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ARC Book Review - Rushed by Aleatha Romig

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  Book Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Book Tropes:  Young college love. Second chance romance. Sports Romance.  Family legacy drama.  Family secrets.  This is book #2 in the series. You do need to read Intercepted (book 1), as Rushed (book 2) picks up where Intercepted (book 1) left off.  Griffin (Fin) Graham - 36 was the back up quarterback, but after the main quarterback was injured he was moved into the starting quarterback position. He is older and a lot of the younger players do look up to him to see how he is handling the pressure. Fin is there for Vee more than her family has been. Fin wants Vee to lean on him more. They both have been trying to keep their relationship on the down low.  Maeve  (Vee) Cooper - at the end of Intercepted (book 1) she just found out her father passed away in a car crash. Now, she is the new President of The NFL Coopers Football team. Her dad was in the middle of revising his will, but, he never finished the will / signed a ...

ARC Book Review - Twisted Pawn (Society of Villains, #2) by L.J. Shen

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  Book Rating:    We meet most of the same characters from Book 1, Bad Bishop. I recommend reading book 1, Bad Bishop as the characters, history are explained. Book 2, picks up where Bad Bishop leaves off.      Book Tropes:  Enemies to Lovers, Second Chance, Morally grey hero,  Obsessed , Stalker, Slow Burn.  Tierney Callaghan & Achilles  met when they were teenagers and they were mostly together dating in secret through their high school days. Tierney and  Tiernan Callaghan  are twins. They were taken as babies and raised in a Russian work camp. They both have  trauma   from that experience. Both were raised as killers and can fight with the best of them. Tierney doesn't need the bodyguards Achilles makes guard her, she's her own bodyguard. When Tierney goes on dates, or hooks up with other guys, that's the last time they are alive. Achilles usually ends their lives after they have touched her. Achilles Ferrante,...

ARC Book Review - Rise of Ink and Smoke (Frozen Fate #4), by Pam Godwin

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  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is book #4, a  spinoff of the Frozen Fate trilogy by Pam Godwin. You can read as a standalone. Although I would read the previous books. I’ve read the book trilogy and just love them.. Wolfson Strakh one of the captives from the Frozen Fate trilogy books was 'lost'. No one knew what happened to him once he went over the side of the cliff. The brothers didn't know if he survived or not.  Wolfson did survive, but, he was held captive after that and finally escaped making his way back to his family.  Wolfson works at a tattoo shop in Sitka, and lives on the island property with his family. One day he is walking in town and sees a woman in a wedding dress running straight for him. All he can think about is that Cinderella finally escaped and she's going to lose her shoes! When Wolfson finally catches up to the woman, he realizes that she is running from someone, her step-brother who has been stalking her.  Dove Rath blows into Sitka thin...

ARC Book Review - The Hope We Dare (Iron Outlaws MC: Colorado #7), by Scarlett Cole

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  Book Rating:  Book Trope:  Grumpy × Sunshine × Lightning,  Motorcycle Club Romance,  Hurt/Comfort,  Touch Her (or Him) & Die,  Age Gap,  Why Choose / MMF / Closed triad,  Established MM,  Love Worth Waiting For,  MMF.  You can read this book as a stand-alone. Each book in the series explains who is who.  Isla use to be a club girl with the Iron Outlaws, but, for the past four months, she's been living on her own, holding down a regular job. She wanted out of the club life, and now she's on her own. She would rather do everything herself, but, she finds she does need help. Isla's grandmother passed away and she left the house to Isla in her will. Her uncle and his son keep  harassing   her about the house and how she doesn't have rights to it. Isla is now very afraid of those in leather cuts, and bikes. She doesn't want to throw her body around, she doesn't want to be used any more. Now, her new neighbors, S...

ARC Book Review - Hey There Slugger (The Boys of Sweetwater Springs #2), by Ginger Scott

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  Book Rating:  Book Trope:  Sweet small town, baseball romance, second chance romance. Brooks Callahan  plays  AAA baseball team for the  Sweetwater Mavericks. He's hoping to get called up to the professional team during his first seasons in AAA. Brooks had a one night stand a few times with a local. She got pregnant and never told Brooks. One night he received a package at his front door, his new 3 month old baby girl. Brooks has zero idea on how to care for a baby. He met Lindsey one night in the grocery store while he was look for diapers for his new baby, he was struggling to find a size that she should be in. With Lindsey's help he was able to find the right size and not feel totally alone. Lindsey Blackwood is a local of Sweetwater. Her dad was the local high school baseball coach and the Mavericks coach for awhile. Lindsey has twin boys, who are four years old, turning five. She is currently   separated   from her husband and living back h...

ARC Book Review - Show Me Forever (Chicago Railers Hockey #3), by Jennifer Sucevic

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  Book Rating:  Book Trope:  secret relationship, unplanned pregnancy, forbidden romance, he falls first.  This is the third book is the Chicago Railers Hockey Series Oliver Van Dore has played NHL hockey for the Chicago Railers, and loves playing for the team. He has siblings, and a mom he loves. They lost his dad when he was a teenager and his older brother took over the role of the 'father' after theirs past. He has fallen for Rina, but, she doesn't trust men due to her mother's beliefs. Will Oliver be able to put his trust out there for Rina to see how much he cares for her and how much he loves her? Or will she just push him away?  Rina is the NHL Chicago Railers Hockey Team Public  R elations   manager. She has been working for the team 4 years and  absolutely   loves working for them. Rina and Oliver 'The Big O' have always had a hate / hate relationship. Until recently. The past 2 years Oliver has been going out of his way to mak...

ARC Book Review - Matteo, by Clarissa Wild

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  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Trope:  Mafia Romance,  Stolen hand in Marriage,  Enemies to Lovers,  Forced Proximity, R evenge Plot,  Slow Burn,  Age Gap Stella Runner is engaged to Lucio Agostini as a payment for a debt. Lucio threatens Stella if she makes any wrong sort of move / noise / statements to embarras him she will regret it.  Matteo De Silva is a rival of Lucio's. Once he sees Stella he can't forget her, and he wants her. He can't figure out why is she with Lucio to begin with? Matteo finds out that Stella is to marry Lucio. He goes to the wedding, interupts in the middle of the ceremony, forcing Stella away from Lucio and staking a claim that he is making Stella his wife! Matteo knows that Lucio wants Stella, and this is something he can take outright from him. Did Stella just become a pawn in the mafia war between Matteo and Lucio? When Matteo steals and marries Stella in front of Lucio he knows he’s just started a mafia war. What...