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This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews
I was thinking that I was going to be kicked out of the Romantasy Reader’s Club if I confessed that This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me, the first book in…
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Penny For Your Thoughts by Nicky James
This fifth – and final – book in Nicky James’ Shadowy Solutions series finds Diem and Tallus investigating a crime that strikes a bit close to home when they’re asked…
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Day Dreamer by Jill Marie Landis
this review was originally published on June 1, 1996 Don’t let the title of this book fool you – Day Dreamer is not a dreamy sort of read. Instead, it…
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No Matter What by Cara Bastone
Set in Brooklyn, No Matter What is a gorgeous, heartbreaking second chance, marriage-in-trouble romance between Vin and Roz, good people who have lost their connection. As the book begins, Roz…
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My Antonia by Willa Cather
Somehow I’d never read Willa Cather’s My Ántonia. Fortunately, it was my read and be happy book club’s choice this month. Now I know why the book is so famous:…
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Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
Liane Moriarty’s Here One Moment opens with a terrific premise. After an irksome delay on a flight from Hobart to Sydney, a middle-aged woman rises from her seat, walks the…
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The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
(originally published on December 25, 2019) Despite being a family of non-believers, every year we pull out our holiday paraphernalia. We dress the tree, hanging with care the delicate glass…
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The Everlasting
The Everlasting begins where it ends: beneath a yew tree. Its first chapter, The First Death of Una Everlasting, reads like a eulogy written for a nation’s best. We’re told…
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We Are All Guilty Here
Karin Slaughter’s We Are All Guilty Here opens with a disappearance. Two teenage girls vanish during a Fourth of July celebration in North Falls, Georgia—a town that prides itself on…
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The Art of the Lie
Set in the ruthless, chaotic heart of 1749 London, this historical thriller is a masterclass in deception, survival, and the art of the long con. Hannah Cole, newly widowed and…
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Wild Dark Shore
Emily Dickinson wrote that hope was the thing with feathers. After reading Charlotte McConaghy’s phenomenal Wild Dark Shore, it seems to me that hope is a seed. I confess that,…
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Scotch on the Rocks
I love this book. It’s sexy, very funny, moving, grounded in its sense of place, and just—well—yummy. It’s easily the best contemporary romance I’ve read this year. Callum Macabe met…
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