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Yes! We are back in the Royally world again!

This is Ellie (Olivia from Royally Screwed's sister) and Logan (Nicholas from RS's bodyguard)

First I fell for Nicholas Pembrook, then it was for his brother Henry (yep, keeping it allll in the family!)

But that was because I hadn't yet met Logan St James

Logan is sexy AF, all kinds of swoonworthy and I just want him to be mine. He is like Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard, and broody and standoffish, but ready to swoop in to save his lady.

Sigh... now I want to watch The Bodyguard - again.

Oh how I love these two. I adored Ellie when we first met her, she is only a teenager back then, and should soooo not be on Logan's radar. But she is. And he has pinged her radar big time.

They are so not right for each other, that they are.

I love that we get lots of Nicholas and Olivia, Henry and Sophie, and even Queen Lenora!

This book is full of laughter, fun, sweet and sad and a dose of suspense thrown in for good measure.

I have really enjoyed this series, and now I am impatiently waiting to see what Ms Chase brings us next!

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This series just kept getting better, and what a way to end a series - with a bang with Dr Mason Bentley.

How did you get together with your significant other? Bet it wasn't like Bren and Mason.

Ms Ryan has definitely left the best till last with The Soul Mate. Bren and Mason's story left me wanting more. I couldn't put it down from the moment I picked it up. I was impatient to turn each page as I neeeeeeded to know what would happen next.

Mason is all kinds of swoonworthy - I tell you, if Bren didn't claim him, I would have claimed him for myself!!

The Soul Mate is sweet, it's sexy, it's laugh out loud funny at times, yet there is also a tinge of sadness as well. It is just an all round adorable read.

I hope that Ms Ryan keeps writing rom-coms. I know I will keep reading them.

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Firstly, I freaking love this cover. I am not usually one to even look at the covers, but this one has me captivated.

And the fact that Ms Ward has written the character of Landon based on the looks of the cover model - even better! Who needs a pesky imagination when it is right there in front of you?

Secondly - raise your hand if you have ever done the dreaded drunk dial to your ex/crush/anyone?



 
If your hand is down, I think you may be telling a little fib :D

If only my drunk dial turned out as well at Rana's did.

I love a good second chance romance, and Rana and Landon's ticked all the boxes for me.

It is sweet and adorable, but also a little heartbreaking at times. Our lovelies have so much from their pasts that they haven't yet dealt with, so how can they move forward and find their HEA? They are both sweet, broken souls that need to heal each other.

Sigh, I just wanted to hug them so hard.

I really enjoyed Drunk Dial, and I feel that this may be moving to the top of my favourite Penelope Ward reads.

What we had is far too beautiful to be forgotten.

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This book is just stunning. From the first word to the last, I was enthralled with Brax and Jem's story.

Right from the get go this is a very emotional story. I think my heart fell to the floor at about the 10% mark and it took the whole story to bring it back to my chest.

We are put through the wringer right along with our lovelies in this story.

Brax is just all kinds of wonderful, and my heart broke over and over for him, however, every chapter, every letter let me hope just a little bit more - just like him. I just wanted to give this beautiful, devoted man a hug and tell him it would all work out.

I really couldn't put this book down (although I did, just to sleep!).

It was beautiful, heartbreaking yet heartwarming being taken on the journey as these soul mates found their way back together through Brax's 19 letters.

This has become one of my favourite reads of 2017, and wish I could read it again for the first time.

Can't wait to see what Ms Perry brings us next.

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I hope you have your dentist on speed dial, as Most Valuable Playboy is so darn sweet it will give you a toothache!

I am a sucker for a friends-to-lovers story, and Cooper and Violet's is just adorable. Or as it is written in the books "ridiculously adorable".

There are a few more pressures on our lovelies, seeing as Coop is in the public eye, but that just makes it even more cute and sweet.

And that is what their story is. Cute and sweet. There is no dramas, no big reveals, no big OMG WTF moments. It just... was.

I adore both Coop and Vi. There is something about knowing each other so long that just made their relationship a bit more.

I loved the flirting and banter between our lovelies, and there is a lot of build up to sexy times, you just know they will get there eventually.

I LOVED the other Renegades players, and I really am jonesing for more about Jones.

This light and cute read was just what this girl needed after reading a few darker, angsy books lately.

Can't wait to see what Ms Blakely bring us next (please be Jones! I will bribe you with Tim Tams if required!!)

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If you have read the Sons of Sydney series, you have kinda met the Shaw boys, however you don't have to have read them to love Aidan and Mercy's story.

In His Custody is a short, fast paced read that will give you a great introduction to the Shaws and those that surround them.

It can be hard with novellas to get enough information out there without it feeling like you are coming in halfway through the story, however this is not the case with this one.

In His Custody packed a punch, and I did not feel that it was rushed at all.

I adore Mercy - she is not the meek and mild English teacher that she could have been, she has a big pair of lady balls, sticks her neck out to help others and just pretty much rocks.

You know when there is secret undercover business going on that there are going to be fights and tears when the truth comes out, so it was no big surprise when the poo hit the fan, but I liked the way both characters dealt with it.

This novella has made me want more - please don't make me wait too long Ms Archer.

L.M Halloran, you had me at rock star.

But holy sh!tballs, Breaking Giants was not the normal rock star book and took my completely by surprise - in a good way that is.

Julian Ashburn and Rose Cunningham's story is not an easy one.

Julian - gah, it is not usual for me to both love and loathe a character in the same sentence (sure, sometimes the same book, but not often without taking a breath!)

My heart ached repeatedly for Rose as she tries to get past the man who has captured her heart - even though she doesn't want him to.

Their story is a reminder that love is not all rainbows and butterflies. It is gritty, emotional, heartbreaking.

"It's like a fairytale."

"I don't know any fairytales that are as dark and twisted as this one."

Those two lines there ^ describe this story to a T. As much as there is that spark of attraction between Julian and Rose, Julian really is quite toxic.

I loved seeing Rose step out of her comfort zone, taking some huge steps both personally and professionally.

It is days since I finished reading this book, and I am still not sure that I am doing it justice with my words.

It is beautiful, and amazing, an heartbreaking. It is an emotional rollercoaster of the best kind.

As a blogger, every day we are approached to read new/new to us authors, and we can't possibly read everything we get asked too. It is always a crap shoot when you decide which author/book to read.

I am so glad that LM Halloran reached out to us, and I am so so glad that I decided to read Breaking Giants. I will definitely be keeping an eye out for more of their work in the future.

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It has been a couple of days, and I am still struggling to put into words how I feel about this book.

Not ecause it is bad, but because it is so darn good.

From the moment I read the blurb I knew this was going to be an emotional read, however I didn't know how much this book would engulf me.

From the first time Iris and James meet, I was emotionally invested in this couple. I couldn't help it. Ms Halloran drew me right into and I couldn't stop reading.

Words cannot express the emotion and pain that our lovely Iris has been through, and is still going through. I felt it with her, every laugh, every loss, every blow to the soul.

James. I love him. I hate him. I love to hate him. I want to hug him, and then I want to hit him with my kindle. His relationship with Iris is a little bit toxic, and as much as I want them together, I want him to leave her be!

Ugh, it makes me so confuzzled about my feelings!

I don't want to spoil anything about this amazing book, as it is one that needs to be felt by the reader as they are reading.

I will just say that I absolutely love it.

I feel that I should be screaming from the rooftops at how amazing Ms Halloran is as a writer. She is an exceptional writer, and the two books I have read of hers to date are completely underrated and need to be out there for the world to read.

I can't wait to see what she brings us next.

 

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I am a huuuuge fan of Gena Showalter's Lords Of The Underworld series ,however this is the first Gena Showalter contemporary romance I have read.

It is book 4 in the Original Heartbreakers series, however I did not feel like I was missing too much not having read the first books.

I am not going to lie, Can't Hardly Breathe us pretty formulaic (not that that is a bad thing) in so much as even as you are reading you know what you are going to get at the end.

It is the journey inbetween that had me turning the pages. Sure, it was a little bit cheesy at times, but what romance doesn't have its share of the cheese?

I loved Dorothea's journey of self discovery, realising she is worth more and isn't going to settle for any less. I was a big cheerleader for her.

Daniel, I loved him most of the time, but at times I really didn't like him.

But I don't want to spoil things for anyone so I will just leave it at that.

I enjoyed most of the secondary characters, and the guys and gals from the previous books have intrigued me enough to make me want to go back and read them sometime soon.

Sweet, sexy and flirty, I can't wait to see what Ms Showalter gives us next.

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Nora Robert is one of my go-to authors. Whether it is writing as Nora Roberts or JD Robb, I always know that I am going to enjoy her words.

Come Sundown is a sweeping tale, told both in the present and 25 years ago. It is a beautiful tale of love, loss and finding oneself again.

There is a whodunnit running through the story, and in typical Nora Roberts style, I was left guessing right until the end, full of suspense and even though I had my suspicions about things, I was surprised when things unfolded.

Ms Roberts writes with such imagery that I could imagine myself on the back of a horse (god no, those things are the beasts of Satan!), watching the sunsets in big sky country.

I loved the story of the Bodine and Longfellow families and their lives on the ranch, and made me want to go visit there.

I really do look forward to a Nora Roberts book, and now I am wanting the next one.