Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish where we list our top tens! This week’s topic is “books at the top of my summer TBR (to-be-read) list.”

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“The Sweetest Note” is where I get to indulge in my sweet tooth and somehow relate it back to books! I recently read Rachel Shukert’s Starstruck, a deliciously drama-filled story set in glitzy 1930s Hollywood. My review will be up later this week! Ice cream sodas are heavily (okay, not heavily but this is me so it FELT LIKE IT WAS IMPORTANT) featured in Starstruck so I asked Rachel to do a guest post. Check it out below the cut:

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“Soundtrack to Your Life” is a feature that will have authors list 5 songs/artists/albums that ______ (changed their life, made them cry, make them want to be a rockstar, anything the author picks!) I have Tamara Ireland Stone, author of Time Between Us.

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Hi! This was a super quick wallpaper I made for Estelle based on This Is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith. As always, here is a form if you’d like to suggest a wallpaper.

jennifer e. smith – this is what happy looks like

1280×800 • 1440×900 • 1680×1050 • 1920×1200 • 2560×1400 • iPhone • iPhone 5 • iPad

Release Date: e-book: July 30th 2013, paperback: November 5th 2013
Source: ARC (Thanks, Spencer Hill Press!)
Add It: Goodreads
Purchase: Indiebound, Amazon

For twenty-one-year-old Sydney, being in love with Kyler isn’t anything new. They’d been best friends ever since he pushed her down on the playground and she made him eat a mud pie. Somewhere over the years, she fell for him and fell hard. The big problem with that? Kyler puts the ‘man’ in man-whore. He’s never stayed with a girl longer than a few nights, and with it being their last year in college, Syd doesn’t want to risk their friendship by declaring her love.

Kyler has always put Syd on a pedestal that was too high for him to reach. To him, she’s perfect and she’s everything. But the feelings he has for her, he’s always hidden away or focused on any other female. After all, Kyler will always be the poor boy from the wrong side of tracks, and Syd will always be the one girl he can never have.

But when they’re stranded together at a posh ski resort due to a massive Nor’easter, there’s nothing stopping their red-hot feelings for each other from coming to the surface. Can their friendship survive the attraction? Better yet, can they survive at all? Because as the snow falls, someone is stalking them, and this ski trip may be a life-changer in more ways than one.

I’ve said this before but I find J. Lynn aka Jennifer L. Armentrout’s writing compulsively readable. They’re fun to read and you’re never lacking for her books because she’s a writing machine. Frigid is no exception, I think you can pretty much tell what you’re getting from the summary. I like how you can generally know what you’re going to get: snark, tension, and steamy times.

Sydney and Kyler are BFFs who are secretly in love with each other. It’s slightly repetitive I LOVE HIM/HER BUT TOO INSECURE but it all works out in the end. The scenes in here are the opposite of PG and definitely not ones you’d want to read with other people in the room. Unless you’re one of those people can read 50 Shades in public, I don’t know. Their relationship is sweet though and hindered only slightly by the fact someone is out to get them. I was a bit confused reading about this aspect in the summary but it doesn’t take precedent and most of the scenes are kissy (+ more) scenes.

I think Frigid is the perfect pick me up if you’re craving a quick romance.

Sound: Tiga - Hot In Herre
It’s getting hot in here
So take off all your clothes

Really thought about using Jenny Owen Young’s cover of “Hot In Herre” but thought it was too folky. Even though Frigid takes place in the middle of a snowstorm, it’s getting hot in here~

I have a SIGNED ARC to give away! I’m feeling nice so I shall make it international. Good luck!