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I really enjoyed the writing but I am incredibly bored at this point. No idea where this story is heading and I don’t really care unfortunately. 

Thank you to the author for the eARC via BookFunnel. All thoughts and opinions are my own


At the Ivy League college St. Cloud, the hockey players are seen as dumb nuisances by the rest of the student body. It does not help that the men’s hockey team acts like pricks around campus. For the first year ever, St. Cloud has both a men’s and a women’s hockey team. Unfortunately this means the two have to share facilities and equipment.

On day one, Max Cassiano and Luz Rodriguez have a horrible run-in. This leads to open hostility between the two teams and it spreads like wildfire. Both Max and Luz are named captain of their respective teams and unfortunately have a class together. Luz vows to ignore him and focus on hockey and school. Max knows he has to focus on hockey if he ever wants to make it pro. Unfortunately, their professor has other ideas when he pairs the two “dumb” jocks together for their semester-long entrepreneurship project. But sparks begin to fly between the two and they begin to wonder if just maybe they can break their own rule…


Read if you like:
• hockey romance
• cinnamon roll men
• forced proximity
• rivals to lovers
• secret dating
• closed door romance (some spice but no actual on page sex)


CW: Luz suffers (pre book) an injury during hockey which impairs her ability to walk and gives her chronic pain. By the time of this book she is able to play hockey, but there is mention and description of this injury

While this wasn’t my favorite Rachel Lynn Solomon book I still enjoyed every single second of it! 

Chandler Cohen has ghostwritten books for a few minor celebrities and not seeing her own name on the books she writes is taking a toll on her. After one of the women she ghostwrote for doesn’t even recognize her name at a signing, Chandler goes off to the bar for a drink. There she runs into a super funny and ridiculously cute man. The two go out to dinner, go for a walk, and it eventually leads back to his hotel room. Unfortunately for Chandler, this is the worst sex of her life and the man seems to think the exact opposite. After he falls asleep she hightails it out of there. She doesn’t even do one night stands, and this clearly was a sign she should never have one again.

The next day her agent calls saying there’s an actor looking for a ghostwriter for his memoir and they want to meet Chandler that day. His name is Finn Walsh and he was on a big werewolf teen drama set in college. Chandler agrees to meet the actor and his agent, only to realize it’s the same guy as last night. After some pleading on his end and a promise to forget the prior night happened, Chandler agrees to travel with Finn to his comic con appearances so she can get to know him.

After they start talking, Chandler accidentally lets it slip to Finn that the night they shared was not as great as he thought. After a joke that she should give him lessons, Finn asks if she will do just that for him. Chandler knows it’s a bad idea, but the positives seem to outweigh the negatives…


Read if you like:
• Teen Wolf (Finn gives off Stiles vibes)
• Nerdy men
• Sex positivity
• One bed trope
• Mental health representation (OCD & anxiety)

 I received an eARC from the publisher via NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Wow I honestly did not expect that ending! Early on I was convinced it was someone else and kept that theory through most of the book.

Lucy was found one morning five years ago covered in blood on the side of the road just hours after her best friend’s body was found in the woods. Lucy had no recollection of the past day and the blood on her dress happened to be her best friend Savvy’s. Although Lucy was never charged, she was widely believed to be the one who murdered her best friend. Lucy leaves her husband and her small town behind for Los Angeles and doesn’t return… that is until her grandmother invites her back for her birthday.

A true crime podcast titled Listen for the Lie is investigating Savvy’s murder and the host, Ben, just so happens to be in town. Ben has been trying for months to reach Lucy for her side of the story, even if it’s just about her friendship with Savvy. Lucy finally decides it’s time to figure out what happened to Savvy… even if she ends up finding out it was her all along.

I could not put this one down! I’d be intrigued to hear what the audiobook is like… I may need to reread on audio at some point!


Read this if you’re a fan of:
• true crime podcasts
• small towns
• funny grandma’s
• unreliable narrators
• None of This is True by Lisa Jewell

I received an eARC from the publisher via NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own


So I really really wanted to love this one but I’m so incredibly bored right now. I think this has the potential to be amazing but I just was not hooked right away unfortunately:( 

I get this was supposed to be a dark romance but this book gave me whiplash. It felt like it had no idea what genre it was and kept flipping back and forth between two, rather than being one cohesive story. I was so tempted to dnf and I should have…

I received an eARC from the publisher. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

As always Abby Jimenez knows how to write romance! I love her books and the fact that they’re set in Minnesota! This book is full of Minnesota sites and inside jokes (annoying billboards of a specific man that haunt you everywhere you go? Oh I see you…). 

After Justin posts an “Am I the Asshole” (AITA) Reddit post and it goes viral, Emma and him immediately hit it off. The two share a similar curse— their exes next relationship is their soulmate. The two begin to talk and Justin proposes the idea that they date to break the curse— theoretically whoever they date next would be their soulmate. It’s mutually beneficial. The only problem? Justin is in Minnesota. 

Emma is a traveling nurse with her best friend and near-sister, Maddy. The two sign a three month contract somewhere and immediately move on to the next place. Emma talks Maddy into going to Minnesota for the summer instead of Hawaii as they planned.

If you’re an Abby fan get ready for all the Easter eggs back to her other books! 

As the two get to know each other they realize they have never felt this way for anyone else before. Unfortunately, Justin is about to take over custody of his kid siblings and Emma struggles with putting down roots. 

I struggled with Emma’s character for the first 25% of the book, but as I got further and things were explained she began to grow on me! I loved the friendship she had with Maddy that was centered throughout  the book. I wish we got more of Justin and his friends though!


Read if you like:
• Minnesota
• AITA Reddit Posts
• Found Family
• Caretaking while sick trope
• Men who will do anything for those they love
• Mental Health rep

I’m already incredibly bored and don’t care at all about the FMC. This probably would’ve hit a lot better when I was in high school but right now it’s not for me.

WHY DID I WAIT SO LONG TO READ THIS? EMILY HENRY YOU HAVE RUINED ME!!

Harriet and Wyn’s love story have me sobbing. Where is my Wyn 😭😭

Harriet Kilpatrick and Wyn Connor met through mutual friends while in college and immediately felt a connection. They’ve been together ever since— even while Harriet worked her way through med school. After med school Wyn followed her out to California for her residency. When Wyn has to move back home to support his mother, they try long distance. The two are engaged and their wedding unfortunately keeps getting pushed back. About six months back, the two broke up and decided to keep this a secret from those they love.

Every year the six friends (Wyn, Harriet, Sabrina, Parth, Cleo, and Kimmy) take a trip to Sabrina’s family cottage in Maine. The annual trip is coming up and Wyn and Harriet agree Win will forgo going this year— it’s still too painful to be near each other. Harriet is ready to spend the week in her Happy Place… and break the news to her friends. Except when Harriet arrives, Wyn is there and acting as if they never broke up? Sabrina and Parth announce they are engaged and plan to get married with their best friends present at the end of that week. Harriet being the people pleaser she is goes along with it— only she’s not sure her heart can take it.

This novel flips back and forth between present day and the past. I really love how Emily Henry did this, it made it easy for the reader to keep everything straight timeline wise. 

Miscommunication is a huge plot point here so beware. I wanted to throw my book at points. Harriet grew up being the peacekeeper in her family, so she avoids all confrontation. Wyn grew up with two insanely smart sisters, knowing he was destined to stay in his small town in Montana— he hid his insecurity behind humor, not allowing others to dig too deep beneath the surface.

Read if you like:
• Forced proximity
• Fake dating
• Maine
• Close friendships

This was so cute!!

Princess Ilaria is sick of the paparazzi and asks her assistant to swap places with her for a weekend. During her time alone in Rome, she befriends a man with a sexy Scottish accent. Sparks fly and Ilaria feels she can truly be herself for the first time in her life. The only issue is he thinks she’s an American, rather than a princess. The truth eventually has to come out, but it could ruin everything…


Read if you like…
• Royal romances
• Rome
• Scottish accents (audiobook!)