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Audiobook Review: Instant Gratification by Lauren Blakely

November 17, 2020 Leave a Comment

I’ve been listening to the Audibly Addicted podcast and they talk a lot about duet narration audiobooks–where narrators read all the dialogue assigned to their character. This is relatively new to me and seems to be a popular narration style in the indie romance world. Lauren Blakley takes this to a whole new level withRead the Post

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F/F Romance Mini Reviews

October 21, 2020 Leave a Comment

Something To Talk About by Meryl Wilsner This debut tells the slo-o-o-o-w burn romance between a Chinese-American showrunner in her 40s and her younger assistant. A Hollywood workplace romance with this kind of power dynamic may sound cringe but Wilsner navigates it effectively. Still, I could never fully engage with this one. I found theRead the Post

3.5 stars, Black Romance, Contemporary, Harlequin Category, Review, Royalty

Audiobook Review: Delaney’s Desert Sheikh by Brenda Jackson

October 17, 2020 Leave a Comment

This is the first book in Jackson’s sprawling Westmoreland series and, even though it debuted in 2002, be warned it has some extremely dated and problematic elements. Namely… the sheikh thing. I do think Jackson handles the sheikh element somewhat deftly. The titular sheikh is of mixed ethnicity from a fictional Arabic and African countryRead the Post

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Harlequin Category Mini Reviews!

September 12, 2020 Leave a Comment

I was fortunate enough to wether the beginning of the shutdown working from home and one of the things I did at lunch is read some books in my basket of category romances. Body Check by Elle Kennedy Elle Kennedy is a much-loved author on this blog and this is an interesting library sale findRead the Post

3.5 stars, Historical, Review

Sweetest Scoundrel by Elizabeth Hoyt (Maiden Lane #9)

January 27, 2020 Leave a Comment

Rating:★★★+.5 | 328 pages | Hachette | Historical Fiction| Release Date: 11/24/15 Every year I make a goal to read my shelf and I started off 2020 with Sweetest Scoundrel, a book that has been sitting on my shelf for 5 YEARS! It came in a Fresh Fiction box subscription and I’ve just been holdingRead the Post

3.5 stars, Contemporary, Genre, Review

Scarlet Nights by Jude Deveraux

January 1, 2020 Leave a Comment

A few years ago, when I worked in a corporate office some co-workers in the cubes around me discovered Overdrive and were listening to the Nantucket Brides series by Jude Deveraux. As one of my co-workers was telling me about the plot of the book I was like “Yeah, Jude Deveraux has a ton ofRead the Post