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ARC Book Review - Awaiting the Storm (Wildhaven #1) by Amber Kelly

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  Book Rating:  There are 4 Storm girls, Maitland Storm (Matty) is the oldest and they all live and work at Wildhaven Ranch. A few years ago there mom passed away, and ever since Matt works day and night trying to keep the ranch afloat with her dad, and grandparents. The sisters all work their share also, but, Matty took on the brunt of the work, usually doing 14 hr plus days.  Matty was engaged but the first sign of trouble, he took off, and Matty didn't forgive him.  Caison Galloway grew up about 1.5 hrs away up in Jackson Hole, WY. He loves to ride horses, and the ranch life. He went to Texas for college and worked on a few big ranches and brought his knowledge back home to Wyoming. Caison is working for a ranch next to Matty's and the owner wants to see about buying 1,000 acres of land from the Wildhaven Ranch. When Caison goes up to Matty he knows he has some work cut out for him. Matty isn't impressed with suits, and business deals. She's impressed with what yo...

ARC Book Review - Texts From My Exes by Rachel Van Dyken

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  Book Rating:  Trope's: Rom / Com, Best Friends to lovers. Harper and Ezra have been best friends for ages. Harper is a blogger / content creator. Ezra loves his spreadsheets and computers. Harper is trying to figure out why her last few 'date's' haven't worked out. Harper wants to go on new dates with those men, and see why she let them 'go'.  Ezra has a secret he has been keeping from Harper ever since they met back in college. Ezra has a secret crush on Harper. Ezra isn't sure if he should tell Harper, and ruin their friendship. Ezra's brother is the other person he turns too when he needs help - usually with Harper issues.  Harpers family loves being around Ezra. Her dad isn't sure of him, if he just wants to be friends with Harper, or if he wants something more. Grandma Blue, she loves Harper and Ezra together. She has been trying to work somethings in the 'back' to get them together. Will Grandma Blue be able to force something tha...

ARC Book Review - Make Me Yours (Chicago Railers Hockey #1), by Jennifer Sucevic

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  Book Rating:  Steele Sanderson has always wanted to play in the NHL. He loves hockey, it's the one thing he can always do. When Lilah doesn't make it to a home game, he can't concentrate   on the game, he keeps wondering where Lilah is at. Can he get his head in the game? Why is her missing such a distraction for him?  Lilah and Steele have always been a constant in each other's lives, since Freshman year of College. Now Steele is a NHL hockey big shot. Lilah  catches her boyfriend cheating on her one day.  She doesn't have anywhere else to go, Steele offers him a spare room at his place. Lilah doesn't want to intrude on his space. Steele doesn't want her to go anywhere else, he wants to take care of her, he wants to be the one to help her with everything she needs.  When Lilah gets her feet back under herself, will she want to stay with Steele? Will Steele want her at the apartment still? When they grow closer together, will they be able to move tha...

ARC Book Review -Tempting the Goalie, by RC Stephens

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  Book Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Luc Chabot is the hockey goalie for  Riverside U. He is a hockey god who can get any girl(s) he wants. Luc gets in trouble with his hockey coaches and needs to clean up his image a bit. The coaches are tired of Luc getting into trouble across campus with all the girls on campus. Luc has an older sister who he and Izzy are close with.  Isabella (Izzy) - is a shy book nerd. She is going for her child psychology degree. She wants to help children who have or are going through trama and hope they can become thriving adults. Recently she was dating a hockey player West Knight for the past 2 yrs, but found out through social media he is cheating on her! He never called her or anything.  When Izzy & Luc were younger his mother died. Her mother left as she didn't want to be without her best friend. Izzy grew up with her father and 4 brother's. Izzy and Luc have always been very close friends since they were 5yrs old. They have never crossed t...

ARC book Review - Play Me, by Adriana Locke

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  Book Rating:  Gray Adler plays   rugby and has just been added to the Royal's roaster as a new player. Gray has a lot of anger in him. He isn't playing like he use to. He is holding himself back. But from what?  Gray has been keeping a secret for a few years and it's eating him up. He can't keep self harming himself by keeping his feelings inside like he has been. Astrid has a lot of different jobs. One of them is being a personal assistant to    Renn  who owns the Royal's Rugby team.  Renn  asks Astrid to be Gray's personal assistant - keep him on the straight and narrow. Keep him following the rules. Astrid has had a lot of pain in her life as well. She likes to keep following the rules. She likes to be in charge. Who else will be if she's not?  Will Astrid be able to help Gray? But, will Gray be willing to accept her help?  I did receive a free ARC copy of this book. I am freely leaving a honest review. 

Book Review - War and his Queen (Carpe Noctem Series), by Amo Jones

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  Book Rating:  The Elite Kings Club (EKC) has founding families.  Halen has always been considered the princess of the group.  Daughter of the notorious Bishop Hayes. And she is a daddy's girl through and through.  She doesn't seem as rash as her brother, Priest.  She actually has a sole compared to him. She is an excellent driver, and the other kids in the groups named one of the race tracks after her. Halen and War have always had a hate / hate type relationship. They would do things just to egg the other person on.   War has a push / pull relationship with Halen. He wants to be her bully. He wants to kill. He wants to toture people. He gets off on it. He has feelings for Halen, he always wants to be with her, mainly to protect her. He doesn't think she can do it herself.  A lot of drug use and alcohol use. There is a lot going on in this book. One page they are doing murders here by their house. And then they are off at another islan...

ARC Book Review - Shadow's Protection (Hurricane Heat MC Book 1), by Chelle Bliss

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  Book Rating:  Shadow is the VP for the  Hurricane Heat MC. He went to a local hotel to get the money from someone, who didn't have the money of course. During the argument between the two Violet comes in looking for a hotel room. The hotel clerk states nothing is available hoping to get her out of the hotel quickly. Which makes her ask more questions.  Violet James is moving to Tampa for a new job, as a librarian at the local high school. However, the hurricane weather has her looking for a hotel to spend the night in to ride out the storm. The hotel she stops at doesn't have any rooms, but one of the guys in front of her can't stop staring. He offers her a room at his place if she will give him a ride. Shadow doesn't want to continue on his bike in the storm. She agrees, Shadows puts his bike in the hotel entryway or covered patio so it hopefully won't get too much damage from the storm. Violet lets Shadow drive since he might have more experience w...