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Elliot Bloom must be protected at all costs. 📖🪻 Have you read Forget Me Not by @juliesotowrites ? This book has one of my favorite grumpy MMCs ever. I just adore him. 🥹 Julie’s second book, Not Another Love Song, comes out this summer and I am very impatiently awaiting its arrival. ••••• romancebooks grumpysunshine romancereader romancequotes bookquotes booksandcoffee forgetmenot juliesoto bookboyfriend

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What are you drinking, wearing [let’s keep this PG] and reading? 🥤💁🏻‍♀️📖

We are packing today so we have to be practical. Ruin by @gillianeliza and her delicious MMC are the only things currently getting me through night feeds. And we are trying the cargo pants trend — still not 100% sure about it.

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Postpartum jeans from Amazon👖

Because, let’s face it, jeans are hard. See how I style them with a bookish tee in tomorrow’s reel!

You can find the 🔗 to these where the 🔗s live.

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📚💪🏼 Books and Biceps Review: Fields of Fire by Ryan Steck 💪🏼📚

Hello beautiful friends of HDD. Hope you’re all having a great summer. I had been in a reading rut after finishing Empire of the Damned. (I blame Jay Kristoff for that… if he wasn’t such a talented writer. Anyways, I digress.) After finishing EoTD, I picked up one of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher books that I had started years ago but had not finished. I slugged through the book (it’s never easy to pick up 3/4s of the way through and still be excited about a book, but we were watching the second season of Reacher on Prime so I trodded along). Once done, I was looking for suggestions on a new series. Mindlessly scrolling X before bed one night, I came across a recommendation from one of the accounts I follow, thus I looked into the Matthew Redd series by Ryan Steck. I am so glad I did. As you may know from some of my other reviews, I am a huge fan of the James Reece, Mitch Rapp, and Scot Harvath series, so I was looking for something similar in nature.

Fields of Fire, the first Matthew Redd book, is an action packed, high octane masterpiece worthy of mention among the list above. When I told my wife I found a series which was also on sale on Amazon, I figured I’d have reading material for weeks. I was wrong, and pleasantly surprised. I finished Fields of Fire within days and have already finished Lethal Range, the second book in the series. Fortunately the third book released in June so I had reading material as we were in the hospital (we both did some reading while we were waiting for the induction to do its thing) and now, as we transition the new normal with our bundle of joy.

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📚💪🏼Books and Biceps Review: Empire of the Damned by Jay Kirstoff📚💪🏼

Well hello beautiful friends of HDD. It’s been awhile since we last spoke. I had been in a reading rut after finishing Joe Abercrombie’s First Law trilogy on audiobook.

Wow, hard to believe my review of Empire of the Vampire was from December 2022… where has the time gone? I had been counting the days until Empire of the Damned was released, eagerly awaiting to pick up from where the Black Lion had left off. When we received an ARC of EoTD in the mail, I was surprised (thank you my sweet Hello Darkness Darling!) and shocked. My initial reaction was that Jay Kristoff enjoyed my original review so much he wanted me to follow up with EoTD.😉

In my opinion, it’s hard, or nearly impossible, for an author to achieve the same, if not greater, quality for a sequel when the bar has been set so high, as it had been in EoTV. I will be honest, I was a bit reluctant, or hesitant, as the book began — thinking there was no way it would outdo EoTV, that my expectations were too high and that I would just end up disappointed… that couldn’t be further from the truth. Jay Kristoff is a master storyteller in his own right, and I am honored and grateful to have had the chance to read the ARC. The only disappointing thing is the fact I now have to wait a while to see how this tale ends. Empire of the Damned is Damn Epic.

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“𝙃𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙢𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙙𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙠𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙡, 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙛𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙝𝙚𝙧.”

Siri , play So High School. 📚🎶

I feel like Not In Love by @alihazelwood is the embodiment of this song. The instant infatuation and physical chemistry in this book is electric, while still taking the reader on a journey to the deepest depths of the characters’ core.

I recorded this while 9 months pregnant so please forgive the heavy breathing and scattered thoughts, but all you need to know is that I couldn’t put this book down — it was such a fun change of pace.

What to expect:
- dual pov
- forbidden romance
- enemies with benefits
- trauma/healing
- angst
- STEM setting

𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘬𝘭𝘦𝘺 𝘙𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘈𝘭𝘪 𝘏𝘢𝘻𝘦𝘭𝘸𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘕𝘦𝘵𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘺. 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘰𝘸𝘯.

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Is #throwbackthursday still a thing? 📔🌸

I was looking at some old photos like this one recently and they had me missing my dark hair. I think I may go back toward my natural dark brown soon. What do we think?

I bought a bottle of @dphue medium brown gloss to try. If I go for it, I’ll be sure to video the experience.

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I’m back with another SCORCHING🔥 romance recommendation. Not Another Love Song by Julie Soto.

🎻Rivals to Lovers
🎻Musical Prodigies
🎻NYC Setting
🎻Grumpy X Sunshine
🎻Found Family
🎻Forced Proximity (workplace)
🎻He Falls First

Coming July 16, 2024. Preorder wherever you buy books!📖

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Let me introduce you to my first 5⭐️ read of the year!

It’s Happily Never After by Lynn Painter ✨

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6oGOcXrXY8/?igsh=NnoybHBzbmh5YWdp

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Adding this castor oil to my night time moisturizer has been a game changer for my dry, sensitive skin

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Vanicream has been a life saver for my dry, sensitive skin

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My current mascara obsession.
The Essence I Love Extreme Crazy Volume Mascara

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