book-review
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Book Review: Hooked Never After #1 by Emily McIntinre
This is a dark reimaging of Peter Pan, in which the magic is transformed into something toxic. Readers should be warned about these triggers before reading about captivity, torture, dubious consent, sexual acts with firearms and other implements, and explicit murder scenes. Continue reading
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Book review: Christmas with the Billionaire by Lila Monroe
This Christmas novella is a quick, sexy, and fun read written in alternate POVs between the two main characters: Jill Simon, a struggling actress looking for a big break that will land her on Broadway, and Oliver Gage, a big-shot producer who barely lifts an eyebrow during auditions yet still manages to crush dreams. Continue reading
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Book review: Snowed In with the Billionaire by Lila Monroe
This Christmas novella is a quick, sexy, and fun read. Monroe writes in the first person through the female character Paige Bartlett, a party planner who’s decided to launch her company. Her first big client is an ex-rock star turned music executive, Ace Carmichael. The party is at his Aspen chalet, but an unexpected blizzard… Continue reading
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Book review: Beyond the Highland Mist Highlander #1 by Karen Marie Moning
In this historical romance, Moning introduces readers to Adrienne de Simonne, a woman from 1997 who’s been burned by her ex-financé and has sworn off beautiful men as a result, and Sidheach James Lyon Douglas, Third Earl of Dalkeith, also known as The Hawk, a legendary predator of the battlefield and boudoir, no woman of… Continue reading
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Book review: A Shoe Addict’s Christmas by Beth Harbison
This whimsical Christmas chick-lit is a cross between retellings of It’s a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol. Fans of Nancy Thayer or Donna Van Lière would surely enjoy this book. Continue reading
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Book review The Mistletoe Promise by Richard Paul Evans
This is a quick holiday read with some heavy content warning about child abuse, trauma, and, to some extent, body issue bullying. Elise is a bitter divorcé, dreading another holiday season and dealing with her ex-husband and his antiques. Nicholas is a lawyer trying to impress his bosses at the firm, who need a date… Continue reading
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Book Review Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch
This YA contemporary romance is a quick read due to the author’s easy writing style and beautiful voice. The main character is a Lina a young girl who lost her mother and is fulfilling her dying / living wish to visit Italy. Continue reading
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Book Review: Part of Your World #1 by Abby Jimenez
Author Abby Jimenez brings to light the fight, flight, freeze, and fawn phenomena in this age-gap romance, which can trigger readers who have suffered long-term emotional abuse. In this book, we meet thirty-seven-year-old Dr. Alexis Montgomery and twenty-eight-year-old carpenter Daniel Grant as the main characters. Jimenez couldn’t have picked two more polar opposites if she… Continue reading
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Book Review: A Court of Thorn and Roses by Sarah J. Mass
This YA romance fantasy novel and a poor attempt at retelling Beauty and the Beast generated a lot of hyper over the years. Continue reading
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Book Review Chosen Wolf: The Marked Wolf #2 by Jen L. Grey
In this second book of the paranormal fated mate romance series, Emma and Aidan solidified their bond and, by doing so, unleashed a curse or prophecy. Depending on whose side you stand. Emma is a hybrid shifter witch with a secret society of wolves hunting her because she’s the marked one and will bring about… Continue reading
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