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Illustrated cover with a red background of a white M/F couple, she has longish wavy brown to blonde ombre hair and is wearing a yellow dress and has a colour sleeve of tattoos, he is in a blue jumper (sweater) and an open collared white shirt and is wearing glasses. He's styled geeky. They're embracing and looking at each other.

REVIEW: Two Wrongs Make a Right by Chloe Liese

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Content notes: autism, anxiety, family conflict, gaslighting, emotional abuse Dear Chloe Liese, I have a confession to make. I haven’t read Much Ado About Nothing. I haven’t seen the movie either. Yes, I am a Philistine. Two Wrongs Make a Right is an homage to Much Ado so it’s probably ... more >

Illustrated cover in blue featuing a white couple in a clinch. He has dark longish hair and a beard and she has long wavy blonde hair. They're both big and broad. He's wearing a dark suit and tie and she's in costume wearing something like a pirate outfit with a sword.

REVIEW: Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade

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CW: Death of a parent, abandonment Dear Olivia Dade, Excuse me while I gush. I loved last year’s All The Feels – Ship Wrecked is even better. The book I read immediately prior took me more than two weeks to read. I read Ship Wrecked in two days. From the ... more >

illustrated cover in blue, a night beach scene: rear view of upper back and dark hair of a young white woman with a large brown shoulder bag on her shoulder facing a campfire/bonfire with a white guy witih dark hair on the other side of the fire watching her, he has one hand up behind his neck and the other in his pocket.

REVIEW: Bad Girl Reputation by Elle Kennedy

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CWs: mildly spoilerish so click at your own risk Dear Elle Kennedy, Bad Girl Reputation is the second book in your Avalon Bay series and the follow up to last year’s Good Girl Complex. Readers first met Evan Hartley in Good Girl Complex when his twin brother, Cooper, got his ... more >

Illustrated cover with a white, pink and red Christmas scene of snow covered mountains and Christmas trees with a white couple dressed in snow/winter gear in the foreground. She is fat with long dark hair and red boots and is holding a coffee and he has dark short hair and is wearing a red beanie and a black scarf and holding a script.

REVIEW: A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone

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“…a steamy plus-size holiday rom-com about an adult film star who is semi-accidentally cast as a lead in a family-friendly Christmas movie, and the former bad-boy pop star she falls in love with. Bee Hobbes (aka Bianca Von Honey) has a successful career as a plus-size adult film star. With ... more >

REVIEW: Soul Taken by Patricia Briggs

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CW: graphic violence and torture Dear Patricia Briggs, Soul Taken mostly doesn’t reference the events in Wild Sign and certainly not in a spoilery way. But it’s clear that this book takes place at around the same time as or just after the epilogue in last year’s release. Something that ... more >

Illustrated cover in teal with yellow flowers, two skeleton hands make a heart with the thumb and index finger bones, inside the heart are the figures of a man and a woman leaning against a black headstone, against a pink background

REVIEW: The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen

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Dear Megan Bannen, Mercy Birdsall is an undertaker in Bushong, one of the Federated Islands of Cadmus. Hart Ralston is a Tanrian Marshal, tasked with patrolling Tanria (bear with, me I’ll get to it) to kill “drudges”.  If that seems confusing, well, at first, it is, a bit. The story ... more >

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