[New Post] ARC Review: Love You Too by Stacy Travis


Title: Love You Too

Author: Stacy Travis

Page count: 282

Published: October 15th, 2024

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Sports Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 4/5



A small town, surprise pregnancy, hockey romance from bestselling author Stacy Travis

You know what they say—when things start to come together, life throws you a curveball.

Well, in this case…a hockey puck.

Ten years ago, we were college sweethearts. Until Dominick (Ren) Renaldi decided the grass was greener playing pro hockey in Canada.

I moved on—made my mark as a designer. I run two restaurants and an inn at our family winery, Buttercup Hill.

Nothing is missing. Nothing at all.

Then Ren struts into my small town, a reminder of a broken heart I locked in the past.

Okay, yes, this responsible, type A girl could really use a wild night of scorchin’ hot fun, and Ren, with his penetrating eyes and easy charm, is all too happy to deliver—grownup style.

Imagine my surprise when I see a little pink plus sign a few weeks later.

I’m not looking for love, especially with a guy who’s walked away once. And Ren’s serious about his career, so he will walk away. Besides, I’m not the kind of woman who traps a man with a surprise baby.

But when our shared history and a certain little growing bean brings us close again, I discover the real reason Ren left—and why he’s back.

I find myself starting to like my baby daddy and the man he became.

But what if I love him, too?



Back in Collage Ren and Trix were collage sweethearts, until Ren broke her heart when he left to play pro hockey. Now that it’s been ten years Trix has a wonderful career, she’s a workaholic so her assistant tells her that she needs to take come breaks. This one time she goes for a walk and happened to cross paths with her collage sweetheart Ren, and they share a wild night together and the rest is history. The emotion, banter, friendships and second chances with a great family dynamic.



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[New Post] ARC Review: Loving the Liar by Lola King


Title: Loving the Liar

Author: Lola King

Page count: 572

Published: September 12th, 2024

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Dark Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5



An angsty, secret society, dark romance from best-selling author, Lola King
Welcome to Silver Falls University, where the elite comes to thrive.

My life as a queen bee was always traced for me. I’m rich, I come from an influential family, and I constructed my personality to become the girl everyone wants to be. I rule Silver Falls University with bright smiles and the pretense of being everyone’s friend.

But in a place where toxic rich kids love to see others fall, no one is safe.
Especially when my family loses its power and someone threatens to spill all my secrets.
In the blink of an eye, my life as I knew it crumbles, and to save the people I love, I’m forced to initiate into the one place I thought I’d never be—the same Secret Society who betrayed my family.

Powerless, I’m thrown into a world of men who want nothing but to use and break me, and only one person can save me.

My ex.

He wants to take care of me even though I hate him.
He wants to protect me when he’s not allowed.
And he wants to make me his even if it puts us both at risk.

I have no hope of surviving a secret society.

But if Christopher Murray makes me his…I have no hope of surviving him.

Loving The Liar is a dark romance intended for readers over 18. Please, read the CW in the book.
This is the first book in a series of 3 interconnected standalones.
He lost her once. Now he will do anything to have her back. Anything.



While reading I felt like my head was on a swivel with everything that was going on, I didn’t know which way to turn. This was a fantastically dark with so much spice it was delish. Ella is the sweet and popular girl having it all but, on the inside, she is also insecure. I just wanted to hug her so many times. Chris is the ‘golden’ boy, when you get behind closed doors, he’s all I’m going to say is HOLY! I was shocked at some points due to his obsessive behavior. Ella and Chris do have a toxic relationship at some points I thought they were not going to get there HEA and they did. Out of all the other books that I have read by King I think this one is the spiciest, steamy books that I have read by her and loved it. I didn’t want it to end. With how this book is I would honestly check the trigger warnings because this book is intense. This was a top 2024 read for me



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[New Post] ARC Review: End Game Monica Murphy


Title: End Game

Author: Monica Murphy

Page count: 285

Published: September 17th, 2024

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Sports Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5



In this fun, sexy college romance, a transfer student finds herself living in a house full of football players—and falling for the one she knows she shouldn’t want.

Everleigh

Transferring to UC Santa Mira is supposed to be my ultimate college experience—until housing falls through at the last minute. So when I overhear a group of guys complaining they need another roommate, I jump at the opportunity.

They’re just football players. Even if one of them makes me weak in the knees, it doesn’t mean anything unless I let it. And I won’t.

We want different things. Wanting each other doesn’t change that.

Nico

It’s my senior year and final season with the Santa Mira Dolphins. The last thing I need is a distraction, but that’s exactly what this girl is. Ever is too leggy, too gorgeous, too thoughtful—and a whole lot of too much that gets under my skin.

I guess I get under hers too. I can’t help myself.

We live together. That alone makes it a bad idea…but I never could resist a little trouble.



Everleigh aka Ever is wanting to have a true collage experience as a transfer student. To start things off on the wrong foot, her housing got cancelled with her car broken into. Ever meets a group of football players that happen to have a room available, and she agreed to cook for them in exchange for living there. One of the player’s named Nico has a crush with sparks when they first meet but he doesn’t do relationships or feelings. Having Ever living with him just might be able to change his mind. Nico and Ever a slow burn romance with engaging chemistry that keep you clued to your kindle. I adored Dollar I hope there next in the series.



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[New Post] ARC Review: False Start by Kandi Steiner


Title: False Start

Author: Kandi Steiner

Page count: 439

Published: June 7th, 2024

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Sports Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5



Kyle Robbins: Seattle’s rookie tight end and the first boy to break my heart.
Oh, did I mention he’s also my new client… and fake boyfriend?

I thought I left Kyle and our complicated past behind me, but when he saunters up as my new client at a house showing, I’m quickly reminded how much he still haunts me.

I try to walk away, but the stubborn jerk isn’t having it. In fact, he doubles down on working with me, as if our tragic history doesn’t exist at all.

The commission from working with him is the key to a new life for me and my son. It’s worth putting up with the cocky athlete long enough to find him a house. But when Kyle sees the bruises left by my darling ex-husband, he thinks he can save me — and suddenly, he’s interested in much more than just being a client.

Before I know it, I’m wrangled into a scheme so crazy it just might work. Kyle pretends to be my fake boyfriend so he can keep my ex in line until I get the commission from this house sale and get the hell out of Seattle for good.

But with a past as thick with chemistry and tension as ours is, it’s not long before those fake touches feel all too real. Every brush of his hand against my back has me spinning back to that night. Every kiss has me dizzy with the love I felt at eighteen. And every day that passes without me finding him a house has me wondering how much longer I can survive this game we’re playing.

Fake-dating each other was supposed to be for my safety.

But I can’t help thinking my heart is more at risk now than ever before.



This was another fantastic book by Kandi. We meet Madelyn and Kyle in this addition. Kyle is a football player that’s about himself and social media to be current wanting to make it to the NFL. Madelyn is a signal mom that has been dealing with an abusive ex/baby’s father makes it hard to co parent. Madelyn and Kyle dated when they were in high school, and things had ended based on a lie, so they had both had gone their separated ways hating one another. Years later when one another and finding out what had happened they were stuck together. They have insane chemistry and to add fake dating is just a recipe for a book that will keep you on the edge wanting more.



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[New Post] ARC Review: The Way We Score by Tia Louise


Title: The Way We Score

Author: Tia Louise

Page count: 350

Published: January 16th, 2025

Publisher: Grey’s Promo

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5



We promised our love was forever. A decade later, two little blue lines might settle the score.

You’ve heard of those kids who peak in high school?
Meet my love life.

Garrett Bradford was mine from the moment we saw each other in ninth grade.
Even then, he was a six-foot-four mountain of muscles with bright blue eyes, a wide grin, and a way with his hands.
He was the high school football star, and I was the dance team captain.
We were the storybook cliché… until we weren’t.

Now he’s the most famous offensive lineman in the league, and I’m a buttoned-up, ultra-professional lawyer.
My dancing days are over, and my carefully controlled life is a mess.
Infertility killed my marriage, or that’s what I told myself. Infertility and a cheating ex.
And my inability to get over Garrett Bradford.

One reckless night at his little sister’s wedding is only supposed to be a reunion, a trip down memory lane to a time when life was happier.
Six weeks later, I’m staring at a positive pregnancy test wondering, How did this happen?

I figure I’m on my own until Garrett overhauls his life, moves back to our small town, and shows up every day to massage my feet and hold my hair when I barf and go with me to all my doctor’s appointments.
Our situation has an end date, just like it did so many years ago.
Unless this little score changes the game and gives us the second chance I thought we’d lost.



Garrett is a professional football player in NY. When he finds out that Liv’s pregnant, he’s all in. Garrett and Liv are meant to be. They are one another’s soulmate, even after years apart you can still see they had feelings for one another and the chemistry that never faltered from high school. The personal growth that Garrett goes though is something that needed to happen. Liv is now understanding that she can be loved. Liv and Garrett have a back story that adds something to the story that I enjoy but added them to be fated soulmates was just the cherry on top for me.



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