Tag: Contemporary Romance

[New Post] ARC Review: Unstoppable Love by Stacey Lynn

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Title: Unstoppable Love

Author: Stacey Lynn

Page count: 331

Published: May 14th, 2024

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Contemporary

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

A sizzling, small town, enemies to lovers, sports standalone romance from bestselling author, Stacey Lynn.Ava Decker has hated me for just as many years as I’ve spent loving her.I made a mistake pretending our night together never happened. For pretending I forgot. But we were young and I was getting ready to leave for college with big plans for the future.I had no plans to return to our small town in Colorado anytime soon and Ava never wanted to leave. That alone was enough to keep me away from her while we both grew up.And yet, I never forgot about her and what she means to me.Now eight years later, imagine my surprise, when I come home and find Sleeping Beauty asleep on my couch, thinking I wouldn’t be back home from my off-season vacation for a few weeks.As a professional football player, I know all about grabbing an opportunity and running with it. This is my chance to finally convince the girl of my dreams to stay and to tell her the truth about that fateful night years ago.But getting Ava Decker to not only forgive me but to give me another chance comes with a whole new set of plays I’m not used to.I’ve got all the time in the world to convince her. I’m committed to showing to her that she is my endgame. I let her go once before and I’ll stop at nothing to prove to her that my love for her is real and an unstoppable force.** Readers should be mindful that Unstoppable Love contains multiple descriptive scenes of attempted assault that may be sensitive and triggering to some.

This is my favourite book, Ava and Cam have a fantastic connection, Cam is seriously nice and feel bad got what happened between him and Ava and wants to make a mend’s but on the other hand Ava doesn’t want to get her heart broken again. How will they be able to navigate with all the things that have happened? Will Cam be able to take down all the walls that she had up for so long? This was a small town romance that takes you on a rollercoaster but when you get to the end of the ride your wanting to go around again because of how much fun it was.

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[New Post] ARC Review: A Vengeful Occasion by Kristy Marie

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Title: A Vengeful Occasion

Author: Kristy Marie

Page count: 250

Published: April 26th, 2024

Publisher: Self Published

Genre: Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

Urban legend.Ruthless Attorney.Hateful Billionaire.

Tobias Hale is surrounded by rumors, most of which are true. Underneath that three-piece suit is a cold, callous man who rules the courtroom with an iron tongue. Judges hate him with the same passion he hates me.He hasn’t always been that way, though.We were once star-crossed lovers who sat by the water’s edge—me wearing his jacket and him dreaming about a future far away from my family—a place where I wasn’t American royalty, only his queen.I never thought I would see him again.Years later, a chance encounter brings us face to face.The sweet and compassionate man I once knew is long gone. The man before me now is a vicious and calculated billionaire.Once upon a time, he was my fairytale prince.Now, he has become the legend everyone knows as Tennyson—my husband, my killer.A Vengeful Occasion is a second chance, romantic suspence standalone.

I got to say that Kristy has something special for making books that are laugh out loud, have amazing sexual tension and chemistry its fantastic. Spencer and Tobias have an incredibly heartbreaking and beautiful love story of second chances. Spencer can finally get away from abusive husband and ends up meeting her first husband Tobias. Spencer may feel guilty, with how the things ended Tobias ends up being pissed at her and only has one thing in mind… revenge. It’s only a matter of time before they can hold back any longer and finally give into their feelings and have the relationship they were truly meant to be.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Moments for You by Carrie Ann Ryan

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Title: Moments for You

Author: Carrie Ann Ryan

Page count: 298

Published: April 22nd, 2024

Publisher: Literally Yours PR

Genre: Contemporary

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 4/5

Two widows. One wedding dress. And a promise of forever in the next installment of the Wilder Brothers from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan.
A wedding dress is meant to be worn only once.
When a stranger finds herself in need of a miracle at the last minute, I do the unthinkable: I offer mine to her.
The same one I wore down the aisle for my late husband.
Now I’m invited to the wedding and finding myself wondering why I shut myself away from the world for so long.
I’m only meant to be at the Wilder Retreat for a single day except I go home with not only a job offer, but the promise of something more.
Ridge Wilder is hiding secrets of his own. And the undeniable chemistry between us burns before we even contemplate taking that first step.
Only I’ve already had my happy ever after. I never planned on finding another.
And Ridge is even far more broken than I am—with a past that might come back to haunt us both.

Aurora is a pastry chef loses her husband, and everything falls apart for her. Ridge had lost his girlfriend and unborn child that he has been keeping a secret. Aurora and Ridge have great chemistry and banter, but they were able to go though something as tragic as they did, were able to find one another and love again with a roller coaster that you don’t want to miss.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Burnout by Rebecca Jenshak

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Title: Burnout

Author: Rebecca Jenshak

Page count: 454

Published: April 25th, 2024

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Sports Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

He’s the hot, tattooed bad boy that I traded insults with…and now he wants my help?

Knox Holland is in a jam. After an incredible first year on the pro motocross circuit, he should be on top of the world. Instead, his bad reputation has landed him without a team. He’s untouchable and desperate to turn it around.

Which is how he ends up at my gym asking me to train him. As a college gymnast with two Olympic medals to my name, I know a thing or two about the pressure to succeed. Last season I choked and then injured myself before I could show the world that I’m not a twenty-year-old has-been.

Focused on the future, I can’t afford to get distracted. But I recognize the desperation in Knox’s eyes, and I can’t say no to him, either.

It should have been an easy task, but nothing about Knox is easy. One minute we’re arguing, and the next I’m enjoying his shirtless handstands a little too much.

Falling for him would be a mistake…

Burnout is a sports romance with a cocky bad boy, spice, banter, and a happily ever after.

Knox is a tattooed bad boy that comes off as a grump but once you get to know him, he’s a teddy bear. Avery is not taking any flack from Knox with some moments left me loling. She’s a gymnast that is just coming back offer a knee injury and is nervous that she’s not going to be the same since her accident. I haven’t read that many gymnastic books, so this was a nice spin on a motocross read. This was a cute read that had the perfect balance of love, steam, tension and banter, these two find out they have more in common then they both at the start was wonderful. If you are in the mood for a good girl/bad boy book? Then this is the book for you.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Wild River by Laura Pavlov

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Title: Wild River

Author: Laura Pavlov

Page count: 353

Published: March 28th, 2024

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 4/5

A Small Town, Enemies to Lovers, Boy Obsessed, Found Family, Standalone Romance from USA Today and Amazon Bestselling Author, Laura Pavlov.

Ruby Rose declared me the enemy before I had a chance to defend myself.
I may be an attorney, but this girl had appointed herself judge and jury.

And I’d never minded a good verbal sparring.
There was a comfort in going to battle against the evil queen.
Maybe it was just the recognition of one damaged soul to another.
But the more we fought—the more I craved her.
Until our arguing turned into a bit of a wager.
One I was determined to win.
One time. Sixty seconds. A secret only we would share.
I’d work my magic and she’d declare me the winner.
I’d gloat, she’d sulk—that was my plan.
She was determined to prove me wrong.
But from the minute we crossed the line, there was no turning back.
She was so far under my skin I couldn’t think straight.
Feeling things that I’d never felt before was one thing.
But knowing the clock was ticking was another.
Ruby Rose may have given me more than sixty seconds, but she wasn’t offering forever.
And now my world doesn’t work without her in it.
But how do I convince her to stay, when she already has one foot out the door?

Ruby starts off by strongly disliking River, they have fantastic banter and chemistry that keeps you glued to your kindle. River is a lawyer Ruby is the responsible one in the family taking care of her mom and half brothers. While getting to know Ruby, River is determined to help her. Their relationship starts as a no strings attached but before they knew it, it was something so much more.

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