Hello, friends! It’s my stop on the TBR & Beyond Tours for Blood and Moonlight by Erin Beaty and I’m excited to share my review and favourite quotes with you today!
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Hello, friends! It’s my stop on the TBR & Beyond Tours for The Kaya Girl by Mamle Wolo and I’m excited to share my review and favourite quotes with you today!
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Special thanks to Jaqueline Snowe for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review!
Goodreads: Take the Lead (Central State #3)
Published: 28 June 2022
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Panda Rating:
(4 pandas)
Falling for my fake girlfriend was never part of the plan…
Daniella Laughlin might seem put together in her dance gear and captainship, but on the inside, sheโs figuring out who she is without her momโs beauty pageant influence. Constantly being critiqued and set up by her mom, she dreads going home for the holidays.
Enter her best friendโs older brother, hockey captain Gabriel Van Helsing. Dani and Gabe have been friends for two decades, and sure, sheโs harbored a secret crush on him forever, but she never acted on it because his sister wouldโve killed her. Gabeโs a player, on and off the ice, and the longest relationship heโs had is with his hockey stick. He offers to drive her home for Thanksgiving break and proposes the most bonkers ideaโthey should fake date until New Yearโs to get her mom to leave her alone.
Gabe might wear the C on the ice, but heโs always been passive. Here for a good time, never rocking the boat. But after his latest hookup wouldnโt take a hint, he uses Daniellaโs predicament for the perfect solution: if he was unavailable, people would leave him alone.
Things begin easily with their friendship, but with every touch and fake kiss, Daniella canโt hide her feelings anymore. And for Gabe, who sets deadlines for every fling heโs ever had, he struggles to fight for what he wants. When their timeline is up, Daniellaโs insecurities clash with Gabeโs inability to commit. For two people terrified to take a chance, they must risk their decade-long friendship for a shot at love.
Special thanks to Oni Press for providing an ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review!
Goodreads: Taproot
Publisher: Oni Press
Publication date: 28 June 2022
Genre: Young Adult Graphic Novel
Panda Rating:
(3.5 pandas)
Blue is having a hard time moving on. He’s in love with his best friend. He’s also dead. Luckily, Hamal can see ghosts, leaving Blue free to haunt him to his heart’s content. But something eerie is happening in town, leaving the local afterlife unsettled, and when Blue realizes Hamal’s strange ability may be putting him in danger, Blue has to find a way to protect him, even if it means… leaving him.
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Special thanks to Montlake for providing an ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review!
Goodreads: Sweeter Than Honey (Honey Hill #2)
Publisher: Montlake
Published: 28 June 2022
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Panda Rating:
(3.5 pandas)
A talented baker and a small-town sheriff forced into a fake relationship decide whether to take a chance on love in this delectable romance from Joy Avery.
Baker extraordinaire Rylee Harris has a recipe for everythingโexcept love. Itโs been five years since she lost her husband, but romance is still a struggle for Rylee. In her small hamlet of Honey Hill, North Carolina, Rylee knows sheโll be the talk of the town when she finds someone new.
To ease her motherโs worries about her love life, Rylee impulsively invents a fake relationship with the only man whoโs caught her eye: the town sheriff, Canten Barnes. Itโs supposed to be a secret, but secrets donโt last long in Honey Hill. One bit of gossip leads to another, and soon the whole town thinks Rylee and Canten are an item.
As Rylee and Canten embark on a make-believe relationship to save face, they slowly realize that their feelings for each other arenโt fake at all. Can Rylee and Canten keep the charade goingโor will the townโs prized baker and respected lawman take a real chance on love?
Special thanks to Valentine PR for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review!
Goodreads: The Devil You Know (Devil #3)
Publisher: Elizabeth O’Roark Books
Published: 23 June 2022
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Panda Rating:
(4.5 pandas)
Thereโs a devil on my shoulder, and every Monday morning she announces herself. Sheโs this delicious flame in my chest, a flurry of whispered suggestions in my ear. Suggestions I ignoreโฆbecause every single one of them is about Ben Tate.
BenโStealer of Clients, Evicter of Homeless Women, Nemesis. Sitting across from me every damn Monday with his lovely, smug smile and his too-perfect teeth, the living symbol of everything I hate. Itโs been my policy to avoid him, but when a case comes into the firmโone that could change his career and mineโI make an exception. It means weekends and evenings by his side. It means enduring his smirk and his smart mouth and never taking the bait.
Until the night Ben says, โBeg.โ
And that devil on my shoulder decides to make a few demands of her own.
Special thanks to St. Martin’s Press for providing an ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review!
Goodreads: Fake It Till You Bake It
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Published: 21 June 2022
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Panda Rating:
(4.5 pandas)
A reality star and a cupcake-baking football player pretend to be a couple in order to save his bakery in this sweet and sexy romance from Jamie Wesley,ย Fake It Till You Bake It.
Jada Townsend-Matthews is the most reviled woman in America after turning down a proposal on a reality dating show. When she comes home to lick her wounds, Jada finds herself working at San Diego’s newest cupcake bakery, Sugar Blitz, alongside the uptight owner and professional football player Donovan Dell.
When a reporter mistakenly believes Jada and Donovan are an item, they realize they can use the misunderstanding to their advantage to help the struggling bakery and rehabilitate Jada’s image. Faking a relationship should be simple, but sometimes love is the most unexpected ingredient.
Fake it Till You Bake Itย is a sweet confection of a novel, the perfect story to curl up with and enjoy with a cupcake on the side.
Special thanks to Wildfire Marketing Solutions and Brighton Walsh for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review!
Goodreads: Defiant Heart (Starlight Cove #1)
Publication Date: 14 June 2022
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Panda Rating:
(3.75 pandas)
Iโve slapped my cuffs on Luna Lancaster too many times to count and not a single one was for fun.
As the sheriff of Starlight Cove, I shouldn’t crave her, but I do. Sheโs chaos, mayhem, and sunshine wrapped up in too-tight yoga pants. The lawbreaker might have the town enamored with her free spirit, but sheโs a thorn in my side, even if she is the sexiest woman I’ve ever seen.
I want her out of my town and out of my head.
Trouble is, she’s made it perfectly clear she’s not going anywhere. And her spree of minor infractionsโwho runs a yoga class without a license?โis hitting dangerously close to home. Her latest protest has her chained to a tree on the boundary of my familyโs resort. The last thing we need is bad press ruining the short tourism season when the resort is already one bad month away from bankruptcy.
I’ll do whatever it takes to save Starlight Cove. Even if that means handcuffing Luna to my bed.
Hi, friends! I’m excited to share two mini-reviews for romances I’ve read and loved in the last few weeks. I picked up Moon Shot on a whim because I’ve enjoyed the few Tara Wyatt romances I’ve read so far and this was so much fun! Falling for the Enemy is the second book in Katie Golding’s Malibu Millionaires series and I loved it. It’s a bit more on the erotica side of romance but I liked the balance of steamy + heartfelt.
Special thanks to Meghan Quinn and her team for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review!
Goodreads: So Not Meant to Be
Publication Date: 07 June 2022
Genre: Contemporary Romance, RomCom
Panda Rating:
(4 pandas)
Am I friends with JP Cane?
Ha! That’s laughable.
Besides the fact that heโs adopted some far-fetched notion from the movieย When Harry Met Sallyย that says men and women can’t be friends and work together, itโs safe to say we’re not friends. He’s annoyingly loud, obnoxiously handsome, and has made an art out of poking all my hot buttons . . . multiple times a day.
So you can imagine how disgruntled I am when I not only have to fly to San Francisco with him for work, but stay in the same penthouse. Yup, we’re sharing the same air, twenty-four-seven. We’re talking full-fledged working roommates. The man doesn’t know what it means to wear a shirt, thrives off protein bars, and you guessed it, moans loud enough for people to believe he’s Meg Ryan in a restaurant.
Spoiler Alert: I WON’T be having what he’s having.
Tack on his continuous flirting and his polished good looks, and I’m caught staring down the barrel of a seductive temptation that makes it hard for me to sleep at night.
But guess who can control herself? This girl.
Because if there is one thing I know for certain, it’s that JP Cane and I are so not meant to be.
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