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Protecting Mr. Fine by Lucy Lennox

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Ryan • Zane 

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“Say it again. I dare you. Watch what happens.” 

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A nice touch to the edition. 
But OMFG I can’t wait for Landry and Kenji. It isn’t even a want at this point. It’s a need. 

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“Zane Hendley was the walking definition of a person who set himself on fire to keep everyone around him warm.” // “The strong warmth of his touch never failed to make my breath catch, which caused my head to feel even floatier.” // “Make me feel like me again.” // “They just failed to add you’re the sweetest, too.” // “Please, Bear.” // “Ryan Galloway’s kiss put everyone else’s to shame.” // “I want you to… to care for me.” // “He’s my… he’s everything.” // “Fine. Super fine. In fact, way better than fine.” …

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Inheriting Miss Fortune by Lucy Lennox

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4.0

Tully • Devon

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“This is where my heart is.”

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I love Tully. 

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“So be the right person.” // “Must have really been something.” // “I had a hammering need to be close to him, to touch him and connect to him.” // “Dunno, but when you’re touching me like this, I find I don’t care overmuch.” // “Sexy as fuck, and he can sit a horse.” // “We didn’t speak, but I felt miles closer to him than I had before.” // “You’re the best choice, Dev. I hope you know that.” // “What I truly wanted was to be soul-deep inside of him, permanently etched like an exquisite tattoo of intricate and loving words wrapped around his heart.” // “I made the best choice for all of us because that’s what family does.” …

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The Long Refrain by Maya Jean

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5.0

Benji (Sunshine) • Nolan

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“…and I feel beyond sure that I hold my entire universe…”

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When starting a series I always have that someone special picked from the crowd and it was meant to be with Benji from the first time he appeared. With him we got Nolan and let me tell you, The Long Refrain is the most heartfelt and sensitive story of the whole series. Everybody needs a Benji in their life and Nolan is the sweetest surprise, a character that will always win me over 🖤. 

There is something about a black cat that inside is everything that is good in the world, just care and listen to find out. 

Love doesn’t heal everything but it can start a long road to something - it can be a simple word, form of affection that leads to healing, to acceptance, it can even save a life. 

Mirror reflection ♾️.

One word to describe this story? Everlasting. 

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Halsey - Whispers 

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Sleep Token - Emergence 

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“He’s beautiful in a way that kind of hurts.” // “The noises in my head slowly quiet under his touch, until I can only hear the gentle inhale-exhale of his slow breathing.” // “…and a freckle sitting at the corner of his mouth stands out from the rest dotting his cheeks.” // “Azure.” // “Go swim some of your golden retriever out. I’ll watch.” // “He gets under my skin, making me do things I’d never once in my life considered doing. Some would call it danger, but the more I get to know him, the more I think maybe he’s just waking me up inside, after a long time asleep.” // “You always smell so good in the mornings…” // “I reach up to push the corner of his mouth up with my thumb. “Smile like this.””//  “The shape of his hand feels like a brand, one that I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to forget.” // “I’m lightning and Benji is the thunder, the protective boom that follows my bright flash of light.” // “He tangles our fingers together and brings them to my chest, just over my heart.” // “I wish you were mine, just mine.” // “You know exactly what I need, stud. You always do.” // “I think he’ll lead me somewhere great.” // “You are now.” // “Always just us.” …

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*I reviewed a complimentary copy of this book. All thoughts are my own. 

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Off The Rim by Rebecca Rathe

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4.0

Ash (Ashton James) • Marcus

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“Your son makes me brave…”

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What are the ingredients for this book? 
A few major pinches of betrayal
1oz of a life changing kiss 
A million grams of growth
The biggest cup of care
A big spoonful of forgiveness 
A thousand liters of finding your purpose
And the loudest volume finding the people to do just that with. 

I adore the feeling when an author makes their characters equally loving people, that you don’t root for one but root for them together. This book had a bit of mystery and two man that don’t hold back. When the feelings started, let’s just say we got two goners. 

Ps. Rebecca, I am still trying to process the 6’10. Legs in the air. I mean a+ for the visual. I’m going to leave you all with that. 

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Taylor Swift - invisible string 

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“I feel a piece of me slide into place, and I know there's no coming back. This is the moment everything changes.” // “Because my future starts now.” // "But I'm trying to be better. You make me want to be better." // “…and raises up on his toes to press a kiss to my cheek.” // “His husky whisper is almost inaudible. "Beautiful.”” // "There's more where that came from.” // "Can I just be Ash to you?" // “As I follow his instruction, I realize just how exposed I am. I'm wearing nothing but my bow tie, the too-tight jock, and black dress socks.” // "No one else gets to have you ever again." // "I care about you this much." // “I'll never get over the fact that he's mine.” …

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*I reviewed a complimentary copy of this book. All thoughts are my own. 

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Hot Doggin' by Raquel Riley

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4.0

Stiles • Mac (McCormick)

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 “Just so you know, I would have done it.” 

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After reading the Scar and Strips trilogy my first thought was every single character needs their own damn book and here we are with Riley’s new series Bitches With Stiches <3. It’s like the prayers have been answered. 

We start off with Stiles and Mac with a best friends to lovers trope. A trope that for me is always has to be so well done to work and Riley did just that. I looked everywhere but it’s always been you. 

This story apart from being funny and so damn sweet continues with why the other series is so dear to my heart and why this one will too. The found family, the “leave no bitch behind” <3. 

Big love. 

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“Ride or die.” // “We’re perfectly in sync in the most imperfect ways. But I wouldn’t change a thing.” // “I draw the line at wearing your underwear, Mac. Nobody is that good of friends.” // “You’ve got me. You don’t have time to be lonely.“ // “Not like this.” // “Just so you know, I would have done it.” // “Is this what you wanted?” // “I’ll just sit down there with you and hold your hand until it passes, until you can find your way back to me again.” // “As the group continues knitting, swapping war stories that have nothing to do with guns and bloodshed and everything to do with emotional scars, I realize that we’re not just warriors—we’re healers, knitting together the loose ends of our lives.” // “I’m not me without him.” …

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*I reviewed a complimentary copy of this book. All thoughts are my own. 

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The Liar's Reckoning by August Jones

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5.0

Silas • Graham…♾️.

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“Something inside me always senses him. Finds him. My life will forever collide with his.” 

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There’s no other like August. The raw honesty of each of her characters. I have read everything written by this author and let me tell you - each and single one is next level complex but so vulnerably human. 

I have read The Liar’s Reckoning two weeks ago and I still can’t form full sentences that will give away how I felt like while reading this particular book. It ripped out some parts of me and ran away with them. The funny thing is, I don’t want these parts back. I want for this book to have them as I want this book to stay with me forever. Silas and Graham became so dear to me. 

From the very beginning, we know of Silas and Graham. In book one we get bits and tiny pieces. We get next puzzle pieces in book two and then a fallout in book three. The 4th tale gave us everything. If I could I would underline the word everything a thousand times. I always try to not have any expectations going into books because I always want them to be written where an authors heart drives them too. Let me tell you, August toke me to unexpected places. We didn’t start from the middle or learn from “tell” how they became. We become with them from page one. 

I will not summarize the plot for you or describe who the characters are, there is so many wonderful reviews that do just that.

What I want to share with you is how with written words an author made me feel absolute: their secrets, their expectations, their burdens, their hope, their dilemmas, their needs, their vulnerability, their flaws, their goodness, their trying, their forever collided love. 

And that ending. I should be owned a truck of tissues. 

So wherever we are going next, I am following along. Blind. Thank you for another exceptional story for keepsake. 

Best regards, Your forever stan.

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Please be kindly advised that this book deals with strong politics and might be triggering. But this story wouldn’t be the same without these aspects. 

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Bring Me The Horizon - Can You Feel My Heart 

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James Arthur - Naked 

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Vancouver Sleep Clinic - Killing Me To Love You

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“I zone in on a small mole on his right cheekbone, a beauty mark…” // “I have a feeling a man like Silas knows exactly what I need.” // “That’s way more than even you can afford, Lawther.” // “…but I’ve got feelings. As much as I might try to stuff them into some dark cavity inside me and pretend they don’t exist, they surge up from time to time.” // “That was chemistry, pure and simple, and I’m hyper-fixated on the memory.” // “…looking for someone to hold onto.” // “Because I hate myself enough without watching someone hate me back.” // “You were the only person I wanted to see…” // “This is how I know I’ll never get over him.” // “We’re changing. Together. Becoming something new that belongs only to us.” // “You know what else is simple? Us.” // “I shake my head, dizzy with his scent, drowning in a thousand memories. I want him. As much as I ever did. More than I want anything. I know I can’t have him, but it doesn’t stop how much wanting there is. This close to him, it consumes me.” // “So much I crave another one.” // “The ghost of the love we once shared flickers like a faint shimmer in my chest.” // “I wish I could have loved you better…. But I’ll always love you the best I can.” // “…his hand moves, finding mine and holding it.” // “We fought. He won.” // “Bold words.” // “…how the fuck am I ever gonna make it work with someone else I probably won’t love half as much?” // “I want to be good enough for you, too.” // “Such an infinite surprise.” …

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*I reviewed a complimentary copy of this book. All thoughts are my own. 

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Marrying Mr. Majestic by Lucy Lennox

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4.0

Waylon • Silas 

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“I can go back to being First Gentleman, then?” - “I should be so lucky.”

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This one had so many moments that had me weak at the knees. And the vibe of this town, I would love to escape and have a moment to breathe. I can’t wait for the next - I really got attached to all characters. 

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“He smelled damned good. Like, summer flowers and fresh hay good. If you’d asked me how I thought citified corporate type would smell, it wouldn’t have been like home.” // “His laugh filled my little house with something it had been missing. A warmth and ease that made me want to settle in like a fox in a burrow.” // “Be gentle with me…” // “Did a good job of shutting off that never-ending chatter of yours.” // “I was stupid for him. Completely and utterly in thrall. Lust was a stronger power than I’d ever imagined or experienced before.” // “I was beginning to think this shower was the key to my future happiness.” // “…and it had occurred to me I would have rather been there in that vehicle on the wide, empty highway than anywhere else on earth.” // “A beautiful, broke, brazen cowboy from the corner of nowhere. A golden boy, majestic and true.” // “Maybe loving someone is the easiest thing in the world once you stop fighting it.” …

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10 Ways to Accidentally Fall in Love by Emmy Sanders

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5.0

Brad (Bee, Bub) • Joey (Joey-roo)

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“Quick question before you go. Are you into hugs?” <3.

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BIG. BOLD. YES. When is the movie coming out? Thank you Emmy for the rom-com reading time of my life. Milli+/10.

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Taylor Swift - The Alchemy 

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Bill Medley, Jennifer Warner - (I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life 

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“Damn. Pretty sure you could crack my neck in half with those things.” // “And when he tossed his head back, laughing at something his friend was saying? I had the distinct thought that Christ, I’d give anything to hear him laugh for me like that.” // “Do you think I’d make a good Baby?” // “It’s customary to wink at your gym-bros, Jason.” // “A good cuddle sesh.” // “By the time I’m through with him, he’ll be head over heels in love.” // “Bub.” // “Yeah… Maybe don’t call him that. It’s mine.” // “Choosing to love? I don’t think there’s anything greater than that.” // “Most people put up walls, whether or not they intend to. But you’re just honest. You’re honest about who you are. It’s a rare quality.” // “I nearly reach for his hand…” // “I just… I can’t quit him. I don’t want to.” // “If there’s one thing I’m sure about, it’s him.” // “It’s good, I think, to remember we’re all real under the surface. And the way we treat each other matters.” // “I wonder if he’d prefer a spring or fall wedding.” // “Wade fearlessly into the unknown.” // “I interlace the fingers of our right hands together, bracing my left just below his stomach…” 😱🫶🏼😭😱. // “It’s that feeling you get when the sun comes out and your skin warms and all you can do is turn your face toward the source of that heat because nothing has ever felt that good.” // “You’re my exclusive kangaroo. No one’s getting all up in your pouch except for me.” // “And every step led me to you.” …

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Prince Of Lies by Lucy Lennox

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5.0

Rowe (Thomas) • Sebastian (Bash)

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“…and I’m thinking… one chance for every lie you’ve told.”

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How lovely and fun! <3. <3. <3. I loved this with a passion, that’s what I call real enjoyment from reading. I am stoked for every book in this series. 

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“Beneath the freckles that dotted his nose and cheeks like a kaleidoscope of tiny butterflies…” // “Do the brave, exciting thing. Don’t be scared.” // “A world where things were brighter, more colorful, and just all around… better.” // “None of Rowe was real. And, I was starting to think, all of him was.” // “You’re very unexpected, Rowe.” // “Maybe it was reckless and shortsighted, but I chose the fairy tale.” //  “Things don’t have to be complicated to be amazing, right?” // “Just the two of us. Just… this.” // “Like a supernova. Like free fall, in that heart-stopping moment before the parachute opens.” // “…I’ll come after you.” // “Every word out of his mouth, every second in his presence, made me feel alive. Like the world was filled with more possibility than I’d ever let myself recognize.” // “My Prince of Lies would win every time.” // “…and the greatest adventure I’ve ever encountered.” …

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The Golden Raven by Nora Sakavic

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5.0

…rtc. “I deserve to get better.” ♾️.

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My heart exploded. 400+ highlights after. The little big things. 

I will leave you for now with a passage from book one: “You made me a promise, so I will hold you to that: help me survive what comes next.” - “Is that all I can do?” - “It is what only you can do.” 

The Golden Raven is a testimony of it. Some might think that nothing happened but everything did between them once again. The few short moments that spoke volumes. JereJean ♾️. A continuation of healing separately and because of each other. A beginning of mending both hearts and tension ready to snap. 

Full review after I quiet down. The family formed, Foxes, Trojans, the one forming. I love this foundation. Jean <3.

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Kailee Morgue - Discovery 

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Sleeping At Last - Turning Page 

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Troye Sivan - TALK ME DOWN 

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