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Every month I go over the bestselling books from this blog on Amazon. Here they are for February 2013
Nae says
I only bought 2 out of 10; Raid and Hot Ticket.
I haven’t read Raid yet, I got distracted by all the shiny stuff, but I thought Hot Ticket was AWESOME! I felt really satisfied with Jace’s story.
Ana's Attic says
Oooh, that means you haven’t read the Up In The Air series? Read it!
Cindy Aslaner says
Love anything Kristen Ashley (my fav author) so I loved Knight, Creed and Raid! Can not go wrong with one of her books!
I loved the Up In The Air series, I just re-read the 1st two books before I read the last one- great series!!
Read Happy Hour a little while back and loved it too (especially as a Nascar fan).
Haven’t read Hot Ticket yet, but have read the rest of the series and loved them, so I am looking forward to Hot Ticket.
Also loved Fallen to Far and the sequel Never Too Far, highly recommend them.
Good choices if you haven’t already read them!
Sue says
Hi Ana,
Liked Knight and Creed, but loved Raid.
Haven’t read the Up in The Air series yet. I was waiting for the last book to come out.
Club shadowlands is another winner. Loved all her books.
I spent last month reading The Rough Rider series by Loralei James, so am a little behind in current releases.