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Book Reviews

Book Review: Hurts to Love You by Alisha Rai

Being completely honest, Hurts to Love You wasn’t as good as the first two. Major plot threads needed to be wrapped up, and the entire story takes place as Livvy and Nicholas’s wedding gets underway. Not even counting the love story, there is a ...
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Book Review: Wrong to Need You by Alisha Rai

Wrong to Need You is a friends-to-lovers romance featuring a sexy bisexual Pakistani bartender widow/single-mom and her dead husband’s Japanese/Hawaiian, super-introverted and super-muscly younger brother, AKA her best friend since ...
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Book Review: Day Dreamer by Jill Marie Landis

Day Dreamer isn’t a book that stands up well to the test of time. Honestly, I found this 1996 publication rather more upsetting than any number of Old School “bodice rippers” I’ve had the chance to sample. Just saying. The whole time I was ...
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Book Review: Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai

The corner of Romancelandia I tend to stay in has rarely embraced a book or author so unanimously as it has Alisha Rai and all of her Forbidden Hearts trilogy—but especially the first book, Hate to Want You. And, I must admit, even as an ...
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Book Review: The Proposition by Judith Ivory

If you’re interested in a cute, teacher/student romance featuring ferrets and waltzes, or if you’re curious how the daughter of a marquess and a ratcatcher could possibly find their HEA, look no further. The Proposition is sweet and surprising ...
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Book Review: A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert

Talia Hibbert’s A Girl Like Her turned me into a pile of feelsy goop. This book was absolute perfection, and then some. It’s by far the best book I’ve read so far this year. Like, seriously. Any contemporary romance I read for the rest of 2018 ...
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