Good Pucking Luck (The Jilted Exes' Club #1)

Caught up with ARCs (that are due...sorta). Caught up with my latest multi-author series. Not caught up with a lot of other TBRs. So here's to crossing off at least one of those TBRs. Here's Riley Hart's latest novel "Good Pucking Luck." It's the first in Riley's new series, The Jilted Exes' Club.

["Hayes
Proposing to my first boyfriend at a hockey game wasn’t my smartest move. Not only does said boyfriend walk out on me, but the whole stupid thing goes viral, and it turns out the man I was dating has too many boyfriends to count. Internet fame has crowned me a member of the Jilted Exes’ Club, a name I’d do anything to escape.
One thing’s for I’m not making the same mistake again. No more boyfriends, just easy hookups. And I’ll start with this gorgeous catch in Seattle. The only problem…he’s a god in bed, and I’m an inexperienced mess.

Rylan
After a night with Hayes, I play some of the best games of my career. It’s meant to be a one-and-done deal, but when I find out he also lives in LA and doesn’t want anything serious, I see an opportunity.
Hayes wants experience. I want my good-luck charm to help me win the cup.
The media would go wild over a pro hockey player dating a member of the Jilted Exes’ Club—a distraction neither of us needs. We want this to stay simple. Easy. No strings, no falling in love.
Except I’m pretty sure I’ve already fallen. After all Hayes has been through, how do I get him to entrust his heart to someone who’s only ever been labeled a player on and off the ice?"]

Who knew that nerdy+dramatic blended with jock+sunshine?? Because these two were glorious together. Adorable and snarky and supportive as fuck. 

They were fire from the moment they met, both as friends and as a situationship. But they both had their own insecurities and struggles and things they thought they wanted. It took a while (and other people point it out) for them to realize it was more.

Also, for some reason, I assumed this series was named after people dumped by hockey players, but it's even more intriguing that it's about other people Hayes's asshole-ex was cheating with. And now they're all get their own HEAs (...possibly with hockey players (I mean, come on, who isn't obsessed with hockey romances (they're the best))).

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Rex (Fallen Gargoyles MC #3)

Catching up my short-list TBRs with a book that just debuted. Here's Willow Thomas's "Rex." It's the third novel in her Fallen Gargoyles MC series. 

["Falling in love was not something I had planned

Rex
Watching my club brothers find their forever men has got me wanting something more than the odd hook up.
Love isn’t on the cards for me though. How could it be when the example I had growing up was an abusive asshole.
I’ve always thought that I could never love someone the way that they deserve.
But then I meet him.
Sweet, funny, lonely Ian.
I don’t care if I can’t love, I’ll learn.
Because he deserves the world.
And I am going to be the only one who gives it to him.
Ian is mine.

Ian
I am so freaking lonely.
All my family are gone, I don’t have any friends, and working from home means I don’t even have work colleagues.
Being painfully shy does not invite friendships easily.
I miss hugs.
Having not been touched by another human being in so long I do something a little bit impulsive.
Getting a tattoo just so someone will touch me isn’t the smartest thing I’ve ever done, but it quickly proves to be the best thing when I meet Rex.
Rex gives me more than just a tattoo. Pretty soon I am drawn into his world of bikers, parties, and a family I would give anything to be a part of.
I want to stay here. With Rex.
Now I just need to hope the beautiful man might see me as something other than a friend."]

These two!!! D: I was giggling and happy-dancing soooo much just in the first two chapters! Their entire meet cute?!?!? I'm swooning and smiling over here like a crazy person. And Ian's entire Siri-blamed text chain to Rex!!!! God, he's adorable (and Rex thinks so as well).

These two literally laid eyes on each other and went "I'll keep that one, please." It's adorable and ridiculous and perfect.

"Maybe my default setting is caveman." Don't worry, Rex, Ian likes it. 

Trigger Warnings: mentions of domestic violence and more.

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How to Start the New Year Right: According to the Minions (Murder Sprees and Mute Decrees)

Catching up my short-list TBRs with a book that just debuted. Here's Jennifer Cody's "How to Start the New Year Right: According to the Minions." It's the within the same universe as her Murder Sprees and Mute Decrees series. 

["Gregory:
In preparation for Santanos’s return from a retreat in the Alps, the minions are putting on a New Year’s Eve party, but if one more person touches Edovard, the celebration is going to get bloody.

Hassan:
My mate is adorable, but he’d be even cuter with bloody hands. If only that wouldn’t upset Edovard.

How to Start the New Year Right is a 6k short story featuring a New Year's Eve party with fewer clothes than people and the minions’ evil New Year’s resolutions."]

*Sigh*, I love Edvard. He's such a good pupper. I forgot about his cute little way of calming the minions down. Gregory's response to it though (sooo good): "but I put up with his form of love because he's pretty." And then: "it appeases the possessive little bitch inside me that doesn't like sharing my me with anyone" (because Gregory (and because Edovard told him that violence wasn't the answer (but apparently an orgasm is)).

Edovard talked all of the minions of Evil through their New Years Resolutions (aka, how they can do more evil in the world), and honestly, I feel a little inspired.

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