Review: Sins & Riley

Sins & Riley by Lexxi James
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



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📚 Sins & Riley: Sins of the Syndicate #8

🖋 Author ~ Lexxi James 

🖋 Features: Mafia Romance, Enemies to Lovers Romance, Billionaire Romance

⭐️ Rating: 5/5

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Dante & Riley

💎 Secret Pregnancy

🖤 Captivity

💎 Enemies-to-Lovers

🖤 Forbidden Romance

💎 Mafia Romance

🖤 Dark Billionaire

🚨 Know before you go:

📍This is an enemies-to-lovers mafia romance, darker than the first three SINS books.

📍Heat level: Scorching 

📍This book contains dark situations that may be triggering. 

The fallen king whose absence still haunts our family. Vanished in thin air nearly six years ago like vape smoke in a Vegas casino.

Dante D’Angleo and his beastly alter-ego will stop at nothing to discover the truth behind his father’s disappearance. For six heartbreaking years, the D’Angleo brothers have survived, flourished, and struggled to cope with not only their father’s uncertain fate, but also the vicious attack on their sister. However strong-willed Riley Mullvain was not part of Dante’s plan. But, he will do everything in his power to protect his family, including his sassy sister-in-law, who just happens to be Riley. That he just can’t stay away from her is, in equal parts, as exhilarating as it is frustrating for Dante. 

Dante and Riley’s story is an incredible read! The pages just kept turning themselves just like the pages of Riley’s private journal. My heart stuttered when Dante … well, let me just say there’s so much heat and tension in this book that it nearly set my reader on fire. It’s a rollercoaster of emotions. Sins & Riley is an interconnected series. So, it’s recommended to read in order to fully appreciate the characters and their motivations.

 

🖋 Enjoyment: 5. Readability: 5. Writing: 5.

🖋 Setting: 5. Plot: 5. Characters: 5. 

💌 Favorite Moments:

🖇 Life has a way of torching childhood castles.

🖇 What I feel for Riley isn’t love. It’s resurrection.

 

🖇 I want it all. And I will have it. Power. Protection. Retribution. Revenge. And the mother of my heir.

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Review: ICED: The Raptors Series Book Three

ICED: The Raptors Series Book Three by Caroline Easton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



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📚 ICED: The Raptors Series #3 (Standalone)

🖋 Author ~ Caroline Easton 

🖋 Features: Sports Romance, Hockey Romance, Contemporary Romance

⭐️ Rating: 5/5

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Maya & Owen

🏒 Hockey romance 

🏒 Protector MMC

🧁 Single mum

🧁 Strong FMC

🏒 Second chances

🧁 Ex-boyfriend 

🏒 Found family

Owen “Jacko” Jackson, the Enforcer for his Raptors’ hockey team, community service is perfect for a guy who works through his emotions with baking. He has mad baking skills. At the community kitchen, he’s assigned to assist Maya. Trying to stay under the radar, the last thing she needs, though, is attention, especially not from a man with fists like sledgehammers and a smile that melts her guard. But Owen bakes cupcakes, reads bedtime stories, and makes her daughter believe in superheroes. Worse? He makes her believe in second chances.

Caroline Easton is a new author for me. And, I will definitely add her books to my TBR list. Even though I started with the 3rd book in the series, there are enough details that Maya and Owen’s story unfolds seamlessly. What I loved about this book, aside from being set in England, was the phraseology, in that I could almost hear the characters, their voices, phrasing, and diction as I read. There’s a depth of experiences, emotions from both Maya and Owen. And, I love how Owen is attracted to Maya’s strength, her fears, and that she doesn’t have to be perfect…she just has to be real.

 

🖋 Enjoyment: 5. Readability: 5. Writing: 5.

🖋 Setting: 5. Plot: 5. Characters: 5. 

💌 Favorite Moments:

🖇 I might be built for battle, but I’m about to learn how to fight for something a hell of a lot more important than a puck.

🖇 Her cheeks are flushed, hair tied back in a messy ponytail, forearms dusted in flour. She looks like art. Domestic, radiant chaos.

 

🖇 But fear isn’t rational. It clings to every corner of my brain.

🖇 Lila’s laugh echoes through the park like a song I didn’t know I’d been waiting to hear.

🖇 “I don’t want you to save me,” she says. “I just want to feel like I can stand beside you.”

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Review: Spy With Me

Spy With Me by Lexi Blake
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



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📚 Spy with Me (Masters and Mercenaries: New Recruits Book 5)

🖋 Authors ~ Lexi Blake  

🖋 Features: Military romance, romantic suspense

⭐️ Rating: 5/5

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Devi & Zach

🪡 Bodyguard

🚁 On-the-Run

🪡 Close Proximity

🚁 Alpha Here

🪡 Found Family

🚁 D/s Relationship

Devi ~ She was calm and cool and steady. She was Erin and Theo Taggart’s daughter. She was Devi Taggart, the sum of all those parts, but her own person. She was made from everything that happened to her and how she handled it. She was made from love, but she was her own person.

I love the Taggarts. They are the ultimate spy family that just keeps growing, adopting wayward agents along the way. Zachary Reed is one of the lucky ones. While seemingly working both sides, Zach's main goal is to protect the ones he loves. Unfortunately, the odds are forever stacked against him, and he usually has both hands tied behind his back. Taking down a dangerous criminal will put their family and friends at risk. But Zach and Devi are willing to do what it takes to finally end it, even learning who they are and who they want to be to each other along the way.

This fifth book is a great edition full of love and emotion, drama, turmoil, and adventure. The suspense keeps the pages turning, and the spice turns up the heat. Humor and sarcasm give the characters realism that makes me want to be a part of their expanding group of friends and lovers.

 

🖋 Enjoyment: 5. Readability: 5. Writing: 5.

🖋 Setting: 5. Plot: 5. Characters: 5. 

💌 Favorite Moments:

🖇 He held her and for a moment felt like he had a place in the world.

🖇 She had definitely realized that where she belonged wasn’t a place. It was a mindset. It was how she felt, not where she was.

 

🖇 “My darling girl, you’ve described every narcissist I’ve ever met. And there were so many of them.”

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Review: Shattered Hearts

Shattered Hearts by V.M. Rheault
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



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📚Review ~ Shattered Hearts (King's Crossing, #5)

🖋Author ~ VM Rheault

🖋Features: Billionaires & Millionaires Romance, serial, cliffhanger, mystery

⭐️Rating: 5/5

Secrets. Money. Murder.

The intrigue and roller coaster of emotions continue in Shattered Hearts.

I started reading VM Rheault’s King’s Crossing series with the first book in the series, Cruel Fate. Gage and his sister Zarah almost inadvertently uncover heinous crimes involving the murder of their parents. The intricacy of the series maintains its grip, keeping me reading and turning the pages!

Gage ~ When Zarah had her breakdown, I thought we were over. But I’m tenacious. I’m not giving up on her that easily, not even when someone blows up my truck as a warning to stay away.

Zarah ~ is in a battle for her sanity. Discordant, disjointed memories bring to light a shocking discovery of abuse. But it’s more than just Zarah’s imprisonment at Quiet Meadows that is threatening her and Gage.

After reading Shattered Hearts, I was left wrecked and devastated for Gage and Zarah. Falling into Zarah’s world by mistake, Gage and his father are a steady, constant foundation with which Zane, Zarah, and Stella can find some stability. Unfortunately, they are entrenched in a treacherous and cunning game for their lives. With insidiously sly players surrounding them, who can they trust with their lives, with their hearts?  

 Protective Private Investigator MMC

★ Abused, Recovering FMC

★ Slow Burn

★ Cliffhanger (part of series)

★ Intense Drama

📍Read ~ Content Note available on author’s website

🖋Enjoyment: 5. Readability: 5. Writing: 5. 

🖋Setting: 5. Plot: 5. Characters: 5. 

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Review: Shadow's Protection

Shadow's Protection by Chelle Bliss
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



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📚 Review ~ Shadow's Protection

Hurricane Heat MC Book 1

🖋 Author ~ Chelle Bliss

🖋 Genre: Contemporary Romance, MC Romance, Series

⭐️ Rating: 5/5

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Shadow and Violet

Bossy Biker

Grumpy / Sunshine

Later in Life

Unlikely Love

Don’t Touch

Stalker

Forced Proximity

Violet James needs a fresh start. She’s planned every detail except a hurricane…and an obsessive ex-boyfriend who will stop at nothing to get her back. 

Club business and an oncoming storm puts Violet in the middle of a motorcycle club compound. Waiting out the hurricane, Storm becomes more than just her shelter in the storm.

In this new series, the Hurricane Heat MC is a Cat 5! Pressure builds between Shadow and Violet. She is a rule-following librarian. He’s the tat-covered VP of an outlaw MC club. I love Chelle’s Gallo family series. This $exy new MC family is just as entertaining. Turning up the music, turning up the fun, and all the heat, Shadow and his club give Violet the protection she needs as well as a look at another kind of life where she doesn’t need an excuse to say ‘yes.’ 

I can’t wait for the next in this new series!

🖋 Enjoyment: 5. Readability: 5. Writing: 5. 

🖋 Setting: 5. Plot: 4. Characters: 5. 

💌 Favorite Moments:

🖇“What you deserve is a reason to say yes, not an excuse to say no.”

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🎧 Review: The Girl Next Door

The Girl Next Door by Jennifer Sucevic
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



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📚 Review ~ The Girl Next Door

📚 The Next Door Duet

🖋 Author ~ Jennifer Sucevic

🎧 Narrator ~ Kelsey Navarro, James Anderson Foster

🖋 Genre: Enemies-to-Lovers, Sports Romance, Football Romance

⭐️ Rating: 5/5

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Beck and Mia

Smart, beautiful, and determined not to be one of Beck’s conquests, Mia has plans and goals. Those do not include Beck and his player attitude. What Mia doesn’t realize yet is that Beck is trying to put that past behind him. He’s more mature now, sort of…

These two characters deliver pages of sexu@l banter and a record amount of heat. I absolutely love the way Beck demonstrates his growing love for Mia. It’s in the many little things he does for her, like watching out for her at a party. She may not realize it yet, but Beck has been hers for a very long time. Beck just needs her to put him first like no one has ever done for him before. Kelsey Navarro and James Anderson Foster are wonderful as Mia and Beck. I felt like I was with Mia in her desire to be the best daughter for her distant parents, even as Beck struggles with his own place in his family as well as his need to protect Mia.

💌 Favorite Moments:

🖇 The word forever flickers through my head. I’m not ready to go there quite yet, but I’m not too far from it either. In the back of my mind, it’s always been Mia. No other girl has ever come close to making me feel what she does.

🖋 Enjoyment: 5. Narrator: 5. Writing: 5. 

🖋 Setting: 5. Plot: 5. Characters: 5. 

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🎧 Review: Playing Dane

Playing Dane by Hannah Gray
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



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📚 Review ~ Playing Dane

📚 Florida East University Book 1

🖋 Author ~ Hannah Gray

🎧 Narrator ~ Elizabeth Hart, Thomas Oakley

🖋 Genre: Sports Romance, Football Romance

⭐️ Rating: 5/5

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Dane and Layla

Dane is sexy, charming, and with rock-hard abs. Layla is an irresistible girl with so many rules and boundaries to keep people in their place, which is far away from her heart. So, Dane seems like her perfect match, just another player and only in it for the fun. Until he falls first.

Hannah delivers an incredible story full of college fun, friends, and camaraderie. Beyond that, her characters reveal the depth of their emotions, going through painful experiences. College life isn’t always just about the pranks, sleeping late, and wearing fuzzy slippers to class. It’s real life and Hannah brings out those highs and lows. Elizabeth Hart and Thomas Oakley are incredible in their portrayal of Layla and Dane. I felt like I was with Layla in her determination to keep her shields high; even as Dane struggled to repair his relationship with his twin brother.

💌 Favorite Moments:

🖇 “I know you won’t let me be your forever. So, please, Layla, at least let me be your now.”

🖋 Enjoyment: 5. Narrator: 5. Writing: 5. 

🖋 Setting: 5. Plot: 5. Characters: 5. 

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