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ARC Book Review - Teach Me to Kill (Prey Security: Serial Killer Apprehension Team #1), by Jane Blythe

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  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:  alpha heroes, tough heroines, danger, action, suspense, mystery, thriller, romance, cop.    This is book 1 in Jane Blythe's brand new Prey Security: Serial Killer Apprehension Team series  Belle Wilkins is a strong, confident woman who works for Prey Security as part of their Serial Killer Apprehension Team. She is a profiler who works with police to learn about a serial killer they may have in their towns and she works with them to find the serial killer. Belle's hair went grey when she was only 13 yrs old. She dealt with names her whole life about her 'looks'. But now that she's an adult she has learn to embrace her hair and her looks. Something she wish she could have done in high school. Now that she is standing next to Jacob, she knows it was wrong that she is here in his office. She never would have come if she knew it was him she was going to be working with. Can Jacob and her get along for the sake of finding who is kil...

ARC Book Review - Now We're Even (Wilder U #2), by SJ Sylvis

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  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ B ook Tropes:  Hockey romance, F ake dating,  Roommate romance,  roommates and there’s only one bed      College romance,  He falls first,  forced proximity,   found family,  her ex is his rival Callahan Grant is the captain of the ice hockey team. However, he was covering / helping some freshman, and got in trouble with his coach and the dean of the school. Now he is kicked out of the hockey house, and placed in the overflow housing. He has to share a room, with Nora, with one bed.  Nora is a new transfer to Wilder U. She is put into the overflow housing.  Nora found herself in the position of having to share a room with hockey player, Callahan Grant, with only one bed. Nora is a journalism major, she wanted to do sports journalism, however, after the incident at her last college she wants to focus on more important things than just sports.  Nora's ex, Chase, has always tried to get onto ...

ARC Book Review - Claim (The New Bradford’s #5), by Tia Louise

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  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes: Friends to Lovers, Sports, Sports Romance, Small Town, Football, Football Romance, slow burn, forced proximity, second chance, found family.  Austin Sinclair is the new high school football coach taking over for Jack Bradford. Austin has a four yr old little girl Callie. Kim has been helping out with Callie and just adores her. Austin hasn't been in a relationship for years now. He always had friend / family feelings towards Kim. But after seeing her in a bikini at the pool he can't help but look at her like a man who wants a woman. He can't believe he's never looked at her like that before. Even with all of Kim's flirting he's always directed things away from where she was headed.  Kim Bradford is Coach Jack Bradfords daughter. She is a second grade teacher at the local elementary school. When her dad Jack married Austin's mom, Kim always said that Austin was her Prince who she would marry one day. Austin was 18 off to c...

ARC Book Review - Breakaway Bet (Bradley Legacy Series Book 7), by Lisa Suzanne

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  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: High Stakes Bet, Forced Proximity, Accidental Vegas Wedding, Virgin Heroine x Bad Boy, Age Gap   Cash Maddox is 33 and is the center for the Las Vegas hockey team. He has been on the ice since he was 3. He loves skating and the rush it gives him. When he sees Ivy at the club when he was out with his friends he can't look away. But, when he goes to talk with her, Dex Bradley comes out to protect her. What? Then he learns she is his sister! One of the guys that hates him of course would be a brother to the hottest girl he's seen in forever.    Ivy (Bradley) Maddox, is the baby of the Bradley family. She has just turned 22 when she meets Cash at a club in Las Vegas. Ivy is a virgin, she wants to just sleep with Cash and move on. But, Cash actually fell first and does really like her. Then they meet a few weeks later and wind up drunk out on the town together, and then wake up married to each other. Ivy isn'...

ARC Book Review - Wicked Auction (The McCarthy Family Legacy #4), by Jane Henry

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  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: Dark Irish mafia romance, Enemies to lovers, Sold at auction, Captor and captive, Forced proximity, Hidden identity, Touch her and die, He was sent to save her (she has no idea), Anti-Hero/ Black Cat FMC, Black Mail, Hurt/Comfort, Dual First Person POV Torin McCarthy has been recently released from prison, where he was serving time for a crime he was framed for. His brothers and family worked hard to get him out of prison. His brothers send him to America to go to an auction where they are selling women to the highest bidder. Torin can't believe that is going on and happening in the world. Valentina Esposito has spent weeks in captivity, being moved from one horrible place to another. She was physically abused, assaulted, and drugged repeatedly. She was given food that had drugs in it. She hasn't really eaten in weeks. She doesn't know who to trust. When Torin wins her bid at the auction she doesn't know what to expect. Torin takes her t...

ARC book review - Crash Course by Piper Lawson

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  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: Academy, Love triangle, Racing, Slow burn, Emotional, Enemies to Lovers, Elite Racing Academy, Secrets & corruption.    Shay MacDonald is adopted daughter of a car mechanic. Her parents died in a car wreck when she was little. Shay has started at the Academy, as a student engineer. Shay was at Ohio University when her dad had to get knee surgery. She moved back to be with him to help him and take care of him. Since she was close by she applied for the Academy and got in. She loves working on cars, and seeing how the race cars can go faster.    Theo and Jameson Ashford are brothers, separated by 1 year in age. Both are on trying for the F1 racing circuit racing for their father's company - ARI (Ashford Racing). Both brothers are at the Academy also as drivers. Theo is thoughtful and charming, however, he's often thought of as the 'extra' heir. Jameson is dark and brooding. The...

ARC Book Review - Unchained (Beneath the Reign #3, by Luna Mason

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           Book Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Book Tropes:  MAFIA. COWBOYS. RIVAL FAMILIES. An explosive arranged marriage!  Dark, New Adult, Small Town, Western.  Billionaire, Enemies-to-Lovers, Family Saga, Forced Marriage, Forced Proximity, Found Family, Heroine in Danger, Mafia/Bratva/Organized Crime Unchained is part of the Beneath the Reign series of interconnected standalones.  We left off with Book 2, Unleashed, as Gianna and Colton became engage. We met the characters in the previous books. They are to be married on paper only. An alliance between the families.  Gianna Milano is a mafia princess, who is ruthless, evil, clever, and fearless. She has always wanted to take over the family business from her father. However, he only sees her as a woman, a pawn in the game. He has beat her and her brothers trying to make them submit to him. He says he is just training them. However, Gianna is cold and ruthless due to her lack of love t...