Elf on the Edge Alina Jacobs (The Wynter Brothers, #3) Publication date: November 4th 2025 Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, Holiday, Romance Hire a hitman to take out my cheating ex? It was an eggnog-fueled mistake, I swear! On Christmas Eve, my perfect fiancé stands up at the altar to declare his pure undying love… for my evil stepsister. Cue public humiliation, a ruined wedding, and me crawling back to my small hometown to work minimum wage at my granny’s Christmas café. Just living the holiday dream. But I refuse to show up sad and alone to my cheating ex and man-stealing stepsister’s engagement party. I’ll be devoured by gossipy small-town vultures. So I do what any rational woman would: empty her bank account, max out her credit cards, and hire a high-end escort with the Merry Christmas package. Too bad I mess up the number and accidentally hire… a hitman. Oops. This is why I hate making phone calls. I realize I’m screwed when Talbot Wynter crashes the party...

Review: Detergent - Reid Mockery - December 2013 Reid Mockery’s *Detergent* is a vibrant and hilarious parody of Veronica Roth’s *Divergent*, and it might just be the most refreshing take on dystopian fiction since its original inception. From the very onset, readers are thrust into the absurd yet amusing world where Beverly Cryer, affectionately dubbed Vurl, must grapple with her upcoming faction choice. The stakes are indeed high: choose wisely or risk being branded a “Detergent” and doomed to a life of laundry duties. Luckily for us, Mockery expertly blends satire with a sprinkle of sharp wit, turning a popular narrative trope upside down. The premise of Vurl’s story plays off the structure and motifs of *Divergent* while introducing a host of over-the-top elements that keep readers laughing from start to finish. The factions range from hilariously mundane to outright bizarre, each representative of different societal quirks that Mockery pokes fun at with an unrelenting zeal. Vurl’s...

Fireball Lainey Davis (Bridges and Bitters, #1) Publication date: May 10th 2022 Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, Romance He hates her for some reason. She will not rest until she changes his mind. People always like Samantha Vine. It’s kind of her thing. All the employees at her tech startup think she’s the best boss, and the community partners and investors she woos not only trust, but adore her. Everyone likes her, except him. Sam may have been caught off guard when she accidentally insulted science teacher AJ Trachtenberg, but she’s pulling out all the stops trying to make it up to him…and it’s not working. Offering his students a swanky field trip doesn’t win him over—it only seems to make him grumpier. Unfortunately, grumpy looks very good on him. AJ is tall, dark, and annoyingly handsome and he’s got a giant chip on his shoulder. Honestly, his smoldering is distracting. Sam can’t afford any distractions right now, not with the media hounding her as she tries to ...

Review: Sharkbait - Book #3 Natural History Museum Series - Erin Mallon - September 2022 I am in two minds about this book as the previous two in this series I absolutely loved so much and I have never laughed so hard in a book. That's why I was so over the moon excited to read Sharkbait but it just wasn't as good in my opinion. It's amazing how the main character can make or break the book, as Louise our Marine biologist who by the way hates water and can't swim, was just too much of a cold character for me and I found her irritating as she felt like those cold logical people who have sticks up their butt. It's like seriously, how can you be friends with Mabel and Calliope and be Ralph's sister when you act like this? You have all the love around you, seriously you even had a one-night stand - so freaking loosen up. There were parts of her character I did like, especially the jeopardy and her waking up from surgery. The rest though, she was like a wet soggy bl...

  Today's Top Ten Tuesday was Books that Made you Smile. I decided to showcase books that had me in absolute laughter so here is The Phantom Paragrapher's TTT on a Wednesday of books that made me LOL.