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Ghosted - J.M. Darhower

  (It's my favourite trope. 5/5) So, I may or may not have set the time for this post to go live like 3 weeks after reading it but hey, that’s technology for you. Let’s just skip past the human error made my myself and get into the review. After reading Elsie Silver’s Reckless which involved a surprise pregnancy from a one-night stand, I went down a rabbit whole of reading books with similar tropes. Did I read a lot? Yes, were they all review worthy? Definietly not. Did I find only one that I liked? Of course, and it was none other than J.M. Darhower’s Ghosted. Despite Ghosted not having the entirely same kind of trope as Reckless, I loved it nonetheless. Starring Johnny Cunning and single mother Kennedy Garfield with little Madison. A second chance romance stand-alone that showcased how dreams turned into nightmares.  Johnny is a troubled young actor and Hollywood’s newest heartthrob who is known as Breezo the superhero. Scandals, addictions and a piece of his heart t...

Wild Eyes - Elsie Silver

            (5/5 - heart eyes) This is where it’s at. This is the Elsie Silver I found missing whilst reading Wild Love . I’m in my small-town romance era and I’m not sad about it. Weston Belmont and Skylar Stone are everything you want and more. Oh my god. I’m so in love. Where do I begin? The best part of Wild Love was when it ended and there was a chapter from Wild Eyes inserted at the end. As soon as I read it, I knew that it was going to be the best book Elsie has ever written. And I wasn’t wrong. It gave It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey vibes but both characters were sunshine in Wild Eyes. I only realized how unappreciative of sunny men I am, until I switched from the billionaire tropes to the small-town romance ones. Weston Belmont is a blue-eyed single dad with two children – 6-year-old Emmy and 8-year-old selective mute Oliver – who has the healthiest relationship with his ex-wife Mia and boyfriend Boring Brandon. When I tell you it was...