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Brother/Best Friend

Release & ARC Review: How to Score Off Field (Campus Legends, #3) by Sara Ney

September 15, 2023September 15, 2023 AJ Brother/Best Friend

  How to Score Off Field by Sara Ney is live! The third book in the Campus Legends series, this is a funny and sweet NA romance that is painfully awkward, but endearingly relatable. It’s […]

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Release & ARC Review: Waiting to Score (Lake Spark Off-Season #1) by Evey Lyon

September 13, 2023September 12, 2023 AJ Brother/Best Friend

  Waiting to Score by Evey Lyon is live! This is such a fun read – a brother’s best friend, friends-with-benefits, small town sports romance that is sexy and sweet with just the right amount […]

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Release & ARC Review: The Brood (Calamity Montana, #6) by Devney Perry

September 7, 2023April 11, 2024 AJ Age Gap

  The Brood by Devney Perry is live! Sweet, sexy and gorgeously heartfelt, this is a brother’s best friend, opposites attract, forced proximity, age gap romance with an irresistibly grumpy hero and a free spirited […]

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Release & ARC Review: Shucked (The Loew Brothers #1) by Kate Canterbary

August 22, 2023August 26, 2023 AJ Brother/Best Friend

  Shucked by Kate Canterbary is live! Oh, I love this book! A brother’s best friend, enemies-to-lovers, grumpy/sunshine romance, this story is funny, sweet, sexy, heartfelt, and beautifully romantic, with wonderful characters who I absolutely […]

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Release & ARC Review: The Problem with Perfect (Cedar Point, #3) by Jillian Liota

August 21, 2023April 11, 2024 AJ Age Gap

  The Problem with Perfect by Jillian Liota is live! The fourth book (third full length) in the Cedar Point series, I was so excited to be back into this world with a read that […]

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Release & Review: Glimmers of You (Lost & Found, #3) by Catherine Cowles

August 1, 2023July 29, 2023 AJ Brother/Best Friend

  Glimmers of You by Catherine Cowles is live! An oh, so beautiful brother’s-best-friend, friends to lovers, fake-relationship romance with mystery, suspense, and all the feels, this book and its characters owned my heart, and […]

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Review: What I Need (Alabama Summer, #5) by J. Daniels

June 17, 2023 AJ Brother/Best Friend

Buy:  Amazon  |  Paperback  |  Audio Review “We’re lovers who became friends who became …everything.” 4 stars The fifth book in the Alabama Summer series, and it’s CJ’s turn! And in a fabulous development, he’s hooking up with Reed’s […]

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Review: All I Want (Alabama Summer, #2) by J. Daniels

May 1, 2023June 14, 2023 AJ Angsty

Buy:  Amazon  |  Paperback  |  Audio Review 3 stars A second-chance, brother’s-best-friend, enemies-to-lovers romance, this book is an angsty rollercoaster ride. It’s the second book in the Alabama Summer series, but can easily standalone, and Tessa and Luke’s […]

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Review: The Rules of Dating My Best Friend’s Sister (The Law of Opposites Attract, #2) by Vi Keeland & Penelope Ward

April 22, 2023September 6, 2023 AJ Angsty

Buy: Amazon US  |  Amazon UK  |  Amazon CA  |  Amazon AU  |  Paperback  |  Audio Review 3 stars Oh, this book! The second in the The Law of Opposites Attract series, it’s a brother’s-best-friend, friends-to-lovers […]

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Release & ARC Review: Into the Tide (Cottonwood Cove, #1) by Laura Pavlov

March 16, 2023March 15, 2023 AJ Brother/Best Friend

  Into the Tide by Laura Pavlov is live! A beautiful brother’s-best-friend/friend-to-lovers romance with fantastic characters, amazing chemistry, and a fun, passionate, gorgeously emotional love story that completely captured my heart. It’s exactly the sweet […]

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Release & ARC Review: Playing Pretend by Eden Summers

March 16, 2023March 16, 2023 AJ Brother/Best Friend

  Playing Pretend by Eden Summers is live! A fun, flirty best-friends-to-lovers story that is full of chemistry and bursting with sexual tension   Amazon   Blurb One bed. Two best friends. Three nights playing […]

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Release & ARC Review: He’s a Charmer (San Francisco Strikers, #3) by Stacy Travis

March 15, 2023 AJ Brother/Best Friend

  He’s a Charmer by Stacy Travis is live! This is a really sweet read! A forced proximity, brother’s-best-friend, sports romance that is fun and heartfelt with an honest, emotional and chemistry-filled love story.   […]

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Review: Where I Belong (Alabama Summer, #1) by J. Daniels

March 7, 2023March 7, 2023 AJ Brother/Best Friend

Buy:  Amazon  |  Paperback  |  Audio Review 4 stars! The first book in the Alabama Summer series, this book has been on my TBR for so long, and I’m so glad I finally got to […]

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Release & ARC Review: Reverse Pass (Plays & Penalties, #4) by Maggie Rawdon

March 2, 2023April 11, 2024 AJ Age Gap

  Reverse Pass by Maggie Rawdon is live! A best-friend’s-brother, friends-to-lovers, NA sports romance that is fun, playful and sexy, with fantastic characters and a love story that stole my heart! I love this one! […]

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Review: Loving at 40 (Lakeside Cottage, #3) by L.B. Dunbar

January 14, 2023January 14, 2023 AJ Brother/Best Friend

Buy:  Amazon Review 4.5 stars! The third book in the Lakeside Cottage series, this is a gorgeously emotional romance for a widowed single mother, and a complex hero with a secretive life. It’s a beautiful […]

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Release & ARC Review: The Sins We Hide (Iron Outlaws MC, #1) by S. Cole

January 12, 2023January 10, 2023 AJ Bikers

  From USA Today best selling author Scarlett Cole, writing as S. Cole, comes an electrifying MC, friends to enemies to lovers romance.   The Sins We Hide, first book in the Iron Outlaws MC […]

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Review: Visions of You (Lost & Found, #0.5) by Catherine Cowles

November 24, 2022April 11, 2024 AJ Age Gap

Free via Bookfunnel:  Ebook  |  Audio Blurb I’ve only ever had one secret: I’ve been in love with my best friend’s brother for as long as I can remember. West Castille is everything my little-girl […]

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Release & ARC Review: Mine to Love (Southern Wedding, #4) by Natasha Madison

November 1, 2022December 14, 2022 AJ Brother/Best Friend

  Mine to Love by Natasha Madison is live! Funny and heartfelt, this one really brings the feels as a woman who is terrified to love is forced to confront her feelings for the man […]

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Release & ARC Review: Simply Mine (Honey Mountain, #4) by Laura Pavlov

October 20, 2022October 20, 2022 AJ Brother/Best Friend

  Simply Mine by Laura Pavlov is live! The fourth standalone in the Honey Mountain series, this is a gorgeous best-friend’s-brother, friends-to-lovers romance that is sweet and sexy and beautifully romantic. I love these characters, […]

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Release & ARC Review: A Little Too Wild (Madigan Mountain, #3) by Devney Perry

October 16, 2022 AJ Brother/Best Friend

  A Little Too Wild by Devney Perry is live! A fantastically entertaining, passionate and romantic story that combines brother’s-best-friend, it-started-with-a-hookup, small-town and sports romance. I adored these characters, I loved their story, and this […]

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Audio Review: Eternal Sunshine by L.J. Shen

September 10, 2022September 10, 2022 AJ Audio Recommendation

Buy:  Audio (Audible exclusive available only as an audiobook) Review 4 stars This is a great little short story that I picked up on Audible. It’s a brother’s-best-friend, enemies-to-lovers story that is fun, sexy, and […]

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Release & ARC Review: Help Me Remember (Rose Canyon, #1) by Corinne Michaels

June 14, 2022June 14, 2022 AJ Brother/Best Friend

    Help Me Remember, the first book in the Rose Canyon series by Corinne Michaels, is live!   A woman desperate to get her memory back, and her brother’s best friend who is desperate […]

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Review: Snowbound (Tattered & Torn, #0.5) by Catherine Cowles

May 14, 2022February 15, 2023 AJ Brother/Best Friend

Originally titled Escape to Mistletoe Mountain and published in a Christmas anthology, this novella is now available free in ebook and audiobook.   Free on the author’s website   Review 4 stars! This is such […]

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Blog Tour & ARC Review: Reason to Believe (Legacy, #1) by Rebecca Yarros

April 27, 2022August 7, 2024 AJ Angsty

  Reason to Believe by Rebecca Yarros is live! This is the first full-length novel in the Legacy series, a beautiful, emotional friends-to-lovers romance that had me smiling, crying, and falling in mad love with […]

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Blog Tour & ARC Review: Falling Embers (Tattered & Torn, #2) by Catherine Cowles

April 13, 2022August 28, 2025 AJ Brother/Best Friend

“A top must read for 2022” —Samantha Young, New York Times bestselling author   Falling Embers, an all-new must read moving romance from Catherine Cowles, is available now! A friends-to-lovers, brother’s-best-friend, single dad romance with family drama, […]

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