Chantie's Book Reviews

  Book Source: Book Store Cross-Post Review:  Chantie's Goodreads Review Type: MM Standalone Series  Starred Ratings: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Spice Rating: 🌶🌶/5 Home Plate (Easton U Pirates, #2) Review The electricity went out in my area and while bored I read book one, Bat Boy in this Easton U Pirates series, in one sitting. I'm a sucker for character arcs, so when I noticed Mason and Domonic in Bat Boy, I immediately shipped them. It thrilled me to know my intuitions were good and the duo was going to be a couple. So, I continued the trend and stayed up until the blink of dawn to read book two. Not a healthy idea since I had stuff to do in the day, but I wouldn't be a bookaholic if I never did an all-nighter for the sake of reading.  Back to the review.  Mason was the grumpy asshole while Domonic was the caring type. He wasn't overly adorable which fit his character and how the whole plot tied to Mason. I adored the banter between the two. Dominic knew how to handle Mason. H...

  Source: Store Cross-Post Review:  Chantie's Goodreads Review Type: Standalone Series Starred Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Smut Rating: 🌶🌶/5 Presidential Chaos (Frat Wars, #3) Review Dancy Drew got nothing on me while reading Presential Chaos. The mystery in the plot kept me alert. I accused everyone. At one point, I started dissecting everything the dean did. I was uncontrollable. To my dismay. The riddle held me down along with the cute romance of the duo in this male love romance.  Zeke and Charles were the presidents of the opposing Frat houses. Enemies. To some extent. Unrequited love swirled around somewhere in there. Enemies-with-benefits fit the bill with these two. When a nasty rumor came out to threaten the frat community on Greek Row, Charles and Zeke tried to work together to solve the mystery of who was trying to shut down Zeke’s frat house. Emotions and situations developed between the two during this ride. They had to face circumstances and battle their decisions alon...

  Book Source: Kindle Cross-Post Review:  Chantie's Goodreads Review Type: MM Romance / Standalone Starred Rating: ⭐⭐⭐/5 Smut Rating: 🌶🌶🌶🌶/5 Step Bully by Willow Dixon Review  When I learned Julian was called Jules, I immediately thought of Jules from Euphoria. Despite the book's description of Jules’s character, I couldn’t stop picturing him as Euphoria Jules. Which was funny because they were nothing alike. Jules and Ash were stepbrothers, who hated each other because of the situation they were forced into. By God, I hated their parents. Even to the end. I was like ‘flip them the middle finger and move the heck on’ but to my dismay, they didn’t. Which kind of pissed me off. Gosh, I am a monster. Anywhos, the boys were thrust into sharing an apartment for their senior year of college. This was where the lines got blurred. I loved the bantering. It was amazing to read. Then other things came in and I was not liking them. At parts where I should have shown sympathy...

  Book Source: Kindle Type: MM Romance  Cross-Post Review:  Chantie's Goodreads Review Starred Rating: ⭐⭐⭐/5 Spice Radar: 🌶🌶🌶/5 Iced Out (Leighton U, #1) Review  I thought long and hard about this review. When it all came down the wire, I didn’t get as much as I had hoped from the book. So, that’s where we’re starting. Iced Out is a sports MM romance with Quinton and Oakley. Both enemies on the same hockey team in college. A potentially great story from that one sentence. Lost games led to more animosity to bantering between the two. At the beginning of the road, we, the readers, were introduced to what banter could lead to. One guy on his knees in a bathroom to prove a point to his enemy. A point well proven. Which led to winning a game and a superstition was born. Again, a possibly wonderful story. Was it, though? First of all, I didn’t like Oakley. The first few chapters of the incident with the test thing pissed me off. He did nothing and yet had the heart t...

Novel Source: Kindle  Cross-post Review:  Goodreads Review Type: MM Romance Novel  Starred rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Spice Radar: 🌶🌶🌶/5 Savage Rivals Review  Asher and Levi were captains for the football team of rival high schools. Not only were they enemies on the football field but off as well. An elite school against a regular high school. A rich guy against one not so much. Their hatred simmered and boiled over to the point of no return. One banter led to another which broke out into fights. Love came thereafter. A Halloween prank gone wrong and both men were thrust into a different sensation.  I, for one, thought Becca Steele was a genius to write this masterpiece. I enjoyed every second of it. Devoured it in one night.  It had been a while since I enjoyed a story so much. First of all, the football she used was the real football I grew up knowing was actual football. The one where if you touch the ball with your hand, it’s a penalty. I adored that she used t...

Book Source: Kindle Cross-post Review:  Goodreads Review Starred Rating: ⭐⭐ Smut Rating: 🌶🌶🌶 Type of Book: Novel The Ritual The ritual by Shantel Tessier was one of those reads everyone was talking about. I noticed it on Tick-Tok and had to get the book. Ever since then, it had been sitting on my TBR, moping to be read. A few days ago, I noticed a few of my book friends reading it and thought I would jump on the bandwagon. To say I was taken on a ride was an understatement. Not a good one. Ryat and Blakely were the two protagonists in this dark college romance. Ryat joined a secret society referred to as Lords and lived in a fancy hotel off campus. What’s not interesting about that? I witnessed each stage he went through in this cult since his freshman year. This built up to why the book was titled The Ritual because, hey, during senior year, every successful Lord was given a chance to choose a chosen one. Each chosen would have to go through a ritual. In other words, a chosen o...