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  (It's H.D. Zaddie Carlton. Of course it's 5/5 stars) FYI this post has trigger warning from the book. Research before reading. I'm aware I went on a 10 day hiatus but a. I was recovering after Fangirl Down and b. life just isn't lifing right now. Kill me. No but seriously. Where is she? Written by none other than the creator of Zaddie herself, H.D. Carlton made sure to make the wait worth it. If you’ve read The Cat & Mouse Duo, you’ll know that Molly was the last women who escaped Francesca before Adeline did. That journal that Adeline found under the floorboard was written by Molly which gave Adeline the last little push to get the hell out of that house. I speak for the whole dark romance when I say we were as invested in where Molly was as we were in Adeline’s escape. When your read something as dark, gruesome and well haunting as Hunting Adeline, it’s hard to find something that will ever top it. On one of the Q&A’s done by H.D. Carlton on her Instag...

(The fastest 5 stars I've given ever. Period) Grumpy x Sunshine. Bad boy golfer. She’s his ##1 fan. Forced proximity. Touch her and die. Spice. This book has it all down to the T. Waterstones knows how to make a bookish girl’s day. On this occasion it was the text I got say Fangirl Down had arrived and my pre-order was ready for collection at 10.45. I don’t run. I’m not a runner. I hate it unless it’s to get a Tessa Bailey book. Since I read about playboy Fox Thornton and understanding Hannah Bellinger, everything that women write is an insta-buy for me. Whether it’s £10 or £100, it’s mine. #1 book of 2024. Already. That’s right. I declare this the winner right here even before reading anything else. I don’t know what Tessa Bailey laced this with – maybe a Wells Whitaker – but it’s done the damage intended. Safe to say I don’t want a billionaire anymore – okay low-key still do – but I also want a moody, broody, 6ft2 golf player. Wells Belle? Oh, sign me the hell up. Josephi...

  (5/5 Stars - Chef's kiss) 13-year age gap. Consider me bought. Beau Eaton meets Bailey Jansen. So Beau wasn’t the happy go lucky guy he’d been faking after all. Interesting. I wish I was as good actor as Beau. Bailey Jansen is known for her notorious family of jailbait dad and illegal brothers. All one has to say is Jansen and the whole of Chesnut springs is either giving side way glances or cutting in the que whilst someone is trying to get coffee. Bailey was seen throughout the series, always portrayed as this shy, timid girl which she was…..until she wasn’t. Beau wasn’t aware that Miss Jansen was using their river in the back to cool down since the trailer – dubbed boiler – is literally as hot as the sun. Beau Eaton isn’t anything like he seems. Well, kind of, sort of, maybe. If you’ve read Powerless , then you would know that Beau went missing on his last deployment. We get a deeper look into the situation throughout Hopeless but it seems like Beau has always had PTSD. ...

  (3.5/5 Stars) It was all going soooo well…..then this happened. Okay. I’m being a bit too dramatic. It wasn’t that bad but like it had a hockey player x ballerina as the MC’s. It would have been so much better if someone just made me the damn beta reader but nooooo. Huh. Not my loss. Anyways! Sloane Winthrop and Jasper Gervais. First and foremost, Beau went missing! Why was I more bothered about Bea than the actual MC’s at hand? That was problem number one. Just a big fat waving red flag for the whole novel. I understand it was the pre-face for the last installment but it kind of just stole my attention. Second of all, it was just dragging out scenes that didn’t need to be dragged out. I have a strong suspicion that whoever was the alpha, beta, editorial, readers in general of this book were different to the remaining ones. There is no one someone read this and thought, ‘hmmm yeah quality is just spot on’. It was progressing so nicely, until this. So, did I mention I’m a bit ...

  (4.5/5 Stars) It’s always the red heads that pack a punch. Jules Ambrose. Penny Price. Need I go on? I’m very successfully adding Willa Grant onto this list to. The single dad x nanny trope. I’ve read it once before in a mediocre book by Ella Maise with Tessa Bailey releasing her version later summer this year. In all honestly, Willa didn’t speak to me when I saw snippets off her in Flawless hence why I wasn’t going into reading this book with high expectations or just high views in general. To say I was pleasantly surprise would be hitting the nail on the head. Did I mention the age gap? 15 years to be exact. 25 with a 38-year-old and boy do I wish I was Willa. Cade Eaton is the oldest Eaton who became his dad’s (Harvey) partner after the passing of his mother. No one told him to but he felt like he had the responsibility after seeing his dad lose his light, his siblings - alongside himself - lose their mother and a Wishing Well Ranch lose its spark. Enter Talia (that little...

                                            (4/5 Stars - left some crumbs. Eeek. I'm sorry) Remember how I said I starting reading this series in the wrong order? Well, Flawless (#1) is that book and I am whizzing through the Chesnut Spring series like a bottle of fine wine…. or Lucozade in my case. No drinking party here. Was I thoroughly amused by the read? Duh. Obviously, I read it in like 3 days. Did it pique my interest where and when it should have? Absolutely. Do Summer & Rhett beat Theo & Winter? Hell no. But that’s fine. They weren’t supposed to. Let’s talk about it! One factor I’ve noticed in the two books by Elise Silver that I have read is this; the men aren’t overly grouchy nor are they so sweet I’ll have to get a cavity. Just somewhere in the middle. It’s so good for the soul. I’ve been sucked in by the billionaire era and the Ryle (scoffing so hard) ...