🏳️‍🌈 Emma Scott ⭐️ WHEN YOU COME BACK TO ME ⭐️ #LostBoys2 🏳️‍🌈

© ✰ Bianca ✰ 

• 27 September 2020
• Book #2 in the #LostBoys
• connected standalone
• High-School-M/M-Dramance

★★★★★

5 Stars

At Santa Cruz Central High School, they called them the misfits, the outcasts, the weirdos. But most of us knew them as the Lost Boys...

Holden Parish survived his parents' horrific attempts to make him "the perfect son." After a year's stint in a Swiss sanitarium to recover, he has vowed to never let anything--or anyone--trap him again. Brilliant but broken, he seeks refuge behind alcohol, meaningless sex, and uses his wicked sense of humor to keep people away. He only has to ride out one year in the coastal town of Santa Cruz with his aunt and uncle before he inherits his billions and can make his escape. Disappear.

Falling in love is not in the plans.

River Whitmore. Star quarterback of the Central High football team, Prom King, Mr. Popular, ladies' man. He leads the perfect life...except it's all a lie. His father has River's future in the NFL all planned out, while River's dream is to run the family business in the town that he loves. But his mother's illness is tearing the family apart and River is becoming the glue that holds them together. How can he break his father's heart when it's already shattering?

River's carefully-crafted façade explodes when he meets Holden Parish. A guy who dresses in coats and scarves year-round, drinks expensive vodka, and spends his free time breaking into houses for the fun of it. They're complete opposites. River seeks a quiet life, away from the spotlight. Holden would rather have dental surgery than settle down.

Holden's demons and River's responsibilities threaten to keep them apart, while their undeniable attraction crashes them together again and again, growing into something deep and real no matter how they resist.

Until one terrible night changes everything.

Lost Boys is a new series of interconnected, coming-of-age standalones.

Holden and River.

We already met those two in the first book.

Holden is the new beautiful, mysterious, weird guy in school and River is the prom king, quarterback, pride of the town sunny boy.

But they both have their secrets and pains. And dreams or nightmares about the past and the future.

Falling in love with each other was definitely not on the menu.

What will happen with Holden & River?
Will there be a Happily Ever After???
BUY THE BOOK TO FIND OUT! ☺

What do you expect when you start reading an Emma Scott romance?
ALL THE FEELS!
And we got that.
I already adored the first book and I couldn't wait to get my hands on Holden and River!
I loved those two. Not only them - Miller and Ronan too, of course! Can't wait to read Ronan's book.
But back to Holden and River.
Perfect names for those two beautiful souls.
Ugh. You just want to jump into the book and hug them and shake the heck out of some parents for not seeing what perfect boys they are!
This book was so sweet and funny and highschooly. But also soo very heartbreaking and sad and ugh. I cried a LOT!
We so hope that we'll get our happily ever after!
But we have a long way to go until that might happen.
And that's just perfect for us readers. Lots and lots of pages for us to fall even more in love with those boys!
Even though we're a little bit scared what the title of the book might mean! We don't want anyone to leave! GIVE US THE HAPPY END RIGHT THE EFF NOW!!! ☺

WHEN YOU COME BACK TO ME was such a beautiful and emotional Young-Adult-New-Adult-M/M-Love-Story-Drama! Please run to your nearest amazon for your own Holden & River, because these 2 are MINE!!!

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Book #1

If you haven't read Emma's #FullTilt Duet yet - DO IT NOW! ☺

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 Emma Scott writes romances with flawed characters, characters with artistic hearts: builders, poets, and writers of various makes and models. Emma loves to write book lovers; those who have found refuge, companionship, and escape in books, much as we all do in real life. She digs realism, honesty, authenticity in storytelling. She also loves to write about enduring love, soul-deep love, in as real a setting as possible, but with big smooshy HEAs. Emma believes in diversity, open-mindedness, and inclusion. She adores sweetness mixed with steam, love conquering all, and above all, hope. Love always wins.

⚾ SWING AND A MISHAP 🍦 Tara Sivec 🍦 Summersweet Island #2 ⚾

© ✰ Bianca ✰ Janeane ✰ 

   

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• 27 September 2020
• Summersweet Island #2
• Romantic Comedy - connected standalone
• check out our ►Review◄ for book 1
• #3 - First and Tension - will be out soonish

★★★★★

4.65 Stars

 

“Hawks fans still in shock after centerfielder, Shepherd Oliver, sustained season-ending injury last night in the 5th inning of the playoffs against Chicago.”

Two years ago, I was a pretty big deal. I thought I had it all, until a blast from my past popped up on my social media feed, keeping my ego in check and reminding me how basic I am. Except sassy Wren Bennett isn’t just a blast from my past. She’s the only woman I ever saw a future with.

Even though my soul leaves my body every time she says she hates baseball and has never watched me play, a year’s-worth of messages filled with laughter and sarcasm only remind me how amazing my “pen pal” is. Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter how fine I look in a pair of baseball pants; I’m still 3,000 miles away, and she’s taken... or so I thought. Maybe I should have thought a little harder before I dropped her like a seeing-eye single into the outfield.

When an injury has me questioning everything about my life, I can only think of one place I need to go and one person I need to see. Home, to Summersweet Island, to get back my “pen pal.”

Now I just need to make sure single mom Wren knows I didn’t come back for a change, and I didn’t come back for a job. I’m swinging for the fences, and I’m finally coming home to make her mine. If only she’d stop insulting me and stay in one place long enough for me to tell her. She wouldn’t try to drown me with a tub of ice cream, right?

I’m sure it’ll be fine.

Wren and Shepherd.
We already met them in the first book.
Wren is the sister of Birdie and Shepherd is the boy she always had a crush on in highschool.
But then he went away to become a famous baseball player and she had a son by some idiot tourist.
Now her son is playing baseball too and who is his new coach???
Shep - back on the island after an injury killed his career. Plus he was kinda ready to retire anyway. He wants a family of his own and he wants it back home with the one that got away ...

Let the fun times begin ... ☺





LOL! ADORABLE!

I loved this!
I'm not a baseball person. Who is? Only Americans I think. LOL! I just don't understand the game and I don't care about trying to understand it. I think it's the whole atmosphere thing more with Americans. They remember going to games with grandpa and all the sounds and smells and tastes. We foreigners don't really get that feeling. BUT, I love sports romances!
And I really loved Wren and Shepherd and Owen and the whole island vibe, the friends, family. It was just so adorable and funny and islandy and basebally and falling-in-lovey and text-message-bantery!
I just adored the many hilarious and sweet messages between Shep and Wren. I wouldn't have minded if the whole book would've been written like that. But that's silly, we needed them to be together in real life! ☺

Great rom-com! I really enjoyed reading this. Can't wait for more stories from the island.
(Next one is Wren's bestie and her football player crush!)
And I wouldn't mind a long-running TV Show about the island and its people!

SWING AND A MISHAP was an adorable + funny Island-Ice-Cream-Family-Baseball-Finally-Settling-Down-Rom-Com! Loved it! Hurry to your nearest amazon for your own Shep ... this one is MINE!

A tiny little thing that bothered me a bit - just like in the first book. I don't like it when chapters end with a little cliffy and then the next chapter does NOT start where it should, but at a later time. I want to know what happened in that moment, not fast forward and just get told about it in a few lines :(
And then there were a few or many paragraphs that were just summaries of scenes and happenings or conversations. A bit weird for my brain. It felt like we were not really there with them. Can't really explain what I mean - probably only me that's weird. ☺

ARC received via author for an honest review

Batter up! A new Tara Sivec book has arrived on my Kindle and now it is time for Wren to get her HEA.

I liked the first book, Kiss My Putt  however I love Swing and a Mishap.

From the messaging sweetness to the end of the story, I did not want to stop reading once I picked it up - stupid life gettingin he way of reading!

Shepherd and Wren are just too cute.  You can feel their attraction and frustration and cuteness leap off the page.  Shepherd is all kinds of swoonworthy. He comes back to town and worms his way into Wren's heart. And mine.  I loved that the more we learn of their pasts, the more I need them to be together. The banter goes from cute and sweet to hot and steamy in the blink of an eye, and I loved not knowing what kind of conversation we were going to get next.

Oh, and don't let me forget how great Shepherd is with Wren's kid. Ovaries gone BOOM!

I love, love love Wren's family and friends. They are goals. I adored getting more of Birdie/Palmer and Bodhi/Tess, and now I am impatiently awaiting Emily's story.

I can't wait to get back to Summersweet Island.

↓ LINKS TO THE BOOK & AUTHOR ↓

Book #1





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Book #2

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Tara Sivec is a USA Today best-selling author, wife, mother, chauffeur, maid, short-order cook, baby-sitter, and sarcasm expert. She lives in Ohio with her husband and two children and looks forward to the day when they all three of them become adults and move out.

After working in the brokerage business for fourteen years, Tara decided to pick up a pen and write instead of shoving it in her eye out of boredom. She is the author of the Playing with Fire series, the Chocolate Lovers series, the Chocoholics series, the Fool Me Once series and Watch Over Me. Her novel Seduction and Snacks won first place in the Indie Romance Convention Reader's Choice Awards 2013 for Best Indie First Book.

In her spare time, Tara loves to dream about all of the baking she'll do and naps she'll take when she ever gets spare time.