E-Reading After Midnight: April 2025

Monday, April 7, 2025

Review Round Up ~ April 7

New Releases:

3.5 stars - Worth a Reader's Time

Review Copy Provided by Publisher via Net Galley

Let Me Be The One features Callie as she returns to her hometown after receiving a shock and needing to figure out her next steps. When she arrives in town, almost everything seems against her, including her neighbor Tanner.

I liked Callie from the beginning. I appreciated how she stood up for herself and decided to forge her own path when she realized that her life wasn’t what she wanted to be. Tanner was equally likeable in his own way.
He comes with his foster family and they pull Callie in and help her on the way.

This is a feel good read. Tanner is a typical Foster leading man- a bit alpha, a bit wounded, but with a heart of gold. There is a bit of intrigue and family drama along with the developing friendships and romance.
The lost 1/2 star comes from a bit of confusion “missing” information around Callie’s parents. They seemed to do a flip flop in attitudes from visit 1 to visit 2 and it just didn’t make sense to me.

I definitely enjoyed Let Me Be the One and I am looking forward to Kam’s story.

Amazon

Love, The Duke by Amelia Grey

3.5 stars - Worth a Reader's Time

What a fun historical!
Hurst is an unusual Duke and he is paired with an even more unusual lady, Miss Ophelia Stowe.
These two meet under unexpected circumstances and what follows is an adventure that could only happen in "high society" England of the late 1800s.
Hurst and Ophelia threw sparks at each other from the very beginning, making me imagine what it would be like to be a fly on the wall during some of their interactions.
I have enjoyed the Say I Do series of books. These can all be read as stand-alone entries, but they connect well together as a series.

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Friday, April 4, 2025

The Situation by Adriana Locke ~ Cover Reveal

The Situation by Adriana Locke

Model Cover: Kari March

Model Photographer: Michelle Lancaster, @lanefotograf

Special Edition Cover: Books and Moods

Preorder: https://geni.us/SituationAmazon

Synopsis:

Someone should tell Tate Brewer that one-night stands aren’t supposed to come with a sequel.

I’ve learned the hard way—don’t be reckless with anything, least of all my heart. But after one too many lemon drop martinis, saying yes to a much younger, devastatingly smooth stranger for one wild night seems like the perfect way to forget my brutal divorce. I even gave him a fake name. What could go wrong?

Lots. Because a few weeks later, he’s no longer a stranger. He’s suddenly the Chief Marketing Officer at my new job.

Tate Brewer isn’t the type of man to let a good thing slip away, and he’s determined to prove our night together was on the beginning. But the faster I build walls, the quicker he tears them down—along with my self-control. Stolen glances turn into late-night “work” meetings, and before I know it, I’m tangled in a web of office politics, scorching tension, and a man who refuses to let me walk away.

Will I push him away before he gets too close … or finally surrender to a situation that feels too good, and dangerously real?

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