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<b>Series:</b> Laws of Physics #3</div>
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<b>Publication Date:</b> April 15 2019</div>
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Mona has learned that she has nothing figured out and plans are meaningless. After leaving her in Aspen, Abram is now breaking sales-records, rising to rock star fame almost overnight. Mona can’t seem to escape him. He is literally everywhere, or at least images of him are. </div>
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Just when she thinks things can't get any more confusing, Abram returns... What happens next? Only TIME will tell.</div>
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I can't believe it's over! </div>
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This novella is the most painful to wait for compared to the second one, because the cliffhanger in SPACE was a bit brutal. </div>
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My babies Abram and Mona are struggling with long-distance relationship in this one. Mona has her Physics work in Europe while Abram is doing a US tour with his band, there are a lot of frustration of not being able to physical be where each other are, a lot of frustration about having to spend a lot of time apart. Being a sucker for angst, I'm totally for all the yearning (especially Abram's--the boy could <i>yearn</i>) in this book; TIME has it in spades. I love the way Abram's completely gone for Mona. He basically worships the ground she walks on and I love smitten heroes.</div>
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Honestly, I think TIME would stand better if it wasn't a novella. The fact that I enjoyed reading it notwithstanding, I do feel like it's the weakest out of all three. The three novellas in this series will be released as one book eventually, so I feel like TIME would work better if we had a seamless flow from SPACE, instead of having to wait a month in between.</div>
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Overall, I do love the journey of Abram and Mona learning each other and learning how to be <i>together. </i>We have a KITC gang cameos because Marie from KITC is Abram's sister and we get a Marie x Matt wedding glimpse in this (!!!!). And the sneak peek to Beard with Me killed me off. </div>
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<b>Space, the second book in the all-new Laws of Physics Trilogy from Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author Penny Reid, is available now! </b><br />
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Private cabin.<br />
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Mona’s meticulously planned allotment of relaxation is thrown into chaos by the unscheduled appearance of her older brother’s band of friends, including the one person she'd hoped to never face again. Abram still makes her feel entirely too much, which is one of the reasons she disappeared after their one week together. But now, trapped on a mountain of snow and things unspoken, Mona will have to find a way to coexist with Abram, chaos and all.<br />
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SPACE was set 2 years after the events in MOTION. Mona DaVinci was making a name for herself in the Physics field, lots of things to do and places to go, but she never truly forgot the week she had with Abram Harris, or her feelings for him. Mona and Abram reunited when she went to her parents' vacation place in Aspen and got snowed in with her brother's friends.<br />
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While MOTION took me a while to get into, it was a smooth-sailing journey with SPACE. I'm happy that we got Abram's POV in this; while it wasn't really needed in MOTION, it added value to the story here. I quite enjoyed being in Abram's head because he's one moody mofo and I love his angsty butt. He was so angry with Mona for deceiving him (yea, man was smart he figured it out), and there were some tense situations (which I totally lived for) and poetry (Drew Runous would have been proud).<br />
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I can't continue anymore without spoiling this story but SPACE totally beats MOTION for me. There were a lot of moments between Mona and Abram that I highlighted and bookmarked. We even had Kaitlyn and Martin cameos in this one! Also, the cliffhanger was a little bit bearable here than the first one too. </div>
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<b>Series:</b> Laws of Physics #1</div>
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<b>Publication Date:</b> Feb 11 2019</div>
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One week. Home alone. Girl genius. Unrepentant slacker. </div>
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Mona is a smart girl and had everything figured out a long time ago. She had to. She didn’t have a choice. When your parents are uber-celebrities and you graduate from high school at thirteen, finish college at seventeen, and start your PhD program at eighteen, you don’t have time for distractions outside of your foci. Even fun is scheduled.<br />
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Abram is a talented guy, a supremely gifted musician, and has absolutely nothing figured out, nor does he seem to care. He does what he feels, when he feels, and—in Mona’s opinion—he makes her feel entirely too much.<br />
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<i>Laws of Physics is the second trilogy in the Hypothesis series; Laws of Physics parts 1 (MOTION) & 2 (SPACE) end with a cliffhanger.</i></div>
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I was intrigued by him when first met him in <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/147498-elements-of-chemistry" target="_blank">Elements of Chemistry</a>, especially when he dared go and poke the grumpy Martin Sandeke. Pretty excited when I heard Penny was going to write his book, and when it was revealed that he was Marie's (from Penny's Knitting in the City series) little brother. Talk about a crossover! </div>
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The beginning of the story was a little bit rough for me because I wasn't really sure what to feel about Mona. I was charmed by Kaitlyn (Elements of Chemistry) right away while it took me longer to warm up to Mona. She was a girl genius being roped into impersonating her identical twin sister Lisa for a week, and I didn't know how to feel about this until I got further into the story--when Mona had to pretend to be Lisa while staying with Abram, and found herself catching feelings for him, and him for her. </div>
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That just fueled my need for angst. Every time Mona thought about the hopelessness of her situation, my heart broke for her. By the end of MOTION, I could confidently say that I love Mona, her Physics jokes and her quirky sayings. I just want to protect her from all types of heartbreaks. </div>
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I feel like we haven't learned enough about Abram in MOTION, but what we <i>did</i> learn (a little bit of his backstory, his passion for music, how he <i>feels</i> a little too much), I like. Side note: there is a little discussion about romance books in this story because Abram is a romance reader (!!!). He defended the genre to skeptical Mona and even recommended her Lisa Kleypas. His favourite LKs were Devil in Winter and Love in the Afternoon! I love that man. </div>
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I haven't done a romance list post in a while and I really enjoy doing them, so I thought I'd share with you guys some amazing-sounding books that have recently gotten pretty covers. You might end up broke by the end of the post - you have been warned (looking at you especially, Becky!) - but ugh you guys, everything looks AMAZING and I want to read them all right away. Hope you enjoy the post and the pretties! :)<br />
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I'm obsessed with this series. OBSESSED. The two previous books have been phenomenal, and I have no doubts that A Prince on Paper is going to be equally amazing. I'm not even a fan of royalty in romance, but this series, man. Also, this cover does THINGS TO ME. SO HOT. </div>
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Sisters, wedding planners, and Tif Marcelo! How can I resist this adorable and funny-sounding book? I am ready to be charmed!</div>
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<img alt="Fumbled" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1537972540l/40766478.jpg" width="213" /> <img alt="The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient, #2)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1521642419l/39338454.jpg" width="213" /> <img alt="Getting Hot with the Scot" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1538413169l/41150549.jpg" width="195" /></div>
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SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE. IT'S MY TROPE!! It sounds like it's going to be a whole lot of dramatic fun and I'm here for it. </div>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39338454-the-bride-test"><b>The Bride Test by Helen Hoang</b></a></div>
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Pretty sure I've already featured this book in 5000 different posts already, but whatever! I'm just ready for my boy, Khai to find love. He deserves it.</div>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41150549-getting-hot-with-the-scot"><b>Getting Hot with the Scot by Melonie Johnson</b></a></div>
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I see "hot Scot" and I one-click. Oops! No regrets though! I think this is a debut book too and that cover couple is very cute.</div>
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<img alt="The Girl He Used to Know" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1527367695l/36117813.jpg" width="211" /> <img alt="The One You Fight For (The Ones Who Got Away, #3)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1531751722l/39971463.jpg" width="194" /> <img alt="Hired (Happy Endings, #2)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1531925469l/37836154.jpg" width="211" /></div>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36117813-the-girl-he-used-to-know"><b>The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis Graves</b></a></div>
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Another second chance romance that looks like it's going to slay me with the feels! I CAN'T WAIT! I haven't read this author before but I've only heard good things.</div>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39971463-the-one-you-fight-for"><b>The One You Fight For by Roni Loren</b></a></div>
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I am obsessed with this cover. Obsessed. It's just so stunning in every way and I can feel the chemistry between this couple. Well done, Sourcebooks! But also, this series has been amazing. It deals with a tough topic (school shooting in the MC's high school days), but it's so hopeful and touching.</div>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37836154-hired"><b>Hired by Zoey Castille</b></a></div>
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I'm here for the abs, folks. No shame! I do have reasons besides the abs for wanting to desperately read this book. I had so much fun with the first book, Stripped, and I kinda fell hard for Aiden there. I can't wait for him to find his HEA!</div>
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I really dig this cover! It's sexy and elegant and very Brenna!</div>
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Pride & Prejudice in Pakistan! I don't even need to be convinced to pick this book up. Also, I really like the Mehendi (henna) art on this cover.</div>
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OK to be honest, I have been getting tired of this cartoon cover trend of romance novels. That being said, this one is really precious. I love that gets to have her HEA with her celebrity crush! So cute!</div>
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I don't really care for this cover, but it's Lauren Layne, so whatever. GIVE IT TO ME. She seems like she's a total girl boss and the book seems to have some fun friendships (which arise when the girls meet at the funeral of the guy they have all been seeing - talk about scandalous!).</div>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41154302-pride-prejudice-and-other-flavors"><b>Pride, Prejudice And Other Flavors by Sonali Dev</b></a></div>
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Another Pride & Prejudice book! In this one, the heroine is the Darcy. What a fun twist! And the hero is a chef (*cries*). I have yet to read Sonali Dev's books, but I have her backlist in my TBR and I have heard such good things about her stories.</div>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36544616-the-takeover-effect"><b>The Takeover Effect by Nisha Sharma</b></a></div>
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I JUST WANT THIS BOOK SO BADLY, FRIENDS. We don't even have a full blurb yet, but I don't even care at this point because BROWN PEOPLE FALLING IN LOVE.</div>
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<b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41819113-the-earl-i-ruined">The Earl I Ruined by Scarlett Peckham</a></b><br />
I really liked Scarlett Peckham's debut, The Duke I Tempted, and this one just sounds even better. She thinks he is dull and ruins his future, then offers her hand in marriage. It sounds like just the kind of drama I am craving. Also, this series has such great covers!</div>
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Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13304521473521896294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6748984379430865385.post-69837883204594470072018-10-17T00:00:00.000-04:002018-10-17T00:00:04.241-04:00Can't-Wait Wednesday (7): Devil's Daughter by Lisa Kleypas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Tressa at <a href="https://www.wishfulendings.com/" target="_blank">Wishful Endings</a> to spotlight and discuss the yet-to-be released books we're excited to read. It is based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by Jill at <a href="http://breakingthespine.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Breaking the Spine</a></span>.</div>
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by Lisa Kleypas<br />
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<b>Genres: </b>Historical Romance<br />
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<b>Publication Date:</b> February 19th 2019</div>
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Although beautiful young widow Phoebe, Lady Clare, has never met West Ravenel, she knows one thing for certain: he's a mean, rotten bully. Back in boarding school, he made her late husband's life a misery, and she'll never forgive him for it. But when Phoebe attends a family wedding, she encounters a dashing and impossibly charming stranger who sends a fire-and-ice jolt of attraction through her. And then he introduces himself...as none other than West Ravenel.<br />
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West is a man with a tarnished past. No apologies, no excuses. However, from the moment he meets Phoebe, West is consumed by irresistible desire...not to mention the bitter awareness that a woman like her is far out of his reach. What West doesn't bargain on is that Phoebe is no straitlaced aristocratic lady. She's the daughter of a strong-willed wallflower who long ago eloped with Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent—the most devilishly wicked rake in England.<br />
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I can't wait to see her relationship with her father, because I remember that scene in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mine-Till-Midnight-Hathaways-Book-ebook/dp/B000UZJQRI/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1527195213&sr=8-15&keywords=kleypas&linkCode=sl1&tag=lisakleyellis-20&linkId=ec8324dfcf0f5b5f7ab098d4efcc45c7" target="_blank">Mine till Midnight</a> where it was said that whenever baby!Phoebe cried she could only be soothed by Sebastian's voice.<br />
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I'm so happy that Lisa Kleypas decided to write Phoebe's book because she truly deserved an HEA. I love her in Gabriel's book and I was so sad to learn her story of how she met and lost her husband. And with West Ravenel a.k.a my favourite Ravenel who probably has the best character development to date??? I just can't wait to read this one.<br />
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18396300639992346053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6748984379430865385.post-82611263240048500772018-10-14T00:00:00.000-04:002018-10-14T00:00:03.395-04:00Lisa's Sunday Update (2)<div style="text-align: justify;">
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I haven't done a proper reading update in a while, welp. I have been sharing <a href="https://romanceseverafter.blogspot.com/search/label/Can%27t%20Wait%20Wednesday" target="_blank">Can't Wait Wednesdays </a>just to post <i>something</i> but I'm going to try and do better from now on. </div>
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It's the weekend and I have a new appreciation for it now, because I just started my full-time job on Wednesday! That's right, your girl is no longer funemployed and is now a working professional. The job isn't my first choice and isn't something I ever imagine myself doing in a million years, but it pays well and should be a good experience. I need to fund my book-buying habits and hopefully save some money for travel, LOL.</div>
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Today I'll be sharing some mini reviews of the books I read...a week ago? Two weeks ago? I can't remember the last time I finished a book because I've been in a weird headspace since I was confirmed for the job. I told my sister that I haven't touched my iPad since I started working and she was like, "Are you okay?"</div>
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<b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36111620-the-governess-game?ac=1&from_search=true" target="_blank">The Governess Game</a> by Tessa Dare [★★★★]</b></div>
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Tessa Dare's latest is one of my anticipated titles this year and it didn't disappoint! Um...............except for the tiny part of me that expected more kinkiness ever since I read the blurb line. <b>"He’s been a bad, bad rake—and it takes a governess to teach him a lesson"</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">??? </span>I mean, c'mon! There was a scene where Alexandra played pirates with her charges and then the kids tied her and Chase up and ran off, and there might be an inner monologue from one of them about tying the other up in bed AND WE DIDN'T EVEN GET THAT? </div>
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But otherwise I really enjoyed Chase and Alexandra's book. Chase reminded me a bit of Colin from Tessa's Spindle Cove series. I just love his carefree ways and how he cared for his wards despite him threatening to send them off to boarding school. Alex is also easy to love; I admire her strength and I love that she's not a pushover. She's also smart in figuring out what the kids really need, and I love her bond with them. There's also cameos from Ash and Emma, the new parents. I love daddy!Ash especially. I think I'm going to reread The Duchess Deal one of these days.</div>
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Oh good lord this book just slayed me. Merlin was the one who pulled the strings behind the events in New Camelot, and in The Moon he finally got his own HEA, and with Nimue of all people??? I didn't expect that at all. The story is sexy and of course full of kink so good that I didn't even mind the domme/sub elements (dommes are not my thing). </div>
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Arthurian legends are not something I'm well-versed about but this book is a modern twist on the story of Merlin/Nimue, so some people might appreciate it. </div>
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Unfortunately you would have to read <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/191773-new-camelot-trilogy" target="_blank">the New Camelot series</a> first because there are major spoilers for American King (book 3) in this one.</div>
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Tinsel in a Tangle is a novella about two office mates who had crushes on each other but did nothing about it until the night of the office Christmas party. I don’t know why I instantly imagined Claire Foy’s face as Shelby when I read but anyway, Shelby and Adam are so cute together. Adam, especially, is just a quiet guy who does stuff on the low; caring for Shelby from a distance and doing little things like refilling her water jug and staying late when she’s staying late, and I love him so much. I mean, they don’t even interact that much since their tables are at the opposite ends of the office but I still ship them. </div>
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Overall, Tinsel in a Tangle is sweet, TOO SHORT, and yet is also developed and wrapped up real nicely so I can’t complain much (except that it’s too short and I want more). I mean, let’s be real—Ainslie Paton could write grocery lists and I’d read them LOL.</div>
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Hey people. I've been kind of missing from this blog, and for that I'm very very sorry. I think I mentioned in a previous post that I'm changing jobs inside my company, and I've been in a gruesome training for 6 weeks now. It's been amazing, but exhausting, and I haven't had much time to prepare any post. Again, sorry!</div>
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I thought about doing something different this time, and do a little update of what I've been reading this past month, and what I'll be reading during the month of October - kind of like a September wrap-up and an October TBR. Very original, I know... =P</div>
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During the month of September I heard a bunch of audiobooks, because of my commute to my training place (and the fact that for most of the month, I didn't have my car). I read some fantastic ones, and I was finally able to finish the <i><b>Knitting in the City</b></i> series by Penny Reid, and I LOVED the books, and they all work amazingly on audio. I also started the <i><b>Spindle Cove</b></i> series by Tessa Dare, also on audio, and I'm enjoying that so much too. I also read <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36956663-professor-feelgood"><i><b>Professor Feelgood (Masters of Love, #2)</b></i></a> by Leisa Rayven, and really liked it, though I need to write the review for the book ASAP.</div>
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I also read <i><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39729771-once-upon-a-real-good-time">Once Upon a Real Good Time (Heartbreakers, #1)</a> </b></i>by Lauren Blakely, though I didn't love it as much as I thought I would. The writing somehow didn't quite feel like Blakely, but I still want to get my hands on the other 2 books of the series, but I might give them a try in audio format, because Lauren Blakely's books usually work wonderfully in audio.</div>
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Finally, I gave<b> </b><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35527001-let-s-get-textual"><b>Let's Get Textual</b></a> </i>by Teagan Hunter a chance, and I absolutely loved it.</div>
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I didn't read as many books in September as I had on the previous month, but I was still happy with the ones I read.</div>
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Now, for October, I plan to continue my Tessa Dare saga, as soon as Scribd allows me to listen to her books again. Here's what I'm reading:</div>
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The first book I already read this month was <i><b>Love Sincerely Yours</b></i> by Meghan Quinn and Sara Ney, and I'm sorry to say that it didn't blow me away... but my review will be out on the 13th. Then I'm about to finish the <i><b>Spindle Cove</b></i> series by Tessa Dare, but I need to read the <i><b>Castles Ever After </b></i>series, because one book is related to both series.</div>
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Then, because Scribd was mean to mean and temporarily took out most of my saved list, I'm listening to <i><b>Falling from the Sky</b></i> by Sarina Bowen, let's see if I like this one better than the first book in the series. Afterwards, I'll probably read <i><b>The Jerk Duet </b></i>by Max Monroe, which will most likely be hilarious. And finally, I want to read <i><b>I Wanna Text You Up </b></i>by Teagan Hunter, and see if I like it as much as the first book, which I'm betting I will.</div>
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<b>Series:</b> Highland Weddings #5<br />
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<b>Publication Date:</b> November 6th 2018</div>
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Mary Wine's <i>Highland Wedding</i> series has been a consistently entertaining historical romance series for me. I've been enjoying these books, these characters, and the setting tremendously. I'm always eager to pick up a new book with these books. <i>Between a Highlander and a Hard Place</i> was one I certainly could not miss, especially with that stunning cover. While I enjoyed my time with this 5th book, I have to admit that the books are starting to all blend together for me as they all have a very similar premise. When a broken-hearted Athena is forced to flee her uncle's home to escape the scoundrel who pretended to be in love with her, she runs into the arms of a Highlander, Symon. Symon helps her by providing her safety from the wilds of Scotland. While both were instantly drawn to each other, Athena was adamant about wanting to give in to her attractions. As with the other heroines in this series, she was fiery and feisty. It took a lot of courage for her to run away from the safety of her home to Scotland and I admired that about her. Symon was also a good caring man who wanted the best for his people. He had lost his wife recently and was on the look-out for a wife. Though he was fiercely attracted to Athena, he never forced himself on her. He was constantly there to save her from dangerous situations. The romance between the two was great as usual. There was a lot of passion between the two that only seemed to grow as the book progressed. What I really enjoy about this series that there are secondary storylines that delve into clan politics and historical issues that keep the books engaging. All in all, while <i>Between a Highlander and a Hard Place</i> did not offer anything particularly fresh in terms of characterizations and romance, it was still an enjoyable story that I think fans of the series will enjoy.<br />
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I absolutely loved the first two books in the <i>Slow Bur</i>n series and had no idea that there would be a new book out. When I found out that <i>Ache For You</i> was a Cinderella retelling, I was even more pumped. I don't think I have ever read a Cinderella romance retelling so I was looking forward to <i>Ache For You</i>. It makes me sad to say this but unfortunately, this book didn't entirely work for me. Kimber, the heroine, is having a bit of a rough time. She has recently been dumped at the altar by her fiancee and her dad who she hadn't seen in years is on his deathbed. She flies off to Italy to see her father one last time, but she finds out that the flight is overbooked and she is kicked off. A sexy Italian man comes to her rescue by offering her his seat in exchange for her sketchbook, which contains her clothing design ideas. She reluctantly gives it to him only to cross paths with him again in Italy when she finds out that he is her father's new wife's son. I'll get to the positives first. I really liked Matteo, the hero, in the book. He was confident, sexy and charming. He was quite the swoony addition to this book. Unfortunately, the heroine Kimber left much to be desired. She was constantly rude and whiny, and I just didn't understand where her anger towards Matteo came from. At first, it was kind of fun watching her bicker with him, but then it got really old, especially because she really had no reason to be that mean to him. And honestly, he gave up his first class seat for her, why was she being rude to him in the first place! So yeah, Kimber grated on my nerves quite a bit. I also failed to really sense the chemistry between Kimber and Matteo. Something about their lust for each other felt extremely forced to me. Perhaps it was because I disliked Kimber? I'll say that Kimber's step-mom's dogs were hilarious inclusions in the book. I also really liked her best friend. But other than that,<i> Ache For You</i> wasn't quite working for me. While I didn't care for this latest installment all that much, I still recommend the first two books!</div>
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Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13304521473521896294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6748984379430865385.post-10314910600028261392018-10-03T00:00:00.000-04:002018-10-03T00:00:03.669-04:00Can't-Wait Wednesday (6): A Wedding One Christmas by Therese Beharrie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Of all the weddings in all the world, Angie Roux had to be mistaken for a bridesmaid in this one.</b><br />
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Caledon, South Africa, is supposed to be just a stop on the way to Christmas in Cape Town, part of Angie’s long-avoided homecoming. She never expected to star in a bizarre comedy of errors, but here she is: convincing a handsome stranger to be her fake boyfriend for the day.<br />
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I'm still all hearteyes over that cover. It's SO romantic! And the blurb is also exciting. I will never be tired of the fake relationship trope.<br />
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ICYMI, this book is now <a href="https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/149285" target="_blank">available to request</a> on Netgalley so do the thing!<br />
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18396300639992346053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6748984379430865385.post-66381621519445186342018-10-02T00:00:00.000-04:002018-10-02T00:00:01.627-04:00Will I Ever Tire Of Fake-Relationships?: Real Kind of Love by Sara Rider<div style="text-align: left;">
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Everyone and their mother knows by now that I'm a huge sucker for a good fake-dating romance. With its adorable cover and promise of a fake relationship, I couldn't help but be excited for <i>Real Kind of Love</i>. That excitement was amped up when I saw that both Lisa and Becky enjoyed this book. Now that I've read the book, I can safely say that I have a new author whose books I am eager to read. <i>Real Kind of Love</i> was fun, sweet and romantic!<br />
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In any contemporary romance, it's important for me to fall for the characters and I had no trouble with that here in <i>Real Kind of Love</i>. It was abundantly clear to me that Sara Rider was going to take her time to develop both her hero and her heroine throughout the book from the very start. I loved that we got to see so many layers to these characters. Clementine is a character that a lot of readers will relate too. I thought her job as an audiobook narrator was super cool, especially the fact that she was making healthy income through something that she was having fun doing. She was a little shy when it came to men, but she also possessed an inner strength and lots of courage. This bookish heroine totally charmed me from the get-go. Jake, her love interest, was a little bit harder for me to relate too, but that does not mean that I didn't like. He was the opposite of Clem in that he was much more extroverted than her, but he was also a workaholic whose job as a bar owner was a bit of an impediment to a relationship. Jake won me over with how kind and genuine he was towards Clementine. There is just something about an attentive and loving hero that gets me.<br />
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I'm sure you are dying to know how their fake relationship comes about. Well, we have Clementine's large, loud and hilarious family to thank for that. To get out of a family vacation, Clem lies and tells her family that she's going on a romantic getaway with her new boyfriend only to have them invite themselves to this getaway. Jake comes to her rescue as her fake boyfriend and undeniably, feelings begin to bubble between these two. The romance was super cute. Jake and Clem had a really strong dynamic. There were times when the romance did veer towards cheesy territory for me, but that didn't impede my enjoyment of the book all that much. I thought Clementine's family was a great addition to the book. They were so funny and nosy, but obviously genuinely cared for each other. It was really sweet in a way how they got into each other's business.<br />
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Fans of fake-dating romances are going to love <i>Real Kind of Love</i>! I can't wait to read the next book in the series,<i> Make Me Fall</i>, which is a hate-to-love/neighbors romance!<br />
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Do you enjoy the fake-dating trope as much as me? Who are some of your favorite fictional families?<br />Let me know in the comments below!</h2>
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<b>Genre:</b> Paranormal Romance</div>
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<b>Publication Date:</b> September 24th 2018<br />
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This Halloween, love bites back... hard.<br />
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Chastity Adofo knows a monster when she sees one. As soon as Luke Anthony wanders into her family’s coffee shop, she recognises the evil lurking beneath his charming smile and fantastic arse. The handsome werewolf is determined to have her—but she’s determined to cut out his heart.<br />
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Little does she know, Luke’s plans for her are far more pleasurable than murder. And when the full moon rises, all bets are off...<br />
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Warning: Mating the Huntress is 30,000 words of red-hot, Halloween-themed romance. This book contains one flirtatious, cursed creature of the night, one badass, knife-happy heroine, and forbidden lust at first sight. Please read responsibly! </blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">“You should slap me and run off into the light.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">“Oh, piss off. Slap you and break my bloody wrist,
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">“Fine.” Before he could grasp what was happening, she
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">And then she was gone, pressing herself back against
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">It took him a moment to find the wherewithal to speak,
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">Not that he’d mind her taking advantage of him, once
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">“That wasn’t a real kiss,” he said. “You missed my
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">“It’s dark,” she scowled. “Except for those bloody
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">“Thanks to these eyes,” he said patiently, “I can see
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">“Nope. My kiss counts. You never said it had to be on
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">He smiled slowly, glad that the shadows hid his
satisfaction. Ah, she had no idea what she’d just walked into. “Alright. Fair
enough.” He enjoyed the expression on her face for a moment, all adorably
pleased, as if she’d just won a prize. “Like all healthy, cursed beasts
beholden to the moon, I am physically stronger, faster and sturdier than the
average human. Higher bone density, more powerful muscles, magic, blah blah
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">“Why do you think that?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">“I’ve never gotten sick,” he said. “That was another
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">“You know,” he said reasonably, “you could always
reject my bargain. Or at least, you could if you weren’t determined to prove
yourself useful to a family who have, for some reason, denied your skills as a
huntress. But since you are determined to do so, and since you also secretly
want to kiss me, why don’t you be a good girl and let me take what I’m owed?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">She gaped at him like a particularly pissed-off fish.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">“How am I supposed to support you in overcoming your
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">“Call me insecure again and I will scoop out your
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">“—if I don’t put effort into understanding you? And
Chas, we both know you’re never going to attack me again. I’d be open to
play-fighting, though. You’re very sexy when you’re trying to remove my vital
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">“What on earth are you blathering on about?” she
demanded. But she didn’t sound as brashly confident as usual, or as disgusted
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">He didn’t like that, because he knew she must be
uncomfortable. Chastity appreciated certainty, which meant that he appreciated
certainty for her. That was what drove him to say, his words painfully blunt,
“I want to mate you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">There was a heavy pause. Then, finally, she said, “I
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">“How do you feel about it?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">“Horrified, obviously. I don’t think I need to tell
you that whatever <i>mating</i> me entails, it’s never going to happen. Unless
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">He ground his teeth together and breathed through his
nose for a moment, her scent ironically comforting as he fought down nausea and
fury in equal measure. Then, his temper and his roiling stomach under control,
he gritted out in his best imitation of calm, “I’m going to pretend you didn’t
say that.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">“Um… are you okay?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">“Do you care?” he snarled, the moonlight-fine thread
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">“Yes,” she clipped out, her voice equally harsh. And
then they both faltered, blinking at that unexpected response. There was a
heavy pause as she swallowed, the sound loud in the silence. Distantly, he
recognised the rumble of passing cars on the nearby street, the open-and-shut
of a door somewhere close, a faint conversation across the block. But that
evidence of a world beyond the secret space between them wasn’t enough to drag
Luke out of this moment, this precious breath of time when her eyes met his without
aggression, when her pretty lips parted not to attack him, but to drag in air. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">When she was just as affected as him, and unable to
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "palatino";">His heart pounding, his beast growling hungrily for
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<b>Rating: </b>★★★★<br />
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After losing her job, her home, and her friends in her divorce, Nora Pitts is determined not to make the same mistakes when she starts over in the small town of Shadow Creek, Washington. No more slaving away in the lab at the expense of her social life, and definitely no more men. Ever. But making friends in her thirties is so much harder than she anticipated. And when it comes to her gorgeous yet obnoxious neighbor, it’s a whole lot easier to make enemies.<br />
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Eli Hardin doesn’t have a lot of sympathy for his uptight neighbor, until he overhears her so-called new friends making fun of her un-datable status. Suddenly he finds himself volunteering for a date with a woman who’s been leaving angry hate-notes in his mailbox, and in way over his head. Because all it takes is one disastrous date with Nora for Eli to fall hard.<br />
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I've been excited to read <b><i>Make Me Fall </i></b>ever since I finished <b><i>Real Kind of Love</i></b> and read the excerpt. This time it's Jake's best friend Eli who gets his HEA, and the woman he chose is his neighbour who he has been at odds with for months.<br />
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Nora is a chemistry professor who just moved into town following her divorce. She has trouble making connections in her new place; the only 'friends' she's acquired so far are the women from a book club she joined, who are not the nicest people in the world. She's also a bit tightly wound, most of it because she's a germaphobe. Other than the failure of a book club, adjusting to new work environment and the lack of resource for her research, she really has nothing else going on other than the continuing feud with her annoying hot neighbour. It took me a while to warm up to Nora because she was a bit rigid, but I love seeing her grow.<br />
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It's not exactly hate to love in this story; it's more that Eli has been a source of aggravation for Nora, and he loves aggravating her even more. I really enjoyed their little fights. I also found it hilarious that Nora didn't even know her annoying neighbour's name until after their first 'date'.<br />
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I love the friendship that developed after they actually got to know each other better, and how Eli helped Nora in making new friends by connecting her to his sister's book club people. Eli and Nora's easy relationship is also one of my favourite things about this book. They did a lot of domestic things together that made my heart swoon.<br />
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Overall, <b><i>Real Kind of Love</i></b> remained my favourite of the two (did I mention that Jake built Clem a library at his bar?????? TALK ABOUT LOVE) but I still really enjoyed <b><i>Make Me Fall</i></b>. Looking forward to read more of Sara Rider! Maybe it's time for me to check out her backlist.<br />
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Sara Rider writes contemporary romance full of heart, heat, and happily ever after. She lives in British Columbia with her husband and daughters. She spends far too much time in public libraries and never leaves the home without her e-reader stuffed in her purse. </div>
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18396300639992346053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6748984379430865385.post-64562543729560076842018-09-25T00:00:00.000-04:002018-09-25T00:00:05.916-04:00Unpopular Opinion: 5 Romance Books I Didn't Love That You May Have <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Disaster is the right word to describe this book. Beautiful? I think not. More like toxic. This book caught my attention because of all the 5 stars reviews. I couldn't help but want to read it and I was really excited about it too, but the whole book was just a mess. Travis, the hero, was so toxic and abusive. He was manipulative, controlling, yet painted out to be romantic. It was gross. The heroine, Abby, was also a doormat with no brain cells that seemed to function properly. Guys, even today, 7 years after I first read the book, it makes me angry!</div>
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This book has an average rating of 4.08 on Goodreads and the premise sounded so good. I HAD to read it. It turned out to not work for me at all. Both of the main characters were flaky and indecisive and just plain pains in the butt. They really weren't likable and the romance made me want to pull my own hair. I don't know how I got through the whole thing!</div>
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I loved Helena's debut series so I was more than a little excited for Pucked. This book was completely different in tone than the Clipped Wings books. I wanted to love the humor, but it was over the top and cringey. I also got irritated with how the heroine kept calling her vagina "a beaver". And I think the words "monster cock" appeared about 5 billion times.</div>
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Oh man, this book. I so wanted to love it and everyone on Twitter was just devouring it. It failed to work for me for many reasons. First, though I appreciated that the heroine was fat, the hero objectified her fatness constantly. He would always talk about wanting to squeeze and it got so tiring to me. It was almost like he fetishized her fatness. (Also, that cover model would break if he squeezed her!). Secondly, the sex scenes. My gosh. They were freaking terrible. The words “wetness”, “juicy” and other description for moistness appear like a million times in the book during the sexy times. I was done with the author after just this one book.</div>
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I'm probably going to get dragged for this but Colleen Hoover's books are not romance and I wish she would stop winning the romance categories on the Goodreads Awards. I had been feeling detached from CoHo's books before this one but decided to give this one a try anyway. It was misleading and used abuse as a plot twist and basically pissed me off. I hate that it's seen as a romance when it wasn't one.</div>
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What are some hyped books you didn't enjoy?<br />Let me know in the comments below!</h2>
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<b>The Moon is the story of Merlin and Nimue from the New Camelot trilogy. It’s recommended that you read the trilogy first, as there are American King spoilers in The Moon.</b><br />
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She’s angry that I left. I’m angry that I died.<br />
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The <b><i>New Camelot</i></b> series is one of my favourite erotic romance series, and I was so excited when I saw that Sierra will be releasing this novella. Merlin is one of the mysterious characters in the books. He is always the enigmatic person who seems to know more than he lets on. Sierra said in her <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BnrWAKwBjwA/" target="_blank">Instagram post</a> that <b style="font-style: italic;">Cards of Love</b> will be a 26,000 word novella and contains "(...) kink. Merlin gets chained to a bed. All manner of depraved things happen to him."<br />
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<b>Series:</b> Hard Play #2</div>
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<b>Publication Date:</b> September 18th 2018</div>
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<b>Rating: </b>★★★★★</div>
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<b>New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh continues her Hard Play series with a sweet, sexy romance featuring big, fat, OTT weddings, a meddling grandma, and a too-serious hero who needs to be unbuttoned...</b><br />
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Nayna Sharma agreed to an arranged marriage in the hope it would heal the fractures in her beloved family... only to realize too late that a traditional marriage is her personal nightmare. Panicked, she throws caution to the winds, puts on the tiniest dress she can find, and ends up in the arms of a tall, rough-edged hunk of a man who has abs of steel—and who she manages to mortally insult between one kiss and the next.<br />
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Abandoned as a child, then adopted into a loving family, Raj Sen believes in tradition, in continuity. Some might call him stiff and old-fashioned, but he knows what he wants—and it’s a life defined by rules...yet he can’t stop thinking about the infuriating and sexy woman who kissed him in the moonlight then disappeared. When his parents spring an introduction on him, the last woman he expects is her. Beautiful. Maddening. A rulebreaker in the making.<br />
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He’s all wrong for her. She’s all wrong for him. And love is about to make rebels of them both.</blockquote>
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Okay so if you've been following my posts or tweets, then you'll probably know that Nalini Singh is a new-to-me author I've started reading early this year, and I've been a huge fan ever since. After devouring her paranormal works and loving her <a href="http://romanceseverafter.blogspot.com/2018/01/of-archangels-vampires-and-magical.html" target="_blank">angels, vampires</a>, and <a href="http://romanceseverafter.blogspot.com/2018/08/lisas-sunday-update.html" target="_blank">changelings</a>, it's only right that I venture into her contemporary works as well.<br />
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<i style="font-weight: bold;">Rebel Hard</i> is my first, and holy shit it's SO GOOD. I basically said that about almost every Nalini book I've read so who's surprised? Not me, obviously.<br />
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The plot of <b><i>Rebel Hard </i></b>revolved around arranged marriage, something that is not unsual in brown cultures. Malays<b>*</b> have done it too, though not so much in the recent years.<br />
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I love Nayna with all my heart, and it's so easy to root for her happiness. Her parents have been working hard to find a suitable husband for her, and while she was okay with it in the beginning, Nayna is feeling more and more suffocated by it all lately. She has always been the Good Girl in the family. She keeps her head down, always plays by the rules, and never does anything that could bring shame to her parents, not after how her older sister Madhuri ruined the family's good name a decade or so ago.<br />
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I totally get why Nayna wanted to rebel. I relate to her struggles to be the perfect daughter to her parents versus her wanting to carve her own path and live her life for <i>her</i>, not for family. Luckily her one night of rebel led her to Raj, who turned out to be another one of her parents' prospects for her. <i>The</i> prospect.<br />
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Raj is a dreamboat, by the way. I fell for him so hard, and so did Nayna though she sort of struggled with it in the beginning. Raj is described as a serious and traditional guy. He wants the whole package: a loving wife, kids, white picket fence, so much that he agreed to his parents' matchmaking efforts. He and Nayna hit it off right away the night they made, and although that night didn't end well, the thoughts of Nayna kept haunting him until they met again, this time as each other's match.<br />
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Raj knew instantly that he wanted her for keeps this time.<br />
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Their relationship development is my favourite thing about this book. Raj decided to court Nayna while he waited for her to make a decision, and I appreciated that he wasn't pushy about the whole marriage thing. He didn't play fair, though; Raj fully capitalized on the intense attraction between him and Nayna, and he basically seduced her all the time, LOL. They just have so much chemistry and fun together. I love the shirtless selfies Raj sent to Nayna (he knew he had a great body and made use of it, smart man), and how he made an effort to read Pride and Prejudice because it was Nayna's favourite book. He was also so good with Nayna's family, especially Nayna's grandmother.<br />
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Nayna grew so much in her relationship with Raj. She's had a moment of reckoning with her parents in which she explained her need to break away from the path she has been in, and I was so proud of her. I love that Raj understood her fears and did his best to alleviate them, and made an effort to show that she could trust him with her dreams. He was so understanding of Nayna's need to fly, and he was careful not to chain her.<br />
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Raj watched Nayna sleep that night and knew he might be the architect of his own heartbreak. The Nayna she was now wanted him, but the Nayna she became as she found her wings... that Nayna might decide a man so rooted in tradition and culture wasn't the man she wanted by her side. (...)<br />
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Nayna's inability to make a decision, though, is so understandable. She knew she was attracted to Raj, wanted him more than her next breath, but she also wasn't sure about marriage as a whole. She wanted to do so many more things, and she was scared that her dreams would take the backseat to Raj's wants after she married him.<br />
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But Nayna had no idea what she wanted from life. <i><b>Him</b></i>, she wanted him. But not the tradition that had begun to feel like ropes around her, cutting off her air. Not the implicit defined patterns of behavior. Not the rigidly limited choices. The very things that centered Raj were her worst nightmare.<br />
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Not gonna lie, I cried after that bit because SAME.<br />
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I also love the secondary characters in <b><i>Rebel Hard</i></b>. Nayna's Aji was a riot, I want to be her when I grow up. I even ended up liking Madhuri and rooting for her happiness. I also love Raj's sister Aditi and Nayna's best friend Isa.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">*Now, if my mother could take a cue from the Sharmas and find me a Raj Sen instead of some randos she's been showing me pictures of, that would be great. </span><br />
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18396300639992346053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6748984379430865385.post-9813962344360606882018-09-17T04:00:00.000-04:002018-09-17T04:00:06.995-04:00Girl Meets Duke... Again: The Governess Game by Tessa Dare <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Crimson Text", serif; font-size: 15.4px;">by Tessa Dare</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Crimson Text", serif; font-size: 15.4px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Crimson Text", serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b>Series: </b>Girl Meets Duke #2</span><br />
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<i><b>He’s been a bad, bad rake — and it takes a governess to teach him a lesson</b><br />The accidental governess.<br />After her livelihood slips through her fingers, Alexandra Mountbatten takes on an impossible post: transforming a pair of wild orphans into proper young ladies. However, the girls don’t need discipline. They need a loving home. Try telling that to their guardian, Chase Reynaud: duke’s heir in the streets and devil in the sheets. The ladies of London have tried — and failed — to make him settle down. Somehow, Alexandra must reach his heart... without risking her own.<br />The infamous rake.<br />Like any self-respecting libertine, Chase lives by one rule: no attachments. When a stubborn little governess tries to reform him, he decides to give her an education — in pleasure. That should prove he can’t be tamed. But Alexandra is more than he bargained for: clever, perceptive, passionate. She refuses to see him as a lost cause. Soon the walls around Chase’s heart are crumbling... and he’s in danger of falling, hard.</i></blockquote>
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Hey guys. I know I've been kind of missing from here, and I'm so so sorry about that. The last month has been crazy. I've changed positions and project at work, and I'm currently entering week 3 of a 7 week long training, and it's exhausting. Furthermore, I had to present a report for my PhD, which meant that I had even less time. SORRY!</div>
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Moving on... I was fully convinced that I wouldn't get this ARC, but a week or so before the release date, I received the email and the book on my Kindle, and I was so ecstatic :D . I absolutely loved the first book of <i><b>Girl Meets Duke</b></i>, so I had high hopes for this one, and <b>I'm so glad that Tessa Dare delivered</b>.</div>
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I think Ash and Emma will always be my favorites, but Chase and Alexandra come in a close second. I loved Alex, she has such an <b>amazing personality</b>, and she doesn't take sh*t from anyone, and I love her for it. I wished she would stick out for herself more in some situations, but I really loved her dynamic with Chase and the children. I just wanted to hug Chase, and for all his talk of being a rake, he was such a lovely and scared and gentle man. </div>
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I loved the romance too, <b>Chase and Alex were a perfect match</b>! But more than anything, I loved the sense of family I got while reading this book, and all the talk of piracy and astronomy. </div>
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I really enjoyed this new book in this series and I can't recommend it enough, and I can't wait to see what book 3 will bring us. In the meantime, I started listening to another series by Tessa Dare, and I'm thoroughly enjoying that too :) .</div>
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Meg Sanders enjoyed her wild night with a prince and his bodyguard—but now she’s moving on. She has enough problems without borrowing the kind of trouble Theo brings just by being who he is. But no matter how determined she is to leave that night a fond memory, she hasn’t seen the last of Theo and Galen...<br />
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Galen Mikos's life boils down to one goal. Keep Theo alive. But as long as Theo draws breath, he’s a threat to the powers that have taken over Thalania—and anyone they associate with runs the risk of becoming a target, too. Galen will never forgive himself if they let their selfish desire for Meg puts her in danger. But it might already be too late...<br />
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Theo Fitzcharles might be an exiled prince, but he doesn’t intend to stay that way. He’s only concerned with one thing—clearing his mother’s name and reinstating himself as Crown Prince of Thalania. There’s no room in that plan for distraction, especially when it makes him forget himself the way Meg does. But after spending one perfect night with her and his best friend, Theo has no intention of leaving her alone.<br />
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I read the prequel novella a few months ago and I really liked it, but it's okay if you haven't read it because this book works as a standalone.<b><i> Forever Theirs </i></b>is set three months after the events in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Theirs-Night-Romance-Thalanian-Dynasty-ebook/dp/B07DJPWWZT/ref=sr_1_1_twi_kin_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535786849&sr=8-1&keywords=theirs+for+the+night"><b><i>Theirs for the Night</i></b></a>. Meg Sanders was drowning; she needed to find money to pay for her upcoming tuition fast or dropped out from her Master’s program. She also couldn't help but to think of a certain exiled prince and his bodyguard, with whom she had spent a wild night three months ago. Meg was willing to tuck the memory away as just that—one amazing night—but then Theo Fitzcharles III waltzed back into her life and with him, Galen Mikos did too.<br />
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New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Katee Robert learned to tell her stories at her grandpa’s knee. Her 2015 title, The Marriage Contract, was a RITA finalist, and RT Book Reviews named it 'a compulsively readable book with just the right amount of suspense and tension." When not writing sexy contemporary and romantic suspense, she spends her time playing imaginary games with her children, driving her husband batty with what-if questions, and planning for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.<br />
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One of the best decisions I've made this year is reading the <i style="font-weight: bold;">Hidden Legacy </i>trilogy. When I saw the news that the authors were releasing more novels, I was ecstatic. The new books will follow Nevada's sister Catalina and we have met Catalina's potential LI in <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27422533-wildfire" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Wildfire </a>(book 3), so I'm looking forward to the romance and seeing how Catalina navigates around her powerful magic.<br />
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Nick <a href="http://romanceseverafter.blogspot.com/2018/09/samantha-youngs-on-dublin-street-has.html" target="_blank">posted the new cover</a> for Samantha Young's On Dublin Street yesterday, have you seen it? It's the cutest thing ever! I really loved the old cover because it captured the sensuality of the story, but I've always loved good illustrated covers and I adore this new one too. Would be fun to have that one in paperback.<br />
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<b>Publication Date:</b> November 13th 2018</div>
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Skye Copeland is on paid leave from her broadcasting job after accidentally drawing a wiener on the traffic map.<br />
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Skye isn’t laughing. She needs this job. And that’s the only reason she’s willing to chase down a story in her least favorite place—that hell on earth known as Vermont.<br />
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Things are about to go boom.</blockquote>
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What do you think? I <i>love</i> the purple colour in the title font and the cover girl's nails. And didn't the cover girl look a bit like Isla Fisher from the side? Hmm.<br />
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I'm SO excited to finally read Benito's story! He charmed me so much in Bountiful. And now that I know that his story will be a second chance romance? </div>
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Samantha Young's super popular On Dublin Street has gotten a make-over. I'm excited to share it with you all.</div>
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Click below to see the brand new cover for the ebook AND a fun extra!</div>
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<b>Series:</b> On Dublin Street #1<br />
<b>Publication Date:</b> December 31st 2012<br />
<b>Publisher:</b> Berkley Publishing<br />
<b>Genres:</b> Contemporary Romance<br />
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Jocelyn Butler has been hiding from her past for years. But all her secrets are about to be laid bare ...
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Four years ago, Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. Her solitary life is working well - until she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street, where she meets a man who shakes her carefully guarded world to its core.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 14.2pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sighing, Braden shrugged his shoulders back and looked up at the sky, squinting against the sunlight. Decked out in a three-piece suit on a hot day like this didn’t ease his growing frustration with his plan to sell La Cour. No one knew he was thinking of selling La Cour except Thomas Prendergast, a fellow restaurateur. A successful one. If any of his business associates knew Braden was selling La Cour they’d think he was nuts. The restaurant had a world-class chef and a stellar reputation. And it made money. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">He glanced back at the restaurant. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Come on, Thomas, make up your mind, man.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Braden’s phone beeped in his pocket. He pulled it out and glanced at the digital reminder informing him he had a meeting in twenty minutes with one of his managers at Douglas Carmichael & Co, the estate agency his grandfather built up from the ground up to become one of the primary agencies in the Lothians. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Braden dipped his head and looked down into the face of a woman, her skin bright from the sunlight, her eyes narrowed to slits as she squinted against the sun behind his head. There was a surprised disgruntlement in her expression. Clearly she assumed this was her black cab. Braden prepared to disabuse her of the notion but stopped. His father taught him that reading people, and by that he meant all the things they didn’t say with their mouths but did with their bodies and eyes, was the key to success in business. Braden read stubbornness in her features he could make out and in the obstinate tension she held in her shoulders. He was in no mood for stubbornness or fighting over a bloody cab after his meeting with Thomas had come to no satisfactory conclusion.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Relieved she didn’t stall them, Braden got in after her and immediately gave the cab driver their first destination. His sister, Ellie, lived on Dublin Street in a flat he’d renovated and then gifted to her. Ellie was his half-sister—they shared the same father. She’d never had it particularly easy from their dad. That was putting it politely. Douglas Carmichael was a negligent bastard and despite the fact that he and Braden had finally become friends of a sort before he died, Braden had never forgiven him for his treatment of Ellie. The guilt Douglas should have felt transferred to Braden, and he’d done everything he could to make sure her life was easier, and that she knew he cared. Giving her the flat meant she could concentrate on that PhD she was studying for. Braden might think the PhD impractical, but it made her happy, and in the end that was all that mattered. He also liked having her close to the estate agency which was on Dundas Street. Anytime he was in the area, which was more often than not, he could drop by to see Els. Braden was lucky to call Ellie not only his sister, but one of his closest friends, and it was nice to escape the stress of his business life at least for ten minutes when he stopped by for a coffee with her.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Braden decided he’d get the cab driver to stop at the top of Dublin Street, burl around and come back toward Dundas Street. It would be easier to drop him off first but it was ingrained in him to never let a woman pay for anything, so he’d drop off the unexpected passenger so he could pay the fare.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">“Thanks I guess,” the woman answered from his left, the words sardonic. It wasn’t the tone that drew his attention. It was the husky, sexy voice and the American accent.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Glancing in interest at her, Braden almost did a double take. She was attractive. Very. So busy checking her out he asked somewhat stupidly, “You’re an American?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">She turned to him and as soon as their eyes met Braden felt his blood heat with the impact. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Jesus fucking Christ</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">. Intelligent, exotic, feline gray eyes appraised him as she tucked a loose strand of dark-blonde hair behind her ear. Her hair was long and pulled back in a pony-tail, giving him an unhindered view of a graceful neck and an arresting face. For some reason he couldn’t look away.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Watching her eyes drop to his body, drinking him in, Braden was intrigued. He was used to women looking at him. He was a big guy and he worked out and he’d had no complaints from women. He wasn’t, however, used to a woman appearing so consternated by the fact that she was checking him out. He raised an eyebrow, curious about her.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">“Yeah, I’m American.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">That voice</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">. He shifted in his seat. She really did have the sexiest voice he’d ever heard. He wanted to hear it again. “Just visiting?” Braden murmured.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">“Nope.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">“Then you’re a student?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Whatever she heard in his tone it made her tense. Braden envied her casual, light clothing in this heat and thanked God for throwing her in his path on a day so hot in Scotland it had caused the American to wear those tiny shorts. </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 14.2pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">True, she wasn’t his usual type. Most of his girlfriends, including his current girlfriend Holly, and his ex-wife Analise, were tall, slender platinum blondes. The American was the opposite of every woman he’d ever dated.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">And yet… she was beyond appealing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">She had surprisingly large breasts for such a delicately built woman—big boobs, wee waist, and another surprise were those gorgeous legs of hers. They were shapely and long despite her small stature. Hot blood rushed southwards. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Bloody Nora</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">When Braden finally dragged his eyes up to her expressive face he noted the raised eyebrow. He’d been caught eating her up and she did not look impressed. Amused, he grinned at her. Usually this would incur a responding grin. Instead the brat rolled her eyes at him. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">“I was a student,” she answered, and Braden’s ears warmed to the purr of her dulcet voice. “I live here. Dual citizenship.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">“You’re part Scottish?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">She gave him a barely-there nod and seemed intent to not look at him. He smiled inwardly, feeling anticipation he hadn’t felt in a while, and definitely not over a woman. It was the anticipation of a challenge. Women came quite easily to him and it certainly made life less difficult. Life was stressful enough in business. But he couldn’t argue with what this strange, inexplicable feeling toward the American.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">He’d never felt instant attraction like it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Braden eyed her and grew even more dangerously hot at the idea of turning that willful glint in her stunning eyes soft with need as he explored every inch of her.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">He shifted in his seat again, disappointment settling over him when he belatedly remembered he was seeing someone else. Since he wasn’t the kind of man to ask for another woman’s number while he was in a relationship that meant he’d have to ignore whatever was between him and the American.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Bugger. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The timing was fucked.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">He couldn’t have her. Eyeing her mouth, despite knowing that conversation—or anything—was pointless, he found himself asking, “What do you do now that you’ve graduated?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">She shot him a look out of the corner of her eyes and it seemed to hold more than a hint of disdain. “What do you do? I mean, when you’re not manhandling women into cabs?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">It occurred to Braden that a man knew he was really bored with life when he got a kick out of a woman’s condescension. “What do you think I do?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">“I’m thinking lawyer. Answering questions with questions, manhandling…”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> “I’m not a lawyer. But you could be. I seemed to recall a question answered with a question. And that,” he gestured to her full mouth, wondering how she’d taste, “That’s a definite smirk.” His voice was thick with want and he knew she heard it in the way her eyes flared as their gazes met.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Yeah, she felt the heat too.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The air in the cab was suddenly heavy with sexual tension. An undeniable, incredible electricity that Braden really fucking wanted to explore. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">As awful as it was, he was cursing the existence of Holly, his current girlfriend, to hell in that moment. What he had with Holly wasn’t special. It was just fun. But it was exclusive. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Shit.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The American not only looked away but seemed to deliberately lean her whole body away from him as she stared out at the passing traffic. As he watched her attempt to create a distance between them with silence, his eyes caressed the sharp sweep of her jawline and the smoothness of her olive skin. She had great skin. Skin that told of her age, and it suddenly occurred to him that the American was quite young, probably ages with Ellie. He hadn’t realized at first because she had seemed attractively self-possessed. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Now she seemed uncomfortable… perhaps inexperienced?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">It should have put him off.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">It didn’t. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Whoever she was, however she was, Braden was intrigued.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">He wanted to work her out.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">“Are you shy?” He asked trying not to sound like a condescending prick.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">She turned to him with a bemused smile. “Excuse me?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Not shy then. He eyed her carefully. She wasn’t as easy to read as he’d first thought. He liked that. “Are you shy?” he repeated to be polite, already knowing the answer to that question was no. She was something, but it wasn’t shy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">“Why would you think that?” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">He decided to see just how self-possessed she really was. “Most women would be taking advantage of my imprisonment in the taxi with them—chew my ear off, shove their phone number in my face…as well as other things.” His eyes instantly lowered to her lush breasts, letting her know he thought they were well worthy of the attention.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Anticipating either a blush or a scowl when he drew his eyes back to her face, Braden was taken aback to find her grinning at him. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Fuck</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">. Her smile hit him with more of an impact than her sexy body. She had one helluva sweet smile. “Wow, you really think a lot of yourself.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">He grinned back. “I’m just speaking from experience.”</span></div>
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<b>Series:</b> The Ones Who Got Away #3</div>
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<b>Publication Date:</b> January 1st 2019</div>
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Taryn Landry was there that awful night fourteen years ago when Long Acre changed from the name of a town to the title of a national tragedy. Everyone knows she lost her younger sister. No one knows it was her fault. Since then, psychology professor Taryn has dedicated her life’s work to preventing something like that from ever happening again. Falling in love was never part of the plan...</div>
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Shaw Miller has spent more than a decade dealing with the fallout of his brother’s horrific actions. After losing everything—his chance at Olympic gold, his family, almost his sanity—he’s changed his name, his look, and he’s finally starting a new life. As long as he keeps a low profile and his identity secret, everything will be okay, right?</div>
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I squealed when I saw the blurb because judging from it, the romance is going to be complicated and angsty, which is definitely how I like my romance.</div>
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Roni Loren is a long-time favourite. Her <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/72119-loving-on-the-edge" target="_blank">Loving on the Edge</a> </i>series is one of the first erotic romances that I've read and loved. While the sexy times in this series are tame in comparison to that in <i style="font-weight: bold;">Loving on the Edge</i>, they are no less sexier. <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36568029-the-one-you-can-t-forget" target="_blank">The One You Can't Forget</a> </i>(book #2 in this series) is also one of my favourite reads this year. </div>
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Series: Ravenswood #1<br />
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<i>A Girl Like You</i> was our first book club read. I was so eager that this book got selected as I had heard nothing but praise for Talia Hibbert's books in the romance community. Though I wasn't as impressed by this read as everybody else who has read this read, it has certainly got me interested in reading more from the author.<br />
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Let me begin by talking about what I enjoyed in <i>A Girl Like You</i>. I found the characters to be extremely well-written. In Ruth Kabbah, we have somewhat of an unconventional romance heroine and I found that to be so refreshing. She was on the autism spectrum, was cranky a lot, and liked to be left to her own devices in her apartment. Her career as a comic book artist certainly allowed her to thrive in those personality traits of hers. Ruth also was somewhat of a social pariah and had a reputation for being the town Jezebel. I found Ruth's character to be endearing even when she was acting all grumpy. You guys know how often I read books about grumpy heroes, so it was super refreshing to read about a grumpy heroine instead. When Evan, a retired soldier, enters her life as her next-door neighbor, Ruth's whole life turns upside down. Evan was another character I liked in A Girl Like You. He was such a sweet and gentlemanly guy - totally 100% a soft boy! He was patient, kind and just so compassionate with Ruth. It made my heart melt to watch him try his best to understand her and just be there for her.<br />
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In the end, I don't regret reading <i>A Girl Like You</i> because even with the issues I experienced, I still enjoyed getting to know these characters and the romance put a smile on my face. I need to pick up Ruth's awesome sister's book next!<br />
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<b>Rating: </b>★★★1/2</div>
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The bravest of heroes. The brashest of rebels. The boldest
of lovers. These are the men who risk their hearts and their souls—for the
passionate women who dare to love them…<br />
He is known only as The Rook. A man with no name, no past, no memories. He
awakens in a mass grave, a magnificent dragon tattoo on his muscled forearm the
sole clue to his mysterious origins. His only hope for survival—and
salvation—lies in the deep, fiery eyes of the beautiful stranger who finds him.
Who nurses him back to health. And who calms the restless demons in his soul…<br />
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A LEGENDARY LOVE</b><br />
Lorelei will never forget the night she rescued the broken dark angel in the
woods, a devilishly handsome man who haunts her dreams to this day. Crippled as
a child, she devoted herself to healing the poor tortured man. And when he
left, he took a piece of her heart with him. Now, after all these years, The
Rook has returned. Like a phantom, he sweeps back into her life and avenges
those who wronged her. But can she trust a man who’s been branded a rebel, a
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Honestly, I don't know how to review this book. It was slow to start but gripping enough to hold my attention, and by the time I finished the book I could say that I loved it, but I'm still uncomfortable with some parts of the story.<br />
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I'm not usually a fan of books that start with the main characters meeting as children, but I was surprisingly fine with that happening in this book, even when that covered the first four chapters (Chapter 5 began with a twenty year gap). The author did a great job showing a strong bond between fourteen-year-old Lorelai and the boy she rescued from the side of the road, whom she named Ash since he suffered from amnesia and couldn't remember who he was. I was as devastated as Lorelai when Ash disappeared.<br />
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Lorelai is the queen of my heart. I love her so much. She has a kind heart (she rescues strays and injured animals and nurse them back to health), she is loyal to her loved ones, and she has a strong spirit. It is a wonder how she could still remain resilient in the face of adversity considering her brother crippled her as a child and continued to torment her until adulthood. I also love her relationship with her sister-in-law, Veronica.<br />
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Having read almost all the books in <i><b>Victorian Rebels</b></i>, I'm familiar with the violence in these stories. The main characters in <i><b>Victorian Rebels</b></i> are the unluckiest people; they suffered a lot of pain and abuse, and some of them did heinous things to survive their ordeal. Lorelai and Ash were no different.<br />
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That being said, I didn't remember being<i> this</i> wary of the heroes in the previous books but I did with Ash, who finally returned to Lorelai not as Ash but as the notorious pirate and wanted criminal, The Rook.<br />
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For context, Ash disappeared while on an errand with Lorelai's brother one day, and Lorelai never saw him again until twenty years later when an unknown man appeared on her wedding day, murdered her brother, and kidnapped her.<br />
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There were many questions raised as the story progressed: <i>who in Hades was "Ash"? What really happened to him on the day he left? How did he become The Rook? </i>These questions were also the reason I stayed throughout the story, I couldn't stand not knowing. I sure as heck didn't stay for The Rook because he didn't impress me at all. He forced Lorelai to marry him on his ship, kept threatening to consummate their marriage and saying shitty things like <i>"One cannot rape one's wife", </i>wouldn't let her and Veronica (yes, he kidnapped Veronica too) go free no matter how many times they begged.<br />
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Yes, The Rook was an asshole who milked <i>"I'm a big bad pirate, I have no mercy, you might as well obey me" </i>for all its worth.<br />
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<b><i>"I can offer more than money, you know." Casually, he lifted his arms to scrub at his hair.</i></b> <br />
<b><i>Lorelai made a rude noise. "You have no past, no country, no family, no compassion. No kindness. You won't even claim a name. Just what do you have that could possibly entice me?"</i></b></blockquote>
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Lorelai took none of his shit.<br />
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Sure, he didn't actually carry on his threats, even made a deal that he wouldn't come to her unless she made the first move, but that didn't make him less of an asshole.<br />
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Overall, it would have been a solid 4 star read had The Rook not do and say some things he did and said. I did end up rooting for the romance in the end, though, so now<br />
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Funnily, <b><i>The Duke with the Dragon Tattoo </i></b>is my favourite out of all the books (so far; I still haven't read <b><i>The Scot Beds His Wife</i></b>, so there's still a chance this might <i>not</i> be my favourite) despite its shortcomings. You don't need to have read the previous five to be able to enjoy this book because it works as a standalone but I reckon it will give a higher emotional impact if you have at least read the first book because many things are revealed in this one.<br />
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Whether she’s writing about Celtic Druids, Victorian bad boys, or brash Irish FBI Agents, Kerrigan Byrne uses her borderline-obsessive passion for history, her extensive Celtic ancestry, and her love of Shakespeare in every book. She lives at the base of the Rocky Mountains with her handsome husband and three lovely teenage girls, but dreams of settling on the Pacific Coast. Her Victorian Rebels novels include The Highwayman and The Highlander.<br />
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I'm here again to share with you another book that I'm willing to offer my future seventhborn (since my future first- until sixth- babies are all booked) for the chance to read it now now <i>now</i>. </div>
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<b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39995835-archangel-s-prophecy" target="_blank">Archangel's Prophecy</a></b></div>
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<b>Series:</b> Guild Hunter #11</div>
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<b>Genres: </b>Paranormal Romance<br />
<b>Publisher:</b> Berkley</div>
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<b>Publication Date:</b> October 20th 2018</div>
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<b>Return to New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh’s darkly passionate Guild Hunter world, where human-turned-angel Elena Deveraux, consort to Archangel Raphael, is thrust center stage into an eons-old prophecy....</b><br />
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Midnight and dawn, Elena’s wings are unique among angelkind…and now they’re failing. The first mortal to be turned into an immortal in angelic memory, she’s regressing. Becoming more and more human. Easier to hurt. Easier to kill.<br />
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Elena and Raphael must unearth the reason for the regression before it’s too late and Elena falls out of the sky. Yet even as they fight a furious battle for Elena’s very survival, violent forces are gathering in New York and across the world.<br />
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In China, the Archangel Favashi is showing the first signs of madness. In New York, a mysterious sinkhole filled with lava swallows a man whole. In Africa, torrential monsoon rains flood rolling deserts. And in Elena’s mind whispers a haunting voice that isn’t her own.<br />
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This time, survival may not be possible…not even for the consort of an archangel.</blockquote>
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UGH I'm so impatient for this book! Still a bit sad that my Wish on Netgalley doesn't seem to have any chance of being granted (I mean I know the function's kaput so I shouldn't be as disappointed but <i>still</i>).<br />
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Anyway, Elena and Raphael are one of my favourite couples and I'm ready to be reunited with them again. They're both so fiercely protective over each other, they command respect every time they enter a room, and they're each other's strength and weakness. They are truly <i>that</i> power couple. Also, the blurb gave me chills. Elena's a baby immortal and now she's regressing??? What is happening??? And oh my god, what is going on with Favashi???<br />
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Believe it or not, I've been consistently reading Nalini Singh since <a href="http://romanceseverafter.blogspot.com/2018/01/of-archangels-vampires-and-magical.html" target="_blank">the beginning of the year</a> and I have zero regrets. I mentioned in my <a href="http://romanceseverafter.blogspot.com/2018/08/lisas-sunday-update.html" target="_blank">Sunday Update</a> that I'm in the middle of binge-reading <i>Psy-Changeling, </i>and currently I'm on <i>Tangle of Need</i>. Riaz and Adria are truly giving me all the feels right now.<br />
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What's your Can't-Wait Wednesday book?<br />Share with me in the comments!</h2>
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18396300639992346053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6748984379430865385.post-62333624566825031662018-08-28T03:13:00.000-04:002018-08-28T03:13:03.994-04:00Favorite Romance Tropes<div style="text-align: center;">
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Today, I'll be sharing what some of my favorite romance tropes are. I tend to love everything and anything romance and there are lots of tropes that I enjoy, but I decided to limit this list to my 5 favorites. Under each trope, I've also listed some books that are my favorites! I hope you enjoy the post! :)</div>
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1. Fake Relationships</blockquote>
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Ahh fake relationships! Probably my favorite on this list here! I love the predictability of this trope because it's so amusing to watch the couple discuss how their relationship is strictly going to be "fake", but then they are forced into close proximities and can't help falling for each other. It gives me all the butterflies!</div>
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<img alt="Act Like It (London Celebrities, #1)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1437804753l/25750546.jpg" width="201" /> <img alt="Pretending He's Mine (Love on Cue, #2)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1503100424l/35068784.jpg" width="202" /> <img alt="Undercover Attraction (The O'Malleys, #5)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1489127335l/34522290.jpg" width="196" /> <img alt="Luck of the Draw (Chance of a Lifetime #2)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1503419353l/36105094.jpg" width="212" /></div>
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2. Romances That Develop Over Love Letters</blockquote>
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This one is self-explanatory! There is just something about romances that start off through letters that warms my heart. Maybe because there is an air of innocence in these romances? </div>
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<img alt="Love in the Afternoon (The Hathaways, #5)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1402012474l/7491418.jpg" width="198" /> <img alt="Dear Aaron" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1497156593l/35404657.jpg" width="198" /> <img alt="Way Down Deep" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1494535449l/35102510.jpg" width="213" /></div>
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3. Hate to Love</blockquote>
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Who doesn't enjoy a good enemies-to-lovers romance? A book only needs to show a tiny sign of hate-to-love for me to want to devour the book! It's an amusing trope to me because all that so-called "hate" also means lots and lots of banter!</div>
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<img alt="Hate to Want You (Forbidden Hearts, #1)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1479754001l/29422692.jpg" width="198" /> <img alt="The Bastard's Bargain (The O'Malleys, #6)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1503970025l/35393431.jpg" width="196" /> <img alt="Walk of Shame" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1476385317l/32491187.jpg" width="210" /> <img alt="Married By Morning (The Hathaways, #4)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1380326600l/7198269.jpg" width="202" /> <img alt="Every Little Thing (Hart's Boardwalk, #2)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1470673470l/31356463.jpg" width="213" /> <img alt="Midnight Action (Killer Instincts, #5)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1408037098l/18141689.jpg" width="198" /> <img alt="Don't Call Me Cupcake (The Holloway Girls, #1)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1522463311l/35939628.jpg" width="193" /></div>
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4. Single-Dad Hero</blockquote>
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I don't know what it is about fictional single dads, but I find them to be very very very very attractive. I just love seeing the dads interact with the kids. It always makes me fall in love with them!</div>
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Another trope I can't get enough of! It's always lovely to read about characters who seem like they are the complete opposite of each other in personality, but who still manage to fit perfectly together. </div>
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<img alt="About Last Night" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327173323l/13414764.jpg" width="219" /> <img alt="Truly (New York, #1)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1400606139l/21521738.jpg" width="240" /> <img alt="The Love Coupon (Stubborn Hearts, #2)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1515044957l/36456623.jpg" width="201" /> <img alt="Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart (Love By Numbers, #3)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327937357l/11045823.jpg" width="198" /> <img alt="When a Scot Ties the Knot (Castles Ever After, #3)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1424383864l/23739508.jpg" width="198" /> <img alt="Right Wrong Guy (Brightwater #2)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1433546027l/23575442.jpg" width="198" /><br />
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