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REVIEW: The Ninety-Ninth Bride by Catherine Faris King

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Dear Catherine Faris King: We should all know the story of Scheherazade, right? It’s the frame story of the Arabian Nights, and famous enough in its own right. Once there was a murderous king, who, after he finds his first wife to be unfaithful, marries dozens of women, murdering every ... more >

Teal blue cover with dark-haired cartoon style couple standing on top of a square root sign. The woman in the couple is wearing a black pencil skirt and heels and a pink top and is embracing the man, who is wearing a white shirt and blue pants

Review x 2: The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

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Dear Ms. Hoang, There’s been a lot of pre-publication buzz about your debut, The Kiss Quotient, and it sounded interesting and different, so I requested an ARC from the publisher. Stella Lane, a wealthy econometrician with Asperger’s, has struggled with her past romantic experiences. Sex has never gone well for ... more >

Teal blue cover with dark-haired cartoon style couple standing on top of a square root sign. The woman in the couple is wearing a black pencil skirt and heels and a pink top and is embracing the man, who is wearing a white shirt and blue pants

REVIEW: The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

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Dear Helen Hoang, I have been keen to read The Kiss Quotient ever since I first read the blurb: Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases–a job that has given her more money than she knows ... more >

Picture of a black woman with short dark hair with her arms around the neck of a taller white man with brown hair. He has his arms around her waist. They are both topless but the middle bit is a bit blurred and the book title in pink is there too so it's the suggestion of naked rather than anything explicit.

REVIEW: A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert

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Dear Talia Hibbert, I can barely contain my squee I loved this book so much. I think I nearly wore out the highlight function on my ereader while reading and it was difficult to pick which quotes to put in this review. I wanted to use ALL of them. TL;DR ... more >

REVIEW: Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman

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Dear Ms. Glassman, Not too long ago, I got into a Twitter discussion in which I mentioned my worry that reading closed bedroom door romances was a means to learning how to write courtship, and now that those romances are no longer available to readers who don’t care for inspies, ... more >

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