Reviews
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The Heart You Kept by T.L. Swan
͟͟͞͞➳❥ SERIES: Kings of the Riviera #1╰⪼ reads as standalone I think it’s time to say good bye to this author. I love The Miles High Club series immensely! I’ve been trying to connect with her writing again ever since but I don’t think she is an author for me. All I see in her books are sex and silly and boring plots. Well, if we cans say there is one. I don’t laugh anymore. I don’t get emotionally connected with the characters. I don’t even feel all the spicy scenes that it seems it’s all her books are about now. They are all pretty formulaic, to be honest, and…
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In Peace Lies Havoc by Amo Jones
͟͟͞͞➳❥ SERIES: Midnight Mayhem #1╰⪼ reads as standalone This was terrible. Terribly choppy, confusing, and it honestly didn’t even make sense half the time. Also, there is no romance. Isn’t this book a romance novel? I couldn’t see any love. For me that is the whole point of a romance novel – dark or otherwise! Midnight Mayhem Series: ∗ Each book in this series features a different couple and can be read as a complete standalone. But for maximum enjoyment, follow the recommended reading order. ∗ My name is Dove Hendry. Mine is Kingston Axton. I was captured by darkness. She has always been ours… They groomed me for Midnight…
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Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
This book is offensive on so many levels. It portrays motherhood, religion, men and families so horribly. The plot wanders from one insulting scenario to another. The main character and her husband were both awful human beings. How can you enjoy a book with so many unlikable things to read?! Sorry, but no. This book is clearly for a different audience than me. Not wasting my time. ❝ But that’s something I’ve learned in the years since I left the ranch: you cannot change people who refuse to be changed. You can only love them. So here it is, all the love I have to give, pressed into the pages…
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Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy
The audiobook was terribly done. There is no emotion in the narrator’s voice. She was speaking in 1.5 speed. No punctuation. No emotions. No breathing. It was like she was in a hurry and needed to be done with it. I couldn’t follow. Horrible. The story also gave me the ick. ❝ Maybe that’s all passion is sadness plus the desire to connect.❞ From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died comes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths we’ll go to in order to get what we want. Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt.…
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How to Write a Love Story by Catherine Walsh
The fact that I finished this is a miracle because this book was boring! I couldn’t get into either character and I thought their chemistry was so forced. The newest book from bestselling author and Kindle Unlimited sensation Catherine Walsh, in which an ambitious editor travels to Ireland to help the daughter of a fantasy author legend complete her father’s final book, only to fall in love with her in the process. Ciara Sheridan’s father has left her with three things: a sprawling and distinctly ramshackle estate on the Irish coast, the outline for the finale to his bestselling epic fantasy series that he wanted her to finish—and writer’s block.…
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King of Gluttony by Ana Huang
͟͟͞͞➳❥ SERIES: Kings of Sin #6╰⪼ reads as standalone While I do love a good rivals to lovers this one just fell a bit flat for me. I am not saying I didn’t enjoy it. I did. Especially Sebastian! I just think that this book had so much going on that the romance took the backseat in the story. I wish we had gotten more scenes of them together. More banter and tension would have definitely taken this reading to another level. I also think that the rivals to lovers didn’t feel as much as a rivals to lovers trope to me but more like a miscommunication trope. Maybe if…
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Unbound by Peyton Corinne
͟͟͞͞➳❥ SERIES: The Undone #3╰⪼ reads as standalone I am conflicted about Unbound. I liked the overall story but I don’t think the dual timeline was well done. I was often confused about whether or not I was in the present or past. Confused which times were happy and which weren’t. It was hard for me to focus and keep me emotionally invested. The mutual yearning, and the emotion was well done though. Unbound definitely delivered on the angst. These two have been through so much in life that I often want to just give Paloma and Bennett a big hug and tell them both that they are worthy of…
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Our Perfect Storm by Carley Fortune
Well, Every Summer After is still my favorite but this was pretty damn good too. Childhood best friends to lovers is one of my favorites tropes, I just love all the angst the comes with it and I think Our Perfect Storm delivered it so well! The story moves from present to past moments between Frankie and George and it was SO GOOD seeing their relationship grow from friends to more. I was absolutely giddy when they finally started realizing their true feelings for one another. Huge thanks to @libro.fm for providing an early listening copy. Your kindness is always appreciated. Best friends have one week in paradise to fix…
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The Bodyguard Affair by Amy Lea
I’ve been trying this author every now and then, I really wanted to like her but I think she isn’t for me. I cannot connect with her stories nor characters. I am always SO bored while reading her books. It’s a struggle for me. I think it’s time to thrown in the towel and give up. ❝I want to rewrite everything she knows about love —tear dow whatever wall she’s built —and show her it’s not just some fleeting thing. That it can be good, real, and that it can last.❞ A secret romance writer discovers that the hottest story of summer might just be the one happening between her…
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Love Overboard by Kandi Steiner
⋆✴︎˚。⋆ forced proximity ➺ second chaves ➺ the other woman ➺ reality TV ➺ Cruise ship setting ➺ slow burn ➺ forbidden ➺ high ➺ angst ⋆✴︎˚。⋆ I’m SO conflicted about this book. I did really enjoyed the chemistry and the push and pull between Finn and Ember, but I also did NOT enjoy the fact that Finn had a girlfriend for the MAJORITY of the book. It did really bug me. It made me feel guilty and icky for for being rooting for them and that was bringing me out of the story every time. But then the other woman drama is not much my thing in romance novels. I also…