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Book 1,078: Square to the Puck (Offsides #2) – J.J. Mulder

Square to the Puck, book two of J.J. Mulder’s Offsides NHL MM hockey romance series starts off with fireworks. Like WHOA, I was a little concerned she was going to go down the road of Damon Suede (Lickety Split, Hot Head, Bad Idea) or Heidi Cullinan (Dirty Laundry), where they go super hot and heavy bordering on crass, early in the book and then I’m like do I want to finish this novel!?! Thankfully, Mulder reined it in and we got a more sedate and emotional MM romance. Or, I guess, as sedate and emotional as it can be when two NHL pro-hockey players get together.

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Book 1,031: Speak of the Devil – Rose Wilding

OMFG. I can’t believe I waited as long as I did to read this. I accepted an ARC ages ago from the publisher, but then school and life got in the way and I blew past the publication date.* Then there were so many MM Holiday Romances I just had to read, and this is where we ended up me reading it in January 2024, six months after publication, and then finally getting the review posted almost a year to the date after publication (six months after I read it but back-scheduling). OH, THE SHAME.

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Book 953: Stronger Than Passion (Chesapeake Days #2) – Katherine McIntyre

Coming off Stronger Than Hope, I wasn’t 100% sure I was going to read the next one in the series. There were just enough little annoyances in it that I wasn’t convinced. However, when this landed in my inbox I thought why not give McIntyre another chance, see if the same issues showed up again.*

I called Nico being one of the protagonists of this book but had no clue who the second would be. We find ourselves with a classic enemies-to-lovers trope. Nico Shah, the owner and proprietor of the local town bar who is a one-night-stand only kind of guy, is forced to work with Hudson West, the pretty boy with a presumed-trust fund who runs the high-end classy restaurant of the town. They don’t get on because of numerous misunderstandings, but they slowly fall for each other as they work together.

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