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March ARC Reviews: Hook, Line, and Sinker & A Brush with Love
Honestly, at least I’m still posting these during the month they released! I’m so excited to bring you ARC reviews today of Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey (Avon), which dropped on March 1st and A Brush with Love by Mazey Eddings (St. Martin’s Griffin), which also dropped on March 1st. I think both
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#Top10of2k21: Best of the Best, aka My Favorite 2021 Romances
The past couple of years I have split my favorites list into so many and this time I am challenging myself by just doing three. So this top ten list is my top ten of the 2021 releases I read this year (of the romance genre) and you’ll see the other two soon (favorite non-2021
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#Top10of2k21: One True Pairings
Y’all, I am so excited to share with you my list of favorite couples this year. Kim’s challenge really gives us the opportunity to spotlight some of the things I otherwise wouldn’t really talk about, but I read some incredible romances this year where the relationship really shined. So let’s talk about my list!
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#Top10of2k21: Favorite Covers of 2021
There are some beautiful covers in romance and I’m really excited to talk about some of them today. I am not, however, limiting myself to books I’ve read so this is purely a judge a book by its cover situation for Day 4 of Kim’s #Top10of2k21 challenge.
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#Top10of2k21: Captivating Characters
Today is day three of Kim’s #Top10of2k21 challenge and that means it is time to talk about my top ten favorite characters, which Kim cleverly refers to as captivating characters. This list is different from my favorites of the year, but let me tell you, there is a LOT of overlap.
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#Top10of2k21: Favorite New/New to Me Authors
Today is day two of Kim’s #Top10of2k21 challenge and today we’re talking about new (to you) authors. I’ve read from 58 new to me authors this year, which is actually much less than normal, but I’ve definitely found some gems and some authors I’m really excited to read more from in the future. So let’s
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#Top10of2k21 The Ten Books I Wish I’d Gotten to in 2021
Honestly, there are many more than ten books I wish I’d gotten to in 2021 and this list is not only going to serve as a fulfillment of Kim’s #Top10of2k21 Day One prompt, but also as a look back at my Most Anticipated lists of the year and whether or not I was able to
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November Wrap Up
This month has been honestly something else. I sent my laptop off to be repaired and Apple/FedEx returned it to me absolutely shattered and not at all usable, which has made drafting blog posts just a little more challenging. Fortunately, I have my very old laptop that I’ve been able to use, it just is
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Goodreads vs. Books I’m Nominating for The Swoon Awards
Should I really add my two cents to all the discourse about the Goodreads Choice Awards? Probably not. But am I going to? Yes. Here’s the thing. I’ve read 100 contemporary romance books this year, of which 53 were published this year. I’ve read 102 romance novels of other sub-genres this year, a good many
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October ARC Reviews: A Twist of Fate, Not Your Average Hot Guy, and The Vanished Days
October had several of the books I have been most looking forward to release and yet, I’ve been struggling to read my ARCs and am impatiently waiting for my finished copies to arrive of all of these books and then they do and I still haven’t been picking them up. Ahh. The struggle. But nevertheless,
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