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What Janine is Reading (and Seeing at the Theater) in Late 2016

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So Sweet by Rebekah Weatherspoon Kayla Davis is out of work and almost out of money when Adler, her roommate and BFF, tells her about an internet dating service that matches attractive women with wealthy men who are willing to help them financially. Though her first instinct is to say ... more >

JOINT REVIEW: Someone to Love by Mary Balogh

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Back in August, after Someone to Love came up on Twitter, Kaetrin and I decided to review it together. -Janine Janine: Someone to Love, Mary Balogh’s latest historical romance, launches a new and intriguing series. The novel begins with a meeting between Mr. Brumford, solicitor to the late Earl of ... more >

REVIEW: An Unlikely Duchess by Mary Balogh

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Trigger warning: ableist language Dear Ms. Balogh, By my count I’ve read some twenty-five of your traditional regencies, those slim volumes published by Signet between 1985 and 1998. By now, I thought I knew what to expect from those books: fascinating character studies powered by psychological acuity and emotionally charged ... more >

REVIEW: Under the Mistletoe by Mary Balogh

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Dear Ms. Balogh, A Twitter conversation about romance novellas led me to borrow your Christmas anthology Under the Mistletoe from my library after author Cecilia Grant mentioned that the best novella is The Best Gift. @GrowlyCub The Best Gift is the best novella. We’ve talked about this before. @ErinSatie @Liz_Mc2 ... more >

REVIEW: A Counterfeit Betrothal by Mary Balogh

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Dear Ms. Balogh, I’ve long been a fan of your traditional regencies from the 1990s and when one I hadn’t read before was recently reissued in a 2-in-1 edition with your classic The Notorious Rake, I purchased it. A Counterfeit Betrothal contains two romances each of which affects the other. ... more >

REVIEW: Heartless by Mary Balogh

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Dear Ms. Balogh, I’ve been in a reading slump lately and decided to try Heartless, your out of print historical romance from 1995, which has been sitting in my TBR pile for ages, in the hope that it would absorb me. Your older, angstier books are generally reliable in that ... more >

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