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October 17, 2016

REVIEW: You Had Me At Christmas anthology

KaetrinA- Reviews / B Reviews / B+ Reviews / C Reviews / C+ ReviewsAnthology / Christmas / Contemporary / holidays4 Comments

Dear Reader, Sunita and I decided to tag team on this one and divvy up the novellas between us. Kaetrin & Sunita   Play by Karina Bliss Play is book 2 in your Rock Solid series (I have the first book, Rise, on my TBR still). It’s a marriage in ... more >

July 31, 2015

Reading List by Sunita for May and June (Part 2)

SunitaBook ReviewsContemporary romance / novella / Paris / Reading lists / SFF / Small-Town / spaceship / Tang Dynasty5 Comments

Here’s another set of mini-reviews (or mini-musings) from my last couple of months’ worth of reading. A mixed bag in terms of length and genre but not in terms of satisfaction. My whim-driven reading choices are turning out better than I expected!   Thrush Green by Miss Read Despite my love ... more >

May 15, 2015

REVIEW: All for you by Laura Florand

SiriusB- Reviewschocolate series / Contemporary / France5 Comments

Some crushes aren’t meant to be. When her older brother’s best friend left to join the Foreign Legion, eighteen-year-old Célie moved on to make a life for herself as a Paris chocolatier. Now, five years later, the last thing she needs is another man to mess up her happiness. Let ... more >

May 16, 2014

REVIEW: Sun-Kissed by Laura Florand

WillafulB Reviews / B Reviews Category / Recommended ReadsContemporary romance / friends-to-lovers / infertility / older couple / Series9 Comments

Recommended Read

Dear Ms. Florand: Sun-Kissed unites two Florand worlds, that of the “Amour et Chocolat” series and that of the novella Snow-Kissed. (Reviewed here.) I was tickled that it also unites the Hershey-ish character with the Martha Stewart-ish character. In Snow-Kissed, the off-stage Anne Winters represented the Snow Queen — not ... more >

January 19, 2014

REVIEW: The Chocolate Temptation by Laura Florand

WillafulB ReviewsContemporary / culinary / interracial-romance / Paris / workplace-romance18 Comments

Dear Ms. Florand: It’s always fun for me to see what will turn up in a Florand book; I hadn’t seen the cover before I started reading, so the fairy tale allusions here snuck up on me. (Hmmm…. Sarah is working on spun sugar slippers…) But there was another surprise ... more >

September 18, 2013

REVIEW: Snow-Kissed by Laura Florand

WillafulA Reviews / B+ Reviewsangsty / cabin / Christmas / Contemporary / marriage on the rocks / miscarriage / Recommended Reads18 Comments

Sunita Dear Ms. Florand: When you offered me this book for review, you warned me that it might be a bit too angsty for me, given my preferences. And Snow-Kissed was definitely an angsty read. But despite that, I found myself engaged by the characters and the story, and I ... more >

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