𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:sports romance: hockey, single dad, forced proximity, grumpy & sunshine, age gap. Tessa Bailey writing style in this book was cringeworthy and felt childish and anti climactic. The main characters have zero chemistry and I found it really hard to connect with either of them. This isn’t the first book that I have struggled with when it comes to this author.  I think I just need to accept that Tessa Bailey isn’t an author for me. I keep reading her because I love her book covers but I cannot connect with her writing.  Tallulah is smart, vivacious, and studying to be a marine biologist. She’s also twenty-six and broke. So…

Content:mafia, age gap, retelling, rich hero, alpha male, forced proximity. Way to start a book, Neva Altaj!-” I rear back, my cock slipping out of my latest hookup. She’s sprawled in front of me on the desk, her red hair spilling over the edge.” That should’ve been my cue for how bad this book would be. The insta-love/obsession trope didn’t add much depth to the story either. Nobody touches what’s mine without fatal consequences, But when the most beautiful woman is brought to face my fury, My dead heart suddenly begins to beat again. There are no fairy tales in this life. Beauty will never fall for the beast. But…

𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:magical realism, dual timeline, second chances, time traveling, a touch of magic. It isn’t easy to come up with a new and different story in any genre. And The Seven Year Slip was a very creative and unique story. I enjoyed this so much more than The Dead Romantics.  I fell in love with the characters. The emotions conveyed in the book felt authentic and intense. The romance was absolute magical!!  A beautiful story that is full of heart. Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it. So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard,…

𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉: college sports romance: hockey & figure skating, frenemies to lovers, forced proximity, grumpy & sunshine. I tried Icebreaker again on audiobook cause I thought I wasn’t patient enough the first time I read it. But I guess it’s not me, but 100% you problem.  The book drags on forever, even with the audiobook 😫 there is so many characters that is hard to keep track of all of them. There is a lot going on but at the same no plot at all.  Couldn’t warm up to the heroine. Didn’t feel any chemistry there. What did I have in mind for trying this one again?! Ugh 😵‍💫 I gave…

𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:second chances, childhood friends to lovers, one bed, forced proximity, found family, anxiety/mental health rep. I don’t appreciate when authors try to push their political propaganda to readers because politics aren’t opinions held separate from life.  The story itself is really good, but I just cannot wrap my head around the “pregnant person” thing. As a woman and a mother I am deeply offended. There is just NO man on earth that can biologically carry a child for nine months and then birth them. Giving this power to men—because yeah biologically they are MEN, regardless of your beliefs or the way these MEN feel, it is absolutely baffling to me.…

I have mixed feelings about this book. This is a very bingeable read. I can certainly see why this book is getting such good reviews, but what I felt was an obvious plot, the final twist at the end was predictable. I also found the steamy scenes added to the story unnecessary. This is not a romance novel after all. We don’t need that. We want answers. Answers you won’t get! You can tell this book was  written by a romance author, but you can definitely see some potential there. I think Vi Keeland will get better at writing this genre if she writes more books.  Overall, a dark and seductive…

𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:sports romance: hockey, boss & employee, forced proximity, rich hero, possessive hero, fake relationship, slow burn, grumpy & sunshine.  I feel like this book was too long, and for no good reason. Cringe dialogue, cringe storyline, cringe nickname, cringe characters!! The characters also have zero chemistry. He’s the hot, grumpy goalie I had a crush on in high school… and now I’m his live-in assistant. After my ex crushed my dreams in the music industry, I’m done with getting my heart broken. Working as an assistant for an NHL player was supposed to be a breeze, but nothing about Jamie Streicher is easy. He’s an intimidatingly hot, grouchy jerk who…

𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:friends to lovers, dark romance, criminal heroine, possessive hero, funny, suspense slow burn. Written at a 3rd grade reading level, there is just no build-up, right off page one the characters were already in love and the dialogue was just awful. I rolled my eyes so many times in such short period of time that it gave me a migraine.  “I would kill for you, and I have. I would do it again, every damn day. I’d turn myself inside out for you. I would die for you. I don’t just like you, Sloane, and you fucking know it.“ Every serial killer needs a friend.  Every game must have a…

First Lie WIns was slow and boring. I didn’t care about the story until about 70-80% when it picked up. A lot of things don’t make sense and are completely improbable. The main character was also completely unlikeable. In fact, there was not a sympathetic character in this book. But I found her love for her mother endearing. “There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is deliberate. The lie that sets the stage for everything that comes after it. And…

𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:brother’s best friend, secret relationship, forced proximity, cinnamon roll hero, found family, small town, past & present timelines. If you are in it looking for a romance, get another book for you, you won’t find it here. I am not even sure this book was about Felix and Lucy at all. The whole plot of this book was based on Felix’s bigger sister refusing to answer a simple question, running away from her life and her fiancé days before their wedding and when she finally reveals it, it was not a big deal. Seriously, SO stupid!  Lucy and Felix’s relationship was purely just hookups. I barely remember if there were…