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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Royal Pickle by J.J. Knight

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Title: Royal Pickle
Author: JJ Knight
Genre: Standalone Romantic Comedy
Release Date: February 28, 2022
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He’s a prince who can’t keep his pants on. She writes dirty limericks in a Brooklyn deli. Their spontaneous royal wedding is a match made in mayhem.
I have to find a wife.
And not just any wife.
A love match.
My parents gave me ten years to find a princess on my own, and the deadline has arrived.
I’ve outrun the palace guards for months, but due to an incident with a rooster Speedo that went viral, they have tracked me to America.
I’m not known for my stellar taste in the opposite sex. The last one put my naked pictures on Instagram.
But there is this one girl. I saw her in a New York deli making sandwiches. She helped me escape the photographers.
Smart. Beautiful. Quick-witted.
Yes. I choose her.
Now all I have to do in convince her to marry me.
In the next seven days.
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Royal Pickle is a standalone romantic comedy about a prince on the run, a poet with a dream, and a made-up European country where everyone likes to sing and dance. With donkeys.
You do not have to read the rest of the Pickleverse to enjoy Royal Pickle, which is the love story of Sunny, the last unmarried Pickle cousin. You can start right here.
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EXCERPT
“I like the sneaky workings of your brilliant mind.” The Prince tugs the Pickle deli hat low on his head, almost obscuring those devilish eyes.
We cross the kitchen to the back door, Rachel trailing behind.
He tugs it open and peers out. “Which way?”
I point down the alley. “Head to that street, then to the right two blocks. The photographers are headed the other way.”
He turns to grin at me. “You’re really saving me here. Can I kiss you?”
I take a step back. “Uh. No.”
“Damn. I never like to leave a beautiful girl unkissed. Handshake then?”
I hold mine out. “Sure.”
He grips my palm and my whole body feels electrified, like he carries a charge. I stare at my hand after he lets it go.
He touches the hat brim, and then he’s gone.
Rachel peers out the door. “Awww, Sunny, why didn’t you kiss him?” She crosses her arms over her green deli apron. “I could have been your waiting lady or something.”
I push the door closed. “If he kisses every girl he sees, he doesn’t sound like happily-ever-after material.”
Rachel kicks out her hip. “He didn’t ask to kiss ME.”

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Sunny Shelly’s Review

Pickle cousin Sunny Packwood finds her prince in this new Pickle series book. Royal Pickle is absolutely charming!

Prince Leopold needs to find a bride or be forced to marry one of his father’s choosing. He’s been sleeping his way around Europe and America when he stumbles into the deli Sunny and Grammy Alma run in Brooklyn — literally running from the paparazzi. He’s smitten by Sunny, especially since she doesn’t know who he is nor does she care. A few hours later, unable to forget the kindness she showed him, Leo thinks that Sunny can solve his problem and he proposes marriage.

The connection between Sunny and Leo is so great. I loved how these two got to know one another, and how they overcame the cultural differences. Especially when Leo takes American colloquialisms so literally. Their mutual attraction and fondness quickly grows into instalove. Go along for the ride as Sunny — who feels stuck in her life — travels to this small, little-known European country and gets the royal treatment as the prince’s fiancee. Well, kinda. There is family drama since the King does not approve of the American his son has chosen, and a whole lot of misunderstanding that threatens to come between the bride and groom’s royal wedding.

There are a few scenes with Sunny’s cousins, the Pickle brothers, towards the end of the book when the wedding madness takes place. But the bulk of this story takes place at Leo’s castle, so the supporting characters we get to know well are his sisters, Lilli and Octavia. I enjoyed those two girls so much, and really hope that this series gets a spinoff to include them!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Because You’re Mine by S.A. Clayton

NEW RELEASE
Release Date: February 21

Quinn can’t see a way out of this mess.

Her uncle just passed away, leaving her his struggling pub and she’s fighting to keep her head above water.

The only bright spot of her days is when Wes comes in.

Wes, the boy that she had a crush on in high school and who just moved back to town.

When Wes asks her out, she wonders if she can really handle a new relationship on top of everything else on her plate.

Wes can’t stay away.

He just got back to town and has been stopping by Quinn’s pub every night for a chance to see the feisty woman that he’s always had a crush on.

When he sees how stressed she is, all he wants to do is help, but Quinn turns him down.

When Wes goes behind her back to help, will Quinn be able to forgive him or will Wes lose the girl of his dreams?

 

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Because You’re Mine was a quick hit — it took me about an hour during a car ride to read the whole thing — and a steamy friends-to-lovers story.

Quinn and Wes kind of circled each other back in high school. She runs the local bar where he hangs out, and he finally asks her out after showing up night after night. But she has a lot on her plate with trying to keep the bar afloat, and puts Wes off at first. Just as they start dating, Wes makes a business decision that has major effects on Quinn. Will she see that he had her best interest in mind because she belongs to him and him to her?

I enjoyed the flirtation between Wes and Quinn, and how he was just there as a support for so long. It kind of bothered me a bit how they went from a first kiss to fooling around so quickly, just because I liked the development of their relationship and wanted to see more first before it got that physical. But despite that, I enjoyed the way this story unfolded.

This is the first book I’ve read by SA Clayton, and I will definitely keep her on my radar.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet S.A. Clayton

 

 

S.A. Clayton lives in a small town outside of Toronto, Canada with her husband of five years and her scary large collection of books that seem to take over every room.
She has worked on both sides of the publishing industry, both in a bookstore and for actual publishing companies. Although she loved both for different reasons, she found that writing was her true passion and has spent the last few years breaking into the industry as best she can.
She is a lover of all things romance and began her writing journey in her late twenties. Since then, she has immersed herself in the romance genre and couldn’t be happier.
When she’s not writing or reading, she enjoys binging a great Netflix show (Stranger Things anyone?), baking (because who doesn’t love cookies!) and spending time with her family. 

 
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Reunion, by Meghan Quinn

 

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THE REUNION by Meghan Quinn

Release Date: February 22, 2022

Genre/Tropes: Romantic Comedy/Contemporary Romance

Montlake Publishing

 

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Blurb:

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Wedding Game comes a new romantic comedy about the antics that ensue when three siblings come together for their parents’ fiftieth-anniversary party.

Martin and Peggy Chance believe love should last a lifetime. With their fiftieth wedding anniversary on the horizon, they’ve modeled a beautiful relationship for their three grown children. But to their dismay, that lesson hasn’t quite caught on—the three siblings just can’t seem to take a chance and find love in their own lives.

There’s Ford, the eldest, devoted to his work and resistant to romance…or so he claims. Cooper, the middle child, can’t get past his divorce—until he reconnects with a feisty baker from his past. And Palmer, the baby of the family, is the free-spirited world traveler who always pictured herself with someone other than a handsome small-town family doctor.

When the Chance siblings come together to plan the ultimate anniversary party for their parents, they’ll have to navigate romantic entanglements, sibling rivalries, and the definitive end of their childhood. Whatever happens, The Reunion promises to be a fun, flirty, wild ride.

 

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Excerpt:

TO: Family and Friends
FROM: Cooper Chance
SUBJECT: 50th Wedding Anniversary
You’re invited to celebrate the 50th wedding Anniversary of Peggy and Martin.
· Food and drinks.
· Music.
· Fun.
Party is at the original Watchful Wanderers store.
Sunday, June 2nd.
RSVP to Cooper Chance—just reply to this email
No presents.
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TO: Cooper Chance, Ford Chance
FROM: Palmer Chance
SUBJECT: Re: 50th Wedding Anniversary
Bro,
Please do not tell me you just sent a wedding anniversary invite through an email? Did that just happen?
Palmer—your not-so-happy sister
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TO: Palmer Chance, Ford Chance
FROM: Cooper Chance
SUBJECT: I Did
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TO: Cooper Chance, Ford Chance
FROM: Palmer Chance
SUBJECT: Re: I Did
You know I hate it when you respond in the subject line. It’s more work to delete the subject line and type in your response, than to just reply in the body of the email.
But ignoring that, what happened to the beautiful linen invites I picked out? You can’t just send an email for Mom and Dad’s 50th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. We look so . . . uncultured.
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TO: Palmer Chance, Ford Chance
FROM: Cooper Chance
SUBJECT: Re: I Did
The invites you wanted to purchase were going to be twelve dollars a pop. TWELVE dollars, Palmer. That’s a waste of money, a waste of resources, and just a useless way to kill more trees. Also, while you’re out galivanting around the world, who do you think was going to have to address all of those?
Me.
So, I did what was easiest. Sent an email. If you don’t like it, too bad.
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TO: Cooper Chance, Ford Chance
FROM: Palmer Chance
SUBJECT: Re: I Did
You realize the family owns a multi-billion dollar, franchised, outdoors store, right? Twelve dollars an invite is a blip in the pool of gold Mom and Dad are sitting in. Now we look like cheap asses who send out a wedding anniversary invitation through email. You’re an editor, but you didn’t even beef up the text. You made bullet points.
Food.
Drinks.
Music.
Fun.
^^^ Yup, screams fun, Coop.
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TO: Palmer Chance, Ford Chance
FROM: Cooper Chance
SUBJECT: Re: I Did
Once again, if you’re not here, you can’t have an opinion.
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TO: Cooper Chance, Palmer Chance
FROM: Ford Chance
SUBJECT: Re: I did
Just catching up.
The invitation is less than ideal, especially for such a large and monumental event in our parents’ lives, parents who have given us every opportunity to succeed in life. I think we need to treat this anniversary with a little more appreciation and a little less complaining about the time and effort we have to put forth in order to make it happen.
I just spoke with Larkin and she is ordering the linen invites, having them shipped overnight, and we will have them sent out ASAP. We will treat the email as a funny save the date. I will reply all and tell everyone to expect a formal invitation in the mail.
Larkin and I will be flying out to Washington on Tuesday. We will be working up until the anniversary party on some very time-consuming tasks. Please be conscious of our time and energy.
I’ll be sure to have Larkin schedule in some meetings to go over all party arrangements as well as time with the family, but we won’t be staying with Mom and Dad. We booked two rooms at the Marina Island Bed and Breakfast, one being the attic suite so we can conduct business in private.
Please send your itineraries to Larkin and any requests so she can schedule them in.
Thank you.
Ford
 
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Buckle up for The Reunion! Messy family drama, bickering siblings, three romances and a whole lot of big emotions are packed into 60 chapters of this wonderful story. I’m a member of Meghan Quinn’s review team, so I’ve known for a while that this girthy book was coming readers’ way. And it is epic!

The three Chance siblings, Cooper, Ford, and Palmer, used to be super close, but bad feelings and miscommunication has caused a rift between them. They try to put together an anniversary party for their parents and fail miserably as old hurts come to the surface and their fragile relationships become more strained. MQ beautifully wrote the POV from each sibling as well as their prospective partners: Nora, Larkin, and Beau.

What I found even more brilliant was the way she detailed how each sibling felt in relation to their position (or lack therefore) in the family business. Ford feels all the weight of the company on his shoulders as CEO, Palmer desperately wants to be involved but doesn’t think she deserves to be because of a secret she’s hiding from the past, and Cooper resents his siblings for being so far away, leaving him to care for their aging parents and can’t get Ford to take him seriously bc of decisions he’d made in the past. Decisions he made with his parents in mind.

I read The One Night, which is a prequel novella and sets up the one-night stand between Cooper and Nora, his ex-wife’s best friend. I was dying to see how these two were going to make it work, because Cooper is in such a bad place after his divorce. His life is a mess, he hates his job, he resents his siblings.

This book is so well done! Not just the individual romances, but the family drama as well. Great job, MQ!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

 

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About the Author:

USA Today Bestselling Author, wife, adoptive mother, and peanut butter lover. Author of romantic comedies and contemporary romance, Meghan Quinn brings readers the perfect combination of heart, humor, and heat in every book.

 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: A Very Vegas St. Patrick’s Day by Kayley Loring & Connor Crais

𝐀 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐕𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐬 𝐒𝐭. 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤’𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐲 𝐊𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐢𝐧 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝!

#𝟏-𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲!

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You might think the problem would be waking up in Vegas, hungover,

next to a beautiful woman who’s wearing your boxer briefs

and finding out ya married her in the middle of an epic drunken night of festivities.

But you’d be wrong.

I, Nolan Cassidy, international charmer and maker of mischief have fallen head over heels for Cora Delaney.

I want to be married to the lass.

So you might think the problem would be that she wants an annulment.

But again you’d be wrong—stop getting it so wrong.

I, Nolan Cassidy, with my devil tongue and Irish accent, will no doubt change her mind.

Does the problem lie in that she has a son who doesn’t like me and is as clever and crafty as I?

Or that I’ve only got one month—until St. Patrick’s Day—to prove to my one true love

that I can be a good husband and father?

C’mere and I’ll tell ya…

None of that is the problem.

I’m a problem.

My boxing days may be behind me

but the fight never left me.

When I see something I want, I get it.

And nothing is going to stand in my way.

Not my new wife’s hesitation nor her son’s doubts.

So buckle up, strap in.

Because I’m no longer in the business of wanting.

I’m in the business of having.

Which is gonna make for one wild Paddy’s Day.

𝗔𝗱𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗧𝗕𝗥 https://bit.ly/AVVSPD-GR

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars


A sexy fling turns into an accidental marriage, which leads to a charming happily ever after for Cora and Nolan in A Very Vegas St. Patrick’s Day. There are some twists and turns along the way — namely that Cora wants a divorce and her son can’t stand Nolan — but Nolan isn’t about to let Cora go without a fight. This sexy romcom is full of fun.

Cora and Nolan clicked right away for me. I love their witty banter, and they had sizzling chemistry. Nolan takes his time trying to get Ashton to like him. A new relationship can be difficult for the child of a single parent to adjust to, and I really enjoyed how the journey between Nolan and Ashton went a much as I like the development of Nolan and Cora’s romance.

This book is part of Loring’s Very Holiday series. There are crossover characters, but this is a true standalone. I haven’t read the others in the series, and was easily able to follow along. Great job on the co-writing collaboration with Connor Crais! This is the second book I’ve read co-written by the two of them, and I look forward to many more!

Now I want to listen to this on audio to hear Connor Crais do Nolan’s Irish accent! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

ABOUT KAYLEY LORING

Before writing steamy romantic comedy novels, Kayley Loring got a BFA in creative writing and had a fifteen-year career as a screenwriter in Los Angeles (under a different name). She mostly wrote PG-13 family comedies that studios would pay her lots of money for and then never make into movies. In 2017 she decided to move to the Pacific Northwest and write about all the fun stuff that she wasn’t allowed to write about in those PG-13 scripts. Now she’s an Amazon Top 25 bestselling author who is breathing cleaner air and writing dirtier words. It’s an adjustment she’s happily getting used to.

Rest assured that her funny sexy sweet romances have no cheating or cliffhangers, and always have HEAs!

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ABOUT CONNOR CRAIS

Connor Crais is a classically trained actor living in the Midwest with his wife, two kids, and rescue greyhound. He has been both a stage and television actor, and before plunging into the romance genre, he had been narrating commercials, audiobooks, and explainers for well over a decade from his home studio. From alphas to bosses to cocky sports stars (a particular favorite), he loves sparring with beautiful, sassy heroines (and their talented narrators) but also loves winning them over and reaching that happily ever after. He is excited to now create those stories as an author.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: No Match For Her by Stacy Travis

“I decided it wasn’t smart for me to gamble my heart on you.”


No Match for Her, an all-new swoon-worthy slow burn romance from bestselling author Stacy Travis is available now!

I need a date to my brother’s wedding in six weeks, and Charlie Walgrove owns a tux. Billionaires are like that.

He’s also my sister’s boss, and I agree to let her set me up with the awkward genius, who apparently has even less luck in the dating game than a struggling artist, aka me.

We’re total opposites, but the date goes okay. We agree to be friends, the kind who won’t become lovers.

Famous last words.

On a series of “friend dates” involving bar snacks, acrylic paint and hedgehogs, I discover that Charlie is nothing like what I expected. Under his hoodie and glasses, he’s handsome and down-to-earth, stuck in a job he hates and afraid to disappoint people by walking away. His heart is as gorgeous as his hidden face.

I’ve always felt like the flaky sister in my family, but Charlie sees me as the artist I want to be. As our friendship deepens, so do my feelings for him. Maybe I’m even falling in love.

But gambling with my heart feels dangerous when all my relationships end in failure–especially if he’s only looking for a friend.

Is it only princesses that get a Happy Ever After? Or is there hope for a hot mess like me?

Fall in love today!
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

No Match For Her is absolutely adorkable! After meeting Tatum’s boss, Charlie, in Playing For You, I never would have thought that he would be such a swoony book boyfriend!

Tatum’s sister, Cherry, needs a date for their brother Finn’s wedding, so Tatum sets her up with Charlie. The date is a disaster, but when they run into each other on their own, things go so much better between them. Charlie agrees to be Cherry’s wedding date, and they get to know each other through weekly “friend dates” leading up to the wedding. While Charlie has actually had a crush on Cherry for a few years already, it’s not long before she starts to see him in a different light as well.

I loved this story so, so much! There is such a genuine friendship that forms between Cherry and Charlie before things turn romantic, and I loved how Stacy Travis wrote that. These two characters are both quirky and kinda geeky, and even though they are total opposites, they are so perfect for each other!

I loved getting to know all the siblings in the Berkeley Heights series, and it was so nice to get a little catch-up with them all. I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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About Stacy Travis
It’s a rough world out there, and we all sometimes need a good, romantic beach read, even if we can’t make it to the beach. I’ve spent many lazy days walking the streets of Paris and other gorgeous European cities, and if I’m doing it right, I’m bringing you a dash of romance and a vacay fantasy.
I can’t sit still, so when I’m not hiking, biking or running, I’m playing a very average game of tennis. Background music for writing undoubtedly features some U2, Lizzo, Billy Joel, Pink, Taylor Swift, and Led Zeppelin. Not necessarily in that order. And if I could only eat one food group, it would be cheese. Or wine. Or bread. Are those food groups? Whatever.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Heart of Us, by Kennedy Fox

The Heart of Us

Love in Isolation, #4

The Heart of Us is now available on all retailers!

What happens when you’re on the run from your psycho ex-husband and your sexy younger boss goes into hiding with you to keep you safe? You slowly remember what it’s like to fall in love and hope he feels it too.

The Heart of Us is an age gap, close proximity standalone romance.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

I spent Super Bowl Sunday reading The Heart of Us, and have zero regrets about my choice. I loved Tatum and Easton’s story so much. We met Easton in the previous book, The End of Us, as he is Tristan’s brother and kept Tristan and Piper well-stocked while they were in hiding. Now it is Easton’s turn to spend some time at his family’s magical beach cabin when his employee, Tatum, is on the run from her psycho ex-husband.

I thought this book was so well done. Tatum’s situation is so delicate, and the authors did a great job of writing this flawed heroine and really showing how strong she was despite the crap she’d gone through with her ex. Tristan was so kind and patient, and really lifted her up and showed her all that she deserved, all that she’d been missing out. He treated Tatum like a queen, and I loved him so much for it.

There are some appearances by Tristan and Piper sprinkled throughout The Heart of Us, and we got a nice glimpse into that couple’s future. Overall, The Heart of Us was so well done! And I loved that tease at the end for the next book with Tatum’s sister, Oakley!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Meet Kennedy Fox
Brooke Cumberland and Lyra Parish are a duo of romance authors who teamed up under the USA Today pseudonym, Kennedy Fox. They share a love of Hallmark movies, overpriced coffee, and making TikToks. When they aren’t bonding over romantic comedies, they like to brainstorm new book ideas. One day in 2016, they decided to collaborate under a pseudonym and have some fun creating new characters that’ll make you blush and your heart melt. Happily ever afters guaranteed!
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The End of Us by Kennedy Fox

The End of Us

Love in Isolation, #3

The End of Us is now available on all retailers!

What happens when a stalker threatens your life and you’re flown to a private beach house with your sexy new bodyguard? You break the rules and hope he falls madly in love with you.

The End of Us is an age gap, forced proximity standalone romance.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 3 Stars

I was really looking forward to Piper and Tristan’s story. The End of Us has all the right elements for a great forced proximity/age gap/bodyguard romance. But Piper just whined so much.

I loved Tristan, his internal struggle, trying to stifle his desire for his much-younger client. But I just couldn’t get behind Piper being so petulant about Tristan doing his job to keep her safe from her stalker. This book was definitely enjoyable, and Kennedy Fox did a great job in writing the build-up between these two characters. By the time they finally do the deed, the anticipation was worth the payoff.

Had I not found Piper to be so immature and shallow — and I get that she’s only 21, but I thought she could have had some more depth — I would have given this book 4 stars. She grew on be more as the story went on, but by then I’d kind of already formed my opinion.

Andi Arndt and Sebastian York did a bang-up job with the narration, though! Sebastian’s deep voice helped create a burly version of Tristan in my head.

I received a complimentary copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Meet Kennedy Fox
Brooke Cumberland and Lyra Parish are a duo of romance authors who teamed up under the USA Today pseudonym, Kennedy Fox. They share a love of Hallmark movies, overpriced coffee, and making TikToks. When they aren’t bonding over romantic comedies, they like to brainstorm new book ideas. One day in 2016, they decided to collaborate under a pseudonym and have some fun creating new characters that’ll make you blush and your heart melt. Happily ever afters guaranteed!


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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Dear Heart, I Hate You by Eliah Greenwood

Release Date: February 11
It all started with an ad.
“House sitter needed for the summer, room and board provided.”
Guess I missed the part about the cocky basketball player sleeping down the hall…
Finn Richards is hot, cruel, broken beyond repair. Oh, and did I mention hell-bent on making me quit?
Whatever. It’s not like his charms work on me. I’m immune to his deep hazel eyes, and I’m not even a little bit curious about what happened that night…
It’s just two months.
I can definitely go two months without ripping his head off.
Only problem is,
I’m not sure the same goes for his clothes.
 
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
I wish I knew that Dear Heart, I Hate You was the first book in a duet because I was not expecting it to just end as it did! Wow! Full of angst. Tortured hero. Forced proximity. I need more!

Bully romances can be a tricky thing if the hero is not redeemable — and Eliah Greenwood did a great job in showing Finn’s vulnerable side and making him a guy worth rooting for in the end. When he confessed to Dia why he doesn’t like her kindness and light and innocence, my heart softened toward him. And then when he finally has his emotional breakdown after keeping all those feelings and grief inside for so many years… I cried. I admit it.

There is so much more left to explore for this couple. What do Dia’s adoptive parents not want her to know? And what Dia sees at the very end of the book — obviously it happened, but when? I don’t think it took place when she’s led to believe it took place, and I can’t wait to find out why someone is manipulating her like that, and who it is.

This book is part of the Easton High series, and takes place partially during the same timeline as Dear Love, I Hate You (Xander and Aveena’s story). There are overlapping scenes and references, but DH is a standalone that spans two and a half months, whereas DL spanned into X and Vee at college.

May can’t come soon enough, because I need to know what happens next for Dia and Finn! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Eliah Greenwood

Eliah Greenwood is a Canadian author, proud Wattpad Star, Fiction Awards 2018 Winner, coffee addict and cliché with a twist lover!

She started her writing journey on a website called Wattpad at the age of fifteen. She wrote the majority of her first book Unwritten Rules on the bus on her way home from school. When her debut gathered 31,000,000 reads on the platform, she decided to self-publish the trilogy that set so many hearts, including hers, on fire. 

 

When she’s not writing and screaming at her computer screen, you can find her binge watching her favourite TV shows on repeat or reading in a warm blanket. 

 

She is currently working on her fifth book. It is expected to come out in 2021.

 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Plan by Karla Sorensen

Release Date: February 9

Have you ever fake dated your bodyguard? I don’t recommend it. 

 

Especially if he’s anything like Erik Wilder: former football player, world class know-it-all and unapologetic grump. 

 

To be clear, I didn’t want a bodyguard (hence the fake dating idea). Most days, I can’t figure out why he wants the job either. We drive each other insane, probably because we’re as opposite as two people can be. 

 

He’s suspicious, never talks about his past and has the comfort skills of a cactus. I’m a happily ever after kinda girl who knows exactly what she wants out of life. 

 

Erik’s words might say that the lines have to stay firm between us, but those dark eyes of his? They tell another story when he looks at me. 

 

He’s just as stubborn as I am, but when our fake dating plan starts to feel a lot more real, it’s only a matter of time before his professional walls come crashing down.  

 

I just have to hope my heart doesn’t get buried in the rubble.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
Oh, I am so happy that Karla Sorensen continued the Washington Wolves series with the next generation of kids! I devoured The Plan in a single day, and loved every page of it!

The Plan follows Allie and Luke’s other daughter, Lydia, a social media influencer who is recovering from a bad accident at the hands of the paparazzi. (We got that accident in her sister Faith’s book, The Lie.) Because Lydia has kind of turned into a recluse, Allie and Luke have hired former Wolves player Erik Wilder to be her bodyguard.

Broody, grumpy, and a bit of an a-hole, Erik has been carrying around a crap-ton of baggage ever since he left the Wolves after an injury. The injury wasn’t career-ending, but it happened at the same time that his marriage imploded, and Erik hasn’t been the same since. He and Lydia don’t quite get off on the right note, but the more time they spend together, it becomes quite clear to Erik that she isn’t the spoiled rich girl he assumed she was. And she has an uncanny way of seeing right through the walls that Erik has built up.

Their fake relationship starts off as a one-off date when he pretends to be her new boyfriend at a social event that Lydia doesn’t really even want to go to. A photo of them at the event goes public days before he’s supposed to return home for the first time in years for his parents’ anniversary party, and his mom guilts Erik into bringing his “new girlfriend” with him. Lydia happily returns the favor, hoping that she’ll be able to convince Erik that what is brewing between them is worth taking a chance on.

Erik is such a deliciously tortured hero. But underneath all that grump is a sweet soul who is kind and protective, and Lydia wants nothing more than for him to stop running from his feelings. Lydia has so much more depth to her than her vapid friend Jill, and I loved how she didn’t take any crap from her big, burly bodyguard! Erik and Lydia’s breakup was heartbreaking because you could tell they are just so perfect for one another — and his grovel to make things right and explain why he acted the way that he did was perfectly penned.

I wish there wasn’t the loose end of why Erik doesn’t get along with his stepbrother, Ian — so I can only hope that one day, we’ll get the reasons why when Ian gets a book of his own! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Karla Sorensen

Well, let’s see … I’m a wife and a mother. If the things that I write bring a smile to someone’s face, then I’ve done my job.

 

I am obsessed with Outlander (both the books and the show). I’m almost exclusively a romance reader, which means some people will never consider me a literary snob. 

 

If I could meet one historical figure, it would be Jane Austen. I received my Bachelors in Public Relations and worked in health care marketing before I had my babies. 

 

I hate Twitter. I do it, but I hate it. Also, if you want to get on my good side, bring me wine and I’ll love you forever. 

 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: It Went Viral by Stacy Stone

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Release Date: February 8

She’s about to work with the man who ruined her college years…

Event manager Isla James still burns with shame over her college infamy. . Climbing naked out of the window, just to have it filmed by some fratbrothers was embarrassing to say the least. The fact that the video went viral made it so much worse. And though her professional star has risen since reinventing herself in a new town, returning to her old stomping grounds is not on her bucket list. But when her best friend asks her to promote her family’s charity ball, she relents despite fearing she’ll get stuck working with the last man she ever wants to see again.

…but he’s determined to change her mind.

Bryan Hunter’s biggest mistake was letting Isla go that fateful day. He was a stupid college boy back then, but he’s a changed man now. He’ll do whatever it takes to win her back. Now he just has to convince Isla that she can trust and maybe even love him.

She fled humiliation. He’s a changed man. Can they make a happy ending out of a bad beginning and get a second chance at love?

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Stacy Stone is a new-to-me author, so I wasn’t sure what I’d be getting in It Went Viral. What I read was a captivating, steamy, enemies-to-lovers/sister’s best friend romance that was absolutely charming.

Bryan and Isla have a really sticky past stemming back to a mortifying walk of shame she was forced to do after they slept with each other back in college. When she’s hired to plan his family company’s big social event, they both get a second chance to right a wrong. There are several issues that they have to work through before they stop hating each other and realize just how perfect they are for one another, however. The road is rocky, but it’s a lovely journey as they go from sparring partners to forever.

It Went Viral was a sweet surprise! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Stacy Stone

Stacy Stone made her debut in Belgium with
her Verlangen series under her Dutch name Stefanie Van Mol.

 She loved writing so much, she kept writing. Say You Want Me, the first book of her Full Moon series.

 She won the Brave New Book of the year Award in the Netherlands in 2016 and decided to translate the book to English.

 

 
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