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Title: Rookie Move
Series: Brooklyn Bruisers #1
Author: Sarina Bowen
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Release date: September 6th, 2016

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In high school they were the perfect couple—until the day Georgia left Leo in the cold... 

 Hockey player Leo Trevi has spent the last six years trying to do two things: get over the girl who broke his heart, and succeed in the NHL. But on the first day he’s called up to the newly franchised Brooklyn Bruisers, Leo gets checked on both sides, first by the team’s coach—who has a long simmering grudge, and then by the Bruisers’ sexy, icy publicist—his former girlfriend Georgia Worthington.

 Saying goodbye to Leo was one of the hardest things Georgia ever had to do—and saying hello again isn’t much easier. Georgia is determined to keep their relationship strictly professional, but when a press conference microphone catches Leo declaring his feelings for her, things get really personal, really fast....


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Leo Trevi has become one of my top Sarina Bowen heroes. I'm still crushing on Bridger but Leo is close close close. Sarina has transitioned to the big league. It's not just college hockey now, but the NHL. We see Leo move through going into a new team, adaptating and getting close with his teammates, a coach who hates him and the reunion with his ex-girlfriend. He's such a sweetheart and caring, and you can see he really does care about Georgia A LOT.

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Title: Steadfast
Series: True North #2
Author: Sarina Bowen
Release date: July 12th, 2016
Genre: Adult Romance Contemporary 

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She’s the only one who ever loved him—and the only one he can never have. 

Jude lost everything one spring day when he crashed his car into an apple tree on the side of the road. A man is dead, and there's no way he can ever right that wrong. He’d steer clear of Colebury, Vermont forever if he could. But an ex-con in recovery for his drug addiction can’t find a job just anywhere. 

For Sophie Haines, coming face to face with the man who broke her heart is gut-wrenching. Suddenly, he’s everywhere she turns. It’s hard not to stare at how much he’s changed. The bad boy who used to love her didn’t have big biceps and sun-kissed hair. And he’d never turn up volunteer in the church kitchen. 

She knows it’s foolish to yearn for the man who returned all the heartsick letters she wrote him in prison. But the looks he sends her now speak volumes. 

No one wants to see Sophie and Jude back together, least of all Sophie's police chief father. But it's a small town. And forbidden love is a law unto itself.


Sarina Bowen is an auto-buy author for me. Her newest series is about some Vermont guys that just want to have their happily ever afters with the women they love. The books are really sweet and super romantic but also have their Sarina Bowen shot of hotness. 

I enjoyed Steadfast quite a lot. Jude and Sophie were great as MCs and made me feel all the feels since the very first page. I knew I was about to be crushed when I read the blurb and started the book. It's actually a wild ride. You don't see much of them meeting until a bit far in the book which was fine by me because it wasn't just about them being together but being able to grow as their own person. 

Jude has to deal with lots of things: work, his family, his addiction (which Bowen doesn't romanticize!!) and seeing Sophie again after so many years. He's keeping secrets and he is struggling but he is set to become a better person, for himself and for Sophie. I love love love seeing the Shipleys again because they help Jude so much and treat him as he is part of the fam which is awesome.

Sophie's life isn't sweet and easy either. After the death of her brother, her family has been destroyed. Mom sits down without doing nothing all day. Dad is treating her so much worse than before. She has to do everything in her house or it will fall down soon enough. And when she finds out Jude is back in town, her plans go out the window. We see verbal abuse in Sophie's house: her father treats her horrible, so horrible that he calls her horrible nouns I don't want to mention but you can probably imagine. 

So this book is different from Bittersweet in a way that it speaks a lot louder in terms of drug addiction and abuse. It has all the romance and these two are so damn adorable but yeah, you cannot just leave out these and not talk about them. 

I am very excited about the 3rd and final (? I think so) book of this series!! Zach is someone I've wanted to know his story for a while now. It's gonna be supaaaah.


Sarina Bowen is the USA Today bestselling author of steamy, angsty Contemporary Romance and New Adult fiction. She lives in the wilds of Vermont.

She is the author of The Ivy Years, an award-winning series set amid the hockey team at an elite Connecticut college. Also, the The Gravity series. 

With Elle Kennedy, Sarina is the author of HIM and US.

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Second post of the day, yay! This one is SO *omgomgomg* I like d i e d when I saw this in my inbox and I'm like yesyeyes! I am waiting for this series to release asap I mean it's bound to be a favorite because a) hockey b) Sarina Bowen wrote it. I'm sold.

Today I bring you the cover of book #2 of the Brooklyn Bruisers series by Sarina Bowen: HARD HITTER. It's yummy and drool-worthy and I might spend all my day staring at it (as everyone else).

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Title: Bittersweet
Series: True North #1
Author: Sarina Bowen
Release date: June 14th, 2016
Genre: Romance Contemporary

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If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the orchard. 

The last person Griffin Shipley expects to find stuck in a ditch on his Vermont country road is his ex-hookup. Five years ago they’d shared a couple of steamy nights together. But that was a lifetime ago.

At twenty-seven, Griff is now the accidental patriarch of his family farm. Even his enormous shoulders feel the strain of supporting his mother, three siblings and a dotty grandfather. He doesn’t have time for the sorority girl who’s shown up expecting to buy his harvest at half price. 

Vermont was never in Audrey Kidder’s travel plans. Neither was Griff Shipley. But she needs a second chance with the restaurant conglomerate employing her. Okay—a fifth chance. And no self-righteous lumbersexual farmer will stand in her way. 

They’re adversaries. They want entirely different things from life. Too bad their sexual chemistry is as hot as Audrey’s top secret enchilada sauce, and then some.

Sarina Bowen writes swoony romances and also really funny ones! Bittersweet was no different except this time we travel all the way to Vermont, to this lovely farm with one sexy farmer and chef. 

Griffin and Audrey were so on point since the start and their banter was !!!! (yup, the good kind of banter that leads to some sexy times *wink wink*) I had so much fun reading this book and I pretty much cannot wait for the next in the series because I know I'm about to become addicted to them. 

Some reasons you should give this a chance: 

• Main heroine is a chef 
• Main hero is a former football player, now farmer, but also graduated as a chemist 
• They live in New England, so practically all of them are fans of NE sports teams so of course I have a soft spot for anyone who roots for the Patriots 
• I loved loved Griff's family. They are seriously #familygoals, and you'll love them 
• Lots of food talk and Audrey does a lot of cooking in the book and she tells you everything she is using in the dish, so they're kind of recipes? So it's freaking AWESOME and *it gets you so hungry tbh* 
• Griff is such a dirty-mouthed hero omg guys 
• Outside shower sex *whistles*

Some stuff that I didn't like a lot:

• Audrey referred to herself with this word. (I'm not going to put it but if you want to know feel free to DM in Twitter!) And she pretty much was slutshaming so *rolls eyes*
• Some situations that made me want to skip/skim them. Like scenes in particular. They weren't funny and felt a bit unnecessary.

But overall everything was great and I love good romances with sexy as hell covers and amazing characters. Plus you know I love me some chefs as characters in the mix and it doesn't hurt that we can read about them cooking some fiiiiine food. *oops*

Sarina Bowen is the USA Today bestselling author of steamy, angsty Contemporary Romance and New Adult fiction. She lives in the wilds of Vermont.  

She is the author of The Ivy Years, an award-winning series set amid the hockey team at an elite Connecticut college. Also, the The Gravity series.

Sarina enjoys skiing, espresso drinks and the occasional margarita. She lives with her family, eight chickens and more ski gear and hockey equipment than seems necessary.

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