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    Book Review:: The Lodge | Kayla Olson

    January 2, 2025

    The Lodge by Kayla Olson is a romantic wintertime escape. Set in a Vermont ski resort, it hits the spot for your cozy romance itch in the…

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    Book Review:: Yours Truly | Abby Jimenez

    January 1, 2025

    Do you believe in life after love? Specifically, once your (ex)husband of more than a decade turns out to be sleeping with someone who pretended to be…

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    Reading Diary:: A Discovery of Witches | Deborah Harkness

    December 31, 2024

    My experience with A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness has been different to every other book I’ve read this year, or ever. For this reason, it…

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    Book Review:: All the Missing Pieces | Catherine Cowles

    December 29, 2024

    So, like, romantic suspense is a thing?! If this book is good representation of that, this might be my new favorite genre! Oh my gosh, the mystery,…

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    Book Review:: A Sea of Unspoken Things | Adrienne Young

    December 27, 2024

    We all have secrets. This is the story of a twin trying to discover the secrets her brother was keeping, which may have led to his unexpected…

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    Book Review:: Not in My Book | Katie Holt

    December 24, 2024

    Oh, this is a good one. You want a yummy, rivals-to-lovers modern romance that’ll take your breath away? Grab Not in My Book, a phenomenal debut by…

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    Book Review:: Part of Your World | Abby Jimenez

    December 20, 2024

    There are good contemporary romance novels, and then there are novels like this one that blow the rest of them out of the water. This is the…

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    Book Review:: Better Than Friends | Jill Shalvis

    December 17, 2024

    Better Than Friends by Jill Shalvis has all the ingredients for a real romance banger. Second-chance romance, enemies-to-lovers, (kind of) forbidden romance, mystery, drama, accidents, freakish storms…

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    Emergency Contact | Lauren Layne & Anthony LeDonne

    December 13, 2024

    Listen up people, I’ve found some essential holiday romance reading here for you. Emergency Contact is a hilarious holiday rom-com second chance romance with a planes-trains-and-automobiles style…

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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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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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