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Sunny Shelly’s Review: I Like You, I Hate Her by J.R. Rogue

January 29, 2022January 29, 2022 sunnyshellyreadsLeave a comment

Release Date: January 27

I’m not bad; they just write me that way.

That’s what I tell myself—the lie I peddle in interviews.

If they want a bad girl, I can be their bad girl.

Their villain.

“Everyone loves a scandal. And you’re the queen of scandals..”

Years ago, I broke the heart of the biggest pop star in the world.

And then I became the Sexiest Man Alive’s biggest regret.

I am not that venomous girl anymore.

But I know a life-changing role when I see one.

“At his name, my heart stills. The man I hate and want.

The bane of my existence…”

Being Tristan Kane’s on-screen love interest will be good for my career.

And bad for my heart.

For him? I aim to devastate both.

Tristan

The world thinks it’s easy being the son of Hollywood royalty.

But they don’t know the burdens I wear.

Or the regrets in my chest—that all say her name.

“We will be nothing more than co-stars. Not friends. Not anything more…”

Loving Josephine Ouellette goes against my late father’s wishes.

Fits into my meddling manager’s plans.

And pisses my sister off.

“…forget the world, they can’t have this moment.

This is our story, and no one gets a say in it.”

But I’m tired of living in his shadow.

Living for their games.

I fell in love with a villain.

And no one loves harder than the scorned.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 3 Stars

I Like You, I Hate Her is an intense second-chance romance between film stars Tristan and Jo. They have a shared past that is messy and full of scandal, and the line between love and hate is very fine for these two stars.

Without rehashing the plot of this book, I really felt for Jo. She’s been labeled a villain in Hollywood but that is really so far from the truth. My heart broke for her, and all she’d been through, and how she craved safety and quiet. And never got it. Tristan, meanwhile, is trying to be his own person but forever being followed by the shadow of his late father, an iconic Oscar winner. There is a lot of messy emotion between Tristan and Jo as they work on making a movie together and forge a tentative friendship… and eventually, become more.

However, I felt that a lot of this book was disjointed. It didn’t flow as well as I would have liked it to. I think the flashbacks to the past would have served the story better if they were chapters on their own rather than within a present-day chapter. Also, I felt that there was a backstory to both of these characters that I didn’t get the full scope of, and I’m wondering if that’s because they both previously appeared in books from the author’s back catalog? I’m sure having read those books would have been beneficial, and I definitely felt like I was missing pieces to Jo and Tristan’s story.

In the end, I Like You, I Hate Her had a satisfying HEA that made me smile, knowing that Jo and Tristan made it through the mess and found their own version of paradise together.

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Meet J.R. Rogue

J.R. Rogue first put pen to paper at the age of fifteen after developing an unrequited high school crush & has never stopped writing about heartache. She has published multiple volumes of poetry and novels.

Three of her poetry collections, La Douleur Exquise, Exits, Desires, & Slow Fires, & I’m Not Your Paper Princess have been Goodreads Choice Awards Nominees.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: My Famous Frenemy, by Piper Rayne

January 26, 2022January 26, 2022 sunnyshellyreadsLeave a comment

Release Date: January 25

Hollywood heartthrob, Gavin Price invaded our small town, Sunrise Bay, like he owned it.

Gavin was my biggest celebrity crush when I was young. He bears the charisma of an easygoing boy-next-door mixed with a rule-breaker personality both in person and on screen.

For a moment, I thought maybe my fairy godmother sent him to me.

Until he decided to run against my mother for mayor.

Everyone in our town knows my mom’s happiness comes before my own, so I take it as my personal mission to show him who really runs this town.

I just didn’t realize that being my mom’s right-hand woman would put me in such close proximity to him. Very quickly, I question whether he wants to win the mayoral race or me.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Another great addition to Piper Rayne’s Greene Family series! Gavin and Posey’s relationship in My Famous Frenemy is like her teenage dream came to life, but the real guy that Posey gets to come home to at night is a million times better than the TV heartthrob she crushed on as a high schooler!

I really loved the development of Gavin and Posey’s friendship and how that became more romantic after a night at Ethel and Dori’s retirement center. (OMG, that fallout shelter room must see some action!!! BWAHAHAHA)

I really empathized with Gavin, how so many people in his life had used him for their own personal gain. Even though Posey had a crush on him when she was a teenager, she kinda didn’t care about where he’d come from. Posey, meanwhile, is still carrying a lot of emotional baggage from when her parents split up, and has this fierce need to still protect her mom at all costs. And when that need to protect her mom puts her at odds with Gavin’s desire to take control of his life and do something for himself — ie, be mayor — it puts these two at odds. Will their relationship ever recover?

Props to Piper Rayne for a wonderful grovel scene where the heroine is the one in the wrong and needs to make things right. It was so emotional and heartfelt, and my favorite part of the book! PR also set the stage for an epic showdown with Xavier and Clara and I can’t freaking wait for their book!

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Piper Rayne, or Piper and Rayne, whichever you prefer because we’re not one author, we’re two. Yep, you get two USA Today Bestselling authors for the price of one. 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).

A little about us…. We both have kindle’s full of one-clickable books. We’re both married to husbands who drive us to drink. We’re both chauffeurs to our kids. Most of all, we love hot heroes and quirky heroines that make us laugh, and we hope you do, too.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Complication by AK Evans

January 25, 2022January 26, 2022 sunnyshellyreadsLeave a comment

Title: Complication

Series: Rock Stars & Romance #6

Author: A.K. Evans

Genre: Rock Star Romance

Release Date: January 25, 2022

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Roscoe Perry is perfectly content with his life as it is. Living the life of a rock star, he’s got everything he could ever want: friends, family, music, women, and freedom. In the middle of a tour, Roscoe makes a quick trip home for his sister’s wedding.

Sienna Baxter has had a crush on Roscoe since she was fourteen, but he was five years older than her, and she wasn’t even a blip on his radar. While it’s been years since she’s seen Roscoe in person, Sienna has followed his career. And one look at the man can still send her heart racing.

So, when Roscoe approaches her at the wedding and turns on the charm, Sienna fails to resist him.

It was supposed to be a night of fun before Roscoe heads out to finish the final leg of the tour with his band. But when he returns, there’s one unexpected complication.

One that threatens the life he’s grown to love.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

It’s been a while since I’ve read a book by AK Evans. And after devouring Complication in a single evening, I wish I’d read the books in this series that came first. I was totally hooked on Roscoe and Sienna’s story from the prologue, and as her unplanned pregnancy progressed and he bent over backward to prove to her that he wanted to be a part of her life, I fell in love with this couple as they fell in love with each other.

Sienna has always had a crush on her best friend’s older brother, but after he inadvertently hurt her feelings when she was a teenager, she’s kept her distance from Roscoe for the past 15 years. When they are reunited as partners in his sister’s wedding, sparks fly and they spend a hot and steamy night together. They parted ways the next morning before Roscoe returned to his band’s tour, with Sienna thought she’d see him again when the tour ended. But that didn’t exactly happen, and Sienna was left with a little souvenir of their night together.

I really felt for Sienna as this story unfolded. She is broke, scared, and facing a future of raising a baby completely on her own. Roscoe does not handle the news well at first, and Sienna has every right to be upset after his reaction. But even after he came around, she held him at arm’s length rather than be understanding of the shock the baby was to him. Eventually, they get on the same page to co-parent, and they enter into a new kind of friendship.

When Roscoe decides that he wants to really try being a partner to Sienna in every sense, he really goes all out. I was surprised by how many times I got teary reading Roscoe and Sienna’s story. It really was a heartwarming romance, and for a guy who wanted nothing to do with a committed relationship or having a family at the start of this book, Roscoe was surprisingly swoony when it came to wooing Sienna.

I am definitely putting the rest of this series on my TBR list! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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A.K. Evans is a contemporary romance author of over twenty published novels. While she enjoys writing a good romantic suspense novel, Andrea’s favorite books to write have been her extreme sports romances. That might have something to do with the fact that she, along with her husband and two sons, can’t get enough of extreme sports.

Before becoming a writer, Andrea did a brief stint in the insurance and financial services industry and managed her husband’s performance automotive business. That love of extreme sports? She used to drive race cars!

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Dating Dilemma, by Mariah Ankenman

January 24, 2022January 24, 2022 sunnyshellyreadsLeave a comment

Release Date: January 24

Dyson hasn’t believed in love for a long time. But between his reputation as “One Night O’Neil” and his matchmaking sisters, he needs make a bold move. And so he makes Lexi an offer. He’ll help her youth center pass a fire safety inspection—if she’ll pretend to be his girlfriend. But one kiss in and he’s in over his head.

Now their sizzling kisses are far from fake, and it’s a disaster. Because that means the heat between Lexi and Dyson is real. And where there’s smoke, someone’s heart will definitely be going down in flames…

Lexi Martin is on the eve of her birthday and all she has to show for it is debt, a crappy apartment, a nonexistent social life, and a somewhat evil cat. So maybe she might be excused for thinking the extraordinarily hot fireman in her office might be an early birthday present from her roomate. Except that Dyson O’Neil isn’t a stripper. He’s a real firefighter. Aaaand excuse me while I burn in the fires of humiliation.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Lexi and Dyson’s fake relationship story in The Dating Dilemma was cute. She’s sworn off men after being used time and time again, and he’s only been about passing flings ever since his fiancée cheated on him. But when he wants to get his sisters off his back, he convinces Lexi to fake date him in exchange for his help making repairs around the youth center she runs.

Even though their relationship is fake, there’s real chemistry between Dyson and Lexi. And when real feelings get involved, will one of them break their own rule to give a real relationship a chance?

Their breakup comes over something that means a lot to Lexi, and I thought that Dyson was a bit of a baby about what it meant for him vs what it meant for Lexi and her beloved cat. But I was glad to see him man up and their reunion scene was cute!

I received an advanced copy from Entangled Publishing and NetGalley and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Mariah Ankenman

Bestselling author Mariah Ankenman lives in the beautiful Rocky Mountains with her two rambunctious daughters and loving spouse who provides ample inspiration for her heart-stopping heroes.

Mariah loves to lose herself in a world of words. Her favorite thing about writing is when she can make someone’s day a little brighter with one of her books. To learn more about Mariah and her books, follow her on social media or sign up for her newsletter.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Just About Over You, by Carrie Aarons

January 21, 2022 sunnyshellyreadsLeave a comment

Just About Over You by
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What’s the worst thing you could hear your best friend, who you’ve always secretly been in love with, say? That would be telling another girl he could envision her being his wife.

I just about died when Gannon Raferty, the boy who used to borrow my pencils in elementary school, said that to the lead of the reality dating show he was cast on. Though he didn’t win her heart, he’s now a bona fide sensation when he returns to our college and moves back into the off-campus house we share.

The torch I carry for him has always been one-sided; I’m head-over-heels, soulmate-level into him while he views me as a lovable kid sister. So I decide this school year will be the one where I move on, where I finally attempt to open my heart to another. After all, if he can make declarations of undying love to someone he just met, but not to me, that’s the biggest wake-up call I could ever receive.

Until one night early on in the semester, when we accidentally sleep together. Because of course he’s going to confess his feelings now, when I was ready to give up on there ever being an us.

But just as Gannon starts admitting exactly what I’ve always wanted to hear, I get devastating news. And suddenly, I don’t want to risk losing him as a best friend. I’ve already lost too many people I love, and am on the brink of adding one more to that list.

If our romance goes south, I don’t how I’ll ever come back from it. Not only the crushing heartbreak, but the fact that we can never go back to how we were again.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

How much did I love Just About Over You? I read it in a day because I could not put it down. When it comes to Gannon and Amelie’s story in the Prospect Street Series, Carrie Aarons perfectly described all of the pain and heartache that goes along with being in love with your best friend.

Gannon and Amelie have both been in love with one another since they met in middle school, but he’s forever had her convinced that he just sees her like a little sister, and he believes that with his family background, he’s not good enough for her. Their status as best friends was irreparably altered after he went on a reality dating show, leaving Amelie crushed that he “fell in love” with another woman and proposed marriage. She doesn’t know that the whole thing was a sham, just a vehicle for Gannon to make strides in taking care of his motley crew of younger siblings. And I have to say, I fell in love with him for being that thoughtful and wanting to create a better life for his family! So when Gannon moves back into their off-campus house, there is a lot of tension between these two as they try to find their footing again and co-exist as roommates.

Then, just when Amelie is finally getting to a place where she feels like she may be able to get over her feelings for Gannon, they have a steamy romp during a house party, and it is explosive! Holy hotness! Gannon is about to confess how he really feels when a family emergency calls Amelie back home. Knowing that he needs to be her best friend, and not complicate matters further, Gannon steps up to be the guy she’s always been able to rely on. They rebuild their friendship, but the “the talk” that they need to have is always the elephant in the room between them. And once they finally lay all their cards out on the table, the payoff was so worth the wait!

I highlighted so many passages in Just About Over You. I loved everything about Gannon and Amelie’s story: the tension, the heartache, the pain, the frustration, the angst. And I LOVED the tie-in to CA’s Rogue series of British soccer players! Took me a minute to make the connection, but once I did, I was all smiles!

Well done!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Carrie Aarons

Author of romance novels such as Fool Me Twice and Love at First Fight, Carrie Aarons writes books that are just as swoon-worthy as they are sarcastic. A former journalist, she prefers the love stories of her imagination, and the athleisure dress code, much better.

When she isn’t writing, Carrie is busy binging reality TV, having a love/hate relationship with cardio, and trying not to burn dinner. She lives in the suburbs of New Jersey with her husband, two children and ninety-pound rescue pup.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: How To Love Your Neighbor, by Sophie Sullivan

January 18, 2022January 18, 2022 sunnyshellyreadsLeave a comment

Enemies-to-lovers meets HGTV in this frothy, effervescent romantic comedy from Sophie Sullivan, author of Ten Rules for Faking It.

Interior Design School? Check. Cute house to fix up? Check.

Sexy, grumpy neighbor who is going to get in the way of your plans? Check. Unfortunately.

Grace Travis has it all figured out. In between finishing school and working a million odd jobs, she’ll get her degree and her dream job. Most importantly, she’ll have a place to belong, something her harsh mother could never make. When an opportunity to fix up—and live in—a little house on the beach comes along, Grace is all in. Until her biggest roadblock moves in next door.

Noah Jansen knows how to make a deal. As a real estate developer, he knows when he’s found something special. Something he could even call home. Provided he can expand by taking over the house next door–the house with the combative and beautiful woman living in it.

With the rules for being neighborly going out the window, Grace and Noah are in an all-out feud. But sometimes, your nemesis can show you that home is always where the heart is.

“This is a novel you’ll want to read over and over again.” – USA Today

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 3.5 Stars

How to Love Your Neighbor is a fun, enemies-to-lovers, grumpy/sunshine romance that will definitely keep you entertained. Grace and Noah’s romance is a slow simmer, and their story is full of snarky barbs, sizzling chemistry, and tender moments.

But for an enemies-to-lovers romance, I was hoping for more of an explosion between Grace and Noah once they finally got together after all of that tension and the build-up. But when they finally got together… it was a fade-to-black scene that fell flat for me. I honestly felt like I was ripped off or something, and the story dragged out in parts, and that made the difference for me in this being a 4-star read.

Noah is Chris’ brother from Ten Rules For Faking It, so it was nice to get those cameo appearances from Chris and Everly and catch up with them! But in the same way that I thought that Ten Rules was lacking a zing between the main characters, I felt the same way between Grace and Noah in How To Love Your Neighbor.

I received an advanced copy from NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press and voluntarily left a review.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

SOPHIE SULLIVAN is a Canadian author as well as a cookie-eating, Diet Pepsi-drinking, Disney enthusiast who loves reading and writing romance in almost equal measure. She writes around her day job as a teacher and spends her spare time with her sweet family watching reruns of Friends. Ten Rules For Faking It is her romcom debut novel, but she’s had plenty of practice writing happily ever after as her alter ego, Jody Holford.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Make Me Whole, by Marie Johnston

January 18, 2022January 17, 2022 sunnyshellyreadsLeave a comment

Title: Make Me Whole

Series: Oil Barrons #1

Author: Marie Johnston

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: January 18, 2022

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I had a perfect life. Schoolteacher. Married to my high school sweetheart. Little starter house that we called charming but was really just old. All I needed was the two-point-five kids and I’d be living my perfect dream. Then my husband died.

After the funeral, I had a breakdown that lasted for a month…or twelve. But now I’m reemerging, healing, finding my way. It’s time to learn who I am now, and whether or not I can fix a leaky sink. And by my side, the entire time, is my husband’s best friend, Liam. The single dad knows a thing or two about personal struggles, and about how to replace faucets.

With Liam, I feel alive again. Confident. Capable. Liam has become my best friend too. Except if my parents, my in-laws, and the rest of the town had any say, I’d stay far away from him and his bad boy reputation.

How do I admit to them what’s so hard to admit to myself? That I’m starting to look at him like he’s more than a friend. That the heat in his eyes when he looks at me is far beyond friendly. That like it or not, Liam makes me feel whole again.

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Blinking to adjust to the dimmer light, it wasn’t hard to find Liam. Sparks flew from the far corner, where the light from the open door had the hardest time penetrating.

The torch Liam held went dark. He flipped his face shield up so it rested on top of his head. “Hey. That time already? The afternoon got away from me.”

He set his equipment on the work bench by the hunk of metal he’d been working on. He slapped his thick gloves down and took the face shield off. Then he shrugged out of his well-worn leather apron.

I blinked again, but it had nothing to do with lighting. His long-sleeved blue T-shirt with the logo of a bar and grill in Williston was plastered to his chest and back. A smattering of singe holes gathered around the collar and a few tiny ones on the sleeves where the apron didn’t reach. Liam adjusted his shoulders like he was trying to dislodge the fabric from his skin, but all the move did was make his muscles ripple.

I’d known Liam wasn’t the same lanky kid from high school, but I’d never had proof like this.

He ran a hand through his hair—same effect. Biceps bulging and rippling muscle.

My brain snapped a picture, like someday I might need to reference the type of man that could get my libido going again.

Which I wasn’t looking for. Dating wasn’t on my radar, much less…activities beyond that.

Although recently I’d been thinking… I gave myself a mental shake. My therapist said there was nothing wrong with thinking about dating someday. Nothing wrong with dating itself. Nothing wrong with not being ready. Nothing wrong with dating while still not feeling ready. I hadn’t reached that point yet. And I didn’t have to think about it at Liam’s.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Make Me Whole is the first book I’ve read by Marie Johnston, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. Well, I was blown away! This small town, widow/single dad, best friends, forbidden romance was so full of emotion and tension and family drama, and it had me cheering for Liam and Kennedy from the first page!

Two years after her husband tragically died in a car accident, Kennedy is finally finding her footing after an emotional breakdown that left her emotionally paralyzed. A big part of her recovery has been thanks to her best friend Liam, who was the best friend/cousin of her late husband, Derek. More than that, Liam is the illegitimate son of Cameron Barron, who unofficially runs the rural North Dakota oil and ranching town where they live. Liam has not had an easy life thanks to his father, but he is a good man, and a great dad to his twin boys. He relies on Kenny, as he calls her, just as much as she relies on him.

But lately, both Liam and Kennedy have been looking at each other a little differently. Well, Liam liked Kenny even before Derek did, but kind of lost the girl when his cousin made the first move. When Kennedy finally gives him reason to think she’s ready to move on, Liam takes it slowly with her. So slowly. The guy is a saint. So tender and sweet, and understanding.

Unfortunately, not everyone in Kennedy’s life thinks she should be moving on yet, especially with Liam. Like, I wanted to strangle her in-laws for being so suffocating! Marie Johnston did a GREAT job in writing both sides of this story, describing all of the baggage that each of these characters is carrying around brilliantly. I loved the build-up of Kennedy and Liam’s romance from friends to more, and the pivotal moment where it almost crashed and burned before their relationship turned around was my favorite scene of the book! While this story is certainly about how Liam helps Kennedy heal after Derek’s death and makes her whole again, she plays just as an important role in his life, and how he goes from being persona non grata in town, a young man who holds his head high by the end.

There is also a great cast of supporting players in this book. Kennedy goes from being only friends with Liam in the beginning to having a great circle of girlfriends by the end of the book, and there is a really nice growth in Liam’s relationship with some of the Barron cousins by the end as well.

The epilogue ends on a whopper of a tease for the next book in this series, and I can’t wait to see what happens for the next Barron cousin! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Decker, by Kayley Loring & Connor Crais

January 17, 2022January 18, 2022 sunnyshellyreadsLeave a comment

🏈❤️ 𝗛𝗢𝗧 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘 ❤️🏈

𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿: 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆, 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝟭 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗼𝗺𝗰𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗞𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗟𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗬!!! 𝗗𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗻𝘆 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹𝘀!

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#12 Johnny Decker. Star quarterback for the Boston Tomcats. Two-time Super Bowl MVP…a decade ago. Nickname: Decker the Panty Wrecker.

I get tackled for a living by men who are built like rhinos. I could take the wings off a fly with a football from 30 yards away. (I wouldn’t, but I could.) Being a veteran quarterback means I’m a mentally alert, fine-tuned athletic machine who can make split-second decisions.

It’s my job to anticipate what’s going to happen next and adapt. But I couldn’t have anticipated the death of our beloved team owner.

His estranged daughter Hannah Strong is a finance nerd from New York. She knows less than nothing about football. Know what she didn’t anticipate? Inheriting the Boston Tomcats.

She’s stubborn, uptight, infuriating, and wrong about absolutely everything—from pizza to how to run my team. And I don’t want to talk about how good she looks in a skirt. Or daydream about how good she’d look out of it.

Really, I don’t.

I’m not Decker the Panty Wrecker anymore—I’ve changed.

I can’t stop arguing with her.

Or thinking about her.

I thought I had a winning play.

But Hannah Strong changed everything.

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

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Decker and Hannah’s story was the kind of entertaining, laugh-out-loud workplace romance that I did not want to end. I wanted to savor it, yet fly through each chapter needing more at the same time. I knew what I was getting from Kayley Loring as an author, and I figured Connor Crais has narrated enough romance audiobooks that he knows his stuff, right? Well, I was not disappointed!

These characters were so well written. I felt every emotion Hannah went through as she tried to manage the team of football players who were like sons to her father, guys she felt had taken her place in her dad’s life. And then there is Decker, approaching the end of his career, a great player on an okay team, wondering if he will go out as a champion or not.

Decker and Hannah hilariously get off on the wrong foot, and there is lots of angsty buildup before they eventually get together. There is a steamy locker room hookup that you don’t want to miss, and then a hilarious sashay down a hotel hallway to the ice machine that leads to hot hotel sex.

There are some bumps along the way that Decker and a Hannah have to work through, but it’s a wonderful journey as they build up their own team of two.

Decker was a fantastic debut collaboration from these two authors, and I can’t wait to see what they present next! 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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Audiobook will be duet-style, performed by Connor Crais and Mackenzie Cartwright, featuring Ava Lucas and Ron Butler.

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#12 Johnny Decker. Star quarterback for the Boston Tomcats. Two-time Super Bowl MVP…a decade ago. Nickname: Decker the Panty Wrecker.

It’s my job to anticipate what’s going to happen next and adapt. But I couldn’t have anticipated the death of our beloved team owner.

His estranged daughter Hannah Strong is a finance nerd from New York. She knows less than nothing about football. Know what she didn’t anticipate? Inheriting the Boston Tomcats.

Really, I don’t.

I’m not Decker the Panty Wrecker anymore—I’ve changed.

I can’t stop arguing with her.

Or thinking about her.

I thought I had a winning play.

But Hannah Strong changed everything.

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

PURCHASE LINK:

Amazon Universal ➜ mybook.to/DECKERebook

ABOUT KAYLEY LORING

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

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ABOUT CONNOR CRAIS

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Book Review

Sunny Shelly’s Review: One Spring Break by Sophie Stephens

January 16, 2022 sunnyshellyreadsLeave a comment

One Spring Break
Sophie Stevens
Publication date: January 10th 2022
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance

Flat-ass. Chubby cheeks. Whore.

Pre-med student, Rosie Magee, has been called every slur imaginable by her obnoxious roommate, a foul-tempered fellow who drops food on the floor and poops wherever he pleases. If the insult thrower didn’t have scarlet feathers and a beak capable of shearing fingers, she’d happily kick him out. But her roommate, a macaw named Baby, belongs to her snotty sister Maria, and according to their mother, if the siblings want room and board, they’re stuck together until graduation. After scrimping and saving, Rosie has finally tucked away enough money to escape from her boyfriend-stealing sister and her evil, yellow-eyed minion for one spring break.

Wholesome. Good guy. Boy next door.

Engineering student, Erik Snider, never believed good guys finish last until his girlfriend has a one-night-stand with a local thespian, Tulsa Lester. She wants to reconcile, but Erik can’t forgive a betrayal so deep. When he learns she’s moved on while he’s still mourning their relationship, his roommate hatches a plan for revenge—ask out the prettiest girl on campus, Maria Magee, and take her to the spring formal his ex will be attending. Though not the vengeful type, Erik is desperate enough to agree in hopes a date with a gorgeous girl will help him heal, but pretty girls have agendas of their own. If he wants an evening with Maria, he’ll have to take care of her demanding macaw for one spring break.

When Baby escapes Erik’s care, Rosie ditches her vacation to help him find her sister’s macaw. As they fight off parrot hungry hawks and navigate trees with flimsy branches, they form a bond that might just verge on love. But nothing comes easily for Rosie. With a man-stealing sister who lives to torment her, and a best friend Tulsa who tore apart Erik’s relationship, happily-ever-after will be anything but smooth sailing.

One spring break brought them together.

An insolent bird…

A hateful sister…

A best friend with secrets…

Will tear them apart.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

One Spring Break is the first book I’ve read by Sophie Stevens. It is part of a series, but I didn’t feel like I was missing out on any of the backstory by not having read the previous books.

So One Spring Break had a root-worthy couple, a sister I loved to hate, an obnoxious pet bird, and some nice plot twists that I didn’t see coming. I thought that SS wrote these characters nicely — not just Erik and Rosie as the H/h, but the supporting players as well. I was so upset by the relationship between Rosie and her sister Maria, and when we first met Tulsa as Rosie’s friend, I was dying to know how he’d played a part in Erik’s breakup with his girlfriend in the prologue. Well, you don’t know people as well as you think you do, sometimes!

Most of all, I really loved how Rosie wasn’t the typical pretty college girl, but still got the great guy in the end. I wanted more out of the epilogue, and maybe those unanswered questions will be addressed in future books, but I felt a bit let down by the epilogue. But overall, Erik and Rosie’s story was enjoyable.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Come a Little Closer, by Kait Nolan

January 14, 2022January 14, 2022 sunnyshellyreadsLeave a comment

Release Date: January 14

Griffin Powell has avoided his hometown since he left it in the rearview years ago. But the former Marine understands duty and promises, and that means dragging himself back home as part of his brother’s wedding party. Which gets him thinking about a promise he made to a woman, after the best night of his life. When she, too, shows up as part of the wedding, it feels like a sign.

Always a bridesmaid, professor Samantha Ferguson is dreading this bachelorette weekend. She’s the one of the lone single ladies, and the matron of honor is her high school nemesis. Sam figures she can suck it up and deal, until she comes face-to-face with the big, sexy ginger mistake from her past. Can this trip home get any worse?

Turns out it can. Not only are she and Griff paired up for all the bridal party bonding activities, forcing her to relive high school hell, but Sam’s best friend goes missing. When no one takes her concerns seriously, she starts a search herself–and ends up with an unwanted bodyguard whose very presence reminds her of a hot Vegas night she’s tried hard to forget.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Come A Little Closer is a charming second-chance romance. There is a free prequel novella (Until We Meet Again) that tells Griffin and Samantha’s backstory — I did not read that beforehand, but wish I had so I could have gotten the full scope of Griff and Sam’s relationship.

This story is set 8 years after they get married in Vegas and he leaves her to reenlist in the Marines. They’ve known each other since they were kids, so there is a lot of history involved, and Kait Nolan does a nice job of playing that angle when Griffin and Sam meet again during the wedding festivities of her best friend to his brother. The spark between them is reignited when one of the bridesmaids goes missing and Griff helps Sam track down her friend. It’s also the perfect opportunity for Griffin to try to win her back.

While I wish Sam would have made Griffin grovel a bit more, this book was overall an enjoyable read with a nice HEA. I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Kait Nolan

Kait Nolan is a RITA® Award-winning Mississippi author who calls everyone sugar, honey, or darlin’, and can wield a ‘Bless your heart’ like a Snuggie or a saber, depending on requirements.

She believes in love, laughter, and that tacos are the world’s most perfect food.

When she’s not writing, reading, working the evil day job, or wrangling family (both the two-legged and the four-), you can find her obsessively watching The Great British Bake Off.

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