All Posts By Tara McDonald
My Forever Girl by Laura Pavlov
(ARC Read) From the very first page, My Forever Girl felt like coming home. Gracie and Cutler’s journey from lifelong best friends to soulmates was beautifully written and impossible not to become emotionally invested in. There was something so achingly beautiful about watching them realize that the person they had always needed had been standing…
Good Hands by Maggie Gates
(ARC Read) Maggie Cordelia Gates! Okay, yes, I know that’s her pen name and I’m about 99.9% sure it’s not actually her middle name, but just let me have this moment because I’m clearly unwell after finishing this book. We all already know Maggie is an auto-buy author for me, but I’m also usually a…
Make Me by Adriana Locke
(ARC Read) Adriana Locke really said “what if we weaponize yearning?” and then unleashed Hartley Adler on all of us. I consumed Make Me like a woman with zero self-control and absolutely no interest in acting responsibly once Hartley Adler showed up. There was absolutely no chance I was putting this book down once I…
The Pact by Ava Sutton
(ARC Read) You know those books that completely consume your life for a few days and then leave you emotionally stranded when they’re over? Yeah… The Pact was that book for me. Ava Sutton took one of my favorite romance setups, the “if we’re still single at thirty” pact between best friends, and somehow turned…
Draft Pick by Indy Valentine
(ARC Read) Draft Pick snuck up on me in ways I wasn’t expecting. I knew I was going to find a fun baseball romance with gorgeous men, but what I got was something so much more emotional, tender, and honestly? One of the sweetest portrayals of parenthood I’ve read in a long time. “I’m weak…
Risk the Play by Kaylee Ryan
(ARC Read) There’s just something about a big, intimidating football coach turning into a complete softie for the people he loves that gets me every single time, and Coach Will Warner absolutely had me melting. Risk the Play was tension-filled and wrapped in the kind of promise that keeps you turning pages just waiting for…
The Rulebreaker by Piper Rayne
(ARC Review) Piper Rayne really said “what if we took years of unresolved feelings, brother drama, longing, baseball tension, and emotional damage and made it impossible to put down?” because WOW. The Rulebreaker absolutely consumed me. “You like making me wait?”“I like watching you fall apart.” Decker and Penelope’s story is the definition of a…
Only For Her by Natasha Madison
(ARC Read) There’s something ridiculously addictive about Natasha Madison’s Only For series, and Only for Her might honestly be one of my favorites yet. Victoria and Zane’s story pulls you in right away with that chance meeting—one drink at a hotel bar, instant chemistry, and a night that feels like it was meant to be…
The Roommate Rules by Brighton Walsh
(ARC Review) Move over Steele brothers, because Declan is officially my favorite. I did not see that coming, but here we are. If tension could be heard, it would sound like the nonstop spark between Declan and Penelope. From the second they’re on the page together, their banter is quick, sharp, and just a little…
Fair Game by Ruth Stilling
(ARC Read) This book plays like a game on the edge of a penalty—fast, reckless, and impossible to look away from. I’ll be honest, Will Jones did not have me at the start. He’s cocky, entitled, and riding high on that hockey royalty status (Hall of Fame dad, coach basically family… the man has never…