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Where is home? With me 💖💖
This book is giving The Cutting Edge in the best way. I love both of these main characters so much. Sierra is struggling with returning to her ice skating career after a devastating and near death injury. Dylan is dealing with family trauma that leads to some reckless partying and a positive drug test putting his hockey career in jeopardy. Dylan is given a chance to fix his reputation and his status with the school/hockey program by skating pairs with Sierra since he had a history of pairs skating with his sister. Together they may be able to help each other through the darkness and into the light.
This book was such a good time. These two truly came to love each other in a way that built over time. They deserved their victories both on and off the ice. Dylan is also very talented in the bedroom, and I’m glad Sierra found someone to love every part of her even when she couldn’t love herself.
This is the second book in the Off the Ice series. It was nice to see some familiar characters from Collide. I loved Sage finally allowing herself to have friends and the bonds she made with Summer and the rest of the guys.
The relationship between Sage and Elias was cute. We always love a fake dating plot with a list of rules that get thrown out the window.
My main issue was that I understood Sage not wanting to be a burden… but there’s not wanting to impose and then there’s this where goes beyond that and deep into willfully suffering. Sage’s uncle is well off and thinks of her and her brother Sean as his kids , he always wants to help them but Sage never takes any help. Instead she goes into debt, lives in a terrible apartment, and just has a really hard time while also being her little brother’s guardian and taking care of his needs. She is letting her uncle pay for her brother’s boarding school education but nothing for herself and doesn’t let him help with the brother’s diabetes medication or anything else. Which is just an odd choice. She refuses all help until Elias makes her move in with him after she lit her apartment on fire by forgetting to blow out a candle.
The ending was jam packed with drama which did make the book end on a higher note than I was expecting. The epilogue was very cute and I loved seeing the whole group we’ve come to know and love supporting each other and their families.
Enemies to Lovers with Fake Dating, sign me up!
This was a very cute book and I loved the exploration of mental health and misogyny in the food industry. These two went through their own hardships and learned that they couldn’t save their businesses on their own. They had to learn to step back and that it’s ok for dreams to start over. In the end they had each other, the support of their friends and families, and new dreams together.
Auggie is our future king of England. His mother passed away a few years ago and his father’s health is going downhill. His father has also become addicted to reality tv! So when the king decides they need to make the monarchy more relatable to the younger generation he decides signing his son up for the Renaissance Man reality tv show makes total sense.
Thomas is also a contestant on the show. He is a dual citizenship wielding heir to a hotel empire, entrepreneur in his own right, oh and his family is staunchly against the monarchy… what could go wrong?
In my opinion, the book had a good concept but the full execution seemed to be lacking. The book was very disjointed in both the plot and the timeline.
The relationship between Auggie and Thomas seemed to happen almost out of nowhere and there was constant whiplash between Auggie wanting to be with Thomas and ‘no you don’t understand, the monarchy, *runs away*’. I know Auggie had a lot on his mind and he’s literally the Prince of England so he has to consider society and his role as future king but he couldn’t seem to make up his mind or commit to anything. At the end of the show Auggie finds out that the reality show did what reality tv shows do best, recorded private moments between Auggie and Thomas and didn’t understand how that was allowed. Sorry bud, you signed a waiver and it’s literally reality tv.
Also, despite Auggie saying repeatedly throughout the book that he is gay and not interested in women at all, he literally slept with his female best friend, Katie, in the first few chapters. It started as a kiss to distract the paparazzi, which is bad enough, but he literally went back to her flat and slept with her. Then when she asked for space to process he kept calling her to help him process his feelings for Thomas.
The show choosing to out Auggie was also certainly a choice but the way the king reacted was also so weird. The threat to disown his was redacted so quickly. There really wasn’t much tension or real consequences to anything which made the whole thing feel off. Idk I don’t like seeing queer characters forcefully outed or going through terrible situations with parents but the whole thing felt so unserious and unnecessary at that point.
Thanks to NetGalley for the ALC
Thomas is also a contestant on the show. He is a dual citizenship wielding heir to a hotel empire, entrepreneur in his own right, oh and his family is staunchly against the monarchy… what could go wrong?
In my opinion, the book had a good concept but the full execution seemed to be lacking. The book was very disjointed in both the plot and the timeline.
The relationship between Auggie and Thomas seemed to happen almost out of nowhere and there was constant whiplash between Auggie wanting to be with Thomas and ‘no you don’t understand, the monarchy, *runs away*’. I know Auggie had a lot on his mind and he’s literally the Prince of England so he has to consider society and his role as future king but he couldn’t seem to make up his mind or commit to anything. At the end of the show Auggie finds out that the reality show did what reality tv shows do best, recorded private moments between Auggie and Thomas and didn’t understand how that was allowed. Sorry bud, you signed a waiver and it’s literally reality tv.
Also, despite Auggie saying repeatedly throughout the book that he is gay and not interested in women at all, he literally slept with his female best friend, Katie, in the first few chapters. It started as a kiss to distract the paparazzi, which is bad enough, but he literally went back to her flat and slept with her. Then when she asked for space to process he kept calling her to help him process his feelings for Thomas.
The show choosing to out Auggie was also certainly a choice but the way the king reacted was also so weird. The threat to disown his was redacted so quickly. There really wasn’t much tension or real consequences to anything which made the whole thing feel off. Idk I don’t like seeing queer characters forcefully outed or going through terrible situations with parents but the whole thing felt so unserious and unnecessary at that point.
Thanks to NetGalley for the ALC
