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A favorite author with two favorite narrators? Of course I’m game! I’ve just started Regards, Mia by Jill Brashear, narrated by Samantha Brentmoor and Connor Crais. The audiobook releases soon.
🎧📚 Narrator Reveal! 🎧📚
🚘When I Come Around by Karen Grey
To be narrated by
🎤Ryan Lee Dunlap &
🎤 Amanda Stribling
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🎬When I join the woman I’ve loved forever for an out-of-town movie job,
💑she makes me an offer I can’t refuse:
a secret friends-with-benefits deal.
❤️🩹 Question is: can my heart keep things under wraps? ❤️🩹
Hateful prince by Meg Anne and K Loraine has been in my TBR list for about four days only, but I was still desperate to start it. The time has come. It’s narrated by Stella Hunter, Samantha Brentmoor, Jason Clarke, JF Harding, John Hartley and James Joseph. Releases March 25.
Am I ready? I’m not sure. I’m starting The home wrecker by Sara Cate. Releases March 25.
🍴𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐊𝐄𝐃?🍴
📚♥️ Authors Lainey Davis, Liz Alden, Karen Grey, Erin Mallon, and Ember Leigh 📚♥️
have been meeting and scheming for the past six months
and they’re finally ready to share the ridiculous, wonderful world they’ve created:
🐑Fork Lick, New York: Home of Bedd Family Farm 🧑🌾
📚♥️ Each sexy romance in the Farm 2 Forking series represents a collaborative effort of forced extroversion, shared goat memes, and hot farrier TikTok analysis. Nothing has ever been more fun! They hope these books make you swoon, snort-laugh, or at least take up knitting.
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🥓Bringing Home the Bacon (Book #4): https://books2read.com/BringingHomeTheBacon
A Fork in the Road (Book #5): http://books2read.com/fork-in-road
Real life got in the way. I’m doing my best though, and I’ll have a few reviews up before the end of the weekend… Hopefully.
But for the next couple of months, I added some ARCs to my TBR list: Nine month contract by Amy Daws, Burnout by Rebecca Jenshak, and Craving chaos by Jill Ramsower. All favorite authors.
Back to my books 😀
I haven’t listened to Patrick Zeller outside his work with TJ London, so I’m curious to hear him in an silver fox romance by LB Dunbar. Especially with favorite Stella Hunter. Already released.
Blurb
Help Wanted: Grumpy Mountain Man seeks baby momma. Job is an incubator position only. Surrogate must be impervious to grunting in the form of communication and nosey brotherly neighbors. Rustic mountain range housing available upon request.
I wanted to pummel my irritating brothers when they posted their own version of a wanted ad to help me with my life.
But I can’t fault the results once the right woman lands on my lap.
Becoming a single father is not a decision I made lightly. In fact, it’s the biggest decision of my entire life.
Which is why when I interview Trista, I know she’s perfect.
She’s wild, she’s opinionated, she wears cowboy boots. Even my pet goat loves her…
She’s the exact type of person I was holding out for.
And to my great horror, I realize on our first night of attempting this baby making dance…when the lights are low, the cheap wine is flowing, and the home insemination supplies are laid out on the kitchen counter…
I want to do a lot more than just make her my surrogate.
I want to make her mine.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Number 1 Amazon Bestselling author Amy Daws writes spicy love stories that take place in America, as well as across the pond. She’s most known for her footy-playing Harris Brothers and writing in a tire shop waiting room. When Amy is not writing, she’s likely making charcuterie boards from her home in South Dakota where she lives with her daughter and husband.
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Summary
One night. No strings. And a really good puck.
Five years ago, Astrid O’Malley experienced the ultimate in public humiliation. Being dumped at the altar by her childhood sweetheart was horrifying enough. That fact that he was a professional hockey goalie and her dad was his coach? It was all anyone in sports could talk about.
Eff hockey. Eff goalies.
These days, Astrid lives a life (mostly) free of hockey and free to pursue whoever she wants with exactly zero shame in her game. Like tonight’s hook-up. This guy’s nailed the lumberjack aesthetic perfectly. Especially when he has the stamina and creativity to back it up.
Because the rule is: it’s one night only. Which is gonna be a problem because she’s just discovered he lives in the apartment upstairs.
And he’s joined her dad’s team. As the goalie coach. To train her ex.
Now Astrid is in some kind of hockey hell–filled with her ex, her family, and the best sex of her life. And somehow she’s been roped back onto the team.
Puck my life.
Review
(audiobook) There wasn’t much of a story–they meet, they have what’s supposed to be a one night stand, but they end up working together, they seduce each other, one tiny setback then happily ever after. The characters and their struggles were interesting though, and it was a lot of fun, and a lot of sexy.
After being left at the altar, Astrid writes off serious relationships and hockey at the same time. Cal is supposed to be one more notch on her bedpost, except the man lives in her building, and he works for the hockey team her father coaches. Where her dad asks her to come back to work. With the groom that never was. Too many complications for someone who’s trying to figure out her life.
Cal isn’t that more stable. He’s just lost the one thing that was most important in his life: his career as a hockey player, after a serious injury. This job as a coach is his one chance at staying relevant. But what happens when he realizes there are things more important than hockey?
Their relationship is what helps them heal, help them going forward. They support each other right from the start, which was nice, since they barely know each other. But there’s an instant connection between them. They also have great interactions with other characters–their family, their friends, their co-workers, even their so called enemies. The book works a lot on conversations and interactions. That’s where you find the funny, and the deep feelings too.
As for the level of steam, it’s pretty high. Astrid and Cal start with a bang, and they never let go. There definitely is a lot of attraction between them.
I’d have liked to have a more developped plot, but it works as it is. There are still some interesting themes like relationships with family members. And great side characters.
And the narration is perfect. The female narrator expresses all nuances of Astrid–her strengths and her softer side–and the male narrator’s voice matches with older Cal. They both give life to their character, and they sound good in the duet style texting chapters. Spot on on the funny and the sexy.
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Blurb
A criminal on the loose puts Mia’s life at stake, but the last man she wants to save her is her one-night stand.
A viper in the courtroom, District Attorney, Mia James is not accustomed to being overruled, but when a villain from her past is about to uproot her life, she’s forced to accept the bodyguard her boss hires. The last thing she expects is for her protector to be tall, dark, and tatted Jay, the man she cruelly rejected.
After the way Mia treated him, Jay isn’t thrilled to take the job. He needs the money to keep his charity project alive, but keeping Mossy Oak’s biggest Ice Queen safe may cost Jay his sanity.
When sparks fly between the unlikely pair, boundaries blur between duty and desire. But Jay’s past might be too much for them to overcome, and the threat to Mia’s life jeopardizes more than their fledgling romance.
Fans of Catherine Cowles and Melanie Harlow won’t want to miss this small town, steamy contemporary romance. Dive into this unforgettable love story set against the backdrop of Mossy Oak, a town brimming with charm, where love conquers all.
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