Nanii

“Take her on your quest, and she will bring you great trouble and pain. Take her not on your quest and you will fail, and the world will fall to shadow.”

It takes a lot to keep me attached to a book when it has no smut in it and this book definitely kept my attention and continued to do so until the very last chapter. I’m gonna just say it because if not I will explode, I really hated Celeste 😂 I’ve said “somebody get rid of her” at least 10 times throughout the book. With that being said my favorite was Caelan, he was not having Celeste’s crap and I was here for it. This is my very first read by Tyler Edwards and I can’t wait to read more of his work. Fantasy lovers, you’re not going to regret following Vale, Caelan, Dante, Azalea and Celeste on their journey.

𝑫𝑰𝑺𝑪𝑳𝑨𝑰𝑴𝑬𝑹: As always, although this is an ARC, my thoughts are my own and this is my honest review. Thank you to Tyler Edwards for the ARC opportunity.

Book Title: Forbidden Fruit
Author: S. Trout
Star Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

As much as I tried to get into the story, I just couldn't. Kept finding myself coming in and out. I kept saying I was going to DNF it but then I kept hoping it would just caught & keep my attention eventually and it just didn't. It just was not the book for me sadly.

Book Title: Break the Rules (Vancouver Tridents #1)

Author: Julia Jarrett

Star Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈:

🧢 Single Dad

⚾️ Vacation Fling

🧢 Sports Romance

⚾️ Secret Relationship

🧢 Forbidden Romance

⚾️ Workplace Romance

My first ever read by Julia Jarrett and it did not disappoint one bit. I couldn’t put this one down. This the first in the Vancouver Tridents series and it was such a great start. This book follows Ronan Sinclair, a single father and baseball player, and Willow Lawson, a media relations staff member for the Vancouver Tridents. The two are on the same flight to Hawaii and they are constantly running into each other, they both agree to a hot vacation fling, no strings attached thinking that they would never have to see each other again but they get a little fun surprise when Ronan gets traded to Willow’s team. Ronan wasn’t aware that she worked for his new team, let alone that her uncle was the owner but that doesn’t stop him from going after what he wants. He’s persistent but the man is respectful.

I loved this book and the vibes, it was such a cute read for me. I love the single dad trope especially when it’s so perfectly executed. I always look forward to reading about the bonds the MCs have with the children involved, bonus points if the connection is instant. The team and side characters were all so great it’s kind of hard not to want a book for them, well maybe not everyone. That Lydia character was really something (and no, not in a good way), she was just the worst boss and I’m willing to bet we’ve all had a Lydia in our work lives at some point. The welcome the team extended to Ronan and his family was all so sweet. The epilogue was nicely done and a great ending to it as well. I cannot wait for the next book.

𝑫𝑰𝑺𝑪𝑳𝑨𝑰𝑴𝑬𝑹: As always, although this is an E-ARC, my thoughts are my own and this is my honest review. Thank you to Julia Jarrett for the ARC opportunity.

☽ 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 💚

Book Title: Just Business (Club Euphoria #1)

Author: V.B. Emanuele

Format: Digital — Kindle

Star Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈:

💸 Mafia

🍼 Pregnancy

💞 Found Family

😈 Boss x Employee

🥵 Touch Her & Die

“You’ll follow the public’s rules tonight and you will respect her. Am I clear?” — Ian Knight

This book follows Jenna Prescott who just lost her parents and on top of that they left everything they had to her older brother Tyler. This leaves Jenna working at Club Euphoria. She quickly get the attention of the club owner and things start to get spicy. This was so well written, but I’m not surprised coming from Valentina. This was a great read and I’m so ready to jump into the next book!

𝑫𝑰𝑺𝑪𝑳𝑨𝑰𝑴𝑬𝑹: As always, although this is an E-ARC, my thoughts are my own and this is my honest review. Thank you to V.B. Emanuele for the ARC opportunity.

𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈:

💰 Irish Mafia

💃🏽 Millionaire

💰 Found Family

💃🏽 Actor x Stripper

💰 Touch Her & Die

💃🏽 Second Chance Romance

𝑭𝑨𝑽𝑶𝑹𝑰𝑻𝑬 𝑸𝑼𝑶𝑻𝑬:

“You’re only mine and I’ll fucking murder anyone who challenges me.” – Chance Hardwin

I thought I loved Ian Knight but that’s only because I hadn’t gotten to Chance’s book yet. I am a total sucker for Dominant book boyfriends and Chance was definitely Dominant. Amber was getting on my nerves, that's for sure. The man was drugged and she’s worried about him supposedly penetrating another woman even when she was told that he didn’t. The women he was with didn’t even make it past the front door and she insists that the man had sex with someone else. The spice though, the spice was amazing I’ll tell you that. I was hooked to this book from the very beginning, their troubles with the new head of the Mussolini family made it so entertaining. I definitely recommend this book.

𝑻𝑾: Sexual assault, Miscarriage (FMC reminisces about her miscarriage at the hands of her abusive ex), Physical assault, Drug use (MMC assumes he was drugged), Excessive drinking (after break up), Depression (after break up)

𝑫𝑰𝑺𝑪𝑳𝑨𝑰𝑴𝑬𝑹: As always, although this is an E-ARC, my thoughts are my own and this is my honest review. Thank you to V.B. Emanuele for the ARC opportunity.

Book Title: Mahina (A Hawaiian Mafia Romance #1)

Author: Nalani Titcombs

Star Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈:

🩵 Mafia Romance

🩵 Second Chances

🩵 Best Friends to Lovers

I was so excited to read this book and yes I mainly wanted to read it because it was a Hawaiian mafia story. The book was written in third person and it threw me for a loop considering I don’t really like reading books written in third person but I put my issue with that aside and went for it. I won’t lie after going through 64% of the book I considered DNFing, not because the story wasn’t good but because there was no mention of r@pe when I first looked into the book thankfully I kept reading and realized that it was attempted but never actually went through with it for obvious reasons that you will have to read to find out (hehehehehe). I cannot for the life of me stand Mahina (at times), this woman doesn’t listen and she makes excuse after excuse as to why she can’t leave her husband, blaming herself as if she were the reason the marriage wasn’t working out. Like, miss girl should’ve gotten rid of him from the moment he was introduced. As you could tell, I absolutely hated her husband, he was a good for nothing liar and drunk and I didn’t doubt for a second that he was cheating on that woman and the nerve he had to insult her and claim the house and everything in it as his own when she was the breadwinner pissed me off but then again she didn’t want anything to do with that man or the house. As far as favorite characters in this book goes, obviously the MMC is number one followed by the FMC’s son Benjamin, he was just the sweetest and it was nice to see how close he was with his mother even if she did irk my soul most of the time. Although it was written in third person I cannot wait for the second book though because the ending, it definitely wasn’t IT for me.

𝑻𝑾: FMC’s husband attempts to r@pe her when she went to the house to get her and her child’s clothing, Domestic Violence, Mention of alcohol and drug use. Mention of human trafficking (not done by the MMC).

𝑫𝑰𝑺𝑪𝑳𝑨𝑰𝑴𝑬𝑹: As always, although this is an E-ARC, my thoughts are my own and this is my honest review. Thank you to Nalani Titcomb and Book Sirens for the ARC opportunity.

Book Title: Fake Dating My Billionaire CEO

Author: Kay Alvarez

Star Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐

𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈:

Billionaire

Boss x Employee

Forced Proximity

Accidental Pregnancy

I felt like this book was rushed, I found myself in and out of focus with this one, like one minute they’re fake dating and then in the blink of an eye she was pregnant, I wish I could’ve enjoyed this book as much as I expected to.

𝑫𝑰𝑺𝑪𝑳𝑨𝑰𝑴𝑬𝑹: As always, although this is an E-ARC, my thoughts are my own and this is my honest review. Thank you to Kay Alvarez for the ARC opportunity.

Book Title: The Sinners (With a Kiss Duet Bridging Novella)

Author: A.R. Rose

Star Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

𝑫𝑬𝑫𝑰𝑪𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵:

To all the readers whose hearts I shattered… Don’t worry. I’ll slowly repair it.

⇝ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐈𝐅 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒘 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 ⇜

𝑭𝑨𝑽𝑶𝑹𝑰𝑻𝑬 𝑸𝑼𝑶𝑻𝑬:

“When you’ve reached the very bottom, the only place to go is up. But with the way my heart is feeling, I know I am lower than the bottom. I’m in the grave, and I’m going to bury my heart in it before I claw my way out of the darkness, and hopefully, never look back.”

My heart hurts for Sly, he doesn’t know what truly happened but the pain he’s in just hurts my heart. I hate him meeting Rosie, I said what I said lol. I get it he’s heartbroken and believes that Vinnie doesn’t love him and chose August over him but come on SLY, FIGHT FOR YOUR WOMAN! What I wasn’t expecting in this novella was a bonus chapter let alone a bonus chapter that belonged to Vinnie and what a heartbreaking chapter it was, what she had to go through because of a psycho who’s been pulling strings with her psycho ass brother. I cannot wait for Sins of Bliss and I hope August gets exactly what he deserves. If you’ve read Sins of Sorrow then I recommend reading this novella so you can see how Sly chose to deal with his heartbreak, if you haven’t read Sins of Sorrow then you will not understand this novella. You do not need to read this novella to understand the duet.

𝑫𝑰𝑺𝑪𝑳𝑨𝑰𝑴𝑬𝑹: As always, although this is an E-ARC, my thoughts are my own and this is my honest review. Thank you to A.R. Rose for the ARC opportunity.

BOOK TITLE: Deadly Don’s Secret Hacker

AUTHOR: Piper Raven

STAR RATING: ★★★★☆

𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐓 ↴

💰 Age Gap

💙 Boss x Employee

💰 Forced Proximity

💙 One-Night Stand

💰 Smart Sassy FMC

💙 Enemies to Lovers

💰 Surprise Pregnancy

I quite enjoyed this book. I honestly couldn’t put it down and once I got past the 50% mark the book seemed to go by faster and I didn’t want it to end. Although this book does have the surprise pregnancy trope I was surprised that it was not heavily centered around the topic like most books with this trope, yes you’ll see the FMC think about the baby’s well being when making decisions but it’s not something that completely takes over the book and I appreciated that. I loved her attitude at times and other times she just irked me (yes I’m talking about the one scene where she blamed everything on Lorenzo instead of the actual person whose fault the whole thing was, her father). It was a fun little read, the writing was great, but I do wish the epilogue would’ve been years into their life together and not about their wedding, that's just me though.

𝑫𝑰𝑺𝑪𝑳𝑨𝑰𝑴𝑬𝑹: As always, although this is an E-ARC, my thoughts are my own and this is my honest review. Thank you to Piper Raven for the ARC opportunity.

☽ 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 💚

⋆˖⁺‧₊☽◯☾₊‧⁺˖

DNF at 13%

I was not ready for this book to end!

First time reader of Stacy Travis and it certainly will not be the last time. This was such a cute story. You got Ruby a hard-working fiery woman who stepped up to take care of her sister after the death of their parents and then there’s Jackson Grumpy-pants who owns a vinery with his family. A hard-working man that likes to be in control and hates asking for help and his adorable seven year old daughter Fiona. These characters were so easy to love. This is a MUST read oh and did I mention that Jackson seems to be a Taylor Swift fan 👀 if that doesn’t get you to read this book I don’t know what will.

Disclaimer: Although I received an ARC of this book, my thoughts and opinions are my own.

DNF at 34%

I think the book was just all over the place for me and I couldn't see myself finishing it.

𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈:

🍷 Age gap

🍇 Insta love

🍷 Billionaire

🍇 Small town

🍷 Close proximity

🍇 Brother’s best friend

“I haven’t been able to stop thinking about you for days. And I think I’ve done a pretty damn good job of resisting you, but I can’t do it anymore.” – Colin Hathaway

This was such a cute story for me and it was exactly what I needed after the horrible week I had. I was super excited to read this one because I absolutely loved the first book and this one was no different. Stacy’s writing is amazing, she has a way of making you fall in love with these characters, truly amazing. Now the little mystery that Jackson was looking into in the first book, yeah we find out where the money went and I’m just gonna say that it wasn’t what I was expecting at all. I really need to reevaluate my prediction skills.

𝑫𝑰𝑺𝑪𝑳𝑨𝑰𝑴𝑬𝑹: As always, although this is an E-ARC, my thoughts are my own and this is my honest review. Thank you to Stacy Travis for the ARC opportunity.

DNF at 30%

DNF at 27%

It Was Always You

by Shannon Jade

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 ➵ ★★★★☆

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐓𝐨 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 ↴

💀 Praise

🫧 Virgin Hero

💀 Degradation

🫧 Touch Her and Die

💀 Accidental Pregnancy

🫧 He Falls First and Harder

𝐌𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 ↴

Shannon Jade is a new author for me and I am not disappointed. I finished this book in one sitting, I could not put it down. I loved that the accidental pregnancy did not become the FMCs whole personality which was great, the only way I’ll accept an accidental pregnancy trope. This was such an easy read. Definitely recommended when you’re in between books.

𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 ↴

Violence and gore. Explicit sexual content, Kidnapping and attempted SA (not by MMC). Mentions of a deceased parent.

🎀 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫 🎀

This is an Advanced Reader/Advanced Listener copy. Although this book was given to me as an ARC my thoughts are my own. Thank you Shannon for the opportunity to read this book early. Can’t wait to see what’s in store.

🤍 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 📖

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 ✎

Ruby City (Diamond City #3)

by Astrid Cole

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 ⇝ ★★★★★

𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 ⇝ 593

𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞 ⇝ October 28th, 2024

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐓𝐨 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 ⇝ Spice • Strong FMC • He Falls First • Monster Fights • Morally Gray MMC • She’s Hard To Keep • Dysfunctional Families • Amnesia

✧༺♥︎༻∞༺♥︎༻✧༺♥︎༻∞༺♥︎༻✧

📚 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐨𝐚𝐥 ⇝ 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝟗𝟏 𝐨𝐟 𝟏𝟎𝟎

✧༺♥︎༻∞༺♥︎༻✧༺♥︎༻∞༺♥︎༻✧

🦋 𝐃𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞 🦋

𝐌𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 ↴

Never a dull moment in the Diamond City series. Ruby City takes place a few years after Emerald City. I started this book a bit ago but with life and school I had to delay the ending. The way I ate the first half up. With the way the previous book ended I didn’t want Sage’s story to end but I was so invested in Ruby’s before I figured out that she not only looked but was indeed Sage herself suffering from Amnesia. I enjoyed going through the journey of her meeting her children and finding her love again. Loved the ending, this one was definitely my favorite but I can’t wait for the next one.

𝐖𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤? ⇝ The book? Honey, I recommend the whole series.

🫧 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫 🫧

As always, this is an Advanced Reader copy. Although this book was given to me as an ARC my thoughts are my own. Thank you to Astrid Cole for the ARC opportunity!

🫧 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 📖

DNF at 64%

I found myself struggling to finish so I decided to stop. Others might like this book so please don't take my DNF as “this is a bad book”

Book Title: The Perfect Nanny

Author: D. Lilac

Star Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈:

🤍 Single Dad

💜 Boss x Employee

🤍 Grumpy x Sunshine

💜 Curvy Mid-sized Heroine

I thought I was going to enjoy this book more than I did, sadly that was not the case. Jameson might have gotten on my nerves a bit especially when he was introduced to Harlan, I honestly felt so bad for the guy and wanted nothing more than to smack Jameson upside the head. I did like the way Jade bonded with his girls though, that was great to read and the book itself was well written so don’t let my rating deter you from picking it up, you might like it, it was just simply not what I personally expected.

𝑫𝑰𝑺𝑪𝑳𝑨𝑰𝑴𝑬𝑹: As always, although this is an E-ARC, my thoughts are my own and this is my honest review. Thank you to D. Lilac for the ARC opportunity.

The Serpent’s Bridge

By SZ Estavillo

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 ➵ ★★★★☆

🦋 𝐅𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞 🦋

“You shut up… Should’ve killed you when I had my hands around your turkey neck.”

𝐌𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 ↴

This was a slow start for me but it eventually got there. The book is multi POV which I enjoyed. The book was quite easy to read. This book mentions cheating, murders, trauma, immigration, stalking, etc. At first (the first three chapters) you are introduced to “The Detective” aka Nazario, “The Pastor’s Wife” aka Millie and “The Witness” aka Esperanza. These will eventually connect and the story goes on from there. Nazario is haunted by her father’s tragic death and the fact that they had not been able to catch his killer. As the story goes on they have an idea of who the killer is, that is until the suspect becomes a victim and they have to rethink everything again. There was so much that was unexpected throughout this book but that’s the beauty of it. Esperanza throwing Millie under the bus with the cops was not expected either, homegirl could have minded her business but instead decided to yap her life away without knowing the events that led Millie to wrap her hands around her husband’s “turkey neck” LMAO. Safe to say that Millie might’ve become one of my favorite characters (despite her cheating). The woman was hilarious and she was not to be f*cked with. Final chapters were my favorite part of the book, though twists and turns were expected I did not expect any of it to go down the way it did. Finding the REAL killer was a shocker, finding out the killer fabricated and planted fake memories into someone that was mentally unstable seems cruel for no reason but I guess the killer had their reasons, to frame someone else for their crimes! Never had I thought to think of that specific person to be the culprit and that’s what I loved about this book. This is a great debut for SZ and I am so happy to have gotten the chance to ARC read for her.

𝐖𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲? ↴

If you love a good thriller with its fair share of twists and turns then I definitely recommend this book.

🎀 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫 🎀

This is an Advanced Reader/Advanced Listener copy. Although this book was given to me as an ARC my thoughts are my own.

🤍 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 📖

Catch a Tiger
by DV Fischer

Book Title: The Bratva’s Beast

Author: Rose Chase

Star Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

𝑫𝑬𝑫𝑰𝑪𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵:

To all the good (and bad) girls out there who want some switch play with the Daddy Dom mafia boss, I gotchu! He whimpers in CH. 36. You're welcome.

𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈:

🔪 Strong FMC

💣 Mafia Romance

🔪 Boss x Employee

💣 Dominant x Submissive

HE WHIMPERED and boy did I enjoy every minute of that scene.

This was my first read by Rose and can confidently say it won’t be my last. It was written so well, had just the right amount of smut, action and let’s be honest Stepan was the sweetest when he wanted to be! Lev was so bitter at the beginning of the book it was way too funny and Nikolai and Angel were giving some sexy vibes. I loved the couple but jesus christ Hannah got on my nerves at times (I’d like to clarify that those times were before she finally got with Stepan). It was a great read, definitely recommend it.

𝑻𝑾: Stalking, mention of child abuse

𝑫𝑰𝑺𝑪𝑳𝑨𝑰𝑴𝑬𝑹: As always, although this is an ARC, my thoughts are my own and this is my honest review. Thank you to Rose Chase for the ARC opportunity.

After reading The Serpent's Bridge, I was so excited about this book and loved every minute of it. I couldn’t put this book down and I found myself wanting to put off my responsibilities just to finish it. I loved Von’s character and felt so bad about what happened to her to cause her to do what she did. Although Bobby wasn’t mentioned in many scenes I still found myself hating him… he should’ve taken the hint when his fiancee went 8 months without speaking to him but alas, he did not… Sammy… I may have shed a tear for Sammy after what was done to her, it wasn’t at all what I had expected though I should’ve expected it. And just in case anyone was wondering, I’m team Nazario & Huxley. I found the ending to be perfect for Von after her disappearance and if you ask me, she was doing the world a favor, I wouldn’t have bothered the woman in the first place.

This book does contain the topics of sexual assault, human trafficking, and child abuse so I suggest you all proceed with caution.

𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫 ↴

This is an Advanced Reader copy. Although this book was given to me as an ARC my thoughts are my own. Thank you to SZ Estavillo for the ARC opportunity!

🫧 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 📖

Broken Pact (Avalon Falls #1)

by Penelope Black

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 ⇝ ★★★★☆

🦋 𝐃𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞 🦋

For all the eldest daughters, grab an iced coffee and a snack, and dive in bestie.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐓𝐨 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 ↴

🤎 One Bed

🫧 Small Town

🤎 Fake Dating

🫧 Who Hurt You?

🤎 Forced Proximity

🫧 Black Cat x Golden Retriever

🤎 “I Didn’t Know Where Else To Go”

𝐌𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 ↴

Miss Penelope has just earned herself a new reader. I enjoyed Coraline and Jagger’s story although I must admit she did get on my nerves just a little bit towards the end but we’re good lol. The banter between these two characters was so good. Jagger’s protectiveness against Coraline’s family (though we didn’t get too much) was great, he did not play about his woman and I am glad he showed that to her brothers. Jagger getting jealous of Hawke was the cutest thing ever because Hawke did not give off “I’m the steal your girlfriend” type of friend. Speaking of Hawke, I lowkey wanted him to join the couple during that one scene (iykyk), I definitely need a book for Hawke, I would eat it up. Pudding was about the cutest little prince and Jagger was such a cat dad it was adorable.

Three things I did not expect in this book:

Two grown men calling Coraline “girlie” 💀 that was about the cringiest thing I read in this book, Naomi being a little weirdo. I knew there was something off about her when she wouldn’t listen to Jagger when he said he needed space but I did not expect her to be as crazy as she turned out to be. Homegirl was in some serious need of professional help and Grant being as unhinged as he was and I don’t mean that in a good way at all. His ending didn’t come fast enough for me though. Despite the annoying little pests this book was overall a pretty entertaining read.

𝐖𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲? ⇝ Yes

🫧 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫 🫧

This is an Advanced Reader copy. Although this book was given to me as an ARC my thoughts are my own.

🫧 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 📖