This is an adorable Young Adult enemies-to-lovers contemporary romance involving high school students River and Sarang. River is lost and doesn’t know why. In one day he dumps his GF, walks out of the SATs, quits his job at the family-owned coffee shop, and takes a job at a rival coffee shop where is new enemy Sarang works. He knows he must do these things but can’t figure out the real reason why.
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4.5 stars
I absolutely LOVE the Winston Brothers series, so when I saw this book set in the same world focused on two side characters, I couldn’t wait to read it. This book is about Jason “Repo” Doe, the finance guy for the Iron Wraith motorcycle club that the brother’s abusive father belongs to, and Diane Donner, Jennifer “the banana cake queen’s” mother and owner of the local lodge and bakery. Diane is divorced from her despicable husband and has decided to take back her power. She strolls into the Iron Wraith’s dive bar looking to talk Repo into a one-night stand. Who knew that one night wouldn’t be enough for either of them?
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This is a fun, flirty, steamy contemporary hockey romance. The book started off a bit slow, but once the characters started to interact more it picked up. Ziggy starts a new job as an on-air hockey reporter, but she’s never done it before. It starts off rocky, especially when hot-shot goalie Elliot humiliates her during her first sportscast. What starts off as animosity quickly turns to lust as the two secretly hook up. Both of their careers improve as they continue their clandestine affair, but things get complicated when real feelings start to creep in.
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This is a cute, funny historical fiction romance that kept me laughing and turning pages until I finished. Tamsin’s father is a merchant, so she’s not a “blue blood”. She married a (much older) Duke and her station was immediately elevated, but the ton shunned her, even more so after her husband dies. Christian is a royal from Germany that was appointed co-guardian of Tamsin’s son. You can imagine how “thrilled” Tamsin is to learn this. She likes being able to finally make her own decisions, manage her own money and the estate, and most importantly, her son. Tamsin is determined to drive Christian back to Germany and out of her, and her son’s, life.
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Scarlett and Cian (a royal in hiding) had a sizzling weekend together two years ago and Cian has been looking for her ever since. When his body guard finally tells Cian that he’s found her, Cian drops everything to go to Scarlett. Scarlett returned to her small hometown where she is not welcomed with open arms. She is trying to make up for being a Queen B in high school and trying to raise her daughter, with her sister’s help, to be better than she was. Cian’s appearance definitely disrupts their routine.
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Andie and Kit dated but broke up and Kit moved out of town. He’s now back in Atlanta to care for his ailing mother. Andie and Kit both sign up for a reality show, each for their own reasons. The premise is that they marry a stranger sight unseen and if they divorce they get $100,000. But you know it can’t be that easy, right? Of course not. Who does Andie get paired with? Wait for it. Kit! (shocker, I know)
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I’m a sucker for books that includes text conversations between the main characters, so I jumped at the chance to read this one. It is such a cute closed door romance I found myself smiling the whole time I read it. Anna is a college Junior Art student on the east coast and is having a horrible, terrible day. That is, until she gets a text from Mason. He’s on the west coast and is looking for a woman named Susan he recently met at a bar to ask her out for a drink. Anna tells him he’s got the wrong number, but instead of that being the end of that, they keep texting each other. Their conversation continues until a sweet friendship begins.
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Apparently I am in my hockey sports romance era, because that seems to be all I’m reading lately – and I’m not mad at it. Of course, it helps that I seem to be signing up for a lot of hockey romance book tours….but I digress.
This book is great. It has all the fun tropes I love – enemies-to-lovers, best friend’s brother, hockey, steamy scenes, tight white t-shirts and GREY SWEATPANTS. I mean, seriously? What more do I need to say?
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