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4.75⭐️1🌶 I severely fallen behind in my book posts, sorry.  Jinx by Juno Lark was good.  I enjoyed it.  Its book one of an urban fantasy shifter why choose romance series.  The shifters are gryphons, which was a first for me.  There is a pack dynamic with them, which I liked.  Each of the guys have a little bit different relationship with the FMC Cordelia.  Cordelia believes she is cursed.  At a young age her parents abandoned her and she was raised by her aunt.  After her aunt passes from cancer Cordie pickes up and moves to an upstate NY college town in an attempt to have a life.  It was her aunts dying wish for Cordie to live her dreams.  If Cordie touches the bare skin of another person, bad things happen to them, so she isolated herself with just her aunt for years.  She literally bumps into Bellamy, the first guy of this shifter brotherhood one day and a connection instantly formed between them.  There i...

5⭐️.5🌶 So remember I read Starshipped as an ARC and loved it?  As soon as I caught up with ARC reads I jumped back to these and read books one and two in the It's Definitely Not Aliens trilogy.  They were both excellent.  Book one Stardusted sets everything up; introduces Sky, Raven, and Amelia.  It sets up the Enil, which are the robot creatures and the halix, which is the Pladian info cache that Raven accidentally downloads into her brain.  Can you say Jack O'Neill much?  Book one also highlights the pull between Sky and Rae.  Even after she discovers Sky is an alien, there is no denying she's still crushing on him.  There is some very hot steam in the first book, but we don't get past making out (in the stairwell) til book two.  Stardusted was a great first book. 5⭐️2🌶 Starfalling was also phenomenal.  Sky and Raven are on the run from the Enil and License 16, the secret government agency.  (Think Men in...

4⭐️4🌶 This one was trippy, if I'm honest.  But the more I've sat with it the more I'm liking it and I wish I would have given it another half star.  Alot happens in this book and the last third of it went a direction I wasn't expecting to it's taken me a little to wrap my head around everything.  But overall its a great book.  It's probably not going to be for everyone with the amount of spice and the nature of the spice that's in it.  Storm is the FMC in the book.  She is 18 when the book starts and is a lightning farmer.  There are strict class designations and this is mostly a dystopian world.  She and her family sit very low on the totem pole.  She grows up with her mother and older brother telling her stories of the fae realm.  In the fae realm everyone is equal and its a utopia.  Right after she turns 19 she and her brother go into town on market day.  She is flagged for a physical and is told to report to th...

6⭐️2🌶 I've gotten exceedingly behind in my blog posting.  I had to rapid fire read several of these books to make the publication deadline so everything else went by the wayside.  Smoke, Mirrors and Misdemeanors was exceptional though and a cozy joy to read.  The MMC, Ark, is a total green flag.  Reserved, quiet, private but fiercely loyal to the scant few people he's let into his inner circle over the years.  He falls first for the FMC and falls hard.  Cassia is a Kitchen Witch, which in this realm puts her pretty low on the totem pole.  She's also the mixed daughter of two orphans, so she doesn't have a family name with clout either to help her out.  She's the caretaker of an orphanage.  One that cares for mixed blood children.  It is the orphanage her parents called home and where they met.  Cassia is a baker and owns The Witching Flour.  The profits from the bakery are what keeps the orphanage afloat.  A d...

5⭐️2🌶 Starshipped is book 3 in the It's Definitely Not Aliens series.  I didn't have enough time to read books one and two prior but I was able to figure out what was going on well enough and I loved this book.  As soon as I get caught up with ARCs, which will be soon, I'm reading the other books.  This one was alien/human romance and it was great.  Sky is the alien, Raven is the human.  She's an anthropology student and winds up getting an ancient alien map downloaded to her brain.  Evil killer robot aliens are after her for the map.  Sky and his alien partner Bast are Pladians and are stranded on earth.  There's also a secret government agency after all of them.  Rae's best friend Amelia comes into play in this book.  She and Bast are like oil and water and their interactions are hilarious.  Sky and Rae have caught feelings for eachother and they're both trying to deny it because Sky and Bast will be leaving once they...

5⭐️🫑 I've gotten behind on my blog posting.  I had some looming ARC deadlines so I ploughed through three books in only a few days.  So first off, Fount and Fortune by Mickey Schoonover.  I received the ARC of the second book.  I read the prologue and about a page of the first chapter and decided I really needed to read book one to know what was going on.  I'm glad I did.  This duology is amazing.  It's an alternative history dystopian set in a Fascist Dictatorship in Florida.  A governor appointed by the Spanish government during colonization of Florida back in ~1516 stumbled on the fountain of youth.  He declared himself the Conquistador and kept control of the Fount.  He used the healing abilities of the water to become immortal basically.  Florida became the Empire Eternal and the book takes place more or less in present day 565 years later.  The FMC, Evangeline, is a farm worker who lives and works on the Conq...