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  Coach Me   by Mollie Goins coming to Amazon + Kindle Unlimited August 15th!  Single Dad x Nanny  Grumpy/Sunshine  Found Family  Brother's Coach  Age Gap (12 years)  No third act break up    Coach Me is book two in an interconnected standalone series that you can read out of order. For the best experience it's recommended to read Pitcher Us, book one in the Boston Blues series.

I did this earlier this year but we are now half way into the year and even more exciting releases have been announced so a part 2 is a MUST. There are a couple of repeats on here from the firsts list because we haven't reached them yet. Are you excited for any of these or do you have any exciting releases that I missed? July 1st - Stirring Spurs by M.A. Wardell.  July 15th - Roll For Romance by Lenora Woods July 15th - A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna. July 15th - Lasso Lovebird by Clio Evans July 22nd - Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson. July 29th- Saddle Studs by Max Walker August 5th - This Is My Body by Lindsay King-Miller August 5th - Mistress of Bones by Maria Z Medina August 26th - This Vicious Hunger by Francesca May September 2nd - Every Step She Takes by Alison Cochrun (You may have seen this on part one as Learning Curves, keep scrolling to see why the name was changed) September 2nd - Learning Curves by Rachel Lacey (another sapphic romance...

 Someone being hired to protect another and slowly falling for them? Amazing 10/10, Would Read Again.  I love a good bodyguard romance especially when the person doesn't want to have a bodyguard so they are constantly sassing their new protector. The constant push and pull because they know they shouldn't cross that line. The bodyguard being on their side in a way that they have never had before. One of them getting hurt because they were distracted by each other. I love it all. Do you have any Bodyguard books recs? Drop them in the comments for me to check out. Enemies of the State by Tal Bauer | MM | a rouge black ops unit with the president in their crosshairs, a secret service agent who will break every rule, a president falling for the one person he shouldn't - a man Keep Her Safe by Claire Highton-Stevenson | FF | things get messy with an inheritance and laura finds herself being targeted and cat is hired to keep laura safe, sparks fly Glorious Day by Skye Kilaen | FF...

Thank you to Luna Literary and Daisy Wren for letting me read an ARC of this novella! My thoughts: I don't know what it is about it but I am sucker for the "teach me" trope where an inexperienced person asks their more experienced friend to show them something whether it be something like flirting or even as far as sex. It's such a fun read every time. The spice was my favorite thing about this, I loved how comfortable Ava and Skylar were with each other and the way that Ava was able to tell Skylar exactly what she wanted to learn in bed. I liked Ava and Skylar, they are both very interesting characters even if we do get to learn WAY more about Ava than we do about Skylar. Ava is trying her best to be a good mom while also learning as a person and I was rooting for her the whole time.  I normally LOVE novellas, but I really feel like this story would have really benefitted from being a fully length novel. It deals with a lot of topics like internalized homophobia, esc...

Thank you to NetGalley for giving me an ARC of A Treachery Of Swans. These thoughts are my own. My thoughts: A.B. Poranek has a way with words. After loving Where the Dark Stands Still, I knew I wanted to get my hands on whatever this author wrote next, and I was thrilled to see that A Treachery of Swans was a sapphic Swan Lake retelling. I will admit that Swan Lake is a tale that I am not very familiar with, I remember watching The Swan Princess animated movie as a kid and I know that it stems from a ballet but the actual details of it are fuzzy so my opinion on this novel as a retelling should not hold much weight - I will say that even with my limited knowledge, parts of this were still familiar and I could tell which parts pull from it being a retelling. A.B. Poranek creates such an intriguing gothic atmosphere in this book, and it was so fun to be seeing things through Odile's morally grey eyes.  I really liked Odile, she's a mess of a girl but she's relatable and even...

  My thoughts:  I have a very odd relationship with Ali Hazelwood. Back when Love Hypothesis came out, I disliked it so much that I couldn't even finish it. When Deep End came out, I was seeing so much about how dirty it was that I HAD to read it and I actually ended up LOVING it. Since then, I have read the STEMinist novellas which were a let down from Deep End but an improvement from Love Hypothesis. I thought that I would love Problematic Summer Romance, I love an age gap, and this isn't even the first one I have read this month but damn, this way a disappointment.  This book does more telling than it does showing, and I just never connected with why Maya had feelings for Conor or why she felt the need to keep pushing when he was making it clear that their age gap was a deal breaker for him. I wish there had been less of Maya chasing after Conor and more of Conor going after her - I understood his reservations but she is constantly the one making moves and he either ca...

   That's What I'm Talking About 's Tell Me Something Tuesday   is a weekly discussion post where bloggers discuss a wide range of topics from books and blogging to life in general.  June 17th: How do you choose what to read next? I am a big mood reader, and my mood is always changing so I typically don't follow any kind of schedule for reading - I just kind of look around at what I own and grab what sounds best. My library holds usually end up choosing for me as once I get a book up from the library, I usually want to jump right into it. I have gotten super into applying for and reading ARCs lately so deadlines for the reviews have been choosing for me lately. The time of year is also a big factor in how I choose because once September rolls around, I kick into a gear where I only wanna read horror & mystery and that won't stop until Halloween and by then I am ready for Winter and Christmas themed reads. 

I have been on an Orc kick lately and Veronika Kane is to blame.  In My Orc Next Door, we meet Jess who is trying to revitalize the small town of Eastshore Isle and Karnak, her recluse orc next door neighbor. Jess and Karnak have lived next door to each other for 4 years but have never spoken despite him knowing that she is his fated mate. This novel follows them as they finally begin speaking and falling for each other. It was fun to read them trying to figure each other out. Karnak has a lot of beliefs about how humans operate, and he some trauma from when he first came to our world that keep him from initiating things with Jess. Well Jess was always aware that Karnak is an orc, it's clear that she had never thought much about how exactly that made him different. Overall, I went into it expecting a fun and kind of silly romance and that is exactly what it delivered. I like how this one set up for more orcs to come to Eastshore Isle - I can't think of a better way to populate ...

  That's What I'm Talking About 's Tell Me Something Tuesday   is a weekly discussion post where bloggers discuss a wide range of topics from books and blogging to life in general.  June 10th: New to me authors: who have you discovered in the past year? I have discovered so many authors that I love in the past year! I made myself pick my top five though to keep this post from ending up too long. 1. Rebecca Ross - After ages of putting it off because I was worried it would be overhyped, I read Divine Rivals in July of last year and I immediately fell in love with her writing. She has a way with words that is so whimsical. I love the worlds and characters that she creates. I have read two more of her books since Divine Rivals and have loved every single one. I really need to focus on catching up on her backlist. 2.A.B. Poranek - I discovered this author through their debut novel, Where the Dark Stands Still. Their writing is also whimsical - the world in this book was beaut...

Thank you to The Nerd Fam and Hazel S Wilkes for allowing me to read an ARC! These thoughts are my own. This romantasy is excellent for a debut novel! The characters were interesting, the plot was well thought out and not like any fantasy novel I have read before especially the trials that the characters go through. The romance is mostly slow burn, we don't even meet the love interest until around the 25% mark but once they do finally realize their feelings for each other, they begin to move very fast and very passionately which for me kind of ruined things for me - just the two characters going from not even realizing they have romantic feelings for someone to making passionate love declarations was kind of jarring. I love the found family vibes, Lyra's platonic relationship with Gray was a favorite of mine. Just the way that they always had each others backs and how they were legit just friends was very refreshing. I liked Lyra finding a good female friendship with Marcella. ...

I wanna a start with a huge thank you to Luna Literary and Ashley Warren for allowing me to join the ARC team for this book, these thoughts are my own. This gothic cowboy romance did not at all go down the way I thought it would. In the first half of Whispers of Helena, a widowed woman becomes nanny to the son of a widower ranch owner and tension grows between them as it becomes clear that things are not what they seem on the ranch. From the start, this book nailed it with the suspenseful vibes, I was instantly hooked into the story, and I highly recommend listening to the playlist that the author has in the front of the book as it takes the vibes to a whole another level. I loved the tension and the angst of Silas not wanting to develop feelings for Helena as he mourns his wife, it was so good. I really liked the smut scenes - to me, the way Silas was torn up making him a more dominant sexual partner made sense, and I had fun reading it.   Shortly before the 50% mark, there i...

That's What I'm Talking About 's Tell Me Something Tuesday   is a weekly discussion post where bloggers discuss a wide range of topics from books and blogging to life in general.  June 3rd: Paper, electronic, audio… How do you read? Has it changed in recent years? This year I sit at 75% of the books I read being physical copies and 25% being electronic which is slightly higher than normal for me - my all time stats have ebooks making up only 18% of my total reading, I think I have been on the rise this year because I have gotten into applying for and reading ARCs. I have tried multiple times to get into audiobooks but I get distracted too easily for them. Last year I got back into going to the library and 35% of the books I have read this year have come from there instead of from my own collection of unread books. 

Excited to share the cover of   Riptide  by Meghan Hollie! Coming July 3rd! What to expect:   MM Romance  Age Gap  Forbidden  Healing/Moving On From Loss     BLURB     Finn: I came home to forget the ocean. To forget what it took from me. Surfing used to be everything, until it became the thing I couldn't survive. Now, I'm stuck in my hometown, dodging questions, helping my twin sister by looking after my niece. All the while, pretending I've got a plan. A hookup app was supposed to be just a distraction. Nothing serious. But then I met Foxx. He's smart, serious and hot as hell. I swiped right without knowing he'd wreck me in the best possible way. Foxx: After my divorce, I built a life I could manage. It was quiet, structured and safe. Numbers always made sense to me hence my job as a math Professor. People though? Not so much. Especially not flirty blond surfers who crash into my life with too many secrets and no right to make me ...