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***5 Stars*** I swear this series, meaning the entire Compass series, always makes me happy. I love diving in and feeling like I’m catching up with old friends and Still Waters gave me that feeling and more. It was a quick read filled with sweet and smexy moments that had all the feels that had me devouring it in no time flat! I adored Vaughn. He’s all kinds of smexy tattoo artist/cowboy on the side who is comfortable in his own skin and, as he has matured, isn’t afraid to go after what he wants. His honesty, with himself and others, and how compassionate he was had me easily falling in love with him. Bryant. This man is smart, almost too smart because his brain never stops working, and while it’s a great thing when it comes to academia and work situations, when it comes to one’s personal life...not so much. I loved Bryant, I did, I wanted to give him all kinds hugs and Gibbs smack him for how he saw himself and how he felt others saw him, because they were not one and the...

***5 ‘Just A Little Bit Longer’ Stars*** You know those series that make you feel like you’ve come home when you start reading them, whether they’re a new book or you’re doing a re-read? Well, Heaven On Earth gave me that feeling from the very first page even though it’s been many, many moons since I first read the Compass Brothers & Compass Girls series. I felt like no time had passed at all and I back home hanging out with my friends and family. I had the whole dopey smile thing going on. I swooned. I got the teary eyed sniffles. I laughed and I even did a little growling at certain points. But I thoroughly enjoyed Austin and Hayden’s journey and loved catching up with the Compton clan and seeing how they rally around those they call their own. Austin is all kinds of book boyfriend material. He is so much more than what most people see, including himself. There is a kind and compassionate man under the smexy as hell tatt’d up bod who’ll give a person in need the ...