stinasara's reviews
518 reviews

 

⭐️⭐️.5 

🌶️🌶️.5(light description) 

 

For a book with cock in the title, there isn’t a lot of spice or even much mention of the word. It’s decent overall, but some scenes felt cringey and awkward. The writing itself was also pretty cringey, though I could mostly overlook it. 

 

My biggest frustration was her losing her virginity in the locker room—like, WTF? She was fine with it, but I wasn’t. 

 

Friends to Lovers 

Fake dating 

Virgin heroine

 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

🌶️🌶️.5(light description) 

 

I’m a puddle of tears and happiness. This book was hot, angsty, adorable—just perfect. 

 

The side characters were phenomenal. Miguel, Hector, and CJ each played such important roles in the story. 

 

Jake and Felix completely have my heart. I cried again and again over them. Their relationship was so cute—their texts, their obsession with each other, their flirting, the smut, and those little moments that became so wholesome I couldn’t help but fall in love with them. 

 

Their love story is definitely a tragedy, but a beautiful one. They made each other better, even if they didn’t meet under the best of circumstances. 

 

tropes 

forbidden romance 

grumpy x sunshine

 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

🌶️🌶️🌶️(with some description) 

 

I like how the amnesia affected Luna’s character—she’s bolder and more confident in herself, less weighed down by worrying about making others sad or uncomfortable. However, I didn’t immediately buy her “new” feelings for Donnelly. 

 

This book juggles too many storylines. Luna’s texts are forgotten for a while, only to pop back up briefly at the end. The storyline with Donnelly’s family also fizzles out, and there’s yet another plot with the CEO competition. 

It’s just too long for a romance book. I get that it’s the last in the series, but these characters will return. 

 

That said, the bromance between Paul and Lo was amazing! They truly became best friends. 

 

This series has its flaws, but I’m glad I got to experience it. 

 
tropes

bodyguard (brother’s) 

age gap (8) 

character growth 

found family 

billionaire 

existing relationship

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🌶️🌶️🌶️(with description)

This series has its flaws, but despite them, I’m glad I got to experience it. The relationships between Luna and Donnelly, Donnelly and Farrow, and Lo and Donnelly were satisfying to see unfold.

friends to lovers

bodyguard (brother’s)

roommates

age gap (8)

billionaire

found family

amnesia

 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

🌶️🌶️🌶️.5(with some description) 

 

I had been looking forward to Luna and Paul’s book, and it didn’t disappoint.
 I love that Xander loves Paul and sees beyond what most people do. Xander never thought of Donnelly as less than. 

 

I related to many parts of the book, and my heart hurt for what the characters were feeling. I love both Luna and Paul, together and as separate characters. 

 

Although, I have no words for that first spicy scene. It’s very on-brand, but it was a bit weird to read. It felt a little too out there for me, though it was sweet how he let her express herself. I definitely felt the secondhand embarrassment, though. 

 

friends to lovers 

pen pals 

bodyguard (brother’s) 

roommates 

age gap (8) 

slow burn 

billionaire 

found family

 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

🌶️🌶️(explained but without description) 

 

I really like the setup of this book.
 I love how Regan just listens to Aldo drone on about bees and math. Even though she doesn’t necessarily understand or have an interest in it, the important thing is that she just listens. 

 

This story was beautiful. If you push through the beginning, you’re going to fall in love with them. Interactions that seem small and minute between them felt so intimate and tender that my heart ached in the best way. It was like I was watching it slowly unfold in front of me. A single paragraph left me giddy, and not a word was spoken between them. 

 

 

⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

🌶️(nothing) 

 

Marianne is so dramatic! This is why 16-year-olds shouldn’t get married.
 This book is so scandalous!
 Colonel Brandon and Marianne are meant to be, while Willoughby is the one that got away. I like that Austen gives Willoughby a bit of redemption, which she usually doesn’t do for the “villains.” She granted him more depth, and I love that we learn Willoughby genuinely loved Marianne. 

This is probably my least favorite Jane Austen book. It just didn’t hit the same way the others did. 

 

tropes 

 

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️(with description, light dom/sub) 

 

Posey is always trying to help the other guys get the girl so it’s about time he got his shot at something other than a one night stand. The story is much like Posey himself - funny, caring. He definitely is the star of the show! 

Like the third book in the series, Quinn doesn’t show us a whole lot of reasons why Levi and Wylie work. It isn’t even really told to us either, which was a disappointment. It just felt like lust up until the end when they stand up for each other against Wylie’s dad. 

Also, Wylie’s dad is an emotionally abusive! 

I didn’t like that Wylie didn’t leave when Levi asked her multiple times to leave. To me that’s going against consent, she didn’t have consent to watch or be there with him. 

I do love my FRIENDS references! 

 

tropes 

 

⭐️⭐️.5 

🌶️🌶️(euphemism) 

 

Paisley was incredibly annoying. Hank brings up multiple reasons now she has changed and how her views are skewed, she is refuses to listen. Which is ironically what she accuses Hank of doing towards the end of the book. 

Paisley keeps saying that Gigi is her best friend, but we barely see Gigi. Not a negative, just freaking weird. 

I have decided to dnf this series. I have given the series a chance with reading two books, and I am not convinced I will enjoy the other two in the series. I am getting better at dnfing and that it’s okay for something to not be for you. 

 

recommend: sure 

 

⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

🌶️🌶️🌶️(multiple with little to no description) 

 

The book isn’t bad, but it didn’t meet my expectations. 

 My biggest issue is that we’re told about the past rather than shown it—there isn’t a single flashback. Things that were teased, like their first kiss, her bachelorette party, and her eventually finding out about the poker nights, are all missing. It would have been better to make this book longer—like Zane and Celeste’s—because it would have worked in this book’s favor. 

 

There were things I did like. I loved Sierra and Xavier; they were genuinely very cute. I also loved how Raven and Dion were there for them every step of the way, and I enjoyed seeing the Windsors again as well as meeting the Kingstons.