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Keepsake

I wanted to love this book. I’ve liked the other two books in the series despite my normal “eh” response to most New Adult. I’ve liked the hero, Zach, in…

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Too Deep for Tears Trilogy

The three reviews of the books in this trilogy made me want to take a week off from life and read these books. Here’s the link to all three…

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The Trespasser

In early summer of 2007, I picked up a mystery at the Regulator Bookshop. The cover was mildly menacing, black letters embellished with sharp pointed green branches spelled out Tana French In the Woods. From the…

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The Invisible Circus

Jennifer Egan’s a storied writer. She won the Pulitzer and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2011 for Welcome to the Goon Squad. Her writings appear regularly in the…

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Marrying Winterborne

Marrying Winterborne the second book in Lisa Kleypas’s dearly anticipated Ravenels series, begins with Lady Helen Ravenel calling on Rhys Winterborne, a man to whom she was briefly engaged. As…

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The Slow Burn of Silence

When does something begin and end? The ripples from a stone cast into a pond, do they start with the smoothness of the pebble that first attracts the eye, the…

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Edge of Obsession

I began the book the evening I downloaded it and stayed up until after one, unable to put it down until I got to its end. Yes. I read Edge…

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A Court of Thorns and Roses

Dabney: Haley picked Sarah Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses for her best Romance Novel of 2015. Here’s what she said about the book: This is a retelling of Beauty…

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Loud Is How I Love You

Don’t fuck anyone in the band.This is rule number one of being in a band, and it’s especially true when you’re the only girl. Which means whatever I’m doing with…

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Cold-Hearted Rake

From 1998 through 2010, Lisa Kleypas published almost thirty historical romances. Her most recent historical, Love in the Afternoon, told the story of the last of the Hathaway siblings. Since then,…

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The Legend of Lyon Redmond

On page seven of Julie Anne Long’s The Perils of Pleasure, published in 2008, is this: For ’tis said an Eversea and a Redmond are destined to break each other’s hearts once…

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Luck Be a Lady

Welcome to our Pandora’s Box on Meredith Duran’s Luck Be a Lady. They call her the “Ice Queen.” Catherine Everleigh is London’s loveliest heiress, but a bitter lesson in heartbreak…

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