GingerRead Reviews

Title: Dumplin' Author: Julie Murphy Publisher: Balzer + Bray Release Date: September 15, 2015 Source: ARC from Publisher Buy the Book: Amazon / Book Depository / Indigo Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed “Dumpin’” by her former beauty queen mom) has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked…until Will takes a job at Harpy’s, the local fast-food joint. There she meets Private School Bo, a hot former jock. Will isn’t surprised to find herself attracted to Bo. But she is surprised when he seems to like her back. Instead of finding new heights of self-assurance in her relationship with Bo, Will starts to doubt herself. So she sets out to take back her confidence by doing the most horrifying thing she can imagine: entering the Miss Clover City beauty pageant—along with several unlikely candidates—to show the wo...

Title: Finding Perfect Author: Kendra C. Highley Publisher: Entangled Crush Release Date: September 14, 2015 Source: ARC from Publisher Buy the Book: Amazon / B&N / Indigo How far will you go for perfection? For “Perfect Paige” Westfield, today is “D” Day. As in, she just got one on her calculus test. With her dreams of Stanford, her reputation, and her parents’ expectations at stake, Paige needs to find a way to save face before everything she’s worked for goes up in flames. Ben Franklin (yes, he’s related) is from the wrong side of town, with the wrong clothes and the wrong kind of life. He also knows an opportunity when he sees one, and he’ll be happy to tutor Paige—if she makes him into the kind of guy her best friend, the hottest girl in school, will date. It’s the perfect arrangement. And Paige is determined not even the inconvenient—and utterly imperfect—attraction simmering between her and Ben will ruin it… Anytime I write a review for one of the books from Entangled'...

Title: Undaunted (Knights in Black Leather #1) Author: Ronnie Douglas Publisher: William Morrow Release Date: September 15, 2015 Source: ARC from Publisher Buy the Book: Amazon / Book Depository / Indigo Following in the tradition of Kristen Ashely, Joanna Wilde, and  Jay Crownover, this first novel in a sexy, dark New Adult series tells the thrilling story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to a Southern motorcycle club’s inner circle—and a dangerously hot biker. Aubrey Evans needs to get her life back on track after her father indicted for embezzlement. She’ll save college tuition money, hightail it out of small-town Tennessee, and steer clear of hard-muscled boys on motorcycles. yet there’s no ignoring someone like Zion. A knight in black leather, Zion looks like every ad idea she’s been told to avoid, but she can’t resist him. Whenever she’s in trouble, he’s there. Applying as his rough exterior may be, it’s the protective, principled man beneath that tempts her like cr...

Title: Playing the Player Author: Lisa Brown Roberts Publisher: Entangled Crush Release Date: September 14, 2015 Source: ARC from Publisher Buy the Book: Amazon / B&N / Indigo The Good Girl vs. The Player Round one begins… Trina Clemons needed the money. Why else would she—the most organized, prepared student in school—spend the summer as a nanny and partner with the biggest slacker ever? Now she’s ready to tackle nanny hood with her big binder of research and schedules. Just don’t ask her about the secret job of “fixing” the bad habits of a certain high school player… Slade Edmunds prefers easy hook-ups, and Trina is definitely not his type. She’s all structure and rules, while Slade wants to just have fun. Fortunately, Trina has no idea about the bet Slade made with his best friend that he can totally get her to unwind by the end of summer… Then the weirdest thing happens. There’s chemistry. A lot of it. But nothing gets between a boy and a girl like a big, fat secret. The Go...

Title: Ten Things Sloane Hates About Tru (Creative HeArts #1) Author: Tera Lynn Childs Publisher: Entangled Crush Release Date: September 14, 2015 Source: ARC from Publisher Buy the Book: Amazon / B&N / Indigo When life gives you a blank canvas, make art. Sloane Whitaker hates everything about moving to Texas. She hates leaving behind her friends and half her family in New York, starting over senior year at Austin’s NextGen Academy, and having to say she lives in Texas. Most of all, she hates that it’s all her fault. If she wants to earn her way back to the Big Apple, she has to prove she can still be the perfect daughter. Which means no vandalism art, no trouble at school, and absolutely no Tru Dorsey, her serial screw-up neighbor, who loves nothing more than pushing her buttons. But from the moment he vaults onto the roof outside her bedroom, there is something about him that makes her want to break every rule. Suddenly it’s not the ten things she hates about Tru that are at th...

Title: Into My Arms (Off the Map #3.2) Author: Lia Riley Publisher: Forever Yours Release Date: September 8, 2015 Source: ARC from Publisher Buy the Book: Amazon / B&N / Indigo “You’re here because I want to touch you.” Beth Jacobs spends her days slogging away in a corporate “fish bowl,” as a hard-working assistant for one of North America’s youngest dot-com billionaires. Aleksander “Z” Zavtra is the definition of dark and dangerous with a sexy Eastern European snarl. He’s also ruthless. Curt. Exacting. An infuriating man she loves to hate. While Beth hardly sees him, it’s as if he’s always watching her… Z doesn’t do romance. But he never expected to be captivated by a whip-smart, fiery assistant who just so happens to share an uncanny resemblance to the beautiful face that haunts his dreams. He craves Beth. He wants to stroke her skin, to feel her heat beneath him. And what Z wants, he gets. And for one weekend, the lines between employer and employee are blurred as Z and Beth ...

Title: Don't Fail Me Now Author: Una LaMarche Publisher: Razorbill Release Date: September 1, 2015 Source: ARC from Publisher Buy the Book: Amazon / Book Depository / Indigo Michelle and her little siblings Cass and Denny are African-American and living on the poverty line in urban Baltimore, struggling to keep it together with their mom in jail and only Michelle’s part-time job at the Taco Bell to sustain them. Leah and her stepbrother Tim are white and middle class from suburban Maryland, with few worries beyond winning across games and getting college applications in on time. Michelle and Leah only have one thing in common: Buck Devereaux, the biological father who abandoned them when they were little. After news trickles back to them that Buck is dying, they make the uneasy decision to drive across country to his hospice in California. Leah hopes for closure; Michelle just wants to give him a piece of her mind. Five people in a failing, old station wagon, living off free s...