jen 's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 15 May 2025 22:45:52 -0700 60 jen 's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Dark Places 6903105 Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice" of Kinnakee, Kansas. She survived—and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club—a secret society obsessed with notorious crimes—locates Libby and pumps her for details. They hope to discover proof that may free Ben.

Libby hopes to turn a profit off her tragic history: She’ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club—for a fee. As Libby’s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started—on the run from a killer.]]> 349 Gillian Flynn 0307341577 jen 3
My least favorite of her books. ]]> 3.94 2009 Dark Places
author: Gillian Flynn
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Ben deserved the prison sentence.

My least favorite of her books.
]]> <![CDATA[How to Kill Men and Get Away With It (Kitty Collins, #1)]]> 61833058 Meet Kitty Collins.

FRIEND. LOVER. KILLER.

He was following me. That guy from the nightclub who wouldn’t leave me alone.

I hadn’t intended to kill him of course. But I wasn’t displeased when I did and, despite the mess I made, I appeared to get away with it.

That’s where my addiction started�

I’ve got a taste for revenge and quite frankly, I’m killing it.

A deliciously dark, hilariously twisted story about friendship, love, and murder. Fans of My Sister the Serial Killer, How to Kill Your Family and Killing Eve will love this wickedly clever novel!]]> 384 Katy Brent 0008600481 jen 4 I love women!!!!! 3.65 2023 How to Kill Men and Get Away With It (Kitty Collins, #1)
author: Katy Brent
name: jen
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2023
rating: 4
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I love women!!!!!
]]> <![CDATA[The Long Game (Game Changers #6)]]> 220966428 an alternate cover edition can be found here

The sequel is finally here! Shane and Ilya’s story, first seen in Heated Rivalry, continues in this long-awaited hockey romance from Rachel Reid.

To the world they are rivals, but to each other they are everything.

Ten years.

That’s how long Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov have been seeing each other. How long they’ve been keeping their relationship a secret. From friends, from family…from the league. If Shane wants to stay at the top of his game, what he and Ilya share has to remain secret. He loves Ilya, but what if going public ruins everything?

Ilya is sick of secrets. Shane has gotten so good at hiding his feelings, sometimes Ilya questions if they even exist. The closeness, the intimacy, even the risk that would come with being open about their relationship…Ilya wants it all.

It’s time for them to decide what’s most important—hockey or love.

It’s time to make a call.
]]> 453 Rachel Reid 0369704436 jen 0 currently-reading 4.55 2022 The Long Game (Game Changers #6)
author: Rachel Reid
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average rating: 4.55
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]]> One Touch 223692685 One touch changed one man's life, and doomed another

Miller
Being on a winning team should feel better than this. But when you barely step onto the ice, feel like a stranger in the city you live in, and only have teammates, not friends, not even the Stanley Cup can make you feel like you belong.

So I recklessly ask for a trade. It’s a stupid move career-wise, but the chance to see more ice time and start fresh is pulling me toward the Austin Aces.

It’s not until the deal is done that I remember who also plays for Austin� Lathan Silver, the guy who turned my life upside down with one touch.

That was years ago, so surely the magnetic pull has lessened. I can’t afford to mess up my new team by falling for my teammate. I might be out in the league, but even that is a stretch on what would be accepted.

Austin is my chance to belong, so I’ll stay far away from Lathan Silver.
Lathan

Being the son of a Senator puts a lot of pressure on me, but my discipline, determination, and dedication help me succeed. As a Silver, there is no room for failure—on and off the ice.

I’ve cultivated myself into the perfect son and player, and at twenty-five, my life is flawless. I’m the youngest alternate captain in team history, and my role on the team is solid. I follow my routine, do my meditations, and avoid attachments at all costs. I don’t need any complications.

Enter Miller Fahn—the Austin Aces� newest left winger—the ultimate distraction. With one touch, he turns my world upside down.

I can’t let him destroy everything. I’ll remind him we’re not friends but enemies. Austin is my town, and the Aces are my team.


This is an MM enemies-to-lovers romance among teammates that includes forced proximity, a touch starved MC, friendship bracelets, cooking as a love language, and a gay awakening. This is part of a shared hockey world and can be read as a standalone. ]]> 274 Linden Rowe jen 0 currently-reading 4.32 One Touch
author: Linden Rowe
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]]> <![CDATA[Heated Rivalry (Game Changers #2)]]> 220966494 an alternate cover edition can be found here

The start of an epic enemies-to-lovers hockey romance from USA TODAY bestselling author Rachel Reid —book two in her fan-favorite Game Changers series.

Nothing interferes with pro hockey star Shane Hollander’s game.

Now that he’s captain of the Montreal Voyageurs, he won’t let anything jeopardize that—definitely not the sexy rival he loves to hate.

Boston Bears captain Ilya Rozanov is everything Shane’s not. The self-proclaimed king of the ice, he’s as cocky as he is talented. No one can beat him—except Shane. Publicly, they’re enemies. Privately, they can’t stop touching each other.

The smart thing to do? Walk away, once a few secret hookups turn into a struggle to keep their relationship out of the press. The truth could ruin them both. But for Shane and Ilya, secrecy is soon no longer an option�

Game Changers

Book 1: Game Changer
Book 2: Heated Rivalry
Book 3: Tough Guy
Book 4: Common Goal
Book 5: Role Model
Book 6: The Long Game]]> 371 Rachel Reid 0369748891 jen 5 4.36 2019 Heated Rivalry (Game Changers #2)
author: Rachel Reid
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average rating: 4.36
book published: 2019
rating: 5
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This was SOOO good and well written, I literally couldn’t put it down. Like, I would read it while walking to my car, while I waited for my food to cook, while I was sitting in traffic and red lights� Shane and Ilya are my life now.
]]> Litani 57108191
In the summer of �84, fourteen-year-old Frankie Jubilee is shuttled off to Litani, Minnesota, to live with her estranged mother, a county prosecutor she barely knows. From the start, Frankie senses something uneasy going on in the small town. The locals whisper about The Game, and her mother warns her to stay out of the woods and away from adults.

When a bullying gang of girls invites Frankie to The Game, she accepts, determined to find out what’s really going on in Litani. She’s not the only one becoming paranoid. Hysteria burns through the community. Dark secrets emerge. And Frankie fears that, even in the bright light of day, she might be living among monsters.]]> 315 Jess Lourey 1542027004 jen 3 3.98 2021 Litani
author: Jess Lourey
name: jen
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2021
rating: 3
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Spent the last 20% of the book sobbing.
]]> <![CDATA[The Switched-Up Playbook (Bats and Badgers, #1)]]> 227801530 NICKO

As a Top Ten draft pick, I‘d been on my way to hockey stardom—until one bad hit on the ice threatened it all. Now I have one year of college left to prove to everyone that I’ve made a full recovery from my injury and am still worth a shot in the NHL.

So my plan for senior year is keep my head down, work hard, win the Frozen Four.

But it all goes right out the window when my twin brother Nate finds himself in a precarious situation, and I’m the only one who can help him.

The only problem? It includes living with his best friend—and my worst enemy. Xander Hart has a way of getting under my skin, and our encounters usually end in disaster.

XANDER

Study hard, make my parents proud, win the Frozen Four—that’s my to-do list for senior year. One thing I did not have on there: losing my best friend.

Nate and I have been inseparable since our first day of college, so I really thought I knew him. But then his behavior changes from one day to the next, and not in a good way. He’s avoiding me, and every time I confront him, we end up fighting. On the ice, however, we are unstoppable.

Suddenly, I’m torn between wanting to punch him—and wanting to kiss him.

Ugh, this year is going to be intense.


The Switched-Up Playbook is the first in a five book standalone mm college romance series, each of them featuring different athletes. Book 1 is filled with heated fights on and off the ice between two rivals, witty banter, spicy scenes, twin shenanigans, and wholesome friendships. This series is not suitable for readers under the age of 18 years.]]> 411 A. J. Kyler jen 3 Very very cute and fun!! 4.03 2025 The Switched-Up Playbook (Bats and Badgers, #1)
author: A. J. Kyler
name: jen
average rating: 4.03
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Very very cute and fun!!
]]> <![CDATA[Beautifully Conflicted (Front Range University, #3)]]> 220205329 Competition is my love language.

A Bi-Awakening Rivals to Lovers Romance

The first time I saw Bennet Armstrong’s baby blues staring up at me from underneath his helmet, stunned and confused that I’d tackled him, I was smitten.

So, I tackled him again. And again. Whether he had the ball or not, I’d take him down, just so I could have his eyes on me.

I thought we were connecting. He thought I was a poor sport. Needless to say, when we found ourselves on the same team years later, he was not a happy camper. It got even worse when Coach paired us together for our pre-season workouts, giving me a chance to stoke his competitive buttons, which I seem to do whether I intend to or not.

Bennet hates to lose, but there’s more to the fire in his eyes than a desire to beat me. He might not know it, but I do, and I’m determined to show him I’m right.

To do that, I have to bring him to his knees, and that reveals some wounds I didn’t know were there. Wounds that are so deep they blind him to the truth about himself, and us.

I should leave him in peace, and maybe I would if I didn’t know in my soul that he’s supposed to be mine. Now I just need to convince him, and what better way to do that than by making him want to win me?

**Beautifully Conflicted is a high-heat MM romance between two rivals turned lovers. It’s a medium angst story that includes sports, hurt/comfort situations, and a bi-awakening with lots of humor and spice. This is book three in a series of interconnected standalones. ]]> 327 Michele Lenard 1955979375 jen 4 3.98 Beautifully Conflicted (Front Range University, #3)
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average rating: 3.98
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No complaints, but nothing special either.
]]> Catalina 222725801 A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college, forced to navigate an opaque past, an uncertain future, tragedies on two continents, and the tantalizing possibilities of love and freedom

When Catalina is admitted to Harvard, it feels like the fulfillment of destiny: a miracle child escapes death in Latin America, moves to Queens to be raised by her undocumented grandparents, and becomes one of the chosen. But nothing is simple for Catalina, least of all her complicated, contradictory, ruthlessly probing mind. Now a senior, she faces graduation to a world with no place for the undocumented. Her sense of doom intensifies her curiosities and desires. She infiltrates the school’s elite subcultures—internships and literary journals, posh parties, and secret societies—which she observes with the eye of an anthropologist and an interloper’s skepticism: She is both fascinated and repulsed.

Craving a great romance, Catalina finds herself drawn to a fellow student, an actual budding anthropologist eager to teach her about the Latin American world she was born into but never knew, even as her life back in Queens begins to unravel. And every day, the clock ticks closer to the abyss of life after graduation. Can she save her family? Can she save herself? What does it mean to be saved?]]> 224 Karla Cornejo Villavicencio 0593449118 jen 0 to-read 3.75 2024 Catalina
author: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
name: jen
average rating: 3.75
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]]> <![CDATA[Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 1]]> 36538793
In Taisho-era Japan, Tanjiro Kamado is a kindhearted boy who makes a living selling charcoal. But his peaceful life is shattered when a demon slaughters his entire family. His little sister Nezuko is the only survivor, but she has been transformed into a demon herself! Tanjiro sets out on a dangerous journey to find a way to return his sister to normal and destroy the demon who ruined his life.

Learning to slaydemons won’t be easy, and Tanjiro barely knows where to start. The surprise appearance of another boy named Giyu, who seems to know what’s going on, might provide some answers…but only if Tanjiro can stop Giyu from killing his sister first!]]> 192 Koyoharu Gotouge 1974700526 jen 4 4.39 2016 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 1
author: Koyoharu Gotouge
name: jen
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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Tanjiro my sweet baby boy I will protect you!!!
]]> <![CDATA[Face Offs & Cheap Shots (CU Hockey, #2)]]> 114211948 JACOBS

For the last three years, I’ve lived and breathed hockey with one goal: team captain.

There’s only one thing standing in my way. TJ Beckett.

Beck is irresponsible and immature, and I’ve hated him since the moment we met freshman year.

Yet, the coaches see something in him I obviously can’t, and they refuse to choose between us. The captain spot is going to a team vote, and the team thinks that what we need are a bunch of challenges to prove our worth. Challenges that have nothing to do with hockey. Challenges that are throwing me and Beck together.
And he’s still as infuriating as ever.


BECK

I have no idea why Christopher Jacobs hates me, and I can’t say I care. I like pushing his buttons, but the guy needs to loosen up. I’m going to win these stupid challenges easily and spend my senior year as hockey king on this campus.

Tormenting Jacobs at the same time will just be a bonus.

Even if I’m getting confusing feelings toward him, I won’t let it hold me back.

When it comes to competing, I’m all in, and nothing will get between me and the W.]]> 302 Eden Finley jen 3 4.30 2020 Face Offs & Cheap Shots (CU Hockey, #2)
author: Eden Finley
name: jen
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2020
rating: 3
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Rivals to lovers done RIGHT. I loved the banter and their dynamic. I wish it was longer.
]]> <![CDATA[Friendzone Hockey (Heartbreak Hockey #4)]]> 218723995
Protecting you was easy, letting you go is impossible.

I’m supposed to protect you after the most horrific time in your life. To do that I made a No falling in love with you. But I effed up because I’m so damn in love with you that I ache for you without end.

For seven years, I’ve held you when you cried, looked after you, and made damn sure you got back all the confidence stolen from you. It’s just, the whole time, I’ve been pining after you like a lovesick puppy. Pathetic, I know.

I never saw a future where you could be mine, so I gave you no choice but to find someone else. You did and then you asked me to be the best man.

It. Wrecked. Me.

What I should do is let you go. Do what I’ve always done and smile through the pain of wanting you but not being able to have you.

I can’t do it this time, and I hope you’ll forgive me. You belong with me, Dash Nolan. It’s my fault you don’t know that already, so I need to make you see, or else I’m doomed to spend the rest of my life as half a person.

Friendzone Hockey is a friends-to-lovers story with some hurt-comfort, along with other vibes, like; Major Jealousy, Possessiveness Galore, pining for him, it’s always been you, and, as always in this series, Found Family.]]> 436 S. Legend jen 0 currently-reading 3.97 Friendzone Hockey (Heartbreak Hockey #4)
author: S. Legend
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]]> <![CDATA[Oblivious Roommate (Am I the Problem? #1)]]> 147976889 Tl;dr Am I the problem for trying to sabotage my gay roommate's relationship? I have my reasons!

I [20M] moved to a different college just so I can live with my best friend since high school [21M]. But it turns out that in the two years we lived apart, he’s come out as gay, and he never told me! He also has a boyfriend, and I’m really not homophobic, but seeing them together bothers me. Other than that, we’ve reconnected like it’s magic. Living with him is amazing, and everything would have been perfect if his ass of a boyfriend wasn’t around. I don’t think that guy is good enough for someone as funny, interesting, and cool as my friend.

How do I make him dump the stupid boyfriend?

Update: So I’ve been trying to break them up, and I’m starting to realize that, possibly-maybe, I’m the one who wants to date my roommate. Help! He’s the hottest guy I’ve ever known and I keep screwing things up!
Also, is it gay to love smelling his sweaty T-shirt?

*

“Oblivious Roommate� is a best friends-to-lovers, gay-awakening steamy romcom filled with misunderstandings caused by an oblivious himbo who means well but has no clue.
While the books in the series share a setting each can be read as a standalone.

(Matt and Cassian’s story)]]> 261 Devon Doe jen 0 currently-reading 3.61 Oblivious Roommate (Am I the Problem? #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Heartless Sky (Zodiac Academy, #7)]]> 56474282
On the run and cast out from society, we’ve been forced to hide from the mad man who stole our throne. But as more secrets come to light and my sister and I work harder than ever before to reach our potential and claim our birth right, the end is finally drawing closer.

There is no turning from this path now. The curse chases on our heels as time rushes by and the blood drenched destiny of the man I love looms ever closer just like the monster who stole our throne.

We must prepare for the final battle, but three things are clear now.

The cards have already been dealt.

Blood will spill for a new future to rise.

And the stars themselves can’t help us.

The fight for the throne is upon us. All hail the heartless sky.]]> 991 Caroline Peckham jen 3 4.20 2021 Heartless Sky (Zodiac Academy, #7)
author: Caroline Peckham
name: jen
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2021
rating: 3
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Was expecting to fujoshi out to Seth and Caleb and got jumped by Xavier and Tyler rawdogging�
]]> <![CDATA[Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)]]> 214333691 When you’ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?

As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes.

Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves.

When Haymitch’s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.]]> 400 Suzanne Collins 1546171479 jen 0 currently-reading 4.65 2025 Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
author: Suzanne Collins
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average rating: 4.65
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]]> Shots on Net (SCU Hockey, #1) 210495899
Zeke Cassidy needs a place to live. When he answers an advertisement for a roommate, he’s not sure what he is expecting except that it isn’t Carter Morgan III. Carter is unfriendly, aloof, and they have nothing in common; even so, the pair hit it off immediately and become friends.

Carter knows Zeke isn’t interested in being anything beyond friends and roommates. Unfortunately, knowing this doesn’t stop him from hoping for more, no matter how much he tries to convince himself it’s impossible.]]> 320 J.J. Mulder 1967245150 jen 2 3.86 2024 Shots on Net (SCU Hockey, #1)
author: J.J. Mulder
name: jen
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2024
rating: 2
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I was really enjoying it but once they got together I started getting so bored.
]]> Bloodline 50416762 An ITW Thriller Award and Anthony Award winner.

Perfect town. Perfect homes. Perfect families. It’s enough to drive some women mad�

In a tale inspired by real events, pregnant journalist Joan Harken is cautiously excited to follow her fiancé back to his Minnesota hometown. After spending a childhood on the move and chasing the screams and swirls of news-rich city life, she’s eager to settle down. Lilydale’s motto, “Come Home Forever,� couldn’t be more inviting.

And yet, something is off in the picture-perfect village.

The friendliness borders on intrusive. Joan can’t shake the feeling that every move she makes is being tracked. An archaic organization still seems to hold the town in thrall. So does the sinister secret of a little boy who vanished decades ago. And unless Joan is imagining things, a frighteningly familiar figure from her past is on watch in the shadows.

Her fiancé tells her she’s being paranoid.He might be right. Then again, she might have moved to the deadliest small town on earth.]]> 347 Jess Lourey 1542016290 jen 1 3.89 2021 Bloodline
author: Jess Lourey
name: jen
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2021
rating: 1
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Took forever to push through and it wasn’t even worth it in the end.
]]> Guarded (Kensley Panthers #2) 63203957 I have a secret. We all have secrets. I’m nothing special.
It just so happens, however, that my sworn enemy also knows my secret.
He’s the absolute worst person to know this, and there’s nothing I can do about it.
What he does with this information is totally out of my hands and completely in his.
This is why I’ve never let anyone in. I don’t trust easily. I keep to myself.
I’m closed off. Angry.
Guarded.

Garrison Dixon
I shouldn’t have seen what I did.
I shouldn’t know what I do.
But how Bates can think I would ever say anything is beyond me.
Everyone thinks I’m just a big, dumb football player with nothing more to him.
The truth is I’ll never say a word about what I witnessed. I don’t care about it the way he thinks I do. I wouldn’t hurt him.
And I’d let him know that—all of it—if he wasn’t so damn . . .
Guarded.]]> 221 Nicole Dykes jen 3 3.90 2023 Guarded (Kensley Panthers #2)
author: Nicole Dykes
name: jen
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2023
rating: 3
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Again� it should’ve been longer�
]]> Blue Graffiti 171669110
Living in the home he inherited from his mother and abandoned by his father, painter and construction worker, Cash, has never known anything beyond the fields of Johnston, WI—never particularly wanted to, either. Why would he when his friends are there, his work is there, his history is there. He loves Johnston. But when an emerald-eyed stranger named Rose blows into town one summer evening in his favorite local bar, everything changes. It's love at first sight. For Cash, anyway.

What follows is an intimate reflection on the love, faith, and tragedy that courses through the blood of America’s backbone. Cash and his closest friends find themselves vital threads in the fabric of their community, the memory of those forgotten, and partners in a new enterprise: adventure.

A bluesey ode to the Beat generation for the modern era, Blue Graffiti is Wisconsin-raised writer Calahan Skogman's poetic debut imbued with an essential freedom, romance, and longing for a bygone era.]]> 301 Calahan Skogman 1951213955 jen 0 3.79 2024 Blue Graffiti
author: Calahan Skogman
name: jen
average rating: 3.79
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]]> Keeper (Kensley Panthers, #1) 62584703
I like to party. To have a good time.
Life’s too short not to. I learned that when I lost my grandpa.
He told me to have fun while I can, and I intend to.
Although sometimes when you’re having a good time, you forget others may see you as irresponsible. And sometimes you screw up.
I’ve definitely screwed up a time or two.
But I’m still determined to have fun. And along the way, I’m hoping I’ll convince my best friend, Camden, to do the same.
He’s too serious. Too focused. Too busy taking care of everyone to just relax.
And that’s where I come in.

Camden Prescott

I may only be eighteen and a senior, but I have too much on my plate to be a kid.
Too many people depend on me, but I can handle it.
I have to handle it. My mom needs my help. My little sister needs me. And Kingston, my best friend in the world—yeah, he definitely needs me.
Because while he’s busy having fun, I’m busy cleaning up his messes along with everyone else’s.
It’s not all bad though. He’s there to make sure I occasionally have fun, and I’m there for him when he needs to take life seriously.
Because that’s what I am . . .
The Keeper.]]> 216 Nicole Dykes jen 4 3.92 2022 Keeper (Kensley Panthers, #1)
author: Nicole Dykes
name: jen
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2022
rating: 4
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The only reason it’s 4 stars and not 5 is because it should be LONGERRRRRR. I want more!!!
]]> Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 1 44451887
In a world where demons feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryoma Sukuna were lost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna’s body parts, the power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately, there exists a mysterious school of Jujutsu Sorcerers who exist to protect the precarious existence of the living from the undead!

Yuji Itadori is high schooler who spends his days visiting his bedridden grandfather. Although he looks like your average teenager, his immense physical strength is something to behold! Every sports club wants him to join, but Itadori would rather hang out with the school outcasts in the Occult Club. One day, the club manages to get their hands on a sealed cursed object, but little do they know the terror they’ll unleash when they break the seal...]]> 192 Gege Akutami 1974710025 jen 4
As for Gojo.. yeah� I get it now. ]]> 4.31 2018 Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 1
author: Gege Akutami
name: jen
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/23
date added: 2025/02/27
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Yuji is soooo Peter Parker coded. I love him�

As for Gojo.. yeah� I get it now.
]]> <![CDATA[Mistborn: The Final Empire (The Mistborn Saga, #1)]]> 60784489 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the first book in the wildly successful Mistborn trilogy, now in trade paperback.
For a thousand years, ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years, the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years, the Lord Ruler reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when all hope was lost, the scarred, heartbroken half-Skaa Kelsier found in himself the powers of a Mistborn.
A brilliant thief and natural leader, Kelsier recruits the underworld's smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, who each share one of his many powers and relish a high-stakes challenge. Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream: not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.

But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers that she’s never dreamed of.


Other Tor books by Brandon Sanderson

The Cosmere

The Stormlight Archive
The Way of Kings
Words of Radiance
Edgedancer (Novella)
Oathbringer
Dawnshard (Novella)
Rhythm of War

The Mistborn trilogy
Mistborn: The Final Empire
The Well of Ascension
The Hero of Ages

Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne series
Alloy of Law
Shadows of Self
Bands of Mourning
The Lost Metal

Collection
Arcanum Unbounded

Other Cosmere novels
Elantris
Warbreaker

The Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
The Scrivener's Bones
The Knights of Crystallia
The Shattered Lens
The Dark Talent
Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians

The Rithmatist series
 The Rithmatist

Other books by Brandon Sanderson

The Reckoners
Steelheart
Firefight
Calamity]]> 534 Brandon Sanderson 1250868289 jen 0 currently-reading 4.54 2006 Mistborn: The Final Empire (The Mistborn Saga, #1)
author: Brandon Sanderson
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average rating: 4.54
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]]> Away Game (Willow Bay, #1) 58611127
Get away from him, out from under my father’s disapproving stare, and start a new life in Willow Bay.

It was supposed to be my fresh start, but instead my past followed me.

The one thing I desired and couldn’t have.

Weston Jackson.

I hated how he made me feel things that I couldn’t give into without turning my world upside down.

I wanted to make him pay.

For the way my father now looked at me. For the way I saw myself.

But most of all� for wanting him the way I did.


This is a full-length high school and college enemies-to-lovers and new adult romance with high angst, suspense, and gutting emotion. It's book one in the Willow Bay series that will have interlinking storylines. Away Game can be read as a standalone and starts off a three-book planned series. This is the only MM story. The others are MF. ]]> 283 Harlow Layne jen 1 3.45 2021 Away Game (Willow Bay, #1)
author: Harlow Layne
name: jen
average rating: 3.45
book published: 2021
rating: 1
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Absolutely no build up between them hating each other, kissing like 3 times, and immediately being so in love they risk coming out to be together� On top of that, this is ANOTHER book that falls prey to the trope of characters changing their entire personalities the second they get together. So disappointing.
]]> The Quarry Girls 57836903
Heather and Brenda have a secret. Something they saw in the dark. Something they can’t forget. They’ve decided to never tell a soul. But their vow is tested when their friend disappears—the second girl to vanish in a week. And yet the authorities are reluctant to investigate.

Heather is terrified that the missing girls are connected to what she and Brenda stumbled upon that night. Desperately searching for answers on her own, she learns that no one in her community is who they seem to be. Not the police, not the boys she met at the quarry, not even her parents. But she can’t stop digging because she knows those girls are in danger.

She also knows she’s next.]]> 335 Jess Lourey 1542034302 jen 4 4.03 2022 The Quarry Girls
author: Jess Lourey
name: jen
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2022
rating: 4
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I love it when girls fight back. Cried my eyes out�
]]> <![CDATA[The Reaping (Steinbeck and Reed, #2)]]> 198712881 By-the-book forensic scientist Harry Steinbeck and rogue BCA agent Van Reed must catch a cold-case killer who’s returned to abduct a small town’s children one by one in this heart-stopping novel from the Edgar Award–nominated author of Unspeakable Things.

In 1998 an Alku, Minnesota, family of five was brutally murdered in their sleep. The event shook the insulated community but, without any solid leads, was relegated to the cold case files, where it moldered for twenty-five years. Until today.

Agent Harry Steinbeck hoped never to return to the northland, a place that holds terrible memories of his sister’s abduction. But when a recent homicide is connected to Alku’s unsolved mass murder, he and cold case agent Evangeline Reed have no choice but to investigate.

The case grows impossibly darker as, one by one, the children of Alku begin disappearing. And Harry and Van can’t shake the sensation that someone is watching every move they make.

As an elusive killer’s trail leads to a truth more sinister than either imagined, Harry knows there’s only one way to crack this he must finally face the secrets of his own past—even if doing so will cost him everything.]]> 326 Jess Lourey 1662513992 jen 3 Creepier than the last book! 4.12 2024 The Reaping (Steinbeck and Reed, #2)
author: Jess Lourey
name: jen
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2024
rating: 3
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Creepier than the last book!
]]> Never Will I Ever 223440680 He's the one I swore I'd never ever fall for.


A teammate’s betrayal. A banishment. A secret revealed.

That’s all it took to unravel my life at the seams.

The punishment for my past mistakes goes further than expulsion,

and penance can only come from the worst hell

Summer camp.

Ten weeks spent wrangling a bunch of kids is bad enough,

only to get worse when I meet my new co-counselor.

The back-stabber himself.

Kaleb LaMothe.

Being forced to coexist adds more tension to our already shaky foundation,

but it also pushes us to uncover deeper parts of each other.

Until animosity becomes a feeling far more dangerous.

An attraction so potent, I lose sight of why I’m stuck in the wilderness to begin with.

And if I’m not careful, I might lose something else entirely.

Like my heart.


*𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘐 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘢𝘥𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘴, 𝘨𝘳𝘶𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘏𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘥𝘰𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘻𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤7]]> 361 C.E. Ricci jen 4
Book needed to be LONGER. ]]> 4.15 2025 Never Will I Ever
author: C.E. Ricci
name: jen
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2025
rating: 4
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Avery has never done anything wrong in his entire life actually�

Book needed to be LONGER.
]]> <![CDATA[The Taken Ones (Steinbeck and Reed, #1)]]> 62726715 Two girls vanished. A woman buried alive. Between two crimes—decades of secrets yet to be unearthed.

Summer 1980: With no fear of a local superstition, three girls go into a Minnesota wood. Only one comes out. Dead silent. Memory gone. No trace of her friends. The mystery of the Taken Ones captures the nation.

Summer 2022: Cold case detective Van Reed and forensic scientist Harry Steinbeck are assigned a disturbing homicide—a woman buried alive, clutching a heart charm necklace belonging to one of the vanished girls. Van follows her gut. Harry trusts in facts. Their common ground is the need to catch a killer before he kills again. They have something else in common: each has ties to the original case in ways they’re reluctant to share.

As Van and Harry connect the crimes of the past and the present, Van struggles with memories of her own nightmarish childhood—and the fear that uncovering the truth of the Taken Ones will lead her down a path from which she, too, may never return.]]> 339 Jess Lourey 1662507607 jen 2 4.22 2023 The Taken Ones (Steinbeck and Reed, #1)
author: Jess Lourey
name: jen
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2023
rating: 2
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I like the case solving aspect of it but I wish we had more POVs of the taken girls and the girl who witnessed everything to sympathize with them more.
]]> <![CDATA[Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)]]> 54756850
Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls—nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. Her life is in New York, with her photography career finally gaining steam and her bed never empty. Sure, it’s a different woman every night, but that’s just fine with her.

When Delilah’s estranged stepsister, Astrid, pressures her into photographing her wedding with a guilt trip and a five-figure check, Delilah finds herself back in the godforsaken town that she used to call home. She plans to breeze in and out, but then she sees Claire Sutherland, one of Astrid’s stuck-up besties, and decides that maybe there’s some fun (and a little retribution) to be had in Bright Falls, after all.

Having raised her eleven-year-old daughter mostly on her own while dealing with her unreliable ex and running a bookstore, Claire Sutherland depends upon a life without surprises. And Delilah Green is an unwelcome surprise…at first. Though they’ve known each other for years, they don’t really know each other—so Claire is unsettled when Delilah figures out exactly what buttons to push. When they’re forced together during a gauntlet of wedding preparations—including a plot to save Astrid from her horrible fiancé—Claire isn’t sure she has the strength to resist Delilah’s charms. Even worse, she’s starting to think she doesn’t want to...]]> 375 Ashley Herring Blake 0593336402 jen 2 4.06 2022 Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Bright Falls, #1)
author: Ashley Herring Blake
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average rating: 4.06
book published: 2022
rating: 2
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Sooo boring with almost little to no chemistry and even less of a plot.
]]> Mortal Skin (Folk, #1) 59916433
While they were here, I thought nothing of them. It wasn’t until they were gone that I realise it wasn’t� normal.

But it isn’t until I’m twenty-one, when my life is in ruins, that they come back to take me away.

They say I’m not fully mortal. They say I should be among them. The Unseelie Ruler wants me on her land for reasons no one will explain to me, but it’s her aloof, painfully beautiful son who captures my attention and refuses to let go.

The cold, black-eyed assassin prince who strikes fear into the hearts of all Folk. Who I’ve been warned about, repeatedly.

Who watches me always.

I don’t trust the Folk, so I ignore their fearful advice to stay away from him. I ignore all of them except him, despite everything telling me that he can’t be trusted—that he’s just as bad as the rest of them, that he’s playing games with me, the clueless mortal held here against his will.

But I want him.

Mortal Skin is the first in a mm fae romance trilogy about a dark fae assassin prince and a mortal who is thrown into the cruel world of the Folk.

Warning: This m/m love story contains explicit sexual content and is not suitable for young readers. It also contains depictions of violence and deals with the death of a close family member. This trilogy will follow the same couple who get their HEA eventually, but book one ends on a cliffhanger.]]> 359 Lily Mayne jen 0 currently-reading 4.37 2022 Mortal Skin (Folk, #1)
author: Lily Mayne
name: jen
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[A Touch of Darkness (Hades & Persephone #1)]]> 58750487
She remembered the words she had whispered to him in the back of the limo after La Rose. "You will worship me, and I won't even have to order you." His request felt sinful and devious, and she reveled in it.

She answered, "Yes."

---

Persephone is the Goddess of Spring in title only. Since she was a little girl, flowers have only shriveled at her touch. After moving to New Athens, she hoped to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. All of that changes when she sits down in a forbidden nightclub to play a hand of cards with a hypnotic and mysterious stranger.

Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favorite bets are rumored to be impossible. But nothing has ever intrigued him as much as the goddess offering him a bargain he can't resist.

After her encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead, and his terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever. The bet does more than expose Persephone's failure as a goddess, however. As she struggles to sow the seeds of her freedom, love for the God of the Dead grows―a love that is both captivating and forbidden.]]> 379 Scarlett St. Clair 1728258456 jen 2 3.87 2019 A Touch of Darkness (Hades & Persephone #1)
author: Scarlett St. Clair
name: jen
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2019
rating: 2
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date added: 2025/02/07
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For a story that’s been done millions of times before, this sure seemed to drag longer than it should’ve.
]]> <![CDATA[Out in the Deep (Out in College, #1)]]> 41543610
Gabe Chadwick has big Olympic dreams. His transfer between Southern California universities has nothing to do with scholastics. The degree is his backup plan. He’s not there to party or make friends. And he certainly isn’t going to announce his sexuality. But he can’t deny there’s something special about the uptight team captain. However, when an unwitting friendship and mutual attraction collide, both will have to decide if this is the real thing or if they’re about to lose it all in the deep.
]]> 154 Lane Hayes jen 1 3.87 2018 Out in the Deep (Out in College, #1)
author: Lane Hayes
name: jen
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2018
rating: 1
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This stupid ass book was so short and yet it took me forever to get through because it sucked so bad.
]]> The Christmas Fix 129355235 384 Lucy Score 1728295149 jen 4 3.77 2017 The Christmas Fix
author: Lucy Score
name: jen
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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I had such a wonderful time reading this! It was so cute and I love Noah and Cat.
]]> <![CDATA[The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)]]> 4556058
While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it's up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time.

In this momentous final book in the New York Times best-selling series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy's sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate.]]> 381 Rick Riordan 1423101472 jen 4 4.59 2009 The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
author: Rick Riordan
name: jen
average rating: 4.59
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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It’s so easy to remember why I loved these books growing up! I first read them at age 12 and now I’m 22 and in love all over again. This one in particular was so action packed and funny and just overall great. I loved every second of it! Percabeth build up and endgame was soooo satisfying, I actually squeaked like a 5 year old every time they kissed or flirted.
]]> None of This Is True 62334530
A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.

Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life—and into her home.

But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast, with her life and her family’s lives under mortal threat.

Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?]]> 390 Lisa Jewell 1982179007 jen 2 4.08 2023 None of This Is True
author: Lisa Jewell
name: jen
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2023
rating: 2
read at: 2025/01/28
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I felt nothing for these characters but I did enjoy the audiobook formatting it as a real podcast.
]]> Love Hate 200767853 What kind of idiot falls in love with his bully?

I’d endured nothing but fear, shame and torture at the hands of the meanest man I’d ever met. So, I chose to run away to a Catholic college to escape everything and everyone that had ever hurt me. But I had no idea that I was running straight into the arms of the enemy.

Or that it was the one place I’d find true solace.

If you love MM bully romance, enemies to lovers and bi-awakenings, don’t miss Love Hate by Dakota Rebel.

Buy this emotional roller coaster of romance today.]]> 379 Dakota Rebel jen 3 3.72 Love Hate
author: Dakota Rebel
name: jen
average rating: 3.72
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rating: 3
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This was so cute. I’m happy there was no big break up or misunderstanding.
]]> <![CDATA[The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)]]> 5169728 An alternate cover edition can be found here.

Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to diabolical.
In this latest installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronos's army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop them, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinth-a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn. Full of humor and heart-pounding action, this fourth book promises to be their most thrilling adventure yet.]]> 361 Rick Riordan jen 4 4.40 2008 The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
author: Rick Riordan
name: jen
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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While I remembered the general story of the Percy Jackson series, I kept blanking on the details so I decided to reread, and was not disappointed. This book in particular has been my favorite so far. Maybe it's because I just finished reading Circe last month that everything here felt so.. fresh? Either way, it was so fun to read Rick Riordan's take on the Labyrinth and the "heroes" that survived or fell victim to it. Percy, as always, is my best boy. Annabeth, a queen. Everyone else, amazing.
]]> Under the Whispering Door 58724708 A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door, a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea.



Welcome to Charon's Crossing.
The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through.

When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead.

And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he's definitely dead.

But even in death he's not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days.

Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.]]> 384 T.J. Klune 1250217393 jen 3 4.15 2021 Under the Whispering Door
author: T.J. Klune
name: jen
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2021
rating: 3
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THE DOG TOO????? I knew TJ Klune would find a way to rip my heart out�
]]> <![CDATA[The Understatement of the Year (The Ivy Years, #3)]]> 184363598 What happened in high school stayed in high school. Until now.

Five years ago, Michael Graham betrayed the only person who ever really knew him. Since then, he’s made an art of hiding his sexuality from everyone. Including himself.

So it’s a shock when his past strolls right into the Harkness College locker room, sporting a bag of hockey gear and the same slow smile that had always rendered Graham defenseless. For Graham, there is only one possible reaction: total, debilitating panic. With one loose word, the team’s new left wing could destroy Graham’s life as he knows it.

John Rikker is stuck being the new guy. Again. And it’s worse than usual, because the media has latched onto the story of the only “out� player in Division One hockey. As the satellite trucks line the sidewalk outside the rink, his new teammates are not amused.

And one player in particular looks sick every time he enters the room.

Rikker didn’t exactly expect a warm welcome from Graham. But the guy won’t even meet his eyes. From the looks of it, his former� best friend / boyfriend / whatever isn’t doing so well. He drinks too much and can’t focus during practice.

Either the two loneliest guys on the team will self destruct from all the new pressures in their lives, or they can navigate the pain to find a way back to one another. To say that it won’t be easy is the Understatement of the Year.

Warning: unlike the other books in this series, this heartbreaking love story is about two guys. Contains sexual situations, dance music, snarky t-shirts and a poker-playing grandmother.

THIS BOOK IS A STANDALONE. NO CLIFFHANGERS. NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE NECESSARY.]]> 310 Sarina Bowen jen 4 3.91 2014 The Understatement of the Year (The Ivy Years, #3)
author: Sarina Bowen
name: jen
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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Ending felt rushed, and I wish we would’ve gotten a final POV from Graham but overall, it was good. I literally couldn’t put it down.
]]> <![CDATA[Obsessed with the Heartbreaker (Falling for the Wrong Guy, #2)]]> 179716282 I’m the most boring guy in this college, but the Heartbreaker is secretly obsessed with me.

People know Henry Campbell as the Heartbreaker, the unofficial college King that everyone wants but very few get to have. He hates me and yet he often secretly watches me, and once I find out, I can’t resist the temptation of slithering back into his life.
We used to be close, neighbors.
Then we weren’t.
One unexpected confession triggers a longing buried deep. A jealous possessive outburst is our undoing, because once we give in, there’s no stopping us. All the yearning is coming to the surface, and I know he’s everything I want.
But this can’t end well.
Heartbreakers will break hearts, and there is no world in which guys like him would end up with nobodies like me.
So how do I stop craving more?

Obsessed with the Heartbreaker is an MM college romance in which the good student falls for the Heartbreaker. It can be read as a standalone and it includes pining, steam, jealousy, two territorial MCs, and a long-awaited HEA ;)]]> 279 Rina Damen jen 4 4.01 Obsessed with the Heartbreaker (Falling for the Wrong Guy, #2)
author: Rina Damen
name: jen
average rating: 4.01
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rating: 4
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It would’ve been 5 stars if the ending wasn’t so rushed and if the dialogue didn’t feel so corny sometimes. Other than that� the jealousy was soooooo good. Henry’s sick in the head and I love him for that.
]]> These Violent Delights 49203397 The Secret History meets Call Me by Your Name in Micah Nemerever's compulsively enjoyable debut novel - a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence.

When Paul and Julian meet as university freshmen in early 1970s Pittsburgh, they are immediately drawn to one another. A talented artist, Paul is sensitive and agonizingly insecure, incomprehensible to his working-class family, and desolate with grief over his father's recent death. Paul sees his wealthy, effortlessly charming Julian as his sole intellectual equal - an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. He idolizes his friend for his magnetic confidence. But as charismatic as he can choose to be, Julian also is volatile and capriciously cruel. An admiration isn't the same as trust.

As their friendship spirals into an all-consuming intimacy, Paul is desperate to protect their precarious bond, even as it becomes clear that pressures from the outside world are nothing compared with the brutality they are capable of inflicting on one another. Separation is out of the question. But as their orbit compresses and their grip on one another tightens, they are drawn to an act of irrevocable violence that will force the young men to confront a shattering truth at the core of their relationship.

Exquisitely plotted, unfolding with propulsive ferocity, These Violent Delights is a novel of escalating dread and an excavation of the unsettling depths of human desire.]]> 460 Micah Nemerever 0062963635 jen 0 to-read 3.96 2020 These Violent Delights
author: Micah Nemerever
name: jen
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> Rule Breaker (Bar Down #1) 215509397
Kayden I love college. My hockey team, the parties, the people. Classes, not so much. Especially when I get paired with Maddox, a goalie who offers nothing but snarky comments and snide looks. He’s brilliant and beautiful, and I’m the jock on an athletic scholarship. He hates me but so what? We’re stuck together at away games. His anger sparks a reckless want I’ve never felt before. And I always follow the rules. So why does Maddox make me want to break every one?

Rule Breaker is a double queer awakening, grumpy/sunshine, hurt/comfort, college hockey MM romance. Expect broken boys, bruised hearts, and an HEA neither saw coming. Themes of mental health, learning disorder, and first times.]]> 288 Ava Olsen 1998493016 jen 4 Grumpy/sunshine done RIGHT. 4.04 Rule Breaker (Bar Down #1)
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Grumpy/sunshine done RIGHT.
]]> <![CDATA[Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3)]]> 211164792 Two feuding second-grade teachers (and neighbors) find themselves teaming up in this rivals-to-lovers romance.

Emily Walker hates having her carefully crafted world disrupted by anyone, most of all her legendary nemesis, Jack Bennett. He's the opposite of the wonderful heroes she dreams up in her double life as a romance writer, which is why Emily was perfectly happy when Jack left Rome, Kentucky, mid-school year, with his fiancée. The last thing Emily saw coming was Jack’s return at the start of the summer after calling off the wedding and ending his relationship, but he’s here to stay—as her colleague and her neighbor.

Jackson Bennett is glad to be back, eager to renovate his house and work on the next mystery novel under his bestselling pen name. But when he realizes he’s now neighbors with the one woman who has always pushed his buttons, he discovers something he’s even more excited for—thwarting Emily and her petty plans to sabotage his return.

With their chemistry-fueled animosity at an all-time high, Emily accidentally sends an email to their school’s principal that could reveal her secret literary side hustle. She needs to steal back her manuscript, and Jack—she hates to admit—is just the man to help her. Surprisingly, Jack agrees. Will their unlikely alliance put an end to their rivalry? Or could it lead to a steamy plot twist they never saw coming?]]> 384 Sarah Adams 0593723694 jen 0 to-read 4.05 2025 Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3)
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]]> Back After This 198563641 From the New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over and Flying Solo, a podcast producer agrees to host a new series about modern dating—but will the show jeopardize her chance at finding real love?

Cecily Foster loves to make podcasts. She fiercely protects her colleagues, dearly adores her friends, and never misses dinner with her sister. But after a disastrous relationship with a colleague who stole her heart and her ideas, she’s put romantic love on hold.

When the boss who’s disappointed her again and again finally offers her the chance to host her own show, she wants to be thrilled. But there’s a catch—actually, two catches. First, the show will be about Cecily’s dating life. And second, she has to follow the guidance of influencer and newly minted relationship coach Eliza Cassidy, whose relentlessly upbeat attitude seems ready-made for social media, not real life.

Cecily would rather do anything other than put her singledom on display (ugh) or take advice from the internet (UGH). But when her boss hints that doing the show is the only way to protect a friend’s job, she realizes she has no choice.

To make matters more complicated, once she’s committed to twenty blind dates of Eliza’s choosing, Cecily finds herself unable to stop thinking about Will, a photographer she helped to rescue a very big and very lovable lost dog. Even though there are sparks between the two, Will’s own path is uncertain, and Eliza’s skeptical comments about Cecily’s decision-making aren’t helping. On the one hand, Will seems great. But on the other hand . . . don’t they all?

As Cecily struggles to balance the life she truly desires and the one Eliza wants to create for her, she finds herself at a crossroads. Can Cecily sort through all the advice and find a way to do what she loves without losing herself in the process?]]> 320 Linda Holmes 059359925X jen 0 to-read 3.77 2025 Back After This
author: Linda Holmes
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]]> For the Record 217387723 An electrifying rom com of rivalry and redemption, perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Daisy Jones and the Six, from New York Times bestselling author Emma Lord.

Once the most notorious rivals in the music scene, pop princess Mackenzie Waters and punk rockstar Sam Blaze electrified audiences as their bands clashed on stage. But behind the scenes, their simmering tension grew into something more � until suddenly both bands fell apart, and the idea of Mackenzie and Sam did, too.

Two years later, Sam has traded the rockstar lifestyle for a quiet life raising the son he didn’t know about. Meanwhile, Mackenzie is dealing with a postoperative change in her voice by only singing under a pseudonym. The only way to revive their public careers? A joint comeback album.

With fans over the moon and their futures on the line, Sam and Mackenzie face their biggest challenge yet: giving up the old rivalry and learning to work together. But as old sparks fly and new secrets emerge, they set off a chain reaction neither of them could have anticipated � one that proves that sometimes, the greatest hits are the ones yet to be written.]]> 336 Emma Lord 1250845327 jen 0 to-read 3.92 2025 For the Record
author: Emma Lord
name: jen
average rating: 3.92
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]]> Lights Out 211200239 MEET BOOKTOK'S LATEST OBSESSION . . . DARK, FUNNY AND SUPER SPICY, CAN YOU HANDLE THE RIDE?

I want someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a single minute of sleep over it.

Trauma nurse Aly escapes her hard-working days by thirsting after masked men online. To her, nothing could top the fantasy of her favorite tattooed and masked man hunting her down. But she never could have guessed that one drunken text would turn those dreams into reality . . .

I want things most people don't, craving darkness and depravity instead of light and love.

Josh has spent his life avoiding the limelight, but his online persona is another story. At night, he posts masked thirst traps for his millions of fans, until one follower catches his Aly.

Together, Aly and Josh live out their darkest fantasies, unaware that Aly has captured the attention of someone with far more sinister intentions. As Josh turns from predator to protector, he must ask himself how far he'll go for the woman he can't live without.

Lights Out is a fast-paced dark romance with a morally grey male lead. Some themes and scenes may be disturbing to listeners. Please check the content warning at the beginning of the book.

Lights Out, New York Times bestseller, November 2024.]]> 416 Navessa Allen 1638932239 jen 0 to-read 4.20 2024 Lights Out
author: Navessa Allen
name: jen
average rating: 4.20
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]]> <![CDATA[My Best Friend's Body Heat: Straight to Gay First Time MM (Straight to Gay - Best Friends)]]> 222322588 Sharing a sleeping bag is bad enough when it’s not with your gorgeous, half-dressed, best friend who can’t keep his hands to himself.

The whole reason I planned this disastrous camping trip was for us to get closer—but this has to be some cruel cosmic joke, because now we are much, much too close and my body likes this way too much.

Maybe if he weren’t such an unbearable tease I’d be able to calm down, but this unapologetic flirt just can’t seem to help himself.

This is a dangerous game to play for two straight guys, but I don’t know how to stop myself.

I need him—need more, and if keeps pushing me like this I might just snap, and then he’ll be the one pinned on his back until he’s just as desperate and needy for me as I am for him.]]> Archie Finch jen 3 4.04 My Best Friend's Body Heat: Straight to Gay First Time MM (Straight to Gay - Best Friends)
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average rating: 4.04
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]]> <![CDATA[Poetry On Ice (Totally Pucked, #1)]]> 222224173 I can’t tell if we’re fighting…or flirting?

Being traded to the Seattle Vipers has left me with mixed feelings. On the one hand, they’re my team, the team I’ve loved and supported since I was a kid, but on the other hand, he’s here. Him. Ant Decker. Infamous NHL bad boy. Right wing to my left. A man who’s made it his sole purpose in life to be better than me.

Well, the joke’s on him because I’m faster and my stats are better than his.

Not that I’m competing with him. Of course not. I wouldn’t stoop to his level.

He’s the most infuriating person I’ve ever met. A dark, chaotic presence that distracts me.

When we’re not coming to blows on the ice, he tries to provoke me by calling me Princess. And Pretty Boy...and Babygirl.

I hate it. Obviously, I do. It makes me so angry I can hardly see straight.

So why does my body react as if I like it?]]> 336 Jesse H. Reign jen 4 4.12 Poetry On Ice (Totally Pucked, #1)
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Now this is rivals to lovers done RIGHT. I love how bratty Robbie was and how he had Ant wrapped around his finger.
]]> <![CDATA[Dirty Slide (Dirty Players, #1)]]> 59415655 A grumpy/sunshine, rivals-to-lovers, sexy standalone novella from #1 NYT Bestseller Lauren Blakely and newcomer KD Casey!

Don’t play dirty.
That’s the code I live by on and off the field.
The other?
Don’t get distracted.
Not by the media, not by hookups, and definitely not by our rival team’s ridiculously charming star player, who loves to whisper dirty nothings to me every time we play ball.
And sure, his offers are tempting, but he’s the love ‘em and leave ‘em type, and I want the real thing.
So I resist.
But the night he steals second on me in the biggest game of the year, the guy’s a whole lot harder to ignore. Especially after a filthy postgame kiss leaves me wanting all the things I can’t have.
What's the risk in playing dirty just one time?

**

A Note from Lauren to Readers,

When I finished reading KD Casey's debut novel Unwritten Rules I was so impressed that I asked her to co-write a fun little scene with me between two baseball players. We'd both written baseball romances so this made perfect sense. We had such a great time with these characters that a short scene turned into a sexy, flirty, dirty standalone novella that we love. I hope you enjoy reading Dirty Slide as much as we enjoyed writing it!

Xoxo

Lauren

A Note from KD Casey to Readers,

I was ecstatic when Lauren reached out to me about potentially collaborating on a story. I loved the Men of Summer series, and jumped at the opportunity to create a new baseball romance. What started as a short story soon grew with the characters (which is one of the joys of writing!). We truly had a blast writing this and hope you have the same reading!

Play ball!

KD]]> 156 Lauren Blakely jen 2 It was fine. 3.74 2021 Dirty Slide (Dirty Players, #1)
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It was fine.
]]> Such Sharp Teeth 142395374
Rory Morris isn’t thrilled to be moving back to her hometown, even if it is temporary. There are bad memories there. But her twin sister, Scarlett, is pregnant, estranged from the baby’s father, and needs support, so Rory returns to the place she thought she’d put in her rearview. After a night out at a bar where she runs into Ian, an old almost-flame, she hits a large animal with her car. And when she gets out to investigate, she’s attacked.

Rory survives, miraculously, but life begins to look and feel different. She’s unnaturally strong, with an aversion to silver—and suddenly the moon has her in its thrall. She’s changing into someone else—something else, maybe even a monster. But does that mean she’s putting those close to her in danger? Or is embracing the wildness inside of her the key to acceptance?

This darkly comedic love story is a brilliantly layered portrait of trauma, rage, and vulnerability.]]> 336 Rachel Harrison 0593545834 jen 3 Women are so cool. 3.84 2022 Such Sharp Teeth
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average rating: 3.84
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Women are so cool.
]]> <![CDATA[Flipping the Script (Legacy Mechanics, #1)]]> 217555731 Jesse
After years of working my butt off, I’m finally living the life I always wanted. I have a job I love, friends who’ve become family, and I’m enjoying the freedom of being single.

Then Sebastian, my childhood rival, moves back to town and my perfect life is thrown into chaos. We’ve always hated each other, but now there’s something else between us. Something wild and primal, something that wants to make Sebastian submit as much as it wants to claim him.

Hooking up with the guy I hate is probably the stupidest thing I’ve done, and that’s saying a lot. But it’s hard to remember why it’s a bad idea when he’s the only person who’s ever made me lose control, and the only man I can’t stay away from.

Sebastian
Retiring from the music industry at twenty-five wasn’t in my long-term plans. Neither was moving home after being away for seven years. But here I am with a serious case of burnout and no idea what I want to do with the rest of my life.

I hoped that moving back would give me a chance to shed my public persona and just be Sebastian again, but that doesn’t seem to be happening any time soon.

The only thing in my life that makes sense is my old rivalry with Jesse, the guy I’ve hated since we were eight. Arguing with him is as exhilarating as it is familiar, and no one is more surprised than me when a fight leads to our first kiss, then more.

Jesse may be the most annoying person I’ve ever known, but the tension between us is too strong to ignore. I hate that I want him but love that he can’t stay away from me either.

Jesse and Sebastian’s book is an enemies-to-lovers romance featuring a mechanic with a secret, and a retired musician looking for his place in the world. You can expect hurt/comfort, forced proximity, ‘there’s only one bed�, found family, lots of heat, tons of dirty talk, primal play, hate s*x, and fighting as these two childhood rivals figure out that sometimes what you need has been in front of you all along. It is the first book in the exciting new Legacy Mechanics series but can be read as a standalone.]]> 328 Willow Dixon jen 3 4.02 Flipping the Script (Legacy Mechanics, #1)
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I was enjoying this book so much and then it just� ended??? I feel like part of the book was missing because the ending was just so rushed???? This could’ve been so good�
]]> <![CDATA[Kings Rising (Captive Prince, #3)]]> 25792894
Damianos of Akielos has returned.

His identity now revealed, Damen must face his master Prince Laurent as Damianos of Akielos, the man Laurent has sworn to kill.

On the brink of a momentous battle, the future of both their countries hangs in the balance. In the south, Kastor’s forces are massing. In the north, the Regent’s armies are mobilising for war. Damen’s only hope of reclaiming his throne is to fight together with Laurent against their usurpers.

Forced into an uneasy alliance the two princes journey deep into Akielos, where they face their most dangerous opposition yet. But even if the fragile trust they have built survives the revelation of Damen’s identity � can it stand against the Regent’s final, deadly play for the throne?]]> 368 C.S. Pacat 0698154320 jen 5 4.51 2016 Kings Rising (Captive Prince, #3)
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average rating: 4.51
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Damen and Laurent� they are my life.
]]> <![CDATA[Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 3: Young Fish And Reverse Punishment]]> 53533910 192 Gege Akutami 1974719553 jen 3 Nanami� yeah� 4.45 2018 Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 3: Young Fish And Reverse Punishment
author: Gege Akutami
name: jen
average rating: 4.45
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rating: 3
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Nanami� yeah�
]]> <![CDATA[Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 2: Fearsome Womb]]> 50636892 When a cursed womb appears at a detention facility, Jujutsu High dispatches Itadori and the other first-years to handle the situation. However, the Curse they encounter is far stronger than they ever expected! Itadori and friends now have two options: run and maybe live, or fight and die. While they are distracted, powerful Curses with mysterious designs on Jujutsu High and Satoru Gojo are gathering�

]]> 192 Gege Akutami 1974718271 jen 3 Gojo, you are my life� 4.50 2018 Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 2: Fearsome Womb
author: Gege Akutami
name: jen
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Gojo, you are my life�
]]> <![CDATA[Prince's Gambit (Captive Prince, #2)]]> 26190761 9780698155107

With their countries on the brink of war, Damen and his new master, Prince Laurent, must exchange the intrigues of the palace for the sweeping might of the battlefield as they travel to the border to avert a lethal plot.

Forced to hide his identity, Damen finds himself increasingly drawn to the dangerous, charismatic Laurent. But as the fledgling trust between the two men deepens, the truth of secrets from both their pasts is poised to deal them the crowning death blow...]]> 332 C.S. Pacat 0698155106 jen 4 Okay� I’m obsessed. 4.45 2013 Prince's Gambit (Captive Prince, #2)
author: C.S. Pacat
name: jen
average rating: 4.45
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Okay� I’m obsessed.
]]> <![CDATA[The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)]]> 561456
But when you're the son of a Greek god, it happens. And now my friend Annabeth is missing, a goddess is in chains and only five half-blood heroes can join the quest to defeat the doomsday monster.

Oh, and guess what? The Oracle has predicted that not all of us will survive...]]> 352 Rick Riordan jen 4 4.37 2007 The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
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average rating: 4.37
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rating: 4
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Percy remains the best boy in the world.
]]> <![CDATA[Captive Prince (Captive Prince, #1)]]> 216160806
Beautiful, manipulative, and deadly, his new master, Prince Laurent, epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. But in the lethal political web of the Veretian court, nothing is as it seems, and when Damen finds himself caught up in a play for the throne, he must work together with Laurent to survive and save his country.

For Damen, there is just one rule: never, ever reveal his true identity. Because the one man Damen needs is the one man who has more reason to hate him than anyone else�

Includes an exclusive extra story!]]> C.S. Pacat 0425274268 jen 3 3.70 2013 Captive Prince (Captive Prince, #1)
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average rating: 3.70
book published: 2013
rating: 3
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This cannot be the series that had everyone up in arms for YEARS�
]]> <![CDATA[Breakneck Hockey (Heartbreak Hockey #3)]]> 210441779
My hook-up for the night wasn’t supposed to be my long-time hockey rival, but here he is. I’m too worked up to let him go home without having a taste. One little bite of that smart mouth is mine for the taking after how many times he’s broken my nose.

How was I supposed to know that I’d crave Alderchuck with the desperation of a starved man?

I’m always one bad day from an explosion, but since I hooked up with Alderchuck, my body’s constantly on fire. I’m thinking about things I haven’t in a long time. He’s dredged years of buried torment to the surface.

The cure? Alderchuck. My poison is my cure. How poetic.

At least he can’t keep his hands off me and our burning hatred is mutual. The flavor’s gotta wear off at some point, and that’s when we’ll go our separate ways. Until then, I’ll come up with every way imaginable to wreck him from the inside out. Use him up till there’s nothing left.

But I’m nothing if not territorial and protective. My instincts decide that Casey Alderchuck is mine and they pull him closer. My damn heart’s a traitor, too, trying to break the locks I put around it to let him inside. But I can’t let it win. Loving people like I would love Casey means risking the fragile sanity I’ve worked so hard to preserve.


Breakneck Hockey is a rivals-to-lovers story with some hurt-comfort, along with other vibes, like; I Can Hurt Him but You Can’t, Major Jealousy, Just Because I Say I Don’t Want Him, Doesn’t Mean You Can Have Him, Possessiveness Galore, a Morally Gray MC and, as always in this series, Found Family.]]> 466 S. Legend jen 4 4.09 2024 Breakneck Hockey (Heartbreak Hockey #3)
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Their dynamic was sooooo good. I literally couldn’t put the book down.
]]> <![CDATA[Road Rules (Rules of the Game, #1)]]> 76783289 Rule #1: Hockey Comes First

As NHL team captain, Zane Murphy’s goal for the upcoming season is simple: take the Evanston River Otters all the way to the Stanley Cup.

Rule #2: Only On the Road

But an unexpectedly hot night with his best friend and teammate Ryan Hartinger throws Zane’s carefully laid plans and his sexuality into disarray.

Rule #3: Don’t Fall in Love with Your Best Friend

When feelings begin to creep in, Zane will have to decide if he’s willing to throw out the rules and risk his career and his friendship for a chance at winning it all.

Note: Road Rules was previously published as a 45k novella on Prolific Works and has since been expanded into a full length novel.]]> 407 Brigham Vaughn jen 3 4.02 2023 Road Rules (Rules of the Game, #1)
author: Brigham Vaughn
name: jen
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2023
rating: 3
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Cute and quick with almost 0 angst.
]]> <![CDATA[I Think We've Been Here Before]]> 198190462
In the same week, Marlen and Hilda’s family receives two significant pieces of news: One, Marlen has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Two, a cosmic blast is set to render humanity extinct within a matter of months. It seems the coming Christmas on their Saskatchewan farm could be everyone’s last.

Preparing for the inevitable, they navigate the time they have left together. Marlen and Hilda channel their energy into improbably prophetic works of art. Hilda’s elderly father receives a longed-for visitor from his past. Hilda’s preteen nephew goes missing, and his mother refuses to believe the world is ending. All the while, Hilda’s daughter struggles to find her way home from Berlin with the help of an oddly familiar stranger. For everyone, there’s an unsettling feeling that this unprecedented reality is somehow something they all remember.

As the planet holds its collective breath to see what happens next, the family—amid chaos, denial, acceptance, and hope—determines to live every moment as if it is their last. Because, well, it just might be.]]> 310 Suzy Krause 166251753X jen 5 I love human beings so much. 4.03 2024 I Think We've Been Here Before
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name: jen
average rating: 4.03
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I love human beings so much.
]]> One Perfect Couple 199798953 Harkening to Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None, this high-tension and ingenious thriller follows five couples trapped on a storm-swept island as a killer stalks among them.

Lyla is in a bit of a rut. Her post-doctoral research has fizzled out, she’s pretty sure they won’t extend her contract, and things with her boyfriend, Nico, an aspiring actor, aren’t going great. When the opportunity arises for Nico to join the cast of a new reality TV show, The Perfect Couple, she decides to try out with him. A whirlwind audition process later, Lyla find herself whisked off to a tropical paradise with Nico, boating through the Indian Ocean towards Ever After Island, where the two of them will compete against four other couples—Bayer and Angel, Dan and Santana, Joel and Romi, and Conor and Zana—in order to win a cash prize.

But not long after they arrive on the deserted island, things start to go wrong. After the first challenge leaves everyone rattled and angry, an overnight storm takes matters from bad to worse. Cut off from the mainland by miles of ocean, deprived of their phones, and unable to contact the crew that brought them there, the group must band together for survival. As tensions run high and fresh water runs low, Lyla finds that this game show is all too real—and the stakes are life or death.

A fast-paced, spellbinding thriller rife with intrigue and characters that feel so true to life, this novel proves yet again that Ruth Ware is the queen of psychological suspense.]]> 385 Ruth Ware 1668025590 jen 3 3.60 2024 One Perfect Couple
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I love women, and I especially love women that fight back.
]]> <![CDATA[The Sunshine Court (All for the Game, #4)]]> 211229562 My name is Jean Moreau. My place is at Evermore. I belong to the Moriyamas.

It is a truth Jean has built his life around, a reminder this is the best he can hope for and all he deserves. But when he is stolen from Edgar Allan University and sold to a more dangerous master, Jean is forced to contend with a life outside of the Nest for the first time in five years. The Foxes call his transfer to California a fresh start; Jean knows it is little more than a golden cage.

Captain Jeremy Knox is facing his final year with the USC Trojans and fifth straight year falling short of the championships trophy he desperately craves. Taking in the nation’s best defenseman is a no-brainer, even if that man is a Raven. But Jean is no monster, just a man with no hope or desire for a future, and when Evermore's collapse starts dragging Jean's hideous secrets to light, Jeremy is forced to contend with the cost of victory.]]> 347 Nora Sakavic jen 0 to-read 4.66 2024 The Sunshine Court (All for the Game, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[For the Throne (Wilderwood, #2)]]> 56860527 The First Daughter is for the Throne
The Second Daughter is for the Wolf...

Red and the Wolf have finally contained the threat of the Old Kings but at a steep cost. Red's beloved sister Neve, the First Daughter is lost in the Shadowlands, an inverted kingdom where the vicious gods of legend have been trapped for centuries and the Old Kings have slowly been gaining control. But Neve has an ally--though it's one she'd rather never have to speak to again--the rogue king Solmir.

Solmir wants to bring an end to the Shadowlands and he believes helping Neve may be the key to its destruction. But to do that, they will both have to journey across a dangerous landscape in order to find a mysterious Heart Tree, and finally to claim the gods' dark, twisted powers for themselves.]]> 452 Hannah F. Whitten 0356516377 jen 3 3.79 2022 For the Throne (Wilderwood, #2)
author: Hannah F. Whitten
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average rating: 3.79
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rating: 3
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It took me months to finish this book and all I cared about were Solmir and Neve.
]]> Ricochet 218675179 Callum Hayes

The first time I witnessed death was my mother’s when I was eight years old. It devastated me. The second was at sixteen when I stumbled on my stepfather’s body after he was brutally murdered. That one screwed me up in a different way.

Since then, I’ve kept my shadows at bay, my secrets locked up tight. That is until Stone Wakefield joins my college hockey team.

Five years ago, he saw something I meant to take to my grave. He saw me weak, and I hate him for it. I have no choice but to keep hating him so he never sees past my mask again.

Stone Wakefield

Callum hates me, and he does nothing to hide it. While that makes it easy to get under his skin, it presents a problem on the ice. However, the bigger threat is my growing need to protect and possess him.

When I start to wonder if he’s just as obsessed with me as I am with him, I’m not sure if I can stay away. I know I should because I have secrets of my own.

But what if the darkness in both of us is the piece we’ve each been missing?

Callum Hayes is mine. He just doesn’t know it yet.


Ricochet is a standalone dark MM hockey romance with a guaranteed HEA. Specific content warnings can be found on the author's website.]]> 389 River Hale jen 3 3.96 Ricochet
author: River Hale
name: jen
average rating: 3.96
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rating: 3
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I was enjoying it and then the same thing happened where once they get together, they become almost completely different characters.
]]> Organ Meats 59982802
Best friends Anita and Rainie find refuge by an old sycamore tree with its neighboring lot of stray dogs who have a mysterious ability to communicate with humans. The girls learn that they are preceded by generations of dog-headed women and woman-headed dogs whose bloodlines bind them together. Anita convinces Rainie to become a dog with her, tying a collar of red string around each of their necks to preserve their kinship forever. But when the two girls are separated, Anita sinks into a dreamworld that only Rainie knows how to rescue her from. As Anita’s body begins to rot, it is up to Rainie to rebuild Anita’s body and keep her friend from being lost forever.

Filled with ghosts and bodily entrails, this is a story about the horror and beauty of intimacy, written in K-Ming Chang’s signature poetic and visceral lore.]]> 288 K-Ming Chang 0593447344 jen 0 to-read 3.30 2023 Organ Meats
author: K-Ming Chang
name: jen
average rating: 3.30
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> Be My Endgame 198305707 Sometimes the endgame is only the beginning. In the heated world of the Premier League, Earl Alex Beaufort, a charming Liverpool midfielder, collides on-pitch with Lee Taylor, Manchester United’s top striker. But when England’s World Cup dream brings them to sunny Spain, the real game sharing a room. Rivals to teammates to � more?

Dive into this banter-filled MM sports romance where football meets unexpected feelings. A tale where a “pretty boy� comment isn’t just playful teasing, and a kiss isn’t just a kiss. As the tension of the World Cup escalates, so does the connection between Alex and Lee.

But amidst the drills, goals, and growing team camaraderie, shadows of family legacies and personal battles loom large. Can Alex, struggling with duke-sized expectations and his bisexuality, embrace his true self? Will Lee learn to dribble past his trust issues? Get ready for emotional offsides, family fouls, and a journey of self-discovery as thrilling as a last-minute goal.

With doses of British humour and heartwarming honesty, Be My Endgame serves up a pitch-perfect contemporary MM romance against the electric backdrop of the World Cup. Expect the unexpected—because when it comes to love and football, anything can happen in 90 minutes (plus injury time).]]> 292 Zarah Detand jen 4 4.17 2023 Be My Endgame
author: Zarah Detand
name: jen
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/20
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I really loved this book!! It got a little weird with the nationalistic politics in the middle but we’re moving past that.. Overall, I loved Alex and Lee’s dynamic so much.
]]> Until You (Until #1) 216330865 Every life has a before and an after. An invisible line that divides a life into two halves: the before and the after...
I’m the first one to tell you I have issues.
Trust issues.
Family issues.
Probably a few others I haven’t discovered yet.
Which is why I prefer to keep my life as simple and uncomplicated as possible.
Until him.
Blake McAdams barrels into my life and refuses to leave. He’s relentlessly optimistic, incredibly smart, annoyingly persistent, and� wants to be friends? Because� he thinks I’m interesting?
Yeah, I’ll pass. Thanks.
Only, somehow, we end up doing just that.
And then that friendship evolves into something more, and suddenly, I find myself navigating completely foreign territory: a relationship.
But Blake has his own issues, and once the truth comes out, my simple and uncomplicated life? Turns into anything but.]]> 334 Briar Prescott jen 4 4.26 2023 Until You (Until #1)
author: Briar Prescott
name: jen
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/14
date added: 2024/12/14
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I laughed, I cried, I loved every second of it.
]]> You Shouldn't Have Come Here 199430859 324 Jeneva Rose jen 2 3.54 2023 You Shouldn't Have Come Here
author: Jeneva Rose
name: jen
average rating: 3.54
book published: 2023
rating: 2
read at: 2024/12/08
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I enjoyed it for the most part but everything felt so rushed at the end that it completely took me out of the story.
]]> <![CDATA[Rebels of the Rink (Arctic Titans of Northwood U, #5)]]> 205681491
His own troubles in the love nest are brewing. His girlfriend is jealous of all the time Tyler spends cheering me up.

She doesn’t understand. Nobody gets us. We had always been each other’s rocks. And when Tyler is forced to choose between me and his girl, my whole life is turned upside down.

He chooses me. And he makes me happier than he can understand.

Maybe we are each other’s soulmates.

The only problem is…neither of us is into guys.

It’s a cruel cosmic joke to make me fall in love with my best friend and never be able to do anything about it. But once I see the truth behind the veil of fog and confusion, I can never unsee it.

I want him. Even if it means learning to like a whole new style.

Rebels of the Rink is the fifth novel in the Arctic Titans on Northwood U series. It features two best friends, double-bi-awakening, ice-melting heat, and heart-rendering sweetness. You can expect all the usual Arctic Titans shenanigans, a leap from youth to adulthood, and a rollercoaster of emotions. Rebels of the Rink can be read on its own, but it’s best enjoyed when read in order.]]> 254 Hayden Hall jen 2 3.91 Rebels of the Rink (Arctic Titans of Northwood U, #5)
author: Hayden Hall
name: jen
average rating: 3.91
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Started off cute, then got corny and lame.
]]> <![CDATA[Savage Titan (North Shore Titans Hockey #1)]]> 206755042
My fault–ish after I crashed into the North Shore Titan’s star defensemen on my way to class.

In typical Eli Holmes fashion, instead of walking away after he threw my books across the hall, I stood up to Alexei Petrov.

Even sat right next to him in class, letting him know exactly what I thought of his brutish behavior.

Someone should’ve reminded me not to go around poking monsters.

But I’m not one to cower.

Until a heated encounter leads to a steamy kiss.

Now, I can’t seem to get away from him–at school or in my thoughts.

And his savagery draws out desires I didn’t know I had.

The worst part–even seeing how dark this hockey player is, I can’t stop myself from falling for him.

One way or another, Alexei Petrov is going to destroy me.

*Savage Titan is the first in a five book standalone MM college hockey romance series featuring a possessive hockey player, and the feisty art student who crashes into his world. This is a bully romance with dark behaviors, bi-awakening and opposites attract.*]]> 187 E.V. Olsen jen 1 0 development. Corny. 3.37 2024 Savage Titan (North Shore Titans Hockey #1)
author: E.V. Olsen
name: jen
average rating: 3.37
book published: 2024
rating: 1
read at: 2024/12/04
date added: 2024/12/04
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0 development. Corny.
]]> <![CDATA[Two Straights Too Many (Heroes of Port Dale, #1)]]> 203500766 An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.


What started out as a joke turns into something more…something that could cost me the best friend I’ve ever had.

Okay, so an already tense lunch with my mother probably wasn’t the best time to blurt out that I’ve started dating my best friend. Especially since I’ve never dated another man before.

And it’s not exactly the truth. In fact, it’s a big fat lie. Despite the teasing we’ve endured from the guys at the firehouse over the years, Elias and I aren’t actually in a relationship.

Now, thanks to my big mouth, we’re stuck pretending to be madly in love to keep my mother, and the woman she’s trying to set me up with, at bay.

Only, it doesn’t feel like we’re pretending anymore. It’s beginning to feel like I just found everything I ever wanted, in the last place I would have thought to look.

Now I have to decide if the possibility of forever is worth sacrificing the friendship we already have.

***

A steamy, M/M, friends to lovers and bi awakening romance set in Port Dale. Follow the city’s firefighters, police officers, doctors and even an assassin as they get their happy ever afters. The books can be read in any order.]]> 198 Romeo Alexander jen 2 4.06 2020 Two Straights Too Many (Heroes of Port Dale, #1)
author: Romeo Alexander
name: jen
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2020
rating: 2
read at: 2024/12/02
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I know a Buddie shipper when I see one.
]]> <![CDATA[Like You Hate Me (Hawthorne University #1)]]> 194856118
The day my sister died, I told her best friend I never wanted to see him again, and I meant it.

I lost her because of him. Everything I used to care about means nothing now because of him.

It’s all because of him.

So when he shows up on my driveway two years later and tells me he’s moving in with me for his freshman year of college, I kick his ass and tell him to disappear. For good this time.

But I already know the defiant little brat’s not gonna listen. He never does.

Being near him again makes me crazy. I’m supposed to be the college basketball star my father raised me to be, but now I’m focused on a new game. I’m obsessed with watching him, touching him, breaking him. His body, his head, his heart, anything I can get my hands on�

I’m gonna take it all until he’s got nothing left.

And even though he knows exactly what I’m doing to him, he’s gonna let me do it anyway.]]> 404 Bethany Winters jen 5 4.08 Like You Hate Me (Hawthorne University #1)
author: Bethany Winters
name: jen
average rating: 4.08
book published:
rating: 5
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Toxic, devastating, insane, heartbreaking, traumatizing, and absolutely fucking beautiful. I love Nate and Xavi so much, I couldn’t breathe half the time because I just wanted them to be happy.
]]> <![CDATA[Drowning in You (Neptune State University #1)]]> 180045526
Roommates. Rivals. Reckless attraction.

All reasons to deny what burns beneath our skin when our bodies collide in wrath and competition. College is the time to focus on my academics and training. Not on the dead weight of my past. Certainly not on the filthy-rich and filthier-tease Rainer Caraway.

Straight guys don’t let their enemies get this close. This deep. Deep enough for a cocky pain in the ass to secretly become an unexpected ache in the heart.

Lust leaves scorch marks. But love? Love lights a flame that can survive underwater.

But can it survive us?

Drowning in You is a 92,000-word steamy MM college romance of angsty enemies-to-lovers proportions with hurt/comfort, forced proximity, and a bi-awakening between a brooding, broken boy and a wealthy playboy with an identity crisis. It is the first in a series of standalones following the Neptune State University men's swim team and all their HEAs.]]> 359 Camden Jess jen 5 3.60 Drowning in You (Neptune State University #1)
author: Camden Jess
name: jen
average rating: 3.60
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2024/11/27
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Jesus, I was not expecting such a beautifully written book. RainCloud� they’re my life now.
]]> <![CDATA[Traded (Off the Field Duet, #1)]]> 60120173
Until he has to play nice with his enemy.

Drew Rockland is the epitome of calm and collected on the mound. As a veteran player, he knows what it takes to pitch under pressure while keeping his emotions in check.

Until he faces Aron and loses his cool.

Aron’s showboating and Drew’s old-school ballplayer demeanor instantly puts them at odds, resulting in an all-out brawl on the field and a suspension. After the fight, all should have been forgotten, but an unexpected trade places them on the same team � and in the same apartment.

Off the field, there is no one to pull them apart ...

But maybe they prefer it that way.

Traded is a MM enemies-to-lovers sports romance with first times and secret hook-ups that will leave you begging for more. And good thing, since this is book 1 in a duet and their story will conclude in book 2.]]> 224 Kimberly Knight jen 2 3.99 2022 Traded (Off the Field Duet, #1)
author: Kimberly Knight
name: jen
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2022
rating: 2
read at: 2024/11/25
date added: 2024/11/25
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Man this book fucking sucks but I need to know what happens next.
]]> <![CDATA[Obsessed with the Player (Falling for the Wrong Guy, #3)]]> 216630872 I'm a straight-laced grump and he's the most infuriating player I've ever met, but I still want to kiss him stupid—even if I'm supposed to be straight.

Newly single for the first time in forever and in dire need of a room AND a job, I'm convinced that life hates me, because my best option is to beg Andy Jacobs for help.

The bane of my existence. An unrepentant cocky player, ex-college boxer, now gym owner who loves to push my buttons to my stuck-up, unemployed, having-a-crisis, accountant self.

Also, a guy who hit on my girlfriend while I was only feet away from him.

He has everything I need, and for some reason, it got into my head that he could also teach me to be single.

There's only one problem.

His dirty dares become a stupid game of chicken, and too quickly, barbed retorts turn into heated hookups that rock me to the core.

I left my last relationship feeling like a failure, and I know guys like him would never look twice at guys like me, not for more than this...enemies-with-benefits thing.

This has no future.

So why does the idea of ruining this hurt so much?

Obsessed with the player is a 40k steamy enemies-to-lovers MM romance with bi-awakening, a possessive player, jealousy games, devious friends that can see these two are meant for each other and like to "help", the discovery of secret pining, and a deserved HEA ;)]]> 156 Rina Damen jen 3 Quick and fun :) 3.77 Obsessed with the Player (Falling for the Wrong Guy, #3)
author: Rina Damen
name: jen
average rating: 3.77
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Quick and fun :)
]]> <![CDATA[The Enemy Benefit (Easton Grammar #2)]]> 59733550 JASPER
It’s my final year of high school, I’m school captain and I’m getting perfect grades. My only issue is my tiny little sex problem, but let’s not think about that.

Then my grandfather goes officially senile and decides to take a guy named Kieran, a walking red flag complete with scars on his knuckles and intense dark eyes. I hate him on sight.

KIERAN
If being sent away from home and forced to attend a posh school wasn’t bad enough, I have to deal with the biggest brat I’ve ever met. Jasper’s stuck-up rich boy who takes every opportunity to insult me, and because I’m living with his grandfather, I can’t escape him.

If only there was a way to shut him up�


The Enemy Benefit is a New Adult M/M Romance with a HEA featuring high school students. This book is a slow burn romance that includes enemies-to-lovers and enemies-with-benefits tropes.]]> 252 Milana Spencer jen 2 3.84 2021 The Enemy Benefit (Easton Grammar #2)
author: Milana Spencer
name: jen
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2021
rating: 2
read at: 2024/11/19
date added: 2024/11/19
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I LIKED it� but I don’t know. Everything was resolved very quickly and it just felt like it was missing something.
]]> Oblivious 80341941
He sends me naughty texts at the most inappropriate times. He lets me fall asleep on top of him when we watch movies. And his protective side comes out if I dance too close to anyone at our favorite club.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but those are things a boyfriend does. Except August isn’t my boyfriend, he’s my best friend, and those lines are drawn in permanent marker. The one time we tried to cross the boundary between friends and lovers, it failed so spectacularly that we never did it again. So � “friends� is good enough. That’s what I tell myself. Because at least I have him in my life. Without him, I’d be lost.

But after we’re dared to kiss, and that kiss reshapes reality, we agree to be friends who do things with each other. Nakey things.

That makes my life so much better. And so much worse. After all, August doesn’t want to settle down, and he never wants to get married. While I do.

Most importantly, no matter how our relationship changes, he can’t find out I’m desperately in love with him.

Oblivious is a sweet and steamy contemporary m/m romance about best friends who don’t know they’re already dating. Noah and August are always touching, finish each other’s sentences, and bristle whenever the other gets within six feet of a date, but they can’t see what’s crystal clear to everyone else. Oblivious features badly timed schmexy texts, a hot kiss that rocks two men’s universes, and (unofficially, but likely) the highest number of heartfelt marriage proposals in a romance novel ever.]]> 200 Leslie McAdam jen 3 3.99 Oblivious
author: Leslie McAdam
name: jen
average rating: 3.99
book published:
rating: 3
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It was cute! I loved all the LA references.
]]> Always (Indigo Falls #1) 60532949 I avoid him.

Every time Kepler Quinn steps into a room, I get the hell out.

He does . . . something to me. When those discerning gray eyes flick towards me, his brow rising in a silent greeting, there’s a tightening of my abs. A zapping hum quivering low along my spine.

There are about a million reasons it shouldn’t be what the little voice in the back of my head insists . . . acrush.

Because Kepler isn’t just some random guy. He’s my brother’s best friend. He’s also my TA for physics this semester. And also . . . a guy. I’ve never held strongly onto being straight, but I’ve also never had this sun-scorching need for another guy before.

But I can’t avoid him when we’re suddenly in the back stacks of the library�alone—nothing but the smell of old books and softly falling dust around us. And instead of walking away from him, I let out the two words that burn in my throat:

“Kiss me."

Alwaysis a swoony M/M college romance with a bisexual awakening and sizzling chemistry. It’s the first in the Indigo Falls College series, a standalone, and features a happy ending.

]]> 338 Loren Leigh jen 3 4.10 2022 Always (Indigo Falls #1)
author: Loren Leigh
name: jen
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/15
date added: 2024/11/15
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I genuinely loved it, I just wish there was MORE like I would love to understand Kepler and his love for Jin.
]]> <![CDATA[The Wolf at the Door (Big Bad Wolf, #1)]]> 36480253 An ex-FBI agent is partnered with the enemy in this suspenseful first installment of Charlie Adhara’s Big Bad Wolf series

Hunting for big bad wolves was never part of agent Cooper Dayton’s plan, but a werewolf attack lands him in the carefully guarded Bureau of Special Investigations. A new case comes with a new partner: ruggedly sexy werewolf Oliver Park.

Park is an agent of The Trust, a werewolf oversight organization working to ease escalating tensions with the BSI. But as far as Cooper’s concerned, it’s failing. As they investigate a series of mysterious deaths unlike anything they’ve seen, every bone in Cooper’s body is suspicious of his new partner—even when Park proves himself as competent as he is utterly captivating.

When more people vanish, pressure to solve the case skyrockets. And though he’d resolved to keep things professional, Cooper’s friction with Park soon erupts...into a physical need that can’t be contained or controlled. But with a body count that’s rising by the day, werewolves and humans are in equal danger. If Cooper and Park don’t catch the killer soon, one—or both—of them could be the next to go.]]> 252 Charlie Adhara 1488089329 jen 0 to-read 4.17 2018 The Wolf at the Door (Big Bad Wolf, #1)
author: Charlie Adhara
name: jen
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Burning the Midnight Oil (Copper Lake, #3)]]> 205160010
It should be easy, right?

Wrong.

When I moved in with my sister over summer break, I had no intention of returning to college in the fall. A work trip for her meant a lot of time alone for me with her husband. Boone Stanton. World famous bull rider and way, way off limits.

A few late night deep conversations between the two of us, only the midnight sky our witness, and suddenly, I can’t look away. Can’t keep my mind off of him.

It’s in the way he works around the yard, sweaty and shirtless. The way his eyes soften and he leans into his playful side around his daughter. And it’s in the way he makes me feel seen. The way he’s slowly chipping away at my exterior without even realizing it.

Then one night I see something I shouldn’t. Something that makes my mouth water and my heart race. Except when he catches me, instead of stopping and reprimanding me, he� keeps going.

Now, I have the opportunity of a lifetime but it means going on the road with him. It means living in even closer quarters than before. It also means doubling down on keeping my hands to myself and my gaze away from his dark, observing eyes.

But I’m only human, and it’s only a matter of time before I crack. Before I give in and do something I can’t take back.

Something that could cost me everything.]]> 350 Ashley James jen 2 4.03 Burning the Midnight Oil (Copper Lake, #3)
author: Ashley James
name: jen
average rating: 4.03
book published:
rating: 2
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date added: 2024/11/11
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I think Jade should’ve gotten to beat them with hammers at least ONCE.
]]> <![CDATA[Melting the Ice (Portland Evergreens #1)]]> 215538460
Recovering from a knee injury he hopes won’t keep him off the ice. His team, the Portland University Evergreens, have a brand new coach, and he’s hoping to impress the legendary leader. Plus, he's got to make a decision once and for all about playing professional hockey or using his love of science to go a totally different direction.

The last thing he needs is a sexual awakening at the large, calloused hands of his football player roommate.

Dean is big and brawny and taciturn, but he doesn’t need words to woo Brody. He wants Dean, even if he thought he was straight. And Dean? Doesn’t matter that he’s never hooked up with a guy before, either.

They’re discovering new pleasures every night, while pretending during the day that they’re just roommates.

Except the heat burns so hot between them, it doesn’t just melt all the ice on Brody’s rink, it melts all his beliefs about who he is and what he wants.

But even more, it destroys the lie that he can’t fall hard for a guy. Because Brody is falling hard for Dean, and he discovers he’s not alone.]]> 391 Beth Bolden jen 2 Cute, low stakes, no drama. 3.98 2024 Melting the Ice (Portland Evergreens #1)
author: Beth Bolden
name: jen
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2024
rating: 2
read at: 2024/11/09
date added: 2024/11/09
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Cute, low stakes, no drama.
]]> <![CDATA[Knockin' Boats (Swallow Cove #3)]]> 216125317 Sawyer

There was a time Ash and I were unseparable.

When I moved high schools, we went from friends to rivals. I could deal with that. But when my girlfriend dropped me for him? We became enemies overnight.

The Ozarks is a big lake, but somehow he's always in my way. First at a flashy rival boat company, where we're always knockin' boats on booze cruises. Sometimes literally.

Now at the newly redeveloped Swallow Cove resort where I'm based.

Ash has got some hair-brained idea to run a food boat for the resort. It's a silly fad that will never last. All flash and no substance, like him.

But now there's no avoiding the guy. Or his annoying face and annoying hair and annoying smiles always flashing my way.

Ash has always gotten whatever he wanted. My sports trophies. My ex-girlfriend. A job with *my* friends.

As tension mounts between us and the heat of anger threatens to boil over into something else, something new and surprising, I start to

Will he get me too?]]> 380 D.J. Jamison jen 1 4.29 2024 Knockin' Boats (Swallow Cove #3)
author: D.J. Jamison
name: jen
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2024
rating: 1
read at: 2024/11/02
date added: 2024/11/02
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How do you screw up ex best friends to lovers this bad??? I can look past bad writing, but man� this was just horrible.
]]> <![CDATA[Hidden Scars (Darby U Hockey Boys, #1)]]> 62775194 I want to sock the golden boy of college hockey right in the mouth.
He enjoys telling me everything I’m messing up. Publicly.
And since he’s my roommate for the next year, I can’t avoid him.

Yet there’s something about him that makes me watch him.
Something dark.
A secret I want to uncover.

When he returns from a weekend away, broken and haunted, I can’t keep my distance anymore.
He needs someone and I’ll be damned if it’s not me.
Soon my life no longer revolves around hockey, but the nightmares he’s living with.
Desperately I want to save him but I can’t, not yet. The timing has to be just right.

Can I watch him destroy himself as he tries to hold tight to the things that matter or will I be the final hit in the destruction of his life?]]> 470 Andi Jaxon jen 3
That being said, I appreciate that there wasn’t a stupid third act break up and overall, I enjoyed reading it. ]]> 4.13 2022 Hidden Scars (Darby U Hockey Boys, #1)
author: Andi Jaxon
name: jen
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2024/10/29
date added: 2024/10/29
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I couldn’t get a grasp on either of their personalities bc they were all over the place at times.

That being said, I appreciate that there wasn’t a stupid third act break up and overall, I enjoyed reading it.
]]> Iced Out (Leighton U, #1) 60469260

My path to success never included an enemy as a teammate, especially one as infuriating as Quinton de Haas.

Clawing under my skin is his favorite pastime, only feeding the animosity between us as the years pass.

We’re as completely opposite as two people can be; the golden boy and the black sheep.

Constantly at odds or at each other’s throats.

The only thing we can agree on is hockey is our true love, and we’ll do whatever it takes to come out on top.

I never imagined that drive would lead me to do the unthinkable: falling into bed with my not-so-straight rival.

But athletes are a superstitious bunch, and when our hook-ups lead to victories, we tell ourselves we can’t stop.

Besides, it’s all for the sake of the team, right?


*Iced Out is the first in a five book standalone college sports romance series featuring two misunderstood rival teammates, pages of snarky banter, and more secret spicy times than any book should be filled with. Not suitable for anyone under 18 years of age.*]]> 358 C.E. Ricci jen 4 4.13 2022 Iced Out (Leighton U, #1)
author: C.E. Ricci
name: jen
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2024/10/27
date added: 2024/10/27
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Couldn’t stop smiling and kicking my feet in the air the entire time.
]]> Don't You Dare 58511930
A party game. A dare. A single kiss.

That’s all it took to flip my world upside down.

I’ve always classified myself as straight, and as far as I can tell, so has he.

I didn’t think one kiss would change that, but I was so wrong.

Now, I can’t stop thinking about him. In all the ways I shouldn’t.

My best friend.

Aspen.

His taste is branded in my memory, his touch seared in my skin.

And I want more.

This simmering attraction I feel only grows with passing time.

Which is why I start tossing out new dares.

Riskier ones that toe lines we never thought we’d cross.

I’m gambling with our friendship, knowing it could ruin us.

But there’s so much more at stake here.

Like my heart.


*Don't You Dare is a new adult college romance featuring two best friends, too many baseball puns, scorching dirty talk, and a whole lot of bi-curious exploration. Not suitable for anyone under 18 years of age.*]]> 412 C.E. Ricci jen 5
I could not put this book down like I ate up every single page. This is best friends to lovers done RIGHT. ]]> 4.07 2022 Don't You Dare
author: C.E. Ricci
name: jen
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2024/10/26
date added: 2024/10/26
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5 stars for the Dean Winchester mention alone.

I could not put this book down like I ate up every single page. This is best friends to lovers done RIGHT.
]]> Whit (Unexpected, #1) 60870308 Straight guys don’t have crushes on other dudes, right?

Except my roommate, Whit, is intriguing, and I find myself watching him constantly. He’s a mystery I can’t figure out. And these feelings I’m having about him are confusing.
Then, one night, I find myself wrapped around him, and after that, I can't get enough.
But Whit has secrets. He doesn’t let people in, and the more I fall for him, the less I know.
I can't let him go, though.
Until I realize I’m going to be the one broken at the end of our story.

This is a sexual-awakening MM romance book with sexually explicit material suitable only for adults. It's generally a sweet romance, but some content is not suitable for some readers. Trigger warnings include mentions of abuse, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, and the death of a loved one. Please take this into account before reading.]]> 308 Cora Rose jen 3 4.09 2022 Whit (Unexpected, #1)
author: Cora Rose
name: jen
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2024/10/23
date added: 2024/10/23
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My favorite scene in the book was when Caleb took his guns and yelled, “WTF IS A KILOMETERRRRRR!�
]]> Cleopatra and Frankenstein 57693262 For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage.

Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank's life is full of all the excesses Cleo's lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a Green Card. But their impulsive marriage irreversibly changes both their lives, and the lives of those close to them, in ways they never could've predicted.

Each compulsively readable chapter explores the lives of Cleo, Frank, and an unforgettable cast of their closest friends and family as they grow up and grow older. Whether it's Cleo's best friend struggling to embrace his gender queerness in the wake of Cleo's marriage, or Frank's financially dependent sister arranging sugar daddy dates to support herself after being cut off, or Cleo and Frank themselves as they discover the trials of marriage and mental illness, each character is as absorbing, and painfully relatable, as the last.

As hilarious as it is heartbreaking, entertaining as it is deeply moving, Cleopatra and Frankenstein marks the entry of a brilliant and bold new talent.]]> 368 Coco Mellors 1635576814 jen 3 Men deserve nothing. 3.70 2022 Cleopatra and Frankenstein
author: Coco Mellors
name: jen
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2024/10/17
date added: 2024/10/17
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Men deserve nothing.
]]> <![CDATA[Every Breath After: Part 2 (Lost Boys, #3)]]> 210394463
Official blurb and cover coming soon.
Release date TBA.]]> Jessie Walker jen 0 to-read 4.90 Every Breath After: Part 2 (Lost Boys, #3)
author: Jessie Walker
name: jen
average rating: 4.90
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rating: 0
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date added: 2024/10/05
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]]> <![CDATA[Every Breath After: Part 1 (Lost Boys, #3)]]> 126872043
A promise. A wish. A twist of fate.

I fell in love with 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝘆𝗮𝘁𝘁 before I even knew the meaning of the word. Long before I even considered that the rumors about me were true.

Like a superhero from the pages of our favorite comics, he’s always been there for me, time and time again. My friend. My protector. My rock.

On the outside, he’s everything I’m not. Brave and ambitious—even a little reckless. He wears his heart on his sleeve, while I keep mine locked up, terrified of what might burst out should I let my guard down even the slightest bit.

But Mason’s got his secrets too, ones only I’m privy to. Demons not unlike the ones I’ve been at war with for as long as I can remember. Perhaps that’s why, from the second we met, he’s always felt like 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦.

Too bad he’s straight� and in love with my twin sister.

For years, I’ve had no choice but to grin and bear it from the sidelines, wishing for things to be different, waiting for the day I could finally leave our tiny town and get over the boy who was never meant for me.

But when the unthinkable happens, shattering life as we know it, I find myself trapped in the ruins of what once was.

He needs me.
And I need him to need me.

Together, we try to find shelter in the wreckage of who we were and what we lost, weathering lows I could never have even imagined.

But the closer we get, the worse things fall apart�
And I can’t help but wonder, if perhaps it was a kinder fate when I could only love him from afar.

It’s true what they say.
𝘽𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙛𝙤𝙧.

Every Breath After: Part I is a full-length, slow burn, emotional, friends to lovers M/M romance novel coming May 3rd 2024. Part II TBA. This is not a standalone. It is highly recommended this series be read in order, starting with Where There's A Will (Lost Boys Book 1). TW will be posted on author’s website closer to release.]]> 700 Jessie Walker jen 4 4.65 2024 Every Breath After: Part 1 (Lost Boys, #3)
author: Jessie Walker
name: jen
average rating: 4.65
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/10/05
date added: 2024/10/05
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I truly hate this dynamic soooo much, like I was in absolute agony the entire time. Jeremy is perfect. Mason needed to get beaten with hammers� but then he was� okay. I need Mason to actually CHOOSE Jeremy over Izzy so Jeremy can finally understand� Unfortunately, this means I will be reading book 2 and suffering the whole time.
]]> The Silent Patient 45892184
Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.

Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.

Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations―a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....]]> 359 Alex Michaelides 125030170X jen 4 4.24 2019 The Silent Patient
author: Alex Michaelides
name: jen
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2022/12/11
date added: 2024/10/02
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Men truly are the root of all evil�
]]> The Last Girls Standing 208113735
You don’t usually meet the love of your life while running from masked men with machetes, but that’s exactly what happens to Sloan after surviving a ritual killing that left so many of her fellow summer camp counselors dead. Cherry, the only other survivor, becomes a lifeline for Sloan, their traumatic experience bonding them in ways no one else can understand.

As the girls get closer, and Sloan learns more about the motives behind the attack that brought them together, she begins to suspect that Cherry may be more than just a survivor—she may actually have been a part of it. Cherry tries to reassure her, but Sloan only becomes more distraught. Is this gaslighting or reality? Is Cherry a victim or a perpetrator? Is Sloan losing her mind, or seeing things clearly for the first time?

Against all odds, Sloan survived that hot summer night. But will she survive what comes next?]]> 320 Jennifer Dugan 0593532090 jen 2 3.09 2023 The Last Girls Standing
author: Jennifer Dugan
name: jen
average rating: 3.09
book published: 2023
rating: 2
read at: 2024/09/30
date added: 2024/09/30
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If you’re gonna be weird, you can’t be boring. That’s a law, and this book broke it.
]]> Captive in the Underworld 55812571 Some flowers bloom only in the dark�

In the land of the dead, Queen Hades� word is law. Hades gets what she wants—always—and what she wants is a certain goddess of the springtime.

Innocent Persephone chafes beneath her mother’s hawkish gaze and mercurial temper. Demeter has rebuffed all her daughter’s suitors, but she is not yet satisfied; she strives to crush Persephone’s spirit.

Still, when Hades pulls her into the dark realm of the underworld, Persephone longs for the world above, even if it means an eternity under her mother’s thumb.

With her tears and pleas for freedom ignored by pitiless Hades, Persephone must learn to satisfy her keeper in all ways, lest she suffer the consequences.

And though she cannot deny that something blooms within her, something forbidden, Persephone despairs of ever feeling the sun upon her skin once more.

No matter the cost, Hades intends to keep her.

Forever.

* * *

Captive in the Underworld is a standalone dark lesbian romance novel set in mythological ancient Greece. It is rooted in the misogyny and cruelties of the Hades/Persephone myth and contains sensitive material. Due to mature content and dark themes, this book is intended for adult readers only. It contains scenes depicting non-consensual sex, death, abuse, kidnapping, assault, and other intimate partner violence. It is not recommended for readers sensitive to such content.]]> 316 Lianyu Tan 0648994805 jen 3
Merged review:

I loved Persephone so much but then again, I love every single version of her. This was definitely dark so if you’re going in expecting something cutesy, turn back right now. Overall, I did like the story. I just wish I saw their relationship develop more.]]> 3.53 Captive in the Underworld
author: Lianyu Tan
name: jen
average rating: 3.53
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2021/11/28
date added: 2024/09/28
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I loved Persephone so much but then again, I love every single version of her. This was definitely dark so if you’re going in expecting something cutesy, turn back right now. Overall, I did like the story. I just wish I saw their relationship develop more.

Merged review:

I loved Persephone so much but then again, I love every single version of her. This was definitely dark so if you’re going in expecting something cutesy, turn back right now. Overall, I did like the story. I just wish I saw their relationship develop more.
]]> Lilith 81069444 In the Garden of Eden, at the beginning of time, an outrageous lie is born: that women are inferior.

Lilith and Adam are equal and happy in the Garden of Eden. Until Adam decides Lilith should submit to his will and lie beneath him. She refuses - and is banished forever from Paradise.

Demonized and sidelined, Lilith watches in fury as God creates Eve, the woman who accepts her submission. But Lilith has a secret: she has already tasted the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Endowed with Wisdom, she knows why Asherah - God's wife and equal, the Queen of Heaven - is missing. Lilith has a plan: she will rescue Eve, find Asherah, restore balance to the world and regain her rightful place in Paradise.

Lilith's quest for justice drives her throughout history, from the ziggurats of Ancient Sumer to the court of Israel's Queen Jezebel, and to the side of a radical preacher in Roman Judea. In the modern age, as she observes the catastrophic consequences of a world built on inequality, Lilith finally understands what must be done to correct the wrong done to women - and all humankind - at the beginning of time.

Inspired by ancient myths and suppressed scriptures, Lilith is a thought-provoking and ambitious novel with an evocative literary voice and a triumphantly engaging heroine.]]> 336 Nikki Marmery 1639105719 jen 0 to-read 3.63 2023 Lilith
author: Nikki Marmery
name: jen
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/09/27
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]]> The Lying Game 36622726
The next morning, three women in and around London—Fatima, Thea, and Isa—receive the text they had always hoped would never come, from the fourth in their formerly inseparable clique, Kate, that says only, “I need you.�

The four girls were best friends at Salten, a second-rate boarding school set near the cliffs of the English Channel. Each different in their own way, the four became inseparable and were notorious for playing the Lying Game, telling lies at every turn to both fellow boarders and faculty. But their little game had consequences, and as the four converge in present-day Salten, they realize their shared past was not as safely buried as they had once hoped…]]> 416 Ruth Ware 1501156209 jen 2 3.56 2017 The Lying Game
author: Ruth Ware
name: jen
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2017
rating: 2
read at: 2024/09/23
date added: 2024/09/23
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I was bored for half of it and the reveal was lackluster. However, I do love beautiful female friendships.
]]> <![CDATA[Oleander: A Great Expectations Reimagining]]> 210894690
It took me years to realise that he hadn’t been born like that. He’d been cultivated and nurtured by a careful hand and a bitter heart. When I first met him, he was a bud. One primed to bloom beautifully and deadly. One I should have torn out at the root.

I loathed him. I loved him. And until him, I hadn’t known just how completely those two things could exist at once.]]> 599 Scarlett Drake jen 5 4.70 2024 Oleander: A Great Expectations Reimagining
author: Scarlett Drake
name: jen
average rating: 4.70
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2024/09/22
date added: 2024/09/22
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Spent 80% of the book in absolute agony. Jude is everything good and wonderful. Cas is devastatingly complex and beautiful. I’m out of words and out of tears.
]]> <![CDATA[Still Beating (Lost Boys, #2.6)]]> 63032830 THE END WAS JUST THE BEGINNING...


I thought I was strong enough to say goodbye.
I thought I was ready to leave him.
It doesn't matter that I'll be seeing him in three days.
I just have to get through three more nights.
I'm dying now. Shattering. Breaking.
I'm determined to show him I can manage on my own.
What if he needs me?
I need him...
What if he doesn't?
...but I want to be better for him.
What if this time I need him?
I want to be strong without him.




Still Beating is a 29,000 word novella that picks up right where the Lost Boys Duet left off. It is highly recommended that this series be read in order, starting with Where There's A Will. This novella deals with topics that may be difficult for some to read. Triggers for this series are listed on the author's website.]]> 185 Jessie Walker jen 4 4.43 Still Beating (Lost Boys, #2.6)
author: Jessie Walker
name: jen
average rating: 4.43
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2024/09/17
date added: 2024/09/17
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I should’ve put off reading this so I could make it last and wouldn’t have to say goodbye to willway so soon
]]> <![CDATA[If There's a Way (Lost Boys #2)]]> 60649230 He was all I ever needed.

Desperate. Shattered. Lost.
I was a shell of who I once was.

Until him...

I was a fool to come back to Shiloh.
An even bigger fool to stay.

But when it comes to Waylon McAllister, I never stood a chance.

He's damaged. Reckless. Toxic.
A walking, talking grenade to my heart.

But no matter how hard I try, I can't shake him.
Especially not now, when I've finally had a taste of what could be.
I want to love him. Protect him. Make him mine...

If only he'd let me.

Where there's a will, there's a way, right?
He called us doomed.
I'm beginning to think he's right.

Because monsters only lie in wait for so long.
And when out time finally runs out...
It might not just be my heart on the line this time.


*If There's A Way is Book 2 of 2 in the Lost Boys Duet. In order to understand the contents of this book, you must read Where There's A Will first. This is the conclusion of Will & Waylon's story. This duet deals with heavy topics that may be triggering for some readers.]]> 601 Jessie Walker jen 5 4.45 2022 If There's a Way (Lost Boys #2)
author: Jessie Walker
name: jen
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2024/09/16
date added: 2024/09/16
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REAL agony. REAL romance. REAL yaoi. I need to be loved this insanely.
]]> <![CDATA[Where There's a Will (Lost Boys, #1)]]> 58786365 He was everything I never wanted.

Impulsive. Careless. Self-Destructive.
I'm the cliché they all warn you about.
The head case with a pretty face.
If I'm not chasing the bottom of a bottle,
I'm snorting a line off a girl's ass.
That guy you know who plays Russian Roulette at parties?
That's me.

But that all changes when he comes barreling back into my life.
Will Foster.

The boy from my childhood.
The boy I told myself was a fluke.
A mistake.
Nothing.

It's only a matter of time before he learns the truth.
Before he sees me for who I really am under all the bullshit.
Broken.
Tainted.
Worthless.

He wants to love me whole, but shouldn't he know better than that by now?
Saving someone who doesn't want to be saved is a recipe for disaster...

And loving someone who doesn't want to be loved?
Fucking hopeless.


* Where There’s A Will is a full-length, slow-burn, emotional MM romance novel. The story continues in If There’s A Way, coming 5.13.22. This duet deals with heavy topics that may be triggering for some readers.

]]> 503 Jessie Walker jen 4 No words. Just pain. 4.27 2021 Where There's a Will (Lost Boys, #1)
author: Jessie Walker
name: jen
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2024/09/12
date added: 2024/09/12
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No words. Just pain.
]]> Here for the Wrong Reasons 197522493 In this swoon-filled lesbian romcom, two dating show contestants vying for the affection of the leading man fall head over heels—for each other.

Fans of Ashley Herring Blake and Alexandria Bellefleur, and readers who love The Bachelor, will adore this steamy, laugh-out-loud debut romance.

Krystin knows exactly what she a husband, a horse, and a place to hang all her competitive rodeo blue ribbons. But when none of the eligible bachelors in Montana end up being right for her, she turns to reality TV. On Hopelessly Devoted, Krystin will compete against dozens of other women for the heart of this season’s Hopeless Romantic, Josh Rosen. She’s determined to win the perfect life she came here for—if she can just ignore the glossy brunette whose crimson smile gives her goosebumps.

Lauren has never done anything for the right reasons—and she’s definitely not on Hopelessly Devoted to win Josh’s heart. Lauren’s plan is simple: stay on the show long enough to build her social media following, and then gracefully leave when it's her turn to be eliminated. With enough followers, she’ll finally have enough influencer clout to do whatever she wants—including come out of the proverbial walk-in closet. But the longer she stays on the show, the more she finds herself tangled up in a certain blonde’s lasso.

But neither contestant expects a heteronormative dating show to challenge their own deeply-ingrained ideas of who they are—and what they want. Fans of The Charm Offensive and Love Island will swoon for this sparkling debut romcom.]]> 336 Annabel Paulsen 1639107096 jen 2 3.66 2024 Here for the Wrong Reasons
author: Annabel Paulsen
name: jen
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2024
rating: 2
read at: 2024/08/11
date added: 2024/09/08
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Cute but I feel like there was hardly any romantic build up. Like they hooked up 3 times and now they’re in love? Whatever it was fun and sapphic.
]]> <![CDATA[How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager (Guides for Dating Vampires, #1)]]> 61028601 "I WANT YOU TO BITE ME."

Vincent Barnes has suffered four years as a vampire, and they’ve been the most miserable years of his pathetic life. Too poor for black market blood, he feeds from sleeping humans to survive. He tries to never intrude on the same prey twice, but after a single delicious taste of a long-lost childhood neighbor, he can’t help returning for seconds.

Wesley Garcia has been waking up with fang marks. Lucky for him, he needs a vampire—to use as bait. He’s certain Vitalis-Barron Pharmaceutical killed his mother, but to gain access to their covert research labs, he has to bring them a bloodsucker for their experiments.

Step one, a dramatic offer: Stay, and you can bite me.

Vincent leaps at the chance to gobble Wesley up.

Wes’s plan is perfect. He’ll befriend the vampire, then trick him into coming to the lab. No fighting, no fuss. But Vincent is more than Wesley has bargained for: sweet and shy, with intoxicating fangs that awaken new desires in Wes. As the two bond, Vincent believes he might have finally found someone worth putting his trust in... and Wes fears neither of them will survive the betrayal he has planned.

How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win and Wager is a slow-burn paranormal mm romance full of laughter, angst, and thirsty pining. It is perfect for fans of fangs and scientific interpretations of vampirism, with a medium spice level that heats up further in the free bonus content. Content includes bite kink, bleeding (non-kinky), medical experimentation (not experienced by the point of view characters), one particular lesbian BFF who should be reported to HR, and the use of “bodice-ripping� as a verb.]]> 396 D.N. Bryn 1958051047 jen 1 3.71 2022 How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager (Guides for Dating Vampires, #1)
author: D.N. Bryn
name: jen
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2022
rating: 1
read at: 2024/06/04
date added: 2024/09/08
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Started out having fun then got bored really quickly.
]]> <![CDATA[The Last House on Needless Street]]> 54621094
All these things are true. And yet they are all lies...

You think you know what's inside the last house on Needless Street. You think you've read this story before. That's where you're wrong.

In the dark forest at the end of Needless Street, lies something buried. But it's not what you think...]]> 337 Catriona Ward 1788166167 jen 2 3.82 2021 The Last House on Needless Street
author: Catriona Ward
name: jen
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2021
rating: 2
read at: 2024/04/08
date added: 2024/09/08
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Gay people are real and sometimes they’re cats too.
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