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Good As Gold
In Good As Gold, Sarina Bowen gives us another couple in her True North‘s small town Vermont. Matteo Rossi and Lelia Giltmaker have loved each other since they were teens…
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Forever Your Rogue
In the author’s note of her debut novel, Forever Your Rogue, Erin Langston writes: I had been halfheartedly researching an entirely different plot for Forever Your Rogue when I stumbled…
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Homecoming
Toward the end of Kate Morton’s magnificent new novel, Homecoming, she writes: Reading shapes a person. The landscape of books is more real, in some ways, than the one outside…
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Sea of Ruin
Why did I opt to read a pirate ménage à trois romance? I blame Alexis Hall. His review of Sea of Ruin, which may be found here, is so engagingly…
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Wilder at Last
Serena Bell wraps her her Wilder Adventures series with a frenemies to lovers story. This quintet of books, set in the nicest town in Oregon, Rush Creek, features five brothers…
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The Worst Woman in London
I am thrilled to see Julia Bennet again publishing historical romance. Her first two novels, The Madness of Miss Gray and The Ruin of Evangeline Jones, are four star reads…
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Verity
from The New York Times in October 2022: Colleen Hoover has sold more books this year than Dr. Seuss. She’s sold more books than James Patterson and John Grisham —…
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The Dark King
The Dark King, Gina Maxwell’s urban fantasy romance, invokes the rockstar Meatloaf‘s immortal words: “Two out of three ain’t bad.” The novel has a delicious love story, satisfying plot, and…
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The Stolen Heir
Holly Black’s marvelous trilogy The Folk of Air is so damn good that when I heard she was continuing to explore the world of Elfhame, a kingdom of magical islands,…
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Hell Bent
Have you read Ninth House? Because if not–and you’re a loon if you haven’t–this review is a waste of your time. Hell Bent is the second book in Leigh Bardugo’s…
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Flirting with the Beast
In romance novels, the heroine is almost always under thirty. When older women – those over fifty – appear in romance, it’s usually as a secondary character who, if she’s…
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Spells For Forgetting
On Saoirse Island, a rain soaked isle in the Pacific Northwest, a murmuration of starlings portends death and the leaves on the trees may burst into color all at once….
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