Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review
Rating: 5/5
One is my step-brother and one is my best friend.
It’s wrong to want them both.
But how do I choose, when together, they give me so much more than when they’re apart?
I guess the better question is, do I have to make a choice?
Is it really so wrong when it feels so right?
Sometimes doing taboo things is worth the risk.
This was a short story that left me wanting more. Rayn, Reed and Jamison have been friends for years but then one day something changes between them and the fireworks start happening and I was glued to my iPad. Out of all books thus far, I have to say this one is my favourite thus far in the series.
Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review
Rating: 2/5
Everyone at the prestigious Bexley School believes that Sage Morgan and Charlie Carmichael are meant to be….that it’s just a matter of time until they realize that they are actually in love.
When Luke Morrissey shows up on the Bexley campus his presence immediately shakes things up. Charlie and Luke are drawn to each other the moment they meet, giving Sage the opportunity to steal away to spend time with Charlie’s twin brother, Nick.
But Charlie is afraid of what others will think if he accepts that he has much more than a friendship with Luke. And Sage fears that things with Nick are getting too serious too quickly. The duo will need to rely on each other and their lifelong friendship to figure things out with the boys they love.
For me this book was a DNF at 30% I so wanted to like this book but I just could get into it. It was so confusing and hard to follow.
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Rating: 3/5
For fans of Love, Simon and Eleanor and Park, a romantic and sweet novel about a transgender boy who falls in love for the first time—and how first love changes us all—from New York Times bestselling author Amber Smith.
Chris and Maia aren’t off to a great start.
A near-fatal car accident first brings them together, and their next encounters don’t fare much better. Chris’s good intentions backfire. Maia’s temper gets the best of her.
But they’re neighbors, at least for the summer, and despite their best efforts, they just can’t seem to stay away from each other.
The path forward isn’t easy. Chris has come out as transgender, but he’s still processing a frightening assault he survived the year before. Maia is grieving the loss of her older sister and trying to find her place in the world without her. Falling in love was the last thing on either of their minds.
But would it be so bad if it happened anyway?
I really wanted to like this book because the synopsis of it sounded amazing but i was only able to get to about 30 % of the book. I just couldn’t connect with the characters. I will give this book another go in the future because I loved the synopsis so much that I want to be able to love the book just the same.
Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review
Rating: 5/5
Once upon a time all I needed was baseball, friends and extracurricular activities. Then everything changed when Declan Steele stormed into my life and upended all my priorities with his heart, his love, his passion.
So my next five-year plan will include this new ground rule—Love big. Only, that’s easier said than done when my man and I come face to face with hard truths and new troubles about what it means to be all in.
That’s when I learn that finding love isn’t the hardest part. Keeping it is.
All In with Him is the final novel in the Men of Summer series, and should be read following Winning With Him.
When I got this book, I went into it blind. I had no idea what it was about and that made reading this perfect because I absolutely loved it. Declan and Grant are determined to make one another happy and watching the roller coaster that they went on to get there was beautiful.
Received: From the Publisher in exchange for an honest review
Rating: 5/5
At Santa Cruz Central High School, they called them the misfits, the outcasts, the weirdos. But most of us knew them as the Lost Boys…
Holden Parish survived his parents’ horrific attempts to make him “the perfect son.” After a year’s stint in a Swiss sanitarium to recover, he has vowed to never let anything–or anyone–trap him again. Brilliant but broken, he seeks refuge behind alcohol, meaningless sex, and uses his wicked sense of humor to keep people away. He only has to ride out one year in the coastal town of Santa Cruz with his aunt and uncle before he inherits his billions and can make his escape. Disappear.
Falling in love is not in the plans.
River Whitmore. Star quarterback of the Central High football team, Prom King, Mr. Popular, ladies’ man. He leads the perfect life…except it’s all a lie. His father has River’s future in the NFL all planned out, while River’s dream is to run the family business in the town that he loves. But his mother’s illness is tearing the family apart and River is becoming the glue that holds them together. How can he break his father’s heart when it’s already shattering?
River’s carefully-crafted façade explodes when he meets Holden Parish. A guy who dresses in coats and scarves year-round, drinks expensive vodka, and spends his free time breaking into houses for the fun of it. They’re complete opposites. River seeks a quiet life, away from the spotlight. Holden would rather have dental surgery than settle down.
Holden’s demons and River’s responsibilities threaten to keep them apart, while their undeniable attraction crashes them together again and again, growing into something deep and real no matter how they resist.
Until one terrible night changes everything.
I’m sorry what now? What was this? Emma just has a way with words. That makes you sob. River and Holden meet when they are in senior year high school, they have a difficult journey ahead of themselves. They are both hiding their true self behind a wall. I gotta say reading Holden’s back story in the prologue was a little hard to get through I just wanted to be able to get into the book and give him a hug and tell him that he is so loved. River is the jock of the school and wanted to make his father proud even it meant putting his feelings aside. His future was already mapped out for him attend collage, of course play football, and then get drafted into the NFL. The only catch is that its not that dream that River wants. I think that this one of my top ten of 2020 because this book was beautiful and so powerful.
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