✯Release Review✯ Perfectly Thin by Margaret McHeyzer

Title: Perfectly Thin

Author: Margaret McHeyzer

Genre: YA/NA Contemporary Romance

Release Date: October 19, 2020

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When I’m thinner, no one will make fun of me 

When I’m thinner, I’ll be accepted

When I’m thinner, I’ll be beautiful

When I’m thinner, I’ll be happy

When I’m thinner, I’ll be loved, and adored

When I’m thinner, I’ll like myself

I can’t wait until I’m perfectly thin.

✯✯5 Unperfect Stars!!!✯✯ 

Margaret is seriously one of my favorite authors!! She writes books that hit you deep down in your gut. Her books aren’t all rainbows and butterflies. Nope her butterflies usually have one wing that’s bent and even though they’re still beautiful, they’re flying in a circle or just all over the place.  Almost every book that she’s released I have seen pieces of myself in every main female character and Perfectly Thin was no different.   

Jane’s in her senior year of high school and her eighteenth birthday is rapidly approaching. Jane is very close with her parents, grandparents, her 2 best friends and is as close as possible with her 2 older sisters as much as possible. 

Jane isn’t one of the popular girls in school but as long as she has her two best friends she’s good. She’s never been super skinny like her sisters or her besties. Unfortunately for Jane the mean girls and guys target Jane every single chance they get.

Jane has been exercising and watching what she’s been eating and it’s showing. She’s lost some weight and looks great. When one of the popular guys asks her out on a date she is shocked but agrees. 

Jane was really looking forward to going and having a good time. What should’ve been a great night turned into the worst night of Jane’s life. When Jane was left after being called a something and not a someone it gutted Jane.

Jane went on a mission of her own. She was going to prove to the meanies in school, her sister and everybody else who stares at her when she walks by.  Jane googles exercises and different foods and their calorie count. Then writes down an exercise and food plan and is strict on herself. 

Jane is hard on herself. Harder than anybody else.  Jane has the voices on the inside of her head talking, yelling and reminding her of things all day. Loosing weight starts to become an addiction to Jane and not a good addiction. No matter what anybody says to Jane she’s not listening and it might just kill her if she doesn’t start to listen.

My whole life I’ve struggled with my weight. My weight 100% gone up and down my entire life and I don’t ever see that not being an issue. I myself have voices that talk to me whenever I look in the mirror or buying new clothes.  I’ve   also been bullied in school a bunch of times as well.  

I totally understood Jane’s feelings and the urge to loose the weight. But, the 

more the story went the more I worried for Jane and for her health. 

Margaret definitely did her research on anorexia and everything that a person goes thru while struggling through the daily and while trying to overcome it. Perfectly Thin is in my top favorite reads this year. I’m looking forward to Margaret McHeyzer’s next release.  

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✯Release Review✯ When the Time is Right by Aly Martinez and M. Mabie

I will always be here for you. There isn’t a world that exists where I’m not gonna be around for you.

When the Time is Right, a funny, sweet and emotional standalone from USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez and M. Mabie is available now!

Fate doesn’t always happen overnight.

Hudson Bradley is the cockiest, most stubborn, hard-headed man I’ve ever known. And for fifteen years, he’s been my brother's best friend.

But lately, what I’m feeling for him isn’t friendship at all.

Why is my heart racing every time his blue eyes lock on mine? Why does every word he rumbles in my ear make my body come alive? And worst of all, why did I bet him that I could find a woman he and his son would both love?

If I hadn’t given up on love altogether, Hudson would have been perfect for me. After all, he was there the day my world fell apart. He’s spent the last six years piecing me back together.

There are a million reasons why we could never work, but after a single kiss, I can’t remember any of them.

Now that the time is right, I have to make him mine—before I lose him forever.

✯✯5 Hudson Filled Stars!!! ✯✯

Well first things first.  Aly Martinez and M. Mabie have become one of my favorite duo-authors!! I am hoping and praying these two continue publishing books together. 

Hudson and Alexis have been in each other’s lives longer then they haven’t. Hudson’s best friend is Alexis’s older brother Cal. The three of them and their neighbor were always together. 

Hudson didn’t have a good family. Call’s family took him in and looked at him as one of their own. When Hudson and their neighbor had a baby together his son was loved and cared for as well. 

Hudson owns, works and manages a construction business that he started from scratch and business is booming. He’s also very involved in his son’s life. 

Alexis hasn’t had it easy the past few years. She lost somebody she loved with everything and she faked her smile for awhile. With the help of Hudson and her family she’s almost 100% back to her happily go luck self. 

Lately Alexis and Hudson have been spending more time together since Cal is getting married and skipping their weekly get together. So, they’ve been on their own. 

Neither one of them have either had any romantic feelings for each other before. One night they decide to make a bet. They’ll set each other up on dates until they find the one. If Alexis finds Hudson the one he’ll give her cats AKA her babies the perfect cat room and if Hudson wins she has to give him her prized possession, her grandfathers car. 

Things didn’t go the way either of them expected. Instead they’d compare their dates to each other. They realized how much they care about each other and not just as “my brothers best friend” and “my best friends little sister “ type relationship. 

While Hudson and Alexis really are perfect for each other, their HEA won’t come easily. They’re not sure how their family will be with them in a relationship more than friends. 

Alexis still has a part of herself hidden from everybody. A part she was never ready to let anybody know about and that she wasn’t ready to giveaway. 

Hudson’s such a dedicated father. He always wanted to be the father his never was. He looked at Cal and Alexis’s father as a dad and that’s what he wanted to be for his son. While Hudson loves Alexis, he’s 100% fully dedicated to his son. 

They’ll have obstacles to get past in order to get their HEA. They must not give up on each order if it’ll ever work. 

I finished this so quick bc I couldn’t put it down. I am so in love with Alexis and Hudson. I felt like I knew them or I could’ve been them. This story has everything you’d want in a friends-to-lovers story. 

The authors had me Lmao one minute and I was crying the next. I’m stoked these two authors decided to team up bc they’re definitely perfect at it. I’m praying that they don’t stop writing. I want lots more stories from them. I also wanna find myself a Hudson of my own bc he’s legit PERFECT!! 

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I did everything I could to not make eye contact. Actually, my MO for the past week had been no contact period, but that was a little hard to do when the guy you’re dodging knows things about you. Specifically, the lock code on your front door. “You can go home, Hudson. I’m fine.” Out of my periphery, I watched him perch his hands on his hips. “No,” he argued. “Not until we figure this out.” So he had noticed my ghosting. I hoped he wasn’t as good at calling my bluff. “There is no this.” “What about what you said at the—” “Yeah, I must have had a cold or something. Whatever it was, I’m over it.” Lies. Lies. Lies. Hopefully, I’d start believing them. “Over it?” “Yep. Hey, how was your date?” My topic-swapping skills were on point. When he stopped, only an arm's length away, I finally seized what scrap of pride I had and looked up into his blue eyes. “Are you seeing her again?” He huffed. “Well, that’s kind of up to you.” “Me?” I dropped the spoon into the sink and put the ice cream down so I could cross my arms over my chest. “What do I have to do with it?” His lids fell shut, and he tipped his head at the ceiling, stretched his neck from side to side, and then brought his gaze back to mine. “Kate seems to think that, maybe, I have a thing…for you.” My face flushed hot, and I wondered if maybe I’d fallen down trying to get out of my leather skirt earlier and I was dreaming, passed out on my bedroom floor. The issue with that theory was I could smell him, feel the warmth from his body in front of me, and see his heartbeat thumping in the vein in his neck. This was real, but I still wasn’t sure I could handle it. “Well, that’s just, uh, dumb,” I contended weakly. Shaking my head to rattle myself back to sanity, I asked, “W-why did she say that?” I tried to laugh, but it was as fake as my gusto. “Because, apparently, I talked about you the whole night.” Okay, I was wrong. I’d thought riding in a car with him and seeing him shirtless and watching him play with Jack and seeing how much he loved my family and having him touch me and avoiding him all week had been torture. This moment was a whole new level of torment. “So?” I said childishly. It didn’t matter how I felt or what I wanted. I couldn’t just leap into his arms and expect everything to turn out the way it was supposed to. That’s not how my life worked. “So I need to find out if this, whatever’s been building between us, is something.” Wouldn’t that be nice? Up until that very second, it had all been one-sided. I’d racked my brain all week to understand why I’d felt the crazy things I did about him. “How you gonna do that?” “We’re going to kiss,” he stated very matter-of-factly, and then he closed the distance between our bodies. “We are?” I whispered. My voice had all but left the building. “Unless you stop me right now.” I wanted to. I didn’t want to. I was scared. I was excited. But mostly, I wasn’t stopping him.

About Aly 

Originally from Savannah, Georgia, USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez now lives in South Carolina with her husband and four young children. Never one to take herself too seriously, she enjoys cheap wine, mystery leggings, and olives. It should be known, however, that she hates pizza and ice cream, almost as much as writing her bio in the third person. She passes what little free time she has reading anything and everything she can get her hands on, preferably with a super-sized tumbler of wine by her side.

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M. Mabie lives in Illinois with her husband. She writes everything from steamy romantic comedies to angst-filled, pull your hair out drama. She enjoys it all. With her unconventional love stories, she tries to embody "real-life romance."

She cares about politics, but will not discuss them in public. She uses the same fork at every meal, watches Wayne's World while cleaning, and lets her dog sleep on her head. She has always been a writer. In fact, she was born with a pen in her hand, which almost never happens. Almost.

M. Mabie usually doesn't speak in third-person. She promises.

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✯Release Review✯Echoes of You by Margaret McHeyzer

Title: Echoes of You

Author: Margaret McHeyzer

Genre: NA Dark College Romance

 Release Date: May 18, 2020

Blurb

At seven I was adopted by the most loving parents in the world.
In this perfect family, I also found my best friend, and sister Tina.
Throw into the mix my boyfriend Dylan, and my dog Zhen, life was good... until it wasn’t.
A catastrophic incident unearthed echoes of my past.
It left me no choice but to confront my inner demons.
Will I be able to live through this again?

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Excerpt

Prologue

The palms of my hands are sweating.

Standing in front of an unassuming building, I look up to see its sheer size. Still, it’s inconspicuous because it looks exactly like all the other buildings surrounding it.

The sun breaks out just behind the brick building, casting the entrance into shadow.

Funny, that. Because I’ve been living in the shadows all my life. Now is the time for me to come out of the shadows, and speak my truth.

Speak our truth.

There’s a line of cars in front of the building, all marked with the same lettering.

My heart beats quickly as a shock of finality runs through my veins.

This is where part of me will die and another part of me will live.

All my life I’ve been worried about what people think of me. But I can’t continue on in a life where I’m only breathing. I need to learn to live.

I take several deep breaths, ready to cross the street and take the leap I’ve been longing for.

“You can do this,” I say to myself. The sun is moving higher, the shadow becoming smaller.

Yes, you can.

I look to my left, and to my right, checking for oncoming cars.

I keep walking, crossing the street. I know if I stop for even a second, I’ll talk myself out of going.

You can do it.

I walk until I come to the automated doors that slowly slide open.

Hopefully, they’ll believe you.

I head to the counter, where a woman with dark hair pulled back in a severe ponytail and wearing a uniform is working on a computer. She looks up, but remains seated. “Can I help you?” she says in a flat voice.

My hands tremble, so I knit them together to stop the emotion bursting to come forward.

“I, um,” my voice quivers with uncertainty.

“Are you okay?” She stands and comes closer to the counter. She looks behind me, searching for a hint as to why I’m so edgy.

“I, um, need to talk to the police unit who deals with sexual abuse.”

                ✯✯5 Echo Filled Stars!!! ✯✯ 
I’m bowing down to Margaret McHeyzer again!! Whenever I finish a book by her I’m blown away all over again. Whenever I finish a book by her I say it’s my new favorite book by her and then she releases another book and I’m saying it all over again lol. Echoes of You was no different then all her other books. 

I can sit here and write a nice lengthy review and you’ll know everything. But, I’d hate to give everything away. I was on a crazy ride of emotions from the first sentence to the last. 

The prologue made my heart break. Then part one started and my heart was pounding bc you’re introduced to three characters that all have a role to play and that role made my stomach turn upside down and inside out every page. 

At part two we met Molly. She was adopted at seven years old to two amazing loving parents. Her sister Tina was adopted as well and they’re the same age and share the same birthday. They’ve been best friends and sisters since the day they brought Molly home. Their family was extremely close and none of them ever thought that would change. But, they always say never say never. 

The girls are graduating high school and turning 18. Tina starts dating a guy and when Molly meets Dylan, Tina pushes for a double date. When Molly meets Tina’s boyfriend instantly the hairs on her arms raise. Molly doesn’t get a good vibe of him but Tina won’t hear about it. 

Dylan is a little older then Molly but he’s legit an amazing guy!!! Talk about the perfect guy. 

I kept waiting for Dylan to pull the rug out from below me bc nobody is that amazing. 

When tragedy hits Molly’s family it hit not only rained but poured. Bc, Molly’s demons decided that moment to return to the surface and blindside everybody close to her. 

At the end of the day the people closest to her will standby her side but the one person that can help Molly get past what she’s going thru is Molly herself. 

I read this book so quick I’m not sure I remember breathing when I read it. That’s how good it was. I hardly looked up from my kindle. 

This book definitely can trigger some people if you have triggers. There’s both physical abuse and mental health issues that Molly and her family have to deal with. 

Margaret writes stories that are 110% real life for a lot of people in the world today. And, story after story that Margaret publishes she writes them all beautifully. Even though some or multiple parts of a book might be hard to read but believe me Margaret has 1000% done her research for every single subject that she puts down on paper. Echoes of You was no different. I’m really, really looking forward to her next release.

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STRONG, BRAVE AND COURAGEOUS CHARACTERS.

**Write something worth reading**

I'm Margaret and I'm a self-published author.

Recently I was fortunate in obtaining New York Times best-selling status on my YA/NA book - Ugly, and my YA book - Mistrust.

My last six books have been YA and I'm completely in love with the genre. I love being able to communicate with people through my words and stories.

My writing genres all differ, but the one thing I keep consistent is my heroines. All my female lead characters are strong, gutsy and not the 'perfect' woman. While my books all have romantic elements in them, they aren't just about the romance. They're about finding strength, acceptance and making life long connections.

I hope you enjoy my stories as much as I have while writing them.

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✯Release Review✯The Two of Us (Love in Isolation #1) by Kennedy Fox

What do you do when the entire nation is on lockdown

If you’re an heiress to a billion-dollar fashion company, then you quarantine in a glamorous cabin and finish your final semester of NYU online. The best way to focus on her upcoming valedictorian honor is away from her family, classmates, and the paparazzi. Cameron St. James is ready to get out of the big city and head Upstate for seclusion, despite her parents’ pleas to stay home. 

What do you do when a pandemic is sweeping the world?

If you’re barely making ends meet, then you isolate yourself in your best friend’s mountain cabin with breathtaking views and no neighbors for miles. It’s the perfect safe place away from three roommates who don’t take the life-threatening epidemic seriously. Elijah Ross is ready to work remotely and focus on his next big promotion, assuming he’ll still have a job after this.

What happens when things don’t go as planned, and you’re stuck with the one person you dislike the most?

You improvise and do whatever it takes to avoid each other, though it proves to be impossible. The cold evenings alone turn into movie and popcorn nights together by the fireplace. Days turn into weeks, and eventually, more than just a friendship blossoms. As the unknown haunts them, they lean on one another for comfort—until someone pops their safety bubble and threatens everything.

The Two of Us is an enemies to lovers, brother’s best friend standalone romance set in the current affairs of history in the making. Though the character’s storyline is fiction, the circumstances are very real, and we’re sensitive to this topic. This is a story about hope, love, and so much more with a guaranteed happily ever after!

OMG Kennedy Fox has done it again!! But, this isn’t like all their previous books. It’s based on the COVID virus that’s hit the world we live in today. 

Cameron St. James comes from a wealthy family. Her family is in the fashion business.  Cameron is weeks away from graduating college at the top of her class. Instead of  quarantining at home with her parents she decided to go stay at their family cabin and she could use the time alone to get her work done. 

Elijah Ross works in real estate but due to the covid virus that’s hit he will work from home. But, his roommates aren’t taking quarantining serious. He reaches out to his best friend Ryan, who’s comes from a wealthy family. He became a Dr instead of going into the family business. Ryan let Eli quarantine in his families cabin. 

Neither one was expecting the other one to be at the cabin. These two have known each other since they met when they were young due to Eli’s mom working for Cameron’s parents. But, since their teenage years they’ve become frenemies. 

These two go back and forth constantly and if they’re not doing that they’re either getting along or ignoring each other. What they’re not doing is admitting the crush they’ve had on each other since forever. 

Until Eli makes a quick smooth move that made both of their world tilt and they couldn’t get back to standing straight up. As they start to explore this new thing between them one of them start feeling crappy. 

Cameron and Eli just hope they both get over the covid and that they’ll leave together as we/us and not me. But, nothing will come easy. 

Cameron might’ve seemed stuck up and snotty at the beginning but the longer she was at the cabin the more she changed or realized the way she was brought up thinking wasn’t the best. 

Eli is as amazing as all the other men Kennedy Fox has given us. I loved how he gave it to Cameron. Yet he’d cook for her bc he knew she couldn’t boil water lol. He’s just amazing. 

I honestly couldn’t put this down!! Kennedy Fox wrote Eli and Cameron’s feelings and their thoughts exactly what everybody in the world is thinking. I’m looking forward to Ryan’s story!!

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Brooke Cumberland and Lyra Parish are a duo of romance authors who teamed up under the USA Today pseudonym, Kennedy Fox. They share a love of Hallmark movies & overpriced coffee. When they aren’t bonding over romantic comedies, they like to brainstorm new book ideas. One day, they decided to collaborate under a pseudonym and have some fun creating new characters that’ll make you blush and your heart melt. If you enjoy romance stories with sexy, tattooed alpha males and smart, quirky, independent women, then a Kennedy Fox book is for you! They’re looking forward to bringing you many more stories to fall in love with!

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✯Release Review✯Addiction by Margaret McHeyzer

Title: Addiction

Author: Margaret McHeyzer

Genre: Dark YA/NA

Release Date: July 24, 2018

Blurb

Meth, crank, ice, glass, fire, tina, chalk, crystal or crystal meth.

Whatever you call it, it’s the same thing. Addictive.

Drugs ruin people’s lives.

I should know, they destroyed mine.

I’m Hannah and I got hooked on ice. What started as a trickle, ended with a tsunami washing everything away; my family, my life.

I’m not sure you’re ready to read my story; it’s real and confronting.

Open the book, read the pages and see how easy it is for anyone to get addicted.

Ice affects all types of people. It doesn’t discriminate.

It will SCREW. YOU. UP. 

*Dark YA/NA story- Recommended for 16+. Strong drug abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse and emotional conditioning. Contains distressing content. It will cause you anger, frustration and you'll want to hurt some characters.

                                         ✯✯5 Addicting Stars!!! ✯✯

Holy crap!!! Margaret writes her books that can be about something you went thru or somebody you know went thru it. Her stories gut me.  But, this one OMG I wanted to throw my kindle multiple times. 

This is Hannah’s story. Hannah’s a 17 yr old with great parents, she’s doing great in school. She’s just looking forward to graduation and going to college. 

One night she goes to her friends parents anniversary party. She meets her friends cousin and they hit it off. Hannah agrees to go on a date with him. While on their date Hannah meets Edgar and she gets a feeling she didn’t get with her date.  

Edgar starts showing up at Hannah’s house and school.  He’s older then her and a demanding person. Hannah tries to fight him but she just can’t she agrees to go on a date. On that date he slips something to Hannah without her knowing and her life completely spirals from there. 

Hannah gets hooked on drugs. She has alienated herself from her parents and friends. She’s doing things that she’s not fully aware that she’s doing. Edgar is so good at manipulating her to get her to do what he wants. She thinks he loves her and that’s why he wants things done certain ways and she does it. 

The drugs have messed her so up that she’s hallucinating and things that never happened are playing in her head. She went from sweet to just a nasty person. Bc, she was listening to the drugs. It was both extremely sad and utterly had me pissed off. 

This is a good that I want my 16 yr old niece to read bc this could easily happen to her. I know whenever Margaret releases a new book I’m in for an emotional ride and Hannah’s story was no different. You can tell Margaret does her homework before she writes a book. Bc, man she hit Hannah on the head with everything! And, as much as I hated Edgar. There are people like him in the world and that’s scary to think about. This is a must read story but be prepared.  

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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER OF UGLY AND MISTRUST

**Write something worth reading**

I'm Margaret and I'm a self-published author.

Recently I was fortunate in obtaining New York Times best selling status on my YA/NA book - Ugly, and my YA book - Mistrust.

My last three books have been YA and I'm completely in love with the genre. I love being able to communicate with people through my words and stories.

My writing genres all differ, but the one thing I keep consistent is my heroines. All my female lead characters are strong, gutsy and not the 'perfect' woman. While my books all have romantic elements in them, they aren't just about the romance. They're about finding strength, acceptance and making life long connections.

I hope you enjoy my stories as much as I have while writing them.

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