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    Book Review:: Dolly All the Time | Annabel Monaghan

    May 26, 2026

    For all the Monaghan fans waiting for the new Nora Goes Off Script, I present to you: Dolly All the Time. I frigging adore Annabel Monaghan, and…

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    Book Review:: Wild About You | Jo Lovett

    May 18, 2026

    Second chance romance just has a little something extra — am I right? Flavia and Dominic grew up together, and their family’s remain close friends. That didn’t…

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    Book Review:: Stranger Things Have Happened | Kasie West

    May 12, 2026

    Kasie West’s books almost have that 90s rom-com feel. The situational, emotionally stunted but slowly falling anyway, long-story kind of feel. The kind that so many others…

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    Book Review:: And Now, Back to You | B.K. Borison

    May 8, 2026

    I remember when B.K. Borison announced her deal for the Heartstrings series on social media: a series based on the 90s rom coms hard-coded into the DNA…

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    Book Review:: Drive Me Crazy | Lizzy Dent

    May 6, 2026

    Buckle in, chappies, we’re going racing! We all know I’m a sucker for romance, and racing, so a romance with a backdrop of racing should be my…

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    Book Review:: How the Story Goes | Andrew Forrester

    May 5, 2026

    What happens when an author dies before finishing a beloved series? *ahem, Martin* In the case of an uproariously popular children’s fantasy series by Helen Longacre, she…

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    Book Review:: The Bodyguard Affair | Amy Lea

    May 4, 2026

    Ah, good ol’ rom-com territory for the first time in awhile! The Bodyguard Affair by Amy Lea is an engaging, spicy, and always moving forward. The premise…

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    Book Review:: Seeing Other People | Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka

    April 23, 2026

    Even though the premise of this book is clear from the title, the cover, and whatever the blurb says (which you all know by now I almost…

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    Book Review:: Maybe It’s Fate | Heidi McLaughlin

    April 7, 2026

    Oh, how I adored every single minute of this book, with tears in my eyes the entire time. My heart was in my hands through the whole…

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    Book Review:: The Re-Do List | Denise Williams

    January 23, 2026

    Willow is broken and broken-hearted as her brother ships off on deployment, but he leaves his best friend Deacon behind with instructions to look out for her…

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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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