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Title: Shameless King
Author: Maya Hughes
Genre: New Adult Romance
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Blurb
A deliciously steamy enemies with benefits romance.
Declan McAvoy. Voted Biggest Flirt. Highest goal scorer in Kings of Rittenhouse Prep history.
Everyone’s impressed, well except one person…
After a blow out in high school, Makenna Halstead and I were happy to never have to cross paths again. Except life has a way of knocking you straight in the teeth with a puck when you least expect it. She hasn’t just returned to my life, she crashed into it like a wrecking ball...into my college kingdom, into my class, and smack dab into the seat next to mine. My new lab partner to be exact.
For years we hated each other... I may be King on the ice, but she is the Ice Queen. She has no problem calling me out, doesn’t back down, and her piercing blue eyes have me picturing more than than just my arms wrapped around her.
Now we’re stuck with each other and there’s no getting around that fact that we have to work together. My hockey career hangs in the balance. Problem? Oh, yeah.
I can’t deny it. I want her. More than I ever thought I could want a woman. I’ve got one semester–only four months–to convince her everything she thought about me was wrong.
Will my queen let me prove to her I’m the King she can’t live without?
Only one way to find out…
Caroline's Review
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Loved this enemies-to-lovers story!
"Electricity buzzed through my body, but I knew it wasn't just the vodka. It was all to do with the woman in my arms who usually drove me up a wall."
Declan and Makenna can't stand each other. Makenna wrote Declan off in high school after he flaked on a school assignment. He's the popular school jock and she's the nerdy, focused good girl. Neither can help the snarky remarks they throw at each other. It's almost a compulsion. Neither would ever admit that there's an extra sizzle between them in every exchange....especially during that small moment at prom.
"My gaze followed her the second she walked into the room, and all I wanted to do was run my hands along her skin and break the tension building every minute we spent together."
Years later, when Makenna's family situation brings her back to town from the other side of the country, not only does she share the same college campus as Declan, he also shares a class with her - one where they are paired up for an assignment. They need the other to get through the class so they vow to make the best of it. The best of it sees them becoming friends and the sizzle that's always been between them burns into something much brighter.
"It was like in one night he'd woven himself in as a part of my DNA, and I didn't know how to extract him."
Gah! I adored this book. It's got a lot of my favourite things: enemies-to-lovers, college, and sports. I loved the chemistry between Makenna and Declan. Once they started getting closer, the passion between them was INSANE! They were so hot together! Makenna is so focused on her future - for what some might think all the wrong reasons - that she starts getting skittish when things between her and Declan heat up.
"I wasn't going to let her forget how I made her feel. Because she made me forget anything else existed when we were together."
Declan is so passionate about Makenna, and so determined in his pursuit of her. I loved how invested in her he felt, and how much he wanted her to reciprocate the feelings he had.
I loved that what you saw on the surface of both characters was most definitely not what you got. Both had things going on in their lives that their public personas didn't project.
This was a great first in a series, with a good introduction to other characters. A fab read and thoroughly recommend if you like the NA genre.
Caroline's Review
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
"Electricity buzzed through my body, but I knew it wasn't just the vodka. It was all to do with the woman in my arms who usually drove me up a wall."
Declan and Makenna can't stand each other. Makenna wrote Declan off in high school after he flaked on a school assignment. He's the popular school jock and she's the nerdy, focused good girl. Neither can help the snarky remarks they throw at each other. It's almost a compulsion. Neither would ever admit that there's an extra sizzle between them in every exchange....especially during that small moment at prom.
"My gaze followed her the second she walked into the room, and all I wanted to do was run my hands along her skin and break the tension building every minute we spent together."
Years later, when Makenna's family situation brings her back to town from the other side of the country, not only does she share the same college campus as Declan, he also shares a class with her - one where they are paired up for an assignment. They need the other to get through the class so they vow to make the best of it. The best of it sees them becoming friends and the sizzle that's always been between them burns into something much brighter.
"It was like in one night he'd woven himself in as a part of my DNA, and I didn't know how to extract him."
Gah! I adored this book. It's got a lot of my favourite things: enemies-to-lovers, college, and sports. I loved the chemistry between Makenna and Declan. Once they started getting closer, the passion between them was INSANE! They were so hot together! Makenna is so focused on her future - for what some might think all the wrong reasons - that she starts getting skittish when things between her and Declan heat up.
"I wasn't going to let her forget how I made her feel. Because she made me forget anything else existed when we were together."
Declan is so passionate about Makenna, and so determined in his pursuit of her. I loved how invested in her he felt, and how much he wanted her to reciprocate the feelings he had.
I loved that what you saw on the surface of both characters was most definitely not what you got. Both had things going on in their lives that their public personas didn't project.
This was a great first in a series, with a good introduction to other characters. A fab read and thoroughly recommend if you like the NA genre.
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Maya Hughes is a Jersey girl, no not that kind! And she also thinks it’s super weird to talk about herself in third person :) I’m a romance writer who loves taking inspiration from everyday life, the music I listen to, and the people I know to create stories that sparkle and shine.
I’m the mom of three little ones, the wife to an amazing husband and also work full time. Some of my favorite things are cinnamon rolls, white wine, laughing until I can’t breathe and traveling with my family.
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