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ARC Book Review - Saving The Shortstop (The Good Girls of NE University, #3), by Hannah Gray

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes: childhood friends, forced proximity, friends to lovers, heroine in danger, student athletes, football, sports romance.  Dallas Rivers is a star Quarterback back at the New England University. His adoptive father is a retired NFL player. His adoptive parents are best friends with Haven’s parents and they have known each other since he was 11 and she was 12. Dallas’s real parents were not much of actual parents to him. His adoptive parents have always made sure he feels safe and loved with them.  Haven King is the star shortstop on the woman’s softball team. She loves playing and being involved with the team and the school. Her dad is the head football coach so she is often going over to watch him coach. Her brother is also on the football team and Dallas is also on the team. Haven has been seeing a boy on the football team but it was just casual and he is wanting more. Haven breaks things off with him and thinks they won’t have anything...
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ARC Book Review - Volik, (Bonded Souls #1), by SJ Tilly

Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes: urban paranormal romance, curvy fmc, size difference, protective MMC, age gap, touch her and die, gated mates, found family.  Volik Vadas, vampire of the kingdom of Saxony of old. Son of the Fire Touch. Brother to Vameer, Interfector Mali. Volik is working at a local college but he is looking for his brother who has gone silent. He hasn’t ‘felt’ his brother in a century. Now he has been having a pulling feeling towards something else, he can’t seem to understand what or who he is being pulled towards.  Nix just turned 30 yrs old. She’s been feeling different for the past few days, but on her birthday she’s really out of sorts. She is feeling a pull towards someone but she isn’t sure who. Nix has just started working at a college and she is just trying to get her life in order. She has always been on the fluffier side never a small woman.  When Volik sees Nix he knows that she is his. She was made for him and he steal her away to make her h...
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ARC Book Review - Crossing the Line: a Teammate’s Sister HockeY Romance, by Quinn Rose

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Trope: professional hockey romance, brother’s teammate, off limits, surprise pregnancy, protective hero, long distance love, emotionally mature, low drama, high devotion romance. Leslie Brooks has just moved from Chicago to  where her brother - Landon Brooks, is playing professional hockey. She moved to be closer to him and gain a new experience in a new city.  Rowan has always been the broody NHL Hockey player. He doesn’t let many people in to his world. He lets even less women in. Once he sees Leslie is is a goner. Rowan knows he needs to know who she is. He is instantly taken with her.  Both Rowan and Landon make the Olympic Hockey Team. They go out for training for three weeks before the Olympics and then travel over seas for the actual Olympic Games.    For me there were some errors in the books. One month it’s June and Leslie is 5 months pregnant. The next chapter it’s January and she’s seven months along. What happened? Tim...
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ARC Book Review - Left Field (The Bradley Legacy Book 5) by Lisa Suza

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  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: Vacation Romance, Baseball Romance, Forced Proximity, Grumpy x Sunshine, Big Family Saga.   Archer Bradley is a professional baseball player.  After he signed a document his father coerced him into signing, he finds out that he is now on a 40 game suspension away from baseball. He decides to go down to the Bahamas to spend a month in the sun and be alone. He doesn't like being on his phone, texting, calling. He is worried about those who are out to use him for his fame or for his money. Archer is on the mend after his ex, Tatum falls for his brother Ford. He and Tatum had been on and off together for seven years. Now that she married his brother he's not sure where either relationships lie.    Millie gets an offer from a resort in the Bahamas to come down for a month to create content and help bring up the ratings on their resort. Millie is trying to be a travel influencer, and she is usually o...
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ARC Book Review XOXO, Summer by S.L. Scott

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  Book Tropes: Grumpy vs Sunshine. Hockey player romance. Small Town Romance. He falls first. Daniel Sutton is a professional hockey player for a team in NYC, he also has a son,   Roman. Daniel is in the small town of Mountain Laurel Cove, to get out of the city and get back to the free summer feeling he had when he was younger. His hockey career is in termoil. He has been told to clean up his act or retiring would be in hands of others not his.  Summer Season works in the small town   Mountain Laurel Cove,  and  managing a few rental houses near her house. She is the eldest of the Season sisters-she has three younger one's. Their grandmother raised them after their parents died. Summer wants to keep her small town, small. She doesn't want the big developers coming in a tearing down the houses / building large buildings. She wants to keep things how they have been.  Daniel and Summer tried to do a 'fake' relationship. As Daniel would get Summer as his ...
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ARC Book Review - Know Unleashed (Iron Outlaws MC, Florida book #1), by Scarlett Cole

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  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes: age gap, MC, small town, Forbidden love, morally grey MC president  Knox is the longest serving MC president for the Iron Outlaws one of the largest MC clubs in the country. He’s in his 40’s, he’s not ‘young’ by any standards and would rather call or video chat than text someone, he says he’s old school. His lived his the same small town in Florida his whole life. He is at odd against the local sheriff who killed his brother years ago. They both stay out of each other’s way.  Maren also grew up in the same small town as Knox. Her father is the town sheriff. However he treats Maren horribly. Her mother disappeared when she was younger and she moved into the bait shop with her grandparents who basically raised her. Now she runs the bait shop and boat tour business. Her father leaves her alone mostly. Except when he comes over to harass her and tell her how worthless she is.  Knox and Maren don’t see eye to eye at the beginning as ...
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ARC Book Review - Paper Rings, by Brittanee Nicole

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  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: Second Chance Romance, Hockey, Sports Romance, Sports, Friends to Lovers, Forced Proximity, Workplace Romance, Single Dad, Teammate Romance.   This is the next generation of Langfield's in a new series.  JJ Hanson & Addie are childhood friends and teenage hockey teammates. They are both goalie's and have always been competing against each other for the #1 spot on the teams they play for.  JJ Hanson   plays for the NHL Boston Bolts Hockey Team. He was drafted when he was 18 into the NHL. He's loved playing for his home town team. He is a dad of a 4yr old,    Avery . He is currently trying to get divorced, his wife -    Tabitha won't sign the divorce papers. He never loved Tabitha . He's always loved Addie. He felt that he was obligated to married because of their daughter. He does come from a wealthy family. His mom owns a magazine.  Addie Langsfield was playing in the Woman's Hockey League, she...
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