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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Change Up, by Meghan Quinn

 

The Change Up by Meghan Quinn
Release Date: June 11th
Genre: Romantic Comedy

 

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Blurb:
BREAKING NEWS: The Bad Boy of Baseball, Maddox Paige, is totally and utterly whipped.

Okay, that might not be the headlines in the newspaper this morning, but it’s the reality of my current situation.

It all started a month ago when I received a call from my best friend, Kinsley. She got a new job in Chicago and needed a place to stay. I’ve known the girl since I was five, what harm would it be to have her stay at my place for a while?

Ha! Total disaster.

Now instead of going out every night with my teammates, I’m couch surfing and sketching endless photos of my best friend . . . but that’s the least of my concerns.

The disaster, you ask? I’m rapidly falling head over cleats in love with my best friend, my roommate, and my number one fan.

And she has no idea . . .

 

 

 

Prologue:
**MADDOX**

Have you ever said something you regret?

Something you haven’t forgotten about an hour later?

Something that sits with you, stews deep in your belly, and then seeps into your bones, burying itself so far into your marrow that all you can think about is the one thing you said . . . and how you wished you could take it back the minute it slipped past your lips?

That’s where I am.

Full of regret.

People always say, “Don’t regret anything. It’s what makes you who you are.” That was said in a whiney, nasally voice. Did you hear it?

Well, those people, the ones trying to spew rainbows and sunshine up your ass about blatant mistakes . . . yeah, they’re only saying that because they fuck up on a daily basis.

Think about it, what REAL person is okay with all their regrets? No one. There is always that one thing you did, that one time, that you will always, always, always think . . . “What if I’d done that differently?”

It keeps you up at night.

You wonder, what transformed, what took over my brain, to utter such words. To alter your life completely and send it down an entirely different course.

Yeah, my life has been fucking altered all right.

Everything was fine.

I was pitching one hell of a fucking season for the Rebels, my ride or die team. I was getting along with my teammates, even the infamous Cory Potter, who made a splash after last season. I’ll hand it to the man, he really is the boss. I was getting laid whenever I wanted, which is always a plus for a guy who has massive amounts of adrenaline pumping through him daily, especially on a pitching day. And there were no strings attached.

None.

Yeah, I might have a rotation of women I call, but any single player in the major leagues does. You need the outlet. Even the prestigious Cory Potter had some booty call numbers before he found Natalie.

I was living a great life, and then it all changed. And it changed fucking fast.

Before I knew it, I was staring into my fridge at dairy products not made from a cow, but rather from oat. What the fuck is that? Oat milk? Explain to me where an oat has a goddamn nipple.

My toothbrush is made from bamboo, which gives off a very woody, splintery taste, and I’ve been using toothpaste tablets instead of paste from a tube . . . because apparently, tubes suck up life in the landfill.

The eco-friendly toilet paper in my apartment disintegrates in my hand and is worthless, making bathroom breaks a fucking nightmare.

And there’s a goddamn three-legged dog in a suit and tie sitting on my couch that goes by the name Herman, or Hermy for short.

I don’t have any privacy, I don’t even remember what meat tastes like anymore, and “Hermy” has a goddamn staring problem. And the three-legged motherfucker, yeah, he’s stealthy. I find him waiting for me outside the shower . . . staring.

When I wake up . . . staring.

When I’m trying to make a goddamn tempeh sandwich . . . staring.

Every time I tell him to “get a life” or to “fuck off” or for the love of Christ “get a new hobby”, he doesn’t even bat an eyelash.

He just stares!

I can’t fucking take it anymore.

I’m losing my goddamn mind and I don’t know . . . maybe it’s because I haven’t had sex in what feels like forever, or because my burgers are now made of imposter “meat”, or maybe because I’m forced to do things I don’t want to do. Either way, something needs to give, because I’m pretty sure from all the vegan shit I’ve been eating, my armpits are just about ready to spring their own mung beans.

Christ.

One phone call.

That’s all it took.

One fucking phone call from a person I cannot say no to, a person who will forever and always be . . . my insanely beautiful and free-spirited best friend.

 

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

You can’t have Maddox Paige. He’s all mine, ladies.

I don’t know how Meghan Quinn does it, but each guy in her baseball series outshines the one who cam before him. And Maddox was nothing like what I expected him to be! We’ve met him before in The Line Up (Jason) and The Trade (Cory), so I knew that Maddox was the surly, intimidating bad boy of baseball. I was not expecting him to be a sweet, vulnerable artist with a soft spot for his vegan, animal-loving, free-spirited best friend, Kinsley.

Kinney and Maddie were so adorable. There is so much history between them, and their love runs deep. Having been best friends since they were 5, Kinsley and Maddox already have a deep love for one another. But when she moves in with him and they become roommates, the feelings that have always been simmering under the surface for 20 years tips them both over to falling in love. Their chemistry is off the charts, as are their sexy times. I loved how they take things slow when it actually comes to having sex for the first time, but the rest of their fooling around was fan-worthy. Seriously, that kitchen scene must be one of MQ’s best fooling around scenes ever!

MQ did a fantastic job with this story. As a reader, I felt every ounce fear that both Maddox and Kinsley had about changing their relationship. I felt how uncomfortable Maddox was when she started changing up his life, and how he felt like his “safe space” was being taken over. When I read the details of his childhood and his abusive father, it gave me a new insight to the guy. When it came to The Break Up, Maddox was way wrong in how he assumed without giving Kinsley a chance to explain. But I got why he reacted the way that he did. And the downward spiral that their split sends him on — the depression he felt over how he treated Kinney once he realized how wrong he was — was hard to read at times. The last thing Maddox wanted was to be anything like his father, and that was exactly the position he found himself in.

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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: Reckless, by Stella Rhys

Title: Reckless

An Irresistible Series Standalone

Author: Stella Rhys
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Release Date: June 9, 2020
Blurb
For years, we
never looked at each other like that. 
But all it took
was one night for everything to change.
Some days, he’s my
worst enemy. Other days he’s my best friend. Every day, of course, Adam Maxwell
is my cocky prick of a boss, and for the past five years, we’ve been the
official power duo at Engelman Sports, closing multi-million dollar contracts
like LA’s most well-oiled machine. 
Honestly, we thrive
on the daily love-hate. 
I call out his
womanizing. He rags on my “needy” fiancé. And we carry right on. Because
through thick and thin, our work dynamic has always stayed rock-solid.
Fine-tuned to the kind of perfection you couldn’t break if you tried. 
Or so I thought.
Until one
night. 
That was all it
took to turn our worlds upside down. One weekend business trip and one birthday
surprise gone catastrophically wrong. Long story short, Adam caught me exposed.
I felt him
aroused…
And just like that
the switch flipped on our dynamic.
For five years,
Adam Maxwell and I were just friends. But now? 
We’re anything but.

 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Having previously read Now Or Never (Iain and Holland’s story), I was quite familiar with Adam and his assistant/work wife, AJ. I knew that AJ was engaged, and I was really curious to see what would bring her and Adam together in Reckless.

Well… AJ’s fiance is cheating on her. Which leads to lots of sexual tension when she and Adam — her good friend and boss — wind up sharing a hotel room. Of course they give in, and it is hot. Seriously, steaming the shower, burning up the sheets hot. And that scene during his conference call? Holy hell! AJ and Adam successfully keep their coworkers from finding out about their fling, while at the same time heating up most of the office space. But when AJ gets a well-deserved promotion at the same time that a colleague learns of their affair, it very much looks like she’s just been sleeping with the boss. Which, already having a #MeToo experience from a college internship, was her fear all along.

I really liked the evolution of Adam and AJ’s relationship. Those feelings were kind of always simmering underneath the surface for both of them, and it was so easy for them to fall into a routine and pattern as a couple. Adam is a really complex character, much like Iain is. When Adam’s backstory was explained — why his mother favored Holland so much and such disdain for him — it was heartbreaking. But it also explains alot about why Adam is so fiercely loyal to a small group of people.

When AJ leaves him to carve out her own career path, Adam shows that loyalty by following her — but not overshadowing her. Both of them moving out of Los Angeles leads to a great reunion not only for AJ and Adam, but for Adam and his family. The epilogue was a wonderful treat, as all of Adam’s loved ones are in the same place together — all because of AJ.

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York and when she isn’t writing, you can find her with her family and friends,
scouring the city in search of her next book-inspiring adventure.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: When The Walls Come Down, by M. Mabie & Aly Martinez

 

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“Exactly what I needed to relax, laugh, and swoon after a hard day. I cannot wait to see what M. Mabie and Aly Martinez come up with next.”
–Carrie Ann Ryan, New York Times Bestselling Author

When the Walls Come Down, an all-new, steamy, swoony, highly entertaining office romance from USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez and M. Mabie is available now!

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Did you ever hear the joke about the guy whose wife cheated on him with his best friend? So he quit his job, moved into his parents’ basement, and gained fifty pounds?

No? Because that wasn’t a joke. It was my life.

Four years later, I’m back with a dream job, a killer apartment, and a set of abs that are better than ever.

So, when Maggie Light, a stunning, snarky blonde moves in next door, and we spend the hottest weekend of our lives together, I think this could be the greatest comeback story ever.

That is until I realize Maggie has moved to town to do one thing—steal my job.

Maybe this isn’t a comeback story after all. Maybe this is war—one I intend to win.

What I never anticipated was that maybe I’d rather win her.

Perhaps, if I’m lucky, the universe has finally run out of jokes and I can somehow win both.

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Excerpt

Oh, for fuck’s sake. Am I a man or not?

Here goes fucking nothing.

Take a risk, my ass. I’d fucking show Casey and Blake a damn risk.

I marched down to where she was sitting. “Hi, I’m Shane.”

She looked shocked, maybe a little startled by my approach—and rightly so. I’d stalked over like the fucking Terminator, all amped up from my private pep talk.

“The bartender, Chris, said you’re new in town, and it’s your first time here.”

Her sparkling blue eyes stood out against her makeup, and now—standing close to her—I could smell her perfume. A subtle and warm scent that made me want to lean in.

What the fuck had I been thinking?

To put it mildly, she was out of my league, but hey… Risks, right?

“If you’re dining alone, would you mind if I offer a suggestion from the menu?”

“I was only looking it over out of curiosity. I really just came in for a drink or two.” She folded it and placed it on the wooden top in front of her.

Goddamn, that cleavage.

“Oh. Yeah. Okay. Well, then…uh…let me get one for you.” I might have strutted over like the Terminator, but I was fumbling over my words like Barney Fife and beginning to sweat like a Crossfitter.

Her brows bunched. “Um, you really don’t have to do that.”

“Please. After the day I’ve had, I’ll actually have one with you.” I swiped at the back of my neck. “The drinks are good here. Very cold. Wet.” Jesus fucking Christ, Shane. Wet!? “Um. Alcoholic, if that’s what you’re into.” I waved Chris—and his bigger-than-life shit-eating grin—down to us.

“Find something you’d like?” he asked her.

“I’ll just have a Titos and cranberry,” she answered. “I hear they’re very cold and wet here.”

Chris looked at me disappointedly, probably guessing at how badly I’d botched this introduction. He wasn’t wrong, but she hadn’t told me to fuck off yet.

Yet.

“And I’ll take a Honeybee Brown,” I added.

He spun on his heel, shocked. “Really?”

I shrugged and shot daggers at him. “Really. A pint, please.”

“A cold, wet one too, eh? Okay, man. Coming right up.” He made our drinks and then about a dozen more for the servers who were keeping him busy.

“Thanks for the drink,” she said, clinking our glasses together, her eyes never quite meeting mine.

“Yeah. Sure. No problem.” I followed her lead and took a sip.

“So, do you come here a lot, Shane?”

My name on her lips had me clearing my throat.

“Yes,” replied our asshole bartender before I could answer.

“I live close,” I explained, and she nodded in understanding. “So, where did you come to the Bay from?” I took another sip, realizing that counting the beer I’d had with Casey earlier and this one, I was nearing my only-a-few-drinks daily limit. So I’d be savoring the pint as long as she didn’t seem too put off by my dusty-ass small talk. Otherwise, I could chug it down and then be on my merry way, leaving her to enjoy her night without a divorced, practically fired dude bugging her.

“Atlanta,” she replied and swirled a piece of ice with the drink stirrer in her glass. Still no eye contact.

Small talk. I fumbled for more small talk.

“You have family here?”

“No, I’ve always wanted to get out of Georgia. So, when I landed a job out here, it seemed like a sign.”

Finally, her blue eyes met mine and… Fuck, if I could have just remembered to blink, I’d have been doing well. I feared if I broke the gaze for just a second, I’d never see that color again, because surely it was a mirage of some sort. Like a crystal-blue pool in a desert. The kind of trick eyes could only play on a man who hadn’t been laid in nearly half a decade.

She finished with, “I start on Monday. I guess fate is as good a time as any to take a risk.”

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

When The Walls Come Down is a great collab between M. Mabie and Aly Martinez! I was shipping Peach and the Old Man so hard!

The youngest sibling in a large family, Maggie has always wanted to live the life that her late mother never got to live. After graduating college, Maggie moves across the country from Atlanta to San Francisco and her first night there, goes to the local watering hole and meets a guy. What are the chances that Shane would be her next-door neighbor? Despite a 9-year age gap, Shane and Maggie hit it off fantastically. But where they worked never came up in conversation.

So when Shane — who is more or less being forced out of his position at work by his sister and brother-in-law, who own the restaurants — meets his team’s new hire on Monday morning, he’s shocked to find that Maggie is the person who will essentially be replacing him. Will Maggie and Shane be able to make their new relationship work when they know that one of their jobs is on the line?

I loved the witty banter between Shane and Maggie. Their interactions were hysterical, and I liked both characters right off the bat. They fall hard and fast for one another, but I didn’t feel like their relationship was being rushed. The whole story takes place more or less in a month’s time, but I thought there was a great development to their relationship. Even when they were trying to just be friends for the sake of their careers, they were still witty and playful and adorable. Especially as they chatted on their apartment balconies. And I really liked how their different positions in life — Shane is 33 and divorced, Maggie is 24 and just beginning her independent life — came into play. There is one incident where Maggie lets Shane think she’s with another guy, but recognizes right away that she’s being cruel, because of what he’d gone through with his ex-wife. I thought that showed great maturity on her part, and really liked how they worked that situation out.

The “walls” in When The Walls Come Down were both metaphorical and physical. And I loved how Maggie and Shane broke through them all by the end of the book. I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Originally from Savannah, Georgia, USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez now lives in South Carolina with her husband and four young children.

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

She passes what little free time she has reading anything and everything she can get her hands on, preferably with a super-sized tumbler of wine by her side.

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Mabie lives in Illinois with her husband. She writes everything from steamy romantic comedies to angst-filled, pull your hair out drama. She enjoys it all. With her unconventional love stories, she tries to embody “real-life romance.”

She cares about politics, but will not discuss them in public. She uses the same fork at every meal, watches Wayne’s World while cleaning, and lets her dog sleep on her head. She has always been a writer. In fact, she was born with a pen in her hand, which almost never happens. Almost.

Mabie usually doesn’t speak in third-person. She promises.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Girl In The Love Song, by Emma Scott

At Santa Cruz Central High School, they called them the misfits, the outcasts, the weirdos. But most of us knew them as the Lost Boys…

The Girl in the Love Song, book one in the Lost Boys, an interconnected coming-of-age series of standalones, from USA Today bestselling author Emma Scott, is live!

Miller Stratton is a survivor. After a harrowing childhood of poverty, he will do anything it takes to find security for himself and his mom. He’s putting all his hopes and dreams in the fragile frame of his guitar and the beauty he creates with its strings and his soulful voice. 

Until Violet. 

No one expects to meet the love of their life at age thirteen. But the spunky rich girl steals Miller’s heart and refuses to give it back. 

Violet McNamara’s life hasn’t been as simple as it looks. Her picture-perfect family is not so perfect after all. Her best friend Miller is her one constant and she is determined not to ruin their friendship with romantic complications. 

But the heart wants what it wants. As Miller’s star begins to rise to stratospheric heights, what will it take for Violet to realize that she’s the girl in all of his love songs?

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

The Girl In The Love Song is a fantastic start to a new series by Emma Scott! Set at a high school in Santa Cruz, this story is a emotional first-love story between Have Violet and Have-Not Miller.

I was expecting a majority of this story to be one of unrequited love, but it’s not. Miller and Violet pretty much fall in love with one another at 13, but since they are both so young, they don’t know what to do with that. There is a lot of miscommunication on both parts as they begin high school as neither one of them wants to ruin the friendship by admitting that they’ve caught feelings — and firmly believe that the other has placed them in the friend-zone. Once Miller and Violet get on the same page, they are committed for life. And I LOVED that. But their road to HEA was not without bumps.

Miller and Vi were the sweetest couple. They just had such a pure love, and their relationship was magical. I really liked each of them as individuals, and I loved them as a couple. I loved that they kept true to each other even when they were separated by distance and their financial roles were reversed. They had such great love for one another, and that leapt off the page.

Emma Scott expertly weaves in a very real medical issue for Miller amongst the trials and tribulations of teenage heartbreak, following your dreams, parental issues, domestic abuse, neglect and a host of other topics. She writes it all so beautifully, and I could not wait to see what each chapter brought not only for Vi and Miller, but their ragtag crew.

I am so intrigued by Hunter and Ronan, and can’t wait to see what their books bring! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

About Emma:



Emma Scott is an internationally bestselling author whose books have been featured in Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, New York Daily News and USA Today’s Happy Ever After. She writes emotional, character-driven romances in which art and love intertwine to heal, and in which love always wins. If you enjoy emotionally-charged stories that rip your heart out and put it back together again, with diverse characters and heroes with a heart of gold, you will enjoy her novels.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: One-Click Love, by T. Gephart

 

ONE CLICK LOVE by T. Gephart
Release Date: June 5th

 

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Want a man who is not only hot but knows how to handle a blaze?
Well ladies, it’s your lucky day.

John “Mack” McPherson is 6’3” of fine with a six-pack that makes men half his
age question their gym regimen. Teddy-bear brown eyes with brown hair, his graying
temples let you flirt with just enough silver fox so you know you’ve got yourself a real
man. But don’t let the body and face fool you, he’s incredibly smart, with medals for
days and won’t think twice about putting his own life on the line to save someone else.

Brave, dependable, and needing someone equally awesome,
Mack is ready to be
snapped up by a feisty female who isn’t scared to play with fire.

 

John,

Not sure how feisty I am now, but I’m fighting my way back. Little scares me
though, and I’m not someone who breaks easily. Not interested in playing mind games,
so if your idea of a good time is heading to a club where we pretend to be into the scene, then it’s probably for the best we don’t meet. I expect honesty and a half-way decent orgasm I don’t have to give myself. Other than that, open to negotiation.

Let me know if you’re game,
Hayden.

 

 

 

 

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

One-Click Love is the second book in T. Gephart’s Hot In The City series about a group of FDNY firefighters. We got to know Mack – aka Chief – in Riley and Quinn’s book. Now, the happy couple has created a dating profile for Riley’s surrogate dad, and Mack falls head over heels for Hayden.

I loved that Mack and Hayden are both divorced 40somethings. They are both carrying around baggage from their prior marriages, and those scars impact how they deal with one another. Hayden is a curvy girl and after a loveless marriage, her self-esteem is shot. She’s not looking for anything more than an a one-night stand when she meets Mack. But he’s a romantic at heart, and pulls out all the stops to show Hayden how much he appreciates her and how beautiful she is. But when Hayden declares that she wants a baby, will Mack’s past history help or hurt that endeavor?

There is little drama in this story, aside from some manipulation from his crazy ex-wife and Hayden being in the wrong place at the wrong time. That incident gives Mack the chance to play Knight In Shining Armor, leading to a wonderful HEA.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

About the Author:
T Gephart is a USA Today and International bestselling author from Melbourne, Australia.

With an approach to life that is somewhat unconventional, she prefers to fly by the seat of her pants rather than adhere to some rigid roadmap. Her lack of “plan” has resulted in a rather interesting and eclectic resume, which reads more like the fiction she writes than an actual employment history. She’d tell you all about it, but the statute of limitations hasn’t expired yet. But all those crazy twists and turns have led her to a career she loves—writing romantic comedy.

When she isn’t filling pages with sassy and sexy characters with attitude, she’s living her own reality show in the ‘burbs of Melbourne with her American husband, two teenage children, and her fur child—Woodley.

She loves adventure, to laugh, travel, and strives to live her life to the fullest.

 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Silver Mayor, by L.B. Dunbar

 

 

Release Date: June 4
Charlie Harrington is a respectable man. Mayor to his small, mountain town. Successful attorney. Dotting single father. After one mishap in the past, he avoids scandal. Making everyone happy is his goal. He’s nothing but content…and a bit boring. Then one morning, he finds a beautiful woman in his bedroom, and his world turns upside down. His good guy side suddenly wants to be a little bad.
Janessa Cruz has been both a have and a have-not. Ex-wife to someone famous, she’s now a single mother in hiding. She just wants to go unnoticed. Quietly starting over in her forties is the plan. Only she isn’t certain what she wants. When a misunderstanding brings her face-to-face with the sexy town mayor, she can’t seem to avoid him, and being a little reckless never felt so right. 
 
Another Harrington brother bites the dust, and he’s looking forward to getting all kinds of dirty.
 

 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 3 Stars

Silver Mayor is #3 in the Silver Foxes Of Blue Ridge Series, and focuses on brother Charlie, the mayor of the small Georgia town. I’ve really liked the other books in this series as well as the series before it, but Silver Mayor was a bit of a clunker for me.

I just never felt that Charlie and Janessa connected in any real way. Their entire relationship seemed more like a friends with benefits situation. Which is totally fine — they are both divorced, single parents, and I liked that they found comfort and companionship in one another. There are some added complications to their affair since he’s the mayor, she works for the town, and her parents are his housekeeper/groundsman. I just never felt that they connected on a soulmate level, and their relationship seemed to be all about sex. For instance: She’s clearly upset about something, and not having any idea what has her in tears on the floor, he takes that as an invitation to initiate sex in his office while consoling her?

Janessa has some massive walls up — and once her story unfolds, the reasons are explained why she’s so secretive about her past. But Charlie seems to fall head over heels with her before he knows much about her. I just didn’t feel it. That said, I thought that Charlie and Janessa did have a very nice connection as companions. They both understand what it’s like to be married to a public figure, and that stress didn’t only impact them but their 10 year old daughters as well.

This book was well-written, as are all of LB Dunbar’s books that I’ve read. I just didn’t click with Janessa and Charlie as a couple I wanted to root for, and that made all the difference in my 3-star rating versus a 4-star.

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Meet L.B. Dunbar
I’ve been accused of having an over-active imagination. To my benefit, this imagination has created over twenty novels, including the creation of a small-town world (Sensations Collection), rock star mayhem (Legendary Rock Star series), MMA chaos (Paradise Stories), rom-com for the over forty (The Sex Education of M.E.), and a suspenseful island for redemption (The Island Duet). My alter ego, elda lore, creates magical romance through mythological retellings (Modern Descendants). My life revolves around a deep love of reading about fairy tales, medieval knights, regency debauchery, and strong alpha males. I love a deep belly laugh, a strong hug, and an occasional margarita. My other loves include being mother to four grown children and wife to the one and only.
 
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Asher, by Carian Cole

 

Title: Asher
Series: Ashes & Embers #6
Author: Carian Cole
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: June 3, 2020
Blurb
I should have died.
I should have been
forgotten.
But I didn’t, and I
wasn’t.
Living the life most women only dream about, I was madly in
love with my soulmate—Asher Valentine—amazing husband, loving father, and
rock’s favorite kick-ass front man. A man who loved me every day, in every way,
since we first met as teens. We were blessed with a beautiful
daughter who was the light of our life. My all-female rock band was tearing up
the charts.
Then tragedy struck, and I lost it all.
Now all I have is a stack of journals, an antique key, and a
big black void where my memories should be.
Used to be.
And I have him—this man with wild hair, tattoos from head to
toe, a soft voice, and an even softer touch that gives me butterflies. He’s
clearly hopelessly in love with his wife.
I’m told that’s me.
But that wife is gone, and she took everything they once
had, leaving me in her place.
A broken replacement. A new version that doesn’t quite fit.
I’m slowly falling in love with him, but will he ever truly
love me? Or will he forever be in love
with her, the phantom woman who
haunts us both?
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

I first signed up to read and review Asher a year or so ago, and the release date changed several times. Was it worth the wait? Absolutely! I devoured this book in a day, and it’s taken me a few days to collect my thoughts about Asher and Ember. It was fantastic. And then some.

The prologue absolutely gutted me. Asher literally watches the love of his life plummet to her near-death. The fact that he was not able to prevent her fall has plagued him for the past 8 years while Ember has been in a coma. Every single day, Asher visits his wife, hoping and praying that she will return to him.

Well, she does. But since she has amnesia and doesn’t remember who Asher is or anything about their life together, it’s not pretty. Ember’s recovery is hard on both of them. She feels like a stranger in what everyone is telling her is her life, and Asher is so desperately clinging on to the hope that he his wife will fully return to him.

This story is raw and hard to read at times. Asher has the patience of a saint, and he never gives up on Ember. While I expected her journey to be difficult, I was surprised by how equally difficult Asher’s journey is. All of the memories that she can’t remember are the ones that he can’t forget. The ones that he has been hanging on to, and the only thing that has gotten him through this dark time. But is he in love with a ghost? Can he accept the “new” Ember? And will she fall in love with the tatted, long-haired rock god again?

Having not read any of the other books in this series, I had no frame of reference for Asher and Ember’s situation. There are a few things that I thought were kind of glossed over or could have used more of an explanation (like his family background and parents being famous, for example). But that ultimately didn’t affect how I feel about this book. And Asher and Ember’s story definitely made me want to read Tor, which is about their daughter, Kenzi, and Ash’s best friend Toren.

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Carian Cole
has a passion for the bad boys, those covered in tattoos, sexy smirks, ripped
jeans, fast cars, motorcycles and of course, the sweet girls who try to tame
them and win their hearts.
Born and raised a Jersey girl, Carian now resides in beautiful New Hampshire
with her husband and their multitude of furry pets. She spends most of her time
writing, reading, and vacuuming.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: We Were Once, by S.L. Scott

Release Date: May 28
We were never supposed to fall in love.
 
New York Times bestselling author, S.L. Scott, crafts her signature heartfelt style into a brand new emotional, second chance, standalone romance.  
I have three goals: graduate from an Ivy League university, get into medical school, and follow in my father’s well-established footsteps. Everything was going exactly as planned until the local bad boy was delivered to my doorstep. Literally.
From the moment we meet, my old life becomes unrecognizable, but I have no regrets. I’m utterly captivated by him. His smirk. His heart. His sharp wit. He pushes me to live, to be wild, to pursue the dream I’ve always hidden inside.
To the rest of the world, we make no sense.
Me, the girl from the gilded New England coast.
Joshua, from the small city of New Haven.
To us, we’re destiny.
Together, we had it all. Desperately. Madly. In love.
Until we didn’t.
One tragic night changed everything.



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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Chase-The-Moon Stars
We Were Once is full of emotion. Chloe and Joshua have so much riding against them, get they are so, so connected that nothing else matters.

When these two meet, it is opposite-attract instalove. She’s a well-off student, he’s a townie even though he is also studying at Yale. There is nothing about Joshua and Chloe that makes sense, yet everything about them does. She grounds him and he helps her drift — much like their half-anchor tattoos represent. They fall hard and fast, but they are ripped apart after a tragedy.

He is at his absolute lowest After The Accident, and even though Chloe is trying her best to help him, her dad is continuing to manipulate them. When Joshua pushes her away, Chloe has no choice but to go even though she feels in every fiber of her being that it is wrong.

For years afterwards, she feels a black hole in her soul. But a chance meeting in Manhattan turns everything around. Has too much time passed, or are these two still the anchors of one another’s souls? Can they chase the moon and find a second chance?


This book was wonderful. Full of heart, emotional, Hope and salvation. I kind of wish that the After The Accident part of the story would have dealt a little more with Joshua’s time in prison. It changed him, but I would have liked to have known more about his struggles. But I still enjoyed this story so very much, and loved how both Chloe and Joshua grew during to come back even stronger when they get their second chance.

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Meet S.L. Scott
New York Times and USA Bestselling Author, S. L. Scott, was always interested in the arts. She grew up painting, writing poetry and short stories, and wiling her days away lost in a good book and the movies.
With a degree in Journalism, she continued her love of the written word by reading American authors like Salinger and Fitzgerald. She was intrigued by their flawed characters living in picture perfect worlds, but could still debate that the worlds those characters lived in were actually the flawed ones. This dynamic of leaving the reader invested in the words, inspired Scott to start writing with emotion while interjecting an underlying passion into her own stories.
 
Living in the capital of Texas with her family, Scott loves traveling and avocados, beaches, and cooking with her kids. She’s obsessed with epic romances and loves a good plot twist. She dreams of seeing one of her own books made into a movie one day as well as returning to Europe. Her favorite color is blue, but she likens it more toward the sky than the emotion. Her home is filled with the welcoming symbol of the pineapple and finds surfing a challenge though she likes to think she’s a pro.

 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The First Score, by Amie Knight

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I loved all of life’s firsts, which was why I’d been saving mine for one girl, my older sister’s best friend—Hazel Jones.

She was tough and sarcastic with walls around her heart as tall as a football stadium, but I knew she was the one for me.

Desperate times called for desperate measures and I’d have done anything to make her mine.

Like create a fake online persona.

Lie about my age.

Pretend I wasn’t some naive virgin.

And catfish the hell out of the love of my life.

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“Thanks so much for taking her home, Hazel.” Ollie nudged me to get my attention and I turned to look at him, not having much choice in the matter now. I couldn’t be rude. It was a mistake. The green of his eyes was deeper today, less brown. I knew it was the jersey. It was always that way. A bead of sweat slid down the side of his face and he ran a hand through his hair like he always did. I knew it was a habit of his, just like I knew so many other things about him.

“You owe me.” I tried lightening the mood like I had with Scarlett. I nudged his shoulder but only came into contact with a pad.

Dragging his bottom lip into his mouth, he raked his teeth over the fullness and his eyes heated. He leaned his face close to mine. “You name it and it’s yours, brat.”

My face flamed and my mouth watered. Lord, he was a terrible flirt and by terrible I meant amazing. I swallowed the saliva pooling in my mouth and stepped back.

“Cut it out, Olls. Quit giving her a hard time. She came all this way so your ass would have a way home tonight.” Scarlett attempted to save me.

He eyed me. “Oh, I haven’t even started giving her a hard time yet,” he said before walking backward down the stadium steps, hot eyes still on me. I was thanking whatever gods were listening that he was walking backward. Please, God. Spare me that ass. I couldn’t handle it after his damn lip trick.

“You’re shameless, Oliver Knox,” Scarlett called down to him.

She wasn’t wrong. Oliver flirted with all the women. I never could tell if he had a preference for a certain kind of girl. If it walked and had tits and a vagina, he flirted.

“Bye, ladies,” Oliver said loudly and jangled Scarlett’s keys over his head before doing the most awful thing in the world to me—he spun around and gave me his ass. And God, was it a marvelous ass. Immediately my eyes ate it up. Was there anything better than a hot ass in some football pants? It was round and firm and high and I bet I could have bounced fifty quarters off of it. But I didn’t have any change. Damn. That was just my luck.

I was being mesmerized by the twin all white globes when they stopped just barely and my eyes diverted up to see Oliver looking over his shoulder and smiling. Damn him. He gave me a slow wink before continuing down the steps at a trot.

The tease. The bastard. He knew how good-looking he was. It didn’t matter a bit that he was my best friend’s brother or that he was a year and a half younger than me. Oliver Winston Knox was fine on a regular day, but in a football uniform he was the stuff dreams were made of. My dreams to be exact.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

The First Score is such a sweet story! It is a stand-alone, but is a spin-off of The Red Zone. I remember when I read TRZ that I loved Hazel and Oliver, and hoped that they would get a story. It was so worth the wait!

Ollie has always had a crush on Hazel, his sister’s best friend. He and Hazel develop their own special kind of friendship, but Ollie wants more. So one day, he decides to catfish the love of his life in a video game.

Thankfully, that doesn’t backfire on him. But it does open up Hazel to admit that she has feelings for him as well. Unfortunately, she is so messed up as a result of her abusive childhood, she feels like she can’t be in a relationship. He was so devoted to her, and has the patience of a saint when Hazel, who is going through some personal drama with her mom, tells him that she needs time to figure things out.

Team Hollie all the way! Once these two finally get on the same page, their relationship is magic. He is the ultimate supportive boyfriend, and knows exactly what Hazel needs even when she doesn’t know herself.

If you have read TRZ, TFS takes place kind of at the same time. It was great to get a catch-up with Luk and Lettie, too. I hope Mason’s story comes soon!

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Amie Knight has been a reader for as long as she could remember and a romance lover since she could get her hands on her momma’s books. A dedicated wife and mother with a love of music and makeup, she won’t ever be seen leaving the house without her eyebrows and eyelashes done just right. When she isn’t reading and writing, you can catch her jamming out in the car with her two kids to ’90s R&B, country, and showtunes. Amie draws inspiration from her childhood in Columbia, South Carolina, and can’t imagine living anywhere other than the South.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Sweet Spot, by Rebecca Jenshak

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A hot-headed college golfer falls for her swing coach in this fun and sexy sports romance.

Lincoln Reeves may be a pro golfer and revered swing coach, but when I meet him, he is just one more person telling me I’m not good enough.
So, I do what any girl in my position would do. I tell him to get lost and take his arrogant, annoying smirk with him. I never expect to see him again. I certainly don’t expect to run into him that same night after one too many tequila shots.
Turns out that he’s kind of a big deal. Okay, fine, a really big deal. In fact, he might be the one person who can take my game to the next level.
Convincing him to help will be difficult.
Not throwing my club at his handsome face when he makes me work harder than I thought humanly possible will be excruciating.
But not falling for him will be the hardest thing of all.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Sweet Spot is an absolutely sweet romance set in Rebecca Jenshak’s Valley U world. Keira is a college golf player, who isn’t getting the recognition she deserves because her coach has it out for her. She’s damn good, and eats, breathes and sleeps golf. But still, she’s not getting a spot to play in the tournaments. So when an opportunity arises to get golf pro-turned-coach Lincoln Reeves to personally train her, Keira dives even deeper into her training.

And along the way, falls head over heels with her coach. Their relationship starts out as a casual fling, but both of them begin to want more as he trains her for the PGA circuit. But having already been married and divorced, Lincoln is afraid to bring his selfish behavior (being married to his job) to another relationship. But is their shared love of golf enough to get both Keira and Lincoln to the sweet spot?

This story is a low-angsty, lighthearted read. Keira and Lincoln have a playful connection with lotsof witty banter and fun flirting. There is an age gap between them, but this story is not a forbidden romance. So there isn’t a lot of drama, and these two likable characters just keep chugging along until Keira realizes that she needs more than Lincoln is willing to give. And when Lincoln decides to fight for their relationship, he really brings his A Game at an intense moment for Keira’s golf career.

Although Sweet Spot takes place at Valley University where the Smart Jocks series was set, this is a standalone. There are some ties to the Smart Jocks — Zeke makes an appearance, and Nathan’s brother, Heath, is one of Lincoln’s employees.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Rebecca Jenshak is a self-proclaimed margarita addict, college basketball fanatic, and Hallmark channel devotee. A Midwest native transplanted to the desert, she likes being outdoors (drinking on patios) and singing (in the shower) when she isn’t writing books about hot guys and the girls who love them.

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