Aurora Rose Reynolds always delivers novels that are so engaging that readers just have to keep coming back for more. Hooking Him is the third and final novel in her “How to Catch an Alpha“ series. The novel follows the story of Anna and Calvin as they navigate attraction and emotional baggage. Reynolds gives readers another sexy and beautiful love story. Readers cannot go wrong when they pick up an Aurora Rose Reynolds book.

Melt-your-Kindle hot and a great romantic story. Loved this one!

Many thanks to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

This was a quick and pleasurable read. It was such a cute story line! I enjoyed the story and the characters thoroughly and can't wait to read more from Aurora Rose Reynolds.

This is feel good romance!.

“I’m not perfect, baby, not by a long shot. And I don’t want you to think I am. Perfect is an impossible standard to live by.”

Anna and Calvin's story is a super sweet quick witty romance that gives you all the good feels.

They come from different worlds but they want the same thing. I wouldn't say it's insta love at first sight because they had a little tension filled start but their journey is pretty quick and all gogogo from the moment they give into each other.

I loved her super sweet but feisty personality to his broody and teasing one!. The chemistry is positively smoking between them but those sweet tender moments.. gahhh!!. I lived for those.

Id be doing this book a disservice if I didn't mention The Golden Girls and their hilariously outrageous shenanigans that had me roaring with laughter!. Please let me be like those ladies, they're my heroes.

As a whole this book is just super sweet. It's a journey of self discovery and personal growth. It's about facing the unexpected and putting your past aside to make room for your future. I swooned, laughed and fumed. I just really loved reading their journey and all the good feels that came with it!. It's short, sweet and a delightful treat that you definitely don't want to miss out on!.

Cute story. Very insta-lovey, but I liked seeing Anna grow. And Edie, Pearl and Dixie were a riot. The twist at the end was surprising for me.

I am never disappointed with Aurora Rose Reynolds books and this one does not disappoint. I love it from start to finish. It was a joy to read. I recommend it and looking forward to the next one.

Reviews by the Wicked Reads Review Team

Ruthie – ☆☆☆☆
This is the third in a similar themed series, but is a standalone. I would recommend them all to you as fun, passionate, and easy reads.

Here we have Anna, who has escaped her privileged but not fulfilling life for a complete change of pace and a chance to make friends. That her landlady and her Golden Girl gang soon adopt her and bring her more friendship and fun than she has experienced in a lifetime tells her all she needs is here. When their adventures also introduce her to the very sexy cop Calvin, then things get more complicated than she may wish, but in a good way.

I loved the humour, the passion, and the scenes of small town life, as well as the difficult crimes facing the PD. It painted an appealing picture of the place, even if solving the murders led to a difficult incident and potentially derailed everything.

If you need to completely escape from your reality, then this book would be a good place to find yourself instead!


Avid Reader – ☆☆☆☆
3.5 stars
M/F Romance

Anna loves her new life. And while many back home can't or won't understand why she left the way that she did, Anna knows that she is much happier. Her life is full of people who care for her now. She has a job she enjoys.

Calvin is perplexed at the recent string of murders. The town is small. Not many people are unknown to him and he can't figure out why these people are being killed. When he pulls over one of the townspeople, he gets an earful and an eyeful. Anna is new and Calvin can't help but see how amazingly beautiful she is.

With the town conspiring to get them together, and Calvin and Anna not really wanting to fight their attraction, both will need to decide if they can take the risk. Anna's past won't stay hidden and with secrets that are crashing through her barriers, she'll have to decide if it's worth her sanity to stay put or to do what's asked of her. These two will have to fight for what they want, chase down their secrets, and lean on everyone around town. It's a cute story, but kind of lacked depth for me.

When you read this series you know exactly what you're going to get, and I'm ok with that. It's fun, sweet, low on angst and high on swoon. It's a fairly quick read with lots of alpha swoon and I was left with all kinds of flutters.

Anna arrives in the beach town in South Carolina to find happiness which she couldn’t find in Chicago with her ex-fiance and greedy family. When Anna meets Calvin, he knows right away she is the one for him. Their relationship is fraught with murders Calvin is trying to solve as a detective and dealing with Anna’s dysfunctional family. This book was a great summer (or any season) read and I could not put it down!

This was a quick, great read - all in one sitting. This is the first time I've read anything by this author, but liked the writing style and the quick pace. Anna left her family and fiance for a new life that she's always wanted with people that accept and love her. Enter Detective Calvin who annoys her, but in all the right ways. It was a fast paced book. The ending/mystery part of the book wrapped up fast at the end and I would have liked that to expand a little more, but overall a great read that I really enjoyed. Will be looking to read the books prior to this one in this series.

5 stars

I loved everything about Hooking Him. It was a lighthearted sweet and cheeky story with awesome characters! Cal and Anna were so great together! He's a sweetheart of an Alpha and has a wry sense of humor. Anna is on a journey of realizing who she wants to be and who she allows into her life. Their meet cute was adorable and once Cal decides what he wants, watch out! The Golden Girls are the gift that keeps on giving here and i adored them! Such a fun read!

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Cute enough read. Anna leaves her comfortable life behind in Chicago to 'find herself' in a small coastal town. Her landlord is a free spirited older lady, who along with a couple of friends, show Anna how to live a bit more. Anna meets Calvin, the serious and hot detective with his own shadows. Calvin needs to overcome Anna's resistance to getting involved. Anna's ex-fiance shows up to stir up trouble and there's an overarching mystery in the background to add a bit of drama.

Nothing relatively new here and both the ex and the mystery don't add too much excitement to the story. Overall and enjoyable read but nothing too earth shattering or novel here.

This was so good. I couldn’t put the book down. After getting out of a relationship Anna is ready to just move on and start all over. But then she meets Calvin. Will they be able to survive and overcome their past hurts. Anna was funny and I couldn’t help but fall in love with her. Then Calvin I couldn’t help but root for him too!!!

5 star

I was pulled right into this story. The story has laughs, sweet love, suspense, and secrets.

Before reading this story please read the below books first
Catching Him (How to Catch an Alpha #1)
Baiting Him (How to Catch an Alpha #2)

This is Anna and Calvin’s story. Anna left her life behind and moved to town. Now she is working at a bakery and enjoying life. Calvin meets Anna when he pulls over her friend. He is smitten and pursues her. But she is trying to keep her distance. With all the people in the small town she has no chance of that. Once it gets out who she is her family and her ex come for her. But she is not leaving. She fell for Calvin and is determined to stay in the town with the people who care for her. Can she or will danger from Calvin’s job make her want to leave? Or will they fight for a future together?

I loved these characters and the side characters. I felt I could connect with the characters and the story was a great read.

I highly recommend this book and can’t wait for the next story from this author.

I really loved this book!!!!! Aurora Rose Reynolds books are always great!! Never can go wrong with her books.

A quick, fun and sexy story.

➵ Heroine: Anna McAlister left a life of luxury, her tepid engagement, family and friends in Chicago and moved to small town meaning to start over and find herself. She doesn’t want a relationship but never expected the gorgeous detective who’s determined to woo her.

➵ Hero: Calvin Miller just wants to fight crime and keep old ladies from causing car accidents. He didn’t anticipate whirlwind Anna would catch his heart hook, line and sinker. But trying to balance his career and a love life that has some unforeseen added drama is a bit challenging.

➵ Plot: This is a pretty straight forward plotline, Anna and Calvin find each other attractive in more ways than one but their lives present obstacles they need to figure out, which they do together. This was my first Aurora Rose book and hopefully it won't be the last. That said, I jumped in the middle of this series without getting that feeling that I was missing something, which is a definite plus.

➵ Feels: This was a quick and easy to read story. It had lots of cute and fun moments between the main characters as well as some very charming old ladies, a dog and return characters from past books.

➵ Sexiness: There were definitely very steamy moments.

➵ Facts: Hooking Him is book #3 of the How to Catch and Alpha series by Aurora Rose Reynolds. It is a stand alone, contemporary romance told from both points of view with a happy ending.

Hooking Him is seductive, captivating, and sensual all in one. Aurora is one of my top 10 authors who I can never get tied of. This book is phenomenal and amazing.

Hooking Him is book 3 in the "How to Catch an Alpha" series by Aurora Rose Reynolds. This is a standalone read that is told in a dual POV. I do recommend reading the previous books in the series.
Calvin and Anna are simply amazing! The chemistry between them literally sparks off the pages. The story is written perfectly with the right amount of sweetness, romance, heat, feels and then added in to keep the readers enthralled - intrigue, suspense and mystery. Loved it!!!
Anna is a sweetheart- has been hurt in the past but doesn't let that keep her down. We see she has some moments ... but oh she's got a great character. Sweet, hardworking, and sassy. Calvin is a police detective who is oh so alpha (swoon). He is very hardworking as well, dedicated to his job yet the moment he sees Anna- insta love goodness 😍. The secondary characters add to the story, making this a phenomenal read by Aurora Rose Reynolds. I hope maybe there will be a spin-off of this series and we'll see these characters again. Calvin and Anna are my favorite, with his swoony Alpha goodness and Anna's sassiness. This is a must read.

My Rating: 4.8 stars ***********

Anna McAlister has left Chicago, her ex, parents, and everything else behind her for a new start. She hopes she finds that in a small little town. Not looking for romance as a lot of stories go, she of course is attracted to a detective Calvin Miller. He is also not looking for a relationship, but as always, they find each other. Just as it looks like maybe something could happen between these two, he is having to work a string of murders and she has to deal with her past.
When you begin this book the relationship between Anna and the golden girls really adds to this story. In the opening, you get a full taste of it when they are on there way to bingo and are not going to make it. Of course, Anna and Calvin meet and he in not so many words calls her a dog or makes reference to a dog, which as a male you do not make those statements around a female at any age, I was taught this at a very young age. Calvin not so much. He is scolded soon when he arrives home by his mother who has of course heard about it and has told him he will apologize to Anna. He does so the next day but again even the apology does not go well for him either hence what you have is two people who get under each other’s skin and you the reader is waiting for when they will get under the sheets.
A very good book with good characters and I really liked the golden girls who really added to the story. Her parents were not really parents but were needed for the story. Of course, the two lead characters were good as well. A book that is very much worth your time.

What a super sweet perfect summer read! Head to the beach with this one and find a woman ready to find herself, a broody hero and a riot of small town characters. This story brings humor, steam and a bit of suspense and it is all rolled up in a slow burn romance.

Anna gets all the props here. She has had an elite upbringing with very little affection from her parents. She pulls up her bootstraps and decided she is a better person than that. She leaves the sheshe folks behind and moves across country to find out who she wants to be. She develops some great friendships. Gains the Golden Girls of sudo parent/grandparents, and falls in love with the most eligible bachelor in town.

Perfect read when you want to get away from it all. Loved it!