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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.
September 20, 2022

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

KaetrinA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsbisexual / boy band / Christmas / Contemporary / fat heroine / mental health / Movies / NetGalley / porn / queer / romantic comedy / sex worker9 Comments

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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 >

November 8, 2021

REVIEW: Resting Beach Face (PARADISE BAY SERIES Book 4) by Melanie Summers

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsaccountant / Alternate POV / beta hero / dancer heroine / family relationships / First-Person / friends-to-lovers / Paradise Bay Series / romantic comedy / second chances5 Comments

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Melanie Summers welcomes you back to Paradise Bay for a ridiculously romantic, laugh-out-loud tale of reluctant homecomings, lost loves, and second chances… Yoga instructor, Hadley Jones, has loved Chase Williams since high school. Fifteen years later, she still does. And while he hasn’t popped the question yet, she knows it’s ... more >

Cityscape in a cartoon style with a bright coloured sunset sky, the title is done in skywriting with a plane flying off after the loop of the g in Dating.
September 17, 2018

REVIEW: Josh & Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / friends-to-lovers / romantic comedy / slow burn6 Comments

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Dear Christina Lauren, I had so much fun reading this book! And most of that fun was Hazel Camille Bradford. I’m a hero-centric reader but Hazel was just so awesome that she jumped off the pages and right into my  heart. There were many great things about Josh, don’t get ... more >

May 31, 2018

REVIEW: Robby Riverton: Mail Order Bride by Eli Easton

SiriusB Reviews / B Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviewsm/m historical romance / romantic comedy6 Comments

Blurb: Being a fugitive in the old west shouldn’t be this much fun. The year is 1860. Robby Riverton is a rising star on the New York stage. But he witnesses a murder by a famous crime boss and is forced to go on the run–all the way to Santa ... more >

February 18, 2016

REVIEW: An Unlikely Duchess by Mary Balogh

JanineC Reviews / C+ Reviewsarranged-marriage / Duke / historical romance / mistaken-identity / romantic comedy / Traditional Regency19 Comments

Trigger warning: ableist language Dear Ms. Balogh, By my count I’ve read some twenty-five of your traditional regencies, those slim volumes published by Signet between 1985 and 1998. By now, I thought I knew what to expect from those books: fascinating character studies powered by psychological acuity and emotionally charged ... more >

November 11, 2014

Tuesday News: Tim Wu and Matthew Inman on net neutrality, clickbait defined, and the subversive virtues of Jane the Virgin

JanetPublishing Newsclickbait / common carriers / Internet Service Providers / net neutrality / romantic comedy / Telecommunications Act / telenovela / television9 Comments

Tim Wu says Obama’s net neutrality plan is “bold, courageous, and just obvious” – US President Obama made a very strong statement yesterday in favor of net neutrality. Not surprisingly, some Republicans made strongly worded objections to Obama’s support of net neutrality. Specifically, Obama wants Internet Service Providers to be ... more >

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