B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsdisability / fake relationship / found family / frenemies to lovers / friends-to-lovers / Hard Play series / NetGalley / New Zealand / POC / POC author / rugby3 Comments
Dear Nalini Singh, It’s been a while since the last Hard Play release (Love Hard – I did in fact love it hard) and there have been a lot of books in between, so I’d kind of forgotten who Catie and Danny were and the various relationships in the Bishop-Esera ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / enemies to lovers / Hard Play series / New Zealand / POC author / rugby / single dad9 Comments
Dear Nalini Singh, Sometimes a book arrives at just the perfect time and that special alchemy that happens between story and reader happens; a combination of great book and the exact right reading mood. That’s what happened here. I admit enemies to lovers isn’t generally my favourite trope. But Jacob ... more >
Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsAustralia / body image / Contemporary / rugby / sports romance5 Comments
Harper Nugent might have a little extra junk in her trunk, but her stepbrother calling her out on it is the last straw… When rugby hottie, Dexter Blake, witnesses the insult, he surprises Harper by asking her out. In front of her dumbass brother. Score! Of course, she knows it’s ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsArt / book blogger / Contemporary / New Adult / Romance / rugby12 Comments
Dear Mina V. Esguerra, My friend Kat Mayo from Book Thingo recommended this book to me last week so I bought it. Lucky for me, I also read it basically straight away. I’d never heard of your books before (even though you have a decent backlist – yay for me) ... more >
A- Reviews / Recommended ReadsCarina Press / Contemporary / England / Reunited Couple / rugby / sports romance9 Comments
When retiring rugby star Ash Trenton considered his next career move, coaching troubled teens at his ex-girlfriend’s California camp wasn’t on the list. But when Camila Morales reappears after eighteen years, begging for his help, he can’t say no to his first and only love. Camila was just sixteen when ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / England / Holiday / novella / rugby / sports romance8 Comments
’Twas a week before Christmas, and at the auction house… At six foot one, Gwen Chambers has felt like a giant her whole life. She’s a calm, capable nurse saving lives in a busy London hospital, but healthy men give her heart palpitations. When larger-than-life rugby player “Little” John Sheldon ... more >