Tales-of-a-bookworm23: college

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

The Baby Blitz- Release Blitz, Review, and Giveaway!!

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Two pink lines won’t change the bad blood between us.

I haven’t always hated my brother’s best friend, but Michael Oliver gets under my skin and brings out the worst in me. He knows how to push my buttons, and I relish pushing all of his. He betrayed my trust years ago, so I’ve made it my mission in life to aggravate him until he admits he was wrong.

When his sister’s wedding brings us together, Michael suggests a truce for one night. If only he weren’t so handsome and smart, maybe I could resist the allure, but I’ve always been a little impulsive, and this man is my ultimate temptation. After years of pent-up frustration and unrequited lust, I finally let down my guard, and that’s all it takes for us to combust.

But like all bad decisions, the morning after brings a reckoning, and I leave his hotel room swearing to never waste another moment of my time pining after him. Who needs that grumpy jerk warming her bed? Not me.

I don’t let myself think about that steamy night together, or how it pained me to hear about his football injury, or how much I know he wants to get drafted so he can help his family. Because I’m cutting Michael out of my life for good.

Only the two little pink lines mean I can’t forget him. Even if I desperately want to.

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The Baby Blitz is a companion standalone to USA Today-bestselling author Lex Martin’s sensational college football romance novels, The Varsity Dad Dilemma and Tight Ends & Tiaras. Readers will love this sensual multicultural romance featuring a scorching-hot college football player and the feisty, but slightly nerdy girl next door—the one he swore he’d never make a move on.

Will Michael make the right decision if he has to choose between Maggie or fulfilling his dream of playing professional football?

GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61415737-the-baby-blitz

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My Review:
My Rating: 3 Stars

Ever since high school Maggie has hated her brother's best friend Michael Oliver or as he is called in the book Olly. The two play pranks on each other and are now in college both trying to help their families with money and working their way towards a better future. In Olly's case he is focusing everything on Football and coming back from his injury. In Maggie's case she is trying to renovate her house on her own that she inherited, working part time and taking classes. Both of these two have a lot going on before they decide to cease fire and pull a truce on the night of Olly's sister's wedding. After years of bickering and tension the two give in to one night of passion. After a series of things happen the morning after the two end up not speaking until Maggie finds out she's pregnant. Now the two have to figure out if they are just going to coparent or could they actually be a couple if they can talk through their differences?

This was a cute story that showed different aspects of a college pregnancy that we don't always see. Maggie didn't have an easy pregnancy, but I absolutely enjoyed how Olly tried to help her through it. I struggled at times to like Maggie because I felt she was too stubborn to ask for help sometimes. I really enjoyed Olly's friends and how they became a little family. I also got annoyed at times because there was such a lack of communication between Maggie and Olly. If they would have just talked things out a lot of their problems wouldn't have been bad. This wasn't my favorite book of the series, but I did like how it showed different aspects with Maggie's pregnancy and I liked how Olly tried to provide for their future. I liked how Maggie was creative with saving money and still getting the things she needed. Both Olly and Maggie were hard workers. Overall, if you are looking for a enemies to lovers and siblings best friend with a little angst this might be the book for you.

AUTHOR BIO

Lex Martin is the USA Today bestselling author of The Varsity Dad Dilemma, the Texas Nights series, and the Dearest series, books she hopes readers love but her parents avoid. A former high school English teacher and freelance journalist, she resides in Texas with her husband, twin daughters, and a bunny named Dandelion.

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GIVEAWAY

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Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Tight Ends & Tiaras- Release Blitz and Review!!

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USA Today bestselling author Lex Martin delivers a swoony, single dad romance about a college football player and the fake girlfriend he knows he should resist.

Football is one hundred percent the focus of my life—until a squawking toddler, with a temper to rival my own, lands in my lap and flips my life upside down.

I’ll never be Dad of the Year. Anyone will tell you that. Except maybe Sienna, my sister’s former roommate, who somehow manages to make my broody ass laugh and sees something in me no one else does.

When Sienna offers to let me and my little princess move in with her, I’m not sure if it’s to help or because she wants revenge on my teammate and long-time rival, who broke her heart.

Either way, I’m game. Because I need to get my ex off my back, and Sienna doesn’t mind pretending to be my girlfriend.

Only neither of us is ready for the sparks that fly between us or the consequences when they do.

★ What you can expect:

- sexy single dad

- fake dating

- sports romance

- slow burn but steamy

- opposites attract

- college football

- small town

GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60384731-tight-ends-tiaras

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My Review:
My Rating: 4 Stars

Ben just found out he's a dad to a toddler and is trying to wrap his head around it while trying to keep his heart protected from his baby mama who broke it after high school. Sienna's just got out of a relationship and isn't looking for a new one when Ben asks to move in with her and to be his fake girlfriend to keep his baby mama away from him. The two have started to become friends so she agrees with both saying this is not real. I know, you know, those are famous last words, especially in a romance book. As the two spend more time together the chemistry that has always bubbled under the surface comes rising up and the two have to figure out what they want to do with it.

This was my first full book by this author and I have to say I enjoyed it. There was a part towards the end that I felt it dragged a little, but overall, it was enjoyable. I loved how Sienna was a sunshine heroine who did her best to help Ben and I loved how Ben was grumpy towards everyone else except Sienna and his daughter. This is the second book in the Varsity Dad's series and I did not read the first one and I was able to understand the story, although I probably will go back and read the first one because the glimpses of what I saw in this book made me think it will be good. If you are looking for a fake dating, single dad, small town, college, slow burn book this summer with some drama this is the book for you.