#midnight message

“Let me make this clear to you: you’re mine when you’re angry, mine when you’re scared, and especially mine when you try to push me away.”…”You wanted dangerous, so stop acting surprised when I act like it.”

This book had me questioning everything. Every message had me saying, "Wait... WHAT?!" If you love books that completely consume your thoughts, add this to your TBR immediately.

No spoilers... just trust me on this one. 🖤📖

Rating: 5/5

Book Blurb:

Mina knows three things to be true.

1. She hates sports.

2. She’s obsessed with an ice hockey player anyway.

3. Sliding into his DM’s is the best and worst thing she’s ever done.

Dark Romance author Mina Mendoza has an obsession, and his name is Leo Duval. She knows everything about the star hockey player… like how many tattoos he has, where his aunt likes to holiday, the layout of his house and the date he bought it. But he doesn’t know she exists. Or at least he didn’t.

When Mina messages Leo in the middle of the night to say that he’s exactly how she imagines the hero in her latest novel, she forgets that men can be cruel. One message turns into twenty screenshots, and a drunken group chat that alters the course of both their lives.

As it turns out, Leo knows some things about Mina too. Like the password to her phone, that her roommate sometimes forgets to lock their door at night, and that she sleeps like the dead.

Mina might have been stalking him first, but he can do it better.

Review:

A thrilling romance between a dark romance author and the star hockey player she falls for. Mina is head over heels for Leo, the hockey player she discovers looks exactly like how she imagined her character to be... but one DM leads to a spiral of things. Mina will do whatever it takes to get Leo... but what she doesn't realize is that Leo is more clued into her than she realizes. I absolutely adored Mina, she was so fun to read about and she just felt so relatable. Leo was a great love interest and I just loved how much he cared for her. This story had me from the very first page and I devoured their romance!! The couple had such fantastic chemistry and this was a wild ride from start to finish. I am a sucker for Avina's books and this was just another amazing read!!

Release Date: April 29, 2026

Publication/Blog: Ash and Books (ash-and-books.tumblr.com)

currently 1 AM here and I've spent the past hour fangirling....

Well.....it's 12:14 AM.......

I started homework at around 6 Pm.....AND IT MIDNIGHT.......

That shouldn't happen......

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I love my 20 followers (Tumblr), My 8 Watchers (Deviantart) and 3 followers(Wattpad)

And everybody who enjoys what I do.

You know It's very hard to get through this but you few guys really do help and I'm grateful. Even if I'm sadden and no one seems to care.

Like I doubt anybody is gonna see or read this. And I'll only know if they, reblog or like. If not, then it seems no one cares.

Even though I don't get responds very often (I'm not gonna stress AGAIN how important they are to me) I'm very grateful when I DO get them.

On deviantart I posted multiple post of things that were going tough for me. No one responded or showed any signs of caring. Some one said they were gonna read them all when I had to show them the links to said posts. But still no response from them. There has never been shown for concern for me or messages of people caring for. The most I ever got was a sad face. I actually really like them but really? Oh well. They wouldn't have known anyway. So no harm down. At least they actually commented.