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Friends to Lovers

August 30, 2022 Emily Reviews, Uncategorized

[Emily’s Review]: Belladonna by Adalyn Grace

This book has been on my radar since I read the blurb months and months ago. Signa is twenty years old and at this point in her life, just waiting until the day she can claim her inheritance and be done with all the “caretakers” in her life. They use her for her money and […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Uncategorized Tagged With: enemies to lovers, fantasy, Friends to Lovers, magic, Mystery, Romance, YA, young adult

May 30, 2022 Emily Reviews, Uncategorized

[Emily’s Review]: Unwanted by Marley Valentine

The Unlucky Ones series is about a group of kids who grew up in the foster system together and are now doing adulthood as a family. Unwanted focuses on Arlo and Frankie. These two are the oldest in this little rag tag group and they fell in love as teens. Arlo’s drug addiction led Frankie […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Uncategorized Tagged With: addiction recovery, Contemporary, contemporary romance, drug addiction, Friends to Lovers, gay, LGBTQ+, love story, lovers, M/M, Romance, second chance romance, sexy, sobriety, Steamy

March 1, 2022 Brittany Reviews

[Brittany’s Review]: Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey (Bellinger Sisters #2)

If you were like me in the first book, you wanted to know more about Fox. Who he was as a person. Who What he did during his free time. You get what I’m saying. This book follows king crab fisherman Fox Thornton and Hannah Bellinger. You meet these two in the first book and […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Friends to Lovers, Romance, small town romance

March 1, 2022 Emily Reviews, Uncategorized

[Emily’s Review]: Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey (Bellinger Sisters #2)

King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. Everyone knows he’s a guaranteed good time–in bed and out–and that’s exactly how he prefers it. Until he meets Hannah Bellinger. She’s immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his… personality? And wants to be friends? Bizarre. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is.

Now, Hannah’s in town for work, crashing in Fox’s spare bedroom. She knows he’s a notorious ladies’ man, but they’re definitely just friends. In fact, she’s nursing a hopeless crush on a colleague and Fox is just the person to help with her lackluster love life. Armed with a few tips from Westport’s resident Casanova, Hannah sets out to catch her coworker’s eye… yet the more time she spends with Fox, the more she wants him instead. As the line between friendship and flirtation begins to blur, Hannah can’t deny she loves everything about Fox, but she refuses to be another notch on his bedpost.

Living with his best friend should have been easy. Except now she’s walking around in a towel, sleeping right across the hall, and Fox is fantasizing about waking up next to her for the rest of his life and… and… man overboard! He’s fallen for her, hook, line, and sinker. Helping her flirt with another guy is pure torture, but maybe if Fox can tackle his inner demons and show Hannah he’s all in, she’ll choose him instead?

In the follow-up to It Happened One Summer, Tessa Bailey delivers another deliciously fun rom-com about a former player who accidentally falls for his best friend while trying to help her land a different man…

Filed Under: Reviews, Uncategorized Tagged With: crab fishing, emotional, fishing, Fox, friends, Friends to Lovers, Hannah, Hook Line and Sinker, It Happened One Summer, king crab, Love, love story, lovers, movie production, music, patriarchy, sexy, strong fmc, Tessa Bailey, toxic masculine culture, toxic masculinity, vulnerable, Westport

January 31, 2022 Brittany Reviews

[Brittany’s Review]: Good Girl Complex by Elle Kennedy

I was so excited to get my hands on this book. I’m a huge fan of Elle Kennedy’s and I was excited to see what this book would bring to us. This book follows good girl Mackenzie “Mac” Cabot. She is used to doing everything the right way, trying hard not to stray too far […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: contemporary romance, Friends to Lovers, new adult, Romance, small town romance

January 31, 2022 Elizabeth Reviews

[Elizabeth’s Review]: Count Your Lucky Stars (Written in the Stars #3) by Alexandria Bellefleur

Starting this book, I had not read Bellefleur’s other works. After finishing, Count Your Lucky Stars, however, I am going to change that. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this read and seeing Margot and Olivia overcome their past miscommunication and ingrained fears regarding their history. While romance books are usually catnip for me […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Adult, adult romance, astrology, best friends to lovers, childhood friends to lovers, contemporary romance, F/F Romance, Fiction, first love romance, Friends to Lovers, Funny, LGBTQ, Love, queer, Romance, sapphic, second chance romance, Series, tension, wedding planner

December 27, 2021 Brittany Reviews

[Brittany’s Review]: It Happened One Midnight by Saranna DeWylde

Fans of The Ex Hex and Payback’s a Witch won’t want to miss this delightful and entertaining novel featuring three meddlesome fairy godmothers on a mission to restore their hometown’s deep well of enchantment by conjuring true love…even in the most reluctant couples.

A PopSugar Best New Book of December

CAN YOU SKIP THE STORYBOOK BEGINNING…

Novelist Juniper Blossom has romance down to a science in her bestselling books. But she’s not about to settle for just any man—a happy ending looks different for everyone, and she needs to find the guy whose idea of forever matches her own. Try telling that to her adorable, meddling grandmothers, though. If she doesn’t find a man soon, they’re going to find one for her. Which is why Juniper has prepared for a trip home to Ever After by fibbing that her sexy, smart, sweet best friend Tomas is her fiancé! He doesn’t believe in love at all, but that doesn’t matter if they’re just pretending…

ON THE WAY TO THE HAPPY ENDING?

Divorce attorney Tomas Rivera is as proud of Juniper’s authorial success as she is, but that doesn’t mean he buys into her books’ premise. His career is proof enough that true love is the real fairy tale—and everyone knows fairy tales aren’t real. But he can never say no to gorgeous Juniper, and an “engagement” might move him one legal brief closer to partner at his old-fashioned firm. Yet playing the part suddenly starts to mean feeling it, especially when a kiss just for show turns up the heat between them. Is happily ever after possible for two people who aren’t on the same page when it comes to love?

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: #fakedating, #romcom, Friends to Lovers

October 5, 2021 Elizabeth Reviews

[Elizabeth’s Review]: Nick and Noel’s Christmas Playlist by Codi Hall

I love the warm feeling that the holidays bring. Seeing that this book would revolve around Christmas, I knew it was a must read and I was excited to read about these best friends. Nick and Noel embodied the warm feeling of love and comfort that every Hallmark Christmas movie captures. Their dialogue and complete […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Adult, best friends, best friends to lovers, Christmas, Contemporary, contemporary romance, family, found family, Friends to Lovers, Funny, Grief, healing from loss, Holidays, Love, music

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