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ARC Book Review - Public Enemy #91, by Kristen Hope Mazzola

  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...

ARC Book Review - Sacked: An NFL Dynasty Romance (The Coopers #3) by Aleatha Romig

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  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:  Second Chance Romance,  Football Dynasty,  Family Secrets,  Forced Proximity,  The One That Got Away,  Cliffhanger SACKED is Book 3 in The Coopers series, ends on a cliffhanger, and must be read in order: INTERCEPTED → RUSHED → SACKED → SCORED We left Vee in Rushed at her Father's  remembrance  ceremony at the Cooper's Stadium. Her family is very involved with the Cooper's football team. Its been about six weeks since her father's passing. The reading of the will is coming up. Supposedly her father was changing the will but hadn't signed it yet. Vee isn't sure what is coming that she needs to be worried about. She is worried about her holdings with the Coopers football team.  Fin has been on the injured list from getting the hit on his ribs. He has been resting and healing from that injury. Vee's ex boyfriend, Preston, has been texting / meeting with Fin about some family drama he knows that Vee needs t...

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 ...