Audiobook Review: Paper Love by Aubrey Wynne

Author: Aubrey Wynne

Narrator: Sara Sheckells

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Publisher: Plato Publishing

Released: Oct. 23, 2017

Genre: Contemporary Holiday Romance

Growing up in a Papua New Guinea mission, Joss Palmateer is a gentle soul with a unique view of life. Still adjusting to a new home in the US and the sudden loss of her mother, love is the last thing on her mind.   Sexy physical therapist Ben Montgomery meets his sister's friend and the sparks fly. He takes it as a challenge when she ignores his advances, but it's her extraordinary inner beauty that captures his heart.   With the help of a stray homing pigeon and an old origami legend, Ben sets an unwavering course of romance to win her love.

  Bestselling and award-winning author Aubrey Wynne resides in the Midwest with her husband, dogs, horses, mule and barn cats. She is an elementary teacher by trade, champion of children and animals by conscience, and author by night. Obsessions include history, travel, trailriding and all things Christmas. Her short stories, Merry Christmas, Henry and Pete's Mighty Purty Privies have won Readers Choice Awards and Dante's Gift received the 2016 Golden Quill, Heart of Excellence, and Aspen Gold award, as well as being a Maggie finalist. Aubrey’s medieval fantasy series launches in 2017 with Rolf's Quest. Besides the Chicago Christmas novellas, Aubrey will also release "A Vintage Romance" series inspired by tales of her stepfather, who served for the British Air Force in WWII. The stories will be set in the 40s & 50s.

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  Storytelling comprises the earliest memories of narrator, Sara Sheckells, and remains a constant in her life. She resides outside of Boston with her husband, and two children all of whom are voracious readers and audiobook listeners. Sara held a long-term career in higher education prior to establishing Sara Sounds, her voice artistry business. She especially enjoys narrating projects focusing on young adult themes, parenting, and historical fiction. An on-air host at WERS 88.9 FM while attending Emerson College in Boston, MA, Sara was a co-founder and host of "The Playground," a children's music and spoken word program. She went on to volunteer for several years with Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (now LearningAlly) where she narrated content ranging from textbooks to children's stories. Her forthcoming audiobook projects include "Saving Grace" by best-selling author, Aubrey Wynne.

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I'll be honest. I loved Paper Love a lot. It was such a good holiday love story to read. The characters were well developed and written well. The plot is gradual which I really liked and the narration was really good as well. The only thing that I didn't really like about the narration was how it kept going Ben said this, Joss said this, etc.. I felt that it could've been done differently, but besides that everything was perfect! Well done Aubrey and Sara!

  I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Aubrey Wynne. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it. 

   

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Review: Explicitly Yours by Mika Jolie

Title: Explicitly Yours

Series: A Platonically Complicated Novella

Author: Mika Jolie

Genre: RomCom / Contemporary Romance 

Release Date: October 8, 2017 

Marriage.

The final frontier. The end of dating. The number one cause of divorce.

I bet you every man who is about to take the plunge experiences a wide range of feelings. As a guy, whose wedding day is only seven days away, I know this. 

Anxiety—Nerves are kicking in. Yeah, even confident, cocky guys like me are bound to face nuptial stage fright.

Let’s face it, forever is kind of a long time, right?

Excitement—Coriander and I are going to make it official. I’m marrying my best friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with.

Nothing can top this moment.

That is until I got the biggest surprise of my life…

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“Nothing about us is too fast.” On the contrary, I’d say it’s the other way around. Sometimes, I wish I could go back in time, not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice—especially when it comes to my relationship with Cori. “Don’t call off the wedding.”

Her spine straightens. “What?”

“I don’t want you to call off our wedding.” Fear smolders into panic. Shit. I’ve never felt so vulnerable, so transparent, so human in my life. I stand up from the bed, ready to drop to my knees and beg if necessary. She’s the best of me. And I’m in love with this woman standing in front of me. Everything she does, everything she says, everything she is. The way she laughs makes me smile, the way she talks gives me butterflies, and everything about her makes me fucking happy. 

“Whatever is wrong here, we’ll fix it.”

She pauses for a moment—contemplating. “Why would I call off the wedding?”

I swallow the lump lodging in my throat. “I don’t know.”

“Is that what you want, Dean?” She removes the lid from the jar, stares into the small bottle, twists the lid back on, then narrows her eyes at me. “Do you want to call off the wedding?”

Mika Jolie is the bestselling author of the Martha’s Way series. She lives in New Jersey with her Happy Chaos—her husband and their energizer bunnies. A sports fanatic and a wine aficionado, she’s determined to balance it all and still write about life experiences and matters of the heart. Let’s face it, people are complicated and love can be messy. When she’s not weaving life and romance into evocative tales, you can find her on a hiking adventure, apple picking, or whatever her three men can conjure up.

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Excerpt Reveal: Dennis & Greer by Molly Gould

Historical Romance

Date Published: October 3, 2017

Publisher: Belle Reve Press

Dennis and Greer is a nonfiction love story in letters and journals between 2 college students during the Vietnam era. (This is nonfiction that reads like fiction)

A true story that encapsulates the horrors of war and the innocence of young love.

Buried in a trunk for fifty years, this long-forgotten tale, told through letters and journals from the war-torn Vietnam era, has been resurrected.

College students, Dennis and Greer, met and felt a spark just before moving to different states. Their witty correspondence through letters conjured a desire to meet again, but Dennis tried to keep his distance; duty is more important than love.

As the two embarked on their journey into adulthood and navigated their relationship against the backdrop of war, they were writing a love story that will span the test of time.

Excerpt

Dear Greer (poetic, huh?)

This letter is written upon wrinkled paper, which (as you are an English major), you will realize is symbolic of suffering and hardship. From having gotten to know me you will recall that I am never a whiner so I will let the paper rather than the ink bear what ill tidings are to be borne. You may well ask why I have devoted the introduction of this epistle to such trivia. As in conversation, I find it necessary to fill the air with something while I think of something worthwhile to say. While you write “redundant” over the second “something” in typical gung-ho English major fashion, I will try to find something worthy enough in content and syntax to place before your well-read, though brown, eyes.

Not having succeeded in that undertaking, I will, being forced, continue amid trivialities and redundancies. How are you? I am fine. (The latter is a comment rather than an answer.) My present residence is in Carlin, Nevada (as a glance at the envelope, also wrinkled, will verify—redundancies are tricky) and I receive my mail at P.O. Box 835. May I say that I had a very pointed reason for mentioning the fact?

Out of fear that you will say within someone’s hearing that this letter is much bubble bath, as indeed its first two paragraphs are, I will turn to serious considerations. I long to have the outpourings of your keen mind and kind heart splashed upon my untidy mind (see above) like cool water in the sweating face of a Nevada summer laborer. In other, less revealing words, my first order of business is to insist that you write me a letter. I will even, in consideration of your talent, pay you by the word in typical professional fashion.

I dedicated this summer to ridding myself of fecund thoughts and to the corralling of vagrant impulses, to secluded study and spiritual growth. I’ve had my preliminary interview and I will be leaving on my mission in September. I have departed into the desert to prepare for my calling, to live with the wild beasts and eat locusts and honey. Please realize that your letters will be a tremendous help to me. I think of you often.

Memory, hither come,

And tune your merry notes;

                                            And, while upon the wind

                                            Your music floats,

                                            I’ll pour upon the stream

                                            Where sighing lovers dream,

                                            And fish for fancies as they pass

                                            Within the watery glass.

-William Blake

Sincerely yours, 

Dennis

About the Author

ASU graduate, Molly Gould, lived in the wilderness for 28 days when she was 16 years old (she’s your go-to-girl in the zombie apocalypse). She now confines herself indoors with the AC full-blast in her sunny sate of AZ. Occasionally, she’ll brave the scorching heat with her husband and four children.

When Molly inherited a treasure of vintage journals and letters, she was swept away by the love story contained within those writings. She couldn’t keep Dennis and Greer to herself, so she began transcribing and Dennis and Greer was born.

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