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ARC Book Review - It's About Time (Blossom Peak #4) by Harlow James

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  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: S mall Town,  Enemies to Lovers,  Fake Engagement,  Best Friends Sister,  Slow Burn This is book #4 in the series. You don't need to read them in order or before as they are each standalones. But knowing who is who in the books makes reading the series amazing.  We met both Elliott and Dilynne back in book #1. Here book #4 we have a bit of a repeat of what is going on as it shows Elliot's side of and of Dilynne's from the time of the wedding up to current day.  Elliot Thorne is a lawyer who was just left at the alter. He turns to   alcohol   to help him get through the pain and tries to forget the wedding and Tori who left him at the alter. Dilynne is there at the beginning of his struggles to help him get ahold of himself and he starts to heal thanks to her.  Dilynne is the small towns mechanic. She works in a  specialty  auto shop where she works on classic cars working to restore them to w...

ARC Book Review - Reckless Cowboy (Iron Ridge Book 3) by Dakota James

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  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:  Crime syndicate,  Tension,  Action,  He falls first & hard,   Deputy FMC,  Ex-military/Cowboy MMC,  Found family RECKLESS COWBOY is a dark cowboy romance featuring enemies-to-lovers tension, morally gray heroes, and a love story that breaks every rule. Deputy Sheriff Harper Garrett has always lived in the small town. Her father is the Sheriff although now that he is getting closer to retirement she isn't sure how much longer he will be on the job. Some town folks have been run off their ranches or killed, the Sheriff says there is another to investigate, but, after one of her friends dad was killed and her father swept it under the rug she knows something is going on.  Luke Bennett was part of the special forces squad in the military. Now he lives in a small town with a few military brothers. They still do their special ops things, just for the civilian world, of helping those who have been traffic and n...

ARC Book Review - That Someday: Damon + Ainsley, Book 3 by Jillian Dodd

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  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: SURPRISE PREGNANCY, HE FALLS HARDER, GOLDEN RETRIEVER HERO, COLLEGE FOOTBALL, SOULMATES, NEW ADULT This is book #3 in the series. You do need to read the other books as this picks up where Book #2 leaves off.  Damon drove down to surprise Ainsley at her college graduation ceremony. Although it's Damon who gets the surprise, he sees that Ainsley is pregnant. How? What? When? Is all he can think of. Ainsley doesn't know what to do now that Damon is at her graduation.  Now is Ainsley going to stay in Kansas City and work for her uncle? Or is she going to move up to Nebraska to be with Damon? Will her uncle still want her to work for him now that she's is 30 weeks pregnant?  Damon wants to stay in Nebraska to stay with his college football team, but, he wants to be close to Ainsley and their growing baby. Can he and Ainsley work out a schedule of when they can see each other and be with each other? Will Ainsley's mom continue to support ...

ARC Book Review - Gathering Storms (Wild at Heart #4) by Lex Martin

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  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: Marriage Of Convenience, Small Town Romance, Cowboy Romance, Forced Proximity, Contemporary Romance, Spicy, Fake Dating, Fake Marriage, Workplace Romance, Westerns, Romantic Suspense Jace Walker  is a member of the Walker boys/clan. He has 4 other brother's we've met in the other books. Jace loves music, he's been in a local band for 10 years playing bars and gigs around their small town in Texas. Sometimes he gets invited to go on tour and is able to play to a little bit larger crowds. His band was invited to be an opening act for the summer concert series. But, Jace was found out he has a baby girl, who is almost 1 yrs old. How can he go on a tour when he has a baby?  There is no way he can practice and do the nightly shows.  Aurora "Rory" Anderson  is the small towns librarian. However, after 2 weeks of rain, the roof of the library collapses, and now Rory is out of a job! The mayor won't return her calls. Her frien...

ARC Book Review - The Forbidden Villain: A Dark Billionaire Romance by V.F. Mason

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  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: Dark Romance,  Billionaire, Enemies-to-Lovers, Family Saga, Forbidden, Heroine in Danger, Hidden Identity, Kidnapped/Captive, One Night Stand, Opposites Attract, Reverse Age Gap (10), Secret Relationship, Stalker Lavender Wright, is thirty years old. She is working on a bachelor's degree in    Mythology . She gave up her draeam of becoming a Dr when she was held hostage by her uncle for the past few years. Her brother are constantly by her side or watching her every move. It's like she can grow up but only by their rules. Her brothers gave her a bank card, credit card, town house, but they still watch her, always making sure she doesn't slide backwards to the darkness they rescued her from. Lavender has never had any boyfriends, she has never gone on any dates. Now that her uncle scard her permanently on her neck and face she knows she will never get anyone to love her. Just walking down the streets is painful for her when people gla...

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 ...