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Kiss & Collide
by Amanda WeaverSeries: Racing Hearts #2
Published by Zando – Slowburn on August 5, 2025
SubGenres: New Adult Romance
Format: ARC
Pages: 319
Source: the publisher
Audience: 18+/Adult
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Love is a rush . . . can this enemies-to-lovers couple match-up handle the ride? Fall into the sexy and fun world of Formula One in book two of the spicy new adult series Racing Hearts.
He breaks all her rules . . .
Fast-talking, red-lipstick-wearing Violet Harper isn’t looking for love, or anything that takes her out of the driver’s seat. She has an all-star career in PR, hook-ups all over the world, and the last thing she needs is to catch feelings for a man. But all her rules are thrown into question after an intensely hot one-night stand with the freewheeling Formula One driver Chase Navarro. After taking a new job with an underdog racing team, Violet discovers that Chase is their newest driver. Violet swears she won’t lose her heart to someone so charming and irritatingly sweet, but he does have the perfect face to promote their team . . .
She drives him wild . . .
All Chase wants is to drive racecars as fast and hard as he can. But he can’t stop fantasizing about the night he spent with Violet, and that’s a distraction he doesn’t need. But as Chase dreams of racing onto his first podium, Violet forces him in front of the camera, determined to make him the new star of Formula One. Which means a lot more late nights with the gorgeous and infuriating Violet.
As the two team up, old flirtations flare, and their chemistry collides. With both their careers on the line, will Violet pull the brakes on their attraction or finally let love go full throttle?
Enemies to Lovers He Falls First Friends with Benefits Opposites Attract Stuck Together Work Colleagues Reverse Grumpy/Sunshine
Kiss & Collide is the second installment in Amanda Weaver’s Racing Hearts series. This series has become a favorite since picking up the first book, Fast and Reckless, last year. I haven’t read many Formula One Romance series in the last several years, but thanks to Amanda Weaver, I need to read more of them. I especially need to go back to watching the races since I used to when I was much younger. I loved how Amanda Weaver not only had a romantic storyline that was the main focus of this book, but also included the moments of the MMC driving in races and what he was feeling at the time. I felt like I was there with Chase while he was racing, especially since he was finally living his dream of being an F1 driver.
Let’s focus on the main characters, though, and how Violet and Chase, who were enemies at first, become so much more when they are forced to work together. Chase has moved from F2 to F1 and is now working with Pinnacle, and the one person he never expects to run into is Violet Harper. The woman he hasn’t stopped thinking about since their ONS. Violet doesn’t do relationships and has no time for a man like Chase, but unfortunately, he’s not someone who gives up easily. The more they work together, the more fireworks fly between the two, but they keep it secret and casual at first. The back and forth that happens between Chase and Violet is not an easy story to read, especially when you want to go through the book and talk some sense into one of the characters the whole time. I’m talking about you, Violet?
This book put me through the wringer. There were times I had to set the book down and go back to it due to a certain character’s actions. There was a lot of: What are you doing? Go get that young man, dang it? He loves you, can’t you see it? Yeah, that’s what I kept saying the whole time reading Violet and Chase’s story. I understood why Violet was hesitant to give her heart over, though with her past relationship she had with a rockstar, who ends up showing up several times. Then, there is the fact that Violet is trying to push Chase away by doing something crazy, in my opinion. Chase, though, was determined when it came to Violet and wasn’t willing to give up on her, even though at times I felt he should just step back a bit with how she was treating him. I loved his character and knew right away at the beginning, he was going to be the MMC that was hard to forget. It was frustrating at times, reminding me of the soap operas I used to watch with my mom when I was younger, which were just too addicting to turn away from. You needed to know if the characters would finally get together. It takes a bit, but it’s worth it in the end, especially with the drama that happens that involves Pinnacle, too.
Seriously, Amanda Weaver, you know how to make my heart race when I read the Racing Hearts series. It’s ironic since the series is a Formula One Racing Romance. Kiss & Collide to me is a high-stakes, fast-paced, emotional roller coaster ride that brings the steam, angst, and so much more when I was reading it. Overall, a great installment in the series, and I give it 4.5 stars. I really hope we get another book in the series because I need more Formula One Racing Romance books in my life.
Single/Dual POV: Third-Person Omniscient POV
Standalone or Part of Series: It’s an interconnected standalone in the Racing Hearts series, which means it can be read as a standalone.
Would I recommend this book? Yes. If you enjoy Formula One Racing Romance books where the MMC falls first and is determined to win over the FMC, check out Kiss & Collide.
What to Expect:
🏎️Formula One Racing
🏁Workplace Romance
🏎️Enemies to Lovers
🏁Friends with Benefits
🏎️He Falls First
🏁Grumpy vs. Sunshine (FMC is the Grumpy One)
🏎️Opposites Attract
About Amanda Weaver
Amanda has loved romance since she read that very first Kathleen E. Woodiwiss novel at fifteen. After a long detour into a career as a costume designer in theatre, she’s found her way back to romance, this time as a writer.
A native Floridian, Amanda transplanted to New York City many years ago and now considers Brooklyn home, along with her husband, daughter, two cats, and nowhere near enough space.
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