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Review: Scotsmen Prefer Blondes

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Scotsmen Prefer Blondes by Sara Ramsey My rating: 4 of 5 stars 🎧AUDIO REVIEW🎧 So I wasn't sure how I was going to feel about this because I was still mad at Amelia from the first book.  And she really didn't do herself any favors to start off.  She basically stole the man that her friend was counting on a marriage proposal from, and she doesn't even want to get married!  Malcom doesn't seem all that bad at first..... but there was a point when he turned into a total jerk and I was not happy with him..... brought a couple tears to my eyes! All in all I rather enjoyed the story.  I really like how the ending came about.  And I am quite eager to listen to the next one!  Story      🌟🌟🌟🌟 Spice       🔥🔥🔥 Swoon      😍😍 Angst       💔💔💔 Narration  👏👏👏👏 View all my reviews

Review: The Joker

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The Joker by Ashley Munoz My rating: 5 of 5 stars Fantastic story!  Kyle and Rylie are so freaking adorable!  Friends to lovers is a favorite of mine, especially when they are friends since childhood.  Kyle was so super swoony!  I love that even when they were apart and he didn't think he would ever get to be with her again, he still kept that hope alive in himself and was keeping up with some of their traditions.  The ending did feel a bit rushed, but it still wrapped up the story and the entire series very well.  There were some interesting twists that I had not seen coming, and they had me really angry at some people!  Definitely a great story to wrap up a fantastic series!   Story      🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Spice       🔥🔥🔥🔥 Swoon      😍😍😍😍 Angst        💔💔💔 View all my reviews

Review: Unforgettable In Love

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Unforgettable In Love by Bella Andre My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a great story!  I loved how Cal and Lyssa got together!  I love that they had a bit of a past, but not a long and in depth one.  I hated how Cal continued to run from his feelings, but then loved how he reacted to whole heartedly to the pregnancy!  And didn't try to lay blame or anything at all!  These brothers of hers sure needed their behinds kicked a bit for treating her like she wouldn't know what to do with her own life. Cal lost swoon points because of his constant running (in some pretty overly ridiculous ways!) but he totally pulled it out in the end.  And Lyssa handled it all so well!  Way beyond her years, that girl!  Story      🌟🌟🌟🌟 Spice       🔥🔥🔥 Swoon     😍😍😍 Angst       💔💔💔💔 View all my reviews

Review: The Insiders

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The Insiders by Tijan My rating: 4 of 5 stars 🎧AUDIO REVIEW🎧 I am not going to lie...  I had some pretty high expectations going into this book.  And they were not met.  That doesn't mean that I didn't like it,  it just wasn't what I was expecting.  That being said, I really did enjoy it.  The relationship between Kash and Baily was kind of odd, and when they transitioned into that relationship it felt off for me.  It didn't flow together that well..... well come to find out that you get a bit of insight as to WHY it seemed that way later in the story.  I had a pretty good idea who the villain of the story would be, but I will also say that I thought others were going to have been involved that were not, so that was an interesting twist.   I am slightly annoyed that there was someone toward the beginning of the story that seemed to be an ally, and she seems to recognize him in others later on, but we didn't find o...

Review: Hearts On Fire

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Hearts On Fire by Catherine Wiltcher My rating: 5 of 5 stars 🎧AUDIO REVIEW🎧 OMG I am so in love with this trilogy!  Dante and Eve are EVERYTHING!  And I also love Joseph! So I am very much hoping that he gets his HEA.  This story picks up where the last one left off, they are still after this trafficking ring.  It takes them all over the place.  Eve is still having a hard time with the fact that her father was involved some how and when he tries to contact her, she eventually calls and that starts a whole world of mess.  Dante is still the total alpha to the point where he gets mad at Anna for making her feeling on him known because he sees it as her trying to come between him and Eve!  Like that could ever happen!  Some of the revelations had me totally confused.... but then made sense.... and then I got confused again... there was one specific character that had my head spinning!   Narration...

Review: Hearts Divine

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Hearts Divine by Catherine Wiltcher My rating: 5 of 5 stars 🎧AUDIO REVIEW🎧 I am so in love with Dante and Eve!  And Joseph has totally grown on me too.  For being the 2nd book in a trilogy it was pretty interesting and action packed.  Again... the violence was not too gory so it was very tolerable.  It does touch on some potential trigger subjects, so proceed with caution.  I very much enjoyed it... and this one had an ending that had me hurrying to hit play on book 3.  I am quite intrigued and I can not wait to see how it all turns out!  Story     🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Spice     🔥🔥🔥🔥 Swoon     😍😍 Angst       💔💔💔💔 Narration  👏👏👏👏👏 View all my reviews

Review: Backslide

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Backslide by Nicole Dykes My rating: 4 of 5 stars Awwww Nash!!!  He stole my heart from the very beginning!  I have to say that I was hoping for a bit more angst from this one.  I feel like it had the potential to just rip my heart to shreds.  I did really enjoy Adriane and Nash..... And I am quite interested to get Hayden's story now! I freaking LOVE that guy!  I would definitely tell MM book lovers to check this one out if they are looking for a lighter read with mild angst.   Story       🌟🌟🌟🌟 Spice        🔥🔥🔥 Swoon       😍😍😍 Angst        💔💔 View all my reviews

Review: Ignited

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Ignited by Sierra Hill My rating: 4 of 5 stars Awww!!  I love this story!  There is so much inner conflict with both Nick and Becca!  That poor girl just wants to be loved!  And Nick is so freaking stubborn that he thinks that she deserves better than him.  I am tellin ya.... these men in these books and not thinking a woman is capable of know what is best for themself.  🙄 Anyway...  I did enjoy this book and I loved seeing Nick get back to being with his family.  Good people in this town, I look forward to getting more from the others!  Story      🌟🌟🌟🌟 Spice       🔥🔥🔥 Swoon      😍😍😍 Angst        💔💔 View all my reviews

Review: Hearts of Darkness

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Hearts of Darkness by Catherine Wiltcher My rating: 5 of 5 stars 🎧AUDIO REVIEW🎧 Blown away!  I really loved this story!  Dante and Eve are FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC!  I love them so much.  They are fire and passion and all over the place!  Dante surprises us with some really swoony lines!  There was something that happened that had me gasping while listening and I was so mad about it!  I am not even going to lie, I am still not over my anger about it.  This being the first in a trilogy I expected a crazy cliffhanger, but there really wasn't one.  I feel like the main part of this story was wrapped up and the next book is about the same couple, still not together, but for a whole other reason now.  So while I didn't feel like it was a anger inducing cliffy, I am still totally ready to start the next book!   The narration was awesome!  Sarah Puckett and JF Harding did a fantastic job of bringing thes...

Review: Sweet Mercy

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Sweet Mercy by Amelia Wilde My rating: 5 of 5 stars Holy hotness!  Yes!!!  This installment has some SERIOUS HEAT!!!  Emerson is so complicated and I FLOVE IT!  Daphne takes a breath in this book and looks around her.  She is freaked out about being kidnapped.... but once she takes it all in and begins to see what is happening right in front of her, she begins to relax and enjoy herself!  Emerson's dad needs to be junk punched!  Sinclair and Will are interesting men.... but Sin cracks me up!  Leo's hypocrisy really annoys me!  Even when it was pointed out to him, he can't seem to accept it.....  Now I am totally ready for the conclusion because I get the feeling that Daphne is going to really come into herself and become the badass that I know she has lurking in there!!!   Story      🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Spice       🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Swoon      😍😍😍😍 Angst  ...

Review: Black Skies Riviera

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Black Skies Riviera by Catherine Wiltcher My rating: 4 of 5 stars 🎧AUDIO REVIEW🎧 I have the say that I really enjoyed the ending of this book.  The twists that came about at the ending had my jaw hitting the floor.  I did enjoy this story.  I thought that the premise was good.... and I really enjoyed the banter between Aiden and Isa.  You know that there will be secrets revealed with a mafia story, but this one had a whole LOT of bombs dropping int he last few chapters!  There were some parts that I felt were a bit slow, but it wasn't intolerable.  And the violence was not outrageous, so I was able to just listen through. The narrators weren't my favorite.  It may have been all the accents involved.  There were British, French and Russian accents going around at any given time.  But it wasn't a turn off... I would listen to these narrators again.   Story        🌟🌟🌟🌟 Spice  ...

Review: Beautiful Nightmare

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Beautiful Nightmare by Giana Darling My rating: 4 of 5 stars The conclusion to Bianca and Tiernan's story was pretty good.  In this part of the story I really feel like Bianca turned into a badass!  She really meant to take control of her own (and her brother's) life!  Honestly for a Giana book it was really tame spice wise.  Tiernan wasn't  swoony Hero at all.... and I didn't feel like there was much angst to this story.  I did enjoy some of the twists and turns that this story took... some of the revelations really took me by surprise!  All in all it was a decent story, just not one of my favorites!  Story     🌟🌟🌟🌟 Spice      🔥🔥🔥 Swoon     Angst        💔 View all my reviews

Review: My Life as an Album Series

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My Life as an Album Series by L.J. Evans My rating: 5 of 5 stars 🎧AUDIO REVIEW🎧 ✨A TOP LISTEN OF 2022✨ This whole freaking series was A-MAZING!!!  I wrote individual reviews for each raving about them, but as a whole... the narration was PHENOMENAL!  I was pulled into all the stories and felt all the emotions that the author meant for us to feel.  Cam's story (Country Album) was the MOST HEARTBREAKING!!!  Make sure you have tissue ready.  I was SOBBING! This series basically started by completely devastating my heart and ripping it to a million pieces and by the end of the 4th book (and then even more so with the bonus content) I felt like all was right with the world and was feeling totally healed for all the things that happened to the people of this town.   I absolutely recommend that people binge this series.  I almost stopped after the first one to take a break, because I just wasn't sure if my hea...

Review: My Life as a Mixtape

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My Life as a Mixtape by L.J. Evans My rating: 5 of 5 stars 🎧AUDIO REVIEW🎧 OH! MY! HEART!!! This story mended the pieces of my broken heart from all the other stories!  The sweetest story of how loss can bring people together!  The sweetness of this story got me good!  It's so funny how you have friends that don't want to cross the line, thinking that it may ruin what they have already built.  Wynn and Lonnie were so freaking perfect together!  They seemed to click right off the bat.  But they seem to want to ignore what is right before them!  I loved this story!  And don't even get me started on the girl!  Edie was just about the cutest thing ever!  And she just tugged at my heart the whole way!  This series has been a ride.  And it is one that I am 100% glad that I jumped on.  And now I have found a  new author to obsess over because I am SO in for anything that LJ Evans writes! I seem ...

Review: My Life as a Rock Album

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My Life as a Rock Album by L.J. Evans My rating: 5 of 5 stars 🎧AUDIO REVIEW🎧 Holy intensity!!!  Damn!  I knew that Seth was going to be intense.... but WHEW he was way more so than I thought he would be.  After how things went with him and Cam in My Life as a Country Album (which I am STILL not over in case anyone was wondering!) it is hard to root for him.  But my girl Cam wanted him to get his HEA so I was totally on board with hearing his story.  First thing  I have to say is that base on only hearing about him with Cam from her POV, I did not realize how serious his feelings for her were.  When he talks about her in this story, there is totally love and admiration there!  And that caught me by surprise.  But now there is PJ.  Wonderful, sweet, INSECURE PJ.  This girl is just as self deprecating as he is!  And I began to wonder how that was going to work out?  Some one will have to get it ...

Review: The Grump Who Stole Summer

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The Grump Who Stole Summer by Ella Fields My rating: 4 of 5 stars I think what I liked best about this book was the hint of bisexuality that Alice showed and no one close to her seemed to bat an eye to it!  Yeah she had the jerks at school give her a hard time.... but other than that no one cared.  Smith was most definitely a grump... and he totally needed to be junk punched! But then you would get a glimpse of some of the swooniness and then he would go right back to jerk mode..... honestly I am totally surprised that Alice didn't get whiplash.  There were a couple times where I felt that things seemed a little meshed together so I had to go back a re-read a couple pages, but it was a fairly fast paced book once you got past 20% so it wasn't that big a deal to go back now and then.  It was on the lower angst side for an Ella book, so if you are looking for your heart to ache but not get ripped out, this is a good book for you to pick up!...

Review: My Life As A Pop Album

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My Life As A Pop Album by L.J. Evans My rating: 5 of 5 stars 🎧AUDIO REVIEW🎧 Oh goodness, my heart continues to take a beating!  In this story, Mia is feeling guilty that her kidney wasn't good enough.  Jake is mentioned A LOT and every time he is mentioned it was like another punch to my heart!  While Mia was in college and trying to fin herself she found a man that was quite narcissistic and eventually breaks her heart.  After coming back home and running the family car dealership, she meets Derek Waters, up and coming rock star!  She decided to go out og her comfort zone (aka Good Girl Mia) to spend some time with him...... and so begins the adventure!  This man is SO FREAKING SWOONY!!!  He says some of the SWOONIEST things!  Like I literally sighed with some of the things that he said to Mia!  I absolutely LOVE them together!  Funny thing is that you get the whole story from Mia's POV.  So you get t...

Review: My Life As A Country Album

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My Life As A Country Album by L.J. Evans My rating: 5 of 5 stars 🎧 AUDIO REVIEW 🎧        ✨ A Top Listen of 2022 ✨ Wow!  Just wow!  New to me author!  I went in completely blind.  Had no clue what I was getting into.  And as I was listening I kept having this feeling that this book was going to rip me to shreds!  And it did!  Not a spicy book at all, but there was plenty of that sexual tension once Jake and Cam got together!  With their age difference, he was real apprehensive about being with her that way.  This couple was so back and forth!  Friends since the beginning of time.  Always looked out for each other.  Cam was the tomboy of the neighborhood who fell for her neighbor.  He didn't notice her in THAT way until he was getting ready to leave for college.  So just when she FINALLY gets him for a bit, he then puts the breaks on.  This story is told completely...

Review: How to Catch a Sinful Marquess

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How to Catch a Sinful Marquess by Amy Rose Bennett My rating: 5 of 5 stars 🎧AUDIO REVIEW🎧 Loved this marriage of convenience story. How fantastic that the man she wanted to be with was the one that was there to save her. He thought he was damaged beyond repair. When all he really needed was the love of a good woman! They were both there to help each other, no matter what came their way. Definitely a good listen. Story 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Spice 🔥🔥🔥 Swoon 😍😍😍 Angst 💔💔 Narration 👏👏👏👏 View all my reviews

Review: Triple Threat

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Triple Threat by K. Webster My rating: 5 of 5 stars ✨Top Read of 2022!!!✨ WHAT A WAY TO START THE YEAR!!!  FIRST BOOK OF THE YEAR AND IT IS EVERYTHING!!!  Well.... that was unexpected! If you read the Cinderella trilogy then you know who the Terror Triplets are..... THIS IS THIER STORY!!!  And boy it is a doosey!  Basically the 3 guys have to play the part of the same guy in different situations with Landry (the h of the story).  Problem is all 3 of them are super possessive and competitive (especially with each other).  So we all can imagine the recipe for disaster that creates!   Holy hotness!  K Webster brought on the heat in a very K Webster fashion.  To the point where I was questioning my morals and, to be perfectly honest, felt a little dirty 😏 but in a really good way!  This story does end on a cliffhanger, so be prepared to get angry!  The worst thing about cliffhangers is that then my bra...
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  I have made myself some hefty reading goals for 2022....and these are for books and audio 1. Complete 200 books in 2022 2. Read 1 KU book per month 3. Read or listen to 1 New to Me author per month 4. Read or listen to 1 book that I have already bought (in 2021 or earlier) 5. I am participating in the B.A.N.G. 52 book challenge. #3, 4 and 5 can be used for # 1 and 5 as well, but they can not overlap each other. I have already written the in my 2022 planner.... IN PEN!!!