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HOPELESS BY COLLEEN HOOVER

11/24/2021

Who is the one author every person should read in their lifetime? Colleen Hoover. Her books, like this one, are exquisitely breathtaking, realistic, stunning, and all other adjectives associated with the word beautiful.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Genre: Young Adult Romance. Emotional.
Series: Hopeless #1
Pages: 418 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

Sometimes discovering the truth can leave you more hopeless than believing the lies…

That’s what seventeen-year-old Sky realizes after she meets Dean Holder. A guy with a reputation that rivals her own and an uncanny ability to invoke feelings in her she’s never had before. He terrifies her and captivates her all in the span of one encounter, and something about the way he makes her feel sparks buried memories from a past she wishes could just stay buried.

Sky struggles to keep him at a distance knowing he’s nothing but trouble, but Holder insists on learning everything about her. After finally caving to his unwavering pursuit, Sky soon finds that Holder isn’t at all who he’s been claiming to be. When the secrets he’s been keeping are finally revealed, every single facet of Sky’s life will change forever.

REBELLIOUS BY KRISTY MARIE

9/1/2021

Rebellious is a breathtaking new adult romance! This story seared its way into my heart, and I ached for the characters. Romance readers, you won’t want to miss this one!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: April 30, 2021
Genre: Friends to Lovers Romance | New Adult
Series: None (as of now).
Pages: 282 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Kindle Unlimited

A love controlled by guilt, contained by rules… One summer will change everything.

No kissing.
No cuddling.
No blah, blah, blah.
He wrote the rules onto our skin—every ink stroke tragically smeared by the lines we’d crossed.
He claimed it was the only way we could be together—the only way we wouldn’t destroy our families.
But there was an exception to his rules—one he never saw coming.
All I needed was opportunity and a sunburn.
The girl who played by his rules is gone.
This girl… is not his “friend.”

BENEATH THE STARS BY EMILY MCINTIRE

5/29/2021

Emily McIntire is a new to me author and I’m glad I started reading her. Beneath the Stars is the epitome of a southern romance and I loved the characters twang and the authenticity in regard to the true south!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: September 1, 2020
Genre: Second Chance | Small Town | Southern Romance
Series: Sugarlake series#1 (can standalone)
Pages: 406 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Kindle Unlimited.

Alina
I was eleven when I met Chase Adams. I loved him before I knew what lovin' was.
I pulled, he pushed.
I gave, he took.
I loved... I lost.
Now he's back. All grown up and sexy as sin.
But things changed while he was gone. So, he can show those dimples and flex those muscles all he wants. It won't change a thing.
Chase Adams is nothin' but a lost memory. I'll do everything I can to keep him that way.

Chase
Growing up, there were only two women I ever loved.

SOMEBODY TO LOVE BY SHARON SALA

5/20/2021

Sharon Sala writes the most incredibly UPLIFTING romances! This book was exactly what I needed, and I fell in love with the story just as fast as these characters fell in love with each other.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: February 23, 2021
Genre: Second Chance Romance
Series: Blessings, Georgia #11 (can standalone)
Pages: 303 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

Welcome to Blessings, Georgia! Whether you've lived here your whole life, you're returning after years of being away, or you're new in town, you're sure to find the love in a small town happy ending you're looking for.

Fifteen years ago, a family member stole the money Hunt Knox had saved for college, while three of his siblings and his father hid the truth and told him to get over it. Betrayed by their lies and thievery, Hunt joined the army and wound up flying Apache helicopters in Iraq. Now, he's a chopper pilot for an oil company in Houston, Texas, his father has been dead for six years, and he's finally returning home to Blessings at his mother's dying request.

Ava Ridley, the little girl Hunt's mother used to babysit, has grown up and is a nurse at his mother's bedside when he arrives. Ava is overjoyed to see him. She had a huge crush on him when she was

FILTHY LITTLE PRETTIES BY TRILINA PUCCI

4/21/2021

If you enjoy a grittier young adult romance with it's fair share of angst and debauchery then this is your book. While it wasn't a favorite of mine I do recommend it despite my average rating.

Rating: ★★★
Release Date: March 25, 2020
Genre: Young Adult/New Adult Romance (High School)
Series: Hillcrest Prep #1 (can stand alone)
Pages: 376 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Purchased.

"If Gossip Girl and Cruel Intentions had a baby, Filthy little Pretties would be it!"

Grey McCallister is a brooding hero that plays a helluva villain when he so chooses. Liam Brooks is a charmer with puppy dog eyes you can't say "no" to.
They're the kind of guys that make time stand still when they walk by. And when their childhood best friend, Donovan Kennedy, comes back to New York, friendships get tested. Choices are made they can't take back. And one boy gets a taste of what it's like to want someone so bad that you'd burn down the city to have her.

Donovan Kennedy is the girl dreams are made of.

Five years ago, she was our best friend.
Our moral compass.
The girl that held our hands every where we went.

FRAYED BY LAURA PAVLOV

3/30/2021

You guys! If you're a romance reader you need to drop everything and read this book! It's absolutely incredible! I cannot recommend it enough! It's my favorite of 2021 so far!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: March 18, 2021
Genre: Young Adult Romance (upper YA/NA)
Series: Willow Springs #1 (can stand alone)
Pages: 362 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Kindle Unlimited.

Bad boy football star. Innocent girl next door. Two different worlds. One small town. A million reasons why they should have stayed away from one another.

“My new favorite Laura Pavlov book. It felt like watching the show Friday Night Lights only better.” Willow Aster, USA Today Bestselling Author

My name is Adelaide Edington, and my life was mapped out for me before I even entered the world.

Who I'd date, where I’d attend college, what I'd be when I grew up.
But there comes a time in everyone's life when they face a fork in the road.

Should I go left, or should I go right?

It didn't matter as long as I didn't remain stagnant any longer.

THE KISS BY M. ROBINSON

2/14/2021

M. Robinson ramps up the humor with her romantic comedy debut, The Kiss! This is a childhood best friends to lovers romance with equal parts steam and laugh out loud moments!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: February 16, 2021
Genre: Childhood Friends/Best Friends to Lovers
Series: Playboy Pact series #1 (can stand alone).
Pages: 240 pages
Format: eBook Source: The Author (thank you!).

From Wall Street Journal & USA Today Bestselling Author M. Robinson comes a new stand-alone romance with all the feels.

What happens when you make a pact with your boys to stay single and never fall in love?

Well, you get the Playboy Pact.

We were friends, her and I.
Best friends.
It was easy.
Simple.
Comfortable.
That was our dynamic.
We had a system.
An understanding.
An unspoken arrangement.

THE SEASONS OF CALLAN REED BY S.M. SOTO

2/4/2021

The Seasons of Callan Reed is an incredible romance and I recommend it to all readers of the genre! This one is full of angst and epic love that it years in the making.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: February 2, 2021
Genre: Contemporary Romance. Enemies.
Series: None. Complete standalone.
Pages: 405 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: The Author (thank you!).

After the death of her husband, Daisy Casillas is lost, desperately trying to repair the wreckage that has now become her life. In need of a job and money to stay afloat, her best friend suggests a position no one in New York is willing to take.
Callan Reed’s executive assistant.

The man is a tyrant.
Incredibly rude.
Notoriously arrogant.
Strikingly handsome.
And as fate would have it, her former childhood best friend.

Daisy promised herself she’d never speak to the man again after the destruction of their friendship years ago, but she’s desperate. Desperate enough to withstand his cold glares, to follow his impossible tasks to a T, and endure his ridiculous demands.

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