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ARC Book Review - Zone (The New Bradfords #4) by Tia Louise

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  Book Rating:    Book Tropes: Sports Romance, Football romance, found family, enemies to lovers, small town romance, forbidden romance. Knox  is the youngest son in the  Bradford football dynasty. He is the new quarterback with the New Orleans Saints Football team. He is new to the team, and feeling out the players and what they can do / he can do in his first & second season. Knox has a lot riding on him from his family, trying to keep up the family sports traditions. Melody, is a sports podcaster who zero-ins on Knox and his struggles. Melody grew up in a football household also. Her father played in the NFL, and they would always go over games and plays, she knows more about football than most people. Melody does do Uber rides every so often, when she needs some extra cash. Melody did have a partner who she was doing the sports podcasting with. Except they did part ways. Her old partner wanted to do black mail in a way on players and see their reaction, ...

ARC Book Review - Whoa There Cowboy (The Boys of Sweetwater Springs #4) by Ginger Scott

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  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: Baseball Romance, Small Town Romance, Grumpy x Sunshine,  City Girl FMC, Country Boy MMC, PR x Player, Opposites Attract Jake McKinney is a young up and coming catcher for Sweetwater Mavericks AA baseball team. He thinks he may have been skipped over by the scouts as he hasn't been called up yet. His dad Roddy McKinney has been a catcher in the Major League baseball for awhile, and he thinks people skip over him due to his dad, Roddy McKinney.  Campbell wants to be a sports public relations specialist. She got on with the Sweetwater Mavericks, much to her fathers dismay. He wants her to put her law degree to use in his law firm, but that's not what Campbell wants.  Campbell sees that Jake struggles with the media. They all show him in a brute way. Campbell wants to work with Jake and show he's able to give back to the team, and help the younger  players out. Campbell wants to do a interview with Jake and his Dad Roddy, and she ...

ARC Book Review - Foxleigh Park, (Book 4 in The Valentine Nook Chronicles), by Lulu Moore

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  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:  Enemies to Lovers,  Small Town,  Fake Marriage,  Roommates,  Polo Romance,  Reformed Playboy This is the fourth book in the series. You can read each as a stand alone. The characters are described who is who in each book. The characters are throughout each book in the series.  Miles,  Lord Burlington , has always been the playboy of the family. He is a polo player, and a player in real life. Never really holding onto anyone longer than a one night stand, no one has ever caught his attention. Miles and his family have never wanted / needed for anything. They are very wealthy, and spending money isn't something they have a problem with. Miles has always wanted to be a top Polo player. He is currently ranked number 9 and wants to move up further over the summer. Ruby Lanson is from Iowa, she is American. She has always wanted to be a polo player, for the past few years she has been a groom for a few different p...

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...