Tag: Coming of Age

Review

Review: First and Only by Allie Winters (2020)

Ingrid

Suncoast University, Book 4

Reviews of previous books in the Suncoast University series: Book 1, Book 2, Book 3

Heat Factor: So, so steamy it’ll be a hazard for the glasses-wearing folks

Character Chemistry: They didn’t stand a chance…just the way we like it!

Plot: Jake needs a tutor after his athletic career goes down the toilet after an injury and Eden needs to learn how to be a young adult, basically. A sexy, coming-of-age, teach-me-how-to-do-sexy-things type book that unfolds deliciously slow.

Overall: This whole series is just itching to be read in one long weekend.

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Review: Date Me, Bryson Keller by Kevin van Whye (2020)

Erin

Heat Factor: So pure. Like, shy first kisses pure.

Character Chemistry: Off the charts. 

Plot: Teen boy has no interest in dating, is dared by his peers to date anyone who asks. Other teen boy asks.

Overall: I am dying of the sweetness.

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Review: Avalon’s Last Knight by Jackson C. Garton (2020)

Erin

Heat Factor: There is sex once, but it doesn’t really stand out against everything else going on

Character Chemistry: They’re soulmates because they’re actually Lancelot and Arthur. Ish.

Plot: Really too much to summarize here

Overall: Whaaaaaat

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Review: No One Else by Allie Winters (2020)

Ingrid

Suncoast University, Book 3

Review of Suncoast University, Book 1; Book 2

Heat Factor: Nothing like having no privacy to stir up a nice, hot, slow burn

Character Chemistry: Allie Winters lights the ole fire under these two pretty much immediately, then dumps some cold water on everything, and then it’s a nice simmer until we all finally get what we want!

Plot: Evan is earnest and completely head over heels for Natalie — always has been, always will be. But then it’s like…too fast! Too slow!! Crazy ex! What’s going on!!

Overall: Allie Winters takes her fabulous series and kicks things up a notch by embracing some really deliciously messy people and stirring the pot…

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Review: The Gift by Julie Garwood (1991)

Holly

Crown’s Spies, Book 3

Heat Factor: Initial consent is dubious at best, but after that both parties are all about it, and so am I.

Character Chemistry: That thing where a super alpha submits to a naive, innocent, young woman. 

Plot: They were married as children. He kidnaps her to get some land. She convinces him that he loves her. And destroys his scary pirate ship with a parasol. In other words: Completely Bonkers. 

Overall: If you are Bodice Ripper Curious, The Gift is not a bad place to start.

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Review: Unwrap Me by Jack Harbon (2019)

Ingrid

Heat Factor: Short and Steamy.

Character Chemistry: These guys were star-crossed hook-ups.

Plot: College student Danny comes home for Christmas to discover his father’s young colleague is staying for the holidays…and he’s a dreamboat

Overall: A sweet and sexy kind of coming of age short story that was perhaps just too short!

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Review: Promise Me Nothing by Jillian Liota (2019)

Holly

Hermosa Beach, Book #1

Heat Factor: Hot tub sex!

Character Chemistry: Yearning and burning. 

Plot: Girl with nothing to lose moves across the country to visit a brother she’s never met, falls for his friend – but things are not quite what they seem. 

Overall: I loathed the hero.

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