Review: Wicked Enchantment by Sabrina York

Goodreads Blurb

Consigned to a magical prison, Sir Keeshan has suffered torment after torment for thousands of years. The curse of a powerful Djinn entombed him in the lamp, damning him to an eternity of pleasing the women the lamp brings him, but never knowing true love. Every hundred years or so, a new woman appears and they are both are ensnared in an enchanted web of dark desire. And then, just as he grows to care for her, she is spirited away, back to the world.

Such is the nature of his curse.

But when Aimalee arrives, Keeshan knows something is different. She is different. And his feelings for her are undeniable. He has no idea how long they will have together and, desperate to not waste a second of his time with her, Keeshan cannot help but indulge his every craving…and hers.

When the clever minx helps him solve a mystery that has been haunting him for ages, he can’t help but hope she may be the one to help him break the curse.

Hope is a dangerous thing in Keeshan’s world, especially because he knows her departure, when it comes, will destroy him.

This magical, fantasy romance with a twist from Sabrina York was previously published as Lust Eternal and has been re-edited and re-covered.

My Review: Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Bravo to Sabrina. This was a captivating story that brought the genie in the bottle back to our modern world. This is the first book I have read from Sabrina, and I couldn’t put it down. I was so sad that Sir Keeshan had suffered so much torment. Aimalee and Keeshan were both the perfect characters for this story. We all grew to love the interaction between the characters. I loved the plot and mystery of this story and recommend that you all get your wishes from Keeshan.

Author Biography

New York Times and USA Today bestselling Romance Author

To check out coming books visit http://www.sabrinayork.com

Amazon Page: amazon.com/author/sabrinayork
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SabrinaYorkBooks
Twitter: @sabrina_york

Currently Reading: In Her Place by Edel Coffey

A friend from Ireland sent me this thriller. My review will be posted in several weeks.

Goodreads Blurb

Who is the other woman? That’s for you to decide.

Ann devoted years to her mother’s care – and now she’s gone, Ann feels lost.

Justin is also grieving, but his wife is still alive. Deborah is in a coma and she doesn’t have long left.

When the two meet, they are instantly drawn to one another and, before long, they’ve fallen deeply in love.

Ann quickly moves in with Justin and his little girl, making them the perfect family. But just as Ann settles into her new life, Justin’s is turned upside down. Unexpectedly, his wife has survived. Deborah is coming home.

Neither knows what to do. But one thing is Ann has earned the life Deborah left behind, and she plans to keep it . . .

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Review: Love, Stimulating Trivia & Other Arousing Bits by Saylor Storm

Goodreads Blurb

Do you ever wonder what makes one person attracted to another, or what happens to us chemically when we fall in love? Love, Stimulating Trivia & Other Arousing Bits is a collection of love facts and trivia that has been compiled over the years. The trivia will provide you with hours of entertainment. Play a love trivia game with your friends, start a heated discussion or learn just what makes us all tick when it comes to love. Some great pearls of wisdom. Enjoy!

My Review: Rated 4 out of 5 stars

This was a very interesting trivia book. Had some good statistics and some very weird and creepy ones. I didn’t love bugs before, and after hearing about Formicophillia, I definitely don’t love bugs on any part of me yuck. Also, I wouldn’t like to meet a Maschalagnia. Leave my armpit alone.. thanks. It had some very interesting trivia to have fun with your friends.

Author Biography

Saylor Storm takes something from real life and turns it into something fun, and perhaps a bit twisted. Reality becomes fantasy, or is that imagination turns into real life experience? Her stories include places where she has lived or visited from the beaches of Malibu to Islands of Fiji and destinations in between. Love and passion are at the root of her novels; after all isn’t that what life is all about? Storm is a long-time resident of beautiful Lake Tahoe. Saylor is currently working on several new books and loves to hear from her readers! Visit her at http://www.SaylorStorm.com

Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Goodreads Blurb

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless Lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg.

She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.

My Review: Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I truly loved the first book in the series. Marissa knows how to write amazing fairy tales. It really captures the readers’ attention and brings them to a world of suffering and death. You just want to help fight the Lunar’s and save your loved ones. I was so sad for all that Cinder went through. To feel ugly, unwanted, and abused is a terrible feeling. Everyone gets to see who Cinder truly is, even though she tries her best to keep it a secret. But Queen Levana will show her true colors, which most have only been manipulated with her powers and so-called beauty. Can’t wait to read the next book in series.

Author Biography

I live in Tacoma, Washington, with my husband and beautiful twin daughters. Represented by Jill Grinberg. Learn more about me and my upcoming books at http://www.marissameyer.com.

Upcoming Event: Isabel Allende

Information was posted on the Montclair Festival website.

Montclair Literary Festival Presents

An evening with Isabel Allende

celebrating the release of her new novel: My Name is Emilia Del Valle

Join us to welcome internationally beloved author Isabel Allende in conversation with Cleyvis Natera on the publication of her new novel, My Name is Emilia del Valle.



Date: Monday, May 5

Time: 7:00 PM

Location: Temple Ner Tamid, 936 Broad Street Street, Bloomfield, NJ

Tickets: $35 – includes a hardcover copy of My Name is Emilia Del Valle



In this spellbinding historical novel, a young writer journeys to South America to uncover the truth about her father—and herself. My Name is Emilia del Valle is a riveting tale of self-discovery and love from one of the most masterful storytellers of our time.

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Review: Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt’s Creek by Daniel Levy and Eugene Levy

Goodreads Blurb

The official tie-in book for the beloved, nine-time Emmy® Award-winning series Schitt’s Creek.

This beautifully produced, keepsake coffee-table book is the ultimate celebration of the series, the town, the characters, and the state of mind that is Schitt’s Creek. Capturing the essence and alchemy of all six seasons of what is now considered to be one of the most groundbreaking comedy television series of the last decade, Best Wishes, Warmest Regards is a gift to fans everywhere who have made the show their own.

Included are character profiles from the cast of Johnny, Moira, David, and Alexis, and all of the characters that populate the town, major moments from Moira’s endorsement of Herb Ertlinger Winery, to Patrick and David’s first kiss, to Cabaret and the Rose Family Christmas episode. Also included are special features, such as the complete, illustrated catalogs of David’s knits and Moira’s wigs, Moira’s vocabulary, Alexis’s adventures, and behind-the-scenes moments from Dan and Eugene Levy and the cast of Schitt’s Creek.

My Review: Rated 5 out of 5 stars

It’s a fantastic movie tie-in for one of the best and funniest series ever made. I watched the series for the first time last year. I had this book since it was released, but I wanted to read it after I saw the series. This book is perfect for the fans of this show. It includes every season and episode details. I enjoyed seeing all the outfits of Moira and David, plus Moira’s epic wigs. The fashion and wig options for the characters made this series unforgettable. It’s those outfits that will take me back to a part of the series I enjoyed and will never forget. I loved that David Rose found his happily ever after. They were a family who lived lavishly and were not very connected, and having lost everything brought them together. Moving to a small town they weren’t fond of showed how the characters worked on their family connection and built a tight-knit community. I also enjoyed all the fan art included throughout the book. I love the images and getting a backstage entrance to a community filled with love.

Currently Reading: Rabbit Moon by Jennifer Haigh

I’m reading this book for the Barnes & Noble book club for April. My review will be posted in a few weeks.

Goodreads Blurb

Four years after their bitter divorce, Claire and Aaron Litvak get a phone call no parent is prepared for: Their twenty-two-year-old daughter Lindsey, teaching English in China during a college gap year, has been critically injured in a hit-and-run accident. At a Shanghai hospital they wait at her bedside, hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.

The accident unearths a deeper fissure in the family: the shocking event that ended the Litvaks’ marriage and turned Lindsey against them. Estranged from her parents, she has confided only in her younger sister, Grace, adopted as an infant from China. As Claire and Aaron struggle to get their bearings in bustling, cosmopolitan Shanghai, the newly prosperous “miracle city,” they face troubling questions about Lindsey’s life there, in which nothing is as it seems.

Author Biography

Jennifer Haigh is an American novelist and short story writer. Her new novel MERCY STREET takes on the contentious issue of abortion rights, following the daily life of Claudia Birch, a counselor at an embattled women’s clinic in Boston.


Her last novel, HEAT AND LIGHT, looks at a Pennsylvania town divided by the controversy over fracking, and was named a Best Book of 2016 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and NPR. Earlier books include the novel FAITH, about a beloved Boston priest accused of a molesting a child in his parish, and THE CONDITION, the story of a woman diagnosed in childhood with Turner’s Syndrome.

Haigh’s critically acclaimed debut novel MRS. KIMBLE won the PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction. Her second novel, the New York Times bestseller BAKER TOWERS, won the PEN/L. L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author. Her short story collection NEWS FROM HEAVEN won of the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN New England Award in Fiction. A Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, she writes frequently for The New York Times Book Review. Her fiction has been published in eighteen languages.