Carly Allen thought she was fine after her breakup with her girlfriend Emma, but one day when she sees a pigs in party hats kids book everything comes flooding in. The wall she built to show the world she was doing fine crumbles and she falls into an Oreo and Taylor Swift spiral. With senior year starting her best friend pushes her to go out and enjoy things, which also includes slightly chaperoning a date that leads to a headbutting meet cute. Carly isn’t sure if she should already be crushing, but here she is with a maybe new crush and having to make some tough decisions about what to do after high school. Burn Before Reading is the kind of story that you will feel is made just for you and Carly’s narration will draw you in from the start like a friend sharing their secrets with you. Continue reading “Burn Before Reading Book Reading ( @captainameripug ) from @kleffnotes”

American Yakuza is the first novel in a series focused on Luce Potter, who happens to be not just a high powered corporate woman, but also the new leader of the Yakuza. Though her grandfather is still alive he has chosen to pass on his title of Oyabun. In this role she must make life and death decisions that impact an entire organization, while also maintaining her image has a legal business owner. Brooke Erickson was an investigative journalist who now works at a financial magazine, but when her editor decides she is the best fit for an article about Luce that she finds herself drawn into a web she thought she had escaped from when she returned to the states. Continue reading “American Yakuza Book Review ( @SapphireBooks ) from @kleffnotes”

Riley is a people watcher and that desire to see lots of interesting passersby was one of the reasons she felt drawn to New York City. The hustle and bustle is not just your average collection of locals and tourists, but is rather a hodgepodge of humans and supernatural creatures, one of whom is Riley. That’s right Riley is a werewolf and one morning on her way to work she catches sight of a vampire that takes her breath away, Izzy. After hemming and hawing for a couple days she finally works up the courage to approach this vibrant vampire and sparks start to fly from the start in Fur and Fangs. Continue reading “Fur and Fangs Book Review ( @RaeDMagdon @DesertPalmPress ) from @kleffnotes”

The Secret of Sleepy Hollow is an inventive retelling of Washington Irving’s well known legend with an additional romantic twist. I love the original story and this isn’t the first retelling I have chosen to read, but I will say this one is now my current favorite. When Abby Crane, a descendant of the same Crane family as the long ago missing Ichabod, is researching the history of Sleepy Hollow and in order to do that she needs to make a trip to the town. On her first night there she bumps into a young woman who catches her eye. When the two meet again over boxes of materials connected to the Van Tassels they decide to share time together sharing their love for the lore of Sleepy Hollow and as they chat they begin to realize secrets that have been long hidden in the letters of Katrina Van Tassel. Continue reading “The Secret of Sleepy Hollow Book Review ( @YlvaPublishing @andimarquette ) from @kleffnotes”