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ARC Book Review - Rising Waters (Crime Daily Podcast), by Aleatha Romig

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  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: small town, midwest, community secrets, missing girls, physical attack, sexual attack, search for truth This is a POV from Jillian but also has POV from a true crime podcast that is also going on listing the crimes that Jillian is in town investigating.   Jillian Thorne, is from Blue Gil, a small town in Michigan. Once she graduated high school she left, she didn't return. Now that one of her classmates has died, she is back in the small town to find out how he died. Jillian lives out in California and works on a few Hollywood Crime Shows with researching how the crime occured.  Craig Gilbert , Blue Gil high school teacher, and beloved football coach recently passed away. But, was it by accident? Or did someone kill Craig on purpose? Who was Craig involved with? Was he messing around with high school girls? Was he not happily married? Growing up in Blue Gil, Jillian remembers there being a few 'missing' from the town. When she was y...

ARC Book Review: Forged in the Fire, (Crimson Crows #1), by AL Jackson

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  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes: Grumpy MC, Bikers, Brother’s Nemesis, Enemies to Lovers, Small Town, Band of Brothers, Secret Society Brinley Webber has been dropped at the gates of the  Crimson Tides MC  club by her brother Dereck. What has he gotten himself into now? Why is he giving her to these men? What danger is her brother in or is she in? Brinley doesn’t understand what is going on other than her brother just delivered her to these bikers in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. Usually Brinley can clean up her brother’s messes without too much trouble. But now she isn’t sure.  Silas Mercer is the president of the Crimson Tides MC. He has told the men about Brinley coming to stay with them and they are to stay away from her and that she’s off limits. That’s all the information he gives out to the men. Silas knows Dereck works both sides - he can’t ever seem to tell the truth. On the MC property Silas has the clubhouse for the guys and the g...

ARC Book Review - West of Forever (Heartstone Ranch #1), by Corrine Michaels

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  Book Trope: Grumpy vs Sunshine. Single Dad. Cowboy / Cowgirl. Small Town. Rival Families. Forbidden Romance. Enemies to Lovers.  Tristan Stone is a widower with 12 yr old daughter, who drives him crazy most days. He runs his family’s ranch now that his dad is older. He has three sisters who also work the ranch with him. When he sees a truck in the rain he wants to help whoever may be in trouble. Of course when he sees is Lark he can’t believe his luck. His family hates hers but when she gets into his truck and he takes a good look at her he can’t seem to remember why they hate each other. He shouldn’t like Lark but he can stop thinking about her.  Lark Gatlin - is a member of the Gatlin family. She is a horse trainer on their ranch. She has 4 brothers, 2 that help run the ranch with her and her parents. Lark has dated some but has never found anyone she wants to stay with. One night during a rain storm she runs off the road in her truck. Her boyfriend doesn’t come to he...

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

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  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...

ARC Book Review - Volik, (Bonded Souls #1), by SJ Tilly

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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...

ARC Book Review - Crossing the Line: a Teammate’s Sister HockeY Romance, by Quinn Rose

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  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...

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...