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Title:  Hate Me Author:  Ashley Jade Publication Date:  January 28, 2021  Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Amazon  |  Goodreads A Stepbrother Bully Romance I'm the whispers in the dark you can't ignore. The bully you can't run away from. I'm the tormentor who makes your life a living hell. The villain you love to hate. I'm the vicious stepbrother sleeping in the next room. The one who knows all your secrets. And I'll stop at nothing to make you pay. WARNING: This book is recommended for mature readers due to graphic language, sexual content, and dark elements. My Thoughts...  ARC kindly provided by the author and CandiKane PR in exchange for an honest review Ashley Jade's newest release is a really dark bully romance that takes place in high school. It follows Knox and Aspen who first meet when they're kids with Knox leaving a lasting impression on Aspen. Years later, these two characters see each other again as they both attend the same high school and soon become step-...

Title: Fragile Longing  Author: Cora Reilly  Publication Date: September 30, 2020 Rating: ★★★☆☆ Goodreads | Amazon  Sofia knows how it feels to be the consolation prize. Too young. Not blond. And definitely not an ice princess. Her sister is—was all those things. Perfection. Until she wasn’t. Until she ran off to be with the enemy and left her fiancé behind. Now Sofia is given to Danilo in her sister’s stead, knowing she’ll never be more than second best. Yet, she can’t stop longing for the love of the man she’s been crushing on even when he was still her sister’s. Danilo is a man who’s used to getting what he wants. Power. Respect. The sought-after ice princess. Until another man steals his bride-to-be. Danilo knows that for a man in his position losing his woman can lead to a loss of face. Wounded pride. Thirst for revenge. A dangerous combination—one Danilo can’t leave behind, not even when a girl just as precious takes her sister’s place to placate him. Yet, she’s g...

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: Angry God Author: L.J Shen Publication Date:  February 15, 2020 Rating:  ★★★☆☆ Amazon | Goodreads   Vaughn Spencer. They call him an angry god. To me, he is nothing but a heartless prince. His parents rule this town, its police, every citizen and boutique on Main Street. All I own is a nice, juicy grudge against him for that time he almost killed me. Between hooking up with a different girl every weekend, breaking hearts, noses and rules, Vaughn also finds the time to bully little ole’ me. I fight back, tooth and nail, never expecting him to chase me across the ocean after we graduate high school. But here he is, living with me in a dark, looming castle on the outskirts of London. A fellow intern. A prodigal sculptor. A bloody genius. They say this place is haunted, and it is. Carlisle Castle hides two of our most awful secrets. Vaughn thinks he can kill the ghosts of his past, but what he doesn’t know? It’s my heart he’s slaying. Angry God is a s...

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: Pretty Reckless Series: All Saints High book 1 Author: L.J Shen Publication Date: April 21, 2019 Rating: ★★★★☆ Goodreads | Amazon   From USA Today and Washington Post bestselling author L.J. Shen comes an intense, high school enemies-to-lovers romance with a twist.   Penn   They say revenge is a dish best served cold.  I’d had four years to stew on what Daria Followhill did to me, and now my heart was completely iced.  I took her first kiss.  She took the only thing I loved.  I was poor.  She was rich.  The good thing about circumstances? They can change. Fast.  Now, I’m her parents’ latest shiny project.  Her housemate. Her tormentor. The captain of the rival football team she hates so much.  Yeah, baby girl, say it—I’m your foster brother.  There’s a price to pay for ruining the only good thing in my life, and she’s about to shell out some serious tears.  Daria Followhill thinks she is THE queen...

Title: The Bargain Author: Lisa Cardiff Publication Date: March 17, 2015 Genre: New Adult Source: NetGalley Rating: ★★★★☆ Goodreads  |  Amazon Three weeks, twenty-one days, or five hundred and four hours… That’s all it took to derail my life and twist it into something unrecognisable  One moment I had Evan, the man I thought I’d marry. The next moment shattered the illusion. Now I have no one. Except him.  Ryker Vargas, and I don’t really have him. He’d never belong to any one but himself. He sucked me into a web of lies and now it’s too late. I took the bait. I’m a prisoner of the Vargas Cartel. I never thought I’d be another statistic, another girl abducted in a foreign country, my entire future washed away by an impulsive, split second in time. But it’s true.  My name is Hattie Covington and I’m a statistic, but statistics never tell the whole story. Hattie Covington takes a break from her cheating boyfriend and controlling...

Title:  Ugly Love A uthor: Colleen Hoover Publication date: August 5, 2014  Genre: NA Format: Paperback   pages:   322 Rating: ★★★★★ Goodreads  |  Amazon When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she knows it isn’t love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realise they have the perfect set-up. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her. Never ask about the past. Don’t expect a future. They think they can handle it, but realise almost immediately they can’t handle it at all. Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.  This was my first Colleen Hoover and since it...