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Curvy Girls Can’t Date Rock Stars by Kelsie Stelting

About the Book

Title: Curvy Girls Can’t Date Rock Stars
Series: The Curvy Girls Club
Author: Kelsie Stelting
Genre: YA Clean Romance
Release Date: February 19, 2022

Meeting pop sensation Jude Santiago might be the best thing for my singing career. And the worst thing for my heart.

Singing is my life, but no agency will sign me because of my size. They want me to lose weight. Dress differently. Be someone other than my size twenty self.

They want me to be like Jude Santiago with his perfectly fitted jeans and tight t-shirts and completely sell out. There’s no way I’m going down that path, and I tell him so, publicly, on my Youtube channel.

But when it gets back to him, he has an agreement: go on tour with him and see for myself that he’s authentic. If I can’t, he won’t make another album.

This will be the sweetest bet I’ve ever won… Or the biggest, most public heartbreak of the century.

Curvy Girls Can’t Date Rock Stars is the vibrant, high stakes, rock star romance you’ve been dreaming of! Join these characters on stage as they battle for their careers and their hearts in the tenth book of The Curvy Girl Club!

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About the Author

Kelsie Stelting is a body positive romance author who writes love stories with strong characters, deep feelings, and happy endings.

She currently lives in Colorado with her high school sweetheart and three sweet boys. You can often find her writing, spending time with family, and soaking up too much sun wherever she can find it.

Visit www.kelsiestelting.com to get a free story and sign up for her readers’ group!

My Review

Curvy Girls Can’t Date Rock Stars
by Kelsie Stelting
Book 10 in the Curvy Girls Club series
Rating: 4.5/5

Kelsie Stelting does it again! This book was so good! As someone who loves music, I loved seeing the professional side of music tours and management. The characters were amazing and so much fun to get to know. I loved their passion for music and each other. Jude saw Des for who she really was and Des really understood Jude. The issues they had to deal with were very real and relatable.

As someone who loves this series, I highly recommend all of the books and this new one does not disappoint. The author continues to weave inspirational and empowering stories for teenagers (and adults) that you won’t want to miss!

PG-13.

My thanks to the author and publisher for providing me with an ARC of the book. All opinions expressed here are entirely my own. No positive review was expected and no compensation received.

February 12, 2022 by Kim Book Reviews

Crowned with Glory by Dorena Williamson

About the Book

Title: Crowned with Glory
Author: Dorena Williamson
Illustrator: Shellene Rodney
Genre: Inspirational for Kids
Publisher: WaterBrook Kids, 40 pp
Release Date: February 8, 2022

An ode to Black hair and Black girl joy, this joy-filled rhyming picture book invites young readers into the world of a young Black girl as she rocks her God-given beauty.

Hello, world! I’m a gift from above.
I already know that I am loved.

Gazing around with a great big grin—
there’s a whole wide world for me to take in.

From the hair on her head to the tips of her toes, Azira knows that she is awesome! And whether it’s styled in twists, curls, braids, Bantu knots, a textured bun, or left totally natural, her hair is just one of the countless things that helps Azira celebrate who God made her to be. She’s able to live out a beautiful story because God has crowned her with glory—and Azira wants you to do the same!

Young readers will be inspired by this empowering, uplifting reminder to always be and love who God created them to be.

Purchase your copy here!

About the Author

Dorena Williamson is a speaker, church planter, and bridge builder whose work has been featured in Christianity Today and Crosswalk. She is a bestselling author of children’s books that adults need too. She and her husband, Chris, have four children and make their home in Franklin, Tennessee.

Connect with her on Instagram: @dorenawilliamson

My Review

Crowned with Glory
By Dorena Williamson
Rating: 4/5

Such an important and inspiring story for young black girls! I was immediately drawn to the incredible illustrations, and I fell in love with the beautiful writing. Azira’s story is an uplifting, positive message about embracing who you are and how God has made you especially when it comes to our differences. This powerful message is wrapped in kid-friendly poetry and eye-catching illustrations!

Highly recommend for all young girls!

My thanks to the author and publisher for providing me with an ARC of the book. All opinions expressed here are entirely my own. No positive review was expected and no compensation received.

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February 2, 2022 by Kim Book Reviews

Stone by Ronie Kendig

About the Book

Title: Stone
Series: The Metcalfes #1
Author: Ronie Kendig
Genre: Clean with faith elements, Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Task Force Press
Release Date: January 6, 2022

She cost him everything. Now, he’s forced to protect her.

Stone Metcalfe embodies the Metcalfe legacy—blue eyes, an unfair amount of good looks, and hardcore patriot-laced character. But a foolish lapse in judgment dismantles his name and career. Humiliated and furious, he retreats to his mountain lodge to hide from media hounds and eke out a new life. However, one phone call from an old Army buddy upends Stone’s best-laid plans.

Supermodel Brighton Buchanan had designers and men eating out of her hand until a terrible mistake trapped her in the soul-eating world of human trafficking. Years later, she is used by her captors to take down the best man she’s ever known. The man she loves. Hope lost, she’s unexpectedly freed—and thrown back into Stone’s life. Being forgiven is out of the question considering how much he hates her.

Believing danger and her trafficker are one wrong move away, Brighton will do anything to keep him from being ruined again—even if it means going back to that life. As everything is falling apart and threats mount against Brighton, Stone realizes forgiveness is the easy part. Protecting her—and his heart—is another story.

Purchase your copy here!

About the Author

Ronie Kendig is an bestselling, award-winning author of over thirty books. She grew up an Army brat, and now she and her Army-veteran husband have returned to their beloved Texas after a nearly ten-year stint in the Northeast. They survive on Sonic runs, barbecue, and peach cobbler that they share⁠—sometimes⁠—with Benning the Stealth Golden. Ronie’s degree in psychology has helped her pen novels of intense, raw characters.

My Review

Stone
By Ronie Kendig
Book 1 in the Metcalfes series
Rating: 4.5/5

Wow. Way to knock it out of the park with such an incredible story! This new series from Ronie Kendig is already so good! As someone who is passionate about combating sex slavery, I was truly interested in this story and was so glad that the author ventured to go there. She has a warning page at the beginning due to possible triggers but she weaves a heartbreaking tale that deals with healing and redemption.

I loved the characters. I am now invested in the Metcalfe family (if I wasn’t already from her previous Nightshade series). Stone is such a raw character with so many emotions. Brighton is a strong survivor despite her crazy past. The chemistry between the two of them was palpable and I can’t wait to read more about the other characters.

Highly recommend this romantic thriller with some broken characters that need healing and redemption!

My thanks to the author and publisher for providing me with an ARC of the book. All opinions expressed here are entirely my own. No positive review was expected and no compensation received.

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