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Book ReviewsMeghan Quinn

So This is War

by Jill
written by Jill
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Book Review:
So This is War

Meghan Quinn

Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase.

I dropped EVERYTHING to read this one the second it hit my kindle – it did NOT disappoint 😍😍

I loved seeing another side to Posey, and seeing him meet his perfect match in Wylie 🥰

We’ve got – age gap, coach’s daughter aka FORBIDDEN big time, boss/assistant, & they become roommates – the tension is 🔥🔥
Agitators fans – you’re gonna LOVE it!

📖 So This is War
📝 Meghan Quinn
🗓️ 06/25/2024
🏒 sports romance
📱 read on kindle (arc)
📚 book 5 • Vancouver Agitators series

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌶️🌶️🌶️

💭 overall thoughts:
This was HILARIOUS and sweet, and just the perfect *ending* to this series – though I will miss these boys so much! 😭
Ready for OC’s spinoff series 🙃

There were so many things I loved about this book!

First off, the “erotic torture” – I was constantly laughing out loud with how they were with one another.

It reminded me a lot of that episode of Friends (MQ even mentions it) – the “they don’t know we know they know” one.

The group text chat with the ladies of the Agitators made me so happy. I love the boys shenanigans, but their women are flat out AMAZING.

The spice was spicing too – that scene in the s3x club 😮‍💨 iykyk

I hope this isn’t too much of a spoiler but… Wylie LOVES BOLOGNA!
Could anyone BE more perfect for POSEY?! 🥪

“I love bologna sandwiches,” she whispers.
“So do I,” I whisper back.
“That’s how I know we’re meant to be together.”

Aside from the romance, we also get the struggles of a complex father-daughter relationship between Wylie + her dad (Posey’s coach). That was a bit of a struggle to read, the way he thinks about her and treats her for most of the book is heartbreaking (they do work things out, but it feels sort of toxic for a lot of the story).

tropes + topics:
🧡 age gap (22/32)
📋 coach’s daughter
🏒 pro hockey player
🏠 roommates
🖇️ boss/assistant – workplace
🚫 forbidden
🫶🏼 found family
💞 dual 1st person pov

✨ books with similar vibes:
♡ Beautiful Stranger by Christina Lauren (workplace, intense physical chemistry)

Thank you to Meghan Quinn for an advanced copy. All opinions are my own.

Find it on Goodreads HERE.

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Book ReviewsMeghan Quinn

Right Man, Right Time

by Jill
written by Jill
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Book Review:
Right Man, Right Time

Meghan Quinn

Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase.

My goodness this book was so HOT 🔥🔥

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

After kissing a stranger (Silas) at a bar to show her ex she’s *fine,* Ollie + Silas realize they can help each other in more ways than one.

She needs help with her internship (writing about hockey), and he needs a buffer to keep his ex (now working with the team) away from trying to get back together.

But what happens when feelings get in the way?

💭 overall thoughts:
I’m pretty obsessed with this whole series, and I feel like the books get better and better!

MCs:
Silas – I love how he’s totally a relationship guy, and definitely did not deserve how his ex treated him! He’s a sweet broken boy, who struggles to trust again.

Ollie – little spitfire! 10 years younger than Silas & a college student. I love how she goes after what she wants.

📖 story:
I love fake dating, I don’t think this was particularly unique there but 🤷🏻‍♀️ doesn’t bother me!

I feel like this book brought some good old MQ ridiculousness I was missing from the other books!
This one had me in stitches, especially whenever Ollie would tell the story of “how they met” 🤣

tropes + topics:
🩷 age gap
🥸 fake dating
🏒 pro hockey player
🗞️ college student – journalism
🫶🏼 found family
❤️‍🩹 broken mmc
💞 dual 1st person pov

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Book ReviewsKarissa Kinword

Christmas in Coconut Creek

by Jill
written by Jill
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Blurb:

There are a few things Coconut Creek has that Pine Ridge does not.
Palm trees, sandy beaches, butterfly museums—infuriatingly attractive special forces veterans.
 
When Colorado elementary school teacher Ophelia Brody decides to ditch her divorced family for a Christmas in the sunshine state with her college roommate, she doesn’t expect a mile high meet cute to tailspin the entire trip. Frankie Casado is cocky , he’s presumptuous , he’s shameless —and he’s just the right distraction from her depressing, fruitless dating life back home for a few weeks. It just so happens the retired fighter pilot is in somewhat of a rut of his own, and the circumstances around their coincidental meeting and unavoidable physical attraction are the perfect excuse for a festive fling.
 
The rules are Ophelia teaches him how to date again, and Frankie shows her exactly what she should be demanding behind closed doors. Friends with benefits until the ball drops in the New Year.
 
But a little bit of long-lost Christmas magic just might find a way to stir up more than their complicated pasts.
 
Source: Goodreads
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Book Review:
Christmas in Coconut Creek

Karissa Kinword

Series: Yes
Book 1 in the Dirty Delta series

Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ 5/5

Spice: 4/5

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This book was SO GOOD!

I loved everything about the dynamic between Ophelia and Frankie. Their dialogue and behaviour towards each other was refreshing, and they were far more realistic characters than I typically read.

I adored their meet cute, it totally had me laughing out loud, as did a lot of the book!

It was beautiful to read about them tearing down each other’s walls, with an undeniable connection leading to so much more than a fling.

I’m so glad there will be more books in this series, I’m not ready to fully let go of these two yet!

Tropes + topics:
✈️ Friends with benefits to lovers
👙 Military veteran pilot
✈️ Elementary school teacher
👙 Vacation fling
✈️ Forced proximity
👙 Age gap
✈️ Grumpy sunshine
👙 Slow burn
✈️ No 3rd act breakup
👙 Dual POV/first person
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Book ReviewsJulie Olivia

Off the Hook

by Jill
written by Jill
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I need a nanny, but I may need her more.

I know about my reputation as Never Harbor’s secluded single dad. But I have everything I need: my imaginative son, my dog, and our remodeled cottage by the sea.

That is, until my nanny quits.

My brother’s ex-fiancee, Wendy Darling, is an elementary school teacher with a free summer. The last thing I need is to get tangled in his mess, but my family thinks she’s a perfect fit for the job. Turns out, she fits in better than I could have imagined.

Wendy is nothing like I expected. She’s kind and adventurous, with a beautiful laugh that washes my worst nightmares away. She pushes past my silence and sees more of my true self than anyone has in years. And my six-year-old son is falling for her just as quickly.

Being with Wendy can never happen. Not when my younger brother is her ex-fiance. Not when she’s so close to our family. Not when our small coastal town gossips the way that it does.

But after so long in the dark, Wendy makes me feel something. Falling for her feels a lot like flying instead.

I know happy endings only belong in fairy tales, but I’m close to stealing one for myself.

Source: Goodreads

Book Review:
Off the Hook

Julie Olivia

Series: Yes
Book 1 in Never Harbor

Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ 5/5

Spice: 2/5

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My gosh I just feel so hard and fast for Jasper & Wendy! There was so much I loved about this book, and I didn’t want to stop reading 🥰 I’m so glad it’s just the beginning of a series, because I need so much more!

Wendy needed someone to put her first, as she deserves… Jasper needed someone to love him unconditionally.
This made them the perfect fit.

I love a lot of the tropes in this book, and reading them in a Julie way? Just perfect.

All the Peter Pan references were so fun, and done in a modern way that completely made sense for the book and setting.

Gah I love texting in books! Between Jasper & Wendy, and among the Davies siblings – it was all wonderful. I love how we got to know the siblings, and I’m excited for their books too.

Tropes + topics:
🏴‍☠️ Single Dad & Nanny
🪝 Ex fiancé’s brother
🏴‍☠️ Age gap
🪝Grumpy sunshine
🏴‍☠️ Found family
🪝 Coastal small town
🏴‍☠️ Wendy & Hook inspired
🪝Never Harbor series book 1
🏴‍☠️ Dual POV/first person

Thank you to Good Girls PR & author Julia Olivia for an advanced copy to review. All opinions are my own.
 
For more of my Julie Olivia reviews, click HERE.

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The Way I Hate Him by Meghan Quinn - Romance Book Review
Book ReviewsMeghan Quinn

The Way I Hate Him

by Jill
written by Jill
The Way I Hate Him by Meghan Quinn - Romance Book Review

Returning to her hometown after failing her semester for her masters degree, Hattie Rowley is dumped by her boyfriend Matt. Matt was working as an assistant for rockstar Hayes Farrow, and stealing from him.

Hattie returns the stolen items to Hayes, a man she hasn’t seen in years and has been taught growing up to hate, due to a rival with her older brother. The second Hayes sees Hattie, he needs to get to know her, so he hires her to sort through fan-mail for him.

As they spend more and more time together, neither is as the other suspected. They are both there for each other as they deal with various things – Hayes with past trauma and trying to write new songs, and Hattie with the death of her sister to cancer.

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Book Review:
The Way I Hate Him

Meghan Quinn

Series: No

Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ 5/5

Spice: 3/5

Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase.

The Way I Hate Him is a book filled with laughs, spice, and heart. Maggie, Hattie’s best friend, is absolutely hilarious and I hope she gets her own book! The spice is a bit slow to show up, but then when it hits, it hits SPICY 🤭

As for the heart – there are some heavy topics in this book, so make sure to check trigger warnings if they apply to you.

While this book is a standalone, I really hope we see more of these characters! I would love books for Maggie, Ryland & Aubree 🥰

What you’ll find in The Way I Hate Him:
⭐️ Enemies to lovers
⭐️ Age gap
⭐️ Rockstar
⭐️ Forced proximity
⭐️ Boss/employee
⭐️ Forbidden
⭐️ Brother’s rival
⭐️ Only one bed
⭐️ Small town
⭐️ Grief and loss
⭐️ Dual POV/first person

*tws: death of a sibling, cancer, parental abandonment, childhood trauma

Thank you to author Meghan Quinn for an advanced copy! All opinions are my own.

Find it on Goodreads HERE.

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