🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸 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…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸 college sports romance • dive and swimming • praise kinky • friend’s ex⚠️: PTSD, mention of abuse 𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 ༊*·°࿐•  Weird storyline. A main character with low self-esteem. No romance but lots of hookups. Long and repetitive. But hey, if you are here for the spice, go for it! “It takes him a while to a swear. When he does, he’s not looking at me. “Because sometimes I can’t breathe when you’re around.”  A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis. Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A…

🇮 🇳 🇸 🇮 🇩 🇪 mystery • drama •  dual timeline • set in the 80s and 1929 • dark atmosphere 𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 ༊*·°࿐•  This books was terribly boring. Not at all twisty (you could see it coming from a mile away). Unsatisfying in every way except one – it’s finally over! Probably one of the worst thrillers I’ve read.  At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸  enemies to lovers • possessive hero • cold hero • tortured hero • slavery • abduction • praise kink • BDSM • non consensual sexual act • suspenseTW: violence • abduction • bullying • sexual assault • rape ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ Your mental health matters. If any of these topics are sensitive to you, please proceed with caution or skip this one ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ 𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 ༊*·°࿐•  I read this book a couple of years ago and never posted a review on instagram or any social media of mine because I get so many haters. Readers of dark romances are not opened for a debate. They feel attacked by…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸 single dad • age gap • secret relationship • forbidden love • pastor’s daughter • small town  𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 ༊*·°࿐•  What bothered me was not the fact that  Eve was barely 18 and had just graduated from High School and Kyle was 28 and the new teacher/coach. What made this so icky was the fact that Eve was a childish brat who took pleasure in raising hell and creating chaos. I couldn’t even find her humor funny. It was hard to believe that a 28 year old man with a kid to raise would’ve fallen for a girl like her. So immature! Just another child in his life.…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸 sports • figure skating • friends to lovers • rivalry • cheating  𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 ༊*·°࿐•  I was very intrigued by the cover and the glowing reviews but this was not a book for me.  This is absolutely NOT a romance novel. Why it’s categorized as one I have no idea. Maybe if I have read it without expecting a romance I would’ve felt different. Truth is, I wasn’t prepared for how ugly this story is.  There isn’t one likable character in this book, except maybe for Garrett. But Katarina was the worst of them all. Her lack of empathy for others well being as long as…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸 small town romance • workplace • boss’s daughter • enemies to lovers • grumpy hero • found family • secret relationship • family group text • mental health rep  𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 ༊*·°࿐•  I really enjoyed the dynamic between the characters. Easton with his quick, dry, grumpy, sarcastic wit and Henley with her sassy comebacks had me smiling. I also love how close and supportive was Easton’s family. The family group text had me cracking up. I just wished we had more of the enemies tension between the main character, it didn’t last long enough for me. As I think the story felt longer than necessary, it…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸 sports romance • hockey • forced proximity • one-bed • college  𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 ༊*·°࿐•  There is just no buildup to the relationship or character development in this book.  I don’t mind smut in books, but I need to have felt some sexual tension and some relationship development between the main characters before they have any sexual interaction or also become a couple. I’m okay with a one-night thing in books but that’s not the case here. Chase had never acknowledged or even noticed Cammie before and suddenly, he wants to spend the eternity with her? Ugh 😑 also, I couldn’t buy Cammie, her character, she hides…

🇹 🇷 🇴 🇵 🇪 🇸 western romance • cowboy hero • friends to lovers • fake dating • lessons-in-seduction  𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 ༊*·°࿐•  The prologue drew me in. I felt so much chemistry there. The sexual tension was delicious to read. Thought this was going to be a great read for me but I was wrong. The writing was silly for the rest of the book. It felt like the book was written by a teenager.  ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ This is book 2 in the Lucky River Ranch Series, an interconnected series. Each one can be read as a complete standalone. ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ Lucky River Ranch Series ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ Wyatt Rivers is the perfect no-strings…

🇮 🇳 🇸 🇮 🇩 🇪 • suspense • horror elements• eerie atmosphere • locked room mystery • 𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 ༊*·°࿐•  For the biggest part of this book, there was only one thought in my mind: “What a bizarre storytelling. I think I should be drunk or high to follow this”.  To be fair, I loved the ambiance, and the horror elements as well as a chilling undercurrent that permeated every page  but everything about this was so contrived. The plot twist was predictable and dumb, and with a political agenda. So anticlimactic! And why say they aren’t a cult when they clearly are one? So annoying. I rolled my eyes so…