Home Advantage by Layne Wren

1 Star

Carson

I’m well-known for being a controversial hockey player.

A lesser-known fact is that I want someone to call mine.

So when I see the most perfect woman in the stands during a fist-fight on the ice, I get distracted and think: finally, just before I get punched in the face.

A worse blow is when she gets away—and the finishing move is when my favorite food brands refuse to work with me unless I improve my reputation.

But when I run into Jamie Michaels at the bookstore she works at, our attraction to each other is undeniable, even if she won’t trust me with the broken heart I’ll do anything to fix.

Jamie

When my ex says he’s leaving me, I shouldn’t be shocked, given my history.

But him cheating and kicking me out makes me so done with this love thing—so there’s no way I’m letting an NHL player get his hands on my heart.

Yet when Carson Callaway offers me a chance to get back at my ex, it’s too good to pass up, and in turn, I offer to help repair his image.

We’ll fake date and keep it just that, fake.

But it’s so, so hard to with all this tension and chemistry simmering between us.

I can’t handle any more heartbreak, but what if things are different this time? What if Carson and I finally find home in each other?

 

I hated this book so much. I didn’t feel there was a connection or chemistry between Jamie and Carson. I also really hated how Jamie was so horrid to herself throughout this book. Maybe it is because I love hockey books so much this one just didn’t work for me. It is an author I will be skipping the rest of the books.

Book 1 Tampa Talon

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Outlier by Susie Tate

4 Stars

Vicky is an outlier. An outlier in society, an outlier in the business world; she’s even an outlier in her own family. She knows that people find her weird and annoying, and she’s resigned to her loneliness until she sees him. Having never been attracted to any man before, her new obsession with burly, rough and ready Mike and the fact she can’t breathe when he’s close comes as a shock.

Unfortunately, Vicky’s cold beauty doesn’t appeal to Mike. The woman they call the Ice Princess is the opposite of his type, and her obvious crush irritates him. How many times does he have to make it clear he’s not interested before she gets the message? 

But there are things about Vicky, Mike doesn’t know. Reasons she behaves the way she does. Loneliness, vulnerability and kindness, that she keeps hidden. And information her family should have shared with him. So when the fireworks start, and she screams, he acts on instinct, pulling her body into his. And when she buries into his chest, shaking in fear, for some reason he’s not so annoyed by her anymore…

All the emotions in this book. I loved reading it. It was interesting to see how the author handled FMC issues. Watching FMC overcome and deal with things that happened to her as a child made it a difficult read. Your heart will go out to her when truths are revealed. MMC was an idiot so many times with her but eventually makes it up but FMC pulls off the best surprise for him.

Book 3 Daydreamer

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Kiss Me Forever

Book 10 in the Montgomery Ink Legacy Series

Kiss Me Forever is an age gap, workplace, surprise single dad contemporary romance featuring Brooklyn and Reece. Each book can be read as a complete standalone. An HEA is guaranteed!

Falling for your enemy is bad. Falling for the man you only call your enemy is worse.

Reece Fox is a decade older than me but I’m his boss. And if the man growls at me one more time, he’s going to learn the true meaning of the Montgomery temper. Yet I can’t stop thinking of him.

After losing my fiancé, I’ve sworn off men, but when Reece does the one thing I never thought he’d do—ask for help—I can’t walk away.

Brooklyn Montgomery is too young for me. She’s not only my boss, but my friend’s family. The definition of forbidden. We both know this. But I can’t keep my hands off of her. When we finally give into the heat between us, there’s no going back.

Only when a little girl shows up at our work, she changes our world completely with one word: Dad.

Kiss Me Forever is an age gap, workplace, surprise single dad contemporary romance featuring Brooklyn and Reece. Each book can be read as a complete standalone. An HEA is guaranteed!

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My Boyfriends are all Monsters by Kimberly Lemming

4.5 Stars

Tossing a coin in a mysterious well seems like a harmless way to cope with being ditched on a mountain—until every impossibly hot man in town starts competing for one woman’s attention in this steamy short story by USA Today bestselling author Kimberly Lemming.

Lucy Sawyer’s wish for true love lands her in an enchanted town where the men are supernatural, the chemistry is off the charts, and everyone wants to date her. But they say that things that seem too good to be true usually are, and soon Lucy may need to decide if she’s willing to pay the cost of her happily ever after.

 

I loved this book so much. It would have been a full 5 stars if we had found out what happened to the ex. I loved the story and how things played out with FMC. I am giving no spoilers with how everything plays out with the boyfriends cause the ending was fire. I loved the narrators and I want more in this world.

Book 6 Scared Sexy

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Whispers of Redemption by Elle Carr

1 Star

Seven years ago, I left the only man I ever loved.

I found out I wasn't able to have children, and I couldn't watch him give up the family he deserved.

I never told him the truth, and I never stopped wondering if I made the biggest mistake of my life.

Now I'm working as a children's doctor, when suddenly the ER doors flew open, and a little girl was carried in unconscious.

Immediately, I checked her airway and started compressions, I pressed the stethoscope to her chest, praying to hear a heartbeat.

Thirty seconds later, her chest finally rose, and air rushed back into her lungs.

She looked right at me, dazed and confused, and whispered, "Are you my mommy?"

I smiled, thinking she had confused me with her mother, until I heard the doors swing open. A deep familiar voice sounded behind me and I turned to see the man I left 7 years ago, standing in the doorway with a photograph in his hand.

I was very confused by the timeline in this book. Add in the covert Christian rhetoric later in the book this book was a hard pass for me. I liked the idea of the book. She finds out she can’t have kids, leaves him, only to come back later is an interesting book. Throw in God hates her and everything else it was a just no for me.

Book 1 Of Grace and Glory

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Deal with a Demon by Ami Wright

4 Stars

Would you make a deal with a monster?

I need money. My rent is overdue, my aircon is busted and my bank account is overdrawn. So when I get an email from Monstrous Deals offering discreet well-paying clients willing to negotiate all sorts of arrangements, I’m not too proud to sign up.

Then I meet Rin. Impeccably styled, perfectly cultured and devastatingly gorgeous, this handsome billionaire is too good to be true. When I find out exactly what he has in mind, it’s even more unbelievable. Beneath his smooth, polished facade, hides a beast. A ferocious oni demon set on devouring one thing: my pleasure. Over and over again.

Will he demand more than I can give? Is that even a thing? Or will Rin be the answer to all of my fantasies?

 

I loved this book and I loved the narrators. The story itself was super cute. It was interesting. FMC signs up to be a plaything for MMC. He falls in love and wants to keep her but miscommunications abound. They eventually find their way to HEA and it was worth it to listen to.

Book 1 Monstrous Deals

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Seven Year Itch by Amy Daws

3.5 Stars

All I wanted was a casual plus-one to my brother's destination wedding, but those idiots on my family tree hacked my dating profile and sabotaged my quest for the perfect weekend fling. Now I'm stuck on a tropical vacation with only my hand to keep me company.

Until I’m forced to share a room with the bane of my existence: my sister-in-law’s best friend.

Dakota has hated me for the past seven years. I wasn’t losing much sleep over her screaming rants because she was some other guy’s problem. Or she was, until she got divorced.

Being stuck in paradise with a woman who loathes your very existence doesn't sound hot, but after an unexpected moment in our shared palapa, she starts screaming at me in a different way.

What happens in paradise stays in paradise. That is, until Dakota shows up on my mountain with a proposition: be her wingman to help her regain her pre-divorce confidence.

Suddenly, Dakota’s not just the person I love to fight with. She’s the woman I want everything with.

Dakota frustrated me so much in this book. She was very much like a Karen and was a dick to Calder. She does get better the more you get to know her but I never got passed it. I just never liked her. Loved his tinder profile and how he was with his family and cats.

Book 2 Mountain Men Matchmaker

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