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The doctor, Mackenzie O’Neil, who wants a fresh start and the Fire Chief, Lincoln Reed, who are responding during a tragic accident meet each other helping one of the victims and catch-up afterwards and realize that they are attracted to each other. Protecting What’s Mine follows Mackenzie and Lincoln as they test out their feelings for one another.

Lucy Score did a fabulous job reeling me in and kept me waiting to see how Lincoln and Mackenzie’s attraction would pan out. It was great to see other characters from Pretend You’re Mine and Finally Mine return in this story. The building of relationships between characters from the previous stories and this one was wonderful and helped make this a stronger world. While Mackenzie is a smart, caring, and strong heroine I would have liked to see a bit stronger self-defense skills whenever she found herself in a fight. Lincoln was the perfect book boyfriend, and he was just like I expected him to be: sexy, sweet, and caring.

This story provoked many heart flutters and I connected with both Lincoln and Mackenzie and wanted them both to be happy. I did feel like the end was a bit rushed, but I was still invested in how everything would turn out. I love this town and all the characters that Lucy Score has created and I would give Protecting What’s Mine five stars out of five.

This is the sixth book in the 3:AM Kisses series by Addison Moore. This book is the story of Wyatt and Marley, who have both been burned in love. Marley’s still getting over a cheating ex and wants to explore her sexuality with Wyatt to add authenticity to her article in the university paper. Together they try to avoid L-O-V-E and enjoy each other’s company. They have to decide if their affection for each other can go the distance, and become love after a defacing article is published in the school paper putting both Marley and Wyatt in bad light.

This story is witty, sweet, and hilarious. I found Addison Moore’s writing style to be fun and engaging. The dialogue between the characters was realistic. Marley was a quirky and opinionated character. There were a few odd scenes that I could not get behind and that made it hard for me to connect with Marley. I thought the emails responding to Marley, at the beginning, were funny, if not a bit odd since they were never addressed in the story. I found Wyatt a bit flat in comparison to Marley, but he was endearing and gentlemanly.

Overall, this was a fun romantic read and I found that I really enjoy Addison Moore and plan to read more of her books. I would give Velvet Kisses four out of five stars.

Lucy Score’s first book in the Blue Moon series harvested all the feels from me. I laughed, worried, and cried right along with Carter and Summer. They are my new favorite book couple. They both had great depth as did the secondary characters. The community “matchmaking” group was a fun twist for a small town read and helped bring the town to life instead of just being centered around the Pierce Farmstead.

I’d been hesitant to read this series because I was afraid that it was going to be too hippie for me and that I wasn’t going to enjoy it. I shouldn’t have worried so much. I have enjoyed everything that I have read by Lucy Score. I’m excited to read the rest of the Blue Moon series.

This second book in the Wardbreaker series was adventurous and full of attitude. I love the tension and interactions between Izzy and all her friends, especially Axel. I’m anxiously anticipating when Axel and Izzy will finally give into their attraction to each other and do more than just kiss. The world of the Tempest was creative and Izzy’s quest to obtain her guardian was quite the escapade. I was left with a handful of questions at the end of this book, like where does Axel go when he isn’t at Becket’s place? What about RJ’s sister? She was mentioned in the first book and written like she is an important part of his life, but she is never mentioned in this time. What about Danvers’s job? It seemed like she had a really big operation set-up in the previous book, so can she really spend this much time away from it? It’s all of these little swirling questions that dropped the score for me.
Katerina Martinez's wonderful Wardbreaker world is very enjoyable and I can’t get enough of her humor and sass. I’m looking forward to the next book in the series!

I had trouble getting into this story. There were some editing errors that kept me from getting into the scenes. I also kept looking at the percent of the way done on my kindle and felt like I was barely making a dent. The story has great potential and the descriptions were written well. I liked both the main characters well enough, but just could get past how long it was taking me to make any progress. I don't want to leave a star review since I didn't actually complete the story.

I only read the first two stories in this boxed set. I really enjoyed Addison Moore's writing style and the inter-connectivity between the characters in the stories. I'm hoping to go back and start the 3AM Kisses series from the beginning instead of jumping in the middle. That was the reason that I didn't finish the box set, the stories are out of order with the series. They are all stand alone, but I like to read things in order so that I can understand the background between characters.

I'm not rating this story with stars since I didn't actually finish it. I wanted to get into it, but the characters and setting just didn't draw me enough to keep me engaged. I've heard good things about Lili Valente and liked the premise for this story. Perhaps, this was just not the right book to start my Lili Valente reading adventure.