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ARC Book Review - Grumpily Yours (Stick Taps) by Teagan Hunter

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  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:   GRUMPY ex-NHL player, Black cat energy chef FMC, Boss x employee, Small town, Chronic pain rep, She cooks for him, He takes care of her, Laugh out loud, Pinball machine steamy times!!   Ezra, is grumpy ex–NHL player who owns a cidery. He had a career ending injury in the NHL. Ever since he's been out of the NHL he’s been bitter about his injury. He often works in the office at the cidery preferring to work behind the computer instead of up front with customers / staff. Ezra has a lead foot when he drives, he like to go fast, he misses the thrill of being on the ice and going fast. Ezra just got out of another speeding ticket from Sheriff Turner, as long as he hires Summer to help him at the cidery.   Summer Turner has lived in Port Harbor, Washington, most of her life. She left to go away to culinary school, and to work for a restaurant in Chicago. But, her father, Sheriff Turner had a heart ...

ARC Book Review - The Irresistible One, (The Weston Group #4), by Marni Mann

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  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes: naughty enemies to lovers, single dad, single mom, hate to love, sex club, power plays, billionaire romance.  Colson is the next brother on the Westin Family. He has power and wealth. He wants for nothing. He is on good terms with his ex - the mother of his 4 yr old. When he has Sophie at the night club he knows he can’t get enough of her. But when he sees her again across the boardroom 2 months later he knows it her instantly.  How is it she is commanding the boardroom but is not that way in the bedroom. She gives up control where it counts the most, Colson knows he needs to be his true dom self and control her that’s what she needs and craves.  Sophie is a young attorney who is a partner at her law firm. She has 1 true brother and 4 others they consider brothers / family also. Sophie grew up in foster care, and knows how both sides of the world live, she been diet poor and ultra wealthy. When she goes up against the Weston fam...

ARC Book Review - Illegal Formation (Red Zone Rivals, #6) by Kandi Steiner

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  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes: Sports Romance, Forbidden, Secret Hookups, Workplace Romance (Football Player x cheerleader) Opposites Attract, Caretaker Hero, High Stakes Relationship, Sneaking Around,  She’s got a spicy bucket list, Witty banter.  Illegal Formation  is the final book in the  Red Zone Rivals  series  it is an interconnected standalone.  What starts as secret hookups and harmless fun quickly turns into something far more dangerous — because the more time we spend sneaking around behind closed doors, the harder it becomes to pretend we’re not already in too deep. Emily Huxley is a free spirit cheerleader / dancer. She likes getting tattoos and piercings. If she likes an image she gets it tattooed. Her parents are very wealthy and often thought she didn’t belong in their world. She has always thought they didn’t like her or want her around as she didn’t fit their mold.  Emily has just moved from Austin, TX up to Seattle fo...

ARC Book Review - Hawk's Hope (Hurricane Heat MC Book 4), by Chelle Bliss

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  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:  MC Romance,  Teacher X Biker,  Banter,  Possessive Alpha Veronica is 35 and a principal at the school Phantom's daughter's go to. Veronica loves working with the parents, kids, facility, the surrounding area and town. She loves to serve and work in her community. Veronica doesn't trust people often, she doesn't throw caution to the wind either. But being with Hawk she can't see to help herself, she wants everything when she's with him. Veronica has a elderly father who she checks on constantly when she isn't at work. And she also has a sister who she's very close with and talks on the phone with her daily also.  We start the story off with Hawk (Nico) babysitting (teen sitting) Phantom's two teenage daughters - Holly & Daisy, while Phantom and his wife and toddler have a few days away. Hawk is responsible for the girls during the day - getting them to and from school. Hawk has no idea how long it takes two teenage gi...

ARC Book Review - Unleashed (Beneath the Reign #2) by Luna Mason

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  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: Professional Bull Rider x Mafia Underboss MMC, Criminal Journalist FMC, Second Chance Romance, Childhood Sweethearts, She's Investigating his crimes, She's engaged to another man, All the angst, yearning and heartbreak. Unleashed is a dark cowboy romance with a mafia twist. Unleashed is a standalone romance, but part of the Beneath the Reign series, where each book follows one of the brothers in the Sterling family. This story is Ace & Harper. Ace Sterling, is a world champion bull rider. He loves working on his family ranch in New Falls, AZ and riding bulls during the rodeo season. He loved Harper, and hasn't moved on from her even after 6 yrs of not having her. Ace and his brothers and cousins are also part of a mafia that they work for.  Harper Jones, is now a criminal journalist for the LA Press, who lives in LA. She has been burying the Sterling Families secrets, and now she's back in AZ to uncover a criminal story. Her plan was to ...

ARC Book Review - Zone (The New Bradfords #4) by Tia Louise

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  Book Rating:    Book Tropes: Sports Romance, Football romance, found family, enemies to lovers, small town romance, forbidden romance. Knox  is the youngest son in the  Bradford football dynasty. He is the new quarterback with the New Orleans Saints Football team. He is new to the team, and feeling out the players and what they can do / he can do in his first & second season. Knox has a lot riding on him from his family, trying to keep up the family sports traditions. Melody, is a sports podcaster who zero-ins on Knox and his struggles. Melody grew up in a football household also. Her father played in the NFL, and they would always go over games and plays, she knows more about football than most people. Melody does do Uber rides every so often, when she needs some extra cash. Melody did have a partner who she was doing the sports podcasting with. Except they did part ways. Her old partner wanted to do black mail in a way on players and see their reaction, ...

ARC Book Review - Whoa There Cowboy (The Boys of Sweetwater Springs #4) by Ginger Scott

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  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: Baseball Romance, Small Town Romance, Grumpy x Sunshine,  City Girl FMC, Country Boy MMC, PR x Player, Opposites Attract Jake McKinney is a young up and coming catcher for Sweetwater Mavericks AA baseball team. He thinks he may have been skipped over by the scouts as he hasn't been called up yet. His dad Roddy McKinney has been a catcher in the Major League baseball for awhile, and he thinks people skip over him due to his dad, Roddy McKinney.  Campbell wants to be a sports public relations specialist. She got on with the Sweetwater Mavericks, much to her fathers dismay. He wants her to put her law degree to use in his law firm, but that's not what Campbell wants.  Campbell sees that Jake struggles with the media. They all show him in a brute way. Campbell wants to work with Jake and show he's able to give back to the team, and help the younger  players out. Campbell wants to do a interview with Jake and his Dad Roddy, and she ...