Caffeinated Crystal's book reviews

Oooof. I love this series, I've loved all the stories that have come out of Forestville, but I think Calloway and Fraser are my favorite. BEFRIENDING THE BEAR is a SUPER slow burn romance that tackles big topics like grief, loss, change, and transformation. It's romantic as hell, and the feelings practically poured off the page.  Calloway is a widower. His tightly controlled life is tightly regimented to ensure survival. His grief is overwhelming so many years after the death of his husband. My heart aches for him. The first chapter had me hooked with prose and gentle descriptions of his tea and his cabin and his garden. This sweet man was surviving and not living. Fraser, the newly retired smokejumper, is learning who he is after having to retire from a job that was his identity. Learning how to navigate around his injury, no longer part of a team... this gentle giant sees  Calloway and all of his walls and decides FRIENDSHIP and PATIENCE. I love this title because that's ...

If you loved the Alpha Tau Fraternity series (which I absolutely did!), then you are gonna LOVE this story 🧡💚 and you may even see a familiar face or two! Danny lives in Goose Run, a tiny blip of a town. He has 3 roommates, and they live in his grandmother's old house. Danny works at a gas station and has plans to someday make it to community college and EMT school. Miller is a lawyer working in a small town, Hopewell. He plans on cutting his teeth there, getting experience, and then his goal is to make it to a BIG city. Circumstances occur, and now Danny has a pro bono lawyer. It's Miller. It took a little while for me to get into the story, but once I was hooked, I was IN. These two have great chemistry and terrible timing. Danny was a disaster but an absolute sweetheart. Danny's roommates were INTERESTING, and I can't wait for their books! Miller was a bit of a snob, bless his heart. But I was ENTERTAINED by the whole story and loved the two MCs. Can't wa...

Mountain Daddy. What a great story! Here's what I posted to ig: SJ Tilly always hits perfect for me. Mountain Daddy was AMAZING. Kendra and Luther were perfect, and I loved them. I wanted to date Courtney from Mountain Boss, but I wanted to BE Kendra from Mountain Daddy. These two were 10/10. Looking for a dad's best friend romance? How about a significant age gap? Light daddy kink? Sneaking around? This is IT. Luther was so down bad for Kendra from the very beginning. These two had fire chemistry, and as usual, all the side characters had me laughing. There was a great plot & great bedroom scenes & between "the curse" and Luther making assumptions... this story had me laughing and crying. SJ Tilly always reminds me why she's my go-to author for stories that have me experiencing all the emotions delivered by characters that stay with me way longer than I'd ever imagine. Luther can get it. Kendra, too. Mountain Daddy comes out JULY 31, and this was abso...

Y'all. This was one of my most anticipated books, AND I LOVED IT. The story had me hooked immediately, but the love story between Sam and Blue took a little while to click for me. But when they finally have sex it's hot as shit. Like, for real. All my favorite parts of a Daddy book are here, AND there's a killer plot. THE FORGOTTEN is gonna be an amazing series. All the boys in the house and the teachers and their individual issues... I can't wait. I hope the next book is Simon and Jonah and that we get more of the creepy cult church storyline. Daddy Sam and Blue were hot. They both have issues, both are super sad and messed up. But they work together. I loved that they're vigilante killers for the mafia. I think that's gonna open so many plot doors.  So, if you love Daddy books, murder stories, mafia stories, darker situations, and creepy cult church vibes - this is gonna be the one for you. April Jade writes amazing Daddy books. This story kind of reminded me ...

Oh my god, y'all are looking at one of my favorite reads of the year!! I loved book one in this series, Lustful Nights, and I was shocked to find myself loving this story EVEN MORE than Jensen and Lennox. SEDUCTIVE NIGHTS has just about everything I love in a story, and let me tell you, Daddy is done right here. The dynamic was absolutely perfect for them, and I couldn't put my kindle down. Preston, the clumsy bartender at Peaches, has a horrid boyfriend. And then Preston walks in on said boyfriend [redacted]. This sets the story into motion. Thank goodness Jonas, the co-owner of Peaches and self-appointed security guy, has a spare room Preston can stay in. And thank goodness that they have killer chemistry and sexual tension practically melting off the page. 👀 👀 👀 Like I said. There's daddy k!nk, LINGERIE, voyeurism, a little exhibitionism, and a pretty big size difference -> Jonas is 6'5 and Preston is 5'4. ..... I'm gonna leave that right there. There...

I just finished Bratva's Intern 🩷 and it's a wild, question filled story. Sadly, I must report that this is a book that ends with an HFN to be continued in the next book. While the story COULD end. There are just too many unanswered questions. I want to say right from the start that I enjoyed this book. It had a great plot with entertaining characters. However, I think that this could have been condensed just a bit, and Wren and Maxim's story could have been told in one book. I may retract that after I've read Bratva's Vow, who knows? There were parts of the story that dragged a little, and then parts where I was so dailed in an asteroid could have hit my house, and I would have missed it. Wren is a bit of a disaster and a little traumatized from his past but doing his best. He's shocked when he's called in for an interview for an internship he didn't apply for. Maxim is, to the public, a businessman, and to those in the know, he's bratva. Illegal d...