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Release Date: April 21, 2020</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">In Alisha Rai’s second novel in her <i>Modern Love</i> series, a live-tweet event goes viral for a camera-shy ex-model, shoving her into the spotlight—and into the arms of the bodyguard she’d been pining for.</b><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><i style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">OMG! Wouldn’t it be adorable if he’s her soulmate???<br /><br />I don’t see any wedding rings [eyes emoji]<br /><br />Breaking: #CafeBae and #CuteCafeGirl went to the bathroom AT THE SAME TIME!!!</i><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">One minute, Katrina King’s enjoying an innocent conversation with a hot guy at a coffee shop; the next, a stranger has live-tweeted the entire episode with a romantic meet-cute spin and #CafeBae is the new hashtag-du-jour. The problem? Katrina craves a low-profile life, and going viral threatens the peaceful world she’s painstakingly built. Besides, #CafeBae isn’t the man she’s hungry for...</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><i style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">He’s got a [peach emoji] to die for.</i><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">With the internet on the hunt for the identity of #CuteCafeGirl, Jas Singh, bodyguard, friend, and possessor of the most beautiful eyebrows Katrina’s ever seen, comes to the rescue and whisks her away to his family’s home. Alone in a remote setting with the object of her affections? It’s a recipe for romance. But after a long dating dry spell, Katrina isn’t sure she can trust her instincts when it comes to love—even if Jas’ every look says he wants to be more than just her bodyguard…</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Oh, wow. This was such a miss for me and I am so sad it was. When I started this book, I thought the premise was so promising with how Katrina is a super private person, has anxiety, and hates attention, so when she goes viral, her bodyguard whisks her away to his farm house hours away. A bodyguard romance!? YES. Sadly, this book ended up being so boring and the romance was overshadowed by other storylines. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">The story in this book was very slow moving and I hated how we still have a lot of unknowns about these characters' pasts. Katrina is a very complex character, but I feel like her backstory was not developed to its full potential. I still have questions about her relationship with her deceased husband and what happened to her that has scared her from having attention on her again. Then, with Jas's character, we didn't really get his full story until almost the very end and I wish that we had that in the beginning. There was drama currently happening the related to his past, but we only got conversations about it, not any confrontation with it or something more substantial. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">As for the romance, it was sweet, but it didn't really go anywhere. Jas's issues with his family overshadowed his romance and I didn't really find myself caring about when Jas and Katrina were going to get together. There wasn't really a spark for me and I was more bored that anything while reading. While I really enjoyed <i>The Right Swipe</i>, I just wasn't a fan of this book.</span></span><br />
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Jessica (Peace Love Books)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12509259925429901884noreply@blogger.com114tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688593041989276313.post-59350445734240532432020-04-13T10:00:00.000-04:002020-04-13T10:00:04.285-04:00Book Review: The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">Two years after losing her fiancé, Sloan Monroe still can't seem to get her life back on track. But one trouble-making pup with a "take me home" look in his eyes is about to change everything. With her new pet by her side, Sloan finally starts to feel more like herself. Then, after weeks of unanswered texts, Tucker's owner reaches out. He's a musician on tour in Australia. And bottom line: He wants Tucker back.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">Well, Sloan's not about to give up her dog without a fight. But what if this Jason guy really loves Tucker? As their flirty texts turn into long calls, Sloan can't deny a connection. Jason is hot and nice and funny. There's no telling what could happen when they meet in person. The question is: With his music career on the rise, how long will Jason really stick around? And is it possible for Sloan to survive another heartbreak?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">I know that people have mixed feelings over <i>The Friend Zone</i>, but I was a huge fan of that romance. After what happened to Sloan's character in that book, I was very excited to see her find her own happily ever after. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">Sloan is having a hard time moving on. Life has been at a standstill for two years until an adorable pup literally falls into her life. I loved how this book started out with Sloan breaking down her walls with this dog that came into her life. Then, her and Jason start communicating through text because the dog is his, which was so adorable. Sloan was able to let Jason in through a less intimidating form of communication and I loved how they started to fall through text from halfway across the world. The romance was so sweet and endearing. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">Speaking of sweet, can we talk about Jason!?!? He was the sweetest hero and would do anything to make Sloan comfortable and give her space. I loved how dedicated he was to her and how their relationship progressed. SWOOOON. And if you love rockstar romances, you will love this. Jason's fame definitely comes into play with their relationship and they have a lot to figure out about that. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">Overall, I really loved this romance. Something that happened at the end wasn't my favorite, but other than that, I devoured this romance and couldn't recommend it enough!</span></span><br />
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Release Date: April 5, 2020</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Three things my mother acquired when she became engaged:<br /><br />1. A brand new Tiffany's ring.<br />2. A lavish home on Heartbreak Hill.<br />3. Three privileged stepsons.</b><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">The last thing I expected was to fall for one of them, least of all Thayer Ames.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Beautiful, brooding, and untouchable. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">I knew it was a bad idea. He warned me himself. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">But he was a thunderstorm, and I never could resist the rain. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">It was perfect…</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Until it wasn’t. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">One night was all it took for our world to crumble, leaving only secrets and lies between us. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Now, I have to face him again, but the boy I used to know has become the man who loves to hate me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">I love Charleigh Rose. We all know that. But when I started this book, it was really hard for me to get into. I felt like we had every high school bully romance cliche thrown at us and I, at this point, didn't really care. I have been having a really hard time enjoying high school bully romances lately and I don't know if it's me or that genre is just becoming too overdone at this point. However, when we got to about the halfway mark and Thayer started to talk about his emotions more, I was really hooked on this book. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">I would say the latter 50% of the book made this a 4 star read instead of a 3 star read for me. I really enjoyed how we got a genuine answer for why Thayer was being mean to Shayne and how he didn't do anything that was not consensual or unforgivable. When things became more intimate, Shayne was giving consent and they were genuinely into each other. I did also like how there was a mystery over what had happened in this past a year ago and how that all came to light at the end. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">I will say that I think more flashbacks between Thayer and Shayne before things ruined their relationships would have made the connection between them more understandable to the reader. We only really get the prologue and that's it and we're supposed to believe they had this whole tension build up between them before Thayer went away for a year. Overall, if you love the high school bully trope, you should definitely give this a try. If you're over that genre or have read too many, you might want to skip this one.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="freeText11864169284963268138" style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);"><b>In this fresh and hilarious historical rom-com, an estranged husband and wife in Regency England feign accidents and illness in an attempt to gain attention—and maybe just win each other back in the process.</b><br /><br />Five years ago, Lady Violet Grey and Lord James Audley met, fell in love, and got married. Four years ago, they had a fight to end all fights, and have barely spoken since.<br /><br />Their once-passionate love match has been reduced to one of cold, detached politeness. But when Violet receives a letter that James has been thrown from his horse and rendered unconscious at their country estate, she races to be by his side—only to discover him alive and well at a tavern, and completely unaware of her concern. She’s outraged. He’s confused. And the distance between them has never been more apparent.<br /><br />Wanting to teach her estranged husband a lesson, Violet decides to feign an illness of her own. James quickly sees through it, but he decides to play along in an ever-escalating game of manipulation, featuring actors masquerading as doctors, threats of Swiss sanitariums, faux mistresses—and a lot of flirtation between a husband and wife who might not hate each other as much as they thought. Will the two be able to overcome four years of hurt or will they continue to deny the spark between them?<br /><br />With charm, wit, and heart in spades<i>, To Have and</i> <i>To Hoax </i>is a fresh and eminently entertaining romantic comedy—perfect for fans of Jasmine Guillory and Julia Quinn.</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">I am a huge historical romance fan and this cover definitely caught my eye. This sounded like it was going to be an adorable romance between a bickering married couple and I was excited to read their story.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">When this started, I thought the romance was so cute. Something had happened four years ago, one year into their marriage, that caused Violet and James to hate each other and barely speak to each other. When Violet gets a letter that James is hurt and might never wake up, she freaks out and jumps to be by his side. When he recovers quite quickly, they're both mad at each other for their reactions, which sparks the need to toy with each other for the rest of the book. Their banter was cute, but I do wish that we knew what caused their rift a bit earlier on. It was some big mystery as to why they both felt betrayed and we didn't get the reasoning until well into the story. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">As James and Violet continue to play games with each other, I definitely became annoyed by how much they refused to talk to each other. If they just had a conversation four years ago on the night they argued, this whole book would have been avoided. The rest of this book only continues because they just won't have an honest conversation with one another. If you do not like the miscommunication trope, you are going to be annoyed reading this. At the end of the book, everything wrapped up a little too neatly as both characters had their confrontations with people who have wronged them and it felt too forced for me. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">While this was a cute story in the beginning, the middle and the end of this story more annoyed me than not and I just wanted the characters to talk already. Sadly, this one wasn't as endearing as I wanted it to be.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">The epic finale of the Becker Brothers series. Each book can be read as a stand-alone.</b><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">It’s a man’s world.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">When I declared sports medicine as my major and every man narrowed their eyes, that saying proved true. It was true when my ex-husband decided I’d give up my career when our daughter was born. And again when I divorced the Chief of Police in our small town, and he made it painfully clear that I could leave him, but I would never be free.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Landing the job as the new athletic trainer for Stratford’s high school team is my chance to start over. And walking into a male-dominated sport and staff, I’m ready for the challenge. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">I’m </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">not</i><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);"> ready for Jordan Becker.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">The head coach of our championship winning team is a Herculean force of nature—as severe as he is determined. His icy blue eyes and permanent scowl drive the women in this town mad, and his quiet power and undeniable command conjure respect from every man. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">When I join his team, I expect the doubt and anticipate the fight from him. And I get them both.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">I </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">don’t</i><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);"> expect to form a friendship.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">And I </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">never</i><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);"> expect to fall for him.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">My breath catches when those cool eyes fall to my lips. My body comes alive when his is near. And as those lines begin to blur, every warning bell sounds. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">My job, my reputation are on the line. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">And my ex is around every corner, waiting to remind me of his power.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">It’s a man’s world, and if I want to survive, I can never fall in love with Jordan Becker.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Even if he falls in love with me first.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">I adore Kandi and every book she writes. I am so sad that this is the end of the Becker Brother series, but what a series it's been! We've had almost every trope of romance within these books, so I was excited to have the workplace romance between a high school football coach and the new trainer! </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Jordan is the oldest Becker Brother, adopted, and the coach of a state-winning football team. He is under an enormous amount of pressure to win again and knows that his gorgeous new trainer is going to be a distraction to the players. I absolutely loved Sydney's character and how she was finally living life the way she wanted to after divorcing her abusive husband. Her daughter was so adorable and I loved how Jordan helped her out with football since she was determined to play, even though she's a girl. Family is such an integral part to this series and I loved all of the family relationships we got. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">As for the romance, it was super sweet and I enjoyed how both Sydney and Jordan had to take down their own walls to trust each other in a relationship. Was it anything special? Not really. But it was sweet. I do think that the mystery surrounding Jordan's dad that has been building all series kind of overshadowed the romance and I didn't like how it played out as more of a soap opera. It just felt too melodramatic and I wasn't a fan of that plot line that carried throughout the series. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Overall, this is just a great, sweet romance series with an adorable family that I am obsessed with. All of the books are different and if you love a book for all of the relationships within the story, you will love the Becker Brothers series.</span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: inherit;">Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naïve teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher, a brilliant, all-consuming read that marks the explosive debut of an extraordinary new writer.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><em>2000</em>. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><em>2017.</em> Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager—and who professed to worship only her—may be far different from what she has always believed?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Alternating between Vanessa’s present and her past, <em>My Dark Vanessa</em> juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. Thought-provoking and impossible to put down, this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency, consent, complicity, and victimhood. Written with the haunting intimacy of <em>The Girls</em> and the creeping intensity of <em>Room, My Dark Vanessa</em>is an era-defining novel that brilliantly captures and reflects the shifting cultural mores transforming our relationships and society itself.</span></div>
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I was settin’ up to live a good life, the kinda life I’d fought hard to deserve.
With a good woman––the best woman––at my side, a degree under my belt, and the whole world at my feet, I was livin’ the kinda happily ever after usually denied the rebellious and the criminal. I’d turned my back on that kinda life, thinkin’ I needed that clean, wholesome kinda happy.
Then the devil came dressed in the wings of an angel and took someone from me.
And I realized I was wrong.
There was no clean and wholesome for a man like me with poetry in his heart and outlaw in his blood. The life I’d been livin’ was only purgatory, holding me over until the time came for me to descend into Hell and pick up the tarnished crown that awaited me.
I was condemning my woman to a life of violence, blood, and heartache, but I had to hope she’d step up and finally be the rough and tumble queen to my Fallen MC king.
After the Fall can be read as a stand-alone romance, but you first meet the couple in Lessons in Corruption (The Fallen Men, #1)
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Giana Darling is a USA Today Bestselling Selling Canadian romance writer who specializes in the taboo and angsty side of love and romance. She currently lives in beautiful British Columbia where she spends time riding on the back of her man's bike, baking pies, and reading snuggled up with her cat Persephone. She loves to hear from readers so please contact her at gianadarling[at]gmail.com if you have any questions or comments.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="freeText12027718640944928980" style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;"><b>Braden Mack thinks reading romance novels makes him an expert in love, but he’ll soon discover that real life is better than fiction.</b><br /><br />Liv Papandreas has a dream job as a sous chef at Nashville’s hottest restaurant. Too bad the celebrity chef owner is less than charming behind kitchen doors. After she catches him harassing a young hostess, she confronts him and gets fired. Liv vows revenge, but she’ll need assistance to take on the powerful chef.<br /><br />Unfortunately, that means turning to Braden Mack. When Liv’s blackballed from the restaurant scene, the charismatic nightclub entrepreneur offers to help expose her ex-boss, but she is suspicious of his motives. He’ll need to call in reinforcements: the Bromance Book Club.<br /><br />Inspired by the romantic suspense novel they’re reading, the book club assist Liv in setting up a sting operation to take down the chef. But they’re just as eager to help Mack figure out the way to Liv’s heart… even while she’s determined to squelch the sparks between them before she gets burned.</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Calla Fletcher returns to Toronto a different person, struggling to find direction and still very much in love with the rugged bush pilot she left behind. When Jonah arrives on her doorstep with a proposition she can’t dismiss, she takes the leap and rushes back to Alaska to begin their exciting future together.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">But Calla soon learns that even the best intentions can lead to broken promises, and that compromise comes with a hefty price—a log cabin in interior rural Alaska that feels as isolating as the western tundra.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">With Jonah gone more than he’s home, one neighbor who insists on transforming her into a true Alaskan, and another who seems more likely to shoot her than come to her aid, Calla grapples with forging her own path. In a world with roaming wildlife that has her constantly watching over her shoulder and harsh conditions that stretch far beyond the cold, dark, winter months, just stepping outside her front door can be daunting.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">This is not the future Calla had in mind, leaving her to fear that perhaps she is doomed to follow in her mother’s fleeing footsteps after all.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">I absolutely LOVED The Simple Wild and all of the angst between Calla and Jonah. Enemies to lovers romances are my favorite and that combined with Calla reconnecting with her father made me an emotional mess. I could not wait to see how their story would continue in this book!</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">While we got angst and enemies in book one, this book was just....domestic? And I didn't care. We get half of this book about Calla shopping for furniture for her house. Seriously? There was not a lot of the angsty romance I wanted and I really started not to like Calla. She complained the whole time, wouldn't communicate with Jonah, and would not figure out how to make a life for herself separate from a man. She knew living in Alaska would be hard and didn't really try to make a life for herself there; she depended on Jonah and threw a fit when he was busy flying, which SHE TOLD HIM TO DO. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">The only thing I enjoyed about this book was Calla's relationship with Roy. That was so sweet and the only relationship I actually cared about throughout the story. Calla and Jonah weren't really interacting a lot and we didn't get their adorable bickering. This book felt so much more like women's fiction to me and I just didn't care a majority of the time. I barely felt any romance and Calla was annoying when she would get jealous and possessive and angry at Jonah. While I will continue to love book one, I could have done without this book.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">For twelve long years, I’ve breathed, I’ve bled for only one thing…</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">Revenge.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">Four men took something from me, something which can never be replaced. That one night changed the lives of so many and taught me that monsters are real.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">But I also learned I’m the biggest monster of them all.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">Nothing and no one will stand in my way of redemption because those men…they’re now three. The fourth—he is the reason they call me Bullseye. They can run, but sooner or later, I’ll find them, just as I did with their friend. They’re already dead…they just don’t know it yet.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">My plan was simple until I met her. A fierce tiger who had the power to break my heart. Lucky for me…she can’t break what’s already broken. I am no longer a man because the world is a jungle, and we’re all just animals—ready to tear one another apart.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">I absolutely love Monica James' dark romances, so when I saw she had a new duet coming out, and after seeing that gorgeous cover, I couldn't wait to get my hands on this book.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">This book starts the day that Bullseye gets released from jail and I was immediately intrigued by his character. We knew that he was out for revenge, but we don't know what that revenge was until about 20% into the book. I love myself a damaged hero and Bullseye is as damaged as they come. I loved how we were slowly given information about his past and those flashbacks were just heartbreaking to read. I was actually rooting for Bullseye to get his revenge even though it was totally illegal and brutal. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">When it came to the romance, I did enjoy how Lily and Bullseye kind of circled each other until they couldn't resist their attraction anymore. I was intrigued by Lily and wished we got more of her as a mom. I feel like we only got to know her with Bullseye or at her two jobs (one as a dance teacher and one as a stripper), but we didn't see a lot of her actually with her son, which was a big part of her identity. While the ending definitely left me wanting book two ASAP, I did see that twist coming super early into the book, which took this book down a star for me. Other than that, though, I really enjoyed this romance and how both characters were trying to ignore their feelings because of the baggage they both carry. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">As usual, Monica James pulled me in with her dark and twisted romance. She knows how to create dark but utterly seductive bad boys that you can't help but love. I did not want to put this book down and am eagerly anticipating the next book!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wild at Heart, book two in the Simple Wild series by </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">USA Today</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> bestselling author, K.A. Tucker, is live!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Calla Fletcher returns to Toronto a different person, struggling to find direction and still very much in love with the rugged bush pilot she left behind. When Jonah arrives on her doorstep with a proposition she can’t dismiss, she takes the leap and rushes back to Alaska to begin their exciting future together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Not that the last time was entirely his fault. He might’ve enjoyed backing me into corners in high school when no one was looking, so they wouldn’t catch on that Mr. Popular actually wanted a piece of that quiet, little nerd he loved to torture so much, but…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">The truth is… He has a right to hate me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Devils Night. The videos. The arrests. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">I never minded being locked up. I learned a long time ago that being treated like an animal gives you permission to act like one. No one has ever looked at me any other way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Their only mistake is believing anything I do is an accident. I can sit in this house with no Internet, television, liquor, or girls, but I’ll come out of here with something far more frightening to my enemies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">And as the security detail leaves the supplies, the gates close, and the door to my gilded cage opens, giving me free reign of the house and grounds for another unsupervised month, I remember with a smile… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">*Nightfall, Devil’s Night #4, is a full-length, romantic suspense suitable for readers 18+. It’s necessary to read the prior installments in the series before starting this story. </span></div>
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Penelope Douglas is a </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> bestselling author. Her books have been translated into fourteen languages and include The Fall Away Series, The Devil’s Night Series, and the stand-alones, Misconduct, Punk 57, and Birthday Girl. Please look for Kill Switch (Devil’s Night #3), available now. </span></span></div>
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Jessica (Peace Love Books)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12509259925429901884noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688593041989276313.post-14340324768896223272020-02-05T06:00:00.000-05:002020-02-05T06:00:10.530-05:00Book Review: Fighting for Rain by BB Easton<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">The world was supposed to end on April 23, but Rainbow Williams’s world ended days before that. </b><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">The mass hysteria caused by the impending apocalypse claimed everything she’d ever loved. Her family. Her city. Her will to live. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Until she met </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">him.</i><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);"> </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Wes Parker didn’t have anything left for the apocalypse to take…he’d already lost it all by the time he was nine-years-old. His family. His home. His hope of ever being loved. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Until he met </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">her</i><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Brought together by fate and bound by a love that would last lifetimes, Rain and Wes were prepared to die together on April 23. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">They were not prepared for what would happen on </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">April 24.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);"><i>Praying for Rain </i>was one of my favorite books of 2019, so I have been DYING to read more to see what would happen next after that ending. I was so in love with the romance between Wes and Rain as the end of the world approached and I couldn't wait to get more of them in this book. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Page one begins literally right where book one left off. We are dropped right into the action, but that action quickly declined until the story kind of went stagnant for a little bit. When a certain thing happen in this book, we get Rain moping around for a good 40% of the novel. I loved the nonstop action and the angsty romance in book one. We didn't get enough of that in this book, but I definitely have a feeling we'll go right back to that in book three based on how this book ended. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">What I did enjoy, though, was watching Rain survive in a whole new situation and finally dealing with the emotional trauma from book one. Our main characters were thrown into an entirely new situation and they had to figure out how to survive while still recovering from everything they experienced from the first book. I still loved Wes so much in this book and cannot wait to see how things wrap up in the final book!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">Critically acclaimed author Mia Sosa delivers a sassy, steamy enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy about a woman whose new job requires her to work side-by-side with the best man who ruined her wedding: her ex-fiancé's infuriating, irritating, annoyingly handsome brother. Perfect for fans of Jasmine Guillory, Helen Hoang, and Sally Thorne!</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">A wedding planner left at the altar. Yeah, the irony isn’t lost on Carolina Santos, either. But despite that embarrassing blip from her past, Lina’s managed to make other people’s dreams come true as a top-tier wedding coordinator in DC. After impressing an influential guest, she’s offered an opportunity that could change her life. There’s just one hitch… she has to collaborate with the best (make that worst) man from her own failed nuptials. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">Tired of living in his older brother’s shadow, marketing expert Max Hartley is determined to make his mark with a coveted hotel client looking to expand its brand. Then he learns he’ll be working with his brother’s whip-smart, stunning—absolutely off-limits—ex-fiancée. And she loathes him. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">If they can survive the next few weeks and nail their presentation without killing each other, they’ll both come out ahead. Except Max has been public enemy number one ever since he encouraged his brother to jilt the bride, and Lina’s ready to dish out a little payback of her own. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">But even the best laid plans can go awry, and soon Lina and Max discover animosity may not be the only emotion creating sparks between them. Still, this star-crossed couple can never be more than temporary playmates because Lina isn’t interested in falling in love and Max refuses to play runner-up to his brother ever again...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">When I started this book, I was loving this story and these characters. Nothing gets me like a good enemies to lovers romance and Lina really hated Max when he encourages his brother to break up with her on their wedding day. Flash forward five years and Lina and Max have to work together on a project that could earn Lina the job of a lifetime. Of course, she wants to keep Max as far away as possible, but Max is determined to do his fair share and help her win the job. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">My favorite part of this book was when Max and Lina had to pretend to be a couple and it gave me so many Unhoneymooners vibes. Lina was trying everything to push Max's buttons and test him, but he took everything in stride. Their bantering was so fun and I loved how Max genuinely liked Lina and wanted her to see he wasn't a good guy. I also loved how they were working on wedding planning! I love movies and books surrounded around weddings, so I enjoyed how Lina was working on weddings throughout the book. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">When Lina decided she didn't like Max anymore, I kind of...lost some interest in the romance? I love enemies to loves and the angst that comes with that. Once they're done hating each other, that angst and tension is over and I wanted it to last a little bit longer. I also wasn't a fan of the overly malicious character at the end that felt like more of a soap opera conflict. So I loved the first half and enjoyed the second half. But if you want a fun enemies to lovers, pick this one up!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">A generation past, the western realms were embroiled in endless war. Then the Destroyer came. From the blood and ashes he left behind, a tenuous alliance rose between the barbarian riders of Parsathe and the walled kingdoms of the south. That alliance is all that stands against the return of an ancient evil—until the barbarian king and queen are slain in an act of bloody betrayal.</b><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Though forbidden by the alliance council to kill the corrupt king responsible for his parents’ murders, Maddek vows to avenge them, even if it costs him the Parsathean crown. But when he learns it was the king’s daughter who lured his parents to their deaths, the barbarian warrior is determined to make her pay.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Yet the woman Maddek captures is not what he expected. Though the last in a line of legendary warrior-queens, Yvenne is small and weak, and the sharpest weapons she wields are her mind and her tongue. Even more surprising is the marriage she proposes to unite them in their goals and to claim their thrones—because her desire for vengeance against her father burns even hotter than his own…</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">As soon as I saw this book was releasing in 2020, it went on my most anticipated releases of the year. A barbarian fantasy romance? I NEED IT NOW. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">When this book started, it was definitely a slower start as we got introduced to this fantasy world. I don't think I was really invested in the tory until Maddek and Yvenne actually met and the chemistry between them instantly started sizzling between them. I absolutely loved the enemies to lovers in this one and how Maddek and Yvenne tried so hard to act like they didn't like each other or weren't attracted to one another. The more they started to like each other, the more I wanted them to just be together already for real. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">There are a lot of politics in this book and it did take me a bit to wrap my head around them. Honestly, I really only cared about the romance and how Yvenne was going to get revenge on her brothers and father. I do think it didn't need to be over 500 pages for this book, but I did like the slow burn of the romance and how hard Maddek tried to fight any feelings he started to feel for Yvenne. If you're a fan of fantasy romance, you definitely have to pick this book up! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">From <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Lauren Layne, comes the final installment of the Central Park Pact series, a heartfelt and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy that’s perfect for fans of Sally Thorne and Christina Lauren.</b><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Can guys and girls ever be just friends? According to Audrey Tate and Clarke West, absolutely. After all, they’ve been best friends since childhood without a single romantic entanglement. Clarke is the charming playboy Audrey can always count on, and he knows that the ever-loyal Audrey will never </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">not</i><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);"> play along with his strategy for dodging his matchmaking mother—announcing he’s already engaged…to Audrey.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">But what starts out as a playful game between two best friends turns into something infinitely more complicated, as just-for-show kisses begin to stir up forbidden feelings. As the faux wedding date looms closer, Audrey and Clarke realize that they can never go back to the way things were, but deep down, do they really want to?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">While I haven't read the first two books in this series, I was so excited when Gallery books sent a copy of this book my way. A few of my friends on Instagram love this series and I couldn't wait to read this friends to lovers romance!</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">When I first started this book, I loved how Clarke and Audrey were truly best friends who wanted the best for one another. They had never looked at each other in a romantic way and decided to put each other first and pretend to be engaged. Only when they had to pretend to be in love did feelings emerge, and I loved seeing them both deal with those newfound feelings. Both Clarke and Audrey thought they knew what they wanted out of life, but they slowly realized that those priorities can change with the right person. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">While the main couple was fantastic, I also loved all of the friends of both Audrey and Clarke. Now I'm definitely dying to pick up the first two books to see those couples fall in love. They added some fun insights to Audrey and Clarke's relationship and were very protective over their friends. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">If you can't tell, this was a super fun and quick read that I couldn't put down. It's also fade to black when it comes to the intimate scenes between our main couple, so if you just want an adorable, sweet friends to lovers romance, you have to pick this up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="freeText9677518794737350152" style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Angel Smith is ready to leave Antarctica for a second chance at life. But on what was meant to be her final day, the research station is attacked. Hunted and scared, she and glaciologist Ford Cooper barely make it out with their lives…only to realize that in a place this remote, there's nowhere left to run.<br /><br />Isolated in the middle of a long, frozen winter with a madman at their heels, they must fight to survive in the most inhospitable—and beautiful—place on earth. But the outside world depends on what Ford and Angel know and, as their pursuers close in and their new partnership burns bright and hot, they will stop at nothing to make it out of the cold alive.</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Growing up, I was fascinated with Mount Everest and fictional survival stories taking place there. After I read The Kingmaker by Kennedy Ryan and loved the parts when the main character was in Antarctica, Kennedy Ryan recommended this book! I immediately went to netgalley to request a copy and couldn't wait to start this romantic suspense. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">When this book started, it took me a few chapters to really get into the story and actually want to start reading. I was a little confused by what was going on, but as soon as the bad guys made themselves known, boy was I invested in these characters and their ability to survive. I loved how Ford and Angel had this attraction to one another that Ford refused to act on. Now, they have to trek across Antarctica together to survive and those scenes were CRAZY. Antarctica is beautiful and terrifying, so I had no idea how those two were going to walk over two hundred miles together and make it out alive.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">If you're a fan of a romantic suspense novel with a slow burn romance, you're going to love this so much. It reminded me of an 80s survival/action movie and I could not stop reading. Ford is a cold, brooding man and I loved how he slowly decided to let Angel in. Definitely pick this book up if you want a good survival story in the freezing cold while the characters slowly fall for each other.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Call me what you want: Bad Boy Next Door. Trouble. That Kid Who Can’t Do Anything Right.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">When Willow moves into my neighborhood, nothing should have happened. She’s geeky. Shy. A true wallflower.</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Too good for me.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">And how the hell was I supposed to know that she’s related to Loren Hale—yeah, that douchebag celebrity that lives on my street. The same guy I've been pranking by spray painting vulgar words on his mailbox and worse. Much worse.</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Don't ask me why it had to be her.</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">And yet. . .I still want to touch her. </span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Krista & Becca Ritchie are </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Times</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">USA Today</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> bestselling authors and identical twins—one a science nerd, the other a comic book geek—but with their shared passion for writing, they combined their mental powers as kids and have never stopped telling stories. Now in their twenties, they write about other twenty-somethings navigating through life, college, and romance. They love superheroes, flawed characters, and soul mate love. </span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Tiernan de Haas doesn’t care about anything anymore. The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she’s grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance. Shipped off to boarding schools from an early age, it was still impossible to escape the loneliness and carve out a life of her own. The shadow of her parents’ fame followed her everywhere.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">And when they suddenly pass away, she knows she should be devastated. But has anything really changed? She’s always been alone, hasn’t she?</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Jake Van der Berg, her father’s stepbrother and her only living relative, assumes guardianship of Tiernan who is still two months shy of eighteen. Sent to live with him and his two sons, Noah and Kaleb, in the mountains of Colorado, Tiernan soon learns that these men now have a say in what she chooses to care and not care about anymore. As the three of them take her under their wing, teach her to work and survive in the remote woods far away from the rest of the world, she slowly finds her place among them.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">And as a part of them.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">She also realizes that lines blur and rules become easy to break when no one else is watching.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">One of them has her.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">The other one wants her.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">But he…</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">He’s going to keep her.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">*Credence is a new adult standalone novel suitable for readers 18+.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ummm where do I start? First, thank you so much to Penelope and Social Butterfly PR for the review copy. It was an amazing surprise and I am so thankful I get to support one of my favorite authors!<br /><br />And though Penelope is one of my absolute favorite authors, I have to be brutally honest. This book is NOT going to be for everyone. And almost wasn't for me. Almost. But I honestly think it was Penelope's writing and storytelling that kept me hooked and not wanting to put this book down.<br /><br />Going in, I knew this girl was moving into the mountains with three men. A dad and two sons (both over 20). We have no idea who her love interest is going to be. I was not expecting Penelope Douglas to push the envelope with this one, but boy did she. I loved the chemistry she built between Tiernan and all three of the men she was living with. I truly believed there was an attraction with every man and was fanning myself on more than one occasion when things steamed up between Tiernan and one of the guys. That being said, I do think Jake and Noah were developed much more than Kaleb's character was. I found nothing appealing about Kaleb, especially because he was characterized as this barbaric animal for so long throughout the book. We don't even meet him until about 20% in and then don't get any real growth from him until at least 70%. I felt much more connected to the two other guys, so when we followed Kaleb some more, I lost that sense of connection.<br /><br />This book definitely took me out of my comfort zone, but I seriously did love it. Like I said, if any other author wrote it, I don't think I would have enjoyed it as much. But since Penelope knows how to build some angst, tension, and INSANE heat between her characters, I could not put this book down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Growing up, Ramsey Stewart branded my soul in ways time could never heal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">At twelve, he asked me to be his girlfriend. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">At thirteen, he gave me my first kiss. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">By sixteen, we’d fallen in love, planned a future together, and had our eyes set on the horizon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Love never fails, right? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">But for Ramsey, it did. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Love failed him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">I failed him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">At seventeen, Ramsey was convicted of killing the boy who assaulted me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Move on,he wrote in his first and only letter from prison.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Start a new life, he urged. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">I don’t love you anymore, he lied. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">There was no such thing as giving up on Ramsey. Love may have been our curse, but he was mine—then, now, and forever. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">So here I am, twelve long years later, waiting for a man I don't even know to emerge from between the chain link gates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Going into this one, I decided to not even read the synopsis and go in blind. When it started, I enjoyed how the author decided to show us how the two characters met and how their friendship bloomed over their childhood. All you knew in the beginning was that the guy was in prison and had cut off communication from the main character. We get to see Ramsey and Thea learn to really trust each other when they're young, become best friends, and then become lovers. The relationship in this was very strong and this book was as much about their development as it was about their second chance in the future. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">I was surprised that their past took up about half of the book. Normally, when a couple shares a past that's important, the author usually gives us about 20% of the book on the past. Instead, we didn't get to see Thea and Ramsey trying to understand their relationship when he's released from jail until halfway through the book. That being said, I wish we got more of them in this stage of their relationship. I felt like we watched them in agony over how to be together again and, once they were, it was just over. If we got more of them trying navigate the world actually being together, I would have loved this even more. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">I will say, there were definitely some surprises thrown into this book that I was not at all expecting. I was very invested in Thea and Ramsey's relationship and would recommend this if you want an emotional second chance romance!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">When librarian Poe Markham takes the job at Thornchapel, she only wants two things: to stay away from Thornchapel’s tortured owner, Auden Guest, and to find out what happened to her mother twelve years ago. It should be easy enough—keep her head down while she works in the house’s crumbling private library and while she hunts down any information as to why this remote manor tucked into the fog-shrouded moors would be the last place her mother was seen alive. But Thornchapel has other plans for her... </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">As Poe begins uncovering the house’s secrets, both new and old, she’s also pulled into the seductive, elegant world of Auden and his friends—and drawn to Auden’s worst enemy, the beautiful and brooding St. Sebastian. And as Thornchapel slowly tightens its coil of truths and lies around them, Poe, Auden and St. Sebastian start unravelling into filthy, holy pleasure and pain. Together, they awaken a fate that will either anoint them or leave them in ashes… </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">I tried to go into this one with not too high of expectations. We all saw this book take over booktube and bookstagram and everyone was just RAVING about it. I didn't want to overhype it for myself, but I was definitely excited to finally pick it up. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">When this book began, I was sucked into the story. I absolutely loved the gothic setting in an old English mansion and a ruined chapel. There was a lot of mystery and magic and intrigue surrounding what happened there 12 years ago and now with the six kids are back as adults. I really like that we got first person POV with Poe, but we also got 3rd person limited chapters for the other characters. Poe was so intriguing and unique and I loved her dilemma and struggle to come to terms with her feelings for both Saint and Auden. The relationships in this book were so interwoven and complicated and I loved it!</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">That being said, this book was definitely more of a relationship driven novel. With the mysterious atmosphere and this ritual looming in the future, I did expect more of a plot and more secrets to come to light. There were some secrets revolving around the family and, seeing as Poe was working the library, I expected so many more answers and a much more complex past than we got. While I know that we have a book two and will probably get some more answers, I wish it had a more complex level of secrets and answers than what we got. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">I'm so happy I finally read this book. I am definitely intrigued by what's going to happen in book two. If you want a unique romance that doesn't stray away from the steam, you have to pick this up.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Growing up, Ramsey Stewart branded my soul in ways time could never heal.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">At twelve, he asked me to be his girlfriend. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">At thirteen, he gave me my first kiss. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">By sixteen, we’d fallen in love, planned a future together, and had our eyes set on the horizon. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Love never fails, right? </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">But for Ramsey, it did. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Love failed him. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">I failed him. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">The entire world failed him. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">At seventeen, Ramsey was convicted of killing the boy who assaulted me. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Move on, he wrote in his first and only letter from prison.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Start a new life, he urged. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">I don’t love you anymore, he lied. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">There was no such thing as giving up on Ramsey. Love may have been our curse, but he was mine—then, now, and forever. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">So here I am, twelve long years later, waiting for a man I don't even know to emerge from between the chain link gates.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Going into this one, I decided to not even read the synopsis and go in blind. When it started, I enjoyed how the author decided to show us how the two characters met and how their friendship bloomed over their childhood. All you knew in the beginning was that the guy was in prison and had cut off communication from the main character. We get to see Ramsey and Thea learn to really trust each other when they're young, become best friends, and then become lovers. The relationship in this was very strong and this book was as much about their development as it was about their second chance in the future. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">I was surprised that their past took up about half of the book. Normally, when a couple shares a past that's important, the author usually gives us about 20% of the book on the past. Instead, we didn't get to see Thea and Ramsey trying to understand their relationship when he's released from jail until halfway through the book. That being said, I wish we got more of them in this stage of their relationship. I felt like we watched them in agony over how to be together again and, once they were, it was just over. If we got more of them trying navigate the world actually being together, I would have loved this even more. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">I will say, there were definitely some surprises thrown into this book that I was not at all expecting. I was very invested in Thea and Ramsey's relationship and would recommend this if you want an emotional second chance romance!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Ox was twelve when his daddy taught him a very valuable lesson. He said that Ox wasn’t worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Ox was sixteen when he met the boy on the road, the boy who talked and talked and talked. Ox found out later the boy hadn’t spoken in almost two years before that day, and that the boy belonged to a family who had moved into the house at the end of the lane.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Ox was seventeen when he found out the boy’s secret, and it painted the world around him in colors of red and orange and violet, of Alpha and Beta and Omega.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Ox was twenty-three when murder came to town and tore a hole in his head and heart. The boy chased after the monster with revenge in his bloodred eyes, leaving Ox behind to pick up the pieces.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">It’s been three years since that fateful day—and the boy is back. Except now he’s a man, and Ox can no longer ignore the song that howls between them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I HAVE FOUND AN ALL-TIME NEW FAVORITE BOOK AND I AM DECEASED.<br /><br />Seriously. This book wasn't even on my radar until I saw my friends Lacey and Chandler talking about this series. I immediately put it on my wishlist and didn't even hesitate to pick it up when I received it as a gift. I was a die-hard Twilight fan in high school and this book gave me all of those feels and so much more. I absolutely loved the pack (this is paranormal-werewolves) and the importance of the pack to these people. Your pack is your family and you make your family. The bonds in this book were just so strong and I was just obsessed and in love with every single one of the characters.<br /><br />As for the characters, Ox is such a special character that I will cherish forever. I absolutely adored him when we met him in the beginning and he felt like he wasn't special. The way he developed and really came into his own in this book was just so endearing and I just wanted to give him a big hug. Then, his SUPER slow burn and angsty romance with Joe was EVERYTHING and I was rooting for that ship from the start. I think TJ Klune handled their relationship very well and developed it (from when Joe was 10 and Ox was 16) very tastefully and realistically. At no point did I feel grossed out by the age difference, which is important considering the characters are so young when this book begins.<br /><br />Like I said, I adored everything about this book. The book is very character driven and the plot is slow at times, but I never felt bored or disinterested. The slow parts of this book were so important to the plot and allowed characters to develop and relationships to solidify. I loved the paranormal aspects of this story and am already dying to read book two so I can see more of my favorite characters. You HAVE to pick up this book and fall head over heels for these characters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Ambition. Revenge. Love. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Raised to resist. Bred to fight. Survival is in my blood and surrender is never an option.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Though surrender is what Maxim Cade demanded of my body and heart, I had other plans. We were fast-burning fascination and combustible chemistry, but the man I trusted with everything was a trickster. A thief who stole my love. If what we had was a lie, why did it feel so real? The man I swore to hate will have it all, and wants me at his side. But power is a game, and we're the pawns and players.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Facing insurmountable odds, will we win the world, or will we lose it all?</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><i style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Rita Award-winning author Kennedy Ryan delivers the gripping conclusion to the All the King's Men Duet.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">How does Kennedy Ryan continue to write breathtaking romances while making such important, impactful messages in the process? I absolutely loved The Kingmaker and knew that The Rebel King would be no different! </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">After that cliffhanger of book one, I knew we would be in for a ride in this book. I loved how this started out as more of a suspenseful book and I honestly had no idea how our characters were going to make it out of that situation. Nothing was drawn out, though, which I really appreciated. So much happened in this romance and really tested Lennix and Maxim's relationship. I loved how much they went through in book one and how much they were fighting to stay together in this book. That relationship is so strong and I was in awe over how much that respected each other and would sacrifice everything for one another. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">While I'm really not a fan of political books, Kennedy Ryan wrote this in a way where I felt like there wasn't a strong political message she was trying to shove down our throat. I really appreciated the look at Native American culture and injustices, but she tastefully looked at the political climate of the US and didn't try to show how everything could be "fixed." I loved how Lennix was working on the presidential election and how important that was to her life. Maxim's support was so endearing and I enjoyed how closely they had to work and prioritize different aspects of their lives and their relationship. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Overall, this duet was AMAZING and unlike anything I've read. I loved the power and pride we got from Lennix's character and the power and passion we got from Maxim's character. These are two people I won't forget anytime soon and this is a romance I will remember for a very long time.</span></span><br />
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