🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸 • 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…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸  enemies to lovers • forced proximity • romance w/ magical realism • small town romance • found family 𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 ༊*·°࿐•  I think we were supposed to find the female main character funny but she was just plain rude. This woman was insufferable! Couldn’t even finish this.  From the beloved author of Right on Cue and Lease on Love comes a whimsical new rom-com about a workaholic forced to aim for a goal she never thought she’d love. Campbell Andrews despises exactly three things in incompetence, tardiness, and love stories. Making partner at her law firm at thirty-four, she has no time for anything or anyone else. And certainly no respect…

🇮 🇳 🇸 🇮 🇩 🇪 hostage situation • homicide • suspense • books about books  𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 ༊*·°࿐•  This started off strong but it got very slow pretty fast. I was listening to the audiobook, I kept zoning out very often and lost lots of details of the story but I couldn’t care less. I just wanted to be done with.  “At the heart of this mystery was a book that solved everything for her, the way they always do. A story that made sense of the chaos of life.” It is June 21, the longest day of the year, and the life of new mother Camilla is about to…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸  dark romcom • friends with benefits • touch her & die • one bed • close proximity • morally grey characters  𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 ༊*·°࿐•  Shockingly, I enjoyed this more than the first one in this trilogy. I know most readers will disagree but that’s just how I felt 🤷🏻‍♀️ Anyhow, I still felt like the story was missing a plot, and it seems like this author does love an insta-love kind of story. There is just no relationship buildup. Too much spice with very little relationship development. But then there’s Fionn… sigh. And I really really liked him! 🥰  ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ This is book 3…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸 second chance • sports romance • baseball • found family • he falls first  𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 ༊*·°࿐•  This has a strong start, I was loving the angst, but once they started their friendship with benefits, the story lost a bit of steam for me. However, Brittainy Cherry did a fantastic job with the depression representation. I’ve never read a more accurate and relatable description, having struggled with it myself. Well done, Brittany! “You win some, you lose some, but no matter what, you keep playing the game.” ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ This is book 2 in the Problem Series. Each one can be read as a complete standalone.…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸 enemies to lovers • runaway bride • grumpy vs sunshine • small town • book to cry over  𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 ༊*·°࿐•  Goooooood Lord, I didn’t think that this book was going to rip my heart out and make me sob like it did! Looking at the cover, I was expecting a cutesy breezy book. But to be fair, the authors did warn you that this book was different from anything else they’ve written. The only reason it didn’t earn all the stars from me was because I kind of felt that their relationship was rushed-ish. Maybe it’s me. But I still love this regardless! You better…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸 single dad • boss’ daughter • small town • the nanny  𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 ༊*·°࿐•  It was okay … just okay though. I didn’t buy the total recluse angle. Frannie’s 27! I think Mack didn’t treat Frannie’s right. Like the day that the guy stood her up because his daughter fell off the stair and didn’t have the courtesy to text Frannie to say he couldn’t meet her??? He just didn’t show.  I’m also not a fan of books where the sex scenes are thrown in at every opportunity they have just to make the book spicy. In order for me to develop the “feels” for the…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸 grumpy x sunshine • forced proximity • small town • roommates • two love stories intertwined through one book  𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 ༊*·°࿐•  I loved this book more than words can say. The writing was beautiful, capturing the full spectrum of emotions. I cherished every word. One hundred highlights. One hundred moments in this story that is now imprinted on me. Bravo Ms. Cherry! “Life was hard and getting old was harder. There was no getting around that fact.” ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ This is book 3 in the Problem Series. Each one can be read as a complete standalone. ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ Problem Series ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ Willow Kingsley is everything I don’t…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸 sport romance • hockey • insta-love • rich heroine • step siblings  𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 ༊*·°࿐•  Ick, no! The writing is so cringey. Just no! 🥴 couldn’t pass chapter 2!  😳 “Just sitting there talking to this girl. Looking at her. There was something big and scary happening inside of his chest that he couldn’t name or explain. Only that he wanted, needed, to let it happen. Somehow, he knew that she wasn’t a choice.” — It wasn’t that bad, but putting everything I’ve read together it sounded bad. 😳 “Bemused and horny and frankly, in awe, he watched her butt twitch the whole damn way to…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸 college sport romance • hockey • friends to lovers  • tutor vs athlete • found family • slow burn • mental health & learning differences rep 𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 ༊*·°࿐•  I tried Unsteady and was underwhelmed by it but I wanted to give Unloved a try anyway, but I don’t think this author is an author for me. The fmc was so insecure. It was hard to be in her head and see her trying to justify her narcissistic “on and off again” boyfriend’s behavior. She came from a loving and supporting family. She is smart. Why she would put up with a guy like Tyler and be…