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CHAOS AND LOVE (Campus Hotshots 2) by Michelle A Valentine-review

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CHAOS AND LOVE (Campus Hotshots 2) by Michelle A Valentine-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date April 22, 2021

He’s chaos–on and off the field…

For hotshot quarterback, Luke Finnegan, Love and Chaos are always intertwined, and when he decides he’s through with relationships, a blonde artist with pink streaks in her hair convinces him sometimes love is worth the madness.

Miley St. Claire doesn’t do relationships. She’s seen the chaos they cause for those around her and she wants no part of that drama, which is why taking Luke Finnegan up on his offer to be friends with benefits is her ideal non-relationship. Trouble is, when she gets to know Luke, she finds herself missing him when he’s not around and quickly realizes, to her absolute horror, she’s falling for the sexy quarterback.

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Chaos and Love is a stand-alone college football romance with a lot of sass and sexy times. No cliffhanger. No Cheating. There’s definitely a HEA.

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REVIEW: CHAOS AND LOVE is the second instalment in Michelle A Valentine’s contemporary, new adult CAMPUS HOTSHOTS erotic, romances series. This is college quarterback Luke Finnegan, and graphic design student Miley St. Claire’s story line. CHAOS AND LOVE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary. There is a slight cross over with the mention of the author’s Black Falcon series.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Luke and Miley) CHAOS AND LOVE follows the building romance and relationship between college quarterback Luke Finnegan, and graphic design student Miley St. Claire. Luke Finnegan is failing marketing and is desperate in the face of losing his starting position with team, and finds himself asking graphic design student Miley St. Claire for help but Miley is his brother’s girlfriend’s best friend, and in this Luke doesn’t want to cross the line where he doesn’t belong. Our heroine will surprise Luke Finnegan when she suggests a relationship outside of school, a surprise that involves a friends with benefits relationship as our heroine does not believe in love or happily ever after. What ensues is the building friendship, relationship and love between Miley and Luke, and the potential fall-out as Miley’s issues of trust threaten any future happiness for our story line couple.

Miley St. Claire doesn’t do relationships having witnessed the volatile and unfaithful marriage of her parents but something about Luke has our heroine reconsidering her stand on relationships, a relationship that is about to prove that love is temporary, and trust must be earned. Luke Finnegan knows betrayal first hand but that doesn’t stop him from hoping for his own happily ever after. Miley St. Claire is a means to an end but falling in love is one of the best side-benefits to needing a college tutor.

The relationship between Miley and Luke begins as a student-tutor relationship wherein Luke is immediately attracted to his our story line heroine but Miley lets Luke know that she has no desire to fall in love but a friends with benefits relationship is all she is able to handle. As their relationship begins to develop, Luke’s past is determined to destroy any hope for a happily ever after. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

The secondary and supporting characters include Luke’s brother Baker and his girlfriend Sky (Rebellious and Reckless 1), and their father Morris Finnegan; Miley’s roommate Kaylee; Luke’s friend and fellow football player Milo; and mean girl/ sorority sisters Veronica and Nadalee.

CHAOS AND LOVE is a story of family, relationships, betrayal and love; a story of vengeance, jealousy, retribution and heart break. The premise is engaging and emotional; the romance is seductive; the characters are dynamic, energetic and charismatic but I struggled with the YA (young adult) feel to the story line premise including the vindictive mean girls, and immature and over emotional parental units. The epilogue fast forwards the story line five years.

Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one REBELLIOUS AND RECKLESS

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Reviewed by Sandy

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Michelle A. Valentine is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Rock the Heart. Wicked White is the first novel in her Wicked White romance series. She attended college as a drafting and design major, but her love of people soon persuaded her to join the nursing field. It wasn’t until after the birth of her son that she began her love affair with romance novels, and she hasn’t looked back since. When she’s not writing, she feeds her music addiction, dabbles in party planning, and expresses herself by working with arts and crafts. She currently lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, son, and two beloved dogs

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Rebellious and Reckless by Michelle A Valentine-a review

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REBELLIOUS AND RECKLESS (Campus Hotshots 1) by Michelle A Valentine

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 25, 2021

He’s Rebellious in the Ring and Reckless in Love.

Sky Cold knows exactly what she wants, and it’s Luke Finnegan, the college campus star quarterback. The only problem is she’s not even a blip on his radar. In order to get noticed by her crush, she’s willing to exchange the extra bedroom in her apartment to Luke’s tattooed, older brother to find a way into his social circle.

Baker Finnegan is determined to get out of his father’s shadow and do things his way. When he falls on hard times, and the sexy, slightly nerdy co-ed, Sky offers him a place to live in exchange for fake friendship, he can’t pass up the opportunity. But when Baker quickly realizes the only match he wants to make for Sky is one with himself, he has to convince her to look past his reckless ways.

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REVIEW: REBELLIOUS AND RECKLESS is the first instalment in Michelle A Valentine’s contemporary, new adult CAMPUS HOTSHOTS romance series-a spin off from the author’s HARD KNOCKS series. This is college students Sky Cold, and Baker Finnegan’s story line.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Sky and Baker) REBELLIOUS AND RECKLESS follows the roommates to lovers relationship between college students Sky Cold and Baker Finnegan. Baker Finnegan needs a place to stay after his college roommate moves in his girlfriend without warning. Overhearing Baker’s exchange, Sky Cold offers Baker her spare room-an arrangement her father can know nothing about but Sky has an ulterior motive-our heroine is obsessed and in love with Baker’s brother Luke, the star quarterback and man-wh*re on the college campus. Desperate to attract Luke Finnegan’s attention, Sky blackmails Baker to help, in exchange for room and board. What ensues is the building friendship and relationship between Sky and Baker, and the potential fall-out as demons from the past threaten the burgeoning love between our leading couple.

Baker Finnegan’s heart was destroyed by the people he loved, and in the ensuing time Baker swore he would never fall in love again. Pushing everyone he once loved out of his life, Baker finds himself falling for a woman who has fallen for the brother he can no longer trust. Leaving the sport he loved behind, Baker trained to fight in the underground MMA, something our heroine knows all too well. Sky Cold is a naive, obsessed young woman who has tunnel vision and delusions about a man she only knows by sight and reputation. Desperate to meet the man who has starred in all of her fantasies and dreams, Sky will soon realize that the man that she wants is the man who is currently living in the room next door.

The relationship between Baker and Sky begins as roommates but Sky isn’t looking for a relationship with Baker, and Baker refuses to open his heart to another potential betrayal. As Sky continues to obsess over Baker’s brother Luke, Baker begins to lose his heart to a woman who may or may not want something more. The $ex scene are intimate and passionate without the over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

The energetic secondary and supporting characters include Baker’s brother Luke, and their father Morris; Sky’s best friend Mylie; and Baker’s friends Eddie and Jamie, Milo Riviera, as well as Sky’s parents Xavier and Anna, and her brother Simon.

REBELLIOUS AND RECKLESS is a story of secrets and lies; betrayal and vengeance; dysfunctional family dynamics, forgiveness and love. The premise is captivating and heart breaking; the romance struggles in the early stages as Sky’s obsession with Luke is beyond naive and immature; the characters are dynamic and charismatic.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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Michelle A. Valentine is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Rock the Heart. Wicked White is the first novel in her Wicked White romance series. She attended college as a drafting and design major, but her love of people soon persuaded her to join the nursing field. It wasn’t until after the birth of her son that she began her love affair with romance novels, and she hasn’t looked back since. When she’s not writing, she feeds her music addiction, dabbles in party planning, and expresses herself by working with arts and crafts. She currently lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, son, and two beloved dogs

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