Professor Romance

Title: Temptation

The Fisherman Series: Special Edition by Jewel E. Ann is available now!
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USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Jewel E. Ann returns with an addictive new adult romance about a young woman who discovers years of Sunday sermons didn’t prepare her for the many lessons of the crude and sexy man who is now her boss. 

It’s official.

I’m eighteen and a young woman with endless possibilities on my way to reunite with my mom in Colorado after five years apart—she had a little weed incident in Nebraska.

At the airport, she springs the news on me … she’s leaving for a month of job training. And me? I’m left on my own in the basement she’s renting from the fisherman, aka her landlord who lives upstairs.

He’s ten years older than me. Never wears a shirt. And makes it hard to remember all the things I learned at Christian Academy.

Did I mention he’s also my new boss?

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Meet  Jewel E. Ann

Jewel is a Wall Street Journal & USA Today best selling author with a quirky sense of humor. When she’s not saving the planet one tree at a time, you can find her role modeling questionable behavior to her three boys, binge-watching Netflix with her husband, and writing mind-bending romance. 

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Overall Grade: More than 5 ⭐️

Over the course of the past two days, since I finished an early copy of Ashley Jade’s The Words, I’ve been trying to find the words for this review. It isn’t due to the book and its brilliance. It’s more about the mounting anxiety about finding the right words to express to other readers WHY they should use their time and resources to buy Jade’s newest book.

In a word: choice.

The Words is all about the choices we make whether it be the consequences of choice, the gravity behind the choices we make, or more frankly, the choice to love and be loved or to love ourselves. Strewn throughout her epic romance, Jade pokes at us to consider the depth choice has in our lives. To tell you more about the choices of this book would be to ruin it for readers, so I won’t divulge anything more. Simply know that you are getting more than you expect with The Words.

This book is quintessential Jade: misunderstood main characters, an eroticism that tears through the book at breakneck speed, a cavalcade of feelings that either tear you apart, uplift you, or make you laugh. Phoenix, her hero, and Lennon, her heroine, will imbed themselves so deeply into your soul that, like me, you won’t be able to find the words to express how much you adore this book. This is the norm for Jade’s books, at least it is for this reader. So much so, that I tore through her book, her lengthy romance with all the words, in almost one sitting. She compels you to with a story that ping-pongs between a hero who is more than you expect him to be and a heroine who asks him to be more. Be forewarned…Phoenix and Lennon won’t find their complete resolution until almost the last page, and that, my friends, is what keeps you turning pages, salivating for more, more, more. In fact, by the end, unlike her other books, I simply wanted more of Phoenix and Lennon because that is Jade’s magic in this book.

What I want to ultimately say about The Words is its almost autobiographical nature. If you’ve spent any time in Jade’s Facebook group, she’s been brave enough to share some of her truths. She is unapologetic and has been open in the past. As I encountered the honesty of her book and her characterizations, I saw her. I felt her. I knew she inhabited this book in ways that she hasn’t fully allowed in past stories. Because of this, The Words is a juggernaut of emotion beyond what you might have experienced in other books because you “see” Ashley Jade’s truths in it. For me, this grabbed me hard and held me fast to her book.

Earlier readers than me have called The Words her best book to date. I’m still a huge fan of Ruthless Knight which clouds my ability to say this about this newest offering. However, I think it’s Jade’s most honest romance. It’s real and raw and riotous for sure. And, quite honestly, you would be a fool to pass it up for anything else right now. My only regret about Ashley Jade’s The Words is that I finished reading it. Maybe it’s time to re-read it again.

In love and romance,

Professor A

THE WORDS by Ashley Jade

Release Date: January 20th

Genre/Tropes: New Adult/Enemies-to-Lovers/Second chance romance with a hint of a rockstar twist

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Blurb:

He was the talented bad boy everyone wanted.

I was the irrelevant geek everyone hated.

He was the sun…drawing all of us in.

I was a black hole…taking up space.

He was destined to be a star.

I was destined to remain an insignificant no one.

Until he made me believe I was special…

And then he destroyed me.

I never thought I’d see Phoenix Walker again after he broke my heart, but fate had other plans.

One tour. Eight weeks. Forty shows.

Countless opportunities to make him pay.

The world thought he was a God…

But I knew the truth.

About the Author:

Ashley Jade is a Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and top 20 bestselling Amazon author who craves tackling different genres and tropes within romance. Her first loves are New Adult Romance, Contemporary Romance, and Romantic Suspense, but she also writes everything in between including erotica and dark romance.

Her characters are flawed and complex, and chances are you will hate them before you fall head over heels in love with them.

She’s a die-hard lover of oxford commas, em-dashes, music, coffee, and anything thought-provoking…except for math.

Books make her heart beat faster and writing makes her soul come alive.

If she’s not paying off student loan debt, working, or writing a novel—you can usually find her listening to music, hanging out with her readers online, and pondering the meaning of life.

Check out her Amazon page and Facebook page for future novels.

She loves connecting with her readers—they make her world go ’round.

~Happy Reading~

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Overall Grade: 4.5 ⭐️

What do you get when you mix a very in control, single dad bi$exual Mister Spreadsheets with a Mr. Floofy Haired Adonis of a former footballer and present-day photographer with having fun in the present as his mantra? (Whew…that was a long sentence.) You get the fun-loving, smexy, and sweet The Best Men by two of my favorite romance authors, Sarina Bowen and Lauren Blakely. 

Is there a seriousness to this story? Absolutely. Bowen and Blakely’s heroes complement each other. They are the yin to the other’s yang, so to speak. Mark Banks requires the transitory, yet spirited way that Asher St. James lives his life. Mark is too serious, too in control, too focused. He isn’t unkind or mean or even grumpy. He’s simply a single dad, discouraged by his former ex-wife, who wants to provide his daughter with all of himself. Add to that an incredibly fast-paced, potentially high-risk job as a trader, and his life is complicated. This makes him serious. When he meets Asher, however, he’s cowed. On the one hand, Asher isn’t buttoned-up. He’s free-spirited and the life of the party. He isn’t into the details; he’s into the “big picture” of situations. For a controlled person such as Mark, this can be frustrating. Add in that he’s the best friend of a man who has won over Mark’s sister a bit too quickly, and Mark becomes even more annoyed. Sadly, he is incredibly attracted to Asher. This causes all kinds of emotional complications for Mark which leads to him, on a drunken night, sending a group text laying out all of his concerns and truth. It’s at that moment you know this book is going to be a good one. 

What is there to love most about The Best Men?

1. For one, you should know that Mark is bi$exual, and he’s open about it, so Bowen and Blakely’s story doesn’t have the angst of a closeted man entering into an open relationship. The strife of this story lies in the differences of personality between Mark and Asher and the complications of their very different lifestyles. I think some readers might want to know that. 
2. Mark is buttoned-up and controlled, but he knows it. One of the things I loved most about Bowen and Blakely’s characterization of him is how much Mark could actually make fun of himself or, rather, embrace his idiosyncrasies. The chemistry (beyond their physical attraction) is built in their banter. When Asher pokes fun at Mark as part of their developing coupling, Mark responds with acceptance and wit. He accepts who he is; therefore, he can respond with his own jests about himself…and Asher. There is a maturity to their banter that, honestly, made me love the book even more. I know it’s strange to love that, but it was refreshing to have a character in full acceptance of himself. 
3. Every time Asher and Mark exist on the page, it is the best part of the book. These two are ravenous for each other, and Bowen and Blakely make the reader work for the consummation of their pairing physically, but it’s done in such a timely manner that they don’t string their readers along too much. They build the attraction and chemistry of their characters to a point that when it tips it is explosive and perfect. As the story goes, the hardest parts of the book are the moments when they aren’t together because the best parts of the story exist when they’re together. From their banter to their eroticism, you cannot help but ADORE Asher and Mark together. 

Honestly, I gobbled up Sarina Bowen and Lauren Blakely’s The Best Men. It’s fun and funny and fantastic. It’s meant to entertain as much as it’s meant to titillate. I recommend jumping into it today. 

In love and romance, 

Professor A

THE BEST MEN by Sarina Bowen & Lauren Blakely

Release Date: January 18th, 2022

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Blurb:

In my defense, I was left alone with a bottle of single-malt and a life-long penchant for protecting my baby sister. Still, that’s no excuse to send ten drunk-texts on why her hasty marriage would be a mistake.

If only I had just texted my sister. But nope. I accidentally sent the message to her, her groom, and his super hot wingman.

I also used the phrase “super hot wingman,” so I’d like to die now.

Instead, I have to plan a wedding with the aforementioned hottie and share a too-small guesthouse in steamy Miami.

Three days in the sun with the cocky, charming former athlete who likes to push my buttons? Fine, two can play at that let’s-infuriate-each-other game.

Until Asher ups the stakes with one wildly sexy suggestion. A no-strings fling, then I go back to my single dad life in New York, and he returns to his star-studded one.

Sign me up.

But the more nights I spend with the other best man, the more I want days too, and that just can’t happen. Especially when I find out the real reason why…

Contents Include: First times, a secret to-do list, champion-level flirting, fast cars, #eggplants, and two men who look good in formal wear.

About Lauren Blakely:

A #1 New York Times Bestselling, #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling, and #1 Audible

Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely is known for her contemporary romance style that’s

sexy, sweet, and witty. She also writes USA Today bestselling LGBTQ romance.

With fourteen New York Times bestsellers, her titles have appeared on the New York

Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Lists more than 100 times, with

more than 55 titles on the USA Today Bestsellers list alone. She’s sold more than 4.5 million books. A Brown University graduate, Lauren likes dogs, cake and show tunes and is the vegetarian at your dinner party.

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About Sarina Bowen:

Sarina Bowen is the award-winning author of more than thirty contemporary novels. She has hit the USA Today bestseller’s list nineteen times and counting. Formerly a derivatives trader on Wall Street, Sarina holds a BA in economics from Yale University.

Sarina is a New Englander whose Vermont ancestors cut timber and farmed the north country since the 1760s. Sarina is grateful for the invention of indoor plumbing and wi-fi during the intervening 250 years. She lives with her family on a few wooded acres in New Hampshire.

Sarina’s books are published in over a dozen languages on five continents.

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Overall Grade: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

If you’ve read any part of Monica Murphy’s The Callahans, then you’re conditioned to angsty, bully-esque romance with possessive, error-filled heroes and their patient, beguiling heroines. There are highlights in her The Callahans and The College Years stories, characters such as Tony, the calm, cool, and collected reliable friend of the guys. However, Murphy doesn’t make it easy on her readers as they move through those new adult, YA romances. 

Until now. 

In her newest book, Making Her Mine, Murphy shockingly offers up a sweet story that feels like a fresh wind through this series. If you’ve read The Callahans, you’re familiar with Beck, the youngest Callahan, and Addie, Jocelyn’s younger sister. Beck and Addie have been mooning over each other for YEARS (since junior high). In this story, they’ve hit their senior year. Addie is finally single, and Beck is soon-to-be single. Murphy takes two sweet, very kind kids and gives them the love story that we should expect from the new adult romance genre. 

See, here’s the thing. I love new adult or college romances even though I’m a middle-aged woman. However, I oftentimes struggle with the $exual prowess of young nubile teens. It never seems right for a time when most of us were awkward during our first time. And Monica Murphy gives us all of that in Making Her Mine. Both Beck and Addie are virgins, and they get to experience their firsts with each other. Even more, they don’t bully each other or anyone else. They simply love each other from afar, and once they acknowledge their feelings, they are DONE. There is very little angst in this romance (unlike Murphy’s other books in this series), and it ends where you think NA stories should end: with an HFN and the promise of a beautiful future for these teens who waited so long to be together. 

Even more, what I appreciated about this story is its accurate exemplification of today’s Gen Z youth. What I appreciated about Making Her Mine is the exactness and awkwardness behind defining relationships in 2022. This is a real thing for Gen Z, and they have so many designations for the spectrum of relationships. Murphy shines in this throughout the book in a way that other Millennial (or Gen X) writers fail to capture in new adult romance. They oftentimes color this sub-genre in Gen X or Millennial shades, and it makes me question their choice of sub-genre. 

I liked the inclusion of this story in Monica Murphy’s The Callahans series. I’m thankful we were offered Beck and Addie’s pseudo-tortured, yet adorable story. It also gives us a further peek into the lives of our favorite characters from this series, and it foreshadows the final book, The Callahan Wedding. 

In love and romance, 

Professor A

THE WORDS by Ashley Jade

Release Date: January 20th

Genre/Tropes: New Adult/Enemies-to-Lovers/Second chance romance with a hint of a rockstar twist

Cover Designer: Lori Jackson

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EXCERPT:

“I take it your little boyfriend doesn’t know about us.”

Gathering my hair, I wrap my scrunchie around it. “That’s because there is no us.”

The tip of his tongue sweeps along his lip ring, and his fiery gaze drifts down my body. “The bite marks on your pussy beg to differ.”

Forcing myself to pay no heed to the rush of embarrassment his statement causes, I survey the stage where George is playing.

Sweet and safe—I tell myself again, like it’s my new mantra.

“Look, what happened last night is never happening again.” Peeling my stare away, I meet Phoenix’s, so he knows I’m dead serious. “I like George. He’s a nice guy.”

Something he’ll never understand because he’s most definitely not one.

He doesn’t say a word for so long, I internally rejoice.

About time the asshole finally got it through his thick skull.

I’m debating walking over to the snack table when he leans down.

His warm breath tickles my ear when he speaks. “Too bad nice guys don’t make your panties wet.”

A wolfish grin spreads across his lips as he pulls something out of his pocket.

The retort I was constructing vanishes into thin air the moment I see my panties.

“We need you up here, Phoenix,” someone calls out.

The look he gives me is so vulgar, I’m glad Chandler walked off to take a phone call.

Relief fills me as he treks over to the stage because the more distance between us right now, the better.

However, it’s short lived.

Shock roots me to the spot—followed by a torrent of dread—when he ties my panties around his mic stand.

Blurb:

He was the talented bad boy everyone wanted.

I was the irrelevant geek everyone hated.

He was the sun…drawing all of us in.

I was a black hole…taking up space.

He was destined to be a star.

I was destined to remain an insignificant no one.

Until he made me believe I was special…

And then he destroyed me.

I never thought I’d see Phoenix Walker again after he broke my heart, but fate had other plans.

One tour. Eight weeks. Forty shows.

Countless opportunities to make him pay.

The world thought he was a God…

But I knew the truth.

About the Author:

Ashley Jade is a Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and top 20 bestselling Amazon author who craves tackling different genres and tropes within romance. Her first loves are New Adult Romance, Contemporary Romance, and Romantic Suspense, but she also writes everything in between including erotica and dark romance.

Her characters are flawed and complex, and chances are you will hate them before you fall head over heels in love with them.

She’s a die-hard lover of oxford commas, em-dashes, music, coffee, and anything thought-provoking…except for math.

Books make her heart beat faster and writing makes her soul come alive.

If she’s not paying off student loan debt, working, or writing a novel—you can usually find her listening to music, hanging out with her readers online, and pondering the meaning of life.

Check out her Amazon page and Facebook page for future novels.

She loves connecting with her readers—they make her world go ’round.

~Happy Reading~

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Title: Things We Never Got Over

Author: Lucy Score

Genre: Romance

Release Date: January 13, 2022

Knox is a badass, bar-owning barber who prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone. Well, except for his basset hound, Waylon. He doesn’t tolerate drama (Knox, not Waylon. Waylon loves drama.). Especially not when it comes in the form of a stranded runaway bride.

Naomi answered her estranged–some would say evil–twin’s call for help, arriving in rural and rough-around-the-edges Knockemout, Virginia, ready to be the good sister as usual.

Too bad her evil twin hasn’t changed at all. After helping herself to Naomi’s car and cash, Tina leaves her with something unexpected. The 11-year-old niece Naomi didn’t know she had. Dun dun dunnnn!

There are reasons why Knox doesn’t do family drama or high-maintenance women who actually believe in all the bullshit trappings of romance. But since her life imploded right in front of him, the least he can do is help Naomi out of her jam. Even if the uptight good girl is a gigantic pain in his ass. As soon as she stops getting herself into new trouble, he can stop dragging her into his bed and go back to his peaceful, solitary life.

At least, that’s the plan until the trouble turns to real danger.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lucy Score is a Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon bestselling author. Small town contemporary rom-coms are her lady jam and she enjoys delivering the feels with a huge side of happily ever after.

Her books have been translated into several languages, making readers around the world snort laugh, swoon, and sob. Lucy lives in Pennsylvania with the devastatingly handsome Mr. Lucy and their horrible cat.

In her spare time she enjoys sleeping, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and reading all the romance novels in the universe.

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