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Romance

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: The Tragedy of Felix and Jake by J. Daniels

March 14, 2023March 13, 2023 AJ Drama

  The Tragedy of Felix and Jake by J. Daniels is live, and it’s an amazing read!   I have so many feelings about this book. It’s so funny, so emotional, and so heartwrenching, and […]

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Review: Gentle Scars (To Be Claimed, #2) by Willow Winters

March 11, 2023 AJ Paranormal/Urban Fantasy

Buy:  Amazon Review 3 stars The second book of the To Be Claimed series, this is a direct continuation from the first book, Wounded Kiss. It picks up the story of Grace and Lizzie, who have […]

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Audio Review: House of Sky and Breath (Crescent City, #2) by Sarah J. Maas

March 8, 2023March 4, 2023 AJ 6 Star Reads

Buy:  Amazon  |  Paperback  |  Audio Review 6 incredible stars! Just damn. I can’t wrap my head around all that I just read, let alone put it into words for a review. I’m gobsmacked. Once again, I am blown away […]

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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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Audio Review: Toe the Line by Penelope Ward

March 6, 2023March 6, 2023 AJ Angsty

Buy:  Amazon  |  Paperback  |  Apple Books  |  B&N  |  Kobo  |  Google Play  |  Audible Review 4.5 stars! Oh, I loved this book! A deliciously angsty best-friends-to-lovers story that spans ten years of slow-burning build-up. […]

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Audio Review: End of Story by Kylie Scott

March 5, 2023March 4, 2023 AJ Audio Recommendation

Buy  Amazon  |  Paperback |  Audio Review 4.5 stars! I love this book! A fun, witty, sexy and heartfelt friends-to-lovers romance that really gets you thinking when our outspoken heroine is faced with some very intriguing […]

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Review: Wounded Kiss (To Be Claimed, #1) by Willow Winters

March 4, 2023March 4, 2023 AJ Paranormal/Urban Fantasy

Buy:  Amazon  Review 3.5 hot and steamy stars This is a short and steamy paranormal read, the beginning of the To Be Claimed series, and a seriously sexy story of a pack of shifters claiming their […]

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Review: A Glorious and Devilish Expanse (Witches of the Island, #3) by Katie McGarry

March 3, 2023March 2, 2023 AJ Drama

Buy:  Amazon Review 4.5 stars! The third and final book in the Witches of the Island series, this book delivers the epic ending that I was hoping for. From the moment I started this emotional urban […]

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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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New Release & ARC Review: My So Called Love Life (previously My So Called Sex Life) (How to Date, #1) by Lauren Blakely

March 1, 2023May 22, 2024 Mel Book News

MY SO CALLED SEX LIFE by #1 NYT bestselling author Lauren Blakely is LIVE!     AVAILBLE NOW! Amazon  |  Other venders  |  Audible   Blurb I’ve got a list of people I absolutely don’t […]

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Release & ARC Review: The New Guy by Sarina Bowen

February 28, 2023July 11, 2023 AJ Drama

  The New Guy is live! A new male / male hockey romance from 24-time USA Today bestseller Sarina Bowen! Full of heart, humour, emotion, epic chemistry and heat, the longing-kind-of-angst that I love in […]

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Audio Review: The Theory of Second Best (Cake, #2) by J. Bengtsson

February 26, 2023February 26, 2023 AJ Friends-to-Lovers

Buy:  Amazon  |  Paperback  |  Audio Review 4.5 stars! A fun, laugh-out-loud funny romance set within a Survivor-like reality show, this is a wildly entertaining read with characters that I adore and a gorgeously slow burning friends-to-lovers romance, and I […]

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Review: Lover Arisen (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #20) by J.R. Ward

February 25, 2023April 11, 2024 AJ Age Gap

Buy:  Amazon Review 4 stars The latest BDB book brings us the story of Balthazar. Things have been building up for him for a while – he’s possessed by a sexy, manipulative demon, and he’s falling […]

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Release, ARC Review & Giveaway: Blanket of Stars (Camp Bexley, #4) by K.K. Allen

February 24, 2023February 24, 2023 AJ Drama

  Blanket of Stars by K.K. Allen is live! The fourth and final book of the Camp Bexley series is the story of youngest Bexley brother, Cayson, and wow, what a romantic hero! He absolutely […]

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Release & ARC Review: Things We Hide From the Light (Knockemout, #2) by Lucy Score

February 22, 2023February 22, 2023 AJ Enemies-to-Lovers

  Things We Hide From the Light by Lucy Score is live! This is the second book in the Knockemout series, a follow up to the fabulous Things We Never Got Over, and a snarky, […]

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Release & ARC Review: Only You (The Adair Family, #5) by Samantha Young

February 21, 2023February 21, 2023 AJ Drama

  Only You by Samantha Young is live! The fifth and final book in the Adair Family series, this is a heartwrenching friends-to-lovers, almost-second-chance romance that really brings the feels, as movie star Brodan Adair […]

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Review: Bittersweet Melody (The Bittersweet Symphony Duet, #2.5) by Kate Stewart

February 19, 2023 AJ Drama

Available free when you sign up for the author’s newsletter Buy:  Amazon  |  Paperback Review 4 stars Kate Stewart has released a bonus epilogue to the Bittersweet Symphony duet, a little bit more Easton and […]

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Release & ARC Review: Made For You (Made for #2) by Natasha Madison

February 14, 2023February 14, 2023 AJ Drama

  From Wall Street Journal and USA TODAY bestselling author Natasha Madison comes a brand new stand-alone enemies-to-lovers grumpy/sunshine sports romance. A spin-off from the Only One series   Amazon  |  Books2Read   Blurb Vivienne […]

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Review: If the Sun Never Sets (If Love, #2) by Ana Huang

February 13, 2023February 13, 2023 AJ Drama

Buy:  Amazon  |  Paperback Review 3 stars Before spoilers for the first book in the series – If We Ever Meet Again. The second book in the If Love series, and the final part of Blake and Farrah’s […]

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Audio Review: Coming Home by Kennedy Ryan

February 11, 2023 AJ Friends-to-Lovers

Buy:  Amazon  |  Audible Review 3 stars “Sometimes the things that could have happened affect us almost as much as the things that did.” This is a short and sweet novella, an almost-second-chance romance where […]

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Audio Review: Cake (Cake, #1) by J. Bengtsson

February 7, 2023 AJ Audio Recommendation

Buy:  Amazon  |  Paperback  |  Audio Review 4.5 stars! This book has been on my TBR for the longest time, and I’m so happy that I finally dove in! It’s a fantastic rock star romance that starts off as a […]

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Review: If We Ever Meet Again (If Love, #1) by Ana Huang

February 5, 2023 AJ Drama

Buy:  Amazon  |  Paperback Review 3.5 stars! I am a big fan of Ana Huang’s work, and am trying to make my way through her back-catalogue, so I was so excited to dive into this series, bringing […]

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Release Blitz & ARC Review: When a Moth Loved a Bee (Destini Chronicles, #1) by Pepper Winters

February 3, 2023February 7, 2023 Mel Book News

New York Times Bestseller, Pepper Winters, delivers a brand new High Fantasy Romance.   “It’s taking everything I have not to touch you. Not because I want to make you mine but because every part […]

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