On My Bookish BS

You know I love hockey romance. You know I love mafia romance. You know I love bully romance. So this was pretty much a guaranteed 5 star read for me.  Enter Heartless Game by Jo Brenner. Isaac and Tovah are a match made in well.. not heaven that's for sure.  So many secrets. His. Hers. Theirs. Shared history - known and unknown. Family secrets. Sexual tension that absolutely cannot be denied. Oh ... and maybe some mafia stuff for flavor? There is absolutely so much to love about this story that is INSANE that it is packed in to one volume. Honestly, it's a steal. It's like two stories for the price of one. You get sexy, college hockey dark romance on one hand and crazy mafia thriller on the other.  Brenner also manages to splice in some phenomenal prose, the best dark humor (literally, THE BEST) and interpersonal relationships into this story. I cannot wait to find out what's up with Lawson, and Judah, and Levi down the road because really... those boys got secrets an...

 Yes, I am easily swayed and after all the back and forth on BookTok/Bookstagram/BookThreads I had to know whether Deep End by Ali Hazelwood was really THAT spicy or not.  Personally? Not the spiciest thing I've ever read but I LOVED it. Lukas is top tier book boyfriend material and I absolutely love him.  What made this book so good to me was the way it addressed trauma and healing and the importance of trust and connection in terms of sexual relationships. It was really well done. It was sexy. It was just a good read.  I'm a fan.  Now I have a ton more books to read which my poor TBR just cannot handle. Excuse me while I drown in books.

A Little Complicated is the first book in the The Little Things series which is the second generation novel offshoot following the children of the couples from the Don't Let Me series .  After having read the five books of the Don’t Let Me series I was like “Oh, I know what I'm getting myself in to with Kelsie Rae." And yeah, she follows her same basic vibe here and then HITS YOU IN THE HEART WITH THE BIGGEST HEAVIEST PLOT TWIST THAT CAN DESTROY THE HEARTS OF EVERYONE EVER. Sure, I knew it was going to happen. I saw it telegraphed. But surely she wouldn’t? And then she did. And I cried for like the last third of the damn book. Did I love it? Yes. Was it okay? No. Was it worth it? Yes. But still. How dare you. My heart. The book centers around the relationship between Ophelia (daughter of Theo and Blakely from Don't Let Me Go) and Maverick (son of Henry and Mia from Don't Let Me Down). Opie and Maverick had been having a secret relationship prior to her starting he...