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Return to Christmas
Anne Stuart’s Return to Christmas is startlingly sentimental for the author while still–for better and worst–having the hallmarks of her work. I enjoyed it but didn’t love it. It’s December…
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Ninth House
The 1800 freshman matriculated at Yale University are likely a storied bunch. Over 35,000 applied to the famed Ivie–those accepted were likely the rock stars of their high schools with…
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Girl, Forgotten
The first book I read by Karin Slaughter was Pieces of Her. Like our reviewer, I couldn’t put it down and, upon finishing it, I read EVERY SINGLE NOVEL she’s…
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Willed to Wed Him
There was a time when I read lots of category romances… almost all of which were written by the fabulous Sarah Mayberry, none of which were Harlequin Presents. But I…
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The Family Remains
Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns…
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The Last To Vanish
In the latest from Megan Miranda, The Last to Vanish, seven people have vanished in the small North Carolina mountain town of Cutter’s Pass over the past twenty odd years….
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Wolf in the Shadows
Shifter Julia Martel has been spoiled and pampered by all the alpha males around her whose urge to protect her have left her uninformed and vulnerable. Now the Great North…
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A Little Wilder
A Little Wilder is Kane Wilder story, he of the famous Wilder family. (This is the fourth full book of the series and, I suspect, given that each book is…
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Gone Girl
Ten years ago, on June 5th, Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl arrived. It wasn’t Flynn’s first book or even her second—she’d published two unsettling works both of which had sold reasonably…
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The Heir Apparent’s Rejected Mate
I’ve read four of Cate C. Wells books – this one, its predecessor The Tyrant Alpha’s Rejected Mate, Hitting the Wall, and the second book in that series (Stonecut County)…
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The Rockton series
there are mild spoilers for the first six books in this review In 2016, I read our review of City of the Lost by Kelley Armstrong, thought, that looks interesting…
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The Seduction Hypothesis
I read The Seduction Hypothesis when it came out and enjoyed it. It was my first quasi BDSM book that sparkled with humor and I did and do love Dryden’s…
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