Category: Reading

TBR Thursday: The Ghostwriter by Jacqueline Sweet

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Teehee. I can’t help myself. Ghostwriter smuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut.

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The Ghostwriter

Curvy, sassy Jessica Hart is a ghostwriter for the rich and powerful. Sh22035958.jpge’ll do whatever it takes to get the real story and satisfy her client. But her
new job has a twist–her publisher wants her to destroy the billionaire this time.

Logan Grant is a financial whiz, a stock market genius, and handsome, too. Every moment of his life is planned and controlled, except meeting Jessica. She gets under his skin in ways no other woman has. If only he could trust her . . .

Jessica will do anything to unlock Logan’s mystery, even if it means playing a risky sexual game with the billionaire. But some lines once crossed can never be uncrossed.

The Ghostwriter is the first book in the exciting new Billionaire Blackmail series. It features explicit sex, BDSM, and the world’s most powerful vibrator. Mature audiences only, please.

TBR Thursday: That Fatal Kiss by Mina Lobo

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I loooooooooooooooove the Persephone/Hades myth and the romance potential of it. Any book that focuses on that is immediately on my to-read list. Also this cover is stunning. It’s a really standard cover art couple suddenly made stuuuunning.

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That Fatal Kiss

When it comes to love, sometimes you have to cross the line…

Feared by mortals for his inexorable power, and loathed by his fellow Greek gods for the same, Hades rules the Underworld alone. A stark eternity looms before him until he discovers Persephone. Struck by the youthful goddess’ beauty, kindness, and spirit, he must have her. But Hades believes Persephone could never love him, and so he conspires with his powerful brother, Zeus, to take her by force.

Persephone too seeks a mate but her possessive mother, the goddess Demeter, frustrates her husband hunting. Then Hades abducts Persephone, tearing her away from the Upperworld she loves to reign with him in the dank depths below. Though outraged, Persephone cannot deny the desire ignited within her by the dark lord’s touch. And even as she hopes that Demeter will unearth her, Persephone aches to surrender to the heat in Hades’ immortal soul.

TBR Thursday: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

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I’ve been meaning to read this series for a long time, given my love for Greek mythology and my actual writing of a serial also set in the modern world. I didn’t do the movie because ehhh, but I’d love a shot at the book.

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The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can’t seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse—Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy’s mom finds out, she knows it’s time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he’ll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends—one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena—Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.

TBR Thursday: The Second Assistant by Clare Naylor & Mimi Hare

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What can I say? I’m a total, unapologetic sucker for these kinds of fictional behind-the-scenes nightmares of people my age in shit jobs as they try to make their dream happen. Throw in a splash of humor, a dash of romance, and a hellish boss who gets their comeuppance and I’m totally a happy camper.

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The Second Assistant

A fast-paced, breezy read about life at the bottom of the Hollywood food chain

No political science degree could ever prepare Elizabeth Miller for her new job as a second assistant at The Agency, whose clients include everyone you’ve never met—but you know who they’re sleeping with. A former congressional intern in Washington, Lizzie made a bid for a life change that landed her a job a world away, where ethics and First Amendment debates take a backseat to pleading the Fifth for Ritalin-snorting boss Scott Wagner. He’s the hottest young agent in Hollywood, who devotes his days to playing online poker—that is, when he’s not closing a $30 million deal for one of his AAA-list clients. And while getting six-hundred-dollar highlights from Cameron’s colorist or organizing the strippers for George’s birthday party come close to causing heart failure for this East Coast girl, the real dangers lurk elsewhere.

But Lizzie is a  survivor, and no Machiavellian assistant, lecherous producer, or power struggle at The Agency can douse her nascent dreams of climbing up the Hollywood ladder. But first she has to run down to the Coffee Bean to pick up that triple espresso, or Scott is going to throw something….