Synopsis: For Susan Green, messy emotions don’t fit into the equation of her perfectly ordered life. She has a flat that is ideal for one, a job that suits her passion for logic, and an “interpersonal arrangement” that provides cultural and other, more intimate, benefits. But suddenly confronted with the loss of her mother and the news that she is about to become a mother herself, Susan’s greatest fear is realized. She is losing control.

Enter Rob, the dubious but well-meaning friend of her indolent brother. As Susan’s due date draws near and her dismantled world falls further into a tailspin, Susan finds an unlikely ally in Rob. She might have a chance at finding real love and learning to love herself, if only she can figure out how to let go.

This book was just so heartwarming and lovely. By the end of the book I was sorry to have to say goodbye to these characters. Susan might not be the most likable of characters, but I loved her for all of her faults. There was also plenty of times that I felt a certain kinship with her. And Rob was probably one of the nicest and most patient love interests I’ve ever read – he was just such a sweetheart who saw Susan for who she was and loved her for it. 

But this story actually didn’t focus all that much on their relationship, instead it focused on several other things. One big aspect of this book was Susan’s pregnancy and her having to deal with the consequences of this, another big aspect was the death of Susan’s mother and the will that created friction between her and her brother. The will and the legal battle that ensued was probably my least favourite part of this book, but at the same time it was a bit of a ’mystery’ why her mother chose to write the will, which was interesting.

Overall I really loved this one and it made me want to read more books in this genre.

This was such a quick, fun and steamy read!

In this novel we follow Cassie who is a romance author, she usually writes sweet romance but is trying her hand at writing her first sexy book. She needs inspiration and when she visits the Irish bar across the street from her parents pub, she finds a muse in the owner Liam who runs the bar with his brother. They have a one night stand that turns into more when neither of them want to stop seeing each other. What Cassie doesn’t know is that Liam made a bet with his brother that he would woo the next single woman that stepped through the door, and Liam doesn’t know that Cassie is the daughter of his competitors.

I basically read this book in one sitting and I really enjoyed it, it was a fun, sexy time and I had forgotten how sexy an Irish hero could be. There was plenty of steamy scenes which was on the dirtier side (just a heads up if you don’t enjoy that). This might not be the most original story, and there were a few small inconsistencies that bugged me slightly, but it was enjoyable for what it was! I give it 3,5 stars.

Thank you Entangled Publishing and Netgalley for the chance to read and review this book!

*I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.*

This is the third and final book in the Mistborn series (at least the first one), and I’ve really loved this series. But at the same time these are some long books and I’m not gonna lie – it has taken me awhile to read it. 😅 I’m not gonna tell you much about the plot or all of my thoughts – because spoilers! However, I do want to say a few things.

I just loved how this world just grew with every book, and how Sanderson kept expanding the magic system (which might be my favourite thing about these books).

I also really liked that we got to get to know some of the minor characters a bit better in this book and that they had a bigger role to play. I did still have some trouble keeping all of the characters straight in my head though. The characters have grown and evolved so much and I loved how everyone had their own struggles during this book. This book also made me a bit emotional in the end.

This is just such a well written series and I give this book 5 stars. If you like fantasy and haven’t read this series – what are you doing? Read it!

This one started out really good, with a former socialite having to take a job at a morgue when her father is arrested and all their assets are frozen. She risks losing her job when a body is stolen under her watch, so she starts investigating the murder in order to find the body. I really liked that the main character Kat actually had some education that made her somewhat qualified for the job, something that showed during the first scene in the book when she is prepping for the autopsy. I was also intrigued when Burns (a potential love interest) was introduced. Unfortunately this book just fell a little flat for me, the humour didn’t really work for me and there were so many characters introduced that it was hard to keep track of them all. There was also to many similarities to the Stephanie Plum series (which I love) for my taste, I mean did this book really need a kooky grandmother, a quirky black best friend and two love interests? The love triangle felt a bit unnecessary, especially as one of the men had nothing to add to the story other than being a contrast to the other love interest. The mystery was ok and was what kept me reading as I wanted to know how it all was connected.

 

All in all this didn’t really work for me, but it might work for you. There are definitely some quirky characters and fun situations and if you like the chick lit type of mystery you might like it.

 

Thank you to Netgalley and the author for providing a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

 

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I’ve only read one other Tessa Bailey book, but that was enough to make me really excited for this book!

In this story we follow Georgie who is a professional clown (don’t you just love stories with odd elements like this?) Anywho, Georgie has had a crush on Travis, her brother’s best friend, since they were young and now he’s back in town after an injury ended his baseball career. She wants to make everyone realise that she’s not a little kid anymore, and he wants to improve his reputation to get a sought after job, can a little fake dating be the right move for both of them?

I loved the heroine Georgie, she started out strong and she just grew so much throughout the story, that is something I really love to see in my romance books – characters becoming who they are supposed to be. I think that we can all agree that we don’t like simpering girls that need to be saved in our romances, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t like to see strong women growing and reaching their full potential. I also loved that she wasn’t dependant on the hero for her growth, that it was something she realised she needed on her own and something she achieved on her own – still seeing a supportive man is always nice. And I also loved the support system she created for herself with the Just Us league, women supporting women – I just loved that! But let’s talk more about the hero, Travis. Well, I just love Tessa Baileys heroes, don’t let the cute cover fool you – this man is a dirty talker and there are some HOT smexy times. But Travis is also broody and kind of insecure when it comes to his own self worth, such a sweetheart. Usually I’m not the biggest fan of the childhood-crush trope, but I feel like the author did a good job with it, I think it mostly had to do with Georgie just being an amazing and likeable heroine. Also I just loved the pop culture references in this, I mean I had totally forgotten about the Beethoven movies, so this book gave me a massive nostalgic feeling (90’s movies for the win!).

I basically loved everything about this book, and now I need to read more by Tessa Bailey.

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(Slight SPOILER WARNING – depends on how sensitive you are!)

A cocky diplomat, a sociopath scientist, a smart-ass techwiz, an alien warrior, a tomboy pilot, a goldenboy and a girl that’s been asleep for the last 200 years walk into a bar… Well, basically. Except there’s also a heist, a masquerade and some creepy ass shit.

It’s hard not to go into this book with REALLY high expectations. I mean this duo wrote the Illuminae files (and some other really awesome stuff). And I have to be honest and say that I don’t know if it reached the Illuminae level for me, BUT I have a very special connection with that book and I don’t think it’s very easy to replicate that. With that said I loved this book. I just love how Jay and Amie can take a bunch of sort of familiar stuff and create something new. I mean the heist reminded me of oceans eleven, and a planet they visited reminded me of Area X in Annihilation – aka creepy as f*ck. I also loved how lgtbqia+ was treated in this book, there is a character who’s obviously bi, but he doesn’t “come out” or anything, people just flirt with each other and it’s no big deal. I would love to see an actual gay pairing though, so we’ll see if that happens in books to come… I really loved this world, or perhaps universe is the right word, and I want to know more about it! The alien species we get introduced to are interesting and the different cultures was explained really well, I hope that we’ll get introduced to even more in future books. I thought the story was really fun and gripping as well, and I actually I liked all of the characters, I thought all of them had interesting personalities and their own things to deal with.

Looking forward to the next installment in this story and I just can’t wait to find out what trouble they’ll get up to next. 5 stars!

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I’ve wanted to read this book since chelseadolling raved about it at the start of this year, and I have to say that I wasn’t disappointed. This book was just everything! It was funny, heartwarming, heartbreaking and I loved every freaking minute of it!

So if you don’t know what this is about, It’s basically the story about how the son of the American president falls in love with the prince of the UK. It’s hate to love as well as a fake friendship type of a story.

First off, this book is just plain hilarious. Both Alex and Henry are really funny and their text conversations had me laughing out loud, especially prince Henry’s pompous swearing.

Omg, the TURKEYS (Not going to explain, just read IT!)

The crisis Alex went through made me a bit sad, but I thought it was handled beautifully. I loved the entire friend group in this story and especially what a great support Nora was to Alex. This is a story about two people falling in love, but it’s also a story about so much more. About figuring out your place in the world, about struggling with parts of your identity you thought you had already figured out, about how to react and act according to other people’s opinions of you and about loss and even more! These characters were just so precious, and I loved them!

If you haven’t already figured it out, this was a 5 star read for me, READ it!

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Let me just start by saying that I loved this series, it was just so fun and magical! However this was probably the book I liked least out of the three. In this final book we follow both Scarlett and Tella, but I sort of felt like Scarlett didn’t have that much going on and some of the things that did happen to her just felt a bit contrived. I love both sisters though, they are both such strong characters and I love their differences. I love the morally grey characters (mostly Legend!) in this world, and I think all of my favorite stories actually have characters who doesn’t always make the right choice. In the end I think one of the reasons that I didn’t enjoy this book as much as the other two was that it didn’t have the game element and the mystery aspect that the other two did. Instead we got introduced to a new villian that needed to be defeated.

I did enjoy this last book, and I give it 4 stars.

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I think that it’s really difficult to review parts in a series, especially the second book in a trilogy. You don’t want to give away any spoilers, but at the same time the book is usually just a part of a bigger story – and how do you review just a part of something? With that said I want to share some of my thoughts on Legendary, the second book in the Caraval trilogy.

Legendary is a great continuation of the story from Caraval, this time we get to follow Tella, a character I really wanted to get to know better after Caraval. There is another game, but this time there are different rules, giving the story a fresh spin. There is still the magical setting and the feel of the first book, and even more mystery and intrigue. There is sort of a love triangle going on (Dante and Jacks), but i actually like it, it’s well done. I really like Tella and her fire, she is a very strong female character that’s rarely afraid, but when she is she rarely lets it control her (I say rarely because of her fear of falling in love). I also love how a big part of this story is her trying to figure out who Legend is – great suspense!

I really love these books, they are superfun and I love how magical this world feels! 4,5 stars!

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Warning! Slightly? possessive (who am trying to kid, he was very possessive) and dirty talking Hero. This also includes HOT sex scenes, and plenty of them considering the short length of the book. While I enjoy some well written steamy scenes I felt that the author could have written a few more scenes where the two main characters got to know each other more outside of the bedroom, or that they were longer and not always interrupted by the characters need for each other. But I feel like the author still managed to give the reader enough background info on both characters to make the story work. Since the hero was possessive I really liked how Story (the heroine) pushed back when she felt that Daniel (the Hero) went overboard with his possessiveness.

No romance is complete without some drama, but I didn’t love how some of the conflict/drama was created, and parts of it felt unnecessary. But there was also a bit of drama that I liked because it meant that Daniel had to prove both his love and his trust for the heroine.

I basically had a big smile on my face for this entire book, and now I need to read all of Tessa Baileys other books. 😀

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