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REVIEW – PAYBACK’S A BITCH (Awkward Love, #6) by Missy Johnson

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SYNOPSIS

I’m the girl who likes ‘the cock in the back hole.’

At least, that’s what the dating profile my so-called friends set up for me claims. I’m also into BDSM, Furries and ‘I’ll try anything twice.’

I have no idea the profile exists until the replies start rolling in. They range from funny, to downright creepy and everything in between. Just as I’m shutting down my email account for good, a new message pops up.

He’s funny and he’s the only one to suspect the profile is a joke, so I think what the hell? I reply.

When he suggests that we meet, I say yes. When I walk into that bar, he’s sitting at a table, facing the other way. He turns his head just enough for me to be able to make out his face…

Fuck.

It’s Cameron Hunter, one of the rudest, most arrogant assholes I’ve ever had the displeasure of meeting. He’s also the son of one of the state’s most influential judges.

The same judge who’s about to become my step-father…

 

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*****FOUR STARS*****
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PAYBACK’S A BITCH, the sixth installment of the ”Awkward Love” series by Missy Johnson, is filled with many laugh-out-loud and steamy moments. This is a sweet and oftentimes silly “stepbrother” romance, and I really enjoyed it. Darcy was the crazy best-friend of the Heroine from ”DON’T GO THERE”. I thought she was just a ditzy and immature twenty-year-old, but in her story, I actually felt a little sorry for her.

Darcy’s birthday is on April 1st and her two besties make it a ritual to play some really extremely horrible practical jokes on her. Honestly, with friends like that, she really doesn’t need enemies. They place a kinky and disturbing ad up on some fetish dating website under Darcy’s name and she starts to receive some bizarre text messages and calls. One sicko actually shows up at her parent’s house and confronts her. Luckily, her soon to be step-brother, Cameron, comes to her rescue. Darcy and Cameron have a hate/hate relationship and enjoy slinging verbal insults at each other, but deep down there’s a simmering attraction burning between them.

Cameron decides to teach Darcy a lesson and reaches out to her regarding her personal add under an alias, and they soon begin an online romance. As time passes, they’re both starting to develop real feelings, but Darcy has no idea that her online love interest is actually Cameron. Cameron knows he has to come clean, but will Darcy be understanding when she finds out that Cameron has been lying to her or will she end up hating him forever?

This one turned out to be my favorite of this series. I thought the plot was entertaining and the characters were likable. I found myself laughing out loud almost throughout the entire book. I even learned about a really disturbing and nasty sexual fetish that actually made me a little nauseous!!

Here are my overall ratings:

Hero: 4.5
Heroine: 4
Plot: 4
Angst: 3.5
Steam: 4
Chemistry Between Hero & Heroine: 4.5

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COVER REVEAL – THE HOOKUP HANDBOOK by Kendall Ryan

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My love wand is on a strike.

As bad as that blows, pun unintended, it’s ten times worse for me. I’m a male escort, but not just any escort, I’m the escort. The one with a mile-long waiting list and a pristine reputation that’s very well-deserved.

Only now, I’m on hiatus. Because after years of pleasing women all over the city, my man missile decides to get finicky. And the only woman he wants? Someone I can never have—my best friend’s younger sister, the nerdy and awkwardly adorable Sienna.

She’s working at the agency this summer, keeping me organized, handling paperwork, and most importantly, keeping me on track to finish writing my book about sex and intimacy, which is due to my publisher in thirty days.

She thinks I hate her, that I don’t want her here. The truth is much more twisted. I get hard every time she walks into my office. Her wide blue eyes and pouty mouth drive me wild with desire, and if she stays, I’m not sure how much longer I can stay away from her.

Little Miss Overachiever says she’s here to help? Fine. I’m going to put her nerdy, curvy tush to work.

 

 

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REVIEW – DON’T GO THERE (Awkward Love, #5) by Missy Johnson

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SYNOPSIS

Vodka should come with a warning:

Mixing with Karaoke will make you do stupid shit, like sing that song you wrote when you were fourteen, about the boy who broke your heart.

At least he didn’t see it.

Oh wait. He did.

I should’ve just stayed home. The only reason I came was to stop Lily from doing something stupid, like crash her ex-boyfriend’s wedding.

When I open my hotel room door to find Adam standing there, that sexy smirk tells me he’s hasn’t changed. He’s still the same arrogant asshole who made my childhood hell.

He insists on driving us home, and while he’s the last person I want to be around, he and I both know it’s a bad idea for Lily to be anywhere near that wedding.

I’m on the road trip from hell with my heartbroken cousin, and the one guy I can’t stand.

What was I thinking?

 

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*****FOUR STARS*****
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DON’T GO THERE is a crazy and hilarious second chance romance which at times felt like the female version of the blockbuster hit movie, ”The Hangover”. Katie winds up in Vegas after her cousin Lily, convinces her to accompany her, but what she doesn’t know is that Lily’s ex-boyfriend is getting married and she wants to confront him before he walks down the aisle. The girls end up in a Karaoke bar and after having a little too much to drink, Katie gives the performance of a lifetime, singing a song she wrote when she was fourteen for her high school crush. The next day she finds out her cousin video recorded her singing and that it’s been sent to everyone on Lily’s contact list.

Adam, the high-school crush, happens to be in Vegas as well. He’s actually the best-man at Julian’s, Lily’s ex, wedding. A friend shows him the video of Katie and soon enough he’s on a mission to find Katie and her friends, under the guise of keeping them away from Julian. He has ulterior motives and the story got a little confusing until almost three-quarters of the way through it.

 

 

I think the comedic banter between Katie and Adam, and the plot with regards to Lily trying to break up the wedding was truly enough to make this an entertaining story. There wasn’t really a need for all of the other twists in the plot, and Adam’s tragic family history felt out of place. The story would have been even better if the author had stuck with the comedic aspect.

I can’t say that I didn’t enjoy this one though. There were several times that I laughed out loud and I loved the chemistry between Adam and Katie. The ”Awkward Love”series is one of my favorites written by Missy Johnson.

Here are my overall ratings:

Hero: 4
Heroine: 4
Plot: 3.5
Angst: 2
Steam: 4
Chemistry Between Hero & Heroine: 4.5

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BLOG TOUR – JOCK RULE (Jock Hard, #2) by Sara Ney

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Kip Carmichael is no pretty boy.

He’s a rough. Dirty. Giant. Hair so unruly, and a beard so thick, his friends on the team call him Sasquatch.

The first time Sasquatch lays eyes on Theodora “Teddy” Johnson across the keg at a party one night on Jock Row, she’d been relegated to the sidelines by her jock hungry “friends.”

Week-after-week, he watches beautiful but bashful Teddy getting overshadowed, and overlooked. Sasquatch finally broad shoulders his way through the crowd, offering to to be her hairy godmother. But the minute their eyes meet? He’s a goner.

Teaching her the RULES for winning a jock will be the easy part. Not falling in love with her is going to be a losing game.

 

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BLOG TOUR – ACROSS THE HORIZON by Aly Martinez

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“Sometimes love happens when you least expect it.” That was what my husband’s mistress told me the day I found out about their affair.

I didn’t believe it until five minutes later when mouth-watering celebrity chef Tanner Reese walked up, tossed his arm around my shoulders, and told my cheating husband to take a hike.

Tanner and I couldn’t have been more different. He spent his weekends at clubs, rubbing elbows with fellow A-listers. I spent mine in yoga pants with cheese boards and a glass of wine—or six.

Our relationship shouldn’t have worked, but it did. That is until Tanner proved to me that even though love happens when you least expect it…

So does heartbreak.

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I shifted the phone to my other ear and asked her, “Did you just get in bed?”

“If, by bed, you mean carrying a glass of wine out back to swing in the hammock, maybe.”

I bit my bottom lip, my head falling back against the headrest. For most men, this would have been an innocuous statement. But for a hammock connoisseur like myself, this was the normal guy equivalent of her saying that she liked to give blowjobs during halftime.

“You have a hammock out back?”

There was a delay in her response, which was followed by a subtle kiss of her lips on what I assumed was a wine glass. “Don’t knock it until you try it. It’s one of the most underrated luxuries in outdoor furniture.”

“Oh, I’m not knocking anything. Rope or quilted?”

“Mayan, actually.”

“Oh, sweet heavenly baby Jesus, she’s beautiful and knows her hammocks. I’ve never been so turned on in my life.”

She giggled, pausing for another sip. “You know, if you leaked this hammock fetish to the press, you could probably increase demand by five million percent and singlehandedly lower the country’s unemployment rate.”

Okay, so at some point during the day, she’d figured out who I was.

But! Even with this knowledge, she was trying to avoid a date with me and was not elbow-deep in planning our televised wedding. This was a definite plus in my book.

“Yeah, but then, when I talked to beautiful women like yourself, I’d have no idea if the hammock was your idea or a ploy to impress me.”

“Jeez, that’s sad, Tanner,” she said, her sweet Southern accent like a wave rolling over my name.

I’d meant it as a joke, but it was the absolute truth when it came to dating. Early on in my career, I’d done a rapid-fire interview about my personal life. One of the questions had been: What would your ideal woman order on the first date? Truth be told, the only thing I hoped my ideal woman would order was something she wanted. I didn’t factor into that. But I’d been on my last question in my last interview of the last day of a month-long press tour. My face had hurt from fake smiling, I’d been in desperate need of a shower, a smoke, and sleep, and my mind had been mush, so I’d prattled off the first thing that had come to mind: shrimp and grits.

That one little answer somehow made it onto my Wiki page, and after that, every woman I’d taken out ordered shrimp and grits. One of them even had a shellfish allergy and nearly ended up in the hospital. And this insanity was not limited to women outside of the spotlight.

I’d once gone on a date with America’s princess of pop, Levee Williams. We’d hit it off at a charity event. For one of the most famous women in the world, she was a surprisingly nice girl, gorgeous, and funny as all get out. But the first time I took her out? One guess what she ordered.

I was at the end of my rope with dating and lost my freaking mind before storming out like an asshole. That night, as I was reporting shrimp and fucking grits as an error to Wiki, I noticed that her page listed it as her favorite food. I’d never had the balls to contact her again, and I once hid behind a palm tree on Rodeo Drive when I heard the clamoring of paparazzi calling her name. But that’s neither here nor there.

In short, while finding a woman was all too easy, dating was hard.

But that wasn’t about to stop me from trying with Rita.

 

 

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Never one to take herself too seriously, she enjoys cheap wine, mystery leggings, and baked feta. It should be known, however, that she hates pizza and ice cream, almost as much as writing her bio in the third person.

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REVIEW – ACROSS THE HORIZON by Aly Martinez

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SYNOPSIS

“Sometimes love happens when you least expect it.” That was what my husband’s mistress told me the day I found out about their affair.

I didn’t believe it until five minutes later when mouth-watering celebrity chef Tanner Reese walked up, tossed his arm around my shoulders, and told my cheating husband to take a hike.

Tanner and I couldn’t have been more different. He spent his weekends at clubs, rubbing elbows with fellow A-listers. I spent mine in yoga pants with cheese boards and a glass of wine—or six.

Our relationship shouldn’t have worked, but it did. That is until Tanner proved to me that even though love happens when you least expect it…

So does heartbreak.

 

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*****FOUR STARS*****
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”ACROSS THE HORIZON” is a spin-off of the Darkest Sunriseduet. The couple in this story is Porter’s younger brother and Charlotte’s best friend. We met Tanner and Rita in the previous story and knew that they became romantically involved but never got their backstory until now. Their romance starts at about the same time that Porter and Charlotte’s did, but without all the crazy drama, and luckily we don’t have to relive it in this book!

 

 

Rita meets Tanner not long after her marriage falls apart when she finds out her husband has been having an affair. All signs would point to Tanner being a rebound for Rita, but as the story unfolds it becomes clear that these two were meant to be.

 

 

While I thought the story was enjoyable it was nowhere near as good as the previous books. There was a little bit of drama and angst, and a good dose of steam, but the story was missing that spark I come to expect from an Aly Martinez book. It’s still worth picking up for those who are fans of this author. I did love Tanner and I think readers are going to fall for him as well.

 

 

Here are my overall ratings:

Hero: 4.5
Heroine: 4
Plot: 4
Angst: 4
Steam: 4.5
Chemistry Between Hero & Heroine: 4

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REVIEW – JOCK RULE (Jock Hard, #2) by Sara Ney

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SYNOPSIS

Kip Carmichael is no pretty boy.

He’s a rough. Dirty. Giant. Hair so unruly, and a beard so thick, his friends on the team call him Sasquatch.

The first time Sasquatch lays eyes on Theodora “Teddy” Johnson across the keg at a party one night on Jock Row, she’d been relegated to the sidelines by her jock hungry “friends.”

Week-after-week, he watches beautiful but bashful Teddy getting overshadowed, and overlooked. Sasquatch finally broad shoulders his way through the crowd, offering to to be her hairy godmother. But the minute their eyes meet? He’s a goner.

Teaching her the RULES for winning a jock will be the easy part. Not falling in love with her is going to be a losing game.

 

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JOCK RULE starts off almost exactly the same as JOCK HARD did. At first, I was a little annoyed. The only difference was that the Hero was a rugby player instead of a baseball player, and it seemed to take entirely too long for things to spark between the couple but once it did, the story started to get interesting.

 

 

Kip Carmichael is huge and extremely hairy. His hair is usually up in a messy bun with different colored scrunchies and his beard is long and out of control. But underneath the forest of hair is one seriously fine specimen of a man. He comes from a very wealthy family and got tired of girls pursuing him because of his bank account. So becoming a living breathing Sasquatch is his way of scaring all the women away.

 

 

Kip sees a cute but somewhat awkward girl at the Rugby team’s house party three Fridays in a row and decides to take pity on her by offering his services as her ”hairy godmother”. He thinks she could use some tips on how to attract the opposite sex. They fall into an easy friendship. Their easy-going banter is silly and hilarious. Kip is just a gigantic softie. At times he seems almost as innocent and naïve as Teddy. I loved their chemistry.

 

 

Things between Kip and Teddy start off innocent and their interactions are hilarious but there is incredible chemistry between them and the steamy scenes are off the charts HOT! Overall, I thought this story was a pretty fun, sweet and sexy good time!

This is my last arc for 2018! Not a bad way to end the year with regards to blog reviews!

Here are my overall ratings:

Hero: 4.5
Heroine: 4
Plot: 4
Angst: 4
Steam: 4
Chemistry Between Hero & Heroine: 4.5

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LIVE – UNLEASHED: AN OGG’s POINT NOVEL by L.A. Fiore & Anthony Dwayne

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Title: Unleashed
An Ogg’s Point Novel
Authors: L.A. Fiore & Anthony Dwayne
Genre: Contemporary Romance/Romantic Suspense
Release Date: December 7, 2018

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The quaint town of Ogg’s Point rests on the rocky coasts of
Maine. Native Rutledge Raines left home with no plans of returning, but years
later he is drawn back to sell his late grandmother’s house. He never imagined
the mundane task would drop the annoying but sexy Peyton Morgan into his life.
Being home forces him to remember why he left in the first place because even
small towns have secrets lurking in the shadows. When those demons are
unleashed, Rut, Peyton and Ogg’s Point will never be the same.

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Anthony started writing years ago as a hobby, but it quickly
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scruffy face, work boots on, driving his truck and definitely not a guy you’d
picture writing romance. Anthony works in the construction business where he
runs his own crew. He has two awesome boys, and an amazing woman that keeps him
on the edge. He drinks way too much coffee and probably curses in one day
what others curse in their lifetime. Lol! Anthony resides in the south
where the weather is warm but most times sweltering hot. During down time, he
loves to be surrounded by family, friends, great food, or engrossed in a good
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LIVE – VERITY by Colleen Hoover

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“Sublimely creepy with a true Hoover pulse. I’ve been waiting on a thriller like this for years.” Tarryn Fisher, New York Times bestselling author

Verity, an all-new romantic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, is available now!

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Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.

Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity likely didn’t intend for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity’s recollection of the night their family was forever altered.

Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue to love her.

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LIVE – JOCK RULE (Jock Hard, #2) by Sara Ney

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Kip Carmichael is no pretty boy.

He’s a rough. Dirty. Giant. Hair so unruly, and a beard so thick, his friends on the team call him Sasquatch.

The first time Sasquatch lays eyes on Theodora “Teddy” Johnson across the keg at a party one night on Jock Row, she’d been relegated to the sidelines by her jock hungry “friends.”

Week-after-week, he watches beautiful but bashful Teddy getting overshadowed, and overlooked. Sasquatch finally broad shoulders his way through the crowd, offering to to be her hairy godmother. But the minute their eyes meet? He’s a goner.

Teaching her the RULES for winning a jock will be the easy part. Not falling in love with her is going to be a losing game.

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Sara Ney is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the How to Date a Douchebag series, and is best known for her sexy, laugh-out-loud New Adult romances. Among her favorite vices, she includes: iced latte’s, historical architecture and well-placed sarcasm. She lives colorfully, collects vintage books, art, loves flea markets, and fancies herself British.

She lives with her husband, children, and her ridiculously large dog.

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