined to be made into a Ha

This week we're looking at yet another imaginative scifi romp from The Modern Day Master of Science Fiction. This week we're looking at

Short Tale Packs A Lot In Its Pages. This is a long novella / short nove

For this blog tour, we're looking at a solid tale of a not-often-told side of one well-known issue. For this blog tour, we're looking at Her Silent Husband by Sam Vickery.

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