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Sinful Mate by Trish Heinrich

4.0

This is like sexy Star Trek and I am here for it. Characters were good. As always, love me a virgin MMC, though I generally like a more fumbling, learning as he goes, not immediately great the first time, virgin MMC. But the part where they’re testing each other with sexy mind reading scenarios and he comes in his pants was very nice. I liked the premise for the rut fever/marriage of convenience. There was something about the pacing that didn’t grab me, but overall, a good, entertaining read

The Only One by Daisy Jane

2.75

I love a virgin MMC and the lessons trope. That’s why I continued reading this book. It wasn’t great, though. It needed more editing- a lot of things were repeated or changed slightly. I felt a little like I was going crazy trying to understand what was being written at times. Also, lord almighty! Just have a conversation with each other and say you like one another. There was no plot-driven reason why they couldn’t have just said pretty early on “hey, I actually realize I like you. How do you feel about me?” I thought the third act breakup was dumb. The whole thing with the dude harassing her at karate was disturbing and then never got resolved. It’s hard for me to believe that they have PIV for the first time for both of them, and then the next time they’re having sex, it’s her pegging him? I didn’t like that she was so controlling of miller sexually when he just wanted to connect with her and love her. Like, I get that he was into it, but it felt like it skipped a lot of the good emotional connecting stuff before she put him in a cock cage. A lot of this book made me grimace. But I also thought miller was a sweetie

The Heat of Us by Eliana Lee

5.0

Yup. Loved it. I am gone for Eliana Lee’s RH packs. This story was so special. Look, this has been a tough few weeks and reading this made me so happy. I didn’t think I would love Ben as much as I did after how he treated Juno, but oh man. I am 100% team Ben. I loved how he knew they were building pack before anyone else and was so confident and sure about it. I also love how Eliana Lee writes about each characters’ scent. In other omegaverse books, it seems corny and one dimensional to me when someone is described as smelling like cotton candy or whatever. In these stories, the scents are described more as the feeling you get when you smell something and it takes you to a moment in time. I think it’s lovely 

Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon

4.5

This made my millennial heart happy. Many things about chandler’s struggle with knowing what to do with her life resonated with me deeply. The premise was fun. I loved the bad sex scene in the beginning of the book. I loved the lessons trope. Finn is the ideal book boyfriend. I felt like Finn and Chandler had great chemistry, and their dialogue and banter was so fun to read 

Package Makes Perfect by Lauren Connolly

5.0

I loved everything about this. The pacing was great. The sex scenes advanced the plot and deepened the characters relationship - and I LOVE a virgin MMC!! The lessons trope is one of my favs, too. And I really loved the characters. Robin was so cool and Arthur is so growly and lovable. 
There were a couple times in the book where I thought I could predict which direction the plot was going to go, and I was always expecting it to go in the direction of annoying drama for drama’s sake. I’d think “oh man here it comes” with a little internal eye roll. And then! It wouldn’t happen!! The thing would be resolved maturely or it would go in a different (usually steamy) direction and I felt so relieved! I will definitely re-read this one at some point now that I know I can trust the plot to be good and not mess with me

Cultivated by the Orc: Still Life with Orc #1 by Maizy Fell

4.0

Aw I liked this cute book. I love it when an author can make me care about the characters in such few pages. Almost no plot, all spice. 

Bloody Sunset by Gwendolyn Harper

4.25

This was a great end to the trilogy! I grew to really like booker and Caitlin’s relationship and also them as individuals. Any book where the MMC gets medical help with his anxiety and ptsd, I bump up my rating! 

Blood Moon by Gwendolyn Harper

4.0

It’s interesting that these were broken up into three short books. I wonder why, because they’re really just one story. 

Bloody Sunrise by Gwendolyn Harper

4.0

I enjoyed this. Nothing super flashy or unique about this, but fleshed out enough to like and care about the characters. And short enough that it was easy to get through. I’ll read the next one 

Suddenly You by Cora Rose

4.25

Oh my do I love Coop. What a sweetie pie. And Matthew is so clueless about wanting him. I didn’t read any of the other interconnected books, so the cameos from other books’ characters didn’t mean anything to me. I also didn’t love the ending drama with the divorce papers. I feel like Coop could have planned to say “I love you” back to Matthew before their wedding…? The epilogue with Mitch was also really hard to read. I understand it sets up his book, but it left a bad taste in my mouth