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Sarah and Brian are the perfect enemies to lovers trope. Plus I love the added point of Brian's sister Jess being Sarah's best friend!

Thrown out of her "not so fiance"s house after rejecting his proposal after only 2 months, Sarah goes back to Jess's place where she was a former roommate only to find she has just given the room to her nemesis...Jess's brother. 

As a favor one night, Bryan pretends to go to a gala as Sarah's date. But feelings sneak up on Brian and Sarah as they navigate from being enemies, to friends, and to more. 

I love their banter. I loved what Sarah did for a career. I didn't like how Jess behaved at the end, that really made me mad. I liked how Brian weighed his options as he's looking for a new career. I liked the friends Brian found during this process. Cute and sweet and spicy, a great read!

Having never seen The Breakfast Club or Firefly, I didn't know what I was expecting of this book. I was pleasantly surprised. The whole thing takes place in space. Our gang of heroes are from vastly different places, but as they have no choice but to be together in a small spaceship (the Starlight), they grow quite close.

I think my favorite character was Beckett. She is just no nonsense and while she's dealing with these headaches from experiments done on her. I love that she connected with Rain (who after she finds out about her life being a whole lie. I can't wait to see more of how that comes up if we get another book). Great FF connection, LGBTQ rep.

I ended up really liking Kali also. I like the person she became while she was on the Starlight ship. While she is a princess is kind of blah. The change she goes through and the truth she learns endears her in my eyes! Plus a relationship with the end is so fun with their enemies to lovers!

A unique way to look at how our past can define our future especially if you keep a big, sad secret to yourself.

Greg is a clinical psychologist, who one day, gets a new "client" in his office. He never scheduled her as a patient and she surprisingly sees into his life more than those close to him. Mira quickly becomes an obsession to Greg and he will lie and deceive just to get to meet with her.

There is an element of mystery in Mira. She really gets him to look into his self and that big secret he carries. You need to suspend a bit of belief with Mira but that's all I can say as I don't want to give anything away. I'm glad this read fast or I probably wouldn't have finished it but I ended up liking it ok.

Deacon and Kalli are boss and employee though each one has an appreciation for the other beyond that. But because of their situation, they don't let those feelings to the surface. But then Kalli quits .

They go to Sheet Cake together because Kalli has an opportunity to open up a coffee shop thanks to Tank. (Yes we get him, Pat, James, Lindy, and Winnie!) This has a one bed trope. These two and their kisses break things, literally. I loved meeting Amy, Deacon's sister and am excited that she'll get a book. 
Another amazing novella in the Sheet Cake world!

The first thing I felt while reading this was lonely. As we only really follow one character you would think "well that's why it's easy to feel lonely" but at the beginning, the chapters don't have much to them.. Very few words. It just feels eerie.

I liked that we got to see the past as well as July by herself in her town. This book was a fast read but I felt it's very up to interpretation as to how you take it.  

South fiction at its very finest. Oh how I felt for Penny! She grew up in an abusive household from her dad and as a laughing stock because of her promiscuous mom. Then years later, living a grand life in Atlanta high society discovers her husband's affair with a much younger woman. Then during divorce proceedings, she loses her only (one that counts) surviving family member.

But through this all, she seemed to be a fighter! 
She also gets to connect with an old love who helped protect her some but even that has its challenges in the small Kentucky community.

I felt the Southern charm and the unattractiveness too. The old gossips had me rolling with laughter near the end!

I was just bored.. Sad

Hannah convinces her movie to move from an LA shoot to Westport where her sister lives. Maybe a little selfishly to see Fox again.

Fox, he is just a dream dude. Fit and hot! But small problem, everyone will always and forever see him as a no commitment man whore 🤷‍♀️.

I liked to see Hannah breaking down that part of him. It was such a shame that everyone while he was growing up TELLING him over and over that he would be like his dad, sexualizing him at a young age, instead of teaching him to be the opposite. Shame on them all.

But oh, these two MCs together.... The off the charts tension is ALWAYS thick surrounding them! They start fires (metaphorically) when they are together. I'm glad we got to have Piper and Brendan in this book too... I'm still super happy when Brendan is grumpy 🤣😍

4 young Manhattanites (Robin-needs a roommate, Jessica-was going to move in with a boyfriend until he cheated, Tory- living with her horrible parents, and Zach- a tech genius living on his own). Robin and Zach live on the Upper East Side in the same building and Tory and Jessica move in with one of them (respectively).

They all have hardships they are going/have gone through and they all have great personalities. It was fun to see how they responded to their individual issues. It's all set in the early 2000s (2004) and it was a bit nostalgic as I was a bit younger than these characters then (I'm guessing, ages aren't ever revealed that I know of). I like their dynamics as their small groups and how easily they all become friends once they all meet. I didn't really relate to any of them but I also feel like they became close friends of mine while reading.

This book came about during the 2019 protests in Hong Kong. It features Phoenix (or Nix), a rich, privileged Hong Kong girl raised in the US but back in this city and Kai who is forced to leave Shanghai when his mother dies and whose father enrolls him in the Hong Kong police academy. 

I honestly didn't know much about these protests and what they were about but this book educated me pretty well on it. I liked that Nix joined the protests because she felt her city was changing too much and not for good. It was hard to get on board with the relationship between Kai and Nix because of all the lies he had to put on himself.