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REVIEW x3: The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

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Dear Helen Hoang, I loved The Kiss Quotient last year and was very excited to read your follow up, The Bride Test. Set in the same world as the earlier novel, The Bride Test is a Cinderella story featuring Diep Khai and Tran Ngoc My (who takes the name Esmeralda/Esme ... more >

REVIEW x 2: The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

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Dear Ms. Hoang, As I enjoyed The Kiss Quotient, I was eager to read your follow-up contemporary romance, The Bride Test (It is not necessary to read The Kiss Quotient first; The Bride Test stands on its own).

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REVIEW: Reverb by Anna Zabo

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Dear Anna Zabo, I have a number your books on my TBR but this one is the first I’ve read. It definitely won’t be the last. Reverb is the third book in the Twisted Wishes series (named after the rock band to at least one of the main characters in ... more >

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REVIEW: A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole

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Dear Alyssa Cole, Once again you have been blessed by the cover gods. But better than that, the inside of the book lives up to the promise of that beautiful cover. A Prince on Paper was lovely.  I’m generally a hero-centric reader. And I did love Johan. But the star ... more >

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REVIEW: Their Discovery by Rebecca Grace Allen

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Dear Rebecca Grace Allen, I have enjoyed the previous two books in the Legally Bound series, His Contract and Her Claim and I was especially looking forward to Their Discovery because I knew it would feature FemDom which, yay! It’s also a marriage-in-trouble story which I have just realised might ... more >

REVIEW: The Austen Playbook by Lucy Parker

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Dear Lucy Parker, The latest in your London Celebrities series, The Austen Playbook, is another charming delight, featuring an icy, cynical Slytherin hero and an easygoing open-hearted Hufflepuff heroine, each dealing with their own family dramas – which somehow collide together into a spectacular mess and, ultimately of course, a ... more >

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