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🏅Top Shelf Tuesday🏅

Happy Tuesday everyone!

I have decided that on Tuesdays I want to highlight the books that I have given a 5 star rating to. Calling it Top-Shelf Tuesdays (see what I did there 😄).

I have put the names of all the books in a cute little crock and will select one at random each week. Any new books I complete and rate 5 stars will be added as I go.

First on the draw:

Fraternize
Players Game book 1
by Rachel Van Dyken
Romance, New Adult
Kindle Version
Published by Skyscape

Synopsis:
Emerson, a busty, curvy, athlete has fulfilled her dream and made it as a pro cheerleader on her favorite football team. Even with breaking down barriers with body positivity, not everyone is thrilled with this choice as you can imagine. Emerson must work her ass her off to prove she belongs here. And she must follow all the rules, most importantly, No fraternizing with the players.
That is easier said than done. Just traded to the team is Emerson’s first love Miller, who still sends her over edge. Never having closure, Emerson doesn’t know how to feel about Miller being back in her life again. Then there is Grant, oozing sex appeal, with quite a reputation with the ladies. He wants Emerson and he always gets what he wants.

Why I loved it:
I actually liked this book way more than I was expecting to. I received it as a Goodreads giveaway. I am a huge romance fan to begin with. Fun fact, I also was a Cheerleader myself (high school) and who doesn’t love football players? 😉 But in all seriousness, it was a really good read! I love the body positivity, that curvy woman are still sexy and still athletic. It had more substance than just sex. Miller and Emerson need to figure out what happened with their relationship and do they want to salvage it? There is more to Grant than a pretty face and sexy body.

Book Review – Upside of Falling Down

The Upside of Falling Down by Rebekah Crane

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

New Age, Romance

“Clementine Haas doesn’t exist. She died in a plane crash. I woke up in her body, and until I remember who she is, what she’s made of, I can’t claim her life.”

“No matter what people want to believe, life is locked in the past. It’s all we are—a timeline of events that make up a person.”

Clementine wakes up in a hospital in Ireland with absolutely no memory; nothing about how she ended up in the hospital, what she was doing in Ireland, or even her own name. She is told that she was in a plane crash and she is the only survivor. The hospital is surrounded by media waiting for the lone survivor to wake up. When the nurse tells Clementine that her father is on his way from America, she panics unable to deal with the pressure and expectations for getting her memory back. She meets a stranger in the hospital gardens and convinces him to take her away and let her stay with him for a week or so, confident her memory will be back in that time and she will go home.

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2021 – Book 2: A Book about Forgetting

After my last two books, I need something a little lighter, they sure left a stone in my heart that is weighing me down. I think a little romance is just what the doctor ordered. And I love anything and everything Ireland. 💕

I think that we all loose ourselves sometimes, not necessarily amnesia but we get lost in our day to day life and forget who we are inside.
That is what I am focusing on this year. No “goals” to stress over, just doing things that make me happy.

Blurb:
For Clementine Haas, finding herself is more than a nice idea. Ever since she woke up in an Irish hospital with complete amnesia, self-discovery has become her mission.

They tell her she’s the lone survivor of a plane crash. They tell her she’s lucky to be alive. But she doesn’t feel lucky. She feels…lost.

With the relentless Irish press bearing down on her, and a father she may not even recognize on his way from America to take her home, Clementine assumes a new identity and enlists a blue-eyed Irish stranger, Kieran O’Connell, to help her escape her forgotten life…and start a new one.

Hiding out in the sleepy town of Waterville, Ireland, Clementine discovers there’s an upside to a life that’s fallen apart. But as her lies grow, so does her affection for Kieran, and the truth about her identity becomes harder and harder to reveal, forcing Clementine to decide: Can she leave her past behind for a new love she’ll never forget?