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ARC Book Review - Scarlett and Her Prince Charming by Ivy Smoak

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  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: romance, young adult, high school, friends This is book #3 in the series. You do need to read the previous books in the series, Scarlett and the Kiss Thief, Scarlett and the Fake Boyfriend, Scarlett and Her Prince Charming. We ended book #2,  Scarlett and the Fake Boyfriend, with Scarlett and her classmates at the Homecoming Dance, and her dad hitting her teacher, Mr. Halifax. Even though Scarlett tried to explain it was a miss understanding her dad still went after Mr. Halifax and after Jacob.  Once Scarlett and her parents figure out what all was going on her dad doesn't seem to be remorseful for hitting his co-worker or being angry with Jacob. Scarlett and Jacob seem to move on, but, some of the things Scarlett hasn't told Jacob is hurting their relationship. Jacob ends things with Scarlett. Now she is back to square one with not knowing who her kiss theif is. Is it Leo? Is it Jacob? Is it Mr. Halifax? Is it Axel? Is it a random s...

ARC Book Review - The Troublemaker (The Dugout, #4) by Piper Rayne

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  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:  Baseball romance,  Fake marriage,  Surprise baby,  Forced proximity / living together,  Friends-with- benefits to lovers,  Soft Dad supremacy,  Accidental family,  Domestic romance,  Accidental yearning Easton Bailey plays for the  Chicago Colts as their flashy shortstop. He is usually the bachelor of the team. BUT, he recently received a package! A baby package! Someone dropped off a baby stating he could take care of their son better, and his name is Tanner and he is 6 months old. Now Easton has to figure out who he slept with 15 /16 months ago and where!  Hadley's grandmother just died.  Her grandmother left her, her bookstore, but she has to be married for 1 yr and live in Chicago for 1 yr. Who can she marry? It's not like you can go up to random strangers asking you to marry them! Hadley knows she and Easton are each other's hook ups when they are board. But, once Hadley sees Easton ...

ARC Book Review - Try Again, Baby (The Wells Brothers), by Julia Wolf

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  Book Rating:   Book Tropes: Second Chance Romance, Sports Romance, Surprise Pregnancy, Contemporary, Found Family, Billionaire Ben Wells   grew up in a wealthy family, he is also a  professional rugby player. Ben has a identical Twin, Roman who some have met in a previous book, By The Letter, and he also has 2 other brothers. Ben and his brother didn't have a loving mother / father / parent relationship. They were only showed off in public when it would benefit the family mainly. Now they are all grown up and have wealth on their own. They all live next to each other and are all a very tight group of siblings.  When we first meet   Mazzy Emerson   she is a mess. She is at an airport in New Zealand, trying to get home to the USA. BUT, she has no money, and the airline workers won't listen to her sob story and give in. A man behind her in line pays for a business class ticket for her and they sit next to each other on a plane. They seem to hit things o...

ARC Book Review - Sweets Salvation, (Love & Legacy #5), by Bella Matthews

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  Book Review - Sweets Salvation, (Love & Legacy #5), by Bella Matthews Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes: enemies to lovers, hockey romance, sports romance, small town romance, single dad, marriage of convenience.   Olivia is a sports lawyer / agent. She works her butt off. Her bosses keep telling her she is in the running for a partner position but have been dangling that carrot in front of her for a year now. She found out one of her bosses is retiring in 6 months but of course no one let her know. They did say that she wouldn’t make partner due to her lack of being married and not having any kids. They couldn’t tell how she would handle personal life and work life. Oi!!!   Logan is a single dad who is trying to get full custody of his 1 yr old. He is the captain on a hockey team in New Jersey. He and his younger brother both play on the team. His grandfather - Pops and his sister and older brother work on a 6,000 acre ranch the family has. He is there wh...

ARC Book Review - The Comeback King (Necessary Roughness #1), by Riley Hart

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  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes: MM Romance, Friends to Lovers, Sports Romance, Football Romance, Grief Lucas is the younger brother to  Ellis. Ellis and Hunter were best friends growing up. Then they became boyfriends. Since his brother Ellis past away Lucas has always had this empty feeling in his chest. Now with him being in LA the same town as Hunter, he knew they would run into each other eventually. Lucas is a photographer, and has opened his own studio in LA. Lucas has always had a crush on Hunter, but never acted on anything as his brother Ellis and Hunter were always together. But now that his brother Ellis  past away three years ago will Hunter want to be with him? Is is weird to be with your brother's boyfriend after he passes away? Hunter King has always loved football he was always the talented kid who Coach Blake saw potential in. He went to summer camps with Hunter and Ellis's dad as his football coach. He's always been with the Blake family. Now that E...

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...