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hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about some of the books that i want to read in february. honestly, i want to read a lot of romance books, since i’ve been on such a romance kick lately, and also that its valentine’s day month, so it just feels kind of fitting.

from lukov with love by mariana zapata. if someone were to ask jasmine santos to describe the last few years of her life with a single word, it would definitely be a four letter one. after seventeen years and countless broken bones and broken promises, she knows her window to compete in figure skating is coming to a close. but when the offer of a lifetime comes in from an arrogant idiot she’s spent the last decade dreaming about pushing in the way of a moving bus, jasmine might have to reconsider everything.

while we were dating by jasmine guillory. ben stephens has never bothered with serious relationships. he has plenty of casual dates to keep him busy, family drama he’s trying to ignore and his advertising job to focus on. when ben lands a huge ad campaign featuring movie stars anna gardiner, however it’s hard to keep it purely professional. anna is not just gorgeous and sexy, she’s also down to earth and considerate, and he can’t help flirting a little. but, anna gardiner is on a mission: to make herself a household name, and this ad campaign will be a great distraction while she waits to hear if she’s booked her next movie. however, she didn’t expect ben stephens to be her biggest distraction. she knows mixing business with pleasure never works out, but why not indulge in a harmless flirtation? but their lighthearted banter takes a turn for the serious when ben helps anna in a family emergency, and they reveal truths about themselves to each other, truths they’ve barely shared with those closest to them.

beautiful bastard by christina lauren. whip smart, hardworking, and on her way to an MBA, chloe mills has only one problem: her boss, bennett ryan. he’s exacting, blunt, inconsiderate, and completely irresistible, a beautiful bastard. bennett has returned to chicago from france to take a vital role in his family’s massive media business. he never expected that the assistant who’d been helping him from abroad was the gorgeous, innocently provocative, completely infuriating, creature he now has to see everyday. despite the rumors, he’s never been one for a workplace hookup, but chloe’s so tempting, he’s willing to bend the rules, or outright smash them, if it meant he can have her. as their appetites for one another increases to a breaking point, bennett and chloe must decide exactly what they’re willing to lose in order to win each other.

ugly love by colleen hoover. when tate collins meets airplane pilot, miles archer, she knows it isn’t love at first sight. they wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. the only thing tate and miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set up. he doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as tate can stick to the only two rules miles has for her: never ask about the past and don’t expect a future. they think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all.

window shopping by tessa bailey. two weeks before christmas and all through manhattan, shop windows are decorated in red and green satin. i’m standing alone in front of the famous vivant department store, when a charming man named aiden asks my opinion of the décor. it’s a tragedy in tinsel, unable to lie. he asks for a better idea with a twinkle in his eye. did i know he owned the place? no, he put me on the spot. now i’m working for him, trying to ignore that he’s hot. but as a down on her luck girl with a difficult past, i know an opportunity when i see one, and i have to make it last.

a lady’s formula for love by elizabeth everett. lady violet hughes is keeping secrets. first, she founded a clandestine sanctuary for england’s most brilliant female scientists. second, she is using her genius on a confidential mission for the crown. but the biggest secret of all? her feelings for protection officer arthur kenland. solitary and reserved, arthur learned the hard way to put duty first. but the more time he spends in the company of violet and the eccentric club members, the more his best intentions go up in flame, literally. when a shadowy threat infiltrates violet’s laboratories, endangering her lie and her work, scientist and bodyguard will find all their theories out to the test, and learn that the most important discoveries are those of the heart.

the wisteria society of lady scoundrels by india holton. cecilia bassingwaite is the ideal victorian lady and she’s also a thief. like the other members of the wisteria society crime sorority, she flies around england drinking tea, blackmailing friends, and acquiring treasure by interesting means. sure, she has a dark and traumatic past and an overbearing aunt, but all things considered, it’s a pleasant existence. until the men show up. ned lightbourne is a sometimes assassin who is smitten with cecilia from the moment they meet. unfortunately, that happens to be while he’s under direct orders to kill her. his employer, captain morvath, who possesses a gothic abbey bristling with cannons and an unbridled hate for the women, starting with the wisteria society. ned has plans of his own, but both men have made one grave mistake, never underestimate a woman.

verity by colleen hoover. lowen ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. jeremy crawford, husband of bestselling author verity crawford, has hired lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. lowen arrives at the crawford home, ready to sort through years of verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. what lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography verity never intended for anyone to read. page after page of bone chilling admissions, including verity’s recollection of what really happened the day her daughter died. lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father. but as lowen’s feelings for jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words.

counting down with you by tashie bhuiyan. karina ahmed has a plan: keep her head down, get through high school without a fuss, and follow her parents’ rules- even if it means sacrificing her dreams. when her parents go abroad to bangladesh for four weeks, karina expects some peace and quiet. instead, one simple lie unravels everything: karina is my girlfriend. tutoring the school’s resident bad boy was already crossing a line. pretending to date him? out of the question. but ace clyde does everything right, he brings her coffee in the mornings, impresses her friends without even trying, and even promises to buy her a dozen books, a week, if she goes along with his fake dating façade. through karina agrees, she can’t help but start counting down the days until her parents come back.

anyway, that is all for today! honestly this isn’t a lot of books, since i kind of want to take this month slow and not feel to buried with a tbr. plus, i never really stick to a tbr, so i don’t know why i would take time to do a long tbr.

hello everyone! today i am going to talk about all the books i read in january. i honestly had a really good reading month, and i read so many books, which was honestly just a good start to the year, even if this month felt like 3 months long.

ice planet barbarians by ruby dixon. i gave this book 2/5 stars. honestly, this was such an unbelievable book, that it honestly made it to be a decent book. like, it was pure trash, but i mean it still was something that i still found entertaining.

ice planet honeymoon: vektal and georgie by ruby dixon. i gave this book 2/5 stars. again, this book was pure trash, but like it was still entertaining at the same time. like, i think every stable honeymoon you definitely go out and bury bodies. but, i mean, this was just so random, and i mean, i guess if you just want to read smut and burying bodies, this would be the perfect book for you.

the risk by st abby. i gave this book 5/5 stars. i honestly really loved this book. like i feel like this book was the perfect amount of bloody and romance, and i mean, it was just a really good book. plus, i think that it was just cool to see the whole serial killer x fbi agent romance, like it was just so fun and honestly a really cool dynamic.

sidetracked by st abby. i gave this book 5/5 stars. honestly, i honestly really loved the romance in this book, like i really liked seeing them fall in love and just to figure out everything out. and i mean, i liked to see lana’s issue with either falling for a guy that can put her away, and than also loving him at the same time. like, it was just so good. plus, i think the cliffhanger was just so good.

scarlet angel by st abby. i gave this book 5/5 stars. this was just a blood book, that it made it so good. like, i honestly didn’t expect this much gore in a romance book, but like this was just done so good and honestly such an interesting book. and i mean this book is totally one of those books you don’t read before you go to bed.

all these lies by st abby. i gave this book 5/5 stars. honestly, this book was such an addicting book, like i feel like this whole series was, but in here everything really picked up, plot wise. so, like it was just so cool to read and i honestly loved it so much. like this book is definitely a page turner, and in the best way possible.

paint it all red by st abby. i gave this book 5/5 stars. i honestly really liked this book aswell. but i feel like this book would have served as death trope, but i guess the happy ending did work well, since it was still kind of cute. but, towards the end of the book, logan did get on my nerves since he was just being such a dick to lana. but, i mean, i still think that it was a decent book.

love and other disasters by anita kelly. i gave this book 3/5 stars. i honestly wish i liked this book, but i feel like the two characters characters just didn’t have any chemistry. like, they both just fell kind of flat and kind of boring for me. so, that was honestly made me enjoy this book a lot less than i could have. but, the whole cooking show was still a cool concept, especially for a romance.

shattered midnight by dhonielle clayton. i have this book 3/5 stars. honestly, this book was also kind of a mess. like, i feel that so much of this book was just so all over the place, and the romance also didn’t work at all in this book. but, i mean, i think that this had the right intentions, but than it still wasn’t that good of a book. and i feel like there were to many different plots in this book, which got to be annoying.

barbarian alien by ruby dixon. i gave this book 2/5 stars. honestly, these characters were honestly so annoying. like i didn’t expect raahosh to be the best book man that i’ll ever read, but some of his actions towards liz just annoyed the hell out of me. and than liz was just still a pain in the ass and so annoying and whiny, that i honestly didn’t like this book.

ice planet honeymoon: raahosh and liz by ruby dixon. i gave this book 1/5 stars. i think the biggest issue with this book is the whole conflict in this book was all just sexual. like it was that she didn’t find him attractive and other sex things that i don’t really want to get into. but, i feel like this book and the conflict became kind of juvenile, with him being ugly.

disney in shadow by ridley pearson. i gave this book 5/5 stars. this was a reread and i honestly really liked this book, even for the fourth time. like, i do think that this book, or really series in general, is kind of confusing if you don’t pay attention to the fine details. but, i still think that this book was good and the action scenes were really good.

the love hypothesis by ali hazelwood. i gave this book 4/5 stars. i honestly did like this book and i feel like it was a decent book. but, i do not understand why people keep talking about how this book was super spicy, since it was not that spicy, like it was one sex scene, and it was just kind of underwhelming in this aspect. but, i mean, i still really liked the whole fake dating, since it was super cute.

you’ll be the death of me by karen m. mcmanus. i gave this book 3/5 stars. this was fine book, like i think that this book wasn’t anything special. like, i feel like all of mcmanus’ books to be this same plot and the same kind of set up and everything, just with different locations and different names. which, for this book, i feel like it just didn’t work since it was just kind of boring after reading all of her other books.

power play by ridley pearson. i gave this book 5/5 stars. again, this was my fourth reread of this book. honestly, this book was really good and i honestly really liked this plot and these characters. like, i feel like the plot and the relationships were just so good and i honestly loved the whole found family vibe of this book, and i think seeing all of their interacts together was so cool.

heartstoppers 1 by alice oseman. i gave this book 5/5 stars. this was my second reread of this book. i honestly really liked this book. like, i feel like this whole plot was so good and i really liked the way nick and charlie interacted together. but, i also really loved seeing nellie and seeing them all have fun and find their feeling for each other.

shell game by ridley pearson. i gave this book 5/5 stars. again, this was my fourth reread of this book. i honestly really liked this book, and i feel like it was still good and still held up. and i’m honestly surprised how much of the ship parts of this book i still remembered, since i didn’t think i remembered this books all that well. but, i still honestly really liked this book and got sucked in.

love in the afternoon by lisa kleypas. i gave this book 4/5 stars. i honestly liked this book, but it wasn’t my favorite in the series, by any means. like, i liked the romance and i think it was done pretty well, and just seeing how they interacted was cute, but i feel like it was missing the hathaway humor. like, i think that the rest of the series has this humor to it, and the family was always a center aspect off this, but i feel like this book kind of lacked it.

heartstoppers 2 by alice oseman. i gave this book 5/5 stars. again, this was a reread of this series. i honestly did really like this series and i honestly really liked seeing this romance kind of happen, and just to see how they all interacted and figured out their sexuality. since, i feel like the sexuality was a cool part, and it did feel real and raw. but, it was a really good book and i really love nick and charlie.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly had such a great reading month, since i got to read 19 books this month, which is a record for me, so that was honestly a plus. but i also think that i did read so many good books this month, seeing that most of them have high star rating.

hello everyone! today i’m going to be talking about heart bones by colleen hoover. i gave this book 4/5 stars. i honestly did like this book, and i did think that this was such a quick read, which i didn’t really expect from a coho book.

trigger warnings- death of a parent, drug use, addiction, death, abandonment, drug use, child abuse, sexual content, sexual assault, alcoholism, grief, domestic abuse, eating disorder, toxic relationship, alcohol, emotional abuse, sexual harassment, physical abuse.

honestly, i think my favorite part about this book was that this book didn’t have the cheesy and stupid plot twists that most coho books did have. like, i feel that a lot of this book was honestly a simple romance and that in the end, it didn’t have the stupid plot, which honestly worked so well. and i mean, i feel like this whole set up really worked, since it was cheesy and stupid, and it honestly made it feel more genuine and a better book.

but one thing that was kind of icky to me was the age of these characters in a new adult setting. like, i believe all the characters in this book are like 17, maybe early 18. but, still they were all basically minors, engaging in sex, and it wasn’t even like fade to black scenes. like, i’m all for reading a romance between teenagers, but i feel like the sexual aspect of this book was kind of gross and uncomfortable when you either remember their ages, or know how old they are.

another thing with their ages, was that they really read older. like, i know beyah and samson have so much trauma in their lives, which could be the main aspect they read to be older, instead of like teenagers, or its just that they were in this romance setting. but, i mean, it’s a coho book, so i don’t really know why i expected them to ack younger. but, i mean i think they acted like late 20s/early 30s year olds, which i mean was kind of annoying, since they were supposed to be younger, and i feel like if you are going to write about teenagers, you need to at least have them think like teenagers do.

but, i also kind of liked that this book had some classism issues and that they brought those topics up. like, i think that a lot of books probably won’t step over that line and talk about it. where, i did like to see them talk about it, and to have them bring up these difficult topics and bring up these topics, that most people won’t bring them up. plus, i really liked that her step family and father kind of learnt about what they have is actually was worth something, and i did really like that conversation towards the end of the book.

but, with the classism, one thing i didn’t really like with the classism is how beyah talked about the rich people in the start of the book. like, i understand her feelings and why she feels this way, and i get it. like, she had a really hard life and that she did have thoughts towards them, mostly negative. but, i feel like a lot of this book was too negative. like, i get where she was coming from and for all of her feelings. like, she was borderline toxic about it all and that all of her thoughts about everything got to be a bit to much and just wasn’t needed in this book. like, i think that there is a fine line between being straight up toxic and talking about your feelings and your thoughts.

and honestly her growth for her was honestly so amazing. like, i really liked to see where she went from point a to point b. like, i think it was really cool to see how she kind of found her happiness and now knows that she doesn’t need to live a sad life because she grew up this way and that she can do what she wants. like, i think that was the thing i honestly really loved and i honestly think that aspect was super cool and i think that she was just honestly really nice, in that way. and i honestly really liked that we got to see growth in her relationship with her family, especially her dad.

but, one thing i do wish was that we got to see more of samson. like, i think we knew about him and we knew his life story, or at least some of it, so i honestly wish we got more. and even got his pov throughout the book, even though that it would kind of ruin the ending of this book. but, at the very least, i wish we got the epilogue with his pov, and just to see thoughts and feelings on the whole situation, since i think seeing what he has to think about it, could be so cool and honestly better than just beyah saying what he looks like with these feelings / what his actual thoughts are.

another thing i did like was the writing. like, i feel like the writing was honestly really good, and i honestly think that it really brought you into this story and that it was honestly a good book. like, i was honestly kind of scared / i didn’t know if i would like it, but i think that this book was really genuine and honestly a really decent book, and that the writing was honestly good, even if it was kind of cheesy and basic, but i still really liked it nonetheless.

but, i do think that the romance was really quick. like, i really like the progression of relationships and romance, like i think that seeing them meet and fight their feelings than get together, but not in a slow burn way. but, i still think that it was still think that it did have good moments, relationship wish, but i think it just didn’t work in this book. since, i feel like this book had a lot more lust than love, and that they really didn’t have any ground on.

kind of going back to beyah, but i think that she had all these moments in the start of this book, she would talk about how independent she was, like she had this whole ramble about how she had a bad mom and that with her mom being into drugs, she had to grow up by herself and very quickly. but, i feel like it just didn’t work in here, cause as soon as they got close, she was so dependent on samson, that it just poked holes in everything that she already said. but, also it was kind of weird that she would tell him everything, yet he told her nothing back. and i mean, i think it was just kind of random and i was just kind of weird.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly did like this book, and i mean, it was kind of a cute book, when you get past some of the surface level issues. and that i think that this cover is kind of cute, which i honestly didn’t expect the cover to be this cute.

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about november 9 by colleen hoover. i gave this book 4/5 stars. i honestly really liked this book, and i think that it was done honestly pretty well. but, it did kind of have some cheesy issues in the end, which i didn’t really like.

trigger warnings- fire/fire injury, suicide, death of a parent, death, grief, cancer, sexual content, body shaming, injury/injury detail, gun violence, car accident, terminal illness, suicidal thoughts, blood, cursing, toxic relationship, medical trauma, suicide attempt, emotional abuse, gaslighting, infidelity, self harm, violence, pregnancy, alcoholism, mental illness, panic attacks / disorder, vomit, alcohol, body horror, chronic illness.

one thing i did really like was how this book did deal with the characters meeting every year on the same day, but they couldn’t talk on any other day of the year. i honestly really loved this premise, even if i was kind of scared for this since i didn’t know if this would actually work. so, i honestly really liked that we got this, and then every year it didn’t feel like they were skipping anything, and that it never felt super choppy, which i didn’t expect.

as for ben and fallon, i feel like on surface level, they were such a good couple. like, i feel like the way they talked and interacted with each other was just so good and cute and i really liked it. plus, i think the banter between them was just so good and spot on, especially with only meeting each other a handful of times, it was just done really well. and i think that they had some natural chemistry, which i kind of expected from coho, but at the same time it was done so well.

but, i do think that they did have so much baggage and unneeded drama. like, with only meeting on one day a year, i feel like that they just packed way to much drama in such a little amount of time. and it honestly got to be to much, especially as they went more and more into this ‘relationship’ and even they could have sorted out threw so much in such a sort amount of time. plus i think that they could have worked things out in a better and more healthy way, if they just didn’t throw it all happen in one day.

and like i think that they had and grew such big and deep feelings for each other, that they had so many petty fights when they got together on these days that like if they were a relationship for more than one day per year that they would 100% see the red flags with each other and dump each other. and like i don’t know how they can claim they have this big and bad relationship when they only have met less than five times and most of the time they are either sleeping or fucking.

but, at the same time i kind of have to give them props for having this stable relationship. like, it was honestly kind of cool that they did have this whole relationship that they could only be together for one day per year, but they still had this ‘real’ relationship, which i mean i know i couldn’t do. so, i feel like it was cool and honestly impressive, but i mean they probably still should have been communicating more than just one day per year.

one thing i did really hated in this book was the plot twist. like, i think that they should have just left at the first thing, but then never bring it to the second part, basically they shouldn’t have ben did what he did and just let it have the first part and have someone else do it. like, it just made me so uncomfortable and i think that they should have happened it so much better, especially if they still wanted to have the “guy secretly knew girl before they formally met,” they could have made it so much less toxic and gross.

and love herself. but, like looking back on it, i feel like the whole sex scenes weren’t because he love her or that she was beautiful, it was that he wanted to rip off her clothes because he wanted to see the scars that you are hiding, because you don’t like them. and those scenes just came across so weird and gross, and i really hated how it all happened and how they handled these sex scenes. but, i also think that there were other semi romantic scenes, where she would be talking and then he would ‘shut her up with his mouth’ or ‘he kissed her with entitlement.’ and the whole sex scenes kind of came out like he thought he owned her or something like that. so, i really have no clue how i didn’t pick this up when i first read it.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly liked this book, even if it did have some issues, it was still a fun and addicting read, even if it was quite dramatic.

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about love and other disasters by anita kelly. i gave this book 3/5 stars. first off, happy pub date to this book and thank you so much for an arc of this book! but, with this review, it is going to be honest and not changed by the author/ publisher and all the thoughts in here are my own.

trigger warnings- sexual content, transphobia, homophobia, alcohol, dysphoria, biphobia, cursing, misogyny.

i think my biggest issue with this book was the romance and the chemistry between london and dahlia. like, i feel like so much of the start of the book was just them, mainly london, thinking about dahlia and this cycle of both of them thinking about each other. and i feel like in my romance books, i just need to be communication and just to have them know things and learn more about the other person in the relationship. like, for one, by the time they wanted to / did jump into bed together, they couldn’t tell each other what their middle names were or their childhood pet, which i realized is something i need if it isn’t some quick hookup.

but, i also think that the romance just didn’t feel right? like, i think it might have been because they were competing against each other, so they kind of have that going on or that they both want the same prize in the end. and i think part of the issues was that they both could go home at any time and anything could happen. but, i just feel like it just didn’t work. like i think the things that are super important in a relationship were just suddenly missing and it didn’t make for a good book, since london and dahlia just didn’t work.

with the romance, i feel like that there was so much emotional things happening in this book. like, i think that both london and dahlia both have so much emotional trauma, with london coming out and then dahlia leaving everything she had and going on this show after her divorce, that i feel like that emotionally, that they both weren’t in the relationship 100%. like, they both had so much going on in their personal life, that i feel like the relationship just struggled to stay afloat and that they both fully couldn’t commit to the other person, which was just so shitty.

but, with all the emotions, i feel like it really took the shine away from london and dahlia. like, i’m all for emotional parts in romance books, but i think that there is a fine line between emotions we need and want, and then emotions that take away from the plot of the book / the romance, where i feel like this book was the second one. like i already said, they put so much emotional depth in this book, but than when the romance started to get a bigger role, the emotional parts slowly started to take over the book and the main plot.

kind of with that, i did like reading about the different issues that london and dahlia went through in this book. like, i did like reading it, but i think that it should have been toned down a little bit, just since at points, it should have just been a romance. but, i also think they would bring so many things up, like issues and emotional parts that they went through. like, i feel like that for the most part, it never even really got resolved, it was just here for the drama. like, i feel like they should have had so much more growth and to show their growth, but instead they just did this drama sake and to push the romance aside for drama plot points.

but, i feel like also that in the start of the book they tried to do this hate to love and forced proximity plot / trope for this book. which, in the long run, i wouldn’t hate seeing the hate to love, since i think that would be so cool to see play out on a show where they were competing and maybe they would even partner them up together for a couple challenges or something. but, the hate to love was literally like five pages, and dahlia was just being a bitch to them about not wanting to talk about her peeing her pants in like 5th grade.

another thing i didn’t really like was the all the sexual comments london made towards dahlia, in their mind. like, i think that there is a fine line between finding someone attractive and thinking about them, or being way to sexual. like, i think london was to sexual towards her, like i feel that they would bring everything up that she would do, and make it to be this sexual act. like she could be walking and it would be sexual or like cooking and somehow they would get to thinking about bending her over the counter top, etc. and like i’m fine with sexual thoughts, but i think that at this point, dahlia wasn’t even showing the same feelings for them, so it just got to be kind of icky.

kinda going back to the emotion parts, but i feel like that the emotions in this book were out of wack. like, i they really went from 0 to 100 in a matter of minutes, like they were never a little sad, it was like full bodied sobbing. like, it just got to be a lot with how it all happened, and that i think that they really need to cool down with these emotions, since it did get to be a lot after a while. and i feel like it also made a sex scenes not good, since they were like super super horny, so they never had any of those sweet and intimate moments, since they were so horny.

but, with the sex scenes, i did like it to a degree. like i did like that were written in a way that it wasn’t toxic or rude to london and them being non-binary, and i think that it was honestly done quite well with that regard. but, i feel like that the emotions get away from anything happened, and that i do wish they had those cute little intimate moments that are in other books just not be pure sex drive. but, they did talk so much during the sex scenes, which got on my nerves after awhile cause like i don’t care if you talk, but it got to be a bit much after awhile.

anyway, that is all for today! thank you so much to the publisher, author, and netgalley for an arc of this book and also happy book birthday. and like i already said, this was an honest review, and wasn’t changed by the publisher/author.

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about the romance books i’m excited for that are coming out in 2022. honestly, there is so many good book coming out in 2022 that i’m excited for, so i’m going to break these down in a couple different posts by genre, so it’s easier to tell which genre each book is.

reputation by lex croucher. this book comes out april 5th, 2022.

abandoned by her parents, middle class georgiana ellers has moved to a new town to live with her dreary aunt and uncle. at a particularly dull party, she meets the enigmatic frances campbell, a wealthy member of the in crown who lives a life georgiana couldn’t have imagined in her wildest dreams. lonely and vulnerable, georgiana falls in with frances and her unfathomably rich, deeply improper friends. georgiana is introduced to a new world: drunken debauchery, mysterious young men with strangely arresting hands, and the upper echelons of regency society.

book lovers by emily henry. this book comes out may 3rd, 2022.

nora stephens’ life is books, she’s read them all, and she is not that type of heroine. not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not that sweetheart. in fact, the only people nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister libby. which is why she agrees to go to sunshine falls, north carolina for the month of august when libby begs for a sisters’ trip away, with visions of a small town transformation for nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. but instead of picnics in he meadows, or run ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging forearmed bartender, nora keeps bumping into charlie lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back i the city. it would be a meet cute if not for the back that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute.

hook, line, and sinker by tessa bailey. this book comes out march 1st, 2022.

king crab fisherman, fox thornton, has a reputation as a sexy carefree flirt. everyone knows he’s a guaranteed good time, in bed and out, and that’s exactly how he prefers it. until he meets hannah bellinger. she’s immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his personality and wants to be friends. but, he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic it goes. now, hannah is in town for work, crashing in fox’s spare bedroom, she knows he’s a notorious ladies’ man, but they’re definitely just friends. in fact, she’s nursing a hopeless crush on a colleague and fox is just the person to help with her lackluster love life. armed with a few tips from westport’s resident casanova, hannah sets out to catch her coworker’s eye, yet the more time she spends with fox, the more she wants him instead. as the line between friendship and flirting begin to blur, hannah can’t deny she loves everything about fox, but she refuses to be another notch in his bedpost.

part of your world by abby jimenez. this book comes out april 19th, 2022.

after a wild bet, gourmet gilled cheese sandwich, and cuddle with a baby goat, alexis montgomery has had her world turned upside down. the cause: daniel grant, a ridiculously hoy carpenter who’s ten years younger than her and as casual as they come, the complete opposite of sophisticated city girl alexis. and yet their chemistry is undeniable. while her ultra wealthy parents want her to carry on the family legacy of world- renowned surgeons, alexis doesn’t need glory or fame. she’s fine with being a ‘mere’ ER doctor and every minute she spends with daniel and the tight knit town where she lives, she’s discovering just what’s really important. yet letting their relationship become anything more than a short term fling would mean turning her back on her family and giving up the opportunity to help thousands of people.

the roughest draft by emily wibberley and austin segemund-broka. this book comes out january 25th, 2022.

three years ag, katrina freeling and nathan van huysen were the brightest literary stars on the horizon, their cowritten books topping bestseller lists. but, on the heels of their greatest success, they ended their partnership on bad terms, for reasons neither would divulge to the public. they haven’t spoken since, and never planned to, except they have one final book due on contract. facing crossroads in their personal and professional lives, they’re forced to reunite. the last thing they were wrote their previous book, trying to finish a new manuscript quickly and painlessly. working through the reason they’ve hated each other for the past three years isn’t easy, especially not while writing a romantic novel.

set on you by amy lea. this book comes out may 10th, 2022.

curvy fitness influencer, crystal chen, built her career shattering gym stereotypes and mostly ignoring the trolls. after her recent breakup, she has little stamina left for men, instead finding solace in the gym, her place of power and positivity. enter firefighter, scott ritchie, the smug new gym patron who routinely steals her favorite squat rack. sparks fly as they ultra competitive foes battle for gym domination. but, after a series of escalating jabs, the last thing they expect is to run into each other at their grandparent’s engagement party. in the lead up to their grandparent’s wedding, crystal discovers there’s a soft heart under scott’s muscled exterior. bonding over family, fitness, and cheesy pick up lines, she just might have found her solemate. but when a photo of them goes viral, savage internet trolls put their budding relationship to the ultimate test of strength.

up to no good by rosie danan. this comes out october 4th, 2022.

best friends and B&B owners have the opportunity to claim a surprise inheritance, but only if they can avoid arousing the suspicion of the handsome, brooding P.I. sniffing around the secret in their backyard.

how to love your neighbor by sophie sullivan. this book comes out january 18th, 2022.

grace travis has it all figured out. in between finishing school and working a million odd jobs, she’ll get her degree and her dream job. most importantly, she’ll have a place to belong, something her harsh mother could never make. when a opportunity too fix up, and live in, a little house on the beach comes along, grace is all in. until her biggest roadblock moves in next door. noah jansen knows how to make a deal. as a real estate developer, he knows when he’s found something special. something he could even call home. provided he can expand by taking over the house next door, the house with the combative and beautiful woman living in it.

the wedding crasher by mia sosa. this book comes out april 5th, 2022.

just weeks away from ditching DC for greener pastures, solange pereira is roped into helping her wedding planner cousin on a random couple’s big day. it’s an easy gig, until she stumbles upon a situation that convinces her the pair isn’t meant to be. what’s a true blue romantic to do? crash the wedding and ensure the unsuspecting groom doesn’t make the biggest mistake of his life. dean chapman had his future all mapped out. he was about to check off ‘start a family’ and on to ‘make partner’ when his modern fay marriage of convenience went up in smoke. then, he learns he might not land an assignment that could be his ticket to a promotion unless he has a significant other and in a moment of panic, dean claims to be in love with the woman who crashed the wedding. now, dean has a whole new item on his to do list: beg solange to be his pretend girlfriend. solange feels a tiny bit bad about ruining dean’s wedding, so she agrees to play along. yet as they fake date their way around town, what started as a performance for dean’s colleagues turn into a connection that neither her nor solange can deny.

under one roof by ali hazelwood. this book comes out may 3rd, 2022.

as an environmental engineer, mara knows all about the delicate nature of ecosystems. they require balance, leaving the thermostat alone, not stealing someone else’s food, and the other rules her big old lawyer of a roommate, liam, knows nothing about. liam was already entrenched in his aunt’s house like some glowering grumpy giant when mara moved in, with his big muscles and kissable mouth just sitting there on the couch tempting respectable scientists to the dark side, but helena was her mentor and mara’s not about to move out and give up her inheritance without a fight. the problem is, living with someone means getting to know them and the more mara fins out about liam, the harder it is to loathe him and the easier it is to love him.

stuck with you by ali hazelwood. this book comes out june 7th, 2022.

logically, sadie knows that civil engineers are supposed to build bridges. however, as a woman of stem she also understands the variables can change, and when you are stuck for hours in a tiny new york elevator with the man who broke your heart, you earn the right to burn that brawny, blond bridge to the ground. erik can apologize all he wants. not even the most sophisticated of sadie’s superstitious rituals could have predicted such a disastrous reunion. but while she refuses to acknowledge the siren call of erik’s steely forearms or the way his voice softens when he offers her his sweater, sadie can’t help but wonder if there might be more layers to her coldhearted nemesis than meet the eye. maybe, possibly, even burned bridges can still be crossed.

below zero by ali hazelwood. this book comes out july 5th, 2022.

hannah’s got a bad feeling about this. not only has the NASA aerospace engineer found herself injured and stranded at a remote arctic research station, but the one person willing to undertake the hazardous rescue mission is her longtime rival. ian has been many things to hannah: the villain who tried to veto her expedition and ruin her career, the man who stars in her most deliciously lurid dreams, but he’s never played the hero. so, why is he risking everything to be here? and why does his presence seem just as dangerous to her heart as the coming snowstorm?

something wilder by christina lauren. this book comes out may 17th, 2022.

growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father, duke wilder left lily without much patience for the profession or much money in the bank. but lily is nothing if not resourceful, and now uses duke’s coveted hand drawn maps to guide tourists on fake treasure hunts through the red rock canyons of utah. it pays the bills but doesn’t leave enough to fulfill her dreams of buying back the beloved ranch her father sold years ago, and definitely not enough to deal with the sight of the man she once loved walking back into her life with a motley crew of friends ready to hit the trails. frankly, lily would like to take him out into the wilderness and leave him there. leo grady knew mirages were a thing in the desert, but they’d barely left civilization when the silhouette of his greatest regret comes into focus in the flickering light of the campfire. ready to leave the past behind him, leo wants nothing more than to reconnect with his first and only love unfortunately, lily wilder is all business, drawing a clear line in the sand: it’s never going to happen. but when the trip goes horribly and hilariously wrong, the group wonders if maybe the legend of the hidden treasure wasn’t a gimmick after all. there’s a chance to right the wrongs, of duke’s past and their own, but only if leo and lily can confront their history and work together.

delilah green doesn’t care by ashley herring blake. this book comes out february 22nd, 2022.

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 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. 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 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.

by the book by jasmine guillory. this book comes out may 3rd, 2022.

isabelle is completely lost. when she first began her career in publishing right out of college, she did not expect to be twenty five, living alone, still an editorial assistant, and the only Black employee at her publishing house. overworked and underpaid, constantly torn between speaking up or stifling herself, izzy thinks there must be more to this publishing life. so when she overhears her boss complaining about a beastly high profile author who has failed to deliver his long awaited manuscript, isabelle sees an opportunity to finally get the promotion she deserves. all she has to do is go to the author’s santa barbara mansion and give him a quick pep talk or three, which can’t be that hard. but, izzy quickly finds out she is in over her head. beau towers is not some celebrity lightweight writing a tell all memoir. he is jaded and withdrawn and it turns out, just as lost as izzy. but despite his standoffishness, izzy needs beau to deliver, and with her encouragement, his story begins to spill onto the page. they soon discover they have more in common than either of them expected, and as their deadline nears, izzy and beau being to realize there may be something there that wasn’t there before.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly can’t wait for these books to come out and they all sound so good, plus there is some other books that i didn’t include on this so it wasn’t longer than it already was. but, i honestly really can’t wait for these.