Lightning Crashes Marla Holt Publication date: January 18th 2022 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance The Tower Card: Upheaval, Crumbling Foundations, Chaos, Awakening The Sun Card: Enlightenment, Joy, Success, Vitality Rachel Ferrer fled the church when she was eighteen, burying her trauma to chase her dreams, only to have them thwarted when her husband died shortly after their son was born. Now she and her tarot-reading roommate do their best to get by. Nicolas Rivera should be happy. He answered his call to the ministry and has held a position in the church he grew up in for more than a decade. He’s married and he loves his kids, but something in him has shifted and the life he thought he wanted doesn’t feel like it fits anymore. When his childhood best friend’s widow reappears in his life, Nicolas tells himself that his desire to be near Rachel is altruistic. Until it isn’t. Rachel and Nicolas have been on the periphery of each other’s lives for years, but when their...

Review: Queen of Pentacles - #Cards of Love Collection - Leah Holt - October 2018 Going into this book blind, I didn't know what to expect as this was one book that I had originally brought as a paperback for someone in a book exchange, and then because I had purchased it, I was able to get the eBook copy for 99c and thought what the heck, why not and the rest was history until trying to decide what to read and scrolling through clicked on Queen of Pentacles and wow, I loved the book more than I thought I would as I connected with both the main characters. In this book, we first meet Ash who is a journalist trying to get back into the world of writing after he was fired and his reputation slightly tarnished. He is at a charity event when he sees a beautiful strong female, Nola. The two share an amazing instant passion-fuelled moment on the balcony and then go their separate ways. That is until Monday morning and Ash discovers that the sexy female is his new boss of the magazine, he...

Review: Ace of Swords -# Cards of Love Series - Nora Flite - October 2018 Being on holiday and owning so many books, I decided to try and make it my mission to clear off some older stories. Scrolling through my iPad, I came across a couple of the Cards of Love Series which I have had since 2018 when the series was released. Each book in the Cards of Love Series is based on a particular tarot card. The Ace of Swords is what Rolland our main male character pulled. The Ace of Swords represents new ideas, new challenges and new beginnings, and much more. Rolland has always been a numbers and facts guy and works as the accountant for Sergio - his business seems to be mostly above board, but there are moments when it could be illegal. Sergio gives off this strong mobster feel. The one thing Sergio loves most is his daughter Tatiana who has just graduated from college and now Rolland is in a bit of a dilemma as he is sleeping with her and the pair are slowly falling in love. The thing though ...

Review: Jaded by Love - Book #8 Written in the Stars Series - AJ Alexander - August 2020 As readers of The Phantom Paragrapher will know I have enjoyed the Written in the Stars Novellas as they are cute instant love stories with a bit more substance than some of the other instalove stories out there that seem to just contain sex. In Jaded by Love, we meet hippie and free-spirited Audrey and her daughter Love. Audrey grew up with free-spirited parents and learned how to read tarot cards. She based all of her life decisions on what the cards told her and after being burned once again with her love life, she has packed away the cards and headed to a smalltown where her college friend has a yoga studio and her daughter Love can dance.  In the smalltown lives Connor who is a single Dad to his daughter Jade, his wife died during childbirth and Connor hasn't felt the need to move on and date anyone, it has always been him and Jade against the world. That is until he meets...

Review: Page of Swords - Cards of Love , Book #4.5 Frisky Beavers Series - Ainsley Booth and Sadie Haller - October 2018 Meadow has had a dry spell when it comes to guys, and so when a friend of hers at the hospital mentions that a friend of his needs a date and he told him all about her and he sounded interested, she decides on a whim to travel down to his bar and do some recon. When she arrives, she meets Bas, and he is hot stuff, but just as she is about to get up the guts, another female and stunning at that comes into the bar and fawns all over Bas. She takes a step back, and one thing leads to another, and she ends up his new tenant. Caught up in her fantasy and it would look weird if she backed out now, she starts to rent his apartment even though she, of course, owns a condo close to the hospital. As the book goes along, we can see the chemistry between Bas and Meadow start to flare, but of course, Bas is trying not to fall into the dating his tenant as he...