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[New Post] ARC Book Review: Falling for Her by Kelly Elliot

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Title: Falling for Her

Author: Kelly Elliot

Page count: 270

Published: April 18th, 2024

Publisher: Grey’s Promo

Genre: Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 4/5

Wes Ward finds himself in new territory. Less than a year ago, he lived in New York City in a fantastic loft that overlooked upper Manhattan. Women in and out of his bed anytime he wanted and not a damn care in the world.

Now?

Now, he finds himself back in Boston plotting ways to stop his high school girlfriend, Mandy, from getting married, dodging his mother’s every attempt at helping him settle down, and trying to understand why Clare Monroe makes him forget everything and everyone when she smiles at him.

What is this insane feeling he feels anytime Clare is near him? Why can’t he stop thinking about her every second of every day?

And what does he do about Mandy, the woman he fought so hard for who is willing to give their relationship another try right when Wes is ready to admit his feelings for Clare?

This is NOT a love triangle book 🙂

Falling for Her is a friends to lovers trope and can be read as a stand alone but the author highly recommends you start at the beginning of the series.

1. Searching for Harmony
2. Fighting for Love
3. Falling for Her

If you have been following my reviews for a while know then you will know that when it comes to books that have enemies to lovers, fake relationships I’m here for it and sign me up. Wes comes back home and he has one goal and one goal only and that is to win his ex Mandy back but first he needs to stop her wedding and has an idea to do that and watching it unfold was fantastic. This was such a great read, Wes and Mandy have fantastic chemistry with the perfect balance of steam in a book. This is the third book in the series, now I need to go and get the first two to get to know everyone.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Never Forever by Hailey Shore

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Title: Never Forever

Author: Hailey Shore

Page count: 378

Published: March 2nd, 2024

Publisher: Candi Kane

Genre: Romance Comedy

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

Whoops! I’m pregnant with my enemy’s baby….Matt Sullivan isn’t just the grumpiest ferry boat captain in Calico Cove, with sun-kissed hair and broad shoulders – he’s also my sworn enemy. In high school, I thought we were endgame but then he broke my heart in the worst possible way. I swore that someday I’d make him regret every cruel word he said to me that night.Now I’m back in my home town, filming a Christmas movie and making secret plans to start a family.Matt and I have waged war every day for months, but when one vulnerable moment rekindles our explosive chemistry, we end up making more than love.Now, I’m having his baby and he says he wants me forever. Can I trust the man who broke my heart?What if we were never meant for forever?Author’s This one’s a bit of tear jerker. Epic teenage angst. Enemies stuck in a storm with only one air mattress. Oh and did we mention all the secrets…?

Getting to go back to Calico Cove is a wonderful little town that I got to enjoy my stay at when you need some time way. This was a great read of second chance at love and watching Matt and Carrie navigate their relationship with chemistry that was undeniable from the beginning. One of the things that I did like was that they never truly let go of one another they were together even when they weren’t.

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[New Post] ARC Review: A Little Naughty by Tia Louise

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Title: A Little Naughty

Author: Tia Louise

Page count: 350

Published: March 14th, 2024

Publisher: Grey’s Promo

Genre: Suspense Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

I wasn’t planning to propose to Raif Jones, the bad boy from the wrong side of town.
The one with the tattooed muscles, naughty blue eyes, and dimpled, James-Dean grin.

You see, it all started with a series of bad decisions.
First was flirting with a dangerous criminal to rescue a little girl I didn’t even know.
Second was throwing a massive, masked gala in my small-town hideout (complete with drag queens) and not expecting to draw attention…

Then Raif rode in on a motorcycle and melted my undies (and my heart), saying he wouldn’t let anybody hurt me.
Of course, I asked him to marry me.
Imagine my surprise when he said yes.

We’re a little naughty and a lot hot, and the perks of being married are very… perky.
They’re perky in the shower, on the kitchen table, against the front door…

Until Bad Decision tracks me down (thanks to Bad Decision ), and my outlaw husband turns Alpha Protector, risking everything to keep us safe.
It’s just a marriage of convenience. It’s supposed to have an end date.
But when the dust settles, walking away from Raif Jones could be the worst decision I’ve ever made.

(A LITTLE NAUGHTY is a small-town, marriage of convenience romance with single-mom vibes, a protective hero, no third-act breakup, and light suspense. No cheating. No cliffhanger.)

The story line to this one got piqued my interest with not seeing a lot of books that have this relationship dynamic. Raif having the reputation of a bad boy, to me he’s one of my favorite hero’s. Jemima is a reporter that wants to interview him for the town paper and get to know him. Raif is misunderstood and judged due to his family people think that he’s a criminal but if you get to know him you will see that he is the sweetest as can be. Jemima is and amazing person helping a girl that she faced from a pretty terrible person. Jemima and Raif are amazing people on their own but butting them together they became unstoppable.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Endless Hope by Lea Coll

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Title: Endless Hope

Author: Lea Coll

Page count: 284

Published: March 12th, 2024

Publisher: Self Published

Genre: Christmas Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

It takes more than endless hope to get to a happily ever after in this small town…

Signing up for the fund-raising bachelorette auction seemed like the right thing to do. Sure, it’d be awkward and embarrassing. But it was for a good cause, right?

I never thought my high school sweetheart—my first love, my first everything—would bid on me. But he did.

Talon is grumpy. Borderline antisocial. Far too sexy for my peace of mind.

And he wants more than just one date. I probably should’ve refused. But I couldn’t. Now, spending time with him is making me want things I know we can’t have. Because the truth is that I don’t deserve a second chance.I don’t deserve him.

All I can do is hope I don’t break his heart—again—when he finally figures that out…

Endless Hope is a spicy, emotional, Christmas/holiday contemporary romance featuring a heroine with secrets, and the broody hero who steals her heart for the second (and final) time. Download today and get ready to escape to a magical place with Talon and Holly.

Holly and Talon were teens and were madly in love until tragedy strikes and Holly make the gut-wrenching choice to break things off with Talon thinking that it was going to be for the better. Fast forward to now when Holly is part of a bachelorette auction and when Talon sees Holly, he knows that he needs to win so that he can get the closer that he needs. When they reunite the chemistry was still as strong as it was when they were teens, but will Talon and Holly be able to move on from the past? Or will it be too late? One of the things that I loved is the family dynamic with the Monroe family is fantastic with support for the both of them.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Silas by Jasinda Wilder

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Title: Silas

Author: Jasinda Wilder

Page count: 375

Published: March 8th, 2024

Publisher: Self Published

Genre: Erotica Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

We are the cast-offs, the forgotten, the broken; we are dark, dangerous men haunted by our violent pasts.

The Guardian collects us, rehabilitates us, and gives us a new lease on life…if we follow a few, simple rules:

Once you’re in, there’s no going back; never take a life; loyalty to the brotherhood above all.

My brothers, the other Broken Arrows, Club Sin…that’s my life. And then I meet HER on the side of the road, barefoot, battered, and afraid of her own shadow. Immediately, I have one thought: protect her. That’s all I care about. It’s a tall order, because she’s from a world almost as violent as my own. But somewhere along the way, I realize she’s healing me as much as I am her. If we can survive her enemies and mine, life together could be pretty beautiful. That’s a big if, though…

After reading this book and getting to know Silas and Naomi, their story was one of a crazy one. The emotion that was put into this was amazing the suspense, secrets, betrayal and everything else was just everything that will keep you on the edge of your seat wanting more. Jasinda and Jack have been away from writing for some time, now they are back, and I can’t wait to see what else these two have in store because I just ate this book up, I wasn’t sure if anyone was going to beat Colton but Silas is pretty close. I can’t wait to see who the next Club Sin is going to be about.

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