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Friends-to-Lovers

Review: Dixon Rule (Campus Diaries, #2) by Elle Kennedy

June 10, 2024June 11, 2024 AJ Enemies-to-Lovers

Buy:  Amazon  |  Apple  |  Nook  |  Kobo  |  Google Play Review 5 stars! The second book in the Campus Diaries series, this is a fantastic read! It’s fun and playful with fabulous characters in a hilarious and sexy enemies-to-lovers, fake-relationship romance, while […]

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Release & ARC Review: Forbidden King (Magnolia Falls, #3) by Laura Pavlov

June 6, 2024June 5, 2024 AJ Brother/Best Friend

  Forbidden King by Laura Pavlov is live! The third standalone in the Magnolia Falls series, this is a fun, sweet, sexy and romantic brother’s-best-friend, friends-to-lovers, forbidden-ish romance that stole my heart! King and Saylor’s […]

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Release & ARC Review: Meant for Her (Meant For, #2) by Natasha Madison

May 10, 2024May 10, 2024 AJ Friends-to-Lovers

  Meant for Her by Natasha Madison is live! Amazon   Blurb From Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Bestselling Author Natasha Madison comes new enemies to lovers, forbidden, single mom, hockey romance. Christopher […]

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Audio Review: Wild Love (Rose Hill, #1) by Elsie Silver

May 4, 2024 AJ Audio Recommendation

Buy:  Amazon Blurb Rosie Belmont has been driving me wild for years. The good kind of wild. The bad kind of wild. But mostly the kind of wild that comes with wanting your best friend’s […]

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Review: Anything But Minor (Balls in Play, #1) by Kate Stewart

April 16, 2024 AJ Friends-to-Lovers

Buy:  Amazon Review 5 stars! I’m a huge Kate Stewart fan, and for some reason this series flew under the radar for me for a long time, but I’m so happy I finally made time […]

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Release & ARC Review: Surprisingly Us (Unexpectedly in Love, #4) by Erin Hawkins

April 11, 2024April 17, 2024 AJ Fake Relationship

  Surprisingly Us, an all-new must-read, spicy rom-com from bestselling author Erin Hawkins is now available! A fake relationship between childhood friends has a reformed playboy and determined dancer wondering if opposites really do attract. […]

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Release & ARC Review: Not Made to Last by Jay McLean

April 5, 2024April 5, 2024 AJ Drama

  Not Made to Last by Jay McLean is live! A raw and emotional read with all the feels, this beautifully written book owned me! It’s a mature YA romance with serious themes, and Rhys […]

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Audio Review: Damaged Goods (All Saints High, #4) by L.J. Shen

March 25, 2024March 26, 2024 AJ Angsty

Buy:  Amazon Review 4.5 stars The fourth book in the All Saints High series, this is a dramatic and intense best-friends-to-enemies-to-lovers story with oh, so many feels. I was effortlessly sucked into the story and couldn’t […]

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New Release & ARC Review: Small Town Swoon (Cherry Tree Harbor, #4) by  Melanie Harlow

March 4, 2024March 7, 2024 Mel Friends-to-Lovers

SMALL TOWN SWOON (Cherry Tree Harbor, #4) by  Melanie Harlow   Released – 4 March 2024   Grab it today! Amazon     Blurb Only in the movies does the Hollywood heartthrob fall for the […]

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Review: Before the Chaos: A Rival Hearts Prequel Novella by Maggie Rawdon

February 12, 2024February 29, 2024 Mel Brother/Best Friend

Buy: Amazon Review 4 stars! Madison had a crush on one of her brother’s best friends and he never really acknowledged her as more that a little sister, so when grumpy Quentin, another good friend […]

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Release & ARC Review: When the Stars Rise (Lost Stars, #5) by Emery Rose

February 9, 2024August 29, 2025 AJ Angsty

  When the Stars Rise by Emery Rose is live! A childhood-best-friends/second-chance-romance between a pop star and an extreme athlete, this is an emotional and angsty rollercoaster with an epic love and all the feels. […]

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New Release & ARC Review: Cluelessly Yours (It’s A Funny Story, #3) by Max Monroe

January 13, 2024January 15, 2024 Mel Book News

Cluelessly Yours  by Max Monroe   Released – 13 January 2024   Available now!  Amazon  |  Paperback     Blurb The bad news? Getting hit by a cab can officially get crossed off my bucket […]

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ARC Review: Love, Just In by Natalie Murray

January 8, 2024January 8, 2024 AJ Drama

Buy:  Amazon  |  Paperback Blurb In the vein of Emily Henry’s You and Me On Vacation, Love, Just In is a friends-to-lovers romance with just enough spice to heat up the summer. Sydney TV news reporter Josie Larsen […]

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Review: Things We Left Behind (Knockemout, #3) by Lucy Score

December 19, 2023 AJ Drama

Buy:  Amazon |  Paperback Review 5 stars! This is a hilarious enemies-to-lovers romance that is fun and laugh-out-loud funny, yet emotional, with a fantastically snarky, banter-filled love story that is full of chemistry and so freaking […]

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Release & ARC Review: Sable Peak (The Edens, #6) by Devney Perry

December 7, 2023December 7, 2023 AJ Drama

  Sable Peak by Devney Perry is live! The final book in The Edens series, this is a friends-to-lovers, unrequired love, single dad romance. It’s emotional and dramatic, and beautifully, swoonily romantic, and I loved […]

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Audio Review: Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2) by Abby Jimenez

November 26, 2023November 22, 2025 AJ Audio Recommendation

Buy:  Amazon  |  Paperback  |  Audio Review 4 stars! This is a fantastic friends-to-lovers, fake relationship romance with humour, emotion, and so much heart. I did struggle with parts of the story, but I fell […]

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Audio Review: The Graham Effect (Campus Diaries, #1) by Elle Kennedy

November 24, 2023November 24, 2023 AJ Audio Recommendation

Buy:  Amazon  |  Audible Review 5 stars! Like most Off-Campus fans, I was so excited when Elle Kennedy announced that she was writing a second-generation book for Gigi Graham – daughter of Hannah and Garrett from […]

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Review: One Chance (The Sullivan Family, #3) by Lena Hendrix

November 22, 2023January 9, 2024 AJ Fake Relationship

Buy:  Amazon Review 4.5 “this is the best day of my life” stars This is a fun and heartfelt best-friends-to-lovers romance that made me laugh and smile. With an irresistible hero and a fantastically entertaining […]

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Release & ARC Review: Mine to Honor (Southern Wedding, #7) by Natasha Madison

November 3, 2023November 2, 2023 AJ Fake Relationship

  From Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author Natasha Madison comes a small town, best friends to lovers, fake marriage, and forced proximity romance.   Mine to Honor is live! Amazon   Blurb […]

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Review: Jingle Bell Fling by Scarlett Cole

October 29, 2023October 28, 2023 AJ Celebrities

Buy:  Amazon Review “You were the only place I wanted to come to.” 4 stars! This is such a cute read! A best-friends-to-lovers celebrity romance it’s sweet, sexy, gorgeously romantic and blessedly angst-free, and I […]

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Review: Hopeless (Chestnut Springs, #5) by Elsie Silver

October 26, 2023April 11, 2024 AJ Age Gap

Buy:  Amazon Review 5 stars! Wow, I loved this book! A dramatic and emotional story for two isolated, tormented people, this is the final book in the Chestnut Springs series, and the much-anticipated book for Beau […]

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Release & ARC Review: Wild Card (Seattle Phantom Football, #3) by Maggie Rawdon

October 12, 2023October 12, 2023 AJ Enemies-to-Lovers

  Wild Card by Maggie Rawdon is live! A fun and spicy frenemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, opposites attract sports romance full of snark and chemistry, with a sexy, slow-building love story. This is a great read, […]

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ARC Review: Warrior’s Hope (Dark Protectors, #16) by Rebecca Zanetti

October 3, 2023October 18, 2023 AJ Action

Buy:  Amazon Review 4 stars! The latest book in the Dark Protectors series, this book finishes the second story arc of the series – that of ‘the Seven’ – and, like her parent’s book before […]

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Release & ARC Review: Before the Sunset (Cottonwood Cove, #4) by Laura Pavlov

September 21, 2023 AJ Celebrities

  Before the Sunset by Laura Pavlov is live! An epic friends-to-lovers romance with a celebrity hero, a fake relationship, banter, steam, and all the swoon!   Amazon   Blurb Reese Murphy has been my […]

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Audio Review: The Proposal (The Brewer Family, #1) by Adriana Locke

September 18, 2023April 22, 2025 AJ Audio Recommendation

Buy:  Amazon  |  Paperback  |  Audio Blurb Breaking News: Rugby’s bad boy marries his best friend’s little sister If Renn Brewer would’ve asked me to marry him, I would’ve said no. Why? One, his reputation […]

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