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[New Post] ARC Review: On the Edge by K. Bromberg

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Title: On the Edge

Author: K. Bromberg

Page count: 320

Published: January 18th, 2024

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

A spicy, only-one-bed Formula 1 romance from New York Times bestselling author, K. Bromberg.

Surely this can’t be the only solution to overhaul my tarnished rep – faking a romance with the good girl intern?

But that’s what my agent says. Just a few months of taming my ways—of shedding Formula 1’s party boy image—will land me a lifetime branding deal. One I desperately need.

The key condition?

Pretend I’m madly in love with my new girlfriend. The quiet wallflower who I figured wouldn’t put me in my place. Yeah. This girl is anything but that.

Maddix Hart is defiant and intelligent. Loyal and real. Determined and sexy. And damn it to hell, before I know it, she’s in my head, in our bed . . . and if I’m not careful, she’ll see there’s more to me than the man I show the public. She’ll discover the man I hide from the world. The one who struggles to live up to the unrealistic expectations that should never have been mine.

All I have to do is make sure no one sees the truth behind our farce.

But instead, I let my heart get involved. I begin to believe the lie. And now with everything on the line—the deal, a championship, us—am I willing to risk it all to make her see what the rest of the world believes? That we belong together.

Cruz and Maddox first meet at her marketing company, but she doesn’t recognize him. Cruz is there for a meeting to sign a contract and when he gets told that he needs to have his image cleaned up and needs to get a girlfriend, that’s where Maddox comes in and she is afraid that they aren’t going to pull it off but after going out for a few drinks and things start to shift into gear, they start to see that maybe they really do have something. The connection that these two have is great the banter kept me laughing, I can’t wait to meet Lachlan and Blair and get to know them.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Loving Romeo by Laura Pavlov

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Title: Loving Romeo

Author: Laura Pavlov

Page count: 364

Published: January 14th, 2024

Publisher: Self Published

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

Demi Crawford was Magnolia Falls royalty.
I was the boxer from the wrong side of the tracks.
She was the epitome of everything good, while I was broody and rebellious.
We couldn’t be more different.
Her family was enemy number one which made her guilty by association.
I despised her before I even knew her.
It was easier that way.
But now she’d moved in next door to me, and she was everywhere I turned.
I couldn’t avoid her no matter how hard I tried.
She was beautiful and honest and sweet.
Everything I knew I shouldn’t want.
Shouldn’t need.
They say there’s a fine line between love and hate—and I don’t know when I crossed over.
I was so wrapped up in this girl I couldn’t see straight.
She was the right hook I never saw coming.
Hating her was supposed to be my end game.
Loving her… well, that was just the beginning.
But the secrets that lived between us threatened to tear us apart.
Lucky for her—I was a born fighter.
And she was definitely worth the fight.

Romeo is a boxer and small town gym owner and Demi is next door to him opening her own coffee shop. Being new neighbours Romeo already doesn’t like Demi because of her family and the past they have. With seeing her all the time he starts to realize that Demi had nothing to do with the past and just wants to truly know him, from then on, they have a wonderful chemistry that just grows from when they first meet. One of the things that I enjoyed about this was that Romeo was the one to fall first and he’s the sweetest he’s not a grump at all. Demi is one of my favourite characters with how strong and independent she is despite her family. This book got me feeling all warm an fussy, I cant wait to see who the next in the series is going to be.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Irresistibly Dangerous by J. Saman

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Title: Irresistibly Dangerous

Author: J. Saman

Page count: 326

Published: January 15th, 2024

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

For the record, I knew I never should have touched her.
She was everything good in this world and I was everything but.
I was too broken to care about how off limits my best friends’ cousin was.
But I didn’t know how to stop.
She was the air I needed while drowning in darkness.
Until I broke her heart and finally forced myself to do the right thing and walk away.
Six years later she’s on my doorstep asking me for a favor I can’t say no to.
Only a marriage of convenience to Georgia Monroe is anything but convenient.
Not with how I still crave her despite the promises I made to never touch her again.
Not with the dangers lurking around us, coming after her in ways she knows nothing about.
I’m the only one who can help her.
Her dark knight. A silent hacker.
The cold, broody man who never felt worthy of her love.
But now everything is different.
I’ll do whatever it takes to keep her safe and prove I deserve a second chance at owning this irresistibly dangerous woman’s heart.
No matter what comes my way.

After reading the books in the series, I have to say that the best was saved for last. Lenox and Georgia have a special connection, Georgia gets her heart broken bad by Lenox but when she appears that she is sitting in his living room when he gets home, he wants to help her in any way that he can even marriage? but also show that he’s sorry for how things ended previously. Lenox and Georgia have a lot they need to work through with the past and the present, their able to weave and reconnect when they both secretly need help.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Reviving Hearts by Lea Coll

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Title: Reviving Hearts

Author: Lea Coll

Page count: 270

Published: January 9th, 2024

Publisher: Self Published

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

This Christmas, I’d better not fall in love with my brother’s best friend… again.A long time ago I fell in love with my brother’s best friend, Heath. We kept our relationship a secret, knowing my brother would never approve. I had faith that in time we would come clean and declare our love to the world, but Heath broke things off before that could ever happen. I fled from my hometown and vowed never to return.

Now I’ve inherited my grandmother’s Inn and I have no choice but to go back. It’s not as simple as just selling the property, it needs to be renovated first. When the realtor said he knew just the guy, I never suspected it would be Heath. The moment he steps back into my life, I can’t deny that the attraction is even greater than it was all those years ago.

While renovating the Inn, Heath is determined to remind me of everything I loved about my grandmother’s property and his family’s Christmas tree farm. Nothing has ever felt more like home, than when I’m with Heath. Could these feelings be real or is it the magic of the holidays fooling me into falling in love with Heath again?

This was a beautiful second chance at romance with Heath and Marley, who had dated in secret back in high school but broke up when things got to be too much for Heath. They went to separate ways and Marley went away to college because she was completely devastated and never wanted to look back. 10 years have passed, and Marley needs to return home due to a passing in the family. When she bumps into Heath again when she gets back to town, Heath is just as attracted to her as he was all those years ago, he feels bad about how things ended with Marley and wants to make things right and to get there they had some struggles, When Heath asked Marley to stay a little bit longer shocked me in the best way because I knew then that Heath was going to do whatever it took to win her back. The title of the book truly fits the story perfectly.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Saved by Love by Kelly Elliot

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Title: Saved by Love

Author: Kelly Elliot

Page count: 260

Published: January 11th, 2024

Publisher: Grey’s Promo

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the Publisher/Author in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

My momma used to say, “Out of every tragedy, a miracle of love would come.” The last ten years of my life have been nothing but tears and pain. I lost hope and wanted to give up on waiting for my miracle to come. Finally, a light is shining at the end of the tunnel. After leaving Texas and my past behind, I’ve started a new life journey in Estes Park, Colorado. I have a second chance and don’t plan to waste it. I found work as a live-in nanny for a darling little girl named Hadley. Her father, Aiden, is a single dad with a troubled past he is desperately trying to move on from. When I find myself drawn to Aiden in a way I’ve never experienced before, I long to help him see what a wonderful father he is. But Aiden’s past keeps him from forgiving himself and moving on with his life. If I can help save him from a dark road of torment, my journey will have been worth it. My name is Emma, and this is my story. Love alone, sometimes isn’t enough.

Author Kelly Elliot has gone under a new pen name, so I knew had to get this book because Kelly writes fantastic stories. Aiden never thought that he would be able to find love again but with an accidental bump into Emma he gets that spark of hope that maybe I can fall in love again? So, he hires Emma to take care of his daughter. As Aiden watches his daughter with Emma, he starts to see that she has never been happier so it could be possible for him too? Following these two and seeing all the trials and tribulations they had gone through to get where they are now was an emotional journey that felt real. I’m beyond excited to see what other books are going to be coming our way this year.

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