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REVIEW: Beach Read by Emily Henry

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A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens ... more >

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REVIEW: Love Hard by Nalini Singh

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Dear Nalini Singh, Sometimes a book arrives at just the perfect time and that special alchemy that happens between story and reader happens; a combination of great book and the exact right reading mood. That’s what happened here. I admit enemies to lovers isn’t generally my favourite trope. But Jacob ... more >

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REVIEW: The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa

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Dear Mia Sosa, Lina Santos gets stood up on her wedding day by Andrew Hartley. The news of his defection is delivered by the erstwhile best man, his younger brother, Max. According to a text he received from Andrew, something a drunken Max said the night before resonated with him ... more >

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REVIEW: Headliners by Lucy Parker

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NOTE TO READERS: The following review necessarily contains spoilers for the previous book in the London Celebrities series, The Austen Playbook. If you haven’t read it yet, perhaps best to look away now. Dear Lucy Parker, I admit I’m not generally a fan of the enemies-to-lovers trope. It’s not that ... more >

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Janine’s Best of 2019

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I was tempted to make a list of my favorites among the 2019-published books I read this year. In the end I decided to focus on my favorite 2019 reads (first time reads; I didn’t include books I had read / reviewed in prior years) without regard to their year ... more >

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Jayne’s Best of 2019

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This year I didn’t have as many A reads as I did last year but these B+ books are strong ones that almost made it. My list ranges from historical to contemporary, has fiction and non-fiction, and even a picture book of cats. In kinda, sorta chronological order in which ... more >

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