Haikyu!! Volume 38 by Haruichi Furudate

Bird brain Bokuto truly is the "If I like pickles, I can shoot threes" vine...
Insert Tiffany Polard Beyonce?! meme. Replace Beyonce with SMALL GIANT
200 Pages

Scot Under the Covers (Wild Wicked Highlanders #2). By Suzanne Enoch.

Scot Under the Covers (Wild Wicked Highlanders #2). By Suzanne Enoch. 2020. St. Martin’s Paperbacks (ARC ebook).
 

Miranda Harris is known for her charm and good-standing in London society. She is also, as Aden MacTaggert quickly learns, strongly opinionated on gamblers--quite frankly, they are a blight. But when she should be celebrating with her family over her brother’s engagement to Eloise MacTaggert, she is instead horrified to learn that her brother, Mathew, has incurred a devastating debt to Captain Robert Vale, and has promised her hand to the vile man in order to negate the debt. Up til now, Miranda has been able to solve any problem she has encountered, but she is going to need help in order to save her brother’s future happiness, her family’s reputation, and herself..

Miranda approaches the elusive and crafty Aden MacTaggert, her future brother-in-law, and proposes a partnership—she will teach him how to navigate the ton in exchange for him teaching her everything he knows about wagering and how the gambling mind works. With Miranda and Mathew’s secret, Aden has a way to prevent his sister from marrying and thereby escaping his mother’s manipulation, but the more time he spends with Miranda, the more determined he becomes to make her his Sassenach bride.

The first chapter will snare and reel you in with rowdy kilt-wearing, boot-throwing brothers, a scruffy mutt, and a stuffed deer in the foyer collecting ascots and ear bobbers. Scot Under the Covers delivers an engaging pairing with Aden, who is slow to let his heart trust, and Miranda, who always follows the rules. And the plot that plants three highlanders in the midst of London society produces a lively secondary cast and a nice mix of both Regency and Scottish romance elements. Sexiness, charm, and entertaining brogue abound in this fun read by Enoch.

352 pages

Haikyu!! Volume 37 by Haruichi Furudate

An entire chapter of them hugging and shaking hands. This is what I'm here for! Enemies to friends to rivals to best friends. SOMEONE CALL AN EMT I AM DYING. I'M CRYING SO MANY HAPPY TEARS. *Insert "I feel like my heart is going to burst because it's full of rainbows." gif* I could go on for like twenty pages with my feelings about how much I love that these rivals are friends who help each other improve and they hug at the end. I'm fine.
Asahi's sleeping face mask is a little bear... I am dying. It's so acurateeee.
Bird brain, owl head, Bokuto.... He is a bird brain, but he is senpai. Growth.
192 Pages

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes: Volume 9 by Hideyuki Furuhashi; Translator Caleb Cook

"It's cuz you're so observant that you overthink stuff. Like you psych yourself out and convince yourself you can't. But you can do just about anything if you put your mind to it" I LOVE THAT.
Ow.
Shirakumo... Someone give Aizawa a hug or so help me.
Pop....bud...come on.
I did not sign up for this not so angsty angsty pining. all this unrequited... nope.
208 Pages

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes: Volume 8 by Hideyuki Furuhashi; Translator Caleb Cook

Brother and sister relationships. I'm crying.
ALL MIGHT!!!
Also the hint about the psychological component of All Might's Power both foreshadowing Izuku as the inheritor and maybe of the whole "twisting of fate"
*Sniper no sniping
....Ok.... so Captain Celebrity isn't all THAT bad.... I love his wife.
Aizawa backstory. Insert that gif of Loki pretending to be Odin from Thor 3 when Thor shows up.
He gave the kitty cat his umbrella *weeping emoji* I'm dead
Intro to cloud boy NAME
.....He put the kitty on a cloud....Help me.
...."It all started the summer of 86"
AIZAWAAAAA I will protect baby child teenage you. I love to see how much his past has affected him and made him into the teacher he is... He is such a goth sweetie pie. Get out of my way so I can love him.
192 Pages

Haikyu!! Volume 36 by Haruichi Furudate

Kageyama being all brave and stuff...
Kenma and Tetsuro's backstory...Their friendship... I'm crying.
Coach Nekoma.... I'm crying even more.
Alexa play "Don't You Forget About Me"
I can't decide if Kenma's eyes are cat eyes or snake eyes...
192 Pages

All Fired Up (Road to Love #3). By Lori Foster.

All Fired Up (Road to Love #3). By Lori Foster. 2019. HQN Books (ARC eBook).

Working as the office manager at Mustang Transport and considered a part of the Crews family, Charlotte Parrish has seen more than a fair share of trouble follow Brodie and Jack around. And as much as she loves them, she resolved long ago that the man she will give her heart to will be the exact opposite of the “bad boy.” But then Mitch Crews arrives in town.

Mitch is looking for a new start. He’s chosen Red Oak to begin a business and so that he can introduce himself to the two half-brothers he has never met. Mitch is a lot like Brodie and Jack, with a strong physique and protective nature, but he hasn’t had a lot of kindness shown to him in his life. So when Charlotte and the whole Crews bunch rally around him when his past comes after him, he’ll do anything to keep them out of harm’s way.

With this series, Foster delivers on tough, sexy and totally stand up guys. And I’ve loved the dynamic she’s set up between the love interests in each book. And whereas with the first two romances, where the Crews brothers coax their ladies into dropping their shields and accepting love, in All Fired Up it is Charlotte who convinces Mitch, who’s never felt like he belonged anywhere, that he’s found his home.

384 pages

 

Whiteout (Survival Instincts #1). By Adriana Anders.

Whiteout (Survival Instincts #1). By Adriana Anders. 2020. Sourcebooks Casablanca (ARC eBook).

 

As summer at the South Pole is coming to an end, Angel Smith heads out to the supply arch the morning of her planned departure with plans to leave the winter-over crew of Burke-Ruhe a well-stocked kitchen. But in the dark tunnels among preserved food and ice cores, she witnesses a violent scene and barely escapes the attackers.

Suspicious of a series of events that began after he collected some ice cores, glaciologist, Ford Cooper, returns back from the ice fields only to find the station has been abandoned and all communications and power sources sabotaged. When he finds Angel and learns that the attackers did not retrieve what they were looking for, the two have no choice but to set out for another station, as they will soon become the hunted. In the most inhospitable place on earth, Angel and Ford push their strength and resilience to the limits in order to save themselves and thwart the plans of the mysterious Chronos Corporation.

From the first chapter I didn’t want to put this story down. With twists and turns along the way, Anders masterfully layers the tension generated not only by ruthless acts of people, but the very elements that surround Angel and Ford. Snow, ice, wind, frostbite, hypothermia, deep crevasses and the disorienting whiteness the vast Antarctic landscape presents, all works to elevate the world-building and the deepening relationship between two people forced into survival mode. Definitely a must for those who want an edge of your seat suspense with chemistry that burns.

**Does not include bonus novella by Katie Ruggle

412 pages

The Bachelor (Duke Dynasty #2). By Sabrina Jeffries.

The Bachelor (Duke Dynasty #2). By Sabrina Jeffries. 2020. Zebra Books (ARC eBook).

Jefferies’ lively bunch of step-siblings are back and this time it is Lady Gwyn Drake’s turn at finding love. Days away from her long-delayed debut, Gwyn is approached at the Armitage estate by a former suitor who blackmails her over a past affair she has kept hidden. When the meeting turns threatening and Joshua Wolfe, the family’s gamekeeper, intervenes, Gwen’s twin brother, Thorn, asks Joshua to travel with Gwen to London and act as her bodyguard during her debut season. And from there Jefferies delivers a charming romance with a bit of scandal and sabotage.

In The Duchess Project, there was the beginnings of Joshua and Gwen’s interest in each other. And as elusive and temperamental as Joshua proved to be, Gwen was as equally stubborn and provoking, so I was looking forward to their book. And in The Bachelor, Jeffries is deft at transitioning sweet and playful moments into steamy ones between the two.

288 pages

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes: Volume 7 by Hideyuki Furuhashi; Translator Caleb Cook

....Did you seriously bring up Aizawa having to apologize to the public in a suit with controlled and neat hair....boooo. too soon.
Aizawa's disguises. Beautiful. Perfect. Flawless.
I will always say that I love Aizawa and that he is my type.
Koichi is such a cinnamon roll. Too pure. The sweetie. Making tea and smiling all content like the angel he is.
Aizawa= "This coffee is black...like my soul" vine
200 Pages

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes: Volume 6 by Hideyuki Furuhashi; Translator Caleb Cook

...Can we kill Captain Celebrity....
Nine is that you? From Heroes Rising???
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THROWING ROCKS AT PEOPLE IS BAD?!
....really, a villain throwing rocks at people...that's just not fair. *stares at the camera like The Office*
Aizawa is not impressed by this rock throwing villain...beautiful.
Aizawa-teacher-mode warming up.
Insert Thomas the Tank Engine vine.
....you can't just drop a hero ID like that...

224 Pages

Haikyu!! Volume 35 by Haruichi Furudate

I'm tired just reading this... Gosh I can't run and jump that much.
Kenma is such a cat playing with the crows....
192 Pages

Valiant by Holly Black

So.....I love Ravus.... I think I just like angsty angry boys who think that they're monsters.
"I can hold my breath" That's just a killer last line.
320 Pages

Haikyu!! Volume 34 by Haruichi Furudate

Tsukishima relies on Yamaguchi and says they win together...heart eyes...friendship is magic....I love their friendship. It has given me life and watered my crops.
Friendly rivalry is so much easier to read than heated mildly bitter rivalry.
200 Pages

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Ok so it's growing on me...mostly because of the humor...
We get it, men like women, men like women A LOT.
Yossarian grew on me...
544 Pages

Haikyu!! Volume 33 by Haruichi Furudate

I'm so stressed. I swear if my babies lose...
Alexa play 'Trashin' the Camp'
...Grandpa! The history of the trash heep rivalry... I'm totally getting a Mighty Ducks vibe.
200 Pages

Haikyu!! Volume 32 by Haruichi Furudate

And now I care about the Miya twins... I love watching them kick and wrestle like puppies play-fighting.
Hinata..yesss receive all the spikes.
200 Pages

Haikyu!! Volume 30 by Haruichi Furudate

#ProtectTanaka
My cute little hermit Kenma making friends. Help me.
200 Pages

Haikyu!! Volume 31 by Haruichi Furudate

My babies.. I am so stressed. I am stress eating.
Hinata talking about calm Kageyama...yes, we are all afraid and numb.
How dare they make me feel things for the enemy...with perseverance and a grandma and crying because of his hard work...nope nope nope.
"It's a waste to be afraid...and if you're still afraid, you get help" 😭😭😭
Hisashi was Nishinoya's help, and it was right after Hisashi failed... that's friendship. I'm dying. Nishinoya is killing me.
200 Pages

Haikyu!! Volume 28 by Haruichi Furudate

Hinata's senpai Owl....Bokuto. I love you.
Tanaka....I'm blushing.
I was wondering if they had away colors...
Ahh big sisters are great.
200 Pages