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Ms Hunting, you had me at rugby player!

I enjoyed every adorable minute of this book, there is just something about Ms Hunting's writing that gets me every single time.

I want to be Ruby Scott's BFF. She struggles, she is self sufficient, and she has a mouth on her that would make sailors blush - and me upping the ante in conversations!

Bancroft is a sexy ex professional rugby player, and part of the "last name as first names" crowd. Yet he is everything they are not.

And from their first clash I was all in. I needed them to be together. It just has to happen.

I am freaking in love with Bancroft's pets - well, one of them at least. Never wanted to be a pet sitter sleeping in a hot guy's bed so much in my life!

This is a slow burn of a romance - there's lots of flirtatious phone calls and teasing texting to heat things up. Everything I adore in my rom-coms

Shacking Up is sweet, sexy and downright adorable. Bancroft is kinda swoonworthy and makes me want one of my own.

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Reality star Emerson and football (soccer) star Logan are kinds of cute and sweet and sexy - just not always to each other.

I adored this friends-t0-lovers story. There is a very fine line between love and hate, and this pair have been toeing that line.

Emerson is great. She is proof positive that reality TV isn't reality, and I adored seeing both sides of her. I freaking love that she had a backbone and when things turned, she stood up for herself and didn't let people walk all over her. You go girl!

Logan is all kinds of swoony. Even when he was kind of a jerk I still liked him.

There are some great secondary characters. I freaking LOVE Emmy's mum and dad, and most of the time I liked her brother Ashley - though some times I just wanted to kick him in the nads!

Kicking Reality is a sweet, fun read with healthy dose of the feels.

I enjoyed the story and Ms Masen's writing, and as this was my first read of hers, I will be making time to go back and read more.

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"My dick is fucking awesome."

Any book that starts with that line is going to be a winner for me!

Plus, I love a good friends-to-lovers romance, so this friends-to-fake-fiance-to-lovers just ramped the love up a bit more for me.

I don't like to compare books/authors to each other, but Big Rock really did have the feel of the Tangled series by Emma Chase, Spencer Holiday like Drew Evans.

Because bigger is better. It's more fun. Ask any woman who's ever had to utter the dreaded words, "Is it in yet?"

Charlotte and Spencer are perfect for each other - when they finally open themselves up to being more. And IMO they are better together than as friends - waaaaay better (and hella sexy hot!!)

Of course there are hurdles that need to be overcome, but that is the all part of the fun that is Big Rock.

Big Rock is funny, sweet, sexy romance that I just loved from the first word to the last. I cannot wait for the next book, Mr Orgasm, about Spencer's best friend Nick (and hopefully Spencer's sister!!

Please Ms Blakely, don't make us wait too long

       

3.5 stars

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Hockey hotties? Let me at 'em!

I haven't read the first book in the Colorado Ice series, however this didn't affect my reading of Maybe This Love.

I am a sucker for a hockey romance, and whilst I enjoyed the hockey side of things, I had a few issues with the heroine in this story, lawyer Olivia Davis.

She is 36 years old, but at times it felt like she was 15 years younger. She make some ridiculous decisions that made me wonder at times if she was really a lawyer?

Ben Westmore though - Yeah, I kinda dig the guy, even if he makes some dumb a$$ moves. What happens in Vegas really doesn't stay in Vegas after all!

I like the spark and attraction between our lovelies, the bite and snark from their first meetings. You can't help but want them to find a HEA.

There are plenty of fun and engaging characters in this book, especially among Ben's family.

So while this might not be a favourite book of mine, it was sweet and cute.

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The chance to read an ARC of the K9 -series? Let me at it!

Add in a hot Aussie with a dog and I am all in.

Macayla and Oliver's story did take a little while for me to get into - but that could just be me and my headspace whilst reading.

I liked the pet detective theme of the book - and no, Macayla is not like Ace Ventura!

Throw in a bit of mystery and suspense and we have a sweet and fun tale.

I am not going to lie, I did feel that this installment of the K-9 series did lack a little of of the pow-factor that the earlier books did - again, this is just my thought. Though I was surprised when the culprit of the story was revealed, I defintely did not see that one coming.

I lost my old dog a few months back, and reading this story sure did make me miss her a little harder and make me think for a second or two - about getting a new dog.

I loved the cameos by some of the characters from earlier books in the series - I always like a quick snippet of where there are now.

I really have enjoyed all the books inthe K-9 series, and can't wait to see what D.D Ayres brings us next.

3.75 stars

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This is not only my first read in the Bachelor Brotherhood series, but my first Denise Grover Swank read ever.

Lanie and Tyler are the eternal bachelor and bachelorette, ever the commitment phobes, workaholics - you get the drill.

Until each other that is.

I adore the spark between them, from the first maiming till the last word. However they did frustrate me at times, particularly Lanie.

I think it was her workaholic tendencies, and her refusal to deviate from that. I could kind of understand it, but girl, you need to live a little.

Tyler was all kinds of swoony and romantic and lovely. Psycho hose beast exes and all.

Now, since I haven't read the first book, I can only go by her character in this second installment - What the hell Britt?? You may be all cute in the first book, but 95% of the time in Until You, I really, really disliked you. I wanted to tell you off for everyone else in the book. You grated on me and made it quite unpleasant to continue reading at times - but this could just be me.

I was Lanie and Tyler's big cheerleader as I was reading. I wanted them to pull their heads out and work on it, make it happen people!

Ms Swank's writing was good, the story flowed well, and I will be reading more of her in the future.

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I have enjoyed the first 2 books in this series, but Hot Licks had a different feel to me.

That's not a bad thing, I just felt that this one was a bit heavier than the other two.

Benji and Josh's story is not all rainbows and butterflies, they are struggling at the moment and my heart just about broke for them as they tried to come to terms with where they were at.

Enter Van, and man oh man what a guy. He could so easily have been a character that the reader hated, but the direction that the author took the guys made him all the more lovable.

It was a bit slow going at first, and it was around 50% of the way through before things really took off. The story wasn't slow, there was just so much that the characters had to get through to really start moving forward.

I loved the way the story unfolded, I felt unsure of things along with the boys, I felt the love, the fear, the friendship.

The poly relationship is another thing that could have come across as crass or tacky, but again the author tackled the subject well.

And besides, who doesn't want to read about a little bit of man on man on man action :D

I really enjoyed Hot Licks, and I can't wait to see what A M Arthur brings us next.

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I adore this series. Each and every installment gets better.

At the end of the 3rd books, I was so happy that Sloan O'Malley had gotten out.

And just as I was hoping for her to start a new life, she is dragged right back into it all, when she meets her sexy next door neighbour Jude.

There is more the Jude than meets the eye. As we learn more about him and his past and what he is up to, I was conflicted between loving and loathing him. However as the story progresses, he grows into a man that I couldn't help but adore.

The story of the O'Malley crime family is more in the background of this story. Sure, the O'Malley/Sheridan/Halloran players are all still there and are involved in Sloan and Jude's story, but this time they are the bit players, tugging at the threads of our lovelies lives.

Sloan has always been the quiet one in this series. The rule follower, toeing the family line. I freaking LOVED that she did what she had to do for HER. Breaking all the family rules - and maybe some family ties along the way.

I liked getting bits and pieces of the leads from the other books, seeing where they are are since we last read about them.

There is still so much more to happen with this family, and I can't wait to see where Ms Robert takes us next.

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The Wicked Horse is back - except this time we are in Sin City baby!

The Wicked Horse is branching out and this exciting spin off has all the sexiness of the original series.

Jerico has teamed up with Branch (sigh, I love Branch) from the original series and now we have all the fun and games we come to expect.

Trista is the damsel in distress that comes to Jerico for help and gets more than she expects - as does Jerico. We know that true feelings are going to develop, however we also know that things are not going to be easy for them.

I completely and utterly adored one little character in this story - Trista's niece. She really is a scene stealer.

I loved their story, loved the push/pull and the love/hate kind of thing they have going on.

I would have liked a bit more of Vegas in the story - other than being set in Vegas we don't get much more (but this is probably just my thing!)

Can't wait to see what Cason's story brings us, am really, really hanging out for Kynan's story down the track.

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This book! I mean, this book! I was a wreck from the prologue, and Ms Sivec had me on edge for the rest of the whole darn book.

The Story of Us had all the feels. I wanted to jump into the book and save Eli, I wanted to jump in and hug Shelby, and I wanted to jump in and b!tch slap the crap out of Shelby's mother - grrr she makes me made just thinking of her.

I am a fan of a second chance romance, however through in the hurdles that our lovelies have to face and I am in love. I loved the hurt, the fear, the pain, the helplessness.


There is a great sense of hopelessness throughout the story that had me in tears over and over again - though as I say that, there is so much hope. Gah, serious emotional overload from the first word to the last.

I love love loved seeing Shelby and Eli come out of the shells they have been stuck in, seeing their fight come back to them.

Giving a big middle finger to those that wanted the apart.

I don't know how to put my thoughts into words to do this book justice.

So buy it. Read it. You won't be disappointed.