THE SWEETEST AGONY by Victoria Lum (Jess and James)

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He’s not the boy she grew up with anymore.

Jess

I thought I knew my best friend.

Transcontinental video chats didn’t do him justice.

He’s not an awkward teenager anymore, and one look from him sets my body on edge.

I’m the type of woman who has her life together. Sure, a panic attack here or there might derail my day, but I’ve got this.

I have my life under control.

I’m not the type of woman to lust after the most important person in my life.

But he knows me better than I know myself—even the anxious parts I try my best to hide.

Now that we’re in the same place, everything in our relationship is changing.

James

I’m back for her.

She’s my best friend.

Being in love with Jess has been the sweetest agony, and I’ve waited long enough.

I’ve watched her fall for men who don’t appreciate her.

I’ve waited for her to see me.

Now it finally seems like she might, and I won’t hold back until she’s mine.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Meet Victoria Lum

Victoria is a lover of all things romance, including movies, books, television shows. A hopeless romantic since childhood, she is always dreaming up stories and happily ever afters. 

Caramel lattes are her fuel in the morning and she can usually be found reading anything she can get her hands on. She lives with her family and a beautiful Siberian husky in sunny California.

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This is a romance between two best friends and its a standalone. Its also my first time reading this author and I enjoyed this story a lot. I felt at times it dragged a bit longer than I wanted but I understood where the author was going with this story and it wasn't a quick fix, so I loved that she let the characters grow and change and work things out before they got their happily ever after.

This is a story about two best friends who grew up as best friends and met when Jess defended James from bullies. They have grown up together, but not always in person. It takes a very special friend when you stay close even separated by distance. 

Jess has some major issues, and she really never got the help she needed. I loved that the author tackled her issues and really made me see how Anxiety, extreme anxiety could affect so many aspects of a person's life. Not just her romantic life but also her professional life and every part of her life from eating to sleep. 

Jess and James were besties and he loved her no matter what, but she never really saw him, when she starts to, instead of running to it, she runs away because she is so afraid of losing him, she can't risk it. And the basis of her fear is her anxiety, her fears and while they are not real, in her mind she believes they are. She has to learn to control them rather than they control her. This made for a really interesting story and a unique best friend type of romance. 

Playing by the Rules Monica Murphy (Blair and Cam)

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Camden Fields is the star quarterback of our college football team.

Quiet.

Smart.

Absolutely gorgeous.

He's the man all the women on campus rave about. And while he's had a few casual hookups over the years, it's never anything serious. Cam doesn't do serious.

He also doesn't do me.

See, I'm his best friend's little sister, and whenever we're around each other, he's always warning me that I'm off limits. That nothing can ever happen between us.

But I see the way he looks at me when he thinks I'm not watching. The heat in his gaze. The hunger. He can deny it, but that man wants me.

I want him too.

I'm tired of always being the good girl and doing what everybody expects. For once, I'm going to break all the rules that have restrained me my entire life.

I'm going after Camden Fields.

And no one can stop me.

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Meet Monica

Monica Murphy is a New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling romance author. Her books have been translated in almost a dozen languages and have sold over two million copies worldwide. Both a traditionally published and independently published author, she writes young adult, new adult and contemporary romance. She's also known as USA Today bestselling author Karen Erickson.

A native Californian, she lives on fourteen acres in the middle of nowhere with her husband, two kids, one dog, and four cats. When she's not writing, she's an assistant coach for her daughter's high school cheer team, which is a two season sport. Meaning, she's at practice with a bunch of teenage girls all the time. Or she's at a football game. Or a basketball game. Maybe someday, she'll even write about this experience.

 

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I received a complimentary early release e-book prior to release and am voluntarily leaving a review.

This is book two in the series and easily stands alone, maybe too much so that at times I felt like I had read the scenes. The first book in this series features Knox and Joanna. This book is about Knox's sister, Blair and his roommate, best friend and teammate, Camden.

This story runs concurrently with the first book, up to chapter 33. This book has over 40 chapters, so it goes past the first book. For me the beginning was a bit slow because it was like I got to see the scenes I had read about in the first book but this time Blair and Cam's POV. Some were new scenes too that did not feature Knox or Joanne. But many scenes kind of had the feel of where it felt like I had read it before.

I loved Cam in the first book, and I loved Blair as well. They were adorable and funny and cute while you could tell they were into each other but hiding it from Knox. In this book I felt so bad for Blair, Cam did not treat her well. His fear of himself and Knox made him made him be very jerky to Blair. And while Blair knew he was being a jerk, to her he was this guy she could not resist, and she kept coming back for more. I would have given up on Cam, but she truly has the biggest crush on him, and she didn't know how to give up on the great guy that she knew he was under all the excuses and jerky behavior.

In truth Cam is a great and we know that, and Knox and Blair know it and his whole team knows that, but he has no clue. He is very down on himself because of his background. My heart broke a bit for him. He really was not ready for Blair and needed to see what the rest of the world saw about how awesome he was. This book was primarily about him and maturing, growing up, and he is at this crossroads where he has to decide to make changes or just keep on being the way he was.

The author did a phenomenal job writing this book. I felt it was very realistic on how college students feel about themselves. Even as Knox has these great skills in football, and the world thinks he is all that, we see him and how he doesn't believe the hype and he has to realize and accept himself as he is, and he is not his past. He can rise above it all. It was a really great message and I loved it.

FALLING FOR THE FAKE BOYFRIEND by S.E. Rose & Sierra Hill (Emmett and Lucy)

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One football player.

Two simple rules.

Three fake dates.

Zero chance of falling for the other.

Emmett Hudson is just trying to play college football at Clearview Falls University while keeping all the balls from spinning his life apart. He thought he had everything under control until the coach threatened to bench him if he didn’t get his grades up with the help of a tutor.

Lucy Parker isn’t into football players, except the one she’s crushed on since high school. But he’s the star quarterback and doesn’t even know she exists.

The answer to this problem comes when a deal is struck with her new tutoring assignment, aka: Emmett. He promises a way to get his teammate’s attention if Lucy commits to being his fake girlfriend for three dates.

Three. Seems easy enough. Right?

But even with safeguards in place, their fake relationship soon begins to feel more real than either Lucy or Emmett expects.

And with their hearts on the line, it could turn this winning strategy into a losing proposition.

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Meet SE Rose 

USA Today & International Bestselling romance author, S.E. Rose lives near Washington D.C. with her family. 

 

When she's not wrangling her cats or keeping up with her kids, she's plotting her next story.

 

She loves all things wine, coffee, and cats. 

In her non-existent free time, she enjoys traveling, going to concerts, binging on her favorite shows, and reading, especially if it's a good mystery or comedy.

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Meet Sierra Hill

SIERRA HILL wrote and published her first contemporary new adult romance in 2014 and has since published over thirty novels. She is a 2020 RONE Award-Winning author of Game Changer, as well as award-winning college sports series, Courting Love, and the twice award-finalist erotic ménage serial, Reckless – The Smoky Mountain Trio.

 

Sierra lives in the Seattle area with her husband of twenty-five years and their rescued German Shepherd. When not writing, she enjoys baking, reading, and traveling to see her favorite alternative rock band, Pearl Jam.

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This is a sports romance in college. It is very light on football. Its more about life at college and the male lead is on the football team and has football friends.

In this story we meet Emmett and Lucy, they are as opposite as can be. Emmett is a very busy football player, whose father is the worst, but he has an awesome grandma that he helps out a lot. In addition to football, he is struggling in school and ends up needing a tutor and that is how Lucy enters his life.

Lucy has a crush on this football player and Emmett is single and is teased about his lack of hookups. So when Emmett proposes they fake date for three different events to try and make Lucy's crush notice her and get the guys to stop teasing him, it's a GO!!

This was a cute, hot, sexy and fun romcon. Both Lucy and Emmett are really great people. It was awesome watching them really see each other, be there for each other and have fun together. 

This is book 1 in a series and is loosely connected to Fanning The Flames which is about Lucy's brother Landon. In future books Lucy's friends will find love and I can't wait to read more.

NOW ON SALE!! CRUEL KING by K.A. LInde (Gavin and Whit)

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A new stand alone fake relationship romance set in the glitz and glamour of the Cruel world from USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde...

 

The most eligible bachelor in New York City just asked me to be his fake fiancé.

Gavin King is six and a half feet of delectable billionaire with a devil’s smile that says he knows exactly what he’s going to do to me later. Because he has.

 

Three years ago, I caught him in the shower and promptly fell into his bed. But neither of us were relationship material. Not to mention I’d just broken up with his best friend.

 

Now, I’m back in the city and he has a plan:

Go to his cousin’s wedding.

Convince his family that he’s not an eternal bachelor.

Post a huge elaborate break up later.

 

With those big puppy dog eyes begging me to agree, claiming I’m the only one who can pull it off, I say yes. What could go wrong? Other than pulling it off so successfully that the line between real and fake blurs.

 

When my family flips the whole script, I can’t see a way out. And I’m starting to wonder if I even want one.

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Meet K.A. Linde

K.A. Linde is the USA Today bestselling author of the Avoiding Series, Wrights, and more than thirty other novels. 

She has a Masters degree in political science from the University of Georgia, was the head campaign worker for the 2012 presidential campaign at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and served as the head coach of the Duke University dance team. 

She loves reading fantasy novels, binge-watching Supernatural, traveling, and dancing in her spare time.

She currently lives in Lubbock, Texas, with her husband and two super-adorable puppies.

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This is a stand-alone book with the NY Society world. I have only read an occasional book in this series, and I never felt lost reading this book. This is the story about Gavin King and Whit and it's a second chance, fake fiancée and friends to lover's romance. 

PART 1

I love the authors way of telling stories and this story is told in five parts. The first part is Whit and Gavin's shall we say reunion. Its her home homecoming. She has been in LA for three years and she gets a new job in NY and comes back to all her close friends and yes Gavin. To say it's complicated is an understatement with these two.

PART 2

This was a really fun part of the story. In this section Gavin and Whit play pretend as they enjoy a very interesting wedding of Gavin's family in Texas. I love his family SO much. From the rehearsal dinner to the wedding, I loved watching these two pretend to be engaged. 

PART 3

Gavin and Whit go back to NYC, but things get very complicated, and the engagement gets very real. We also get to meet Whit's family in this section, and it was very eye opening shall we say. I loved watching the gang help Whit out and getting to see characters from previous books as they celebrate with Gavin and Whit.

PART 4

This was a fun section. Whit and Gavin get closer as they enjoy their relationship and a period of engagement. We see a bit more of the Locke family and it's complicated for Whit when she sees something she shouldn't. This is the part of the book that we really see how much closer Whit and Gavin are and how they trust each other.

PART 5

Whit and Gavin get married, or do they? These two really kept me guessing through this section. In addition, we see a lot more of Whit's family in this section when all Whit and Gavins secrets are exposed.

This was a really fun and awesome story. There is some drama but what I loved about this book was that the drama never got in the way of Whit and Gavin and their feelings about each other.

 I think this was one of my favorite books in the series, I loved how the author brought all Whit and Gavin's friends into this story as they spent time with Whit and Gavin. But the best thing about this book was how these two really trusted each other about absolutely everything and it really showed in the story the author told.