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Innocent Eyes by J.J. Asher

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

5.0

5⭐️4🌶️

Tropes:
❄️Friends to lovers 
💜Spice Lessons
❄️Forced Proximity 
💜 Hurt/Comfort
❄️BDSM
💜 Possessive MMC/Good Girl

Innocent eyes is SO good and is the 3rd book in the British Invasion series but can be read as a stand alone 🥰 This amazing book was released on November 25th and if you love really spicy sports romances, this book is for you! Please read the trigger warning ‼️ 

I couldn't get enough of Romeo and Kendall's chemistry and obsession with each other! 
This story was based in Calgary where I'm from 🥰 and the beautiful Vancouver BC 🇨🇦

Kendall was an Olympic bronze medallist until she unfortunately got injured and she had to leave the circuit of team Canada. She continued working with winter sports as an instructor at Vistas resort is Alberta and that's when she meets him, Romeo😏💜

Romeo the possessive alpha MMC with a damaged soul and he ends up having to do a lot just to protect himself. He ends opening up to the one person who ends up being winning his heart, Kendall. Let me tell you that spice and tension between these two is on a completely different level and is just awesome 🔥🔥

J.J Asher is an amazing actor and I can't wait to read more of her books! 🫶❤️ 

Ski, Sparks and Serendipity: A Sweet Small Town Winter Romcom by Marion De Ré

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Skis, Sparks and Serendipity 

5 ⭐️  1 🌶️

Tropes: 

🎿Grumpy/Sunshine 

❤️Small Town

🎿Jilted Bride 

❤️Winter Romance 

🎿Lots of banter

❤️Slow Burn 

This small town romance is such an amazing read for this time of year and will just brighten your heart! 🥰 The paperback is available now on Amazon and will be released on December 6th for Kindle!

Ivy's fiancé leaves her the DAY before they are supposed to get married. Ivy decides to still go on their booked honeymoon trip alone to Winter Heights, which is this little magical town near Colorado. She's trying her best to keep her spirits up during this tough time and is still attending the rebooked appointment and lessons and even though it's a bit stressful, she ends up having the time for her life. Ivy ends up meeting this handsome but grumpy mountain man named Zane who ends up being her ski instructor and he has the cutest husky puppies! Over the week of lessons Ivy ends up coming melting Zane's heart and she is the first person to catch his eye since his last heartbreak. They are the perfect team and end up getting through everything together and were willing to go the distance to make it work and they healed each others broken hearts🥰❤️ 

 

Thank you Marion for having me apart of your ARC team!! 

Counting the Stars by Tracy McJames

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

4⭐️ 1🌶️

Tropes:

❤️Friends to Lovers 

🔥Firefighter MMC/Nurse FMC

❤️Trauma/PTSD

🔥Slow Burn 

❤️Found Family 

🔥Dual POV 

This book grabs you right from the very beginning and you won't be able to put it down. The connections between the characters, honestly was just so amazing and warmed my heart. OMG the banter though 😂 

Gabby is such a sweet character and has suffered a very traumatic past and due to that she tries to avoid love at all costs. Gabby leaves Arizona to start a new life and ends up meeting the best group of friends and a handsome firefighter named Alejandro🧑‍🚒 😉

Alejandro, who also goes by Alex is a handsome and kind firefighter who has an amazing sense of humour. Alex decided to embark on his own journey as most of his family is toxic. Everything ends up working out for the best and he ends up meeting the same amazing group of friends as Gabby, The 3rd East Crew❤️ They are also their found family🥰

He finally meets Gabby when she locks her keys in her car and needs help getting it broken into! From the moment he met Gabby, he has been head over heels for her. One thing they both have in common is when they're both stressed or just need to be refreshed they go and sit under the sky and count some ✨ ✨

Thank you Tracy for having my on your ARC team❤️🥰

Fumbled Into Love by Nicole Cubba

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

My review for Fumbled Into Love by Nicole Cubba 

5 ⭐️ 3 🌶️ 

Tropes: 

🏈Sports Romance

💖Fake Dating W/ Benefits 

🏈Cat Dad

💖Opposites Attract 

🏈Forced Proximity 

💖Slow Burn 

I don't even know where to start! This book was just SO sweet and I couldn't put it down! One of my top favourite reads of 2024 for sure!💖🥰

Deon the sweetest MMC is a quarterback who struggles with relationships since his last one ruined him, but he does end up working on it. Due to something being said he is now in need for a fake girlfriend and a date for an important event and he has the perfect person in mind,the amazing Natalie! 

Natalie is cutest, messiest, outgoing FMC and I just love her! She agrees to be Deon's fake girlfriend and ends up staying with him because her apartment flooded, and of course she couldn't stay anywhere else 😉

 These two are honestly the perfect match and bring out the best in each other and the way they support each other in this story just melts my heart! Now this is true love🥰 10/10 recommend this amazing book and it will be released on November 26th!

Thank you Nicole for having me on your ARC team! I can't wait to read more of your work💖🫶

In The Defensive Zone With My Enemy by Dineen Miller

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• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

4.5 ⭐️ 2🌶️

Tropes:

❤️Enemies to lovers 

❤️He falls first 

❤️Grumpy/Sunshine 

❤️Second chances

❤️Found Family 

Honestly I just LOVE hockey romances! This book was amazing and I love how Dineen writes her stories 🥰 If you love hockey romances, you will enjoy this book for sure!  This book is now available ❤️🥰

Luke gets his second chance at a hockey career after leaving the NHL and tends to stay to himself for the most part, he can also be a huge grump! Sophie is a small town journalist who has dreams of getting her own column. She has a background in sports writing and actually has a connection to the Florida Sun Kings owner and she ends up getting picked to do a series! 

Luke and Sophie are both extremely career forced/motivated people and while they are working they end up meeting. Luke's not biggest fan of anyone who works in the media so needless the say even who he finds Sophie attractive their first encounter wasn't the best but the connect these two end up having is complete🔥🔥!

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily🥰

Coming Home to You by Sybil Kelton

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

5⭐️ 1🌶️

This small town billionaire romance had me right from the start and I couldn't put it down! Coming home to you will be released on November 21!❤️

Tropes: 

❤️Second Chances 

❤️Small Town Romance 

❤️Opposites Attract 

❤️Single Mom

❤️Billionaire 

❤️Found Family 

Cara's a single mom who had to leave the love of her life in order to protect her and her son Riley from his grandfather! She ends up moving to a small town and they live a pretty good life together making ends meet. 

It's now 13 years later and Cara ends up reuniting with the love of her life, Ellis. Ellis was trying to find her cause the way she left never made sense and was out of character for her! He's about to find out why and a lot more! One of the characters in this book has multiple sclerosis and some of the situations really hit home as my mom suffers from that disease 🫶

Thank you Sybil Kelton for having me on your ARC team! ❤️🥰

Starstruck by Alexandra Lee

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

4.5 ⭐️ 3🌶️

Tropes:

❤️Rockstar/Songwriter

❤️Dual POV

❤️Music as a love language 

❤️Set in Toronto 🇨🇦

❤️Age Gap

❤️Friends with benefits 

❤️Mental health rep

❤️Lots of 🌶️🌶️

Music has always had a special place in my heart and this rockstar romance is just simply amazing and totally gave me One tree hill vibes and I just love it! 😍 

Lennon Thorne is the daughter of 2 rockstars that tragically get killed in a drunk driving accident while they were one there way home with Lennon from family dinner, Lennon thankfully survived. Baxter James is an handsome rockstar that has a reputation of being a playboy! Lennon and Baxter end up meeting for the first time and ✨ connection between them is instant and on 🔥🔥 But Baxter is actually hiding a huge secret from Lennon that could possibly ruin everything. 

Starstruck will be coming to KU, EBOOK and paperback on November 25th!!! And I absolutely recommend🫶❤️🎸

Thank you Alexandra Lee for having me as a part of your ARC team 🫶

Fated Hearts by Lucia Skye

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

5 ⭐️ 3🌶️

Wow I could not get enough of this book! I LOVED this werewolf romance/murder mystery! 🖤 This is the prequel to Lucia's upcoming series Echos of Darkness! Reading Fated Hearts will be a great way to get introduced to this beautiful world 🖤🫶🥰

After a lot of crazy nights out partying, Ava the FMC ends up needing a heart transplant to save her life! Of all the hearts she could have been given she ended up receiving the heart of a wolf shifter! Logan the Morley grey MMC is the alpha of his wolf pack and is searching for his Luna, his fated mate. He keeps having these dreams until one day they stop out of nowhere! A while later the dreams come back and needles to say it's not who he excepts and he finds out there's a murder out there he needs to find!!!! 

I can't wait to read the rest of this series! Fated Hearts will be released on November 22nd! Thank you Lucia for having me on your ARC team!🫶🖤🥰

 

Change Me Up by Caitlin Klassen

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing slow-paced

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

5.0

5⭐️ 2 🌶️ 

OMG I couldn't put this book down from the moment I started reading it! Theres SO much cute witty banter, flirting and overall humour 🥰 I honestly was laughing for majority for this book it's SO good!❤️

Paige is a fun, well spoken and has a special sparkle to her ✨She ends up meeting Rhys who is a handsome CEO that just took over his dad's company, which he didn't want do. They end up having such an amazing connection and understanding for each other and they become the best team and bring the best out of each other. I have so much love for this book! 🥰

Change me up is the 3rd book in the Foundation series and it will be released on November 14th!!!!! Thank you Caitlin for having me apart of your ARC team🥰🫶❤️

Hoax by Valeriia Miller

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

ARC review 

4⭐️ 3 🌶️

Hoax is based on two main characters Kaden and Maeve who were close friends growing up but Kaden left her to go to school and Maeve felt abandoned and hasn't gotten over it yet! Now they both are investigative crime reporter's that get sent back to their home town when some women go missing!

Needless to say things end up taking an interesting turn for the worst and for the best too😉😏 This paranormal thriller was the perfect read during this season with all the spookiness, gore, culty vibes, spice and my favourite Noir the black cat that loves to solve crimes🖤🐈‍⬛ Thank you Valeriia for having me apart of your ARC team🖤🫶🥰

Totally recommend for my spooky lovers 🖤🫶