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The Gift by Tiffany Reisz My rating: 3 stars I want to start this by saying this novella is NOT a romance in terms of genre. Romance novels and novellas end with an HEA or HFN wherein the main characters end up together. The Gift is not that. It’s erotica, which I don't read much … Continue reading Book Review: The Gift by Tiffany Reisz
You could never mistake the sound of grief, once you had felt it yourself. It made the mettle of the soul ring in sympathy, like one bell softly chiming whenever its neighbor was struck.- The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite
It's Tuesday, and here's what I'm currently reading: The Duchess War by Courtney Milan Blurb: A bespectacled wallflower meets a Duke and figures out what he's up to. Has the Duke met his match? I just started reading The Duchess War today. (Despite holiday obligations with family, I still plan to read as much as … Continue reading Currently Reading
Grounded for Christmas by Savannah J. Frierson My rating: 3 of 5 stars Joseph, a commercial airline pilot, and Mary, a STEM heroine(!), “run into each other” on a flight that gets grounded due to bad weather and have to share a place to wait out the storm. (Come on now, you gotta love it.) … Continue reading Book Review: Grounded for Christmas by Savannah J. Frierson
Murder Takes the High Road by Josh Lanyon My rating: 4 of 5 stars You know how sometimes you go back to reading a book, and it’s the right place and right time for you to be reading it? Despite reading the first few pages before November, it wasn’t until after I started my novel … Continue reading Book Review: Murder Takes the High Road by Josh Lanyon
Her Naughty Holiday by Tiffany Reisz My rating: 4 of 5 stars I'm not crazy about the holidays, but I've recently found that I like watching uplifting Christmas themed romance movies a la Hallmark and Netflix and reading holiday romances. (Maybe it's because they help me deal with the sad?) I picked up this holiday … Continue reading Book Review: Her Naughty Holiday (Men at Work, #2) by Tiffany Reisz
Connection Error by Annabeth Albert My rating: 4 of 5 stars Though this isn't the best of Albert's books, I still stayed up way past my bedtime consuming it last night and then proceeded to get no work done today as I instead read this on my Kindle while curled up in a semi-comfortable armchair … Continue reading Book Review: Connection Error (#gaymers, #3) by Annabeth Albert
His Royal Secret by Lilah Pace My rating: 4 of 5 stars Well this was fun. And hot. And well-written. A prince (the Prince of Wales, to be precise) gets his own prince charming in the form of a rugged Israeli journalist with abandonment issues and a penchant for denial. Their chemistry is off the … Continue reading His Royal Secret (His Royal Secret, #1) by Lilah Pace
Broken Protocol by A.R. Barley My rating: 2 of 5 stars I wish I could say I liked this more than I did, but I DNF'd it at about 70%. It wasn't really the book; it was me. I wasn't much of a fan of Dante, one of the MCs, who came across as unlikable … Continue reading Broken Protocol (Smoke & Bullets #2) by A.R. Barley
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