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If you were a fan of the emo/metal music of the early 2000s, this book is for you. Still Into You by #ErinConnor is a metal frontman and music journalist getting their second chance. Check out my full review now!

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[The Hype TBR Game] March 2026 TBR + February Reading Wrap-Up | Emerald City + Planet Comicon prep YouTube video by LiteraryHypeWoman

New month means new reading list. Check out what's on my TBR as I get ready for #EmeraldCityComicCon and #PlanetComiconKC in my March #TBRGame

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Shantel VanSanten and Laz Alonso talk The Boys final season at FanX 2025 | Full Panel [Comic Cons] YouTube video by LiteraryHypeWoman

Get ready for the final season of #TheBoys by watching #LazAlonzo and #ShantelVanSanten talk about their experiences on the show from the #FanX2025 main stage.

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Book Review: “Woman Down” by Colleen Hoover Curiosity got the best of me, y'all. I've read a couple Colleen Hoover books and been so-so on them overall. That paired with all the drama of her past and the It Ends With Us legal saga made me a bit hesitant to pick up anything else of hers. When the original jacket copy for Woman Down came out, it sounded very close to real life, and piqued my interest.

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#ColleenHoover is back with a book that apparently needed a warning about not comparing it to her real life. Is #WomanDown worth the read? Check out my thoughts.

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Love Y'all Book Festival 2026 Vlog + Book Haul | Chaos and Community in Atlanta YouTube video by LiteraryHypeWoman

My first event of 2026 is in the books! Check out my vlog and #bookaul from #LoveYallBookFestival in Atlanta

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Courtney Summers brings zombies back | This Is Not A Test book & movie [Author Chats] YouTube video by LiteraryHypeWoman

Happy movie release day to #ThisIsNotATest and #CourtneySummers!

Hear more about her journey to re-publish the book in time for the movie release and behind the scenese stories from set now on #literaryhypepodcast.

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Book Review: “Red City” by Marie Lu I've been a fan of Marie Lu's books for years, so when I heard she was dropping an adult novel, I was highly intrigued. We've seen several YA authors switching to adult novels over the last year or so, which always piqued my interest in the story idea that pulled them away from their genre. For Red City , there's a lot of factors that make this an adult story, and I would agree that there's no real way to make it YA.

#BookReview: Marie Lu's adult debut, Red City, is a Romeo & Juliet-esque tale of two childhood friends ending up on opposite sites of a magical drug war. Check out my review!

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Book Review: “This Is Not A Test” by Courtney Summers Sometimes I get lucky and find the hidden ARCs at a book festival. That's exactly how I ended up with a copy of This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers. Her publicist left a copy of it for someone to find at YALLFest 2025 and I snagged it. Mwuahahaha. This Is Not A Test is a repackage of the book that was released more than a decade ago.

New #bookreview + #authorinterview!
Courtney Summers just re-released an updated version of her book This Is Not A Test just in time for the movie adaptation. Check out my thoughts on the book and hear some behind the scenes information on #literaryhypepodcast

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Event Review: Love Y’all Book Festival 2026 Romance readers flocked to Decatur, Georgia to spend Valentine's weekend with their favorite authors. Love Y'all Book Festival took over Courtyard by Marriott Atlanta Decatur Downtown for two days of author signings, panels, shopping, and more. This is a challenging event to review because it truly felt like a tale of two events over the two days. Saturday didn't get started on the right foot.

Event Review: Love Y’all Book Festival 2026

Romance readers flocked to Decatur, Georgia to spend Valentine's weekend with their favorite authors. Love Y'all Book Festival took over Courtyard by Marriott Atlanta Decatur Downtown for two days of author signings, panels, shopping, and more. This is a…

Book Review: “Fearful” by Lauren Roberts If you've been around, you know that I don't often post negative reviews. It has nothing to do with getting the book for free (thanks, Simon Teen for this one!), like some suggest about book reviewers who only share positive reviews. This is a place of hype, not negativity, but sometimes, I need to rant and maybe there's a point in there somewhere.

New #BookReview... or should I call it a book rant instead? Lauren Roberts wrapped up her Powerless series with Fearful, and I fear it was better left unwritten. Find out why (since I don't usually post negative reviews....)

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This is such a mood. I have a stack of my books pulled, but haven't even thought of clothes or putting things in suitcases. Lol

Christy Swift meeting actors while writing a celebrity romance | Hollywood Hookup [Author Chats] YouTube video by LiteraryHypeWoman

Somehow, I ended up in the acknowledgements of a book and I am SHOOK. Check out my conversation with Christy Swift about her celebrity romance novel, Hollywood Hookup.

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Book Review: “Hollywood Hookup” by Christy Swift Last year, I picked up a debut novel called Celebrity Crush after Andrew Eiden (aka Teddy Hamilton) told me he had fun recording the audiobook for it. It was enjoyable, so I was intrigued by Christy Swift's follow-up, Hollywood Hookup and how it would move the world forward. Hollywood Hookup picks up a few months after the end of Celebrity Crush…

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Christy Swift is back with another celebrity romance. Hollywood Hookup features a woman hiding from her child star past ending up on a celebrity dating show opposite her crush. Check out the review & podcast!

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I'll be one of the press people running around with a big ol' backpack and tripod sticking out of it. Lol

I'll be at Love Y'all!

Event Preview: Love Y’all Book Festival in Atlanta Love Y'all Book Festival is taking over the Marriott Altanta Decatur Downtown to welcome romance readers for Valentine's weekend 2026. The event features a stacked lineup of more than 80 authors, vendors, and experiences over three days. VIP ticket-holders get started on Friday with their exclusive experiences with authors. Events range from bookstore tours, karaoke, and movies, to high tea, bowling, painting, and axe throwing.

Love Y'all Book Festival is coming up this weekend in Atlanta. Here's what you need to know about this #bookish event for #romancereaders.

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Book Review: “Made You Look” by Tanya Grant Book mail is forever the best kind of mail, and I'm always grateful when a new book arrives. One that hit my mailbox, courtesy of Berkley, is Made You Look by Tanya Grant. It has snowy trees on the cover, so when the first snow of the year fell, I grabbed it and started reading. Made You Look is about a group of influencers who head off to a remote cabin in the woods to promote a new resort, along with a photographer, stylist, and the influencers' manager.

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A bunch of influencers snowed in at a cabin in the woods? What could go wrong? Find out with Made You Look by #TanyaGrant and my review of this thriller novel.

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Book Review: “How To Kill A Guy in 10 Dates” by Shailee Thompson I started 2026 out with a banger, y'all. The first book I finished this year is Shailee Thompson's debut, How To Kill A Guy in 10 Dates and it was the perfect choice I didn't know I needed. I'm not a big slasher/horror girlie at all, so I was a little nervous about diving into How To Kill A Guy in 10 Dates…

New #BookReview and my goodness, is this one wild! Shailee Thompson's debut novel is a genre-blending delight, mashing up slashers and romcoms. How To Kill A Guy In 10 Dates is a locked room serial killer at a speed dating event. You're welcome. Check out my review for more.

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Book Review: “By Invitation Only” by Alexandra Brown Chang One of my favorite books of the year came from a debut YA author. It didn't seem like my normal vibe at first glance, by Alexandra Brown Chang's By Invitation Only had me glued to my seat and I finished it in a single sitting while watching football with my husband. The pages just flew by! By Invitation Only is a dual-POV story set at an elite debutante ball in Paris.

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#AlexandraBrownChang debuted in 2025, and her book was one of my favorites of the year. I devoured #ByInvitationOnly and its debutante drama. Check out my review and conversation with the author here:

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Book Review: “Game, Set, Match” by Jennifer Iacopelli One thing leads to another around here, and that's how this book ended up in my hands. An author friend wanted to introduce me to her author friend and thus, I ended up reading two Jennifer Iacopelli books in a short amount of time. Game, Set, Match was a new book to me, but not a new book in general. It's actually the first one Iacopelli wrote and published more than a decade ago, but due to publishing being publishing, it ended up not getting much attention at all.

It's release week for Jennifer Iacopelli's tennis romance: Game, Set, Match. This is a revised & updated version of her debut novel from more than 10 years ago. Check out my full #bookreview now!

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[The Hype TBR Game] February 2026 TBR + January Reading Wrap-Up | Love Y'all Reading List YouTube video by LiteraryHypeWoman

New month, new #readinglist
The February 2026 round of The Hype TBR Game is live now. See what I'm attempting to read this month.

What's on your #tbrlist for February?

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Book Review: “Soul Boom” by Rainn Wilson Whenever a celebrity reads their own audiobook, I'm going to read it in that form. There's something so special about hearing them read their words to you. Despite having two physical copies of Soul Boom by Rainn Wilson, I opted to listen to the audiobook and I have no regrets. Soul Boom might not be the book you're expecting from Rainn if you only know him from…

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Rainn Wilson is breaking down spirituality and religion is his book, #SoulBoom and it's one of the most enjoyable non-fiction reads I've had i a while. Check out my full review now!

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Book Review: “Matchmaking For Psychopaths” by Tasha Coryell Sometimes, I can convince my husband to listen to a novel with me on a road trip. He's not a big fiction guy, but he does like to keep me happy, so occasionally, he lets me have my way and ends up enjoying himself too. This is one of those times. We needed something to listen to, and I'd been meaning to read my copy of…

New #bookreview!
One of the books that I had a great time reading in 2025 was Matchmaking for Psychopaths by #TashaCoryell. Check out my thoughts on this quirky romantic thriller.

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Mary Kubica writes mystery books without knowing the ending | It's Not Her [Author Chats] YouTube video by LiteraryHypeWoman

This week on #LiteraryHypePodcast, I'm chatting with #MaryKubica about her upcoming book, It's Not Her, which features my review published inside! If you love a twisty murder mystery, you're going to want to check this one out!

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Side characters getting more spotlight is definitely a highlight of adaptations having more room to play with!

How Does Finding Her Edge on Netflix Compare to the Book by Jennifer Iacopelli? Netflix dropped a new sports romance tv show, just in time for the Olympics. Finding Her Edge is climbing the charts on Netflix, and with that comes the realization for many that the show is based on a book of the same name by Jennifer Iacopelli. Whenever there's an adaptation of a book, the questions of which is better and how to the compare are quick to follow.

#FindingHerEdge is tearing up the #Netflix charts right now. How does the hit #sportsromance show compare to the original book by #JenniferIacopelli? I'm breaking down the differences.

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Book Review: “Half His Age” by Jennette McCurdy If there's a 2026 book release that has people chomping at the bit, Jennette McCurdy's debut novel is one of them. After the success of I'm Glad My Mom Died , there's a lot of anticipation for what she writes. I didn't read her memoir yet, but when LibroFM offered me the chance to listen to McCurdy's new audiobook early, of course, I jumped on it.

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#JennetteMcCurdy made her fiction debut this week with #HalfHisAge. Is it worth they hype?

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Jennifer Iacopelli puts sports back in sports romance | Finding Her Edge on Netflix [Author Chats] YouTube video by LiteraryHypeWoman

Curious about the upcoming #Netflix show #FindingHerEdge? Hear from #JenniferIacopelli, the author of the book it's based on, now on #LiteraryHypePodcast!

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Book Review: “Finding Her Edge” by Jennifer Iacopelli Sometimes, I stumble into some pretty cool things. At YALLFest 2025, I wandered off from my squad to say hi to an author friend of mine. She was a plus one this time instead of a guest, and that guest was Jennifer Iacopelli. She was busy filming content (with who I now know is the actress in the Netflix adaptation), but her publicist handed me a book and I accepted, like anyone would in said situation.

This week, Jennifer Iacopelli's novel, Finding Her Edge, will hit Netflix as an adapted tv show. Check out my review of the book here, as well as my conversation with Jen.

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