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Finding Home  
Book Title: Finding Home
Genre: SPORTS ROMANCE
Series: Rollin On #1
Author: Emilia Finn 

Book Overview

“Emilia Finn made me swoon, and tear up and literally clutch at my pillow. Her pain was my pain. I felt her swoon. I felt everything and then some. Finding Home isn't about just love, it's about family, it's about finding your own and surviving life.”

“I loved every single minute finding new nuances of each character. Every single soul in the book left their foot print in my heart. Thank you, Emilia Finn for writing this beautiful story. I am your fan forever.”

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Kit Reilly is just an average woman; strong, hardworking and fiercely independent, but when her best friend dies young and Kit inherits a belligerent teenage dependent, she just wants life to be a little less dramatic.

She lives day to day, doing her best to keep her head above water, and she tries to encourage her new house mate to be a decent human being.

Bobby Kincaid is a local gym owner and professional UFC fighter. He is a family man, through and through, but he’s not looking to settle down. He has a big fight this year, and no time or desire for distractions.

Will he win the title? Will he make room in his life for a few extras?

It's a life or death race to the end.

Will Kit be able to find home again, before it's too late?

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This is a full length novel with no cliffhanger.


My Review

I loved it. Really . I loved how everything started out and even I thought it had a potential to be another 5-stars read but unfortunately, I thought it wasn't consistent. What could hold my attention in a book is consistency. If everything was good from beginning to mid then I'm hella staying through climax up until the end. Isn't that how we all want it?

Baking With A Rockstar  
Book Title: Baking With A Rockstar
Genre: ROMANCE
Series: Brooksville #1
Author: Jasmin Miller

Book Overview

A fun, sweet, and sexy romance with a swoon-worthy rockstar and a single mom that will make your heart burst with happiness.

Rockstar Hudson Mitchell is over the glitz and spotlight of the music industry. Desperate for a break from the fast-paced life of fame, he retreats to the one place that has always been home.

Brooksville, California.

It's the same place where Charlie has taken refuge, trying to build a life for herself and her young daughter. The quiet, small-town atmosphere and her new bakery venture are exactly what she needs to pick up the pieces of her shattered past.

As they spend more time together, neither of them is prepared for the effect Charlie has on Hudson, and how important she would become for his career.

My Review

Oh it wasn't all just flowers and balloons alright. It was a hell of a lot more and I did not just decide to whip up a 5-stars rating for this. I try really hard to rate the books I read in a deeper manner. Basically, this got my whooping 5 because everything about this book seemed to be thought out of a real life in a lot of sense like family, practicality, life, independence, love and even the timings and pace. I never felt rushed or that it was too quick while I was reading it. To me, it was all set on a perfect pace and not all books could have that sense.

The Best Kind Of Mistake  
Book Title: The Best Kind Of Mistake
Genre: Novella
Series: The Best Kind Novella #1
Author: Jasmin Miller

Book Overview

Life regret number one: Moving into an apartment where all I hear are the moans coming from my downstairs neighbor's apartment. It's pretty obvious what's happening behind those doors, which is even more frustrating when you aren't getting any action yourself.

To make matters worse, I got fired from my job, and my savings account is pathetic. That means I can't eat my body weight in donuts, even if I wanted to...and I really want to. Thanks to my sister, though, I have a new work opportunity lined up, and I promised myself I wouldn't do anything to lose this one. Until I realize my new boss, Logan, is none other than my sex god of a neighbor.

Keeping my ever-growing attraction to him in check proves to be a lot harder than I thought, especially with my knowledge of his extracurricular activities. When my new job as his photography assistant keeps throwing us together--sometimes completely eliminating our personal space--I find it more and more difficult to remember why I'm supposed to stay away from him.

Hi, I'm Ember Keaton, and I suck at adulting.

The Best Kind Of Mistake is a fun, sweet, and romantic standalone novella with a HEA.

My Review

I picked this up expecting for it to be a really light read as it was mostly what I figured on the blurb and it didn't disappoint. I found this really refreshing.
In bed with her best friend  
Book Title: Boyfriend Bargain
Genre: ROMANCE
Series: Hawthorne UniversityAuthor: Ilsa Madden-Mills

Book Overview

Wanted: one hot guy with rock-hard abs and a big stick.

Broke and desperate, Sugar Ryan has no use for arrogant, bad boy athletes . . . until she’s forced to bargain with the cockiest of them all.

If only he knew she was alive.

Her mission? Get on this hockey player’s radar any way possible.

Zack Morgan is the king of the ice and the bedroom—but nothing prepares him for the mystery girl who shows up everywhere he does—frat parties, his favorite bar, and finally his front door with an offer he can’t refuse. The only rule in her boyfriend bargain: no falling in love.

But after one (um, two) smoking-hot hookups, he’s done with pretending and vows to make their fake relationship real. Too bad she can’t trust a player with a reputation for breaking hearts.

Will this hockey star score his forever girl or will their Boyfriend Bargain end in heartbreak?

A standalone hockey romance.

My Review

This is my second book from this same author this month and my third book of this genre and storyline, this month! I would not have found this one if a chapter wasn’t even extended on the previous book I read which was Ilsa Madden-Mills' I Hate You from her I Dare You series.

What a whirlwind read. This book wasn't just about a love story, it was all about a lot of things. Heartbreak, Family, Sports, Mental Illness, grief and more. What really stood out for me was the fact that despite all that was going on in both of the cast’s past and present lives, their stance and personalities stood out strong and positive.
In bed with her best friend  
Book Title: I Hate You
Genre: ROMANCE
Series: I Dare You
Author: Ilsa Madden-Mills 

Book Overview

WSJ bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills returns with an all-new, enemies-to-lovers second chance romance between the football hottie and the feisty nerd girl he can’t forget.

I want you . . . even when I hate you.

Blaze Townsend: I hate you.
Charisma Rossi: I hate you more.

She’s been expecting this ever since their latest showdown. She had good reason.

Hottest guy she’s ever seen.
Former fling.
Dumped her in front of all her friends.
At her own party.

So no, she’s not about to forgive and forget just because he sits next to her in class. He thinks all he has to do is turn on those baby blues, and she’ll melt right back into his arms. Please. She’d be crazy to let this cocky player affect her again. (Tell that to her body.)

Charisma Rossi.
Brainy girl with a dash of bad.
The one who got under his skin.
The one he cut loose.

Blaze knows she’s the riskiest prospect at Waylon University, but none of the interchangeable girls he hooks up with have ever made him feel the way she did. There’s absolutely no way he can have the girl and the game.

So why can’t he stop trying to win her back?

Can this wide receiver score the girl or will he make the biggest fumble of his life?

*Steamy and flirty with all the emotional feels, I Hate You is a new adult standalone romance.

My Review

I actually was debating on what I would rate this book with but what I do know is that this installment indeed had the same vibe as the previous books in this series. Obviously. But the real reason for my dilemma is because I didn't actually liked some things illustrated in this book.
In bed with her best friend  
Book Title: Jock Road
Genre: Sports Romance
Series: Jock HardAuthor: Sara Ney 

Book Overview

EAT. SLEEP. FOOTBALL.

Those are Jackson Jennings, Jr’s three mantras . His entire life, he’s been a trained athlete with only one end-game: the Pro’s. No girls. No parties. No alcohol.

EAT. SLEEP. FOOTBALL.

Repeat.

Every Friday night, Triple J cruises the strip on campus, bored, lonely and conditioned not to party. But the night he meets Charlotte Edmonds on the side of the road, he wonders if his three mantras will ever be enough.

BIG. DUMB. JOCK.

Charlie has no time for Jackson’s antics. Not when he’s stealing her food or teases her to no end, making her tingle in all the right places. But if she’s ever going to have a boyfriend, she’d choose one who isn’t a Neanderthal. One with manners and actual time to spend with her. Not a hulking man-child who cruises the strip at night, in his Big. Dumb. Truck.
 

My Review

How is it possible that this series just keeps getting better and better? It was not too long ago that I rated the first book in the Jock Row series with 5-stars and now here I am again, putting up a 5-stars flag on this freakishly well written third installment.

She's All Mine  
Book Title: She's All Mine
Genre: ROMANCE
Author: Ella Goode

Book Overview

Erika grew up with a set of expectations that she could never meet. She wasn't smart enough for her dad and she wasn't a good enough dancer for her mom. At college, she's retreated into a shell--dancing at night and avoiding people. The one person she can't escape is a local boxer named Tank. He's determined to show her that everything she's dreamed of can be hers if she would only see herself through his eyes.

Tank believed boxing and babes didn't mix until he met Erika. He can't get enough of the the shy girl who rules his every thought, but she's wary of relationships. This is one fight he can't lose.

My Review

I was looking for a book that is a really light read and I came across this one. I got through this book surprisingly well without any background story, even when there was multiple mention of other characters from another book. I easily ignored their mentions it as this other book is about somewhat like a threesome relationship and that isn’t really up my ally.

In bed with her best friend  
Book Title: Switch Hitter
Genre: SPORTS ROMANCE
Series: Jock Hard # 0.5
Author: Sara Ney 

Book Overview

I knew something was wrong the second she walked in the door tonight; I just couldn’t put my finger on what it was.

Same hair color.
Same legs.
Same face.

Except… I look harder.
At the small dimple beneath her lip that wasn’t there the last time we went out. And her laugh — that laugh isn’t as loud.

This isn’t the girl I’ve gone out with the past few weeks.
It’s her twin sister, and they’ve switched places on me.

Only I’m not quite ready to let them switch back.

My Review

It's JOCK HARD Week and it's Sarah Ney Week!!

Such a quick and easy read. I did wish for Dash to have his own book but I didnt want it to be short nor did I expect it to be very short. Regardless of the pages, I loved this. it was such an interesting scene to imagine a twin with different personality sit in front of a guy who is much smarter than they expected. Not only that but My goodness did this end well with an intense scene. Whew. Definitely worthy to ready when you need something short and enticing.


*Switch Hitter by Sarah Ney Epub Review*


In bed with her best friend  
Book Title: Jock Rule
Genre: ROMANCE
Series: Jock Hard # 2
Author: Sara Ney 

Book Overview

Kip Carmichael is no pretty boy.

He's a rough. Dirty. Giant. Hair so unruly, and a beard so thick, his friends on the team call him Sasquatch.

The first time Sasquatch lays eyes on Theodora "Teddy" Johnson across the keg at a party one night on Jock Row, she'd been relegated to the sidelines by her jock hungry "friends."

Week-after-week, he watches beautiful but bashful Teddy getting overshadowed, and overlooked. Sasquatch finally broad shoulders his way through the crowd, offering to to be her hairy godmother. But the minute their eyes meet? He's a goner.

Teaching her the RULES for winning a jock will be the easy part. Not falling in love with her is going to be a losing game.

My Review

Sadly this wasn't as appealing as the first one but despite that fact, I still managed to complete the book with no problems. I just hoped that the whole plot and story-line was at least extended. I don't know, it kind of felt like there should've been more to their story for me to feel more at ease about them actually ending up together. But that's just me. I loved Jock Row, it felt like it was a complete whirlwind while this one seemed like it was all in the safer side.



*Jock Rule by Sarah Ney Epub Review*


In bed with her best friend  
Book Title: Jock Row
Genre: ROMANCE
Series: Jock Hard
Author: Sara Ney 

Book Overview

Scarlett is always the sensible one: The sober driver. The planner. The one holding your hair back while you're worshiping the porcelain gods.

Week-after-week, she visits Jock Row with her friends — the university's hottest party scene and breeding ground for student athletes. And if keeping her friends out of trouble, and guys out of their pants, was a sport, she'd be the star athlete.

Being a well known jock-blocker gets her noticed for all the wrong reasons; just like that, she's banned from Jock Row. NO GUY WANTS A GIRL AROUND WHO KEEPS THEIR JOCK FRIENDS FROM GETTING LAID.

"Rowdy" Wade is the hot shot short-stop for the university's baseball team — and the unlucky bastard who drew the short straw: keep little Miss Goody Two-Shoes out of the Baseball House.

But week-after-week Scarlett returns, determined to get inside.

My Review

This had all of my feelings ringing. I couldnt, for the life of me, concetrate on doing anything unless I finished the book and it took me less than a Day. LESS THAN A DAY! (I have a full time freaking job) I feel like I was just washed over by Waves after waves when I finished the book. Damn.




*Jock Row by Sarah Ney Epub Review*

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