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I am Jenica and I read an excessive amount in my spare time. This blog is largely going to be a place where I can rave about the books I loved, sometimes rant about the books I really didn’t love, and perhaps, sometimes, a few other things.

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  • May Wrap Up & June TBR

    May Wrap Up & June TBR

    May was an interesting month that started off with me seeing Taylor Swift in Nashville and was capped off with a weekend at home where I unexpectedly got to see another of my best friends. It’s always a good month when I get to see two out of the three of them, given that all…

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  • Most Anticipated Books of Summer

    Most Anticipated Books of Summer

    So, I would not necessarily say I’ve done the best of jobs reading my most anticipated books of the year so far, but I’ve done an excellent job purchasing them. Fingers crossed I both purchase and read these books I have on this list, shall we?

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Just wanted to pop in and share one of my favorite books I read for #SpringIntoLoveBingo. The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen is so charming and sweet, but jam packed with adventure and plot. I highly recommend because it is such a fun time. Thinking about my next read. I read Hotel of Secrets by @dcbiller for #SpringIntoLoveBingo and surprising no one absolutely loved it. One of my favorite things was how our heroine was so awed by Eli and his competence. It made me smile. But he was equally captivated by her, even if they did get off on a weird foot. This romance was adventurous and mysterious and sexy in multiple ways. My copy is on its way to me and I cannot wait to hug the physical form. It was such a delightful book that I can’t wait to read again and again! I am delighted to be bringing you the board for #SpringIntoLoveBingo 2023! @ardentlyaarya, @danis_bookshelf, and I are back with another board that was incredibly illustrated by my very talented sister, @sarbethdesigns! #SpringIntoLoveBingo will be taking place from March 1, 2023 through May 31, 2023. We really just request that you make your posts as accessible as possible, which means capitalizing each word in the hashtag and using alt text for the images. And, as always, please remember that for the Black Love prompt, the book that you choose must be written by a Black author and featuring only Black characters! Row One: Set in the Southern Hemisphere, Smuggling, No Wedding, Competence Porn, Scandal Do you love to see therapy on page in your romance novels as much as I do? Do you love books with deeply moving mental health representation? Are you okay with reading about loss of a child (stillbirth specifically)? If so, please allow me to recommend Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan because this book is deeply emotional and deeply wonderful. I'm so glad I read it for the Self Care prompt for #SnowInLoveBingo! My review of Georgie, All Along is already posted on my blog if you're interested! But the tl;dr version is that I am so grateful for Kate Clayborn's writing and messy characters. Plus the friendship. Magical. Anyway, I read this book for Quiet Intimacy for #SnowInLoveBingo! I am so thrilled that I decided to pick up Wearing His Ring till Christmas by Nina Singh for the Festive prompt my second time through #SnowInLoveBingo because I absolutely loved it. I was lucky enough to receive an ARC of this one, but I actually bought my own copy and I'm really glad I did. This book is so freaking good, I still can't figure out exactly how to talk about it. Basically, Chiara has been traveling the world, working her way through, and for now, she's in Bali and she's also broke. Unfortunately, her family wants her home for Christmas, quite desperately, and, in fact, her dad sent her money for a plane ticket only she no longer has it. Evan, meanwhile, is a millionaire/billionaire (idk and also, what is the distinction, actually?) in the tech field and he's supposed to be wooing these Italian business people, but his interpreter cancels at the last minute. Enter Chiara. Turns out, she speaks Italian and so she helps Evan, for quite a fee, for one night. That one night leads to sparks that lead to her somehow agreeing to be his fake fiancé. Heartless by Elsie Silver is nominated to for a Swoon Award and it's definitely going to be one of my five semi-finalist nominations in the Contemporary Romance category! I'm obsessed with these two and am so impatient for Powerless to arrive this Friday. But I actually read Heartless for the Self Published prompt in #SnowInLoveBingo. Have you read this one yet? What are you planning to vote for in the Contemporary category of @theswoonawards? (You will vote in it, won't you?) For a woman who hasn't been loving YA lately, I was thrilled to see that Talia Hibbert's charming writing translates just as well when it's aged down to a YA audience. Bradley and Celine are fully realized characters that I fell for so hard. Highly recommend! I did receive this book as an ARC, though I read it via an audiobook I purchased myself. #SnowInLoveBingo

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