Nerd Girl Loves Books

Difficult Girls by Veronica Bane

This is a fast-paced YA thriller that kept my attention from page 1. Greta is our unreliable narrator looking for a fresh start after an unfortunate “incident” at her prior school makes her an outcast. The author drips hints about the “incident” throughout most of the book and we don’t get the full picture until close to the end. It definitely makes the reader speculate what could have happened and I confess, I thought of worse things the “incident” could have been other than what it ended up being. I mean, the precipitating thing is awful, don’t get me wrong, but her response wasn’t so bad….was it? Eh. Maybe I’m just getting a big jaded and vengeful in my “old” age and believing more in karma for a**holes. But I digress.

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July 8, 2025 0

Bananapants by Penny Reid

This book is set in the Knitting in the City/Winston Brother’s universe and follows the story of two adult children of some of the original MCs in the previous book series. I listened to the audio of this book and the narrators did a great job. Ava is a tax attorney and misses her childhood best friend, who just disappeared from her life, leaving her heartbroken. Des is a professional thief and after having a huge blowout with his father, hasn’t been back to Chicago in 10 years. The only reason he’s back is to help a friend that was swindled. He needs to break into an elite secret society to take back what was stolen. Who need he’d run into Ava during one of his operations.

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July 5, 2025 0

Writing Mr. Wrong by Kelley Armstrong

This is a cute hockey second chance rom com. Gemma is an author and wrote a romance featuring a jerk based on her first crush. He just happens to be bad boy NHL player Mason. They knew each other growing up and after he allowed his friends to embarrass her, he was dead to her. Gemma and Mason are both going through their own crisis with their future, and are struggling with how to get through it. When Gemma appears on a tv talk show with a former classmate and she ambushes her with Mason, pointing out that he must be her inspiration for her new book, their publicists jump on the chance to help further their careers. They end up fake dating, and we all know what happens next.

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July 4, 2025 0

Wanting the Winger (Love on the Line, #2) by Brenda Rothert

This is book 2 in the Love on the Line series but can be read as a standalone. This time NHL winger Bash finds love with Lainey, the little sister of his childhood best friend. She’s moving to Cleveland to work on a 4 month research project and he offers her his home to live in while she’s there. Lainey had a huge crush on Bash when she was younger (he’s 4 years older than her). When she was 17 and he was 21 and already in the NHL she asked him to take her to her prom. He naturally said no and her heart broke. Now Lainey is engaged to marry Shane, a worthless POS not worthy of her. Bash has no trouble reminding Lainey every chance he gets that he’s not worthy of her. He thinks he’s being a good friend. Until he can’t deny he’s actually got feelings for her. Now, just to make her believe his feelings are real.

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June 29, 2025 0

Make the Play (Nashville Rampage, #1) by Kaylee Ryan

This is a sweet sports romance between Corie and her brother Landry’s best friend Knox. Landry and Knox are professional football players and have several fellow players in their small friendship group. When Corie returns home from college, she and her best friend Sloane are welcomed into the group.

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June 22, 2025 0

Demon in White (Sun Eater, #3) by Christopher Ruocchio

4.5 stars

Book 3 in this series starts with a 100 year time jump. Hadrian and the Red Company had a huge victory, giving Hadrian cult hero status and the nickname Halfmortal. The emperors court are worried about his popularity and deem him a threat to the empire. Hadrian narrowly escapes an assassination attempt, so the emperor sends him to the library that Hadrian has been trying to get into for hundreds of years. After years of searching, he finally finds answers to some mysteries, and questions to a lot more of them.

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June 20, 2025 0

The Bad Boy Rule (Hellcats Hockey #1) by Maren Moore

Saint is the hockey bad boy of Orleans campus. He hits ’em and quits ’em, never kissing, cuddling, spending the night, or sleeping with the same girl twice. His life is hard and complicated and his sole focus is protecting his mother and making it to the NHL to give them both a better life. So the last thing he needs is a privileged do-gooder ice skater barging into his life and making him constantly think about what’s underneath that cute skirt.

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June 16, 2025 0

Never Been Shipped by Alicia Thompson

This is a sweet friends to lovers romance focusing on Micah and John. They meet in high school and as teenagers form a band with other friends that takes off in popularity. They release an album and tour the world, until the band breaks up just before they turn 20 years old. Ten years later the band is recruited to reunite for one more performance on a tv-show themed cruise. John misses Micah and performing with the band. They were best friends growing up and he’s secretly been in love with her since he was 12. Micah dreads getting back with the band and facing the mistakes and heartache that forced her to break from the band in the first place. But, she misses John and wants to connect with him again.

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June 10, 2025 0

No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding by Catherine Mack

I didn’t read the first book in this series, but I didn’t feel lost while reading this one. Eleanor is a best-selling author and has just finished wrapping up a movie of her latest novel. It stars her best friend Emma, who is engaged to her leading man and getting married after the film wraps. The entire cast and crew are invited to the wedding on Catalina Island, just as a storm develops that will hit the island. As the wedding weekend gets underway, Eleanor discovers a dead body. This sets the guests in a panic and overstretches the one police officer still on the island.

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June 8, 2025 0