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.
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.
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.
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.
