The Introvert's Book Club

 Pucking Wrong #1 Get a copy on Amazon 🖉 Rating:  3.5/5 🖉 Spice:  4/5 🖉 Plot:  3/5 🖉 Primary Genre: Dark Romance 🖉 Blurb:   A star athlete crosses the line from passion into obsession in this darkly addictive hockey-romance novel from USA Today–bestselling author C.R. Jane. “Give me a second chance, babe . . . and I’ll blow your mind.” Monroe doesn’t know why she answers the text that’s obviously meant for someone else. Or why she keeps answering. Maybe it’s because she’s all alone in a big city and in desperate need of a lifeline. Or maybe it’s because each exchange leaves her intrigued and more than a little turned on. Still, Monroe never would’ve snarked back if she’d known she was talking to the “Golden Boy” of the Dallas Knights. She couldn’t care less about Lincoln Daniels’ hockey-god status, and this only seems to attract him more. He’s used to scoring on and off the ice, and now he’s obsessed with his next goal: making Monroe his―no matter what it ...

This review is later than I would have liked but I’ve been down with the sickness (COVID) since Wednesday night. This strain is a really nasty one. Today (Saturday) is the first day that I haven’t slept all day in awhile so I must get to work! Rating: 4/5  Spice: 3/5 Plot: 4/5 Primary Genre: Dark Romance Trigger Warnings: Please check the author’s website before reading here Blurb: I’ve always held back my darkness. But for her, I’ll unleash it. All of it… I never lose control. Just one moment of happiness might bring forth the evil that taints my blood. So, I stick to satisfying other people’s fantasies with my kink dating app. That’s how I found her. Regan Everglow is sweet. Deserving of all the beauty this life has to offer. But she’s known darkness, too. Her control was stolen from her years ago. Now, she’s ready to take it back. And I’m going to help. I wish I could say my intentions were pure. But they’re not. Truth is, I’m obsessed with her. I’d stalk her to the ends of the ...

  Buy on Amazon Cinnamon Rolls and Pumpkin Spice #7 Rating:  3/5 Spice: 0/5 Primary Genre: Billionaire Romance/RomCom Trigger Warnings: Alcohol use, bad parenting Plot: 3/5 Billionaire heiress Fenella needs to go into hiding after her most recent, very public break up with her cheating ex. Where to? Her other ex’s (who’s a prince, by the way) remote town! Well, technically it’s a whole country. Fenella can’t get enough of the local coffee shop, Coffee For the Sole, and her pumpkin spice lattes. She also becomes interesting in the coffee shop owner, Silas, once she realizes there’s more to him than coffee beans. Tropes: • cinnamon roll hero • friends-to-lovers • small town • opposites attract The Good: * If you love a small town vibe, you’ll be obsessed with Battle Harbor. * The LGBTQ+ character representation was great to see. I honestly wasn’t expecting it, it was refreshing. * I loved the fall setting of the book, it’s a great vibe for an October read. The Meh:  * Whil...

Purchase Dreamland Billionaires #1 My Rating:  4 of 5 stars Primary Genre: Billionaire Romance Blurb: 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 spiraled out of control once I texted her using an alias. By the time I realized where I went 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 I discovered his secret. It was time to teach the billionaire that money couldn't fix everything. Especially not us. The Fi...

Purchase Make-Believe #5 My Rating: 4/5 Stars Primary Genre: Billionaire Romance/Contemporary Romance/Clean Romance Blurb:  The proposal is fake, but his feelings are real. A heartwarming friends-to-true-love story. Billionaire businessman, Roland Kirk, has moved on with his life but never opened his heart to love again since losing his wife six years earlier. The nanny he hired to help raise his two girls has, piece by piece, woven the broken strands of their lives back together. So, when her ex-boyfriend breaks her heart, he’s ready to jump in with a fake proposal to help her save face. June Green always wanted to be a nanny. She loves her position, working for the hottest billionaire in Atlanta and taking care of his beautiful daughters. When her ex-boyfriend parades his new fiancee in front of them all, she’s devastated… until Roland gets down on one knee, surprising everyone. He’s her friend, her boss, and the most eligible bachelor in town. Anything more between them would be...

Purchase Make Believe Series #1 My Rating: 4/5 Stars Primary Genre: Billionaire Romance/Christian Romance/Contemporary Romance Blurb:  Take one billionaire cowboy in need of a fiancée, add one divorced teacher with trust issues and mix in a fake engagement. What could possibly go wrong? Gwen Alder is starting over — divorced and broke, she’s come to Billings, Montana for a new beginning. But waitressing in a roadside diner for the summer isn’t paying the bills, and she finds herself in over her head with no hope of catching up. Heath Montgomery has it all — fame, fortune and a mega-watt smile, but one thing he doesn’t have is a date for his cousin’s wedding. When the two of them cross paths, Heath has an idea — what if he paid her to be his date? No strings, no complications, just a simple business transaction — a way to finally win his father’s trust, and get his parents off his back about settling down once and for all. She’s poor and plain. He’s wealthy and arrogant. They didn’t...