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    Book Review:: The Spirit of Love | Lauren Kate

    July 1, 2025

    A vacation fling, a workplace rival, two very different love connections. The Spirit of Love is a new novel by Lauren Kate that will have you leaning…

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    Book Review:: Let’s Make A Scene | Laura Wood

    June 30, 2025

    A novel about movie stars fake dating…twice? Color me intrigued. I had high hopes for Laura Wood’s new book Let’s Make A Scene. Unfortunately, for me, the…

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    Book Review:: The Summer You Were Mine | Jill Francis

    June 29, 2025

    Second chances, autism representation, sports-y, and the idyllic backdrop of an Italian summer? Count me in. Jill Francis’ The Summer You Were Mine just might be the…

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    Book Review:: First-Time Caller | BK Borison

    June 28, 2025

    When I heard BK Borison was coming out with a new series based on all of our favorite Nora Ephron Rom-Com movies of the 90s I was…

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    Book Review:: Sunburned | Katherine Wood

    June 26, 2025

    Actions have consequences, and the law doesn’t care about good intentions. Sunburned is a brand-new novel that will have you glued to the pages as a high-stakes…

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    Book Review:: The Accidental Favorite | Fran Littlewood

    June 24, 2025

    A tree falls in the woods, and all three of your adult children are standing beneath it. You dive forward to remove one from danger, but the…

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    Book Review:: The Four Engagement Rings of Sybil Rain | Hannah Brown

    June 23, 2025

    I admit I was expecting a lot less from The Four Engagement Rings of Sybil Rain. The premise is fairly high concept, and I thought it would…

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    Book Review:: Finders Keepers | Sarah Adler

    June 22, 2025

    Welcome home to your parent’s house, Nina Hunnicutt! That’s where catching your long-term boyfriend with someone else just as they’re supposed to be moving in together will…

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    Book Review:: People We Meet on Vacation | Emily Henry

    June 21, 2025

    How is everyone sleeping on People We Meet on Vacation?! This is the last book on Emily Henry’s backlist for me to read and you know what?…

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    Book Review:: The Love Fix | Jill Shalvis

    June 20, 2025

    You can’t escape your past by running away from it. At least, not in fiction! After the death of her mother, Lexi has to return to a…

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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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