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Give Me More used to be my favorite Sara Cate book... I think The Home Wrecker just (very slightly) took the lead!

Sara does an amazing job with MMF relationships. There's sweetness but also a bit of angst, bi-awakening, marriage in crisis, (sort-of) cheating, and 🌶️ 🥵 🔥... add in a bit of brothers ex-best friend, smeggs worker & club, and rel1g1ous trauma, and you've got yourself The Home Wrecker.

This can definitely be read as a standalone - I read it before reading The Anti-Hero, because I'm firmly in my why-ch00se era. There are some slight spoilers for things that happen in the first book, but I really wasn't confused at all as to what was going on. Just more curious and it made me want to go back and catch up! 

I definitely recommend this (really anything by Sara Cate, honestly)!

If you know me, then there should be no doubt this book was a solid 5 stars from me! Relever had a bit of a different feel, in that it was more of a plot forward book than the others, I think. There was still character development... and oh, what the development it was... but there was also so much happening to further the overall storyline in this one. I loved every moment, even when I had to set my Kindle down for fear of it being thrown against a wall. 

This is yet another example of how a book can be written so well that every time you reread it you pick out more details and it never feels old, while at the same time you're not left feeling confused at the end like you were missing pieces throughout. And trust me, it will be revisited often. 

And if you were excited with the addition of certain 🌶️ scenes in Sauter, you're going to be 🥵 in this one. Which honestly, you'll need between all the 💔 and 😭. 

I'm very much in my omegaverse era these days. This was what I would consider mafia-lite, in that the entire book was not as dark as some mafia can tend to be. (Or maybe I'm just losing all sense of what's dark these days? 😅🫣) But it's not all rainbows and butterflies either. We definitely get our fill of morally grey Alphas, and throw in one fine Beta as well... along with heats, nests, knots, and all of the OV goodness you expect from Sarah. I can't wait to read the rest of the interconnected world - I'm very curious what the overlap characters will be, if any. 

Another immediate fave in the series! If you’re new, I highly recommend reading the series in order because the crossover characters and circle of trust are best when you know the whole background. But Walker may just be my favorite of the bunch. He’s got the whole unhinged thing like King Linc going for him, while at the same time having the humor of Ari. I absolutely love them all, but Walker’s tropes are by far my favorite. If you love dark romance and hockey, you absolutely cannot miss this series!!

I apparently missed that this was FF, which I don’t generally enjoy. 

Didn’t care for the FMC.

I set it aside to read something else and honestly, I just don’t care enough about the characters. The chemistry seemed to be lacking, 

This was such a good book! You get plenty of feels, some humor, and always lots of character growth. This is where Micalea shines in my opinion. The things her characters learn about themselves as they go through life making mistakes and even sometimes having regrets, reminds me that we're all just out here doing our best, and we will bounce back.

Micalea is a master at the age-gap romance! I loved the angst and especially the callout of the double standard that makes it totally ok for an older man to date a younger woman but reminds us that society judges women when it’s reversed. Even the “reverse age gap” trope calls this out as the “norm.” 

I also loved the “older” FMC without all the “my bones hurt” comments that seem common when trying to demonstrate the “age” of the older woman.

Wow, ok... so I feel like a lot happened in this book, but also, GIMME MORE! Things are progressing with Ezra but I miss Pretty Boy. I'm just waiting for Adam to get with the program here... insert eyeroll at his stubborn broody behavior (every group needs one I guess, right?). And Bodhi is definitely intriguing... I need to find out more about him soon!!

Loving this series and I've become a fan! Definitely need to go back and read through the backlist ASAP!!

This was my first book by Tijan, so I didn't know what to expect. Obvs a college hockey romance... but what I got was so much more. This was a very emotional read, and I don't tend to be overly emotional (Black Hearts Club, amiright?). But something about the intensity of this one... I almost cried at one point, and it's not often I can say that. (Listen, I said almost, I'm still in good standing in the BHC.) The hockey was minimal in terms of actual game play and what not, but we did see a lot of the hockey house and some of Cruz's teammates.