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Bookish Life Updates: My 2025 Reading Journey

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Let me start off by apologising for being MIA. Life became crazy when we signed for a new flat on the 12th December. I spent all of December packing, painting the new flat and dealing with chronic illness flare-ups that left me unable to do pretty much anything. Then, of course, with it being the Christmas period, it was hard work getting movers and carpet fitters. It was very stressful, and my body definitely paid a hefty price. We are in the new flat. Mostly unpacked, and are settling in nicely.

So… let’s talk books.

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Posted in Allie Oleander, Book Review, Dark Romance/Erotic Horror

The Perfect Blend of Humor and Heart: A Review of “Willing Prey” by Allie Oleander

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Willing Prey by Allie Oleander

18+ Contains Adult Content

Willing Prey follows Claire and Shane. Claire who is recently divorced and drowning in student loan debt accepts an offer from Shane, who happens to be her ex-husband’s boss. Shane has offered Claire $30,000 all she has to do is move into his house for 30 days and be Shane’s prey letting him live out his primal desires by hunting her through the woods and having wild, kinky sex. There is a contract and rules, after all it wouldn’t do to fall in love with the man who hired you to be his prey would it?

It’s brutal.
Degrading.
Obscene.
I fucking love it.

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Posted in L S Pullen, Romance, Uncategorised

Lockdown Love Story: Nick and Maxine’s Spicy Encounter

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Unsuspected Love by L.S. Pullen

18+ Contains Adult Content

Unsuspected love follows Nick and Maxine. The country is about to go in to lockdown, and she is called into work by her grumpy boss for one more team meeting before hand. Being the last two to leave, they get in the lift together where they end up getting stuck. While waiting for the repair man to come, the two talk and realise that their attraction to one another isn’t one sided.

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Posted in Book Review, Romance, Uncategorised

Cute and Playful: Accidentally Yours Review

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Accidentally Yours by Christina Lauren

Accidentally Yours is an Amazon original story, it is a short novella that follows Veronica and Jude. Veronica is looking for a job, and clicks a link to what she thinks is a job interview, she accidentally joins a marketing Zoom call. When she realises instead of leaving she brutally tells them how bad she thinks their marketing is, then leaves. Jude loves her honesty and the feedback she gave. He emails her offering her a marketing consulting position, what started as emails regarding work, soon turned flirtatious.

Smart, funny, hot, and adorable. He shakes his head, murmuring a soft, “Fuck me.”

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Posted in Book Review, Dark Romance/Erotic Horror, Lindsey Powell

Unpacking the Tension: A Review of Lindsey Powell’s “Wrecking Ball”

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Wrecking Ball By Lindsey Powell

18+ Contains Adult Content

Wrecking Ball follows Kat & Nate. Nate is a crime lord, and Kat owes him money that she can’t pay up, thanks to her ex gambling it all away and then running away, leaving Kat to deal with the mess. Nate gives her an ultimatum: marry him or die. It isn’t much of a choice, and Kat, not willing to die, decides to marry him, but she refuses to fall in love with him.

I want to own you, command you and break you. I want you to need me like you have never needed anyone before. I want to be your everything and more.

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Posted in Book Review, L.T. Linden, Romance

‘Lies Out’ by L.T. Linden: A Cute Debut Novel

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Lies Out by L.T. Linden

Lies Out follows Connor and Celina. Celina is best friends with Connor’s sister, Gigi, and Connor hates her; he is polite but indifferent towards her for Gigi’s sake. Celina doesn’t know what she has done to make Connor hate her, but she is polite again for Gigi’s sake. Connor ends up in an accident, and Gigi is unable to be there for her brother, so Celina rushes to the hospital for her. Connor then needs physical therapy and someone to check in on him and report back to Gigi. Obviously, she asks Celina, which leads Connor and Celina to spend more time together, and eventually, they cannot ignore the pull. Can Connor get his head out of his arse long enough to not mess this up?

Would I humiliate myself again by kissing her? Maybe I should care about humiliating myself again. Maybe I should think of Gigi and the complication. All the reasons this is a bad idea. But my hand is already at the nape of her neck, tilting her face up. Her lips part on a sharp exhale. And I stop caring about anything else.

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Posted in Alina May, Book Review, Dark Romance/Erotic Horror

Surviving the Hunt: An In-Depth Review of Lucky 14 From Alina May’s Hunter’s Club Series

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Lucky 14 by Alina May

18+ Contains Adult Content

Lucky 14 is book three in the Hunter’s Club series; they don’t have to be read in order. You will understand the side characters if you do, though. Lucky 14 follows Holli Oakley, Kyan & Wyatt. Holli, a therapist, has been kidnapped and brought to an Island with 30 other people. She has to survive for 14 days, whilst being hunted. Oakley is the reason Holli has been brought to the Island. He didn’t realise when he signed up and put Holli’s name down that he would be required to hunt and kill. Now Oakley needs to save himself & Holli. Kyan doesn’t know what is going on, but something strange is happening on the island, and now Oakley wants his help to save Holli, and Kyan can’t say no; they have a way of looking inside his soul and seeing things he doesn’t want them to see. Wyatt is the game master, and wants to know who has snuck people into his game. Who is trying to tear down everything he has built? He will find out, even if it means no one survives the game.

Anger makes me tighten my fist. Not good enough to take part in their bullshit little club? I’ll show her. “I can handle it.” “You won’t even fight for your…” she hesitates, “partner. What makes you think you can handle this?” “Fight for her? I’d kill for her!” The words come out in an angry burst, but I realize I meant every word. I’d kill for Poppy.

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Posted in Book Review, C.J Riggs, Romance

Seduced By My Stepdad: Snowed In & Falling Hard For This Age Gap Romance By C.J. Riggs

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Seduced by my Stepdad by C.J. Riggs

18+ Contains Adult Content

Seduced by My Stepdad is an age gap romance novella from the amazing C.J. Riggs. I have spoken about Riggs many times before on my blog, so it is no lie that I love this woman and her work. Riggs is known for her erotic horrors depicting feminine rage. This book is completely different. Dare I say this is cute? This is 100% a romance, which follows Robyn and Jack. Jack is married to Robyn’s mother, not for much longer, but he is still married to her. Robyn comes to stay with her mother, whom she rarely sees and doesn’t have much of a relationship with, only to find her mother has once again forgotten about her. She ends up staying with Jack since there is a bad storm, which results in them being snowed in. Jack is drawn to Robyn and vice versa, but they are determined not to give in to the pull. Until they do, but only until the snow thaws, then they go their separate ways…right?

“A bit of snow?” I snort. “I don’t want to be stuck here with you for the next… however many days.” “That’s unfortunate for the both of us, then.” He steps closer to me. “Because you’re not going anywhere, little bird.”

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Posted in Book Review, Dark Romance/Erotic Horror, J.N. Bamforth

Exploring the Horror of ‘Crawl Space’: A Tale of Obsession

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Crawl Space by J.N. Bamforth

18+ Contains Adult Content

Crawl Space is a pitch-black erotic horror that follows Iris, who finds out she has been left a house by her Grandma, whom she had never met. She packs up her belongings and moves into this old, creepy-looking house. Where Silas, also known as the Silent Killer, lives in the walls and the basement. A silent killer, who has become obsessed with Iris, but what if Silas isn’t the only unhinged man obsessed with her?

Fucking hell. This little demon is beautiful. My fingers itch to crawl inside her skin, to wear her flesh like a suit. I know she’d be warm and cosy, like a soft blanket.

You can’t turn people into blankets, Silas.

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Posted in freida-mcfadden, thriller

Book Club Insights: My Take on The Locked Door by Freida McFadden

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The Locked Door by Freida McFadden

Nora is a respected surgeon who has a big secret; nobody knows that she is the daughter of a serial killer, that while Nora lay upstairs, her father was butchering women in the basement. Nora has given herself a new name and holds her secret close to her chest, but when her young female patients start turning up dead in the same manner as her father’s victims, she starts to think someone knows who she really is and wants her to take the fall for these crimes.

As I contemplate my next move, a thought flits through my head. One that I have not infrequently when I’m in difficult situations: what would my father do?

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