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Love my little reading partner, Darcy. 🐈

Book: Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross. 📚

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(by Juliana Beffa)

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Just finished the series!! 🩵🩵

Caraval series by Stephanie Garber

Caraval ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Legendary ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Finale ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Not sure why but Julian is my favorite character 🤷🏻‍♀️

Such a good series. I could not put the last one down. 🩵

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Sometimes I feel like I can have a totally healthy relationship with Christianity and other times all the religious trauma comes back up and I wonder how I could possibly love something that's the enemy of truth, freedom, and human flourishing.

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Once Upon a Broken Heart series

By: Stephanie Garber

1. Once Upon a Broken Heart ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

For anyone who has ever made a bad decision because of a broken heart.

2. The Ballad of Never After ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

For anyone who has ever feared they won’t find true love.

3. A Curse for True Love ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

For anyone who’s ever hoped for a second chance.

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Love Redesigned. By Lauren Asher.

Book 1 of the Lakefront Billionaires series.

I was somewhat nervous to read this because I did not care for her other series. I only read the first one. The Fine Print. But this one was actually good and I plan on reading the next one when it comes out.

Quotes:

To those whose love language is words of affirmation. Your praise kink is safe with me (and Julian Lopez).

He stares up at me like one does the sun—in equal parts pain and wonder.

You’re playing with fire, my head warns. Wrong. I’m playing with something far more dangerous. Dahlia Isabella Muñoz.

“I love this song.” “I know.” He grabs his menu while my heart thumps hard enough to almost jump out of my chest.

“When did we go from wanting to murder each other to wanting to murder for one another?” I tease in a desperate attempt to change the subject. “Since I found out how much he hurt you.”

“Julian won’t hurt you.” I rear back. “How do you know?” “The answer is obvious every time I catch him staring at you.” My heart misses a beat. “What do you mean?” “That man would rather hurt himself before putting you in true harm’s way.”

“If you have to change yourself to fit someone’s ideal version of you, then that’s not love.”

“I’m afraid to depend on people.” “Your issue isn’t depending on people but rather finding the right people to depend on.”

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The Cheat Sheet

By: Sarah Adams

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Nathan Donelson & Bree Camden

They met when they were 16 years old. Became best friends. The star QB and the ballerina. They were secretly in love with each other for 6 years.

Fake dating/ friends to lovers trope

Hope is healthy. Even if I prepare myself for the worst in life, it will never make the fall hurt less.

When Nathan’s voice reaches me, low, and quiet, I almost think I’ve heard him wrong. “Yeah, but that was when it was just fake.”

“You did all of this for me?” “I’d do anything for you.”

“My beautiful, lovely wife.”

“Still with me, Bree Cheese?” I press a kiss to his chest. “Always.”

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With You Forever

By: Chloe Liese

Book 5/7 of the Bergman Brothers

Oliver Bergman & Gavin Hayes

Age gap/ grumpy-sunshine trope

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

For anyone who’s been scared or hurt, who’s loved and lost. You’re brave. You’re enough. I believe in you.

“I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.” - Jane Austen, Northsnger Abbey

“Ollie, of course. We’re already proud of you. If you did nothing but exist the rest your life, we’d be proud of you. Because you’re ours and we love you.”

I bite my check, remembering vividly how it felt the first time I saw him two years ago. Like I’d taken a direct kick to the gut. Tall, fast. All long, lithe limbs and easy smiles. He’s everything I once was and more. Young. Happy. Healthy. The world at his feet. Untold possibility on the pitch.

Oliver’s the kind of beautiful that’s undeniable— a face for sculpture. High cheekbones, strong jaw, the smallest cleft in his chin. Fair. Sun-kissed skin, hair the color of wheat at sunset, pale blue-gray eyes, cool and sticking as moonlit ice.

You can deny it until you’re blue in the face, but everyone wants to be loved somehow, someway, for their little bit of warped, jagged light, for those cracks that have shaped who they are— not just their joy but their pain. Everyone wants to be seen.

His mouth parts. “Wait, you’ve been attracted to me—.” “Since I fucking saw you? Yes.”

“Where?” “That depends,” I hear my voice say. “On?” Colin prompts. “Wherever the man I love goes next, if he’ll have me … if he will, I’ll be following him.”

“I know. And I hope you know that is exactly what I want, too. That this …” he lifts my hand, sets it straight over his heart. “Is yours. That it every beat is for you.”

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Series: The Santillian Triplets

Book 1: The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures in Dating.

By: Kate Canterbary

Read on Kindle.

I love the way this book strayed away from the normal girl meets guy then they fall in love and get married. Magnolia decided to take a chance in the dating world by dating a guy from a dating app and a guy she meet in person. They are aware of each other and so the reader is not aware of who she ends up with until towards the end. Some people might have been able to guess but I really did not know. I was clueless lol.

“I didn't know how it felt to be wanted and I didn't know how I'd handle it if I ever found out.”

“I wanted to be someone worth getting to know. And then, I wanted to be someone worth treasuring.”

“I wanted a partner who'd rearrange the world for me. That was what I wanted. That was it. That was my thing. Right there.”

“You strike me as the type of woman who'd survive in a world that wasn't ready for you.”

“I needed me and nothing more. And that was the ah-ha moment of all this—the delicate space between needs and wants. I needed to know and love myself and I wanted a man who knew and loved me as I was.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Book 2: Boss in the Bedsheets.

Ash and Zelda’s story. They met on a plane and fell fast.

“"Are most days like this?" The doctor said something about the next part being quick and advising me to take a deep breath and breathe through it, but I asked, "Is it wrong for me to want them all to be like this?"”

“"You should know by now I need you more than I care to admit."”

⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Book 3: The Belle and the Beard.

Linden Wolf Santillian & Jasper-Anne Clearly

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

You know how people do it? They decide to fuck the plan. Seriously. Fuck the plan. Walk in the woods. Reject anyone’s definition of success. Abandon exceptions. Listen to your heartbeat. Take no one’s shit.

“Nothing blooms in every season, I said. “You shouldn’t expect that of yourself when it doesn’t occur in nature.”

… people weren’t supposed to be one stationary, static thing their entire lives. People were supposed to live a lot of lives in their time on this planet. They were supposed to reinvent themselves and reevaluate their beliefs. They were supposed to look back and shake their head at the things they did before they knew better. They were supposed to get all of the second chances.

Has it occurred to you even once that I do these things for you? And I like doing these for you?

There’s no limit on the number of acts in your play. You get as many as you want. You just have to keep getting on stage.

Yeah, she could crack the earth open. She could snap me in half. She could do anything she wanted and I’d let her. I’d fucking let her.

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Bride by Ali Hazelwood.

Lowe Moreland & Misery Lark 🖤🖤

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“Am I? Under your protection?” “You’re my wife.”

“You know what makes Alphas good leaders,” he asks without looking up. “No clue.” He huffs out a laugh. “Neither do I. But at times, there are decisions that feel right deep in the marrow of my bones.” He wets his lips. “You are one of them.”

Some nights, when he’s walking past her door, he has to whisper to himself: “Keep going.”

I want to ask him why I found a jar of creamy peanut butter in my fridge. If he’s the reason the house is now three degrees warmer than when I arrived.

His lips press together. As though there is a flavor he wants to hold in his mouth a moment longer. “Better?” “My smell. Do I smell like…?” “Mine. You smell like your mine, Misery.”

“Of all the good things I’ve felt in my fucking life, you are the best.”

“I could thrall you.” His smile looks sad. “You already have, Misery.

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Book: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

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Practice Makes Perfect

By Sarah Adams

Omg with another perfect book boyfriend. Will Griffin. 😍

I love Amelia’s obsession with Audrey Hepburn. She had her Roman Holiday in the first book and Annie had her Funny Face remake in this book.

FYI. My favorite Audrey is Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. 🩵

Annie: You’d do that for me? Will: I’m quickly learning that I’d do anything for you.

“Please. Just let me be here. I don’t know why, but I can’t be anywhere else. I tried but my feet keep bringing me back here to your door.” He pauses, looks to the soup and then to me. “This … isn’t something I would normally do, but I just need to take care of you. Please let me.”

“I guess when I realized it felt scarier to live life without her than with her.”

“… I’d say that I regret the things I never said way more than the things I have said.”

“But I can’t go through life without knowing you, and talking to you, and holding your hand when I go on an adventure because you promised. Because I’ve never felt with anyone what I feel with you.”

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When In Rome

By Sarah Adams

Noah = perfect book boyfriend 😍😍

… “My mom used to be my best friend — but she only likes me for my money now. Susan only care about my success. And the world only wants me for Rae Rose.” There’s a long pause as she signs deeply. “I’m drowning and no one sees me.”

It’s not infatuation. Not even lust. It’s the worst of all the feelings … care. Care is reckless because it doesn’t come with the self belt that selfishness offers. Care has so much to lost, and almost always ends in heartbreak.

I push Amelia’s hair from her ear so I know she can hear me. “I see you.”

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371 pages and I read it in 5 hours! I picked it up and could not put it down. Idk what it was but I just could not. It is not the greatest book I’ve read but it was an easy read. Excited for book two. Now to watch the show on Netflix. 🧡🩷

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The Prince of Envy and Miss Camilla Antonius. He believes her to be a mortal but she is anything but. I won’t ruin it by saying what she is. 😉 It was a great read and hope to hear from each of the princes of hell. Check out the Kingdom of the Wicked series for Prince Wrath’s story. 🖤

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Despite his best effort not to notice, Camilla was beautiful.

… Envy found he didn’t care about anything but the female he’d happily break all his rules for. From now until forever fucking more.

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These are the books I have read so far this year.

1. The Fake Out - Fake relationship trope.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

“You’re so beautiful it makes my chest hurt.” My heart pounds. “And even when we’re a hundred years old,” he whispers, “I’ll be flirting with you to get your attention.”

2. Finished the L.O.R.D.S. series. 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

The Ritual ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 (Read9/3/23)

The Sinner ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The Sacrifice ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Sabotage ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Carnage ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

3. Wildfire ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

4. Check & Mate 😍😍 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5. I freaking love Ali Hazelwood.

5. One Night - Romeo and Juliet / Surprise Pregnancy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5. Book 4 of the Sullivan Family series. Can’t wait to dive into the King brothers series.

To anyone who has ever felt like you were fading into the background. You deserve a man who looks at you and says, “For you, I would.”

I wish I could have you. I wish you were mine. In reality, I have wanted you for years and I hate that I can’t have you. I thought that taking care of my dad and giving up everything was the hardest thing that I have ever had to do, but the truth is that wanting you is by far the single hardest thing I have ever had to do.

Now I am currently listening to With You Forever by Chloe Liese. Part of the Bergman Brothers series. This is Axel and Rooney’s relationship. ❤️❤️

And I am currently reading Throne of the Fallen by Kerrie Maniscalco. After reading Kingdom of the Wicked series, I am excited about this one. I wonder if she will do all of the princes of sin. Ready to see what Prince Envy is up to and read his HEA.

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https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2023/50803665

I did not reach my goal but I am proud of the books that I read this year. That number could have been a little higher if I would not have been sick the last week of December. ☹️

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