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Luka = SWOON

Childhood friends to enemies to fake marriage to lovers

I’m obsessed!

The LOKI AI assistant was weird AF but generally funny

The kink was a good amount - it alluded to a lot more than there actually was. But it was almost like a sneak peek into a more kinky life that Luka led. He was after all just easing Scout into it so it makes sense

I loved that he called her Girl Scout 🥺

I’m glad scout eventually got herself a backbone and stood up for herself against her parents. Sure it took a giant reality check but at the end of the day she’s herself and most of that is thanks to Luka

Despite the traumatic events involved I really really liked this. It was tough at times but I thought it was done really well.

Both characters struggled to move past the event, had flashbacks and nerves, but the way they worked through it together was perfect in my opinion

Trevor was so sweet, and Izzy grew into her own self instead of just whoever her parents needed her to be.

The angst!! It was slight but enough to put me in my feels

I wanted to shake Nash and Jake, tell them to get their heads out of their asses and just speak up

Jake was such a sweet heart and so charming. He wanted Nash anyway he could get him even if that meant breaking his own heart in the process

DNF @ 46%

I didn’t care about either character at this point and I didn’t vibe with the writing style.

I love and appreciate the body positivity and plus size representation but it wasn’t enough for me to stick through til the end

I enjoyed this a lot, I loved Aleksander and seeing him and the siblings interact. He’s a bit of a secret softie underneath all the tall tough guy persona

Crazy kinky which was a pleasant surprise!

Drea was also a surprise, but overall a lot of fun to read

This moved SO slowly. The third MC didn’t come in until way later, and I felt like cooper always felt like an extra not an equal.

I appreciate the non conventional aspect (duh look at the title) but this felt blah.

I like Will, Tru, and Cooper individually. They were all a little different but still sweet. As a throuple, it just didn’t feel balanced

I really liked Justus, and Annie’s anxiety has always been a major plot point even in past books. I felt her anxiety just was a bit overpowering to the story.

I cringed so much at the endearment “rabbit”. Like when bunny may have been better??? I don’t know it was second hand embarrassment.

LOVED Hawthorne though. A total sweetheart cowboy

Lorenzo eventually redeemed himself, but he was kind of an ass to Lily for most of this book. Like purposefully being rude and saying things he knew would hurt her, because he was nervous or anxious or whatever.

Lily was the town princess, sweet as can be. I think she gave Lorenzo way more chances than he deserved. BUT she did stand up for herself a lot which I’m very proud of her for doing.

I had a lot of fun with this, and I loved their meet cute. It was sweet to see past characters pop up in this one too.

I’m obsessed with this series - it’s so fun

I loved the enemies to fucking to lovers. Crossbody was so much more than what the previous books led us to believe.

And Vince was surprisingly a love bug once he realized he loved crossbody and said it out loud

I don’t know how to summarize the experience I had.

The concept was interesting. I loved the epilogue - was a beautiful conclusion

The towns people and the town itself were so odd, and felt almost over exaggerated. (Especially the reverend and his wife) even Joel’s sister and her husband from the prologue… awful crazy people.

It was a lovely representation of grief, death, and a blind MC.

The book was heavy on religion and “the devil” so slightly too over the top for me

Bash is my favourite Rose Hill daddy

(Sorry West)

I adored Gwen so much, and I loved the ex’s dad trope. Looooved the meet cute 🥰

It was fun to see the bowling dads night out again, and get slices of past and future Elsie books (looking at you Beau and Emmett!!!!)

Clyde was a hoot, and I loved the dynamic between him Gwen and Bash.

Gwen and Bash had such good chemistry, and their opposite personalities complimented each other well. I loved her sense of humour and how she brought joy and peace into Bash’s life

I did like this; although I found it too long.

The mental health and depression representation was done very well.

When Nat and Olli would say that they “kissed a boy” it gave me the ick considering both are in their 30s (I think?)

LOTS of inner monologue, which I enjoyed at first but near the end it was getting old.

It was a good story - about chasing new dreams and accepting yourself and the past

Soooo many red flags with this man lol. I’m all for overlooking red flags, but Camille felt so naive I wanted to scream for her to run

Having a praise kink is more than just saying “good girl” 🤦‍♀️

And he talked to the nanny more than his own daughter. I get he was grieving and struggling, but just 🚩bad

Despite being a darkish mafia romance, it was light hearted and giggly - and had plot!!!

Slightly unhinged but that’s mafia for you

It was easy reading, and I liked the flow of the authors writing!

Lots of side characters, necessary for world building but especially the ones with similar names, I had trouble keeping with who was who.

This had all the trope ingredients to be a great book. Age gap, MM, deaf MC, hurt comfort. But there was just something that lacked in this, that made it mediocre.

The villains in the story were very OTT, nobody in real life would act like that.

Miles leaned ASL overnight and became fluent… ya ok.

It all felt very far fetched.

This was so fun, I absolutely loved Rafe’s grumpy social awkward energy to Dan’s sunshine cowboy happy charming ways.

Dan called him kittennnnn and it was so cute cause Rafe was just angry and surly but as intimidating as a kitten. I loved them

DNF @ 40%

Couldn’t care less about this. It was lame and cheesy, not in a way I enjoy though

Too cringey and weird.

I’m sorry this was so bland and irritating to read.

Elliot and Anders are best friends. Elliot has pined and loved Anders for a long time.

Blah blah blah they start hooking up. Any time Anders starts to feel some type of strong way about Elliot he runs away. Literally.

They make out, he bolts. They have sex, he immediately after finishing asks for space to think.

Like the f is wrong with him? Needing space and time to think and figure things out is fine but good lord do it in a better way. He sucked.

This was only fine.

After a long awaited Tomas’ story, I felt let down.

This was supposed to be a poly/throuple book but it felt like three separate relationships.

It had so much potential but missed the mark. I enjoyed the series overall but this left me hanging a little.

Mason and Vinnie never had romantic or sexual connection after arriving at the MC, and there was never any time between all three of them (dates or otherwise)

Larkin was sooooo cute and fun! I loved him and Seb together.

Larkin was such a cutie, with his nervous anxious blabbering. And Seb with his quiet steady demeanour.

Opposites attract, and they surely fit the bill.

I wanted to like it; but the enemies to insta love was a bit much for me.

Noah had really good pining moments, but Liam kept saying his “head was a mess” trying to figure out what he wanted and didn’t want, since he wasn’t expecting to be lusting after Noah as he assumed he was straight.

The secrecy and denial made sense, but some times he was just rude to poor Noah for no reason because Liam wasn’t convinced he liked guys.

It was silly and funny and a little too long.

A normal human stumbles upon an underground monster word of wresting.

The premise was entertaining, but there was too much sex and not enough depth. Lots of talk about balls, but ya know what it was entertaining

I don’t typically reach for step-siblings or similar stories, but I like reading books in order so I made an exception

It was a good length for my tastes. I got the gist of it without it being over board

The angst in this was REAL.

I think there’s timeline crossover from previous books to this, not just a straight continuation…. And since it’s been a minute since I last read a book in this series I was a bit confused and sort of forget who was who.

Part 1 was basically events we already knew (except for those who forget / me) from Silas’ and Graham’s POV

PART 2 is what happened next

The angst was so tortured, borderline emotional for me.

I love Silas so so much, I’m torn between saying he and graham are soulmates or that he deserved more in a partner.

I get graham had a tough catholic upbringing and was scared about a lot of things that make sense, and it’s easy from the outside to tell him what he should have done…. But still.