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  Title: A Fire in the Flesh (Flesh and Fire #3)  Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout  Pages: 630 Genre: Fantasy, Romance Release Date: October 31, 2023 *Received and e-ARC for honest review*  Summary (Goodreads)  From #1  New York Times  bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes book three in her Flesh and Fire series… The only thing that can save the realms now is the one thing more powerful than the Fates. After a startling betrayal ends with both Sera and the dangerously seductive ruler of the Shadowlands she has fallen madly in love with being held captive by the false King of the Gods, there is only one thing that can free Nyktos and prevent the forces of the Shadowlands from invading Dalos and igniting a War of Primals. Convincing Kolis won’t be easy, though – not even with a lifetime of training. While his most favored Revenant is insistent that she is nothing more than a lie, Kolis’s erratic nature and twisted sense of honor leave her shake...

Title: Fall of Ruin and Wrath (Awakening #1) Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout   Pages: 432 Genre: Fantasy/Romance  Publisher: Bramble  Release Date: September 12, 2023 Buy: Amazon | Kobo | Indigo | B&N *Received for review from Raincoast Books/JLA ARC Team* Summary ( Goodreads )  SHE LIVES BY HER INTUITION. HE FEEDS ON HER PLEASURE. Long ago, the world was destroyed by gods. Only nine cities were spared. Separated by vast wilderness teeming with monsters and unimaginable dangers, each city is now ruled by a guardian―royalty who feed on mortal pleasure. Born with an intuition that never fails, Calista knows her talents are of great value to the power-hungry of the world, so she lives hidden as a courtesan of the Baron of Archwood. In exchange for his protection, she grants him information. When her intuition leads her to save a traveling prince in dire trouble, the voice inside her blazes with warning―and promise. Today he’ll bring her joy. One day he'll be her...

  Title: A Soul of Ash and Blood Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout  Pages: 636  Genre: New Adult, Fantasy, Romance  Publisher: Blue Box Press Release Date: July 18, 2023  *Received an ARC for honest review from author*  Summary ( Goodreads )  Only his memories can save her… A great primal power has risen. The Queen of Flesh and Fire has become the Primal of Blood and Bone—the true Primal of Life and Death. And the battle Casteel, Poppy, and their allies have been fighting has only just begun. Gods are awakening across Iliseeum and the mortal realm, readying for the war to come. But when Poppy falls into stasis, Cas faces the very real possibility that the dire, unexpected consequences of what she is becoming could take her away from him. Cas is given some advice, though—something he plans to cling to as he waits to see her beautiful eyes open once more: Talk to her. And so, he does. He reminds Poppy how their journey began, revealing things about himsel...

 Title: Fourth Wing (Empyrean #1) Author: Rebecca Yarros  Pages: 512 Publisher: Red Tower Books/Raincoast Books Release Date: May 2, 2023 Thank you Macmillan/Entangled/Raincoast Books for the ARC for honest review Summary ( Goodreads ) Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from  USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Yarros Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre:  dragon riders . But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for bei...

  Title: The Hustler Next Door (Polson Falls #2) Author: K.A. Tucker Release Date: January 3, 2023 Buy: Amazon| Kobo *ARC Received for honest review*  Summary ( Goodreads ) From the international bestselling author of The Simple Wild and Ten Tiny Breaths comes a new stand-alone enemies-to-lovers, small-town romance.   Justine MacDermott is in what she would call a transition period: squatting in her best friend’s house and working in an appliance store in Polson Falls while the man she was supposed to marry starts a new life with someone else.  She’s definitely not thinking about slashing his tires and wishing his vital extremities would fall off. When newcomer Garrett Harrington strolls into Murphy’s looking to buy a refrigerator, Justine convinces herself she’s found her rebound. Or the next love of her life. Either works. But a chance encounter leads her to discover that Garrett isn’t who he made himself out to be, and he’s more interested in hustling her kindly ...