🇨 🇴 🇳 🇹 🇪 🇳 🇹 ꧁•⊹٭  mature characters ༊*·˚.  single mom ༊*·˚. life after divorce ༊*·˚. crazy dynamic family ٭⊹•꧂ 𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 : 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…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸  ꧁•⊹٭  neiborhs ༊*·˚.  insta-love ༊*·˚. ༊*·˚. meet cute ༊*·˚. forced proximity ༊*·˚. cinnamon roll hero ٭⊹•꧂ 𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 : 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…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸  ꧁•⊹٭  enemies to lovers ༊*·˚.  forced proximity ༊*·˚. road trip ༊*·˚. one-bed ༊*·˚. wedding antics ༊*·˚. maid of honor vs best man  ٭⊹•꧂ 𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 : 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…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸  ꧁•⊹٭  brother’s best friend ༊*·˚.  forced proximity ༊*·˚. roommates ༊*·˚. broody hero ༊*·˚. sport romance ༊*·˚. football ༊*·˚. ASL and chronic illness ٭⊹•꧂ 𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 : 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. ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ Holland Brothers Series ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ My brother’s best friend is such a jerk. An imposing, handsome…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸  ꧁•⊹٭  ༊*·˚. marriage in crisis  ༊*·˚. high school sweethearts ༊*·˚. flashbacks ٭⊹•꧂ 𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 : 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…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸  ꧁•⊹٭ marriage of convenience ༊*·˚. sports romance ༊*·˚. wrestling ༊*·˚. touch her and die vibes ༊*·˚. foodie romance ༊*·˚. cinnamon roll alpha ༊*·˚. forced proximity ༊*·˚. small town ٭⊹•꧂  𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 : 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…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸  enemies to lovers • sport romance • soccer • forced proximity • found family  𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 :  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. …

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸  college sports romance • hockey • mfm • multicultural • dating app • lab partners  𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 ༊*·°࿐•  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…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸  college sport romance • hockey • ballet • fake relationship • forced proximity • found family  𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 ༊*·°࿐•  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…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸 • single mom • radio show • forced proximity • grumpy hero • found family • 𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 ༊*·°࿐•  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…