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Title:  The Prince's Bride (part 1) Author:  J.J McAvoy Publication Date:  October 28, 2020  Rating: ★★★★★ Amazon  |  Goodreads He is a spoiled playboy prince whose family is in desperate need of money. She’s an American heiress who can only get her inheritance through marriage. According to their families they are a perfect match. According to each other, arranged marriages have no place in modern times and this could not possibly work. But Prince Galahad “Gale” of Ersovia is bound by duty to obey the crown anyway. Odette Wyntor doesn’t give a damn, she doesn’t want to get married. Can he change her mind? Can she even handle what it means to be royal, if he did? My Thoughts...  First of all could we all admire the amazing cover, and not only on this book but for the rest of the series. They are all stunning I need to own these books in paperbacks so I can admire the covers all day long. They are honestly stunning so kudos...

Title: Sweet Temptation Author: Cora Reilly Publication Date: March 10, 2020 Rating:  ★★★★★ Goodreads | Amazon Age gap. Single dad. Arranged marriage. The first time Cassio meets his fiancée, she calls him “sir.” After losing his wife, Cassio is left to take care of two small children while trying to establish his rule over Philadelphia. Now he needs a mother for his children and someone who can warm his bed at night. But in a world as traditional as his, choosing your wife is duty not pleasure. Rules have to be followed, traditions heeded. That’s how he ends up with a woman—a girl—barely of age. She may not be what he and his children need, but she’s lovely and a sweet temptation he can’t resist. Giulia has always known she’ll marry the man her father chose for her, but she never expects to be given to someone so much older. Suddenly she’s supposed to be a mother to two small children when she hasn’t even held a baby before. Giulia quickly realizes that Cassio isn’t interes...

Title: Fake it 'till you break it Author: Meagan Brandy Publication date: February 5, 2020 Rating: ★★★★★ Goodreads | Amazon Fake. That’s what we are. That’s what we agreed to be. I thought it would be harder, convincing everyone our school’s star receiver was mine and mine alone, but we played our parts well. So well, the lines between us began to blur until they disappeared completely. The thing about pretending, though, someone’s always better at it, and by the time I realized my mistake, there was no going back. I fell for our lie. And then everything fell apart. It turned out, he and I were never playing the same game. He didn’t have to break me to win. But he did it anyway. My Thoughts...  This book came out of left field. I didn't expect to love it as much as I did. And damn did I LOVE it. Everything about it. It was perfect. I loved the pacing of this book most of all. Nothing felt rushed, everything happened and occurred seamlessly. It did not feel like ...

Title: Underneath the Sycamore Tree Author: B. Celeste Publication Date: November 1, 2019 Rating: ★★★★☆ Goodreads | Amazon It happened in stages.⁣ My father left.⁣ My twin sister died of an incurable autoimmune disease.⁣ My mother started breaking down.⁣ Then I was diagnosed with the very thing that took my other half from me.⁣ That was when I realized Mama’s eyes turned gold when she cried.⁣ So I moved in with my father and his new family—new wife, new son, new stepbrother.⁣ Kaiden Monroe made me feel normal.⁣ Hated. Cared for. Loathed. And … loved.⁣ Somewhere along the way, I’d found solace in the boy with brooding eyes.⁣ But everything happens in stages.⁣ And nothing good ever lasts.⁣ My Thoughts...  This book was so heavy in the topics it dealt with, yet so realistic and filled with so much emotions. Going into this book you know through the synopsis that our main character is dying. In knowing that, I had to mentally prepare myself and know that I would not get...

Title: Credence Author: Penelope Douglas Publication Date: 13 January, 2020 Rating:  ★★★★☆ Amazon | Goodreads 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. 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? 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 und...

Title: Vicious Series:  1 in the Sinner of Saints series Author: L.J Shen Publication Date: December 27, 2016 Rating: ★★★★★ Amazon | Goodreads Emilia They say love and hate are the same feelings experienced under different circumstances, and it’s true.The man who comes to me in my dreams also haunts me in my nightmares. He is a brilliant lawyer. A skilled criminal. A beautiful liar. A bully and a savior, a monster and a lover. Ten years ago, he made me run away from the small town where we lived. Now, he came for me in New York, and he isn’t leaving until he takes me with him. Vicious She is a starving artist. Pretty and evasive like cherry blossom. Ten years ago, she barged into my life unannounced and turned everything upside down. She paid the price. Emilia LeBlanc is completely off-limits, my best friend’s ex-girlfriend. The woman who knows my darkest secret, and the daughter of the cheap Help we hired to take care of our estate. That should deter me from chasing her, b...

Title: Defy Series: 0.5 in the Sinners of Saints series Author: L.J Shen Publication Date: January 31, 2017 Rating: ★★★★★ Amazon | Goodreads Defy is a smutty, insta-love, insta-lust short novella. Defy is a prequel to  Vicious (Sinners of Saint #1) . It is recommended, but unnecessary, to read Defy before reading Vicious. My name is Melody Greene, and I have a confession to make. I slept with my student, a senior in high school. Multiple times. I had multiple orgasms. In multiple positions. I slept with my student and I enjoyed it. I slept with my student and I’d do it all over again if I could turn back time. My name is Melody Greene, and I got kicked out of my position as a teacher and did my walk of shame a la Cersei Lannister from the principal’s office, minutes after said principal threatened to call the cops on me. My name is Melody Greene, and I did something bad because it made me feel good. Here is why it was totally worth it. My Thoughts...  Okay w...

Title: The Unhoneymooners Author: Christina Lauren Publication Date: May 14, 2019 Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Goodreads | Amazon Olive is always unlucky: in her career, in love, in…well, everything. Her identical twin sister Ami, on the other hand, is probably the luckiest person in the world. Her meet-cute with her fiancé is something out of a romantic comedy (gag) and she’s managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a series of Internet contests (double gag). Worst of all, she’s forcing Olive to spend the day with her sworn enemy, Ethan, who just happens to be the best man. Olive braces herself to get through 24 hours of wedding hell before she can return to her comfortable, unlucky life. But when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning from eating bad shellfish, the only people who aren’t affected are Olive and Ethan. And now there’s an all-expenses-paid honeymoon in Hawaii up for grabs. Putting their mutual hatred aside for the sake of a free vacation, Olive and Ethan he...

Title: Out of The Blue Series: Standalone   Author: Lila Rose Publication date: October 23, 2018 Rating: ★★★★☆ Goodreads  | Amazon What is This Book About?  At forty, Lan Davis is looking for his damned picket fence and 2.5 kids. What he doesn’t expect is instead of a wife in the picture, his mind keeps conjuring up images of two men. One, his partner in the force, who is as straight as they came, the other an ex, who he’d hurt but never forgot.  After an incident leaves Lan injured, the two men rally around him… only maybe they shouldn’t have. It seems a medicated Lan is a truthful one.  Parker Wilding is pissed at the world. His anger builds when his partner refuses medical care after an attack. Instead, Lan entrusts his neighbour to take care of him—a guy Parker doesn’t trust. While he’s aware they share a history,  when the past is revealed, the truth shocks the hell out of him.  Being emotionally crushed ten years ago, Easton Ravel hoped ...

Title: Four Psychos Series: The Dark Side Book 1 Author: C.M Owens as Kristy Cunning Publication Date: November 6, 2017 Rating: ★★★★☆ Goodreads   What is this book about? I'm not so different from most people.  Like everyone else, I have life goals.  Goal #1: Become a real girl instead of this invisible ghost thing I currently am.  Goal #2: Convince the four men I've been haunting for the past five years to pick me to be their new toy after goal one is complete.  Goal #3: Figure out who/what I am and why I can't remember anything past the five years I've been haunting this quad.  Goal #4: Eat popcorn.  See? Perfectly normal. Sort of.  Gotta start small, after all.  It's not like anyone else is perfect either.  **Sexual situations  **Reverse Harem  **Dark humor galore  **Language warning My Thoughts...  I started this book with absolutely no clue as to what it was about, and it blew me aw...

Title: Tick Tock Author: Jane Harvey-Berrick Series: Explosive Ordnance Disposal series  Publication Date:  November 1st 2018 Rating: ★★★★☆ Goodreads   What is this book about?  Forget SEALS, Marines, Fighter Pilots - I have the most dangerous job in the world. And I love it. James Spears is part of an elite group who lives and breathes danger. Where others run from it, he walks towards it, calm, focussed ice-cold. James is a top EOD operative. Explosive… Ordnance… Disposal… You’d call him a bomb disposal expert. Or crazy. A guy with a death wish. He’s heard it all before and he doesn’t give a shit. He’s the best.  They say he doesn’t have blood in his veins, he has ice. They say he has no nerves. All that’s about to be tested. Amira is recruited by the CIA to infiltrate a terrorist cell living in rural Pennsylvania. She’s the perfect plant, no one would ever suspect her. Because her brother was killed when a bomb was dropped on the Syrian ho...

Title: The Rose and the Dagger Author: Renee Ahdieh Publication Date: April 26, 2016 Genre: Fantasy Format: Hardcover Rating:  ★★★★★ Goodreads | Amazon I am surrounded on all sides by a desert. A guest, in a prison of sand and sun. My family is here. And I do not know whom I can trust. In a land on the brink of war, Shahrzad has been torn from the love of her husband Khalid, the Caliph of Khorasan. She once believed him a monster, but his secrets revealed a man tormented by guilt and a powerful curse—one that might keep them apart forever. Reunited with her family, who have taken refuge with enemies of Khalid, and Tariq, her childhood sweetheart, she should be happy. But Tariq now commands forces set on destroying Khalid's empire. Shahrzad is almost a prisoner caught between loyalties to people she loves. But she refuses to be a pawn and devises a plan. While her father, Jahandar, continues to play with magical forces he doesn't yet understand, Shahrzad tr...