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Book Review: Redemption Bay by RaeAnne Thayne

June 23, 2019

This is a prime example of why white authors shouldn't write characters of color. For the most part, Redemption Bay is your typical small town contemporary romance. Everything is cutesy and heartwarming and cheerful. Except for the absolutely ...

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Book Review: The Devil to Pay by K.C. Bateman

June 9, 2019

Reading this book gave me the same level of breezy enjoyment I have when watching an old Errol Flynn swashbuckler. The story was smart, snappy, and full of action. The Devil to Pay was an absolute pleasure to read from beginning to end.

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Book Review: Appetites & Vices by Felicia Grossman

February 5, 2019

Appetites & Vices is a necessary addition to a genre that is often unwilling to diversify. The mechanics of this book are not quite as well-oiled as they should be, and that is why my rating is low. I won't up-rate a story just because the idea ...

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Book Review: My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren

January 3, 2019

I am very conflicted. I've never read a book by Christina Lauren before. Honestly, I was blown away and enchanted by the ease of the authors' prose and how refreshing their characters were. This was a book that was a pleasure to read, and that's ...

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Book Review: Hot For His Girl by Rachel Blaufeld

December 31, 2018

This is a romance with blogging as its schtick. Both the heroine, Andi, and the hero, Reid, are bloggers. Reid runs a pretty typical food blog, but Andi runs an anonymous blog whose sole purpose is to trash-talk other bloggers. Hot For His Girl ...

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Book Review: Breathless by Laura Lee Guhrke

December 29, 2018

Breathless (by the author of one of my favorite romances of all time, Conor's Way) is a book that really highlights how only some women are permitted to find Happily Ever After. While nobody is doubting that a heroine galvanizing the morally ...

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