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A choice between family and being your authentic self

Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu

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Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu isn’t quite a romance but digs into what it means to love. Lucky marries her gay friend Kris to appease her family and remain accepted by her Sri Lankan immigrant community in Boston. A marriage of convenience that works well on the surface. Everyone believes she married for love and escaped the fate of an arranged one. Kris and Lucky can be who they are together in LGBTQ spaces, taking home whoever they want. But things get tricky when Nisha comes back into Lucky’s life. Nisha is her childhood best friend and […]

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6/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

A space rebel romance

Nightchaser by Amanda Bouchet

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As a big fan of Amanda Bouchet’s Kingmaker Chronicles, I was pumped for her new book Nightchaser. This is the first book in her new sci-fi space series, which centers on Tess Bailey. She is a space captain with a troubled past who has become a sort of Robin Hood in space. She and her crew steal vaccines and supplies to give to children in need. At the start of the book, we find her on the run with a stolen lab. The Dark Watch is closing in and attempting to retrieve the lab by any means necessary. She doesn’t […]

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6/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Wonderful Follow Up to Sorry Not Sorry

It's Not You It's Him by Sophie Ranald

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Please note that I received this book via NetGally for free. This did not affect my rating or review. This book will be published on June 18, 2019.  This was hands down one of my favorite reads this year. I already read “Sorry Not Sorry” and was fretting about what would come next for Tansy. Ranald does such a great job of showing Tansy during her school years, present day, and in select moments during her relationship with her ex Renzo. Ranald also does a good job of working in some sub-plots dealing with Tansy’s family as well as her […]

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6/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:132 |

Should Have Stuck with One POV; Also the Book Was Pretty Grim

Hope and Other Punchlines by Julie Buxbaum

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I really wish I had liked this one more. Too bad that it was just full of cliches and one main character (Noah) I disliked from beginning to end. I thought Abbi was fine, but she honestly needed a life since she seemed wholly dependent on her ex-best friend Cat to give her a social life. And I also kind of hated that Abbi was fine with forgiving Noah and his whole blackmail thing, but didn’t want to try to make up with Cat. I don’t know, I think Buxbaum just dropped that whole thing and it didn’t make sense […]

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6/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:129 |

A unique approach to a romance plot that really works

Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

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This is a slow burn love story, the kind that takes eight years to finally come together, the kind that has both main characters taking years to realize that the “casual” thing they started when they were teens is, in fact, the most important relationship in their lives. Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov meet in December 2008, when they are both 17, at the world junior hockey tournament. They’re both the best players on their respective teams, sure to be drafted by the NHL that spring, and destined to be rivals. Shane and Ilya have nothing in common, other than […]

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6/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:20 |

I’m so glad your first historical romance in several years was actually GOOD, Ms. Long!

Lady Derring Takes a Lover by Julie Anne Long

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From Goodreads: A mistress. A mountain of debt. A mysterious wreck of a building. Delilah Swanpool, Countess of Derring, learns the hard way that her husband, “Dear Dull Derring,” is a lot more interesting—and perfidious—dead than alive. It’s a devil of an inheritance, but in the grand ruins of the one building Derring left her, are the seeds of her liberation. And she vows never again to place herself at the mercy of a man. But battle-hardened Captain Tristan Hardy is nothing if not merciless. When the charismatic naval hero tracks a notorious smuggler to a London boarding house known […]

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6/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:25 |

Kissing and scheming and spaceship stealing

Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik

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3.5 stars From Goodreads: As the seventh of nine children, Ada von Hasenberg knows that her only value to House von Hasenberg is as a political pawn in an arranged marriage. But after watching two of her older sisters get auctioned off to horrible men, Ada refuses to play her part. She flees off-planet and disappears for two years. Ada’s father, fed up with her rebellion, offers a bounty for her safe return. The universe is a big place, but mercs are everywhere, and Ada is caught. With the merc ship full, she’s forced to share a cell with Marcus […]

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6/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:24 |

“And it wasn’t like JT was the Buddha or some sage. He was just another human who was trying to figure it all out, same as she was. But he’d just said all the right words in a row.”

Hot in Hellcat Canyon by Julie Anne Long

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Did you ever start book one of a series, or of a new to you author, and a few pages in, you’ve got to take a break and log in to your library and see how many of their other books you can put on hold? Yeah, so that was me, about fifteen pages into Hot In Hellcat Canyon, a contemporary romance, by Julie Anne Long.  And it turns out, Ms. Long is not exactly a new to me author – Goodreads tells me I have, in fact, read one of her historicals (I Kissed an Earl), and that I immediately then added […]

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