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Review: Rookie Move (Playing For Keeps #1) by Riley Hart & Neve Wilder

Rating: 4.5 🌈 I’m such a sucker for stories like this one. Sports romance, younger hot, super talented brother that ends up on the same team as brother’s friend. Who he’s had a crush on. Doesn’t matter the sports. This time it’s the NFL and a Denver team with a hot Quarterback, Warner Ramsey, who’s… Continue reading Review: Rookie Move (Playing For Keeps #1) by Riley Hart & Neve Wilder

Review: The Alpha’s Warlock (Mismatched Mates #1) by Eliot Grayson

Rating: 4.25 🌈 Werewolves and mages just seem to be a great match! So I always gravitate to any story and series with these elements to check out what the author’s take will be. The Alpha’s Warlock (Mismatched Mates #1) by Eliot Grayson was a story I thought was very entertaining, and had characters I… Continue reading Review: The Alpha’s Warlock (Mismatched Mates #1) by Eliot Grayson

Review: The Sceptic (Arcana Books #1) by Lily Morton

Rating: 4.25🌈 ““What a ridiculous question. Do I look like I have a book on how to reanimate a cadaver? I have enough problems with the living customers without adding dead ones. Go next door.”” — The Sceptic by Lily Morton That’s a terrific start to a new paranormal series by Lily Morton. And it… Continue reading Review: The Sceptic (Arcana Books #1) by Lily Morton

Review: Playing for Keeps (Miami Piranhas #1) by Beth Bolden

Rating: 4.5 🌈 Beth Bolden’s new book, Playing for Keeps, is the first in her new Miami Piranhas series about a fake Miami, Florida NFL football team that’s scrambling to come together. New coach and coach teams. And a slew of incoming new players to mesh with the ones already there. One of those new… Continue reading Review: Playing for Keeps (Miami Piranhas #1) by Beth Bolden

Review: Crankshaft (Big Bull Mechanics #1) by K. M. Nuehold

Rating: 4.5🌈 I have been looking forward to this new release since the author’s announcement at the end of The Four Bears Construction series. That’s where we met the men of Big Bull Mechanics Shop, the other automotive shop in town, other than Dare’s, husband to Stone, one of the Four Bears. Steele’s the owner… Continue reading Review: Crankshaft (Big Bull Mechanics #1) by K. M. Nuehold

Review: Wicked Heat (Chicago Heat #1) by Ella Frank

Rating: 4.5 🌈 Wicked Heat is the first book of a two story series, Chicago Heat. It’s fantastic and, luckily, with both novels released, the reader is able to read one story after the other as I did. Combined, they tell the story of the stumbling path to romance, love, and a lasting relationship between… Continue reading Review: Wicked Heat (Chicago Heat #1) by Ella Frank

Review: The Botanist’s Apprentice ( Flos Magicae #1) by Arden Powell

Rating: 4.25🌈 The Botanist’s Apprentice is the first in Arden Powell’s Flos Magicae series about a world where magic and magical studies exist, if somewhat uneasily. A slow burn romance builds around the shared love of two mens passion and study of deadly plants. That’s such a fascinating idea that’s gets even more marvelous when… Continue reading Review: The Botanist’s Apprentice ( Flos Magicae #1) by Arden Powell

Review: Last Gasp (Kip O’Connor Mystery #1) by S.C. Wynne

Rating: 3.5🌈 I’m a fan of the cozy mystery so I was interested when I saw this series by author S.C. Wynne. It has all the elements one expects of the cozy mystery. Small town , Pearl Bay, where everyone knows everybody. Main character, Kip O’Connor, who’s lived there his entire life. And has a… Continue reading Review: Last Gasp (Kip O’Connor Mystery #1) by S.C. Wynne

Review: Remedy (Tulip Farm #1) by Alex Hall

Rating: 4 🌈 Remedy , the first in the Tulip Farm series by Alex Hall, is a very good contemporary story. The author certainly knows the show circuit or at least has done their research most effectively so that the world of competitive jumping, and later Dressage, is absolutely believable. From the heartbreaking prologue to… Continue reading Review: Remedy (Tulip Farm #1) by Alex Hall

Review: Temporary Partner (Valor and Doyle #1) by Nicky James

Rating: 4.75 🌈 Temporary Partner by Nicky James is an excellent law enforcement mystery that’s has elements of a romance to it. It’s the first of a two part series, Valor and Doyle, featuring Ontario detectives from different departments, often units that see each other as departmental rivals. Quaid Valor is a Detective with the… Continue reading Review: Temporary Partner (Valor and Doyle #1) by Nicky James