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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Upside Down, by A.M. Madden

๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐‡๐Ž๐“ ๐๐„๐– ๐‘๐„๐‹๐„๐€๐’๐„ & ๐†๐ˆ๐•๐„๐€๐–๐€๐˜ ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ

๐‘ญ๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐‘ผ๐‘บ๐‘จ ๐‘ป๐’๐’…๐’‚๐’š ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’”๐’†๐’๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‚๐’–๐’•๐’‰๐’๐’“ ๐‘จ. ๐‘ด. ๐‘ด๐’‚๐’…๐’…๐’†๐’ ๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’” ๐‘ผ๐’‘๐’”๐’Š๐’…๐’† ๐‘ซ๐’๐’˜๐’, ๐’‚ ๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’‘๐’†๐’๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’”๐’•๐’๐’“๐’š ๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’๐’–๐’• ๐’๐’๐’† ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’โ€™๐’” ๐’‚๐’˜๐’‚๐’Œ๐’†๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’•๐’ ๐’‚๐’๐’-๐’๐’†๐’˜ ๐’…๐’†๐’”๐’Š๐’“๐’†๐’”โ€”๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’•๐’ ๐’‚ ๐’๐’Š๐’‡๐’†-๐’‚๐’๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’“๐’๐’Ž๐’‚๐’๐’„๐’†.

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BLURB

๐™๐™ง๐™ค๐™ข ๐™๐™Ž๐˜ผ ๐™๐™ค๐™™๐™–๐™ฎ ๐™—๐™š๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™จ๐™š๐™ก๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™–๐™ช๐™ฉ๐™๐™ค๐™ง ๐˜ผ. ๐™ˆ. ๐™ˆ๐™–๐™™๐™™๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ข๐™š๐™จ ๐™– ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™-๐™–๐™ก๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ข๐™–๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š ๐™–๐™—๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™ข๐™–๐™ฃโ€™๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™–๐™ก๐™ก-๐™ฃ๐™š๐™ฌ ๐™™๐™š๐™จ๐™ž๐™ง๐™š๐™จโ€”๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™– ๐™ก๐™ž๐™›๐™š-๐™–๐™ก๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ข๐™–๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š.

Iโ€™ve always been known as the hopeless romantic โ€ฆ the nice guy โ€ฆ the sweetheart.

Everything in my life supported this persona. My students loved my easy personality. My colleagues admired the way I handled myself in the classroom.

But something was always missing.

Like so many relationships before it, my current attempt at love felt like a dead end. When she gave me an ultimatum, I couldnโ€™t promise to give her what she wanted.

So, she ended it.

Explaining another breakup to my family was the last thing I wanted. But doing it on a luxury yacht at my brotherโ€™s wedding lessened the hardship.

I never imagined that trip would change everything… and I certainly wasnโ€™t prepared for him to change everything.

Upside Down is a sisterโ€™s best friend, sexual awakening, m/m stand-alone romance that contains adult content.

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GIVEAWAY

To celebrate the release of Upside Down, A.M. Madden is giving away a paperback and a $25 Amazon gift card. Stop by her Facebook page to enter:

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Upside Down is a standalone in AM Madden’s Breaking The Rules series, but I loved the supporting characters so much that I have put the first two books on my TBR list! The books have interconnected characters, and past events are talked about, but I didn’t feel like I was missing out for not having read them.

Cooper is such a likable character. He is truly at a crossroads in his personal life when he attends his brother’s wedding. Immediately upon seeing his sister’s business partner, Ricky, again, sparks fly and they kind of catch Cooper off-guard. But not really: he experimented a bit in college, and always had difficulty fully committing to a girlfriend to take the next step. Ricky is super sweet and patient and supportive as Cooper grapples with the unexpected feelings and how his life is about to change.

AM Madden did a great job in telling this story. The journey that Cooper goes through in discovering his true identity and then coming out is a wonderful arc, from start to finish, and Ricky’s support meant everything. Ricky truly turns Cooper’s world upside down, but it’s a beautiful story of self-discovery with a lot of heart.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A USA Today bestselling, award-winning author, A. M. Madden is also a Jersey girl whose addiction to romance started at twelve after reading Judy Blumeโ€™s Forever.

As a self-proclaimed hopeless romantic, she truly believes that true love knows no bounds.

In her books, she aspires to write fun, sexy, realistic love stories that will stay with you long after you turn the last page. She creates realistic characters and believes thereโ€™s no better compliment than when readers feel they know the characters personally.

When not writing, sheโ€™s busy being a wife to her soul mate, and a mother to two boys who she believes are the most handsome men on earth. She loves to cook, hates to bake, and dreams about living at the beach someday.

AWARDS:

2016 eLit Gold Medalist – Best Romance Ebook – The Shortstop

2016 IPPY Silver Medalist – Best Romance Ebook – The Shortstop

2018 Book Excellence Finalist – Finding Mr. Wrong (co-written with Joanne Schwehm).

2019 Book Excellence Finalist – Scoring Mr. Romeo (co-written with Joanne Schwehm).

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Stay For Me, by Corinne Michaels

She’s the girl who might be worth staying for.

Stay For Me by Corinne Michaels is now live!

From New York Times Bestselling author Corinne Michaels comes the final poignant love story in the Arrowood Brothers Series.

Hollywood taught me everything I know about relationships–except how to be in one. As an actor, I became an expert at faking it. Faking that I wasn’t affected by my childhood. Faking that I was okay. Faking that I knew how to save the day, the girl, the whole damn world.

But I’ve always known the truth–I’m no one’s hero.

Until I’m forced to move back to Sugarloaf for six months, and Brenna Allen offers me a chance to prove otherwise. She’s everything I never knew I wanted, but can’t have. Her broken heart, perfect face, and adorable children turn my world upside down. Instead of preparing for my next leading role, I’m directing a middle school play.

All to make her smile.

The more time I spend here, the more I want to stay. Build a life in this town that I swore I’d leave–for her.

But when the world comes crashing down around us, I’m forced to decide if staying for her is the right choice or if leaving is better for the woman I love.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Sigh. I was kind of dreading the Arrowood Brothers series coming to an end, because I have enjoyed this family so much! But Corinne Michaels did a great job with the final installment, Stay For Me! This time, it’s Hollywood action hero Jacob’s turn to spend his 6 months on the family farm in Sugarloaf, PA… He’s planning to do his time and then leave… He never expected to fall for the redheaded widow living in the house adjoining their property.

I loved everything about Jacob and Brenna’s story. I loved the slow burn between them. I loved how patient and sweet Jacob was not only with Brenna as she struggled in moving on after her husband’s death, but in how he interacted with her kids Sebastian and Melanie. (I could just imagine how excited those middle schoolers were to have an action star directing their performance of Grease!) I loved how open and honest they were with one another about where they were each coming from: She’d been second-best to her late husband’s career, he had a high-demand job that constantly kept him in the spotlight and he didn’t want to bring a romantic relationship into that. I loved how they both decided that the other was worth the risk… and I loved the fight that they had before tragedy strikes. It was raw, it was emotional, and it hit them both hard… and the words spoken in anger as well as those that went unsaid weighed heavily on both Jacob and Brenna in the aftermath. Is almost losing what they found in one another enough to make Jacob want to stay in Sugarloaf?

The conclusion of this series was all that I hoped it would be. It was swoony, sweet, and had a wonderful HEA for all of the brothers. And I loved the cameos by Eli Walsh and Noah Frazier from Corinne’s Second Time Around series!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Corinne

Corinne Michaels is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of romance novels. Her stories are chock full of emotion, humor, and unrelenting love, and she enjoys putting her characters through intense heartbreak before finding a way to heal them through their struggles.

Corinne is a former Navy wife and happily married to the man of her dreams. She began her writing career after spending months away from her husband while he was deployed–reading and writing were her escapes from the loneliness. Corinne now lives in Virginia with her husband and is the emotional, witty, sarcastic, and fun-loving mom of two beautiful children.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Revenge Pact, by Ilsa Madden-Mills

What happens when the king of football meets the queen of nothing?
Find out in The Revenge Pact, an all-new emotional and swoon-worthy enemies-to-lovers standalone romance from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills!

River Tate is a god on campus.
The king of football.
A tattooed bad boy with gunmetal eyes that see right through you.
The only chink in his armor is her, the girl he pretends doesnโ€™t exist, the forbidden one with the shy smile and lavender hair.

Anastasia Bailey is a nobody.
The queen of nothing.
An outsider with the face of an angel and a body made for sin.
The only chink in her armor is him, her boyfriendโ€™s frat brother, the football player who hates her.

But when Anastasiaโ€™s life crashes down, Riverโ€™s the one who sweeps in and picks up the pieces. Torn between loyalty, lies, and secrets, he battles the temptation to take everything from her when they make their revenge pact.

He canโ€™t tell her no.
Because revenge (or love) is sweet, and once you get a taste, the craving never ends.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

The Revenge Pact is the first in a trio of college football romances in a collaboration of standalones between Ilsa Madden-Mills, Meghan Quinn and Adriana Locke. This story is a swoony, sexy, slow-burn, unrequited, best friendโ€™s girlfriend romance!

River Tate may be my fave Ilsa Madden-Mills hero yet! He is so loyal and kind and sweet. He is always doing little things for people out of the goodness of his heart, never expecting anything in return. Which is why he never made a move himself for Anastasia โ€” his fraternity brother, Donovan, said heโ€™d liked her first. Even after she and Donovan break up, River is so hard on himself about his feelings for her, why he should stay away, why he canโ€™t be with her, even though there is CLEARLY sizzling chemistry between them. Things take a turn in Riverโ€™s favor when, in exchange for Anastasia tutoring him in their Lit class (he is dyslexic and has ADHD), he finds her a guy to have a fling with.

I loved that there was no major drama between River and Anastasia, no big fight or breakup. There is some drama with Donovan, but itโ€™s mostly Riverโ€™s hang ups in wanting to be a good friend to his frat brother and not break bro code. The relationship between River and Anastasia, once they get there, is easy going. They communicate, they take each otherโ€™s feelings into account, and they make each other a priority, which is refreshing to read in college/YA romances.

I adored them! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Excerpt

River

โ€œWhy is the elevator so slow?โ€ she mutters.

โ€œTell me three things youโ€™re grateful for,โ€ I say.  

She does a double take. โ€œIs this where Iโ€™m like yourโ€ฆpet project? Donโ€™t feel sorry for me.โ€

Rainbow, sorry is the last thing I feel for you. 

I want you under me. 

Deep and hard.

โ€œHow are things with Donovan?โ€ I ask.

Her throat bobs. โ€œI-I canโ€™t talk to you about him. I mean, yeah, um, itโ€ฆdoesnโ€™t feel right, you know, to him.โ€ 

Right. Heโ€™s her boyfriend and my frat brother.

The door opens and she slips out, her arm brushing against my chest. I follow, sucking down the electricity between us. 

She blows out a breath. โ€œI know what this is, why youโ€™re being nice to meโ€”โ€

โ€œYeah? Tell me, because I canโ€™t figure it out,โ€ I snap, annoyed she wonโ€™t open up while the other side is pissed at myself for asking. โ€œTrust me, I wish I didnโ€™tโ€ฆโ€ I stop, my jaw clenching.

She stops at the door to class and faces me. โ€œYour paper. Iโ€™m sorry I canโ€™t help you, I really am. I love helping others, but I donโ€™t think itโ€™s a good idea for usโ€ฆโ€ She bites her lip, her gaze avoiding mine. โ€œThereโ€™s something about you and meโ€”โ€ She halts and looks down at her feet. โ€œAnyway, I know a few students who tutor athletes. Let me give you their namesโ€”โ€

โ€œNo one but you, Anastasia.โ€ 

โ€œWhat? Why?โ€

Instinct takes over and I back her against the wall, towering over her. I tilt her chin up, and she doesnโ€™t speak or move, just breathing fast, as my hand slides around to her nape. A hum of heat goes through my body as my hands tangle in her hair. 

โ€œRiverโ€ฆwhatโ€ฆโ€ Pink rises on her cheeks as her lashes flutter.

Every time, Iโ€™m pushing a little more, the dark side of me winning. Monday. Her apartment. Now.

I could kiss her right now, but itโ€™s wrong, immensely, and Iโ€™m being bad, so badโ€ฆ

She gazes up at me, her eyes flaring, the gold around her pupils darkening. She swallows as goose bumps appear on her neck.

A primal sound builds in my throat. 

Anger. 

Frustration. 

Loyalty.

Dammit. I shouldnโ€™t be this close, shouldnโ€™t touch herโ€”

โ€œIโ€™ll wait.โ€ I grind my teeth and step back.

Her lips part, a small puff of air coming out. She looks at my mouth. โ€œFor what?โ€

The lethal side of me, the one itching to play this game no matter the consequences, tries to take over and speak the truth. I shove it down. 

You, I say in my head.

Leaving her there, I sweep past her and go to my seat. 

Five fucking rows back.

About Ilsa Madden-Mills
Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Ilsa Madden-Mills is best known for her angsty new adult romances and romantic comedies.

Eight of her eleven novels have placed in the Amazon Top 10 Best-seller List: Dirty English #1; Fake Fiancรฉe and I Dare You #2; I Bet You, Filthy English, and Very Bad Things #6; Boyfriend Bargain #8; The Last Guy, her collaboration with Tia Louise, #4.

A former high school English teacher, she adores all things Pride and Prejudice, and of course, Mr. Darcy is her ultimate hero.

She’s addicted to frothy coffee beverages, cheesy magnets, and any book featuring unicorns and sword-wielding females. Feel free to stalk her online.

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Best-selling authors Ilsa Madden-Mills, Meghan Quinn and Adriana Locke,deliver three stand-alone romances about college football players finding true love while on the verge of losing everything.

THE ROMANTIC PACT by Meghan Quinn
Release Date: December 10th

Synopsis:
I haven’t seen her in three years.

I haven’t talked to her since the kiss.

So why am I on a plane, flying across the world to spend a week with her in Germany?

One word: Pops.

My lifeโ€™s a mess.
My possible football career is hanging on by a thread.
I’m driving the roads of Germany in honor of Pops with the one girl I can never have.
And Iโ€™m sharing a bed with her, the girl I’ve measured everyone else up to, while desperately trying to not to touch her.

We made a pact growing up, never to get romantic with each other – never fall in love.

And I’m about to break that pact. For good.

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THE RELATIONSHIP PACT by Adriana Locke
Release Date: December 17th

Synopsis
How hard can it be?

That was the question rolling around Larissa Masonโ€™s mind just before she asked Hollis Hudson to be her fake boyfriend.

It was only supposed to be for five minutes, after all.

Granted, that was also before she felt his hand on the small of her back as he charmed the heck out of her family.

She hadnโ€™t heard his laugh yet either.

And it was definitely before she saw the football god shirtless. Otherwise, she wouldโ€™ve had an idea of just how hard some things could be.

It turns out that pretending to be in love with a crazily handsome, somewhat enigmatic, and absolutely unforgettable tight end (that has an amazing tight end) is easy.

Reminding herself that just because opposites attract doesnโ€™t mean theyโ€™re forever is much harder.

What they have isnโ€™t loveโ€”itโ€™s a relationship pact. Right?

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Not What I Expected, by Jewel E. Ann

Not What I Expected by Jewel E. Ann is now live!

Are humans meant to mate for life?

After four kids and an unfortunate but fateful end to her twenty-two-year marriage, Elsie Smith meets the new guy in town.

Kael Hendricks is … a little younger, a lot sexy, and too confident for his own good. He also doesn’t believe in marriage and all that goes with it.

And …

He’s just opened a new business that threatens the livelihood of Elsie’s family’s store–just in time for the holidays.

The problem?

There’s an undeniable attraction that leads to out of control situations, a loss of inhibitions, and a lot of small town gossip.

As Elsie tries to redefine herself and convince her family she isn’t having a midlife crisis, she’s forced to answer the biggest question of all …

Can she love an enemy who will never surrender?

 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Not What I Expected was not what I expected! I figured it would be a typical older woman/younger man age-gap romance, but Elsie’s journey is so much more than that!

Of course, there are plenty of “what am I doing?” moments that she has over the course of her fling with Kael — 12 years her junior and the hot new guy in town who opened a specialty shop across the town square that is threatening to put her own late husband’s business out of business. But while this story starts out as her not knowing what to make of her rival becomes so much more as Kael shows Elsie what it’s like to let go and let loose. That it’s okay to take what she wants out of life to make herself happy, versus doing what is expected of her. That age is just a number. And that taking a leap is scary, but life-changing all at the same time.

Kael and Elsie are wonderful, rich characters, and their journey together was captivating. I loved how worried Elsie was about how the folks in town would react to their being together — her daughter’s reaction was exactly how I thought it would go! And I also loved how Elsie wasn’t afraid to speak her mind. She was feisty and outspoken, told the truth about her late husband in her grief support group even when it wasn’t the polite thing to say.

Although Kael was a little too crunchy-granola, he grew on me as a hero, and I loved how falling for Elsie made him want all the things in a relationship that he never imagined he would.

Sometimes, the best things in life are not what you expected.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Meet Jewel E. Ann


Jewel is a Wall Street Journal & USA Today best selling author a with a quirky sense of humor. When she’s not saving the planet one tree at a time, you can find her role modeling questionable behavior to her three boys, binge-watching Netflix with her husband, and writing mind-bending romance.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Bastards & Scapegoats, by CoraLee June

๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐‹๐ˆ๐•๐„ ๐„๐€๐‘๐‹๐˜!๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ

๐๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐’๐œ๐š๐ฉ๐ž๐ ๐จ๐š๐ญ๐ฌ ๐›๐ฒ ๐‚๐จ๐ซ๐š๐‹๐ž๐ž ๐‰๐ฎ๐ง๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐‹๐ˆ๐•๐„ ๐„๐€๐‘๐‹๐˜ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐…๐‘๐„๐„ ๐ข๐ง ๐Š๐ข๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ž ๐”๐ง๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐!

#1CสŸษชแด„แด‹ แด›แดแด…แด€ส!

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The first time I saw Hamilton, he was balls deep in one of the bridesmaids at my motherโ€™s wedding.

He was lethal. Handsome. Cruel. Twisted.

I was drawn to him like fists to glass. We had an angry sort of relationship. There was nothing kind about the broken man that stole my heart and crushed it in his fist. He was all sharp edges. One touch could ruin me. One kiss could end our happy little family.

When my mother married Joseph Beauregard, son of the governor of Connecticut, I never imagined Iโ€™d fall in love with my stepfatherโ€™s younger brother. I never imagined Iโ€™d uncover the truth about his familyโ€™s bloody legacy.

Hamilton escaped with scars to his name and a ruined reputation. And now? I wanted out, too. I guess the scandal of our relationship was the least of our familyโ€™s problems.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Holy crap, what did I just read? Bastards & Scapegoats is an absolutely PERFECT title for this messed-up family drama/forbidden romance.

This is the first book I’ve read by CoraLee June, and I am now a fan! She perfectly created these characters. I loved the vulnerability that Hamilton shows around Vera. He’s so wounded and broken and hides it behind cocky arrogance. He finds a kindred soul in his new niece, Vera, another wounded heart who constantly feels as if she needs to apologize for her mere existence. On paper, everything about Vera and her stepfather’s brother being together is wrong…. but when they are together, Vera and Hamilton just have an ease, a comfortability, and all seems right in the very messed-up world they live in.

Until it isn’t.

As secrets unfold and lies unravel, Vera gets hit after hit as the truth about her new family’s deep, dark demons are exposed. Nothing is as it seems, and the few people Vera thought she could trust she learns she can’t.

Bastards & Scapegoats is part 1 of a duet, and does end on a cliffhanger. As I got to the end, I was shocked by the revelation in the second-to-last chapter! I need the conclusion to Vera and Hamilton’s story now — not February!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Coralee June is an international bestselling romance writer who enjoys engaging projects and developing real, raw, and relatable characters. She is an English major from Texas State University and has had an intense interest in literature since her youth. She currently resides with her husband and two daughters in Dallas, Texas, where she enjoys long walks through the ice-cream aisle at her local grocery store.

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

Release Date: December 1

๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐ข๐ ๐ ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐š ๐œ๐š๐›๐ข๐ง ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐›๐ž๐ฌt ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐›๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ?ย ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž him ๐Ÿ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

The Best of Us is a steamy opposites attract/enemies-to-lovers/best friend’s brother romance! It follows the story set up between Eli and Cami in The Two of Us — this time, Cami’s brother Ryan and her best friend Kendall have gone to the St. James family cabin to set it up for Eli and Cami’s honeymoon. The few days stuck together are going to be painful for Ryan and Kendall, who can’t stand each other. He thinks she’s a stuck-up pampered princess, and she thinks he is a holier-than-thou doctor with an attitude problem and a stick up his behind.

But when a record-breaking blizzard traps Ryan and Kendall together for longer than they expected, cabin fever leaves them to give in to their desires for some sex-only fun. Of course, emotions get involved, and both Ryan and Kendall begin to see the other in a different light… and realize that their hateful bickering all these years has really been to cover up a mutual attraction. Once the roads are cleared and they leave the bubble of the cabin, will Ryan and Kendall be able to make a relationship work in the real world?

I loved the heat between them. They both show a vulnerable side with one another, and Ryan and Kendall’s relationship is equally sweet and sexy. I was captivated with the story from start to finish, and read it in a day.

In The Two of Us, we got to see a bit how Ryan’s work as a healthcare worker affected him as a doctor working through the coronavirus pandemic. In The Best of Us, it is now post-pandemic and after a vaccination has been widely available. But we get to know more about Ryan and how working as an ER doctor during the pandemic *really* affected him, to the point of him suffering from PTSD over what he’d seen. I really gave the character more depth, which I appreciated.

The epilogue also sets up the next book in this series in a fantastic way!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Kennedy Fox

Brooke Cumberland and Lyra Parish are a duo of romance authors who teamed up under the USA Today pseudonym, Kennedy Fox.ย 

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One day in 2016, they decided to collaborate under a pseudonym and have some fun creating new characters thatโ€™ll make you blush and your heart melt.ย 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Write Before Christmas, by Julie Hammerle

Today we have the blog tour of Julie Hammerleโ€™s Write Before Christmas! Check out this gorgeous new romance and be sure to get your copy today!

Title: Write Before Christmas

Author: Julie Hammerle

Genre: Holiday Romance

About Write Before Christmas:

Youโ€™ve probably heard of me.
Reclusive fantasy author turned famous when his series got developed into a mega TV hit.
Except now Iโ€™m way behind deadline, and the whole world is waiting to see what Iโ€™ll write next.
The pressure is getting to me, and I. Canโ€™t. Write.
Cue: small town where people donโ€™t recognize me.
Cue: my assistant insisting on a personal chef to keep me fed and nothing more.
Cue: finding the first bit of inspiration Iโ€™ve felt in months whenever sheโ€™s aroundโ€ฆ
Am I a walking cliche now, or what?
Dani Cooper seems to have her own hurdles to jump this holiday season. Newly divorced, looking for her next move. Sheโ€™s the first person whoโ€™s seen me for me in way too long. And I see her, too–as way more than just an employee, a divorcee, a cook. Sheโ€™s becoming my museโ€ฆ
But when my Christmas deadline hits, will it spell the end of us, too?

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

If you love the feel-good quality of a Hallmark Christmas movie, then Write Before Christmas is definitely a swoony story you will want to check out.

Matt is a well-known fantasy author hiding out in a small town following a scandal so he can finish his next novel before the next season of the TV show needs to start filming. Dani is a recent divorcee with a 19 year old daughter, struggling to get her life back together and gain some independence. Their paths first cross on a random walk around the neighborhood. But their worlds collide when it turns out that the reclusive author Dani just took a job housekeeping for is the cute guy Matt she’s seen — and spontaneously kissed — around the street.

The discovery of their true identities is not a dragged-out process, thankfully, so we get to see Matt and Dani without him hiding his true self from her. In fact, she becomes his muse during a time when his deadline is looming and the words aren’t coming out. She helps him come out of his shell and begin to trust people again, and he helps her gain a sense of independence and, in a roundabout way, career goals after 20+ years of being a housewife. I really loved that Matt and Dani are both over 40. They know what they want — a no-strings fling — and they don’t play games with one another. Their relationship starts out as a holiday fling, but there’s so much more simmering underneath the surface… And when Matt realizes what a mistake he’d made, his Grand Gesture to win back the girl goes hilariously wrong, but is better than anything he could have scripted himself.

Write Before Christmas is a great holiday escape! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

About Julie Hammerle:

USA Today bestselling author Julie Hammerle writes young adult novels that focus on nerds, geeks, and basket cases falling in love. On the YA side, she is the author of The Sound of Us (Entangled TEEN, 2016) and the North Pole romance series (Entangled Crush, 2017). For adult romances, look for Knocked-Up Cinderella in the fall of 2018. A graduate of Butler University with degrees in secondary education and Latin with a minor in music, Julie lives in Chicago with her family and enjoys reading, cooking, and watching all the television.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Door of Bruises, by Sierra Simone

DOOR OF BRUISES (Thornchapel #4) by Sierra Simone
Release Date: November 30th

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Blurb:
Twelve years ago, our fates were sealed with a kiss.

We are all, for better or worse, doomed to love each other until death do us part. My heart belongs to Proserpina and St. Sebastianโ€”even if he no longer wants it. Even if she has left it behind to follow him.

Delphineโ€™s fled back home, and Becketโ€™s holy calling is in peril.

And now only Rebecca and I remain at Thornchapel to face the unknown.

The door is open. The door that shouldnโ€™t exist; the door that people have died to close. I donโ€™t feel like the lord of the manor…I donโ€™t feel like a king or a wild god. I am a friend and a boyfriend and a brotherโ€”and a failure at being all of these things. But the door doesnโ€™t care about my guilt. It only cares about the sacrifice Iโ€™ll make to close it.

As the bruising dark of Samhain approaches, so does the fate of our circle, of Thornchapel and the village and the valley beyond it. And I must don the crown, because one thing is still true, even if I must face it alone.

Here at Thornchapel, the kings must go to the door.

Here at Thornchapel, all kings must die.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

The Thornchapel series comes to a conclusion with Door of Bruises. (This book is definitely not a standalone.) It’s dark and twisted and not your conventional romance. It’s a story full of big emotions, ancient rituals, mysterious happenings, and a lot of gasp-worthy moments (and the kinky scenes that we’ve come to expect from Auden, Poe and Saint). The mystery behind the door at Thornchapel is finally revealed, and it’s heartbreaking, shocking, and surprising all at once.

Beyond the mystery of what lies behind the door, this book sees Poe, Beckett, Saint, Auden, Delphine and Rebecca need to make some decisions as to the next steps of their lives. It’s impossible to really review the happenings of Door of Bruises without getting into the nitty-gritty of the story. But this series is an epic masterpiece and Sierra Simone is a master storyteller!

As soon as I have the time, I want to binge-read this series, uninterrupted, from start to finish!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

About the Author:
Sierra Simone is a USA Today Bestselling former librarian (who spent too much time reading romance novels at the information desk.) She lives with her husband and family in Kansas City.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Hard To Hold, by K. Bromberg

Rush McKenzie is a bad boy soccer player who’s running from a scandal. Lennox Kincade is an ex-beauty queen who’s trying to revamp her reputation.

What starts as a bit of fun, ends with something they never saw coming.

Hard to Hold by K. Bromberg is now live!

New York Times bestselling author, K. Bromberg, is back with a heartfelt, standalone romance
and a new hero to steal your heart . . .
The contract with Major League Soccer was supposed to help repair my damaged reputation.

Then I discovered that I’d made a deal with the devil: the player I’m supposed to recruit is none
other than the bad boy, star Premier League footballer, Rush McKenzie.

British. Tattooed. Sexy. A man currently at the center of a huge scandal.

The goal? To convince him to stay in the States.

But what’s wrong with a little fun in the meantime? No strings. No sweet nothings. Just a way
to pass the time while we’re both struggling to prove our true selves to the world.
If someone found out our relationship was anything more than professional, it would only serve
to prove all our critics right.

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I never should have agreed to take the fall.

But I did and I’m a man of my word.

Even if it means risking everything I’ve worked for.

The only bright side is Lennox Kincade.

Gorgeous. Defiant. Rumor-tainted. Totally off-limits.

Sharing a house with the gorgeous sports agent should have been a fun distraction from the
turmoil. Someone to help pass the time while the tensions back home die down.

But what started as nothing, ends up as something I never saw coming.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Hard To Hold is the second book in K. Bromberg’s Play Hard series about a family of female sports managers. It took me a while to really get into Lennox and Rush’s story, but once I got into the meat of the story, it was incredible. Hard to Hold tackles so many themes: sexism in the workplace, family loyalty, celebrity scandal, ruined reputations, and falling in love with someone at the wrong time.

Rush is trying to lay low after a career-threatening scandal, while Lennox is feeling unsettled in her place in the family business. They meet at a mutual friend’s house, where they are both staying and Lennox’s new job is to essentially babysit the British soccer superstar while he’s playing in the States. She brings out the sensitive side that the cocky athlete has been hiding from the world, and he grounds her wanderlust. But outside of their bubble and a fling with an expiration date, will they be able to make things work in the real world?

I loved Rush’s backstory. I love seeing a hero with that kind of vulnerability, and how when push comes to shove, Lennox is the person who stands up and fights for the guy who has always felt like that homeless and hungry teenager even though he’s become one of the most successful soccer stars.

Just because a love may be hard to hold on to doesn’t mean it’s not worth fighting for.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Kristy


New York Times Bestselling author K. Bromberg writes contemporary romance novels that contain a mixture of sweet, emotional, a whole lot of sexy, and a little bit of real. She likes to write strong heroines and damaged heroes who we love to hate but can’t help to love.

A mom of three, she plots her novels in between school runs and soccer practices, more often than not with her laptop in tow and her mind scattered in too many different directions.

Since publishing her first book on a whim in 2013, Kristy has sold over one and a half million copies of her books across eighteen different countries and has landed on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers lists over thirty times. Her Driven trilogy (Driven, Fueled, and Crashed) is currently being adapted for film by the streaming platform, Passionflix, with the first movie (Driven) out now.

With her imagination always in overdrive, she is currently scheming, plotting, and swooning over her latest hero. You can find out more about him or chat with Kristy on any of her social media accounts. The easiest way to stay up to date on new releases and upcoming novels is to sign up for her newsletter (http://bit.ly/254MWtI) or follow her on Bookbub (http://smarturl.it/KBrombergBB)

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Do-Over by Piper Rayne

Release Date: December 1

She was always the one.

Or so I thought.

Turns out my instincts were dead wrong.

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Years ago I was faced with the choice between two women. Both were perfect in opposite ways. One was carefree and against commitment. The other was a woman youโ€™d bring home to mom.ย 

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I was young, naรฏve and stupid. Iโ€™m sure you can guess who I chose.ย 

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Now, Iโ€™m older, wiser and know what the hell I want.ย 

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So, when the same two women pop back into my life itโ€™s my chance for a do-over. But they flipped the script. Just like me, they want different things now. Leaving me with one choiceโ€”convince the woman I want that she wants me too.ย 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Ooooh boy, this one was a doozy! From start to finish, Knox’s story was ah-may-zing. The Do-Over is all about how one decision, one choice, can change the trajectory of your life. When faced with the chance to do it all over again, would you make the same choices? This love triangle between Knox, Leilani and Kamea was a brilliant, unexpected twist on the second-chance romance trope.

I loved getting to know Knox and finding out what makes the Rooftop Crew police officer tick. We have seen him and Leilani in some of the previous books, and saw glimpses of how dysfunctional their relationship is. So I was excited to really get into the nitty gritty of it, and Piper Rayne did not disappoint with The Do-Over! When push comes to shove, will Knox be able to convince the woman he loves that he’s making the right choice?

And that ending! OMG! I need Jax and Frankie’s story ASAP! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Piper Rayne

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Piper Rayne, or Piper and Rayne, whichever you prefer because weโ€™re not one author, weโ€™re two. Yep, you get two USA Today Bestselling authors for the price of one.ย 
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Our goal is to bring you romance stories that have “Heartwarming Humor With a Side of Sizzle” (okay…you caught us, that’s our tagline).ย 
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A little about us…ย 
We both have kindleโ€™s full of one-clickable books.ย 
We’re both married to husbands who drive us to drink.ย 
We’re both chauffeurs to our kids.ย 
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Most of all, we love hot heroes and quirky heroines that make us laugh, and we hope you do, too.



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