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    Book Review:: A Five Letter Word for Love | Amy James

    December 12, 2024

    Let’s get this out of the way up front. This book was rated entirely on *vibes*. Is it perfect? No (and it has more faults than most…

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    Book Review:: Work in Progress | Kat Mackenzie

    November 26, 2024

    A gaggle of (mostly) old ladies traveling around all the hot tourist spots in the UK with a hunky Scottish tour guide: comedy gold with the promise…

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    Book Review:: Adam & Evie’s Matchmaking Tour | Nora Nguyen

    September 20, 2024

    (You’ll have to forgive me for not knowing the way to type the correct characters for the Vietnamese names/words in this review – I wish I did,…

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    Book Review:: Wildfire | Ilona Andrews

    August 7, 2024

    This is the third book in the Hidden Legacy series. If you’ve not read the first two books, please read this review of book one to convince…

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    Book Review:: White Hot | Ilona Andrews

    August 6, 2024

    This is book 2 in the Hidden Legacy series. If you haven’t read book one yet (Burn for Me), peek a few reasons why you should in…

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    Book Reviews:: Burn for Me | Ilona Andrews

    August 5, 2024

    The Hidden Legacy series by Ilona Andrews is one of my favorites of all time. Since the summer of 2022 when I first read these books, I’ve…

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    Book Review:: Summertime Punchline | Betty Corrello

    July 9, 2024

    Many romance novels are almost sickly-sweet, like candy. Bubbly and sunshine-y. You know the ones. Summertime Punchline by Betty Corrello is different. Its humor is drier, its…

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    Book Review:: Thank You for Listening | Julia Whelan

    July 5, 2024

    We know and love Julia Whelan for reading us beautiful stories from authors like Emily Henry, Abby Jimenez, Rachel Hawkins, V.E. Schwab, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and many…

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Emily's bookshelf: read

What the River Knows
The Rule Book
Wild Love
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
The Cheat Sheet
The Rom-Commers
Not in Love
My Not So Perfect Life
First Down
Clean Sweep
Greta & Valdin
The True Love Experiment
Killing Floor
Hate Mail
The Unhoneymooners
This Bird Has Flown
Savor It
Thank You for Listening
This Summer Will Be Different
The Last City


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