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Synopsis:

The story of the heart can never be unwritten.

Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away.
But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulos—the first and only love of her life—the careful bubble she’s constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a time, Elliot was Macy’s entire world—growing from her gangly bookish friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother…only to break it on the very night he declared his love for her.

Told in alternating timelines between Then and Now, teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much more—spending weekends and lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco devouring books, sharing favorite words, and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adults, they have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macy’s decade-long silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.
Genre: Contemporary Romance 

Tropes:
  • Second Chance 
  • Misunderstanding 
  • Childhood Friends To Lovers 
My Thoughts:

Kicking off June with my choice for the letter L of my reading challenge with Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren. I’m no stranger to the author, having read Josh and Hazel’s Guide To Not Dating for my letter J of the challenge, which I throughly enjoyed. 

I had a nervous feeling about reading Love and Other Words because I’d seen so many people post that it was their favourite Christina Lauren book. I typically have the opposite feeling of a book when people claim it to be their favourite, so I was worried this book wouldn’t live up to those expectations. 

Love and Other Words follows Macy Sorensen and Elliot Petropoulos in alternating chapters between past of 10 years and present. During the past, the story follows them in their adolescence where they initially meet, before forming a strong friendship which gradually strengthens over the 10 years they know each other. The present follows them the day they reunite, after falling out over 10 years ago, due to a reason that is left unexplained until the end. 

As the pair become reacquainted, they begin navigating a new friendship, where they catch up on everything they missed during their absence. During their initial interaction, Elliot asks about Macy’s father and how he is doing, but is shocked when Macy reveals he died a few years ago. As the pair slip back into their friendship, they quickly learn that they still have the same feelings from their adolescence

Upon reuniting, Elliott returns home and ends the first relationship he has had since his teenage relationship with Macy, whereas Macy is left feeling confused with her feelings and continues her relationship with her fiancee. 
In the past, the story follows a young Macy and Elliot as their friendship slowly develops over the years from strangers, to friends, before moving to first and teenage love. 

During the past, the pair begin navigating their journey to adulthood and the changes they go through. Macy continues to move to and from their summer vacation home, which leaves her reeling at her absence from Elliot when she is at home and school. 

Macy and Elliot’s friendship develops beyond friends which pushes the two to embark on a relationship, which they had refrained from doing, out of fear of loosing their friendship. 

In the present, Elliot and Macy skirt around the reason for their departure from each other’s lives, but as they spend more time together, Macy realises that she can’t deny her feelings for Elliot and can’t go back to now knowing him – therefore, leading her to end her engagement. 

At Elliots brother’s wedding, the pair finally delve into a relationship with one another, but are faced with the conversation of the night their friendship ended. 
The story flashes back to the past, revealing the reason for their sudden estrangement. During a college party, Elliot calls Macy where he drunkenly confesses his love to her, before proceeding to ask her to marry him. Macy becomes concerned about this next step in their relationship and is concerned they are doing it on the phone, while Elliot is drunk. Macy attempts to divert the conservation to savour the moment, which upsets Elliot, leading him to end the call. 

After ending the phone call, Macy becomes worried about him and pleads to her dad to allow her to drive to their vacation house. Macy dads allows her to, but with the condition she contacts him when she arrives safely. When 
Macy arrives at the vacation house, she calls Elliot, but is met with his friend Christian, who begins acting suspiciously on the phone, revealing that Elliot is not there despite his phone being there. This leads Macy to visit Christian’s house where the party is and upon arriving, is met with Christian who slyly encourages her to find Elliot upstairs, despite his other friends attempting to divert Macy away. When she goes upstairs, she sees Elliot past out naked on the bed with his ex girlfriend Emma, who Macy had concerns about. 

Macy leave the party and rushes back to the vacation home alone, where she passes out after being heartbroken. Macy is awoken the next day by her father’s arrival, after he became worried when Macy failed to contact him about her arrival. After her father learns about her heartbreak, he consoles her and encourages her to go home. As the pair are driving home, her father takes his eyes off the road to sympathise with his heartbroken daughter, only doing so results in a horrific car accident, which claims his life.

Following the death of her father, young Macy ends all contact with Elliot after believing he is partly to blame for her father’s death, due to him being the reason her father was in the car. 

In the present, Macy reveals to Elliot that she struggled to separate her heartbreak of his affair with the reason for her feathers death. 

Elliot is torn apart over Macy’s revelation, who reassures him that it wasn’t his fault. Elliot reveals that during the night of her father’s accident, he was so drunk that he believed that Emma was Macy, therefore not realising he was cheating. 

The story ends where Macy and Elliot finally embark on a relationship and begin starting their lives together in their new home. 


My reading motivation whilst reading this book was minimal and it wasn’t to do with the content of this book. I felt like I had so much on my to do list (hello book reviews) that I felt like I couldn’t read this book until they were done. I also had too much excitement for attending the Taylor Swift Eras Tour in Edinburgh that I couldn’t focus on reading in the lead up and aftermath – I suffered and am still suffering with a big case of PETD (Post Eras Tour Depression).

From the very start, I had a feeling that this book was going to be emotional, but I didn’t anticipate on it wrecking me to pieces where I was bawling my eyes out and snotting all over the place with how much I was crying – I was crying so much, my kindle became blurry. 
This book absolutely broke me to pieces by the end and I felt for Macy so much – she had lost so much, in such a close period of time. Reading about her story with Elliot was devastatingly beautiful and I’m not sure how I go on as normal after that heartbreak! 

With my reading motivation at a zero, it took me 14 days to complete this book and because of the emotion I experienced in it, I wish I had of read it in a shorter time period. Due to how long it took me to finish this book, I felt like I wasn’t able to emotionally connect with Elliot and Macy – yes I still bawled at their story, but I do feel like I would’ve been struck harder if I were to read closer together. 

I 100% loved this more than Josh and Hazel’s story because it had everything – the feelings and the emotions (I love a book that wrecks me!). Despite the high rating and loving it, I felt like there was something missing, which I’m putting down to my timeline of reading this book. I do wish we saw more of Elliot and Macy being together in the end – I wanted to see all of their moments together! 

Elliot and Macy’s story reminded me a lot of It Ends With Us’ Lily and Atlas’ story of being childhood friends who loose contact, before reuniting. Both book couples are the definition of “right person, wrong time”.

I loved the alternating chapters which were reversed – how the chapters of the past built up to the future, whilst the present chapters built up backwards to the moment and reason they lost contact. I just wish we saw more of the night that Elliot had his drunken affair because it was never mentioned whether he was drugged. I felt like he potentially was because his friend Christian was acting very strange when interacting with Macy during that night. Almost like he was egging her on to find Elliot in that state and wanting her to believe the worst case scenario. I felt like Elliot’s reason was a bit of a cop out honestly and I’m not sure how much I believe it. 

I wouldn’t say Elliot and Macy have my heart as a couple, I would say my rating solely goes to Macy and her trauma. If the cheating misunderstanding hadn’t of happened and they disconnected for another reason, then maybe the rating could’ve been for both of them. 


My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Georgia 
♥

June 25, 2024 No comments


Synopsis:

I ate leftover cupcakes and cracked macarons for breakfast. 

I was ninety percent sure he simply ate up girls like me. 
I was covered in paint splatters, cake batter, and sweat the first time I met him. 

He was covered in badass tattoos and a smile that seemed to hold a secret I would never figure out. 

Rule number 1 was never, under any circumstances, fall for the man who I wrote my lease check to. 

So, I tucked him away in the “Fantasize Only” compartment of my brain and called it a day. 
But he didn’t make it easy. 

He was arrogant, funny, and the biggest flirt I had ever met. 

Most of the time, I didn’t know if I was just a game to him. 

If I didn’t know better, I’d say he was on a mission to ruin my life. 

And maybe my heart, too.

Genre: Contemporary Romance 

Tropes:
  • Opposites Attract
  • Forced Proximity 
  • He Falls First 
My Thoughts:

Where Bad Boys Are Ruined is the final book of the Good Girls series by Holly Renee, a series which I saw on BookTok. I wasn’t impressed by Where Good Girls Go To Die and Where Bad Girls Go To Fall, but I decided to stick with completing the series seeing as each book was under 300 pages and there were only 3 books in the series. 

Where Bad Boys Are Ruined was my final book of May, which I prioritised reading due to it being included in my KU subscription.

Where Bad Boys Are Ruined follows Charlie, who meets Livy when visiting the vacant unit neighbouring the tattoo shop that her husband owns. Charlie accepts the vacant unit and begins her work in renovating the unit, ready for the opening of her bakery. 

During a day renovating, she is visited by the workers of the tattoo shop, where she is met with Brandon – a brooding tattoo artist next door, who overs her help with the opening. In their initial meeting, Charlie can’t deny her instant attraction to Brandon, but swears she’s not his type and that he’ll be nothing more than a player. 
The story follows Charlie as she continues to renovate the unit, whilst developing a new friendship with the tattoo artists next door. 

After spending time with Stacey and Livy from next door, they decide to set Charlie up with a colleague of Stacey’s boyfriend. Following this, they all go out on a group date, including Brandon. 

During the group date, awkward tension begins to build as Charlie continues to deny her attraction to Brandon, who she believes a relationship won’t work with. Charlie continues getting to know the man Stacey and Livy set her up with, whilst also spending time with Brandon, who helps her in renovating the unit. As the pair spend more and more time alone together, feelings begin to develop – but Charlie has been warned by the girls that Brandon doesn’t do girlfriends; leading her to shut down all ideas of Brandon. 

The more time she spends with both boys, the more she becomes torn on who to go with. Eventually, she decides to give her blind date a chance, where she goes on a date and returns to the bakery, but is interrupted by Brandon before she can seal with a kiss.

In the bakery, Brandon and Charlie end up having a food fight, which almost leads to a kiss. 

Their feelings for one another continue to grow stronger, but both deny them and stop themselves from taking action. 

Charlie is left feeling disappointed when she is visited by Brandon’s former girlfriend, who insinuates that they’re still seeing one another. This leads Charlie to completely cut Brandon off, believing that he is no more than a player who was leading her on. 

When Brandon discovers his ex girlfriend’s motives
, he visits Charlie to reassure her that what his ex girlfriend said was a lie. 

The story ends where they end up together and celebrate the opening of Charlie’s bakery, which is a success. 


When I was reading this book, I was left with little surprise as to what to expect from the story and author, seeing as it was the final book. By this point I was familiar with the authors writing style and content.
I found that this book, just like the previous two, was a very quick and easy book to read. It had short chapters which I’ve mentioned in the previous reviews, made it easier and more motivating to get through. 

I was also more motivated than ever to finish this book as it was on the last day of May and I don’t like having books started in one month and finished in another. 
Despite my apprehension to continue the series, I’m glad I did. I enjoyed this book the most out of all three and not for any particular reason. I enjoyed the spice a bit more and didn’t find myself cringing at it. 

Again with the previous two books, this book also lacked detail and depth to the storyline. The plots of the Good Girls series seem to be surface level and don’t dive deeper than the obvious. 

Charlie, the FMC had a very bland personality and her only personality trait was that she was opening up a bakery. That’s all the storyline focused on with her. I felt like it was lightly mentioned about her history and briefly alluded to her past, but I couldn’t explain what that could be because it wasn’t explored enough to give a topic of what she could’ve went through. I didn’t find myself able to emotionally connect with her and found that she was quite “pick me” at times. She would constantly express how a tattooed man like Brandon, would never go for a girl like her – it just came across very pick me and beggy.

The title has “Bad Boy” in the title, but Brandon couldn’t have been described further away than a bad boy. He had tattoos and was described as not the relationship type, but nothing about his actions or behaviour screamed a bad boy, so I was very confused by it – if anything, he was very polite and caring towards Charlie, he wasn’t rude or vulgar. 

Overall, the series lacked a substantial amount of depth and detail. There were plot lines that could’ve been explored, but were mentioned purely to be a breakup between the characters. The FMC’s lacked a personality, which made it hard to relate to or connect with. I have to say, seeing this series on BookTok and actually experiencing it has left me very underwhelmed. 


My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Georgia
♥
June 25, 2024 No comments

Synopsis:

Riley Emerson is probably the last person anyone would expect to be a nanny. For starters, her life has fallen apart. Her boyfriend just cheated on her. She lives with her mom, and she might have a drinking problem.

But Oliver Brian is desperate. His daughter, Zoe, has refused to go to sleep for anyone else in four years and with his career Oliver can’t always be there for her. Riley is only supposed to watch Zoe for one night, but somehow she gets Zoe to bed on her own. He’s so shocked that he offers her a job on the spot.

Riley needs the money, and Oliver needs the time for himself. It’s a match made in Heaven… until feelings get involved.

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Tropes:
  • Single Dad X Nanny
  • Slow Burn
  • Forced Proximity 
  • Billionaire 
  • He Falls First
My Thoughts:

Failure To Thrive was a book I saw on BookTok, which was advertised by the author Elle Rivers, who teased the plot. After listening to the synopsis of the book, I was very interested to read the book and therefore added it to my TBR. Throughout May I subscribed to Kindle Unlimited, so when I’d read all of my alphabet letters for the month, I prioritised my Tbr reads that were included within the subscription. 

Failure to Thrive follows Riley, a bar worker who is unsure what to do with her future. When she arrives home, she discovers her long term boyfriend and best friend having an affair with one another, which leaves her with no option to move in with her negative mother. 
Riley is asked by her younger sister, to look after her boss’s daughter for the night, due to him being left with no options after his daughter dislikes every nanny. Riley’s sister suggests her as a last resort, not expecting her to be the only person to settle Oliver’s daughter and therefore, being the only one she’ll tolerate. 

Following this, Oliver offers Riley a permanent job of nannying his daughter, due to her being the only one his daughter likes. 

The story follows Riley as she begins her new role as nannying for Oliver’s daughter, whilst battling the constant negative opinions that her mother and sister express to people in her life – deeming her as an unreliable worker. 

Riley is continuously contacted by her best friend who had an affair with her boyfriend and is sabotaged by her mother, who invites her to their home, in a bid for them to rekindle their friendship. Only Riley has no interest in rekindling a friendship with someone who betrayed her and is still continuing the relationship with her ex boyfriend. 

Whilst working for Oliver, she witnesses him in his journey of rebuilding his love life after the mother of his daughter died in a drunken car accident/suicide following her resentment of having children. Oliver believes he’s found a girl who will be a mother figure for his daughter, only he’s blindsided by his sole motivation for marrying for a mother figure and not love. Riley is able to witness this happening and becomes worried for the girl she’s grown close to. 

Oliver introduces his new girlfriend to Riley and his daughter, which makes Riley realise that she so of interested in his luxurious lifestyle and not being a mother figure. After witnessing Oliver’s daughter’s change in behaviour, she brings up her feelings to Oliver who immediately fires her, giving into the negative opinions he’d been told by her sister. 

Following her dismissal from Oliver, she regains contact with an old school friend who is a new business owner of a coffee shop. The old friend offers her a job at the coffee shop where she’ll be using her degree to help with the shop financing. Despite her mother’s plea for her to use her degree, she’s unimpressed at her new job. 

After Oliver’s daughter goes missing, Riley’s sister contacts her in a plea for help. Riley immediately helps, but not before explaining why she went missing – his new girlfriend’s behaviour behind Oliver’s back to his daughter. This leads Oliver to part ways with his girlfriend after finally believing Riley. 

Upon this realisation, Oliver pleads for Riley to return back to nannying for him and after much consideration, she accepts. After an argument with her mother after her drinking, she’s kicked out of her mother’s home, resulting in her moving in with Oliver. 

The pair start to develop feelings for one another and are forced to spend time with one another over traditional family holidays – further encouraging their attraction to one another. 

After Christmas, Riley has a discussion with her mother and sister regarding their strained relationship, who express their behaviour was due to her drunk habits and their worry she’ll end up like their father. 

The story ends with Oliver and Rory getting together, whilst remaining civil with Riley’s family. 


I think this has to be the most BORING book I’ve ever read! I felt as though absolutely nothing happened throughout the plot to consider it having a plot. 
The writing came across very immature, with short sentences that lacked detail. I felt like I was reading a book written by a 13 year old and dare I say it, I think the writing on WattPad was better! I pretty much felt like the sentences were like this “Riley felt sad. She did not like what her sister said”. I found it so hard to follow the sentences because that’s the tone it felt like my inner thoughts were reading in. 

Everything about the book irritated me and there wasn’t one thing I enjoyed about it. If I was to DNF a book, it would’ve been this one, but something in me just physically can’t not finish a book. If I could, I would’ve rated it 0, but I didn’t because of my rating system, which after this book, has got me reevaluating what I should have as my rating guidelines.

I didn’t like Oliver, the MMC due to his constant negative attitude and thoughts of Riley, the FMC always doing something bad. He was a grown 40 year old man, who couldn’t for the life of him develop his own opinion of Riley – he would literally allow his assistant (also Riley’s sister) to impact his thoughts and views of her. 

I didn’t feel any connection between Oliver and Riley because they had no chemistry between them, it was almost like they got together because they had to – it was the plot of the book. The book was marketed as a slow burn romance, but there wasn’t any burning passion between them to make their romance be a slow burner. The author lacked description of how their relationship was burning with tension or their chemistry.

I hated Riley’s mother and sister and how they were constantly negative and mean towards her. They would do anything they could to push their opinions of her onto anyone who she would interact with. I felt like their relationship wasn’t resolved it was just moved past, without fully acknowledging their behaviour. It felt like they needed to be baddies for the sake of the plot. 

The gaslighting in this book was unreal, I can’t comprehend it. 

To conclude, Elle Rivers isn’t an author I could say I’d ever jump to read another book by. I was slightly tempted to read the sequel to the book, which follows Oliver and Riley navigating their life together, but I can’t suffer through that when there’s books I’m genuinely interested in reading. I’m thankful for the Goodreads reviews that back up my opinion of this book. 


My Rating: ⭐️.5

Georgia

♥

June 17, 2024 No comments


Synopsis:

He’d never wanted anyone enough to chase them . . . until he met her.

Charming, easy-going, and rich beyond belief, Xavier Castillo has the world at his fingertips.

He also has no interest in taking over his family’s empire (much to his father’s chagrin), but that hasn’t stopped women from throwing themselves at him . . . unless the woman in question is his publicist.

Nothing brings him more joy than riling her up, but when a tragedy forces them closer than ever, he must grapple with the uncertainty of his future – and the realization that the only person immune to his charms is the only one he truly wants.

***

Cool, intelligent, and ambitious, Sloane Kensingtonis a high-powered publicist who’s used to dealing with difficult clients. 

However, none infuriate – or tempt – her more than a certain billionaire heir, with his stupid dimples and laid-back attitude.

She may be forced to work with him, but she’ll never fall for him . . . no matter how fast he makes her heart beat or how thoughtful he is beneath his party persona.

He’s her client, and that’s all he’ll ever be. Right?
King of Sloth is a steamy reverse grumpy sunshine billionaire romance. It includes explicit content and profanity. Recommended for mature readers only.

Genre: Contemporary Romance 

Tropes:
  • Billionaire 
  • Reverse Grumpy X Sunshine 
  • Forced Proximity 
  • He Falls First 
My Thoughts:

After I had read King of Greed, I was so excited to read the next book in the King of Sin series by Ana Huang. I managed to time it nicely as King of Sloth had just been released a few days before I started King of Greed. As mentioned in the previous review, I had KU subscription, so I was prioritising books on my Tbr that were included within KU.

King of Sloth follows Sloane Kensington, a publicist for A list elite celebrities. Sloane is the publicist for many challenging clients, but the top spot belongs to Xavier Castillo, whose father is founding member of the Castillo Group. 

Xavier is Sloane’s most challenging client whose notoriously known for partying, sleeping around and avoiding the inevitable take over of his father’s company, who he has a strained relationship with.

After Sloane is forced to do damage control on yet another Xavier issue, Xavier makes a bet with Sloane that encourages her to stay offline for a week, where she’ll be holidaying with him in Spain. 

Following the losing of the bet, Sloane is forced to stay true to her word and spent time away with Xavier in Spain away from the public eye. 

As the pair spent more time together and learn more about each other, beyond clients, feeling start to develop. 
Their holiday in Spain is abruptly cut short, after Sloane receives news that Xavier’s father has taken a bad turn with his cancer diagnosis and therefore, is approaching his death. 

When the pair return back home, Sloane stays with Xavier as it’s part of her job, but whilst doing so, realises that the majority of Xavier’s family don’t think very fondly of him, leading her to be sympathetic towards him. 

Despite his strained relationship with his father, the pair discuss the future of the family company, where Xavier’s father fails to apologise for his actions resulting in their strained relationship – that he blamed Xavier for his wife’s death following a fire, when Xavier was just a young child. Before his death, Xavier’s father reveals a letter that his mother wrote prior to her death, which Xavier was supposed to receive when he turned 18.

Upon Xavier’s fathers death, Xavier learns that in order to receive his full inheritance, he has to meet a specific criteria which forces him to take over the family business that he has no interest in pursuing. Sloane is able to discover a loop hole, where the will fails to acknowledge which business Xavier must become CEO of. This prompts Sloane to bring light to the loop hole she found and encourage Xavier to pursue creating his own business of his choice – a high class and exclusive bar, which she had seen sketches he’d created. 

Following this loophole and Sloane’s help, Xavier decides to go ahead and start up an exclusive bar in order to receive his full inheritance, only he’ll be up against a tight timeline and a strict criteria which he will be judged on my board members of his father’s choosing. 

Xavier begins laying out a plan to ensure his business will succeed and is put in contact with Kai Young, who shares his contact with other fellow business owners of the same league who can help him with security, business location, music and having a backing by successful businessmen. 

Whilst getting to work with his new business venture, Xavier and Sloane unintentionally spend more time with one another where feelings continue to develop – only Sloane is aware of her no dating clients rule. 

When Sloane is forced to leave a business function that Xavier is forced to attend, it leaves him curious as to why she left so abruptly and whether it was a date she rushed off for. 

After the business function, Sloane goes to visit her younger sister Penelope, who has a chronic fatigue illness, that results in her having limited energy. Only Sloane has to visit Pen secretly and with the help of the family maid, due to Sloane having a strained relationship with her family, after her ex fiancé was caught having an affair with her sister Georgia, in which their father sided with Georgia. Since then, Sloane has had no interaction with any of her family, aside from the secret meetings with her sister Pen. 

After the two spend more time together, conversing on Xavier’s new business adventure, Xavier approaches Sloane with a proposition of having a trial period of dating for a few months, in an attempt to ease Sloane up. Much to Sloane’s reluctance, she agrees and the pair begin dating on the down low and without pressure. 

Pen is left in the hospital after taking a bad turn with her fatigue illness and Sloane is secretly contacted by the maids who inform her and set up a secret meeting for her. Sloane is able to successfully sneak into Pen’s hospital room, but when leaving, is met with an awkward reunion with her estranged family. The Kensington family begin targeting a nasty discussion at Sloane, before revealing that Georgia is pregnant with Sloane’s ex fiancés child. Xavier is quick to rush by Sloane’s side, which leaves the Kensington family shocked at who she’s dating. Sloane’s family refuse to allow her to see Pen going forward and state that if she’s caught she’ll be hit with a retraining order.

After the unexpected reunion, the pair return back to work and continue working on Xavier’s business venture, whilst continuing to trial date. 

Sloane is contacted by her ex fiancé, who requests to meet at a restaurant. During their meeting, Sloane discovers that her ex fiancee is wanting her back and acknowledges his affair that he had with her sister, revealing that it was because she was an “ice queen” who was too busy prioritising her work over him. Unbeknownst to her ex fiancee, Sloane takes upon herself to record their 
conversation as leverage and evidence to use on her sister. 

After revealing the cause of death of his mother to Sloane, where she died in a house fire due to Xavier and her setting up decorations for Xavier’s father, Sloane reassures him that the accident wasn’t his fault. 

Xavier’s bar begins taking shape, as the opening date approaches, only his bar is set on fire by an unknown suspect, which he initially believed was an accident, before Alex found out who it was. 

Following the set back, Xavier pushes Sloane away in attempt to self destruct, by using her previous trauma against her and by calling her an ice queen.

Sloane and Xavier go their separate ways and end their dating train, whilst continuing to work professionally with one another. When Xavier discovers that the bar fire wasn’t an accident or his fault, he realises his mistake in pushing Sloane away and attempts to rekindle their relationship. 

Sloane is visited by her sister Georgia, who barges into her office accusing her of attempting to steal her husband. Georgia begins offloading hurtful insults at Sloane, who responds by playing the voice note that she recorded during her meeting with her ex fiancé and Georgias husband. This leaves Georgia shocked, where she storms out of the office. 

When Sloane is paid a visit by her step mum, she learns that Pen is holding a hunger strike over not being able to see her sister, which leads Sloane and her step mum to come to an agreement where Sloane will be allowed to visit Pen on a regular basis. Only this doesn’t change her relationship with the rest of her family. 

After much persuasion and grovelling Xavier and Sloane rekindle their relationship. 

The story ends where Xavier is approved by the board members to receive his inheritance, due to his business being a huge success. 

Dare I say it…but I think King of Sloth has over taken KOG in the spot for second favourite of the series!
I really enjoyed reading about Sloane and Xavier’s love story and surprisingly, I throughly enjoyed the reverse grumpy x sunshine trope. Typically I prefer the MMC’s to be broody and grumpy, but I loved how it was flipped in this book. I enjoyed how sunshine Xavier was and the one liners he had to provoke a grumpy and sassy Sloane – I definitely found myself giggling to myself at the comments he made.

As always, I loved the appearance of previous characters in each book that Ana releases and KOS wasn’t short of mentions and appearances – it had so many! I think KOS has had the most features and mentions of previous characters than any other book (so far). 

Ana’s mind is just mind blowing and insane with the connections and links she makes between characters and series! You can tell she thinks about the series as whole before writing each book.

Asher was mentioned in this book and so was the actor Nate from KOG, we know Asher will be featured in the Striker, but I suspect a book coming about Nate the actor! In this book, Ana also set the path for the next King of Sin book, which will focus on Vuk and Aranya, as they were heavily mentioned in this book. I’m really looking forward to that book and how Vuk will communicate due to his lack of communication – he literally is mute! 
So many potential storylines were mentioned, as well as mentions to small details in the previous books that I couldn’t keep track of, but recognised their names, just not who they were (enemies and such). 

I wish we found out who was responsible for the fire at Xavier’s new bar and also who Sloane bumped into and recognised . They weren’t revealed, but in Alex’s appearance he said he knew who they were, so I suspect it will be revealed later on in the series. I do find that annoying because it’ll be mentioned and I’ll be wracking my brain trying to remember the relevance.

I also wish we saw some reconciliation between Sloane and her family, which I guess we did as they are allowing her to see Pen, but I wish we saw a whole reconciliation.

If we had of known who caused the fire, I think I could’ve given the book 5⭐️’s, but it was left on a cliff hanger and I just know it won’t be as shocking for me because I’ll not remember the significance.


My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Georgia 
♥

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About Me
Hello, I'm Georgia! I'm a 23 year old reader of romance and psychological thrillers. I spend way too much time listening to Taylor Swift and spending time on Tik Tok!

2024 GoodReads Challenge

2024 Reading Challenge

2024 Reading Challenge
Georgia has read 4 books toward their goal of 30 books.
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Currently Reading

The Housemaid
The Housemaid
by Freida McFadden
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TBR

Powerless
Powerless
by Elsie Silver
tagged: to-read
King of Greed
King of Greed
by Ana Huang
tagged: to-read
Where Good Girls Go To Die
Where Good Girls Go To Die
by Holly Renee
tagged: to-read
The Inmate
The Inmate
by Freida McFadden
tagged: to-read
Sidetracked
Sidetracked
by S.T. Abby
tagged: to-read

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Completed

November 9
really liked it
November 9
by Colleen Hoover
A Long Time Coming
really liked it
A Long Time Coming
by Meghan Quinn
Practice Makes Perfect
it was amazing
Practice Makes Perfect
by Sarah Adams
Reminders of Him
it was amazing
Reminders of Him
by Colleen Hoover
King of Pride
really liked it
King of Pride
by Ana Huang

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