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Trade Me
Trade Me by Courtney Milan is the first thing I’ve read by Ms. Milan that didn’t work for me. I am an unabashed fan girl of her historical romances and…
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A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong
It’s always fun when a series goes back in time and shares the story of someone with whom you’ve already read a good bit about. The eldest Blackshear brother, Andrew,…
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Full Throttle
It took me two months to read Ms. McCarthy’s Full Throttle. The novel is the seventh in Ms. McCarthy’s Fast Track series, a sequence of books whose appeal has waned…
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When the Marquess Met His Match
I’ve read many historical romances featuring either a social climber or a fortune hunter. Usually these characters are paired with their opposite; the social climber falls in love with someone…
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Rumor Has It
I’ve read all of Ms. Shalvis’s Animal Magnetism series and her Lucky Harbor series. So, whatever criticisms I have of her latest, it’s clear, on some level, her work is…
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The Ruin of a Rogue
Gertrude Stein famously wrote “a rose is a rose is a rose.” The plot in Ms. Neville’s latest in her The Wild Quartet series, The Ruin of a Rogue, may…
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It Happened One Midnight
It Happened One Midnight is the eighth book in Ms. Long’s Pennyroyal Green series. The hero is Jonathan Redmond, the youngest of the Redmonds.This fact alone made me consider downgrading…
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Flirting with Disaster
I am a fan of Ruthie Knox’s works. Her books are filled with characters it’s easy to care for, zingy conversations, smoking love scenes, and realistic relational conundrums. Thus I…
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Taste for Trouble
The last Susan Sey book I read, Money Shot (2011) was set on a remote island in Lake Superior and had deadly money laundering villain, pagan ceremonies, and a smokin’…
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Exposed to You
The first chapter of Exposed to You is so wildly erotic and intriguing I’d recommend it to anyone who wants to see how great erotica is written. The rest of…
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The Seduction of Elliot McBride
I, like many readers, was entranced by the first book in Ms. Ashley’s the Mackenziesseries, The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie. Ms. Ashley’s latest entry into the series, The Seduction…
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Under the Mistletoe
Ms. Shalvis’s very brief novella Under the Mistletoe gives fans of her Lucky Harbor series Mia’s story. Mia, the birth daughter of Ford and Tara (the leads in The Sweetest…
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