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    Book Review:: Only in Your Dreams | Ellie K. Wilde

    January 21, 2025

    As you may know, timing is everything from love to war, and Melody and Zac never had theirs right. They met in high school, growing close as…

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    Book Review:: Still Beating | Jennifer Hartmann

    January 19, 2025

    This is the kind of book trigger warnings are meant for. This one has some brutal stuff in it, and if you can get through the first…

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    Book Review:: Where the Black Line Ends | Meagan Williamson

    January 18, 2025

    Where do I start with this one? I went through most of this book expecting it to fall firmly into three-star territory. But then I finished it.…

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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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    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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    Book Review:: Mistletoe & Mr. Right | Sarah Morgenthaler

    November 29, 2024

    Moose Springs is a magical place of hearty hometown comfort, constant hilarious (and sometimes nefarious) antics, and the kind of romance that will melt your heart into…

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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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