Review can be read at It's About The Book With such a kitschy title, this could have been such a porn book but it totally wasn’t! Love the title, Liv! It was a completely engrossing read about an older woman with a younger man relationship complete with angst-y family issues, sobriety problems, and job problems–the perfect triumvirate to round out any real-world romance. Loved it and appreciated all the aspects that made it the great book it is.Dani’s bitten off more than she can chew in tryi

3.5 Stars!The book blurb and the amusing title drew me into requesting King Stud by Liv Rancourt. I found the pace to be a bit on the slow side, however, the interesting characters and appealing plot kept me engaged.This is the story about Danielle Jacobsen, a thirty-three year-old NICU supervisor from Los Angeles. She inherited her late grandmother's coastal cottage and tasked herself with fixing it up within three months. Danielle spent most of her childhood in her grandmother's home, so spend...

This review was originally posted on Cocktails and BooksDanielle and Maeve have been friends since grade school growing up in Seattle together. Dani is now living in L.A. working as a NICU nurse. She has inherited her grandmother's house back in Seattle and when her boyfriend unexpectantly breaks up with her she decides she needs a vacationt o regroup so her takes some time and off and travels to Seattle to get her grandmother's house cleaned up and ready to sell. However, once she sees the hous...

***ARC provided through NetGalley by Evernight Publishing****I really wanted to love this book but I didn't. It was just ok for me with a side of annoying. The beginning was good for me. I enjoyed the tension between Dani and Ryan. I was ok that his ex was a little crazy and wanted him back. I was ok with Dani having a little issue with her being 9 years older than Ryan. But I was not ok with that more than halfway through the book all this still was going on. Dani kept harping on the age differ...

(request submitted by author for an honest critique) I understand the "no dating my brother" rule when you're in high school, but when you reach your 30's, shouldn't you have put that childish behavior behind you. It's time to act like adults. Right?Unfortunately, I found Danielle, Ryan, Maeve, and Cherry acting more like teenagers than the mature adults. Maybe if I ever coveted any of my friends' siblings or had one covet mine I would understand their behavior better. For me, it all seemed ridi...

King Stud had all the things I love in a novel: A hot handyman, a big, eccentric family, a fun locale with neighborhoods I'm familiar with and a hot handyman. Wait...did I say that one already? It bears repeating. I loved that Dani had to contend, not just with the age difference between her and Ryan but his sister/her best friend disapproving of their being together. Their chemistry was scorching, in and out of bed. I love that she originally took on the house project out of a sense of guilt an...

Danielle inherited her Grandmother's house. She is back in Seattle for 3 months, on leave from her job in L.A. to quickly flip the house. It is in worse shape than she remembered however and she needs help. Her best friend's younger brother is the perfect carpenter for the job.This book had a good foundation, the idea of the story interested me but the construction and finishing touches were not as polished as I would have liked. For a successful woman Dani seemed to have little confidence. Her

I haven’t read a romance like King Stud in a long time. I’m talking one of the old time romance novels. The kind where the attraction is red hot and they want to hook up, but they don’t for one reason or another. The back and forth, the almost, then not, builds the tension so high that when they do get together, it’s explosive.I loved it.I’m not sure which character I liked more. Danielle with her practical, organized, rationalizing ways and sharp wit. She’s a woman of strength and intelligence

Received a copy in exchange for an honest review“He exhaled, low and throaty, and his shoulders relaxed. She tipped her face up, and he angled down to meet her lips. Their kiss was light and cautious, dipping in and testing the waters. She parted her lips, flicked him with the tip of her tongue.”5 super sexy stars!! This book was fun and so sexy to read!! Definitely a different read than other books I’ve read.Danielle’s got three months to make her grandmother’s rundown Craftsman house livable.

Danielle is on a mission. Her grandmother left her old, run down house to her in a Will and she needs to get it beautiful and liveable in a short time so she can put it on the market, sell it, and get back to her life. She's got attachments to the place, emotional ones that run deep, but she's determined to see her plan through. Unfortunately, that means she needs a carpenter. Enter Ryan. A gorgeous, young man with taste for good work-work and older women. He also happens to be a hands-off kind

Reading King Stud is like watching a reality television show with tons of drama. All made-up, unnecessary drama that has you screaming at the television screen for the main parties to just get it together already! There are all the requisite characters as well. The sister that’s a total b*tch, the alcoholic ex-girlfriend that keeps trying to get back together with the main man, and the would-be boyfriend with a temper from hell and issues he refuses to deal with. There’s even a gay uncle who is

"3.5 out of 5 stars! Not long after an unexpected breakup Danielle (Dani) is informed that her grandmother left her childhood home to her in the will so, with hopes to get some space, she takes off a couple of months from work and goes home. Dani’s plans are to upgrade the house and put it on the market during the time that she’s there but that is before she realizes that the house is in need of a whole lot more TLC than she can give on her own. Therefore, she enlists the help of her “best frien...

2,5 stars for me but someone might like it better.I won this book at a Facebook party. I was looking forward to reading about a home restoration turned big love affair. And I really wanted to like the book, but sometimes it is the book for one kind of reader and not for another. This was just not my book.Dani, for all the talk of being an older woman in the new relationship, often acted immature - she lied, or avoided serious conversations, and she let other people treat her as a door mat (wheth...

I think King Stud is the perfect title for this contemporary romance. There is of course the Stud Ryan, and there is a woman Dani. Dani inherited her Grandmother’s home, which is Dani’s childhood home. She takes a leave of Absence from her job as an Assistant Manager of a NICU nursing staff, to go back home and get the home ready to be placed on the market. What she didn’t know was how much work this house needed. Dani met up with her best friend and was telling her she needed to get someone out...

I just finished King Stud and it was an amazingly good and fun read. I could not put the book down as it was like reading about the at forbidden fruit ... Danielle and Maeve have been BFF's forever and with that territory comes knowing all of Maeve's brothers ... even her younger brother who is nine years younger. Lets move to about fifteen years later, when they are suddenly working together on a project ... he's young and hot and suddenly single, she is in a strange city, working on a project

I was gifted a copy by Author Groupies in exchange for an honest review.Stud muffin meets Cougar?! LOL ....Not at all . Ryan and Danielle may have an age gap and history but they're on fire together!Ryan's been dating his ex girlfriend for  the last 10 years but she seems to love the liquor more and he has enough so he decided to call it a day . Danielle's boyfriend breaks up with her or rather he just walks away? ! So both are nursing wounds but those are soon  forgotten when Ryan helps Daniell...

What a great story! I have to admit I didn't read the synopsis before I started and just got hooked on the title and cover. But silly me. No hot porn star/god here but a hot handyman who knew his way around just about any problem in a house and a bed room. And a young woman who happens to own a run down home that needs his help desperately, including the extras. There's great fun and chemistry between them but family and friends are a little disapproving about the age difference between them as

Dani sometimes has to ask Ryan those hard questions, “you’re standing there mostly naked and you want to talk about food?” Sometimes Ryan has to be the firm hand in the relationship, his woman has no self control, “do that again and I’m likely to drive off the road.” He drew his hand away. It was that or pull over and jump her." He's a considerate man, "he rocked his hips up and pushed down on her thigh, pinning his ***k between his belly and her leg. “I don’t have to put it in you if you’re sor...

Luv Rancour is a new author to me her book was a awesome book. You have the hot handy man Ryan. Then you have Dani she is older than Ryan which she has issues with their ages but not just that she has to contend with her best friend Ryan's sister Mauve. Well Dani contend to their age difference and also well Mauve be okay with them dating. Dani and Ryan's chemistry is scorching hot. Only time well tell if dani leaves or well she fall for the hot handy man Ryan. So go ahead and one click this awe...

Struggled getting into the book at the start, but once I kept reading it started picking up and becoming a nice little romance with a hot man! Oh who am I kidding, an extremely HOT man! The plot of the story takes you places perfectly enough to escape the reality of life! Way to spice things up Liv Rancourt!*Received for an honest review*