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AUTHOR - TESSA BAILEY RATINGS -  ☆☆☆☆ ☆ TROPES -    Friends to Lovers   Player guy  Boy falls first  Jealousy done right So much tension SYNOPSIS 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 ? Bizarre. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is. Now, Hannah's 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 sh...

AUTHOR  - Kandi Steiner SERIES ORDER   (all the books can be read as a standalone)  Fair Catch  Blind Side Quarterback Sneak Hail Mary HAIL MARY RATING  -  ★★★★★ QUARTERBACK SNEAK REVIEW  -  https://bookistic17.blogspot.com/2022/10/quaterback-sneak-by-kandi-steiner.html SPICE RATING  - 🌶️🌶️🌶️ TROPES  -  🏈 sports romance⁣⁣ 🏈 college/new adult romance⁣⁣ 🏈 enemies-to-lovers 🏈 forced proximity⁣⁣ 🏈 neighbors and then ROOMMATES 🏈 banter and tension off the charts 🏈 slow burn with a 🌶️ BIG delivery 😏 SYNOPSIS Leo F*cking Hernandez. North Boston University’s star running back, notorious bachelor, and number one on my people I would murder if I could get away with it list. And now? He’s my new roommate. I used to think I loved him. But that was before I hated him. He doesn’t remember who I am, or how he made my life miserable for years. And before I unknowingly moved across the street from him, I couldn’t have cared less. I ...

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...