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Shoot Your Shot

Roxie Nowak is a former basketball player, with a great job in tech and her own swanky place. She doesn’t date, because what’s the point? Men always want someone petite,…

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The Hunter

Tana French’s latest work, The Hunter, yet again solidifies her reign as the queen of literary mysteries. Set in the west of Ireland, it’s the story of a (somewhat) stranger…

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Listen for the Lie

Five years ago, in the gleefully gossipy small town of Plumpton, Texas, Lucy Chase wandered out of the woods, covered in blood, unable to recall who killed her best friend…

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Compass and Blade

This world of sea and storm runs deep with bargains and blood. On the remote isle of Rosevear, Mira, like her mother before her, is a wrecker, one of the…

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The Woman on the Ledge

The Woman on the Ledge is a story where, for the first half of the book, you know the narrator is lying–she tells you so–but you don’t know why. It’s…

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The Duchess Takes a Lover

This novella takes readers on a journey through the rocky marriage of Mara and Ambrose, Duke and Duchess of Southwick. With a fair amount of old-school storytelling and plenty of…

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Never Blow a Kiss

Romance readers are a varied lot. We love all sorts of genres, leads, heat, and more. One person’s romp is another’s slog. I was in the middle of this book…

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Heat

Recently, while stuck on a plane for too many hours, I decided to reread Heat. Back in the day, I loved Smith’s complex, morally batshit books. Three of her works,…

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The Maid

In Nita Prose’s The Maid, we are given a first-person narrator in Molly—the Maid herself. Molly, a presumably neurodivergent young woman, finds her sole joy in working as a housemaid…

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First Lie Wins

In the realm of storytelling, every now and then, a book emerges wielding a narrator so specific and wildly entertaining that all one wants to do is shut out the…

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Hate Me Under the Mistletoe

Look, I’m all in for a good time. Who doesn’t adore a fun holiday romance? But this one, while sporadically amusing and occasionally sizzling, dissipates into the realm of insubstantiality…

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The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon’s latest work is my favorite book of 2023. This whopper of a novel delicately peels back the layers of history to reveal the intricate struggles and enduring resilience…

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