Review: Terms and Conditions - Book #2 Dreamland Billionaires - Lauren Asher - February 2022 To clear my TBR bookshelves of my physical books, I grabbed Book #2 in Lauren Asher's Dreamland Billionaires series. I remember reading the first one and loving it. Book #2 was just as good as the characters were amazing and just had this genuine feel about them. As you will remember in Book #1 Brady Kane has died and, in his will, he left some clauses for his grandsons to gain their inheritance. In Book #2 we have Declan who if he can get married, will make CEO. The thing though is he isn't one to date and commit, when his first choice as a fake bride falls through - who better to step up than his assistant Iris who is also his brother Cal's best friend. Can this couple who have a love/hate relationship end up showing the world that their marriage is anything but fake, especially when the rest of the world has read articles galore about their so-called marriage? Now Iris and Declan...

Ten years is a long time to be infatuated with your former best friend, especially when she’s dating your brother. So, when a wedding invitation with his name embossed on the front comes in the mail, it feels like a fastball to the heart. But when I discover my unrequited crush isn’t the blushing bride, all bets are off b ecause I’m ready to take my shot and this time, I’m playing for keeps. Readers who enjoy hate-to-lovers and unrequited romances will consume Make My Heart Malt by Gia Stevens, a standalone sports romance. Buy Now At Your Favorite Retailers! Amazon → https://geni.us/MMHM_Amazon Apple Books → https://geni.us/MMHM_AppleBooks Kobo → https://geni.us/MMHM_Kobo Barnes & Noble → https://geni.us/MMHM_Nook Google Play → https://geni.us/MMHMGooglePlay A sizzling hate to lovers, unrequited crush, standalone sports romance by romantic comedy author Gia Stevens… Dessa should have been mine... until my brother kissed her first. Ten years is a long time to be i...

Ten years is a long time to be infatuated with your former best friend, especially when she’s dating your brother. So, when a wedding invitation with his name embossed on the front comes in the mail, it feels like a fastball to the heart. But when I discover my unrequited crush isn’t the blushing bride, all bets are off b ecause I’m ready to take my shot and this time, I’m playing for keeps. Readers who enjoy hate-to-lovers and unrequited romances will consume Make My Heart Malt by Gia Stevens, a standalone sports romance. Blurb A sizzling hate to lovers, unrequited crush, standalone sports romance by romantic comedy author Gia Stevens… Dessa should have been mine... until my brother kissed her first. Ten years is a long time to be infatuated with your former best friend, especially when she’s dating your brother. So, when I receive a wedding invitation with his name embossed on the front, it feels like a fastball to the heart. But it turns out, my unrequited crush isn’t the blushin...

Review: My Dark Romeo - Book #1 Dark Prince Road Series - Parker S. Huntington and LJ Shen - March 2023 This book has been sitting on my bookshelf for a while and it's a story, I have been meaning to read ever since it was first released. I decided as I have had a bad reading month, to grab it to give it a go. I was hooked by the first page which was like a prologue or summary that summed up the whole book in a few paragraphs. The book is set in the world of billionaires, debutantes, and Southern old-money manners. The type of world where the daughters have been promised to men that they have never met, engagements that are purely business related. Dallas is 21 years old and engaged to Madison Licht, she is your epitome of a rich, spoiled girl. One who doesn't care about anything but shopping and food. She has wasted her education skating through university. She is the type that will and hasn't ever worked a day in her life. All she wants in life is to be a mother - she has...

Review: Do You Remember? - Freida McFadden - January 2022 I have felt this month has been quite a slow reading one for me, even more than usual and I am not sure the reason, though we have been busier at work. I just haven't had the energy or passion to read as much. In saying that I still know that compared to others, it probably seems like a good amount but in myself it makes me feel a little disappointed as I know I can do way better and it's not like I am not spoilt for choice. After having a DNF with a romance, I knew a thriller could change my mind and I am busy enjoying Freida McFadden's psychological thrillers. This one had me thinking about Megan Goldin's Stay Awake as it followed a similar situation, where the main female Tess had experienced some trauma a year ago. Now every couple of days, she wakes up with no current memory and believes it is seven years ago. A world before her company made billions, a world where she was engaged to the man of her dreams Ha...

Review: The Hating Game - Sally Thorne - August 2016 You know how as readers, we have those books on our shelves - the ones we know we will get to eventually but as new books come along, the older ones end up getting pushed to the back of the shelves? That's what happened to The Hating Game by Sally Thorne. I remember watching the movie a few years back and also this book had been on my mind lately, so I finally got around to reading it in my mind - I thought why the heck did it take me so long to read? In The Hating Game, we have Lucy and Joshua who work as co-assistants to the CEOs of Bexley and Gamin Publishers. Joshua to Mr. Bexley and Lucy to Helena -the Gamin CEO. The pair have this love/hate game going on which keeps not only the company on their toes but their HR rep. When a new role is created and has the two of them competing with the loser -resigning from their job. The competition and games start to heat up not only in the offices but soon in their lives outside of wo...

VBT# Ben and Beatriz - Katalina Gamarra - August 2022 I have always had a thing for renditions and Shakespeare's plays are ones I have enjoyed reading or watching set in today's world. Ever since I first watched The Best Men - a 1994 movie based on Hamlet or 12-year-old me watching the movie 10 Things I Hate About You on the big screen and it becoming one of my all-time favorite movies. So, whenever I see a new book based on a classic etc. I always try and give it a go. Ben and Beatriz surprised me with how easy the story flowed and how much I enjoyed it as I wasn't expecting a lot as hadn't heard much about this story. I think why this book stood out more is that it is set in the year 2016/2017, a world where Trump has just made President over Hillary Clinton and declared his distaste against people of colour. A world before Covid, but a world where racism was becoming very clear-cut. Our male character Ben is white and belongs to the "rich upper-class" and ...

VBT# River of Ashes - Book #1 St Benedict Series -  Alexandrea Weis and Lucas Astor - August 2022. This book as I was reading it, I was like having flashbacks to a previous book that this pair had co-written together as the characters were the same and the storyline was similar and I got so confused as it felt the same but not . Turns out that River of Ashes has been rewritten and turned more into a new adult read rather than the earlier tamer teen fiction read I have read earlier which is no longer avaliable and this one has had a bit more added to the storyline and the story fleshed out more. This book takes us into the lives of twins Leslie and Dawn Moore and Beau Deveraux. Beau is the King of the school and dating Dawn but wants Leslie. He also has a dark side that he is finding it harder to contain and as you read this book, you also discover his nasty antics towards women. He thrives on the power, and as I write the review, I think Beau reminded me of Bryce Walker from 13 R...

Review: The Hate Between Us - Vera Hollins - March 2022 This book I have had for a few months and kept meaning to read but I find for this emotional / Bullymance reads, I need to be in the right frame of mind and I currently went through some emotional rubbish of my own and needed something to get my angst out and what better book than The Hate Between Us by Vera Hollins. This book starts with us meeting Katie who was paralyzed from the waist down after being hit one night by a drunk driver aka Caroline Adams. Katie has now ended up in a wheelchair and on a spiral down into a depressive state, if that wasn't bad enough - Caroline's brother Jason is determined to make Katie's life hell and since she ruined Caroline's by not moving - he is determined to make her life ruined as in his mind she would have been better off dead.  Enter Liam, he is Katie's knight in shining armor, or is he a villain in disguise? He has been by Katie's side and helping her out at scho...