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Dare Me by Summer O’Toole Book Review

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Blurb

A dark, murder mystery and friends-with benefits-romance, perfect for fans of Glass Onion and Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti’s Harlequin Crew series.

Ten years ago, Stella Wright never thought a hostess job at an Irish pub would lead to working for the Foxes, the most infamous and dangerous mobsters on the East Coast, let alone to calling them family.

After tragically losing his parents when he was just a boy, Lochlan Fox was raised by his hotheaded brothers. He never had to grow up, but he never had a childhood either, perpetually the wild, youngest brother

Taking on more responsibility in the family business, Stella and Lochlan are sent to close the deal to acquire Summerland, a private island resort known for its dark and secretive sex club.

They’ve been pretending their drunken one night stand five months ago never happened, but as the island and its vices lure them in, denying the attraction becomes impossible.

Their tropical work trip takes a dark turn when Stella wakes up the morning after a masquerade party missing her memory from the night before and covered in someone else’s blood.

With their hearts on the line, they have to sort through secrets, betrayals, blackmail, and murder if they want to make it out of this deadly paradise alive.

Sensitive Content

  • Organ harvesting of a live victim
  • Murder, severed body parts
  • Dead body
  • Violence and blood
  • Being unknowingly drugged
  • Mentions of abuse and rape (in the past, not main characters)
  • Rape filmed without knowledge (on-page, not main characters)
  • Hospital setting
  • Vomiting
  • Impact play/spanking
  • Toy play
  • Oral sex
  • Voyeurism and exhibitionism
  • Death of a parent (not on page, in the past, briefly mentioned)

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Watch Your Mouth by Kandi Steiner Book Review

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Blurb

My brother’s teammates know not to touch me—but that doesn’t stop me from daring Jaxson Brittain to be the first to break the rule.

After one steamy night in Austin, I’m all too aware of the hot, broody defenseman with icy blue eyes and ink sprawling his muscular arms. He was the one my brother assigned to keep me safe—and I had far too much fun tempting him to be the one to put me in danger.

It was just one night of tip-toeing the line, of teasing and flirting and messing around knowing nothing would ever come of it. But when the universe throws me back into his lap two weeks later and we end up on a secret road trip together, all bets are off. I can’t help but touch him. I can’t help but pray for him to touch me. And I can’t resist the temptation to test him at every turn.

Jaxson is smart and doesn’t have a death wish. So, like a gentleman, he keeps his hands to himself…the jerk. But the closer we get on the road and the farther we get from reality, the less those warning signs from my brother seem to deter him. When we started this road trip, we set a boundary. We promised to keep all arms and legs safely in the friend zone. Now, miles and miles away from all the reasons we shouldn’t, all I can hear is my heart thumping out the resounding reason we should. And the way those heated blue eyes watch me, I know I’m not the only one.

Watch Your Mouth is book two in the Kings of the Ice series: a series of interconnected stand-alones following a team of professional hockey players and the women who bring them to their knees. They do not need to be listened to in order, but you will gain glimpses of future characters/couples in each book.

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Among the Heather by Samantha Young Book Review

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Among the heather by samantha young

Blurb

He’s a disgraced actor. She’s the daughter of Hollywood royalty. Both are hiding in the Scottish Highlands, but despite their antagonistic attraction, they can’t seem to hide from each other….

North Hunter has worked hard to step out of the shadows of his orphaned upbringing into the limelight of Hollywood. He never imagined a dark moment from his childhood returning to destroy everything he’d built. Devastated, he finds comfort in the isolation of an exclusive members-only club in the Scottish Highlands, even if the club comes with a prickly estate manager who sets his blood on fire. 

As the eldest daughter of a Hollywood legend, Aria Howard has learned the hard way that people will use her to get to her father. When her last relationship ended badly, Aria fled to Scotland. Running Ardnoch Estate provides distance from a life that has never fit comfortably. But when defamed Scottish actor North Hunter disrupts her sanctuary, Aria is on the defense. The cocky actor is the last thing she needs, and despite their searing attraction, Aria is determined to dislike him.

But one night of drunken forced proximity with North leads Aria to share insecurities seeded by her horrible ex. When North offers to prove her ex wrong by taking Aria to his bed for a no-strings distraction, they begin an affair neither expected. However, their fiery liaison leads to a deep emotional connection that unsettles them both, and North will have to break down more than Aria’s trust issues if they’re ever to have a future together. He’ll need to protect her from a past that just doesn’t want to stay buried…or lose something far more essential to his existence than his career.

Sensitive Content

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  • Alcohol
  • Blood
  • Body shaming
  • Cheating (not Main Characters)
  • Death
  • Eating Disorder
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping
  • Profanity
  • Sexually Explicit Scenes
  • Violence

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Hopeless by Elsie Silver Book Review

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Hopeless by Elsie Silver

Blurb

Beau Eaton is the town prince, a handsome military hero with a tortured past.

I’m the outcast bartender, a shy girl from the wrong side of the tracks.

He’s thirty-five and all man, and I’m twenty-two and all . . . virgin.

He’s also my fiancé. Correction: my fake fiancé.

We start out as a bet. He doesn’t believe that anyone holds my last name against me. So he offers me his to prove a point.

It’s win-win. He gets a break from his concerned family’s prying, and I get a chance to shed my family’s reputation while I save up to ditch this small town.

He says all I have to do is wear his ring, follow his lead, and pretend I can’t keep my hands off of him in public.

But it’s what happens between us in private that blurs all those carefully drawn lines.

It’s what transpires behind closed doors that doesn’t feel like pretending at all.

This engagement was supposed to be for show. This agreement? It has an end date.

He once told me he’d never fall in love.

And yet here I am, head over heels for my fake fiancé.

Sensitive Content

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  • Alcohol/Alcoholism
  • Bullying
  • Burns/Skin Grafting
  • Depression
  • Profanity
  • PTSD
  • Sexually Explicit Scenes
  • Violence

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No Pucking Way by C.R. Jane & May Dawson Book Review

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Blurb

I woke up in the hospital five years ago with no idea of who I am…

Every day, I walk aimlessly around the city, searching for anything that helps me remember my past.

I don’t find it until I apply for a job at the local hockey arena, home of the NHL team, the Devils.

Three sexy hockey players inside look…familiar.

They all insist they don’t know me.

But they watch me. Every day. 

Their silence continues until a handsome, tattooed stranger dressed in a suit saunters into the arena and starts sweet talking me.

Then they jump off the ice, ready to fight him to the death. 

And for some reason…he seems ready to return the favor.

Now, I’m being swept into a life of glamorous darkness…and into a war between men I evidently used to love.

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Brutal Birthright by Elliott Rose Book Review

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Brutal Birthright by Elliott Rose

Blurb

He’s a warlord… and she’s the one he cannot claim.

Black-hearted warrior.
Ruthless in battle.
… Professor?
Rowan of Nocturne has no desire to join the academic staff at Astracadia Academy. But when tragedy strikes, his only option is to step into the training arena and commit to a role that makes his skin crawl. For an entire, torturous year.
Three centuries of having blood on his hands has taken a brutal toll. All he wants is to be left the fuck alone.
He sure as shit doesn’t need the distraction of the pretty fae he can’t get out of his mind. Especially one he is forbidden from touching.

***

Talented fighter.
Sister to the Queen.
…Student?
Oriana has one goal in mind. Succeed in reaching the elite Astral ranks, where only the strongest few from amongst the student candidates will be chosen. One year of sucking it up and being enrolled at Astracadia will finally allow her to prove herself.
The only problem is, the witch in command–the heavily tattooed brute overseeing the training arena–is out to humiliate her at every turn. He thinks she’s nothing more than a mouthy, irresponsible little girl. But she’s already survived one battle with Rowan of Nocturne, and she won’t allow him to ruin this opportunity for her.
No matter how often he consumes and invades her dreams.
However, outside the academy walls there are bigger problems than an illicit connection between teacher and student. Something dark is coming for them all. A portal to an unknown realm has been opened. The scent of battle lingers in the air.

Nothing can sway either of them from their mission… until one stolen moment, one kiss, changes everything.

Perfect for fans of Immortals After Dark by Kresley Cole, Lords of the Underworld by Gena Showalter, or the Sinner Sisterhood by Lana Pecherczyk. This is a M/F paranormal-dark fantasy romance with HEA guaranteed. (For readers 18+)

Sensitive Content

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  • Alcohol
  • BDSM
  • Blood
  • Degradation
  • Death
  • Decapitation
  • Gore
  • Injury
  • Murder
  • Profanity
  • Sexually Explicit Scenes
  • Violence

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Mountains Made of Glass by Scarlett St. Clair Book Review

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Mountains Made of Glass by Scarlett St. Clair

Blurb

“Could you love me?” he whispered. The question stole my breath and burned my lungs in the silence that followed.
I wanted to answer, to whisper yes into the space between us, but I was afraid.

All Gesela’s life, her home village of Elk has been cursed. And it isn’t a single curse—it is one after another, each to be broken by a villager, each with devastating consequences. When Elk’s well goes dry, it is Gesela’s turn to save her town by killing the toad that lives at the bottom. Except…the toad is not a toad at all. He is an Elven prince under a curse of his own, and upon his death, his brothers come for Gesela, seeking retribution.

As punishment, the princes banish Gesela to live with their seventh brother, the one they call the beast. Gesela expects to be the prisoner of a hideous monster, but the beast turns out to be exquisitely beautiful, and rather than lock her in a cell, he offers Gesela a deal. If she can guess his true name in seven days, she can go free.

Gesela agrees, but there is a hidden catch—she must speak his name with love in order to free him, too.

But can either of them learn to love in time?

Sensitive Content

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  • Blood
  • Death
  • Death of a Loved One
  • Gore
  • Profanity
  • Sexually Explicit Scenes
  • Violence

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Skeletons of Society by Marie Maravilla Book Review

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Skeletons of Society by Marie Maravilla

Blurb

So the streets taint another soul…

Ryan

To survive in the Los Muertos Cartel, you have to stay useful, especially when you’re a woman. So I made sure I couldn’t be replaced. Now my name is whispered about in the shadows— La Brujita de Los Muertos. Too bad I forgot that lies and deceit are the lifeblood of this toxic paradise.
I should have seen the betrayal coming.

My hands were always destined to be drenched in the blood of guilty men. 

Gunner

Sometimes it takes someone willing to walk in the dark to allow others to live in the light. She is a beautiful savage. All the things I am not supposed to have and maybe never will.

Meeting her changed all of my plans, altered the very fabric of my future.

Sensitive Content

Here is the potentially sensitive content I observed while reading this book:

  • Abusive relationship
  • Alcohol
  • Blood
  • Car Accident
  • Confinement
  • Death
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping
  • Misogyny
  • Murder
  • Profanity
  • Sexually Explicit Scenes
  • Torture
  • Violence

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Virgin Sacrifice by L. M. Ramirez Book Review

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Virgin Sacrifice by LM Ramirez

Blurb

For most, death is final.
For me, it was just the beginning…

My mother gave up everything to save me.
When she died last year, I thought my life was over, but Mami raised me to be a survivor. A fighter. And that’s just what I intend to do.

Tucked away in rural Connecticut, the elite Hollow Oak University is the perfect place for a new beginning. The plan is simple. Keep my head down, focus on my studies, get my degree, and disappear.

But the gothic campus is not the safe haven I had hoped for. Girls are vanishing without a trace. And, despite my efforts to remain unnoticed, trouble continues to stalk me.

Trouble like the Blackwells and their pet serial killer.

Alister, Nixon, Locke, and Everest are beautiful, brutal, and completely fixated on turning my fresh start into a nightmare. They already have blood on their hands—and now they’re out for mine.

Sensitive Content

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  • Alcohol
  • Blood
  • Bullying
  • Child Abuse
  • Classism
  • Death of a Parent
  • Dubious Consent
  • Emotional Abuse
  • Gore
  • Injury
  • Murder
  • Profanity
  • Racism
  • Sexual content
  • Sexual violence
  • Stalking
  • Torture

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She Was Mine First by M. Robinson Book Review

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She Was Mine First by M Robinson

Blurb

A friends to lovers, second chance romance from Wall Street Journal & USA Bestselling Author M. Robinson

Being the man of honor in my best friend Livvy’s wedding wouldn’t be such a big deal…

If I wasn’t in love with her.

But I won’t turn her down. No matter how much it’ll tear my heart out to watch her walk down the aisle toward another man.

It should have been us—from friends to lovers and back again. But after college, I was so busy building my empire that I let her slip through my fingers. She was my first. And once she realizes he’s the wrong one for her…

I’ll be her last.

Sensitive Content

Here is the potentially sensitive content I observed while reading this book:

  • Alcohol
  • Misogyny
  • Other Woman
  • Pregnancy
  • Sexually Explicit Scenes

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