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Romance and Sensibility

From First Page To HEA

3 stars, Ex-Military, Genre, Historical, Review

An Affair With A Spare by Shana Galen

July 4, 2018 Leave a Comment

Rating: ★★★| 320 pages | Sourcebooks Casablanca |The Survivors #3 | Historical | 07/02/2018  Rafe Beaumont, a charming and seductive former special ops soldier matches wits with Collette Fortier–a French assassin’s daughter determined to find a set of codes to free her father and start a new life. Rafe and Collette circle each other inRead the Post

4 stars, Contemporary, LGBTQIA, M/M, Review

Off Base By Annabeth Albert

March 29, 2018 Leave a Comment

Rating: ★★★★ | 8 hrs 9 min | Carina Press| M/M Contemporary| 1/09/2017 |Buy Now! Off Base is my first foray into M/M romance. I’ve been wanting to read M/M for awhile and  I’ve been hesitant about non #ownvoices, because the idea of a subgenre that is generally accepted as being, written by straight womenRead the Post

3.5 stars, Contemporary, Genre, Review

Irresistibly Yours by Lauren Layne (Oxford #1)

February 11, 2018 Leave a Comment

Rating:★★★ +.5  | 8 hours 4 minutes  | Loveswept | Contemporary | 10/31/2017 | Buy Now ! Irresistibly Yours is a quintessential New York City romantic comedy! Oxford magazine’s sports section only has room for one editor, so it’s veteran NYC playboy sports writer  Cole Sharpe versus the pint-sized plucky Penelope Pope, whose had to work twiceRead the Post

3.5 stars, Black Romance, Contemporary, Ex-Military, New Adult, Review

Getting Schooled by Christine C Jones

October 13, 2016 Leave a Comment

    Release Date: 01/11/2016 | 173 pages | Indie | The Wright Brothers #1 Last year, Jess told me about the Girl, Have You Read Podcast and I was introduced to  the world of black indie romance– romance novels written by and primarily for black women. I’m ashamed to say I had no idea this corner of Romancelandia existed and afterRead the Post

3.5 stars, Historical, Review

I Kissed A Rogue by Shana Galen

March 29, 2016 Leave a Comment

384 Pages | Casablanca | Historical Romance | 2/22/16 This series will always have a special place on this blog because the first book, Earls Just Want To Have Fun, was the first book I reviewed for this site. I was drawn to Galen’s books because of the fun titles, but what I’ve come to appreciateRead the Post

3 stars, Black Romance, Contemporary, Harlequin Category, Review

Heated Moments by Phyllis Bourne

January 28, 2016 Leave a Comment

I’ve been listening to theGirl, Have You Read podcast and I picked this book up so I could read-along with the ladies. I went into this book not knowing anything about it,  I thought it would be kind of soapy (as categories are want to do) but it’s actually a cute romantic comedy. When modelRead the Post

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