𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:꧁•⊹٭  mature characters ༊*·˚.  single mom ༊*·˚. life after divorce ༊*·˚. crazy dynamic family ٭⊹•꧂ It’s not like I hated the book, it has a lot of potential, good family drama, good character development but it was extremely slow for me. Not this author’s best.  Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is . . . complicated. So when her real dad—a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago—suddenly appears on her…

𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:꧁•⊹٭  neiborhs ༊*·˚.  insta-love ༊*·˚. ༊*·˚. meet cute ༊*·˚. forced proximity ༊*·˚. cinnamon roll hero ٭⊹•꧂ I don’t know what to say… I couldn’t feel the love, it was too insta-love for me, everything felt rushed, ti be honest but at the same time I don’t think the author had enough time to build any feelings or plot developing either. So for what it is, not bad I guess but it definitely didn’t have the wow effect that this author usually delivers.  Two good neighbors make the best of a bad Valentine’s Day in a funny and improbably romantic short story by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just for the Summer. It’s…

𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:꧁•⊹٭  enemies to lovers ༊*·˚.  forced proximity ༊*·˚. road trip ༊*·˚. one-bed ༊*·˚. wedding antics ༊*·˚. maid of honor vs best man  ٭⊹•꧂ Started off strong but then the female main character started to get on my nerves. The humor felt a bit forced sometimes. But it has good moments.  “I think it takes a lot of courage to not only walk away from a relationship that’s not serving you, but to still believe that real love is out there, and to be vulnerable enough to keep looking for it.” After a case of mistaken identity and an almost one-night stand, two stranded wedding guests have to find their way to their final destination together,…

𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:꧁•⊹٭  brother’s best friend ༊*·˚.  forced proximity ༊*·˚. roommates ༊*·˚. broody hero ༊*·˚. sport romance ༊*·˚. football ༊*·˚. ASL and chronic illness ٭⊹•꧂ It was alright. It lacks angst and  plot tension, to be honest. Their relationship was so vanilla that the second part of the book wasn’t even about them but the family. There was so much potential but as soon as they got together, nothing really happened…  ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ This is book 3 in the Holland Brothers Series. Each one can be read as a complete standalone. My brother’s best friend is such a jerk. An imposing, handsome jerk who doesn’t trust me. And now we’re roommates. He wanders around the…

𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:꧁•⊹٭  ༊*·˚. marriage in crisis  ༊*·˚. high school sweethearts ༊*·˚. flashbacks ٭⊹•꧂ Sara was insufferable! She came off as a bit ungrateful and childish to me. There didn’t seem to be any problems at all and yet Sara made them into problems. Everything was a storm into a teacup. Was she PMSing? 🙄 this just didn’t resonate for me. This book has also a lot of internal thoughts, there wasn’t a lot of dialogue, which isn’t great for a couple that is a long-term relationship in crisis. The side characters were underdeveloped as well and the story dragged at parts. I found myself bored and skimming some of the scenes. ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥…

𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:꧁•⊹٭ marriage of convenience ༊*·˚. sports romance ༊*·˚. wrestling ༊*·˚. touch her and die vibes ༊*·˚. foodie romance ༊*·˚. cinnamon roll alpha ༊*·˚. forced proximity ༊*·˚. small town ٭⊹•꧂  I wish we had more background about Rhys and the lost sister friendship. We are told but never shown they’ve become close and when she passes, she left him as the guardian of her three-year-old child. But here’s the thing, Rhys is a broody guy, the kind that likes his space and privacy, it was hard to see him as a loving and caring dad out of the blue. There was zero relationship developing with the kid. We never saw him…

𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:enemies to lovers • sport romance • soccer • forced proximity • found family  Idk why I read this when I’m well aware of the fact that Samantha Young’s writing just doesn’t impressed me anymore. Since her On Dublin Street Series, maybe even a bit before that, I am always so bored with her books, so this is entirely on me. This book was unnecessarily too long. All the explanations and background stories given about every single character from the previous series over family dinners felt a bit overload. If I’m being brutally honest, they felt like fillers. I was so bored.  The banter felt immature and juvenil. Too many…

𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:college sports romance • hockey • mfm • multicultural • dating app • lab partners  In favor for me to enjoy a book I have to relate to the characters. It was hard for me to connect with the female main character. Charlie was a drag! She had so many problems that even myself was having anxiety issues. She didn’t like her sorority, she was adopted, she had a secret bio brother and was hiding from her adopted parents, getting high, riding fast cars, getting judged, picking a grad school…and whining the whole time.  I was fine with her relationship status thou, but I was frustrated for not being mmf. If…

𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:college sport romance • hockey • ballet • fake relationship • forced proximity • found family  Collide was one of my favorite sports romances last year so to say I was excited to read this book is an understatement. But Spiral turned out to be a huge disappointment. Really not the same vibe. The author didn’t do a good job at writing their relationship progress. They jump from one point to another without any explanation which made the relationship feel pretty disconnected all the way through. The characters were also so flat! I can’t believe this was the same author that wrote Collide! 😕 “It’s never going to be just…

𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:• single mom • radio show • forced proximity • grumpy hero • found family • First-Time Caller started off really strong but once Lucie joined the radio show I started to really have issues with the book and it just went downhill slowly. 1- So Lucie says and I’m quoting her here:  “No, that’s not what I mean. I don’t want to try. All I do is try. All day long, I’m trying and I’m so tired. Why can’t this be the one thing I don’t have to try at? Why can’t it be a thing that just . . . happens? I don’t want—I don’t want to think about what…