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 Thank you to Social Butterfly PR and Penny Reid for sending me an e-arc of this book to read and review! I had the opportunity to review an arc of  Totally Folked , book one in this series, last year and was so excited to receive the continuation! I am a big Penny Reid fan :) So excited to be back in Green Valley! I love this small town and have been anxiously awaiting this release. Penny Reid sets you up with wonderful characters - in this case Charlotte and Hank - who have the best intentions but tend to find themselves in messy or unexpected situations.  Charlotte is a single mom who is viewed through a heavy lens of pity by most of the town because her husband ran off with a stripper, leaving her with four children. Hank owns the strip club and is rejected by the polite society that has enveloped Charlotte in their hold. He assumes she feels the same as the rest of the town, but when she shows up to ask him for a job he’s not sure how to take it. Charlotte and Hank...

 Thank you to Social Butterfly PR and Emma Hart for sending me an e-ARC of this book to read and review! In the wake of the Bridgerton frenzy, don't we all just want to find a duke to fall in love with?  Ellie is lucky enough to actually live this dream... or at least, the main character in her latest romance novel is. When Ellie can't seem to write her next book she heads out to the English countryside to live in a lodge owned by a duke and his grandmother.  If her male love interest (in the book!) immediately takes on several qualities of said duke, well surely it's just a coincidence.  Until it's not.  And suddenly Ellie has a lot more inspiration. I will say, reading this book is a little bit meta. The main character is an author who is writing a book largely based on her life in the moments as we read them, so she often talks about writing something into her book that we just read written in a book.  While I do enjoy moments like that on occasion, it d...

 Thank you to Social Butterfly PR and Sarah Ready for including me in the blog tour for the newest Soulmates in Romeo romance! I am a big fan of this series and was so excited for another installment! While I do love Christmastime, and though the temperature in my part of the world is quickly dropping to 'hibernation with hot chocolate, warm blankets, and a good book' levels of cold, it's a little early to feel too festive. Nonetheless, I could relate to Natalie in her quest to bring extreme levels of Christmas cheer - I love the joy of the holiday season. At the same time, Gabe Scrooge-ness seems perfectly reasonable to me; I'm a person who doesn't like the cold and with the aforementioned dropping temps, I'm getting grumpy. It's a balancing act... and that's really the lesson of this romance. Sarah Ready's soulmate stories give me all the warm fuzzies. Though some of the set-ups are not quite so relatable, Ready makes it easy to believe a soulmate ...

 Thank you to Social Butterfly PR and Amy Alves for sending me an e-ARC of this book to read and review! I am a huge fan of fake-dating romances, and this one was such a cute read! How unlucky in love do you have to be to get not just one but TWO small towns fully invested in finding you The One? Sawyer is all too-aware of what it takes, thanks to his curse of one bad date after another. Unfortunately he has no way to escape the newest plan the towns of Vaughn and Landry have come up with. Thankfully his best friend’s younger sister, Olivia, is willing to step in as his knight-in-shining armor … or in this case, the ringer in a Bachelorette-style reality show Sawyer will be starring in. But Sawyer and Olivia never could have guessed at the very real chemistry between them. So the question is, does the curse apply to fake dates too? This was such a cute take on the fake-dating trope! I am a sucker for good banter between main characters and Sawyer and Olivia fit the bill. Their ch...

 Thank you to Social Butterfly PR and Erin Nicholas for sending me a copy of this book to read and review!  I am a huge Erin Nicholas fan and was so so excited for the start of this new series, Badges of the Bayou. Another great Erin Nicholas bayou romance!  I love Spencer and Max. They have wonderful chemistry, very open communication, and steal your breath away scenes of both the sweet and spicy varieties 😉 .   Scenes with the Landry family and their typical big-heartedness, an overprotective hero, and the set-up of this new series make this book great, and I can’t wait for more Badges of the Bayou! While it’s not necessary in order to read this book, there is a novella included in a story collection that essentially gives readers the first look at Spencer and Max and their relationship. Not having read it yet, I did feel like I was missing a lot of their wind-up/backstory, but at the same time all of the information is generally covered so we as readers do get a ...