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ARC Review: Love Me by Jenn Plummer

Love Me (Aspen Ridge #3) by Jenn Plummer

Contemporary Romance, Aspen Ridge Series #3

ebook, Hardcover, Paperback, 410 Pages

March 25, 2025 by Wild Lupine Books LLC

Blurb:

Hannah
When my parents give me an ultimatum to settle down with my daughter’s father or they’ll sell the family business, which I’d hoped to inherit, my life crumbles around me. The man they expect me to marry? He has a secret life with a pregnant girlfriend in another city and zero interest in marrying me or stepping up as a father for our child. Luckily, the one man who hasn’t left my side since we were three, has a plan to fix it all. Marry him instead. It seems simple enough, but the attention he’s suddenly giving me is making me question everything.

Liam
I’ve been desperately in love with my best friend for years. Hannah may think we’re just role-playing to get her family to hand over the business she’s been running by herself, but there’s nothing fake about any of this for me. It’s time Hannah feels what it could be like to be with a real man who would do anything for her and her daughter. She just needs to open her eyes and finally see me. Because once I make her my wife, I’m not going anywhere.

**Love Me is book three in the interconnected Aspen Ridge Series and can be read as a standalone. HEA guaranteed!**

My Review:

I loved the 3rd book in the Aspen Ridge Series! Love Me couples Liam and his childhood best friend who he’s always loved, Hannah and I loved reading their friends-to-lovers, marriage of convenience story! Hannah is my type of girl, we even love the same horror movies.

Liam was such a sweetheart supporting Hannah every step of the way and being so patient with her and I loved how he was with her daughter.

This book gave me all the feels. This whole series is so bingeable giving all the small town tight-knit community readers are loving lately while also bringing the spice and Love Me slid perfectly in with the first two books! I can’t wait to read Carter’s story next! 

My Rating:

5 of 5 Knives!

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? – 17 March 2025

This week I’m linking up to It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? Hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date!

#IMWAYR is a weekly meme started on J Kaye’s blog and now hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date.

Last Week I Read:Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert

This was a bit whimsical for me but also found it worth listening to for getting out of my creative slump.

Love Me by Jenn Plummer

I really enjoyed this one! Hannah was definitely my kind of character and Liam was the kind of book boyfriend we all aspire to find in real life!

Scythe and Sparrow by Brynne Weaver

I really loved Rosie and Fionn’s story! Rosie is just what Fionn calls her – mayhem in the most hilarious way. And you can’t miss Barbara the raccoon!

Currently Reading:Beautiful Villain by Rebecca Kenney

I’m almost 100 pages into this one and loving it! It’s a Gatsby reimagining with vampires!

Close Your Eyes and Count to 10 by Lisa Unger

This one is a super fast read and I’m really enjoying it!

Reading Next:Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

I wanted to read this one right away when it released but a bunch of audiobook holds came into the library and I had to listen to those first.

What are you reading and loving this week? Have you read any of these?

The Sunday Post: Learning French and Warm Afternoons

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. See rules here: Sunday Post Meme.

Learning French and Warm Afternoons

Hey Book Blogger Friends! How was your week? I’ve been absent dealing with some pain/sick issues for a couple weeks and slowly coming back.

While I’ve been resting I’ve started learning French on Duolingo. My pronunciation is atrocious, the French would be horrified but I’m picking it up pretty well except I keep mixing up the masculine and feminine tense.

Friday was an absolutely gorgeous day, 70+ degrees and somewhat sunny. I took a drive and was going to go hiking but it’s still pretty muddy on the trails so I ended up just taking a long walk around town instead. Sadly the temperature is going down again this week. Boo!

Last Week on the Blog:

First Line Friday: 14 March 2025

Stacking the Shelves: 15 March 2025

This Week on the Blog:

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? – 17 March 2025

First Line Friday: 21 March 2025

New Book Mail on My Shelves:Physical:eARC:

Stacking the Shelves: 15 March 2025

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Reading Reality. Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual.

Books Added to My Shelves This Week:

This week I received an eARC, a new cookbook, a thriller, and picked up a romance at Target.

eARC:

I received an eARC of the next Aspen Ridge book that releases on March 25… and I read it in a day and a half! I love this series so much and these covers are everything.

Physical:

I saw this book on Pango Books and I had some earnings to spend. I love that it’s a plant-based cookbook as sometimes it’s a pain adapting recipes.

I read this one as an ARC and finally got around to getting myself a physical copy!

I picked up Beautiful Villain at Target mostly because it has green sprayed edges but it has been on my TBR for a while.

What books did you add to your shelves this week?

First Line Friday: 14 March 2025

This week I’m joining First Line Friday. First Line Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Carrie @ Reading is My Superpower! So grab the book nearest you, your current read, or the book on top of your TBR stack and share the first line.

My pick this week is…

Storms and Secrets by Claire KingsleyBlurb:

He’s always loved her. Now he’ll fight to save her.

Zachary Haven is living a lie.

He’s stuck in a rut, pretending to hate the woman he’s always loved. He didn’t mean for things to turn out that way. But sometimes life gets out of control, especially when you’re young and stupid.

Not that he ever had a chance with her. She’s gorgeous and smart, talented and kind. And Zachary? He can’t seem to keep himself out of trouble.

Marigold Martin just met the man of her dreams.

Blowing into her life like a storm, he sweeps her off her feet. She can’t help but wonder if he’s the one. He’s a dream in a bespoke suit—and he says he wants her heart.

But nothing is as it seems.

A brush with death wakes Zachary up to the reality of his life. And his feelings for Marigold. He’s determined to make her his—convince her they were always meant to be.

But secrets run deep, and Zachary fears the man who’s after Marigold could be more than a romantic rival.

He could be the devil himself.

And Zachary might be too late to save her.

And the first line is…

Another shot of tequila was probably a mistake.

You know, I’ve never tried tequila. It was always the alcohol my mother said gave her such a bad experience that smelling it later made her queasy. But yes, in this character’s case it probably wasn’t a good idea…

First Line Friday: 28 February 2025

This week I’m joining First Line Friday. First Line Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Carrie @ Reading is My Superpower! So grab the book nearest you, your current read, or the book on top of your TBR stack and share the first line.

My pick this week is…

Deep End by Ali HazelwoodBlurb:

A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis.

Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from the injury that almost ended her career. She has no time for relationships—at least, that’s what she tells herself.

Swim captain, world champion, all-around aquatics golden boy, Lukas Blomqvist thrives on discipline. It’s how he wins gold medals and breaks records: complete focus, with every stroke. On the surface, Lukas and Scarlett have nothing in common. Until a well-guarded secret slips out, and everything changes.

So they start an arrangement. And as the pressure leading to the Olympics heats up, so does their relationship. It was supposed to be just a temporary, mutually satisfying fling. But when staying away from Lukas becomes impossible, Scarlett realizes that her heart might be treading into dangerous water…

And the first line is…

It all starts when Penelope Ross leans in over the restaurant’s solid wooden table, lifts her index finger, and declares, “Tenth circle of hell: you find the love of your life, but the sex is intensely meh.”

Well that’s one way to open the scene lol!

Can’t Wait Wednesday: The Haunting of Room 904!

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released.

The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth

Horror, Standalone

eBook, Hardcover, audiobook, 320 Pages

March 18, 2025 by Flatiron Books

Blurb:

From the author of White Horse (“Twisty and electric.” —The New York Times Book Review) comes a terrifying and resonant novel about a woman who uses her unique gift to learn the truth about her sister’s death.

Olivia Becente was never supposed to have the gift. The ability to commune with the dead was the specialty of her sister, Naiche. But when Naiche dies unexpectedly and under strange circumstances, somehow Olivia suddenly can’t stop seeing and hearing from spirits.

A few years later, she’s the most in-demand paranormal investigator in Denver. She’s good at her job, but the loss of Naiche haunts her. That’s when she hears from the Brown Palace, a landmark Denver hotel. The owner can’t explain it, but every few years, a girl is found dead in room 904, no matter what room she checked into the night before. As Olivia tries to understand these disturbing deaths, the past and the present collide as Olivia’s investigation forces her to confront a mysterious and possibly dangerous cult, a vindictive journalist, betrayal by her friends, and shocking revelations about her sister’s secret life.

The Haunting of Room 904 is a paranormal thriller that is as edgy as it is heartfelt and simmers with intensity and longing. Erika T. Wurth lives up to her reputation as “a gritty new punkish outsider voice in American horror.”

Why I Want to Read This Book:

Give me a historic hotel with mysterious deaths and you’ll have me eating out of the palm of your hand. This gives me Cecil Hotel vibes and I can’t wait to read it!

Will you be checking this book out? What upcoming releases are you looking forward to?

Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books Set in Another Time

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish and currently hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.

Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books Set in Another Time

This week’s TTT is about books set in another time. These can be historical, futuristic, alternate universes, or even in a world where you’re not sure when it takes place you just know it’s not right now.)

1. Surviving Savannah by Patti Callahan (1838)2. Anatomy by Dana Schwartz (1817) 3. Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen by Alison Weir (1500s)4. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (1687) 5. All the Blood We Share by Camilla Bruce (1871)6. Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie (1992)7. Murder at the Mena House by Erica Ruth Neubauer (1926)8. The Cuban Heiress by Chanel Cleeton (1934)9. What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez (1884)10. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix (1970)

What books did you choose for this prompt? Did you revise the past? Futuristic settings? Did any of mine make your list?

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? – 24 February 2025

This week I’m linking up to It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? Hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date!

#IMWAYR is a weekly meme started on J Kaye’s blog and now hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date.

Last Week I Read:So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison

I enjoyed this one but for me none of this author’s books are as good as her debut, The Return.

Unravel Me by Jenn Plummer

I loved Sawyer and Ivy! This one isn’t as spicy as the novellas in this series but there is a reason Jenn Plummer is one of my latest auto-buy authors!

The Engagement Party by Darby Kane

I was drawn in by its comp to And Then There Were None but if you ask me what this book was about in a week I’ll give you a blank stare because it was that forgettable.

Currently Reading:Deep End by Ali Hazelwood

I’m about 50 pages into this one and really enjoying it! There have been a couple scenes where I could not contain my laughter.

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

I just listened to this one last summer but I’m doing a reread before winter ends (I say that as we’re supposed to get into the 40s today. I should have listened to it around Valentine’s Day but I had others to finish.)

Reading Next:Obsession Falls by Claire Kingsley

I think I’ll dive into this one next, I haven’t decided on my next audiobook choice though.

What are you reading and loving this week? Have you read any of these?

The Sunday Post: Internet Outages, Girls Day, and Making New Friends

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. See rules here: Sunday Post Meme.

Internet Outages, Girls Day, and Making New Friends

Hey Book Blogger Friends! How was your week?

I didn’t get to do as much of the relaxing I talked about last weekend because our internet went down and I couldn’t stream anything on tv. It was down into Monday morning (roughly 3 days total). I did get to unplug as my phone turned into a useless brick as none of my apps were refreshing so there’s that.

Wednesday I had a girls day with my friend Adelle. We met for coffee and caught up for about 4 hours then she invited me over to make vision boards that night.

I’ve lived in my town for about 5 years now and before my friend Adelle I didn’t really have any friends to hang out with but I finally think I found a friend group on Wednesday. My friend introduced me to two of her friends and we had a blast making vision boards and having charcuterie.

Last Week on the Blog:

ARC Review: Cold As Hell by Kelley Armstrong

First Line Friday: 21 February 2025

This Week on the Blog:

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? – 25 February 2025

Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books Set in Another Time

Can’t Wait Wednesday: The Haunting of Room 904

First Line Friday: 28 February 2025

New Book Mail on My Shelves:Physical:Library Audiobook: