Welcome to June! May was so busy and a rough month here on the homestead! We had so much to do with the garden, and I had a lot of doctor’s appointments for my MS. The fun part about the end of the month is my husband and I had a reading date with one of our favorite authors Julie Weaver. It was a fun and unique date for bookworms. I have officially entered into my Hockey and Protector reading era! I am quickly becoming a ‘hockey girl’ and I love those protective lovers!
Now that June is here, I have a new ‘working’ TBR, and I am still using my Cottagecore Book Reading and Review Planner to keep up with my reading list! Most of the books on this month’s list are from BookTok recommendations and some of our favorite authors. You can learn more about these books on my new podcast episode on Pagan’s Reading Nook, so make sure you go subscribe to Pagan’s Reading Nook!
So come join us with some of these titles this month!
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My Hockey Era Books this month!
Check out the rest of the series too! I love them all!
Blind Pass
One-Timer
Sin Bin
Scoring Chance
Glove Save
Neutral Zone
This was my first hockey romance book and I have been devouring this series ever since! I love Teagan’s fun and witty writing. The Comets guys are stealing my heart!
My Protector Era Books this month!
The Manipulator
I can manipulate the emotions of anyone who lets me.
I will make you hurt, make you cry, make you laugh and sigh.
But my words don’t affect him. Especially not when I plead for him to leave.
He’s always there, watching and waiting.
And I can never look away.
Not when I want him to come closer.
The Shadow
I didn’t mean to fall in love.
But now that I have, I can’t stay away.
I’m mesmerized by her smile, by her eyes, and the way she moves.
The way she undresses…
I’ll keep watching and waiting. Until I can make her mine.
And once she is, I’ll never let her go.
Not even when she begs me to.
This is one of the books that still haunts me, but I am also excited and yet so nervous to read it. It is a BookTok top recommendation.
Available on Kindle and Paperback!
Bonded by Thorns is my all-time favorite book! I have been waiting rather impatiently for this book since I learned of its announcement! I am so thankful I get to dive back into the world of my favorite fae princes!
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book
“Suspenseful, sexy, and with incredibly entertaining storytelling, the first in Yarros’ Empyrean series will delight fans of romantic, adventure-filled fantasy.” —Booklist, starred review
“Fourth Wing will have your heart pounding from beginning to end… A fantasy like you’ve never read before.” ―#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout
Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Yarros
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.
But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away…because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.
With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.
She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.
Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom’s protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.
Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.
The Fourth Wing is the BookTok sensation that is selling out everywhere, and in some cases is almost impossible to get one of the etched-edge hardback copies. I am so excited to read this book!
The Hit is a spicy, enemies to lovers protector romance featuring:
♥ A grumpy ex-black ops hero,
♥ The sunshine mechanic he’s sworn to protect,
♥ Touch her and you die vibes, and
♥ Forced proximity / stuck together in a remote mountain cabin.
Former Special Forces soldier, Elias “Shep” Shepherd believes the only use he has nowadays is taking out human scum on home soil. After years of harrowing military deployments, the one place he finds peace is at his remote Appalachian Mountain cabin, far from civilians and the world he doesn’t fit in anymore.
When Shep accepts a Mafia contract, he doesn’t expect his mark to be a woman—or the sexiest thing in grease-stained overalls he’s ever laid eyes on. She stirs something inside Shep’s battle-hardened heart. Despite the risks, he’ll do whatever it takes to protect her, even if it means breaking his no visitors rule at the cabin.
Auto mechanic Cameron McKenzie only needs one look at the towering wall of muscle who’s kidnapped her to know he’s a killing machine. Too bad for him, she’s not going down without a fight. Hidden away in his isolated mountain home, Cameron is reluctant to admit Shep might not be the heartless beast she thought he was. And as their mutual trust builds, so too does an intense desire for her unlikely savior.
If the Mafia discovers Cameron is still alive, Shep will need every one of his elite skills to keep them both safe. Although he’s no longer sure which is more dangerous—the enemy’s demand for merciless retribution, or the woman who makes him wish he was worthy of her love.
The Hit is a standalone romantic suspense thriller with edge-of your-seat action and sizzling chemistry.
Please check trigger warnings. This book contains sexual content, violence, and profanity.
Available on Kindle and Paperback!
Check out the rest of the men of Team Zulu and their romantic entanglements!
I saw an ad for this book on my Kindle and immediately downloaded it. I have a thing for military men with a deep protective side. This series has all of that. Julie has smart, fun, and sexy writing that brings you into the hearts of Team Zulu.
Check out the rest of the Norcross Security guys!
The Troubleshooter
The Specialist
The Bodyguard
The Hacker
The Powerbroker
The Detective
The Medic
The Protector
My husband found this book series and read the whole series in a week! It was so good that I knew I needed to read it too!
