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AUTHOR  - Kandi Steiner SERIES ORDER  (all the books can be read as a standalone)  Fair Catch  Blind Side Quarterback Sneak QUARTERBACK SNEAK RATING  - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ SPICE RATING  - 🌶️🌶️🌶️ TROPES   Coach’s Daughter Forbidden Romance Reverse Grumpy x Sunshine Neighbours  He gardens (it’s a trope after this book IDC) ✦ﾟ━━━━━━━・❦・━━━━━━━ﾟ✦ SYNOPSIS Quarterback Holden Moore can have any girl he wants. Except me: the coach’s daughter. With piercing green eyes, herculean biceps, and irresistible dimples, Holden is the number one target for every girl on campus. But according to his teammates, football is the only love of his life. He’s their leader, their QB1 and team captain who is all business and no play. But when I’m with him? Mr. Serious isn’t serious at all. He loves to push my buttons, to pin me with those sexy eyes of his and tease me until I bite back. I remind him I’m off limits. He can’t have me, and I don’t want him — or anyone else, for that...

AUTHOR - ANA HUANG  RATINGS -  ☆☆.5  TROPES -  Arrange Marriage Enemies to Lovers Billionaire Romance SYNOPSIS She’s the wife he never wanted…and the weakness he never saw coming. Ruthless. Meticulous. Arrogant.  Dante Russo thrives on control, both personally and professionally. The billionaire CEO never planned to marry— until the threat of blackmail forces him into an engagement with a woman he barely knows. Vivian Lau, jewelry heiress and daughter of his newest enemy. It doesn’t matter how beautiful or charming she is. He'll do everything in his power to destroy the evidence and their betrothal.   There’s only one problem: now that he has her...he can't bring himself to let her go. *** Elegant. Ambitious. Well-mannered. Vivian Lau is the perfect daughter and her family’s ticket into the highest echelons of high society. Marrying a blue-blooded Russo means opening doors that would otherwise remain closed to her new-money fam...

This photo shows none other than Leonardo di Caprio as Jay Gatsby. In this photo, we can see a smiling Gatsby at one of his grand parties, holding a wine glass with the firecrackers in the background. “I’ve never seen a man so full of hope,” which is how Gatsby was introduced to us in the movie. In this picture, you can see the hope and the happiness though behind this picture, and that smiling face is a bigger picture that isn’t all happy and smiling. The Great Gatsby, the third novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published in 1925. This classic about love, lie, and deceit was turned into a movie in 2013 directed by Baz Luhrmann. Set in Jazz Phase New York, the novel is narrated by Nick Carraway, which tells us the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his chase of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman he loved at his young age. Nick was the neighbor of Jay Gatsby on the West Egg. Gatsby was surprisingly a young man who had an English accent, a remarkable...

AUTHOR    - Lauren Asher SERIES ORDER AND RATING  The Fine Print - ★★★★  Terms and Conditions - ★★★★★ 3rd Book (TBD) GOODREADS  -  Goodreads ✦ﾟ━━━━━━━・❦・━━━━━━━ﾟ✦ SYNOPSIS ROWAN  I'm in the business of creating fairy tales.  Theme parks. Production companies. Five-star hotels.  Everything could be all mine if I renovated Dreamland.  My initial idea of hiring Zahra was good in theory, but then I kissed her.  Things spiralled out of control once I texted her using an alias.  By the time I realized where I had gone wrong, it was too late.  People like me don't get happy endings.  Not when we're destined to ruin them. ZAHRA After submitting a drunk proposal criticizing Dreamland's most expensive ride, I should have been fired. Instead, Rowan Kane offered me a dream job. The catch? I had to work for the most difficult boss I'd ever met. Rowan was rude and completely off-limits, but my heart didn't care. At least not until ...

AUTHOR   -  RuNyx   GENRE  -  Thriller, Mafia, Mystery, Dark, Romance.  ORDER OF THE SERIES  The Predator  The Reaper  The Emperor  The Finisher The Annihilator  TRIGGER WARNINGS   -  Violence, Sexual Assault, Kidnapping, Blood and Gore, Mention of Flesh Trade / Human Trafficking, Mental Trauma (There are many more content/trigger warnings for this book because it is a really dark book and IT'S NOT FOR EVERYONE.) OVERALL SERIES RATINGS  -  ★★★★ ★ GOODREADS   -  Dark Verse ✦ﾟ━━━━━━━・❦・━━━━━━━ﾟ✦ SYNOPSIS  𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝘅𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? She lives in the shadows. He rules them. She's the moon, and he the dark night encompassing her. She's surrounded by demons, and he's the biggest devil of them all. And she's his. Passion, obsession, possesion. Theirs is a tale of danger, deviance, dread, desir...