Hero – Can include retired/former athlete but probably primarily sportsball romance
Royal Dragons of Alaska, Book #3
Reviews of Royal Dragons of Alaska: Book #1, Book #2
Heat Factor: Not closed door, but not very intense or explicit
Character Chemistry: The way they go through their captivity together is just absolutely charming
Plot: You think it’s going to be an angsty, pining, stealing-the-fiancée kind of a thing, but then they get kidnapped and everything goes sideways
Overall: My favorite so far in this series. SO FUN.
Heat Factor: Pretty standard Zapata slow burn
Character Chemistry: It kinda wasn’t there and then all of a sudden it was?
Plot: Let’s have a marriage of convenience because of reasons
Overall: I liked it but I kinda don’t know why
Albin Academy, Book 2
Review of Albin Academy, Book 1
Heat Factor: To use Holly’s metric: 🍆🍆🍆
Character Chemistry: I might recommend therapy over a relationship, but it is what it is
Plot: Student is in trouble, teachers Rian and Damon process a lot of feelings
Overall: Longiloquent is not an inapt descriptor for this book
Ice Kings, Book #2
Heat Factor: These are some horny 20-somethings
Character Chemistry: Sure! It’s fun! But also they’re in their early 20s…
Plot: Young hockey player loses virginity to puck bunny, and his cute neighbor finds a baby left at his door 11 months later.
Overall: I think my favorite thing about this book is that the hero is Danish.
Northern Lights, Book #1
Heat Factor: There is a good deal of self-love happening before the loving each other happens
Character Chemistry: Overall good, but she played some games with him that I didn’t like
Plot: Woman decides she wants to figure out how to push past her PTSD agoraphobia anxiety for the life she wants. Man decides to focus on family after his hockey career is ended.
Overall: Everything is just fine.
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