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ARC Book Review - Gravehouse: A Dark Forced Marriage Romance, (Cursed Lovers Duet, book 2), by Amo Jones

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes:  Age gap, Graphic violence, Blood and injury detail, Murder and attempted murder, Kidnapping / captivity, Restraint / confinement, Forced marriage / coercive marriage setup, Sexual coercion / dub-con power dynamics, Explicit sexual content, Obsessive and possessive relationship behavior, Stalking / surveillance, Emotional abuse, Blackmail, Psychological manipulation, Gaslighting, Brainwashing / conditioning, Memory tampering / false memory implantation, Torture / interrogation, Trauma responses, Toxic family dynamics, Death of loved ones / grief. This is a dark romance. Not grey. Read the trigger warnings before reading.  Asher Delacroix & Ivy's (   Ivyana )  story picks up right where we left off in book 1, Playhouse.  Asher and Ivy are individually a force to be reckoned with, but together? Untouchable. Ivy doesn’t know what happened to Asher since she saw him a year ago. She hadn’t hear from anyone that he knew in...
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ARC Book Review - Offside: a Phoenix Sidewinders Hockey Romance (Book 1), by Amy Briggs

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  Book Rating:    Book Tropes:  Hockey Romance,  Brother’s Best Friend,  Forbidden Romance Second Chance / Missed Connection NHL Team Captain,  He Falls Hard NHL Expansion Team.  Ryan Lindqvist, 32, was recently traded from the Minnesota NHL Hockey team to the new Phoenix Sidewinders Team. Ryan grew up in the Minnesota area. He loves the ice, cold, and wind. He knows going to Phoenix will be great for his career but, he isn't sure about the heat and the desert.  Ryan's best friend is  Griffin Callahan, goalie who was also traded to the Phoenix Sidewinders teams. Griffin has a sister, Maren, 27, who is in sports medicine. She has also been offered a job with the Phoenix Sidewinders team as the new Director of Sports Medicine for the team. She will be making sure the team stays functional, injury prevention, rehab, coordinating with the Dr's., day to day maintaince. Ryan had met Maren years ago when she was 18, a senior in high school, but...
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Book Review - The Ritual (L.O.R.D.S., #1) by Shantel Tessier

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  Book Tropes:  Secret Society, Breathe Play, Dark Romance, Dark Erotica,  Dark College Romance, P ossessive MMC, A rranged Marriage,  Touch Her and Die,  Praise and Degradation Ryat Alexander Archer  is in the L.O.R.D.S. at  Barrington University. His father was also. Ryat is one of the top seniors in the LORDS class. He has always done what was requested of him. He has no problems doing what is required of him. Ryat was assigned to make Blakely as a chosen even though she is with Matt another L.O.R.D. who never took her or said she was his chosen.  Blakely Anderson also attends Barrington University. She wanted to go to another college but her mother made it clear Barrington was the only one for her. She is in her junior year at the university. She has been dating Matt for a few years but they never seem to go further than 2nd base when they are together. Blakely is still a virgin, and wonders when Matt will take things further with her. Blakely...
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ARC Book Review - Break Point (Cordon University #1), by Ginger Scott

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  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes:  sports romances,  tennis/football romances, he  falls first   Jaden is on the tennis team. She wants to be #1 in the country. She works very hard to earn and keep her spot on the tennis team. She doesn't have any NIL deals, or endorsements. She does get jealous of the football team getting a lot of 'free' deals and making their life more easy. Jaden is at the end of her rope though for college tuition her senior year. She has maxed out the credit cards, her parents have a double mortgage on their hamburger resturaunt back in Arizona. She needs money to help pay for college. She says yes to a  athlete dating app that she will be apart of. But, of course she is paired up with Bryson, her enemy since freshman year. Jaden doesn't know when she signed up for the app that his sister is behind it, the owner/creator of the app.  Bryson is the star quarterback on the college football team. He had to sit out their freshman y...
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ARC Book Review - Forced Promises: A Dark Mafia Stalker Romance by Alexis Abbott

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  Book Rating:  Alexis Abbott hasn't written books in awhile, and this is her first book coming back.  Book Tropes:  Age Gap (19/30),  Dark Mafia Romance,  Mafia Romance,   Forced Proximity,  Mental Health Representation,  Secret society,  Religious cult,  He falls first,  Sexual healing,  Stalking,  Calls her ‘my angel’,  Slow Burn,  Obsessed & Protective, MMC,  Revenge      Laszlo has ties to the  Hungarian  mafia. Now that he's working with a lower level Russian Mafia boss, who doesn't understand who Laszlo's father is. Laszlo is the money person as they call him. is trying to gain the trust of this mafia group without creating to many waves. Laszlo is trying to turn the cash they have in hand into crypto, but its a big scam. Until the bigger bosses in the organization find out the lower managers are making more money than they are! They bring up Laszlo through the ranks....
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ARC Book Review - THE OFFSIDE RULE by RC Stephens

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  Book Rating:  Book Trope:  Hockey Romance,  Age Gap,  Forbidden Romance,  Single Dad,  Coach’s Daughter,  Sports Medicine Heroine,  Secret Relationship,  Father’s Best Friend,  Protective Hero,  Broody Hero,  Explosive Chemistry,  Inconvenient Shower Incident,  Spicy Romance,  Happily Ever After Hunter Russell is the captain for the Dallas  Blaze   NHL hockey team. He is 33 and has a 10 yr old daughter, Isla, who he is raising on his own. Hunter has been married before and was also hurt very painfully by that same ex. Hunter never wanted to be in another relationship, but that wasn't ever fair to him or to his daughter. Once he opened his eyes his heart also opened to Catherine.  Catherine (CC), is 24, and in her fourth year of med school, she wants to go into Sports Medicine. She is doing a sports internship at the Dallas  Blaze   NHL Hockey Team and will be around the players and...
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ARC Book Review - Public Enemy #91, by Kristen Hope Mazzola

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  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes:  Enemies to lovers,  Fake relationship,  Forced proximity,  Workplace / forbidden romance,  Media scandal hockey drama,  Grumpy veteran enforcer hero,  Sunshine PR strategist heroine,  Protective hockey hero energy. Beatriz “Bea” Ribeiro,  who is  in college working on finishing her degree. She is  Brilliant. Unflappable. And the youngest PR strategist the NHL organization has ever hired. Will Bea be able to work her magic and help spin Alois in a good light that helps his career? Or will she be torn between her love of working and her new 'fake' romance?  Her first assignment?  Rehabilitate the league’s most notorious troublemaker before he destroys the Frosthawks’ season.  Simple.  Except  Alois Müller refuses to be handled. Alois Müller plays NHL ice hockey for the   Minnesota Frosthawks . He loves hockey and how it makes him feel powerful. However, he is on hi...
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