Runaway Bride and Prejudice by Emma St. Clair review

Title:  Runaway Bride and Prejudice

Author: Emma St Clair

Chapters:30 Plus epilogue

Series: Appies # 5

Pages: 418

Genre: Hockey Rom Com, Rom Com, Sports Rom Com

Rating: 5 stars

Publisher: Indie

There’s only one rule that hockey players are smart enough not to break don’t date the coach’s daughter unfortunately Van’s not that smart. Van ends up being the get away driver for Amelia the runaway bride and coach’s daughter. He might be the bad boy of the Appies but there’s more to him than meets the eye.  And in Runaway Bride and Prejudice you get to peel back the layers and find Robbie not Van. I have to say he’s replaced Felix as my favorite Appie

Romancing the Grumpy by Jenny Proctor review

Title: Romancing The Grump

Author: Jenny Proctor

Ch: 26 plus epilogue

Pg:358

Series: Appies 4

Genre: Rom Com

Rating: 5 stars

Publisher: indie

I never thought that any of the Appies would replace Flexi as my favorite. But that was until I read Romancing the Grump and met grumpy Nathan Sanders. Grumpy sunshine has always been one of my favorite tropes. But Nathan was more than just a grumpy hockey player. And of course, Summer’s the exact opposite of him making the banter awesome.

I mean as a rom com you know how it ends but the fun is the journey the characters take to get there. And it doesn’t hurt that he loves his family. Nathan really is a grump with a heart of gold.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher through netgalley. I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are mine alone.

A Groom of One's Own by Emma St. Clair review

Title: A Groom of One’s own

Author: Emma St. Clair

Ch: 24 plus epilogue

Pg: 368

Series: Appies 1

Genre: Rom Com

Rating: 5 stars

Publisher: Indie


When we first meet Eli in Just Don’t fall he comes across as a bit of a ladies man. But in A Groom of One’s Own we learn that’s not exactly the whole truth. He actually has a heart of gold and loves his mom. He wants to get married but for love not to stay in the country. Enter Bailey who also has her own problems and the solution of a marriage of convenience.

I’m a sucker for the marriage of convenience troupe and I jump for the chance to read it especially in contemporary romances and rom coms where it’s not so common. And. A Groom of one’s own doesn’t disappoint.

Betrothal or Breakaway by Leah Brunner review

Title: Betrothal or Breakaway

Author: Leah Brunner

Ch: 50 plus prologue and epilogue

Pg: 318

Series: DC Eagles book 3

Genre: Rom Com

Rating: 5 stars
Publisher: Indie

Ford Remington is the best book boyfriend not just for the reasons you’ll find out once you read Ford and Amber’s story Betrothal and Breakaway by Leah Brunner. The newest book in The DC Eagles series. But because as a teenager he didn’t fall into a certain body spray craze. And as a millennial woman who was in high school during that craze would have loved Ford because didn’t fall into that craze.

But importantly Ford’s a good friend and is willing to put his feelings aside to help Amber when she and her daughter Nella need a safe place to land. And of course, a hockey player holding a baby and glasses let the swooning begin. And he’s a neurodivergent hero who Leah wrote brilliantly because being neurodivergent is a spectrum. As someone who has a cousin on the spectrum and a sister with ADHD, I love seeing neurodivergent characters done right in books.

Amber is a woman who’s pretty much been hurt everyone in her life but her daughter and Ford. Her best friend since childhood and whose friendship she doesn’t want to lose.

My favorite genre in a romance or rom com is marriage of convenience which is something you don’t see much in contemporary rom coms, but I’ve never seen it paired with friends to more not something I tend to always pick up. But with Amber and Ford it works, and I love it. Because their friendship is something they both want to protect going.

Two best friends, a marriage of convenience, a baby, concerned parents an ex, and throw in a hockey team of course chaos is going to ensue. And you get a laugh out loud hockey rom com that’s so much more. There’s always layers to Leah’s books that make it so much more than a simple hockey romance. She’s made me love hockey romances when I normally don’t like sports romances and because of how beautifully she wrote Ford and Ambers story made me love a friends to more story.

Flirtation or Faceoff by Leah Brunner review

Title: Flirtation of Face off

Author: Leah Brunner 

Ch: 42 plus epilogue

Pg: 306

Series: DC Eagles book 2

Genre: Rom Com

Rating: 5 stars

Publisher: Indie

Just when I didn’t think Leah Brunner could top Mitch, she gives me Colby Knight a hockey player who slight spoiler reads his crushes favorite book. I’m what book nerd doesn’t wish a guy would read her favorite book to better understand her. And of course, Noel joins the ranks of nerdy girls who possibly get the guy.

Flirtation and Faceoff had sight miscommunication but for this book works. And of course, a matchmaking grandma. Colby is misunderstood but as you read the book you get his growth and changes for the better. And I mean the library scene has this beauty and the beast nerd swooning.

Desire or Defense by Leah Brunner review

 

Title: Desire or Defense

Author: Leah Brunner

Ch: 33 plus epilogue

Pg: 284

Series: Hooked on a feeling 1

Genre: Rom Com

Rating: 4 stars

Publisher: Indie

I’m not into sports all that much outside of baseball. And I’ve never seen a hockey game. But I was pretty much hooked on this book from page one. Now I’m not as bad as Andie was when it come to hockey facts. Though I can’t take credit for that my hockey knowledge comes from my sister. Now Mitch is my kind of hero he’s rough around the edges and so is Andie, but they soften each other’s edges. Andie is a heroine I relate to because she was the older sister that stepped up.

Yes, this one is about hockey but it’s also about so much more. It tackles grief loss and mental health in a tactful and realistic way. I’m looking forward to the next one in the series.