All the Ways You Saved Me by Jamie Howard

Bianca Easton is the perfect senator’s daughter.

Law school? Check.

Camera-ready smile? Check.

A dull and boring existence? Double check.

But that was before. Before she lost her best and only friend in a tragic accident. Before she found that friend's unfinished bucket list. Definitely before she turned her life upside-down by deciding to stay in New York for six months to finish it.

It's while she's checking off her first item on the list--buy coffee for a stranger--that she meets Ian Mathis. Between the tattoo sleeve curling up his right arm, his guitar-roughened fingertips, and the secrets shadowing his past, he's a complication Bianca doesn't need but desperately wants.

With every item they cross off the list together, Bianca uncovers a piece of herself that she's buried under what's expected, all the while breaking her own rules by falling hard for Ian. But when her six months run out, Bianca has to decide if she's willing to risk her empty but picture-perfect life for a chance at real, messy love.

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Reviews by the Wicked Reads Review Team

Mary Jo – ☆☆☆
I enjoyed the book, but the back and forth points of view became tiresome. Ian's backstory is important to Bianca's but it was difficult to keep up with the timelines.

Once the book caught up to present day, I was able to understand more about Ian's personality and why he did the things he did.

Bianca's story is one of always trying to be the "perfect" daughter for hard to please parents. When she loses her best friend, her only friend, she decides to pick up where Renee left off and take six months and complete her friend's "bucket" list.

During her adventure in New York, she runs into Ian and a "non-relationship" forms. As they begin to get to know each other, she begins to fall in love, but knows it can never be. She has to return to the very staid, very boring, very "perfect" life that her parents have planned for her. Or does she?

Jamie Howard spends her days as a legal and compliance specialist. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Art from Ramapo College. When she’s not tapping away at the keyboard, you can find her devouring books and perfecting her gaming skills. She lives with her husband, son, and three dogs in New Jersey, and is almost always awake early enough to see the sun rise, even on the weekends.

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Reviewers on the Wicked Reads Review Team were provided a free copy of All the Ways You Saved Me (Love Unplugged #1) by Jamie Howard to read and review.

Until It's Right by Jamie Howard

Haley Mitchell is tired of moping. With her broken heart repaired with a thick layer of duct tape, she’s ready to put her ex behind her and move on. After a chance encounter in a club, she’s convinced she’s met Mr. Perfect. But when he accidentally gives her the wrong number, the stranger on the other end of her texts becomes her confidant.

Kyle Lawson has always had more luck with computers than women. So when the new temp, Haley, arrives, he has the misfortune of falling for her, only to land firmly in the friend zone. But when he learns the mysterious woman he’s been texting is actually Haley, he keeps the entire thing a secret.

As things move straight from platonic to decidedly hot, Kyle must come clean about his secret texting identity and risk losing the woman he’s fallen in love with.

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Ruthie – ☆☆☆☆
There is something enticing about a book like this – which both pitches the unexpected choice at the lead female, but also gives her a secret to uncover. I guess it is because we know all, and have to watch how things will unfold. The anticipation, the waiting for the penny to drop, and the impact that the reveal will have...it is what the romance reader thrives on – and Ms Howard does a good job of giving us two characters that we can only want to work out – but with enough obstacles in their way that we are silently sending them our support. There is a decent build up, they are not perfect, but the feelings develop, the heat rises, and our investment increases. And that has to be what we crave – the escape from reality, a few hours immersed enough in a story to forget the everyday.

Jamie Howard spends her days as a legal and compliance specialist. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Art from Ramapo College. When she’s not tapping away at the keyboard, you can find her devouring books and perfecting her gaming skills. She lives with her husband, son, and three dogs in New Jersey, and is almost always awake early enough to see the sun rise, even on the weekends.

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Reviewers on the Wicked Reads Review Team were provided a free copy of Until It's Right by Jamie Howard to read and review.