Looking to Score By: Carrie Gray and Coralee June

     He's, like, literally the worst. Oakley Davis is the star running back at their university - and the reason Amanda has broken her vow to avoid the college party scene. Thanks to a mix-up with her advisor, she's now serving her Public Relations internship as a glorified babysitter to the party-hard football players. 

     Specifically, Oakley. 

     He's impossible to manage. His Instagram is full of pictures of him half-naked and drunk, and he'd rather attend parties than practice. Oakley's brand needs some serious work, and when he's not driving Amanda insane, he's sleeping his way through the entire female population. 

     But Amanda's determined. She has plans to graduate a semester early, and nothing or no one will get in her way. She's a Virgo, after all. Oakley Davis might be a privileged, cocky football star, but she's Amanda Matthews, and she'll do whatever it takes to get her A.   

    She just has to make sure she doesn't end up falling in love with the idiot, first. 

     Looking to Score was a book that was both recommended to me and one I saw that I kept seeing come up in my feed because it was just released. And I'm really glad that I did give this book a try, I could not put Looking to Score down. I just couldn't get enough of the love-hate dynamic between Oakley and Amanda.

Home Game (A Vancouver Wolves Hockey Romance #2) By: Odette Stone

     Ryan's a professional hockey player trying to survive on his new team. He's just trying to survive.
     Zoe's down to her last dollar. She lives day-to-day in a world that doesn't care. Despite her bad luck, she's a fighter. Zoe never gives up. She never stops trying.
     Ryan Parker's wealth and generosity, sets him apart from anyone Zoe knows. Yet, she doesn't trust him. It's nothing personal. She trusts no one. But when her bad luck takes a turn for the worse, one person shows up. Ryan Parker.
     She cannot understand why Ryan bothered because the guy has enough of his own issues to deal with. But I don't have a choice. She needs him. It's a matter of survival.
     His friendship changed everything. It changed her. Zoe started to believe in herself. She allowed herself to trust. And for the first time, in a long time, Zoe felt her heart beat from again.
     In the game of love, winning is harder than it looks. She doesn't know the rules. She doesn't know how to win. But she'll play her heart out until the whistle blows.
   
     When I first started reading Home Game I wasn't sure what to expect. But it wasn't long before I was found myself completely into this story. I just could not seem to want to put it down. Home Game is definitely a book that I would read again.

Dustan (Caveman Instinct #5) By: Hazel Gower

     Dustan is a Silverman, whose family centuries ago was gifted by gypsies to know who their soulmate was - he knew it was only a matter of time before he found his soulmate. He f*cked up. Dustan met his one true love and called her names a woman should never hear. He hurt her. The second time he met her wasn't any better and the third time he made promises he never really intended to keep. Awaking from a coma to an angelic splendor that is Cassandra Towensted changes everything. Dustan has to start from scratch. He doesn't know what happened before or after the accident, but Dustan knows that he's done something to hurt his woman. He needs to recover, but all he wants is to make Cassandra happy.
     Cassie's nerdy teenage life was boring before her best friend Jade dated a Silverman. The family crashed into their lives and boring was something she never experienced again. Cassie was happy to be the third wheel, and as she watched others find their mates her expectations for a Silverman of her own rose.
     When Cassie first met Dustan, he didn't act like any Silverman she knew. Cassie was hurt that even after claiming she was his soulmate, he could be so self-centered and selfish. Tragedy brings about a second chance with Dustan becoming a changed man.

     I liked reading Dustan much more than I did Mason. And yet I still think Stephan, the first book in this series was the best. While Dustan managed to hold my interest much more than Mason did it still was not without effort. Even with all that I will say this, this series at least the books that I have already read are ones that I would read again.

Mason (Caveman Instinct #4) By: Hazel Gower

     Mason's family was given gifts for helping a group of gypsies. One of them was the ability to know your soulmate instantly. From what Mason has seen, it can be more than a curse, as once you find your mate, you turn into a possessive caveman. Mason has found his soulmate, beaten, battered, and bruised. As he nurses her back to health she clings to his side. His family thinks this is why the bad part of the gypsy gift hasn't affected him. Mason is just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
    Alexa didn't realize how good she had it until she lost it all. Mason found her when she needed him the most. From the moment she saw him, he has been her knight in shining armor. He takes the time to get to know her, to let Alexa be herself again. Settling into her new life, Mason tells her she's his soulmate and the only one meant for him. Alexa wants to keep living the dream she has built with him, but she'll have to fight her demons eventually and she doesn't want to drag Mason along.

     Its been awhile since the first time I've read the first book in the Caveman Instinct series. Since then I have read that book repeatedly and thought that I would give the rest of the book in this series a read. Mason was the first book in the series that appealed to me enough to keep reading after the sample read. And while it was an okay read and one that I would read again it didn't hold a candle to the first book in this series.