chelsealistens2books's reviews
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dark emotional hopeful reflective relaxing tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

My favorite so far! Walker truly saves Olivia even though he stalks her and manipulates the situation but this is why we love these dark romances! (Read TWs.)

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The Naughty, The Nice and The Nanny by Willa Nash, Devney Perry

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hopeful lighthearted relaxing slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

Mr. Heartbreaker by Piper Rayne

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emotional hopeful lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

“Mr. Heartbreaker” 💔 Kyleigh runs into her old crush, Rowan but he doesn’t recognize her. Rowan falls instantly even though he doesn’t think he’s good enough for a relationship so he was upset to wake up alone. Then fate stepped in, again. A fling of hookups only leads to friendship to love. He’s an old college teammate and friend of her brother’s. I really loved Rowan! Thanks @authorpiperrayne for a full cast duet audiobook with amazing narrators!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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🎧🎧🎧🎧.5

Coach Sully by Sloane St. James

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hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

“Coach Sully” 📺🏒 Daddy Sully falls instantly in love with Kendra and you swoon over him the entire book! Thank you Sloane St. James for writing the perfect smutty, accidental pregnancy trope with a great plot! Also there’s hockey - former NHL star now coaching a pro women’s hockey team - so you know the spice is good. I loved the duet narration (just the speaking space was little slow in the dialog). BICOP and interracial couple rep!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
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🎧🎧🎧🎧.5

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Coach by Devney Perry

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

“Coach” 🏈📋 I really enjoyed this @devneyperry sports series so far, and I love that the MMC of “Coach” is a man who realized he needed to finally go after the girl (his old college friend) who got away after 10 years. I loved how good of a single dad he is and that the heroine really loves his daughter too; the flashbacks really show the growth of characters since young college kids to adults. The audio narrators are fantastic.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25
🌶️🌶️
🎧🎧🎧🎧.5

Lights Out by Navessa Allen

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dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

“Lights Out” ✖️🩵 The banter and humor is one of the best written especially in a dark romance. @navessa.allen nailed it with this one and the narrators are perfect in the audiobook! If you have never read a dark romance but are interested to, Lights Out is a perfect one to start with. Please read the content and trigger warnings beforehand - it’s extremely important with this genre.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧

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The Cock Down the Block by Amy Award

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funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

“The C*ck Down the Block” 🐓 I wanted something light-hearted but still spicy and the reviews said this series was a must. One the names of the books are hilarious! (There is a cock - it’s a rooster, get your mind out of the gutter but then dive back in.) The Cocky Kingsmen series by @amyawardbooks is very spicy, feel-good love stories what I call smutty “hallmark” stories. Love that the MMC was obsessed and in love with our curvy, plus size heroine forever (wish he would have told her sooner but wouldn’t be angst without the years of longing). There’s great humor in this series, and the unique upbringing of our FMC in this book really highlights that women should be allowed to be sexy, enjoy what makes them happy without being degraded or objectified.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌶️🌶️🌶️.5
🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧

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Iced Out by CE Ricci

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emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

“Iced Out” 🏒 This is the perfect truly rival, enemies to lovers trope! The twist of them becoming college teammates is so good. Oak and Quin are opposites from their upbringings to personality but they have so much more in-common than they realize. CE Ricci writes beautiful MM romances and I love all her books, I wish more were available in audio like this one (and the second in this series) because the narrators being the characters to life so well. The third book in this series is available in print.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
🌶️🌶️🌶️.5
🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧

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Weak Side by S.J. Sylvis

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

“Weak Side” 🩰 A little twist on roommates/forced proximity trope that was on point! (Pun intended.) The college registrar mixes up your first and last name so you ended up in dorm room with the star hockey captain, who fakes date you to get back on your cheating ex (but who also is already falling for you and is perfect for you but you don’t realize it). ✔️✔️✔️ This has almost every trope including the rich x poor childhoods, fake dating, close proximity, found family/close friends, roommates to friends to lovers, reformed jock x ballerina, slow burn, banter, angsty - and it all works together seamlessly. This SJ Sylvis book is fantastic and can’t wait for more of her in this series and others!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
🌶️🌶️.5
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The Deal by Elle Kennedy

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

“The Deal” 🎶 This book is the goat! The best, original hockey romance that will make you fall in love with the MMC plus the college hockey romance trope, fake dating trope, jock x tutor trope, trauma healing and so much more. Elle Kennedy gave us the perfect book boyfriend in Garrett Graham and the rest of the Briar universe does not disappoint at all! Read trigger warnings as both the main characters had suffered abuse and trauma in their childhood and teens. This is the first book in the Off Campus series (which is set to become a TV show), the next series is Briar U that continues side characters stories, and the current series is Campus Diaries which starts the next generation (the daughter of the main characters from The Deal). My only dislike of the audiobook is the female narrator, she sounds so much older than Wellsy should be.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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🎧🎧🎧.5

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chelsealistens2books's reviews 20 reviews

chelsealistens2books's reviews
20 reviews