January 2024 Reading Wrap Up

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My 2024 has a strong start! Here are the 22 books I read in January.

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January 2024 Reading Wrap Up

These are the 22 books I read in January. 

There is No Devil by Sophie Lark

Sinners Duet, Book Two

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️

There is No Devil by Sophie Lark is for readers who enjoy:

• Age Gaps
• Enemies-to-Lovers
• Possessive MMCs
• Serial Killers
• Thrillers

Book Description:

I Couldn’t Kill Mara…

But that doesn’t mean Shaw won’t.

She’s living in my house, always with me, always under my control.

The more I push her, the more she pushes back.

She’s peeling away my secrets, one by one. And I’m tempting her to do things she never thought she’d do…

Shaw won’t stop hunting her.

When the time comes to act, will Mara be ready?

Midnight Ruin by Katee Robert

Dark Olympus, Book Six

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Midnight Ruin by Katee Robert is for readers who enjoy:

• Friends-to-Lovers
• MFM
• MM
• Mythology
• Second Chances

Book Description:

Eurydice Dimitriou has always been the innocent sister, but she’s finally ready to step out of the long shadow cast by her powerful family…and the ex who shattered her heart. Perhaps rough hands on soft skin are exactly what she needs to forget her heartbreak once and for all?

Charon Ariti has been Hades’s right-hand man for years. He’s given everything to the lower city, but now he’s ready to take something for himself. He’s only too happy to give Eurydice a special kind of education…but is her heart really free enough to be claimed?

Orpheus Makos will do whatever it takes to make things right. Once the golden boy of the upper city, he’s now a shadow of his former self. He’ll do anything to get Eurydice back…even if it means she’s not coming into his arms alone. Three hearts. Three futures. Countless ways to get it wrong.

But with enemies slipping through Olympus’s faltering barrier to lay siege on the lower city, a trio of broken hearts will be the least of these would-be lovers’ worries…

The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas

Throne of Glass, Prequel

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️

The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas is for readers who enjoy:

• Assassins
• Badass FMCs
• Fantasy
• Quick Reads
• Young Adult Fiction

Book Description:

Celaena Sardothien is her kingdom’s most feared assassin. Though she works for the powerful and ruthless Assassin’s Guild, Celaena yields to no one and trusts only her fellow killer for hire, Sam.

When Celaena’s scheming master, Arobynn Hamel, dispatches her on missions that take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, she finds herself acting independently of his wishes—and questioning her own allegiance. Along the way, she makes friends and enemies alike, and discovers that she feels far more for Sam than just friendship. But by defying Arobynn’s orders, Celaena risks unimaginable punishment, and with Sam by her side, he is in danger, too. They will have to risk it all if they hope to escape Arobynn’s clutches—and if they fail, they’ll lose not just a chance at freedom, but their lives . . .

A prequel to Throne of Glass, this collection of five novellas offers readers a deeper look into the history of this cunning assassin and her enthralling—and deadly—world.

The Alpha’s Pack by Tate James

Kit Davenport, Book Six

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

The Alpha’s Pack by Tate James is for readers who enjoy:

• Alpha Males
• Badass FMCs
• PNR
• Shifters
• Why Choose

Book Description:

The time is now.

It seems all I’ve ever wanted was vengeance. I did everything right: I protected my friends, I pushed myself to the limits, and I saved lives. Once upon a time, I was an internationally renowned thief known as The Fox. Nobody knew me. Nobody could catch me.

Nobody but them, my men, my partners in crime. But their love for me, it’s cost them dearly.

Our enemies keep coming for blood. They cut me. They hurt my friends. They push and push to see what will happen.

I’m Kit Davenport, and I’m going to show them what happens.

This is the end.

Theirs.

Hellhound’s Legion by Tate James

Kit Davenport, Book 6.5

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Hellhound’s Legion by Tate James is for readers who enjoy:

• Magic
• PNR
• Quick Reads
• Urban Fantasy
• Why Choose

Book Description:

Join Kit and her new husbands as they face the high courts of Hell to answer for River’s dual nature as a Hellhound.

This is an epilogue novella and it’s strongly recommended to read the full Kit Davenport series, including the bonus scene in the box set, for context.

Wings of a Devil by Luna Pierce

Sinners and Angels, Book 3.5

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Wings of a Devil by Luna Pierce is for readers who enjoy:

• Dark Romance
• Mafia Romance
• MFM
• Revenge
• Why Choose

Book Description:

He’s the reason my brother is dead, and I will stop at nothing to get revenge. I’ll do anything to end his life, even if it means sleeping with the enemy to get information. But once I’m up close and personal with the tattooed bad boy I’m fake dating and the dangerous silver fox who murdered my brother, I start to discover things that can’t possibly be true. His death was covered up, but there’s much more to the story than I bargained for. And the more I dig, the more I realize nothing is as it seems. One thing is certain: I’m in over my head, and without meaning to, all of our lives—and hearts—are on the line.

Ruin My Life by Luna Pierce

Sinners and Angels, Book Four

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Ruin My Life by Luna Pierce is for readers who enjoy:

• Age Gaps
• Alpha Males
• Mafia Romance
• New Adult Romance
• Why Choose

Book Description:

Desperate to save my dying mother, I sacrifice myself to a repulsive crime boss.

The cost? I must produce him an heir.

I accepted my terrible fate until I met them. Three very different, alluring men.

Silver, the brutal silver fox, who thrives on solving problems, and helped me get rid of a body.

Alec, the intelligent golden retriever, who will do anything for me, even get his hands dirty.

And Miller, the mysterious billionaire stalker with scars and tattoos, whose haunted past mirrors my own.

With one month remaining until my life truly is no longer my own, I realize I must choose between my life or my mother’s.

I struggle with trust and acceptance as I’m caught in a dance of danger and forbidden desire.

But with every glimmer of hope, my cruel reality forces me to ask the inevitable question…

Will love be my redemption, or will it ruin my life?

Restoration by Tate James

Valenshek Legacy, Book Three

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️

Restoration by Tate James is for readers who enjoy:

• Age Gaps
• Fake Identities
• Forced Proximity
• Second Chances
• Teacher/Student

Book Description:

It’s always been about the chase. The prize. The puzzle. The Game. I became the best of the best, Hermes, because no one could catch me. No one could touch me.

No one had.

Until her.

She’s everything I never knew I wanted.

She is my life.

It’s been one bad call after another in this Game. It’s cost the woman I love more than I ever wanted her to have to pay. I would give it all up for her, but the Game must be played.

I started this game for my grandfather.

I fought to win to claim the Valenshek Legacy.

Win, lose, or draw, I’m not leaving this town without Tristian Ives.

One Last Rainy Day by Kate Stewart

Ravenhood Legacy, Book One

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️

One Last Rainy Day by Kate Stewart is for readers who enjoy:

• Emotional Stories
• Enemies-to-Lovers
• Grumpy/Sunshine
• Secret Societies
• Small Towns

Book Description:

“My rainy days are yours, Dominic. If you want them.”

Once upon a time…

There lived a man with a vengeance-filled heart that held too many secrets.

And a woman, pure of soul, intent on uncovering them.

What they failed to realize is that through the storm their love would create…

a legacy would be born.

Stiff: An Inanimate Object Shifter Romance by Thea Masen

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️

Stiff by Thea Masen is for readers who enjoy:

• Age Gaps
• Light Kink
• Quick Reads
• Sex Toys
• Shifters

Book Description:

Felicity Stiff was not expecting her agent to send her a salacious gift as inspiration for her research project. What she gets is something much more than the stimulating package that comes in the mail.

When she unwittingly releases a 14th century player named Lord Richard, she must learn to let down her walls and receive, while he must prove he knows how to give.

The curse might be broken, but can he prove himself to be Richard and not Dick.

Iced Out by C.E. Ricci

Leighton U, Book One

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️

Iced Out by C.E. Ricci is for readers who enjoy:

• College Romance
• Enemies-to-Lovers
• Forced Proximity
• Hockey Players
• MM

Book Description:

All’s fair in hate and hockey.

My path to success never included an enemy as a teammate, especially one as infuriating as Quinton de Haas.

Clawing under my skin is his favorite pastime, only feeding the animosity between us as the years pass.

We’re as completely opposite as two people can be; the golden boy and the black sheep.

Constantly at odds or at each other’s throats.

The only thing we can agree on is hockey is our true love, and we’ll do whatever it takes to come out on top.

I never imagined that drive would lead me to do the unthinkable: falling into bed with my not-so-straight rival.

But athletes are a superstitious bunch, and when our hook-ups lead to victories, we tell ourselves we can’t stop.

Besides, it’s all for the sake of the team, right?

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The Pucking Wrong Guy by C.R. Jane

Pucking Wrong, Book Two

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

The Pucking Wrong Guy by C.R. Jane is for readers who enjoy:

• Alpha Males
• Hockey Romance
• Piercings
• Second Chances
• Stalkers

Book Description:

I came to L.A. for my fresh start…and then my past showed up. I’ve moved on. At least that’s what I’ve told myself all these years after the boy from the streets left me to pursue his dreams. I have my own dreams now. And they don’t involve a 6’4 tatted hockey star who thinks he’s god. He tells me I’m the one. That he came back for me all those years ago… That he’s never going to let me go. The question is…is Ari Lancaster going to break my heart again? Or has my Mr. Wrong been the right guy all along…

A Pucking Wrong Christmas by C.R. Jane

Pucking Wrong, Book 2.5

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️

A Pucking Wrong Christmas by C.R. Jane is for readers who enjoy:

• Alpha Males
• Hockey Players
• Holiday Romance
• Possessive MMCs
• Quick Reads

Book Description:

Lincoln, Ari, and Walker are back in a holiday novella…

I hate Christmas.

Years and years of disappointment have taught me that Christmas is the worst. I don’t like the music, the food, the decorations…anything.

And Lincoln Daniels, my tattooed hockey god of a husband, thinks he’s going to change that…

I tell him it’s not going to happen.

But the thing about Christmas…

And Lincoln…

Is that they’re both a little magical.

The question is…can Lincoln work his magic and change my mind, or is the season all wrong for me after all…

Rejected by Jaymin Eve

Shadow Beast Shifters, Book One

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️

Rejected by Jaymin Eve is for readers who enjoy:

• Fated Mates
• PNR
• Shadow Daddies
• Shifters
• Slow Burns

Book Description:

A new paranormal romance from Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller Jaymin Eve.

My father made a terrible mistake. One I’m left paying for.

As a wolf shifter growing up in a strong pack, I should be living my best life. But after my father tried to kill our leader, I’m labelled an outcast, traitor, less than dirt.

When I can’t take pack life any longer, I run, but apparently they don’t like losing their punching bag. Torin, the leader’s son, drags me back before my first shift… a shift that will reveal my true mate. I never could have predicted who mine would be, but the moment my wolf looks upon him, I’m filled with hope for a brighter future.

Afterall, no one ever rejects their true mate, right?

Wrong. Very wrong.

When the wolves attack, my soul screams for vengeance, and somehow I touch the shadow world.

Somehow I bring him to our lands.

The Shadow Beast. Our shifter god. The devil himself.

Turns out being rejected by my mate was only the beginning.

Does It Hurt? by H.D. Carlton

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Does It Hurt? by H.D. Carlton is for readers who enjoy:

• Breath Play
• Dark Romance
• Enemies-to-Lovers
• Found Family
• Second Chances

Book Description:

Who am I?

I’ve forgotten the answer to that question long ago. Ever since I ran from that house, so desperate to escape, I left with only the clothes on my back and socks on my feet. After that day, I’ve only ever walked in stolen shoes.

Could I be a girl who is searching for the meaning of life in faceless men? They were all so forgettable. Until he came along. He took me under a waterfall and made me forget my name, and in return, I took his instead.

Enzo Vitale.

An enigmatic man that will only ever love the deep sea. Or rather the predators that inhabit it. Turns out, he’s not so different than the monsters he feeds. He lured me onto his boat like a fish in the ocean, seeking vengeance for my crime. Had I realized his intentions, and that a massive storm would leave us shipwrecked, I would’ve run.

Now, I’m a girl who’s seeking refuge in a decrepit lighthouse with a man who loathes me almost as much as he craves me. He wants to hurt me, but the old caretaker of the abandoned island may have intentions far more sinister.

It’s no longer a question of who I am, but rather, will I survive?

A Soul to Keep by Opal Reyne

Duskwalker Brides, Book One

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

A Soul to Keep by Opla Reyne is for readers who enjoy:

• Age Gaps
• Forced Proximity
• Monsters
• PNR
• Slow Burns

Book Description:

All Reia ever wanted was freedom.

Known as a harbinger of bad omens and blamed for Demons eating her family, Reia is shunned by her entire village. When the next offering is due and the monstrous Duskwalker is seen heading their way, her village offers her an impossible choice – be thrown into the prison cells or allow herself to be sacrificed to a faceless monster.

However, he is not what he seems. His skull face and glow eyes are ethereal, and she finds herself unwittingly enchanted by him.

All Orpheus ever wanted was a companion.

Each decade, in exchange for a protection ward from the Demons that terrorise the world, Orpheus takes a human offering to the Veil – the place he lives and the home of Demons. The brief companionship does little to ease his loneliness, and their lives were always, unfortunately, cut short.

He’d thought it was a hopeless endeavour, until he met her. She’s not afraid of him, and his insatiable desire deepens within every moment of her presence.

But will Orpheus be able to convince Reia to stay before she’s lost to him forever?

Ensnared by Rebecca Quinn

Brutes of Bristlebrook, Book One

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Ensnared by Rebecca Quinn is for readers who enjoy:

• BDSM
• Found Family
• Ménage
• MM
• Why Choose

Book Description:

Since the Final War, I’ve been doing just fine. I have a lovely cave, a darling vegetable patch, forest views . . . and if loneliness sometimes squeezes my aching heart, well, my books have always kept me company.

That is, until a pack of hunters chase me from my home and right into the arms of several rather large, rather brutish ex-Army Rangers. And those brutes have the nerve to make me the rudest offer I’ve ever heard.

Their protection—for my body.

The whole thing is absurd. Scandalous. Perverted, even. I mean, just the thought of doing that with five men, well, it’s . . . it’s . . .

I take the deal.

Okay, so it’s possible I find them indecently tempting. But these men also have secrets, and pasts so fraught with emotion, I’m not sure I can untangle them all. Or whether they’ll let me.

No, my brutes have made it excruciatingly clear where they think I belong—beneath them, between them, bent over backwards for them . . . but certainly not beside them.

And I don’t think that’s going to work for me.

Entangled by Rebecca Quinn

Brutes of Bristlebrook, Book Two

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Entangled by Rebecca Quinn is for readers who enjoy:

• Age Gaps
• BDSM
• MM
• Primal Play
• Why Choose

Book Description:

Bristlebrook is up in smoke, my brutes are dead, and Sam’s camp is a powder keg begging for a flame.

Injured and furious over their losses, the surviving hunters are preoccupied with their own problems. Their factions and allegiances. Their internal wars and pissing contests. The new world they want to forge. They don’t look twice at their meek little captive.

They shattered my heart five ways when they killed my brutes, so I don’t care anymore. If I’m to stop the villains, I need to become one.

I need to be smart. I need to be ruthless.

Even if it means razing myself to the ground to do it . . .

We’re bringing her home, or we’re not coming home

They took our librarian from right under our noses—and with Lucky injured, Bristlebrook in flames, and our personal problems finally spilling over, we’re fracturing.

But we need to be better.

Bringing Eden home is the most important mission of our lives.

Followed closely by the second most important . . . building her a home worth returning to.

Heart of Night and Fire by Nisha J. Tuli

The Nightfire Quartet, Book One

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️

Heart of Night and Fire by Nisha J. Tuli is for readers who enjoy:

• Enemies-to-Lovers
• Fantasy
• Found Family
• Mythology
• Slow Burns

Book Description:

For years, Zarya has been trapped in a gilded prison. Her magic is forbidden, a dangerous secret—though nobody will explain why. Now she is ready to break free and find the truth.

Escaping to the dazzling city of Dharati, Zarya discovers a new world of enchantment and intrigue. With the help of seductive, blood-drinking rakshasa and magic-weaving Aazheri sorcerers, she searches for answers.

But the city is under siege. Every night, dark creatures attack. And since Zarya’s arrival they are growing stronger. To protect her new home, Zarya joins the fight.

As she battles on the walls and hunts through libraries for clues about her gifts, Zarya’s dreams are haunted by a mysterious stranger. Powerful, arrogant and handsome, Rabin sees through her secrets and ignites a desire she cannot resist. But can he be trusted?

When darkness threatens to overwhelm Dharati, Zarya is faced with a deadly choice. Will revealing her magic save the city? Or destroy everything she loves?

Dance of Stars and Ashes by Nisha J. Tuli

The Nightfire Quartet, Book Two

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️

Dance of Stars and Ashes by Nisha J. Tuli is for readers who enjoy:

• Enemies-to-Lovers
• Magic
• Mythology
• Shifters
• Slow Burns

Book Description:

In the jeweled city of Dharati, Zarya found passion and adventure for the first time. A mysterious stranger named Rabin helped to free the power within her—a dark, ancient magic that should not exist.

Now, Zarya learns Rabin’s true identity. A warrior prince, born to rule, he is as deadly as he is beautiful. He’s also insufferable. Arrogant and superior, with dangerous secrets of his own.

Zarya wants nothing to do with him. Terrifying demons are gathering beyond the walls and Zarya’s friends are rushing to complete a ceremony that will protect the city. Her mind is fixed on saving her home and finding the origin of her magic.

But every discovery and every dream pulls her back to Rabin. Does an enchantment bind them, or is it pure desire? Will opening her heart give Zarya the power to turn back the demons, or will it let the darkness to devour her?

Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

The Ruinous Love Trilogy, Book One

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver is for readers who enjoy:

• Friends-to-Lovers
• Grumpy/Sunshine
• Rom Coms
• Serial Killers
• Slow Burns

Book Description:

When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, the two find something elusive—the friendship of a like-minded, pitch-black soul. From small town West Virginia to upscale California, from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one that pits them against the most dangerous monsters in the country. But as their friendship develops into something more, the restless ghosts left in their wake are only a few steps behind, ready to claim more than just their newfound love. Can Rowan and Sloane dig themselves out of a game of graves? Or have they finally met their match?

Double Pucked by Lauren Blakely

My Hockey Romance, Book One

BWBH Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

BWBH Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Double Pucked by Lauren Blakely is for readers who enjoy:

• Fake Dating
• Forced Proximity
• Hockey Players
• MFM
• Why Choose

Book Description:

When I discover my boyfriend is cheating on me, I move out right away taking what I love most – my dog. As I fly out the door, I make sure to swipe the thing my ex loves best. The VIP tickets he won to a hockey game, complete with the chance to spend an evening with the city’s two biggest NHL stars. I can’t wait to snap selfies with my ex’s idols and rub it in his face. Except, when I head out with the two hockey studs, they have something else in mind besides sweet revenge. Would I like to spend the night…with both of them? Talk about the VIP experience. That’s what I get for one knee-weakening, sheet-grabbing night. In the morning, I plan to return to my bestie’s house to crash on her couch with my dog. But when they learn what happened with my awful ex, they ask me to be their temporary roomie for the week. Oh, and one of them needs my help with his grumpy reputation. The other? Well, he wants me to be his fake date at an upcoming wedding. Looks like I’m about to get double pucked. Again.