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REVIEW: The Fifth Day of Christmas by Betty Neels

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For her own sake she had to back off It hadn’t taken Julia Pennyfeather long to fall in love with Ivo van den Werff But as soon as she met Marcia Jason she realized she had to fall out of love just as quickly. Clearly the other woman had a ... more >

REVIEW: The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory

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Dear Ms. Guillory, I was on the fence about reading The Proposal because of a controversy regarding this interview with you at Bitch Media. The interviewer presented your debut novel as revolutionary because it was “a romance novel written by a Black woman with a Black woman protagonist that was ... more >

REVIEW: Making Sure of Sarah by Betty Neels

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His Cinderella! Plain, innocent Sarah Beckwith is stuck living with her parents, keeping house for them. She has no expectation of ever escaping and finding love…until, in a surprising turn of events, she encounters a gorgeous consultant! Though Dr Litrik ter Breukel is struck by Sarah’s charm at once, he ... more >

REVIEW: Slipper by Hester Velmans

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Her life is the inspiration for the world’s most famous story. Lucinda, a penniless English orphan, is abused and exploited as a cinder-sweep by her aristocratic relatives. On receiving her sole inheritance—a pair of glass-beaded slippers—she runs away to France in pursuit of an officer on whom she has a ... more >

REVIEW x 1: The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

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Dear Ms. Guillory, Roxane Gay’s rave review of your debut novel, a contemporary romance, caught my attention on Goodreads, so when your publicist at Penguin Random House contacted Dear Author to offer us an ARC of The Wedding Date, I jumped on it. Alexa Monroe and Drew Nichols meet cute ... more >

REVIEW: The Mistletoe Kiss by Betty Neels

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“Plain and mousy”—that was how Emmy Foster saw herself. A receptionist in London’s St. Luke’s Hospital, Emmy couldn’t imagine why the very handsome Professor Ruerd ter Mennolt would take an interest in a girl like her. Ruerd couldn’t figure out why, with a beautiful fiancée, he troubled himself with Emmy. ... more >

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