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The A-List by Evie Mitchell FIND IT ON THE READ ME ROMANCE PODCAST Gabby “I think my husband wants to explore kink.” Rune owns a bookstore, which means he supplies me with all my reading needs. Only, lately, those books aren’t your momma’s reading list. They aren’t even your best friend’s reading list. They’re the kind of reads that you finish in bed with one hand under the covers, then talk about with other reading obsessed people in closed book groups on the internet. But here’s the catch, I’m kind of into it. Satan better help me, ’cause God’s ready to forsake this little deviant.   My Review: Mood?  lighthearted Pace?     fast  Strong character development?  Yes Loveable characters?  Yes Diverse cast of characters?  Yes Flaws of characters a main focus?  Yes My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book is only in audio through the read me romance podcast this is a very good audio book and a very good book in general I can't wait to read more ...

Knot My Type by Evie Mitchell He doesn’t do relationships. She doesn’t do flings. Everything they thought is about to unravel… Frankie When you say you're a sexologist, people imagine Marilyn Monroe. They don't expect a woman who uses a wheelchair. As the host of the All Access Podcast, I'm breaking barriers, crushing stigmas, and creating sexual connections that are fulfilling for my fans. I'm like cupid, but with pink hair and fewer diapers. Only, I've hit a snag. A lovely listener wants some advice about accessible rope play and I'm drawing a big fat blank. Which leaves me with no option but to get out there and give it a go. Which is how I meet Jay Wood—rigger, carpenter, and all-round hottie. I'd be open to letting him wine and dine me—only Jay isn't my type. He's not a one-girl kind of guy. Monogamy isn't even in his vocab, and I'm not a woman who'll settle for being second choice. But the closer we get, the more Jay h...

The Charade by Judy Corry My math tutor has one rule: he doesn’t date the girls he tutors at our private school. But a fake relationship that’s beneficial to us both? That’s a different story. Our agreement helps Carter get revenge on his ex while it helps me hide the real reason we’re spending so much time together. Win-win. Plus, flirting with the hottest guy at school is kind of fun. As long as the feelings stay as fake as the show we’re putting on, there shouldn’t be a problem. Right? The Charade is a forbidden romance about the new girl and the guy who everyone sees as untouchable.   My Review: Mood? Lighthearted Pace?   Medium Plot- or character-driven?   A mix Strong character development?   Yes Loveable characters?   Yes Diverse cast of characters?   Yes Flaws of characters a main focus?     It's complicated My rating: 5 of 5 stars I love This author I love the feather and I can't wait to see what happens ...

Throw Like a Girl by Sarah Henning Friday Night Lights   meets Morgan Matson's  The Unexpected Everything  in this contemporary debut where  swoon worthy   romance meets underdog sports story. When softball star Liv Rodinsky throws one ill-advised punch during the most important game of the year, she loses her scholarship to her fancy private school, her boyfriend, and her teammates all in one fell swoop. With no other options, Liv is forced to transfer to the nearest public school, Northland, where she'll have to convince its coach she deserves a spot on the softball team, all while facing both her ex  and  the teammates of the girl she punched... Every. Single. Day. Enter Grey, the injured star quarterback with amazing hair and a foolproof plan: if Liv joins the football team as his temporary replacement, he'll make sure she gets a spot on the softball team in the spring. But it will take more than just a flawless spiral for Liv to find...

Hard to Love by W. Winters She was too good for this world. I was too much of a bastard to push her away. I grew up in this life, and now I run these streets. Blood and violence taint everything I touch. Everything but her. She was my constant through it all. Just a touch would singe and soothe. Just a look would tempt and torment. She became my escape and my addiction. I only survived because she was by my side. I should’ve known better than to indulge. I should’ve known better than to let her fall for me. It was only a matter of time before the danger bled into what we had. I was Laura’s downfall. Problem was, she was mine too.   My Review: Mood? tense Dark emotional Pace?   medium Plot- or character-driven?   A mix Strong character development?    Yes   Loveable characters?   Yes Diverse cast of characters?   N/a Flaws of characters a main focus?   Yes My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is my 3rd series that I have read fro...

Filthy Secret by Serena Akeroyd Secrets —you know my family is founded on them. You just don’t know how much they’re suffocating us. Lies —my marriage hinges on one. You know that I picked the wrong woman. I kept the past buried like a coward. Now, I feel the constraints of my choices like they’re a chokehold. I shouldn’t have chosen Lena over Aoife. I know that it’s time to tell her the truth. It’s time to deal with the consequences of my actions. Aoife deserves to be my judge, jury, and executioner. If she burns down the house with me in it, well, that’s on me and my filthy secrets… This is Aoife O’Grady’s story… My Review: Mood?  dark   lighthearted   tense   Pace? medium Plot- or character-driven?  A mix Strong character development?  Yes Loveable characters?  Yes Diverse cast of characters?  N/A Flaws of characters a main focus?  Yes My rating: 5 of 5 stars Love this series  I love the series I cannot wait to s...

Filthy Hot by Serena Akeroyd The second our eyes meet, I feel it. The ticking clock. It's only a matter of time before we come together. Before the heat that arcs between us turns into a conflagration. But he's a mobster. An O’Donnelly. His notoriety is legendary. I'm a journalist. I expose men like him, which is how I built my reputation. Manipulating the truth is how the Five Points forged their name. It's why he's one of NYC's most eligible bachelors, after all. Whereas for me, the truth is my calling. My purpose. With my life on the line, will I risk it all once more to find safety in the arms of a filthy hot O’Donnelly? Read our story in this opposites attract mafia romance, Filthy Hot, the fifth book in the Five Points' Mob Collection.   My Review: Mood?  emotional tense dark Pace?   medium Plot- or character-driven?   A mix Strong character development?    Yes   Loveable characters?   Yes Diverse cast of characters?   N/a...

The Cruiser by Rowan Rossler The jet-set romance romp of 2022! Morgan de Rohan-Chabot is Monaco’s most notorious yacht designer. A maverick playboy with a reputation for leaving a trail of broken hearts in his wake. Young, talented, not to mention sexy AF, he’s also got a boatload of attitude. In other words, he’s my perfect public relations challenge. So what if he’s trouble with a capital T? I’m a pro. Vandana Hillman: the Queen of Luxury PR. My life’s just blown up, I need a distraction, and Morgan wants me to join him on the glittering shores of Monaco to help him land a conservative Saudi Prince as a client. Ten days. In and out. No biggie, right? What could possibly go wrong?   My Review  Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%. My rating: 1 of 5 stars I do not like this book at all to me it was too slow and too confusing to even get into it for me that is why I had to DNF  

Filthy Sex by Serena Akeroyd He was the last man I should turn to. A forbidden taboo that no woman wanted to cross. Worse still, he’s no one’s idea of a white knight. But this pawn has no alternative. I’m locked in a war that’s not of my making, and I’m tied to a destiny I have no say in. For someone like me, Brennan O’Donnelly represents something intangible safety. A single promise unlocks options I didn’t dare dream of possessing... A future. A family . He’s hard. He’s dangerous. He’s  filthy . Yet, somehow, he’s exactly what I crave. Now I just need to make him see me for what I am—his Queen. If he’ll have me.   My Review: Mood?  emotional tense dark Pace?   medium Plot- or character-driven?   A mix Strong character development?    Yes   Loveable characters?   Yes Diverse cast of characters?   N/a Flaws of characters a main focus?   Yes My rating: 5 of 5 stars This series is very good This series is very goo...

Filthy Dark by Serena Akeroyd Declan As a made man, obligations are my middle name. As a Five Pointer? Those obligations are even more complicated. I fell for her when I belonged to another. Another I didn’t love. Another I loathed. Who trapped me in a vise, and blackmailed me into being hers. I was born a filthy fecker, dragged kicking and screaming into a cold, hard world. My son isn't like me. He isn't filthy. I don't want to pollute him, but I will. Because I’m a b*stard. Born filthy. I don't want that for Seamus. I want to step up. Be the father he deserves. And Aela? I want her just as much as I want to be a part of his life. Of course, she's nothing like I imagined. When I first wanted to wife her, she was young. Pliable. Now? She won't take what I want to give her. She wants it all. Every part of me. But my heart died a long time ago. If anyone can resuscitate it, it's her, but first, I need to become a better man. And that might be the...

Do You Want Me? by W. Winters USA Today best-selling author, Willow Winters, brings you an all-consuming, sizzling romance featuring an epic antihero you won't soon forget. Some love stories are a slow burn. Others are quick to ignite, scorching and branding your very soul before you’ve taken that first breath. You’re never given a chance to run from it. That’s how I’d describe what happened to us. Everything around me blurred and all that existed were his lips, his touch… The chase and the heat between us became addictive. Our nights together were a distraction, one we craved to the point of letting the world crumble around us. We should have paid more attention; we should have known that it would come to this. We both knew it couldn’t last, but that didn’t change what we desired most. All we wanted was each other… This is part one of an epic tale of both betrayal and all-consuming love.   My Review: Mood?  emotional tense dark Pace?   medium Plot- or char...

Stark Springs Academy Complete Series by Ali Dean Binge read this enemies to lovers sports romance series! A feisty ski racer meets her match in a cocky snowboarder at a boarding school for elite winter athletes in this fast-paced trilogy! Set includes the complete series: (1) Black Diamond (2) Double Black (3) Black Ice. It's not a place for the weak No one here tolerates wimps. If you can't handle it, leave. Welcome to Stark Springs, Colorado, home to the most talented young athletes in the world. When Roxie Slade snaps into a pair of skis, there's no one on Sugarville Mountain in Vermont who can keep up with her. Not even the boys. Still, Roxie was shocked when she received a scholarship to Stark Springs Academy, a boarding school that churns out Olympians in each graduating class. Entering as a high school junior, Roxie can't wait to learn from renowned coaches and train with the fastest ski racers from all over the globe. But upon arrival, Roxie disco...

The Piece That Fits by N.J. Gray Since that haunting accident years ago, Avery Fox has always followed her head and not her heart. With good grades, a future career in medicine, and a boyfriend ready to take the next step, it seems like she has everything she could ever want. But soon, the facade of her flawless life fades, and she questions every decision she’s made. With nowhere else to turn, Avery is forced to move in with her brother and his bandmates of A Quiet Peril—the band they started in high school that is now touring across the nation and selling out everywhere they go. Following her head is a lot easier said than done before Liam Lockwood enters her life again. Because when deep-rooted anger and hatred for her brother’s best friend turn to growing affection and burning desire, she wants nothing more than to follow her heart. But there’s a reason she’s always made the controlled choice, and when her heart takes the lead, the secret of what really caused that...

Secret Puck by Rebecca Jenshak Secretly hooking up with the team captain's sister was a bad idea. In my defense, the first time I saw her I didn't know who she was. Kind, gorgeous, a little naïve. Ginny brightened my world from day one. I knew I was no good for her. She was just out of a relationship, and I had a reputation for having a new girl in my bed every weekend. I tried to do the right thing. Honest. I'm the one who insisted we should be just friends. That lasted about as long as you'd expect. But Ginny? She's the best - best friend, best everything. So yeah, hooking up with the team captain's sister wasn't a great idea. Would I do it again? In a heartbeat. The first book in a new college hockey romance series. My Review: Mood?  lighthearted Pace?   medium Plot- or character-driven?   A mix Strong character development?    Yes   Loveable characters?   Yes Diverse cast of characters?   N/a Flaws of characters a main focus...

Curvy Girls Can't Date Cowboys by Kelsie Stelting The one thing my parents can’t shelter me from is my heart. I nearly died the summer of my eighth-grade year, and ever since then, my parents have done everything they could to keep me healthy. Now I’m a senior, and instead of feeling safe, I’m suffocating. When my parents take my twin sisters out of town for an audition, I have my chance to show them that I’m responsible. That I can go to college on my own and start a life outside of their organic food store and Emerson Academy. All I have to do is turn in all my assignments and have a few quiet nights at home. No problem. That is, until my video project partner decides to be a total flake. Ray may be hot and fill out a pair of Wrangler jeans like nobody’s business, but he is not ruining my chance at freedom. I go to his family’s ranch to get his help, but instead discover something else. Could everything my parents taught me be wrong? Unless I act fast, my quiet week...

Curvy Girls Can't Date Billionaires by Kelsie Stelting There are three things I hate: rich people, boys, and Kai Rush. Kai happens to be all three. He and his dad have all the money in the world from the game app they created, and what do they do with it? They buy private helicopters and flaunt their brand new Teslas. Never mind that people like my mom and I work multiple jobs just to keep our crappy apartment and pay for back medical bills because my dad ran scared and left us alone. So when my mom tells me we have a new cleaning job at the Rush’s before school, I’m peeved. When he starts texting me, I’m floored. Fit billionaires like him and plus-sized scholarship kids like me barely belong at Emerson Academy together, much less in the same message thread. How can I get him to see I'm not the catch he thinks I am? More importantly, how can I get my heart to stay on the same page?   My Review: Mood?  lighthearted Pace?   medium Plot- or character-driven? ...

Never Have I Ever Fallen for a Movie Star by Juliet Bardsley Can being from two different worlds keep them apart? Noah Wells has been the “it” movie star of teen rom-coms for the past two years — he’s successful, talented, but is ready to take on more serious roles. When his latest flick The Kissing Tower brings him to Cedar Oaks, he never intends to meet Addie, let alone fall for her. Addie Schrader claims she has no time for fun. When she’s not at school, she’s teaching dance at a local studio or serving food at her Uncle Mike’s diner. But when the famed and gorgeous Noah Wells shows up, Addie wonders if it’s time to start really living. Addie falls hard for Noah, but will that be enough to overcome his celebrity, the paparazzi, and her loyalty to her small hometown? All books in the  Never Ever Love  series are short, sweet, swoon-worthy, and can be read in any order!   My Review: Mood?  lighthearted Pace?   fast Plot- or character-driven? ...

Never Have I Ever Dated the Bad Boy by Juliet Bardsley How can the wrong guy be so right? Paige Locklear has prided herself on her perfection: first chair violinist, straight A student, well-behaved daughter of Cedar Oaks High's principal. The last thing she needs at the end of her senior year is to get distracted. Enter Liam Harwick. For his entire life, Liam's been known as Cedar Oaks' resident bad boy. Rumor has it he's been kicked out of more schools than he can count and has a penchant for all things mischief. But when he meets Paige Locklear, a different, sweeter side of Liam is exposed. But can others see past his reputation? Paige and Liam couldn't be any different; the good girl isn't supposed to fall for the bad boy. But you know what they say about opposites attracting ... This is book 3 in the  Never Ever Love  series by Juliet Bardsley. Each book in the series is short (novella-length), sweet, swoon-worthy, and can be read in any order...