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I wanted to read this book because I enjoyed the first and debut book of Hannah’s and loved her videos long before. I loved the idea of a bad guy having a fluffy assistant and how the bad buy was getting feelings for her even though he shouldn’t be. I was wondering how she was going to carry on with this book and I enjoyed it but felt like it was a bit more slow-paced than the last book.  

This book has two points of view. The first is Evie Sage and she has never been happier to be the assistant to The Villain. Who would have thought that working for an outrageously handsome evil overlord would be so rewarding? Still. The business of being bad is demanding. The forces of good are annoyingly persistent and said forbidding boss is somewhat out-of-office. The second point of view is The Villain, AKA Trystan and he has been captured by the King Benedict and has no hope of getting out and now Evie is apparently dead and now Rennedawn is in grave trouble, and all signs – Kingsley's included – point to catastrophe. Something peculiar is happening with the kingdom’s magic, and it’s made The Villain’s manor vulnerable to their enemies. Now it’s time for Evie to face her great challenge: protecting The Villain’s lair, all of his nefarious work, and maybe the entire kingdom. It's time to step out of her comfort zone and learn new skills. Like treason. Dagger work. Conspiring with the enemy. But what happens when the assistant to The Villain is ready to become his apprentice?  

This book is still a cute and funny read. I was still squealing and kicking my feet at Trystan and Evie. I love that the whole office knew that there was tension between them and just let them play out their moments. I loved the character development of Becky and why she liked control and order. I liked that Becky and Evie are now showing support for each other and actually becoming friends. Especially when Becky told Evie that there was no assistant job that was needed but he just hired her. I love how Evie is becoming so confident and how she is wanting to become an apprentice and not just an assistant.  

The thing I struggled with the book compared to the first one is the repeated information. I lot of things we already knew was stated again and again. The first bit comes out with all guns blazing and you are in the driver's seat, and you know it’s about to be a fast-paced book with a lot of action and then it just lost its momentum. I was just sort of skimming over the repeated information and the slow bits in the book because I was getting bored. Then within the last five pages, it went up a notch so that it ended on a cliffhanger. It just felt like a filler book at times – introduce the brother that we can’t trust, build the ever-growing tension between Evie and Trystan, some fight scenes and then done. 

I have a feeling that the next book in the series is going to be better because of the cliffhanger and how everything has led up to this book. Hopefully we get Evie and Trystan skipping off into the sunset, but I have a feeling it’s going to take a while to get to that point. Also, I don’t trust Evie’s family like any of them besides Evie.  

I wanted to read this book because I am patiently waiting to hear about any of Talia’s new work. I decided to try and read some of her old work in the meantime and saw The Princess Trap all over the book community and it was released as part of a series even though the characters don’t interact with each other. I was interested to see if I can finish this series on a high and it didn’t live up to my standards. The Brown Sisters are just unbeatable.  

This book has two points of view. The first is Jasmine Allen and she believes in bad luck, great wine and the seductive power of a stiletto heel. What she doesn’t believe in is love. Her life is great without all that romance rubbish, until a plumbing disaster screws everything up and leaves Jasmine homeless. Lucky she has someone to turn to: her best friend Rahul. The second point of view is Rahul Khan and for the last seven years, he has followed three simple rules. 1. Don’t touch Jasmine if you can help it. 2. Don’t look at her arse in that skirt. 3. Don’t ever – ever – tell Jasmine that you love her. He should’ve added another rule: do not, under any circumstances, let Jas move into your house. Now Rahul is living with the friend that he can’t have, and it’s decimating his control. He knows their shared dinners aren’t dates, the late-night kisses as a mistake, and the tenderness in Jasmine’s gaze is only temporary. One wrong word could send his skittish best friend running. So why is he tempted to risk it all? 

As always with Talia’s book, I love how she manages to write diverse characters, serious subjects, sexuality and mental health. I love her for it. In this book we have a son who is grieving over his father and trying to be the head of the household and definitely some form of mental health issue with the control aspect. Then you have a daughter who had been abandoned by his mother, which in turns makes her not be able to trust anyone and she struggles to form friendships or relationships that she only uses people for sex and that sex is a transactional thing. I liked the fact that Jasmine wasn’t ashamed about the fact that she likes hook up and that sex is a healthy thing. I liked the character development that happened individually and the fact that Rahul was learning to ease control and to speak his mind and that Jasmine learned how to trust people and to also speak her mind.  

Just like the other books in this series, I felt like it was a bit rushed compared to the Brown Sisters Series and I felt like Jasmine's attraction suddenly came out of nowhere once she slept with Rahul. I would like a bit more of a slow-burn especially with them living together. I would have loved for some jealously to be a part of it. Like Rahul is seen with someone and Jasmine gets jealous. But it’s all just came from Rahul being jealous over a bartender talking to Jasmine.  

I will carry on reading Talia’s work old or new no matter what and hopefully I will enjoy the next series or book that I will read of hers.

I wanted to read this book because I read my first Alice Feeney book this year and I was instantly hooked; she was on the list of my insta-buy authors. His and Hers creeped me out and I thought I couldn’t be more creeped out and I was wrong.  

This book follows Mr and Mrs Wright, and things have been going wrong between them for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can’t recognize friends or family, or even his own wife. Every anniversary the couple exchange traditional gifts – paper, cotton, pottery, tin – and each year Adam’s wife writes him a letter that she never lets him read. Until now. They both know this weekend will make or break their marriage, but they didn’t randomly win this trip. One of them is lying, and someone doesn’t want them to live happily ever after. Ten years of marriage, ten years of secrets and an anniversary they will never forget.  

Just like His and Hers, this book kept you hooked, from the suspense and the psychological plot twists, Alice Feeney makes me miss physically books, because again I nearly threw my kindle at the twists. I loved the split POVs from the letter, Amelia, Adam and Robin, it made it so much more interesting, and the chapters would change just as it was getting to the plot twists. The storyline is interesting and intriguing. My favourite chapter is the one where the penny finally drops which didn’t happen until the very end which drove me a bit nuts – I just wanted to know who was messing with Adam and Amelia.  

I would have loved to see more of a showdown between Robin and Amelia. I felt like after all the build-up between who was the good wife and the bad wife, there wasn’t really a showdown. I was also terrified that the dog was going to die. Thank God, Bob didn’t die otherwise I would have rioted. I would have liked more of a history showing between Henry and his wife, rather than the little snippets that we get towards the end.  

You think that all the plot twists have been given and then Alice ends up throwing a little curveball towards the end. My jaw was on the floor. I cannot wait to read more of Alice’s work and the choice is just which one do I read now.   

I wanted to read this book because Lana’s books have been all over the book community. I got this book and the Fake Mate in the 3 for £6 at the Works and decided to jump right in. This book was hot and adorable, but also infuriating. 

This book has two points of view. The first is Cassie Evans, and after losing her job and being on the brink of eviction she finds herself with two choices: get a new job (and fast) or fire up her long-untouched OnlyFans accounts. But there are no jobs to be found, and as for OnlyFans . . . Well, there are reasons she can’t go back. Just when all hope seems lost, an ad for a live-in nanny position seems to be the solution to all her problems. It's almost too perfect – until she meets her would-be employer. The second point of view is Aiden Reid, and he is an executive chef and DILF extraordinaire and is far from the stuffy single dad Cassie was imagining. Aiden is shocked that she is most qualified applicant he has met in weeks, and now Aiden is practically begging her to take the job. Aiden cannot understand his obsession with Cassie, but it’s all he ends up thinking about. Cassie feels like living under the same roof as Aiden will be dangerous, but with no other option, she decides to stay with him and his adorably daughter, Sophie. However, Cassie soon realises that Aiden is not a stranger at all, but instead someone who is very familiar with her – or at least, her body. She finds herself at a loss for what to do, given that he doesn’t remember her. As their relationship heats to temperatures hotter than any kitchen Aiden has ever worked in, Cassie struggles with telling Aiden the truth, and the more terrifying possibility – losing the best chance at happiness she’s ever had.  

I liked the storyline and that it shows that connections can be made online, even if it was OnlyFans. I liked that they showed the connection at the start of every chapter, and you could see how the connection grew. This book was very cheesy and adorable but also spicy. I loved the adorable moments of like Aiden and Cassie’s first date and how Aiden wanted to dress her up and show her off to his employees and that his boss was joking and laughing with Cassie. It was an easy read; you didn’t really need to think or pay attention. I think Aiden was hilarious and how he wanted to say all his feelings about Cassie but just couldn’t and even though he was this big-shot chef and yet he was fumbling in front of his in-house nanny.  

Sophie and Wanda saved this book from being a three-star read. Wanda was a straight-talking old woman which felt like Cassie’s inner voice just telling her to grow a pair. Sophie shouldn’t have been the solution to all the problems. Like she went to Wanda’s house to get Cassie, she told her that Aiden loved her and told Aiden that Cassie loved her. Like if I ten-year-old knows, why aren’t the two adults in the book having a normal conversation between them. The miscommunication did drive me nuts and I don’t think the third act breakup was really needed. Everyone just needed to take a breath after Wanda had her heart attack and then have a conversation and I'm also certain Aiden would have won against a judge knowing that Sophie loved her dad and Cassie and there was plenty of people who would have helped them against Iris. I felt like she got left off the hook a bit and that she needed some form of grovelling and apologising to Aiden and Cassie. 

This was the first book of Lana’s that I've read, and it won’t be the last. Hopefully the third act breakups will stop, and I can enjoy them even more.  

I wanted to read this book because I read the first book in book club and when there is a series, I will carry on with it even if I didn’t enjoy one in the series. However, this hadn’t happened so far until now. This book was mid and so slow. Olivia was a character I liked in Cruel Summer, but this book was missing something.  

As stated, this book is based on Olivia Anderson and she has just been left at the alter, and she decides to do what all modern women do – hit up Google. When a couple of searches land her in a support group for jilted brides, she immediately takes the reins and decides they all deserve to get revenge on their exes. She is tired of being a people pleaser and wants to do something for her and her alone, and that is to get revenge on Bradley Reed and to stand up against her mother’s wishes of getting back together with Bradley. The second point of view is Andre Valenti, and he is an FBI agent that has been watching Olivia’s every move online and in person for over a year and he is tired of it, she is a spoiled brat, but his career depends on putting Bradley Reed behind bars. He's managed to stay off her radar until one day he realises that her search history is peppered with revenge that will land her in prison and ruin her status as a reliable witness. As Andre gets more involved in Olivia’s schemes, will he be able to keep it professional? Or will the subject of his work assignment become something more.  

Unlike the other books in this series, I struggled with this one. It was very slow and all over the place. Andre just seemed selfish about the perfect witness and instead of being honest, he lied about being a bodyguard instead of just telling her the truth. I’m sure she would have been more than happy to help the FBI to put her ex in prison and instead he let it build and build until it exploded. Multiple times during this book, I wanted to slap both main characters, they did drive me a bit up the wall. Like Olivia was using Andre to get back at her ex and to keep the paps away and got pissed when Andre had a motive for using her like it’s the exact same thing. I felt like there needed to be more kicking and screaming at Olivia’s mother. She has been a nightmare for 2 books, and she got off the hook way too easy for my liking. I usually like spice within books, but this was just the same thing repeatedly and then I found myself skimming over the smut especially after all the drama, like you both need to cool off and talk, not have make up sex.  

I liked how the friendship was growing, and the Halloween party is still a thing and that we got to see all three men be overprotective of their girls and the group. I liked Olivia’s character growth and how she was determined to stand up for herself and I would have liked her to stand up to Andre at times. I liked the autumn vibes and how it's based on pumpkin picking and Halloween and thanksgiving.  

This book could have been 200 pages and had most of the smut and most of the plot, but it was just a lot of repeated information and dialogue at times, and I wanted more of the revenge of Bradley not the lying and deception between the pair of them. 

I wanted to read this book because I enjoyed Mazey’s work in the past and I’ve heard so many good things about this book. This book is so sweet and adorable.  

This book has two points of view. The first is Tilly Twomley and she is desperate for change. White-knuckling her way through high school with flawed executive functioning has left her burnt out and ready to start fresh. Working as an intern for her perfect older sister’s start up isn’t exactly how Tilly wants to spend her summer, but the required travel around Europe promises a much-needed change of scenery as she plans for her future. The problem is, Tilly has no idea what she wants. The second point of view is Oliver Clark, he knows exactly what he wants. His autism has often made it hard for him to form relationships with others, but his love of colour theory and design allows him to feel deeply connected to the world around him. Plus, he has everything he a best friend that gets him, placement into a prestigious design program, and a summer internship to build his resume. Everything is going as planned. That is, of course, until he suffers through the most disastrous internation flight of his life, all turmoil stemming from lively and exasperating Tilly. Oliver is forced to spend the summer with a girl that couldn’t be more his opposite – feeling things for her he can’t quite name – and starts to winder if maybe he doesn’t have everything figured out after all. As the duo’s neurodiverse connection grows, they learn that some of the best parts of life can’t be planned and are forced to figure out what that means as their disastrously wonderful summer comes to an end. 

I love dual POV in romance books and I liked the depiction of ADHD and autism and how they can come across differently in boys and girls. I loved Tilly’s growth in this book and how she went from being afraid to live her life and disappointing everyone, to being like screw this, I'm living my life for me and me alone and I'm happiest writing and I'll figure it out. I love Oliver, he is so sweet. I have to keep calling him Oliver, because Tilly calls him Ollie, but that’s my dogs name and I can’t take it seriously. I loved the relationship between Oliver and Cubby and how they have banter but were also deeply concerned regarding their relationships. I loved the little friendships groups that are seen throughout the book and how they become one big friendship group by the end and how they are all together and sticking up for each other. I love Oliver and Tilly’s relationship and how they took it slow but also fast and how they knew they both have communication issues, but they wanted to get past it and be together.  

I felt like more needed to come out with Tilly’s parents. Besides her mum being horrible and then crawling back in the last chapter, I wanted more support from her parents and them treating the sisters the same because they still treat Mo better than Tilly. I wanted more from the ending, I wanted to know if Tilly became a full-fledged writer, did she go to university for writing? Did Mo’s company take off and become successful? I just wanted more after the summer in Europe.  

I would love this to be a series and watch Cubby find some happiness because Connor seems like an idiot and that was brushed over and I wanted more. 

I read the first book in this series in October as it was the book club’s pick of the month. When I noticed it was a series, I was very interested in carrying on with the series.  

This book is based on nineteen-year-old Signa Farrow and her cousin Blythe Hawthorne, and a duke has been murdered and Blythe’s father has been framed. And Fate, the elusive brother of Death, has taken up residence in a sumptuous estate nearby. He's hellbent on revenge after Death took the life of the woman, he loved many decades ago . . . and now he’s determined to have Signa for himself, no matter the cost. Signa and Blythe are certain that Fate can save Elijah Hawthorne from prison if they will entertain his presence. But the more time they spend with Fate, the more frightening their reality becomes as Signa exhibits dramatic new powers that link her to Fate’s past. With mysteries and danger around every corner, the cousins must decide if they can trust one another as they navigate their futures in high society, unravel the murders that haunt their family, and play Fate’s unexpected games – all with their destinies hanging in the balance.  

I am hooked with this series. I loved Signa and Death’s relationship and how they grew together and trusted each other through the difficult times and that they weren’t letting anyone get in between them. I loved the character development of Blythe; she sorts of dipped a bit throughout the book as she was confused and hurt, but she was back on the good side by the end. Fate was supposed to be this big, bad scary dude and I just couldn’t hate him. He wanted his girl from back in the day and thought Signa was his girl. I love the regency and gothic feeling with all the balls and talks about how a woman must act in society and then Signa and Blythe are like nope screw that I'm out. I loved the mystery element and was waiting to see who killed the duke and if Elijah was going to be saved or hung. The way that this book ended with the plot twists had me audible gasping. Blythe was a badass and then Death and Signa slowly figuring out who Life is, had me on the edge of my sit.  

The reason why this isn’t getting five stars is because it is still missing something. Some elements. I can’t put my finger on what it was, but it did lose its pace during the middle of book and was waiting for it to go back on track.  

I cannot wait to see how Blythe and Signa work together in the next book and hopefully Fate and Death work together and they can all be one happy family.  

I loved the American Roommate Experiment and the Spanish Love Deception, but I struggled with the Long Game and was nervous to carry on with this series. Guess what? I struggled with it and wanted moreeeee.  

This book has two points of view. The first is Josie Moore and we met her in the first book, she has given the opposite sex – and love – plenty of chances. Four exactly, if you count all her failed engagements, and five if you include the absentee father who kept her existence a secret until very recently. So, when her father decided to announce his retirement with a splashy magazine piece about the family, Josie realizes her romantic history is a complicated PR issue. The second point of view is Matthew Flanagan, and he is in the mud, literally. Not only has he been fired from his job, but also the tires of his car are stuck in the muck after taking a wrong turn as he enters Green Oak, North Carolina. So, he grabs a duffel with his essentials and goes in search of a place to crash until he gets his life back. But instead, he finds his best friend’s sister, Josie, greeting him as her fiancé. What starts as a big messy misunderstanding quickly turns into an arrangement with Matthew playing a new role as doting fiancé. A fifth engagement and a stunt that makes Josie’s stomach turn, but every dilemma requires a choice between equally undesirable alternatives, and Matthew doesn’t seem to mind becoming one more number in a colourful list of grooms-that-never-were. Despite the ring on her finger, Josie knows this is only temporary, even if the rest of the small town believes that the fifth time’s the charm. 

This book felt like it was missing depth. I was so excited for Josie, but besides the issues that Josie mentioned which is that she was terrified to go down the aisle and a people pleaser, but that was it. I felt like her father making an appearance and then being a dick was just brushed over until the end, I felt like Josie and Matthew should have picked up that Adalyn was pregnant earlier considering how well they knew her (I saw that one coming) and I felt like Matthew’s issues were just swept under the rug until the love confession. We got the relationship building in the end, but besides Matthew having feelings and joking with Adalyn, the relationship was very rushed. There was no one bed chapter, there was a bit of don’t do X to my fiancé or you’ll have to deal with me but again it was towards the end, I wanted this throughout the whole book. I wanted this to be dual POV especially to see how much Matthew wanted her, besides a few comments, you didn’t really know. You didn’t know if he was joking, just wanted sex, or liked her. For a small-town romance as well, there wasn’t really a lot of the small town or the people in it. They were in it for the first 100 pages and that’s about it. I wanted the people to defend their mayor and wanted them to help get rid of Duncan or Andrew. 

Grandpa Moe saved this book and wanted him to be the stereotypical old man where he would speak his mind. I wanted him to smack the shit out of Josie’s dad and just spill the truth possibly about the pregnant and her ex-fiancé leaking the video. If there was a wedding, I would have loved for Grandpa Moe to walk her down the aisle. I just wanted him to be like the brutally honest grandpa and knows no bounds, he was good when he appeared, I just would have loved him to be sassier and funnier.  

I think I had my hopes up too high for this book and this series and my expectations with romances are high and this didn’t hit which upset me because I loved the previous series. 

I wanted to read this series because I had the chance to meet the author, Joseph Delaney, when I was in high school and I am determined to read the series, even at twenty-four-year-old. I struggled with this book with the change of the POV.  

This book is based on Grimalkin, we met her in the previous book. She is the most fear witch, the most ruthless and the most deadly of all the witches in the county. If she hunts for you, she will find you. If you have crossed her, you don’t stand a chance. She is the witch assassin. Grimalkin’s one alliance is with Tom Ward, the Spook’s apprentice. With Tom, she plans to rid the world of the most terrifying evil, the Fiend, who once did her great wrong. Grimalkin has never been defeated. But can she survive an enemy created for the sole purpose of destroying her? 

I would have loved for Thorne to stay alive and have been badass and hoped was part of the team, she seemed such a bad ass. She saved this book from being 2 stars. I loved the relationship between Thorne and Grimalkin, and I was rooting for her.  

My main issue with this book is that I missed the Spook and Tom, I didn’t mind Grimalkin having the main point of view, but I would have loved for her to be with the gang and for them to defeat the Fiend. It took me a while because I still seen her as a bad guy, and we were supposed to be rooting for her in this book. During the last book, I said, “hopefully this is the last time we see the Fiend” and guess what, he is still alive and kicking. I wanted Alice to stand up for herself and I can see the way that this book is going with Alice going into dark magic. Plus, the number of times that Grimalkin said “I am Grimalkin” was slightly cringy as a kid it might have been like powerful, but as I got older it was just laughable.  

This book felt like a filler book, where I was wanting something major to happen, besides Grimalkin losing Thorne and Grimalkin nearly dying. Nothing really happened.

I decided to read this book because I bought a poster with 100 books to read in your lifetime. This is book twenty-three on the poster. As with most classics and space/galaxy books, I struggle with this and still didn’t get the story.  

This book is based on Rick Deckard. World War Terminus had left the Earth devasted. Through its ruin, Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter who stalked in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn’t killing them with his laser weapon, he dreamed of owning a live animal – the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life. Then Rick got his chance: the assignment to kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a huge reward. But in Deckard’s world, things were never that simple, and his assignment quickly turned into a nightmare kaleidoscope of subterfuge and deceit and the threat of death for the hunter rather than the hunted.  

I knew this wasn’t going to go well. Just like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I got confused. All the space and androids just lost me. I’ve never watched Star Wars or anything like that and don’t really have a lot of interest in space or aliens or androids, so a book based on this was difficult to get into. The storyline kept changing and it just wasn’t my cup of tea. I didn’t really understand the point of view and couldn’t figure out with Deckard was the main character or the villain.  

The only thing was keeping me going through the book was the fact that he was going to get this living sheep and then they killed the sheep, the poor soul.  

I don’t think I'll be carrying on with this series and hopefully I'll enjoy the next book on the poster.