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As I’ve Said. Born Romantic.

Headliners by Lucy Parker

December 5, 2019 by emmalita 3 Comments

Lucy Parker’s London Celebrity series has been one of my favorite romance series of the past few years. In general, they have been loosely connected, with characters from previous books showing up in later books. However, until Headliners, they have been stand alone books. In order to understand an important division between the MCs in Headliners you will need to have read The Austen Playbook. I will do my best to avoid spoilers, but you can assume that Freddy and Griff have ended up happily together. Near the end of The Austen Playbook, a Carlson family secret came out and was scooped by […]

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12/5/2019 | emmalita's CBR11 Review No:82 |
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| Tags: Headliners, London Celebrities, Lucy Parker, NetGalley | Category: Romance | 3 Comments

Oh, it’s a SERIES…. oops.

The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory

December 4, 2019 by kella Leave a Comment

I did not realize until I was finished this book, that it’s actually #2 in a series. It didn’t really matter in terms of this story, but there’s a part of me that gets really irked by reading books out of order (even if the connection is loose). The Proposal starts at a Dodgers game, where Nikole is surprised by a scoreboard proposal from her boyfriend of five months… in which he even spelt her name wrong. She has no problem refusing the proposal, but an instant media frenzy begins. She is mercifully rescued and whisked away by Carlos, who is […]

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12/4/2019 | kella's CBR11 Review No:43 |
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| Tags: chick lit, Fiction, jasmine guillory, Romance?, The Proposal | Category: Fiction, Romance | 0 Comments

Cute little novella, really liked this one.

Can't Escape Love (Reluctant Royals, #2.6) by Alyssa Cole

December 3, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was stinking adorable. I enjoyed it so much! I’ve been waiting since I read the first book for Reggie’s story, back when we first heard about her GirlsWithGlasses website. That felt like something you don’t just introduce and then leave alone. I would say that I wish she would have gotten a full book rather than a novella, except that I think this book was exactly the right size. Any longer and it would have dragged. Reggie reaches out to an internet acquaintance when he takes down the archive of his livestreams, an archive which she had previously been […]

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12/3/2019 | narfna's CBR11 Review No:96 |
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| Tags: Alyssa Cole, can't escape love, narfna, novella, Reluctant Royals, Romance? | Category: Romance | 0 Comments

Sex Mystery sounds like a genre I want to read much more of.

Hither, Page (Page & Sommers, #1) by Cat Sebastian

December 3, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

Well, the sex part of this certainly wasn’t as prevalent as the mystery, but it did deliver on Sebastian’s other promise, which was “Agatha Christie, but make it gay.” Small English village, check. The mysterious murder of one of their own, check. The discovery that the small village is hiding a bunch of secrets, check. An outsider coming in to unearth those secrets, check. Lonely spy falls in love with traumatized country doctor, check. This was very sweet in terms of the romance, and pretty clever in terms of the mystery (although I think I would have liked it better […]

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12/3/2019 | narfna's CBR11 Review No:92 |
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| Tags: Cat Sebastian, historical fiction, historical mystery, historical romance, Hither Page, m/m, m/m romance, mystery, narfna, page & sommers | Category: Mystery, Romance | 0 Comments

I Really Need to Find a Trivia Team

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

December 1, 2019 by Jen K Leave a Comment

This is the kind of book I wanted and expected when I picked up Matchmaking for Beginners. This was sweet and charming, and absolutely perfect for the moment. Nina never knew her dad and her mother is a world traveling photographer. Nina, on the other hand, is perfectly happy with a relatively contained life and uses books as her escape from reality. She rents a guest house which is perfectly arranged for her needs, has a cat, trivia team and book clubs, and works at a local bookstore in a neighborhood in LA. She has a few close friends, she […]

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12/1/2019 | Jen K's CBR11 Review No:90 |
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| Tags: Abbi Waxman, contemporary, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill | Category: Fiction, Romance | 0 Comments

Give a little love

The Love Letter by Anika Aldamuy Denise

November 29, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

What do you feel when you find a letter on the ground? One that has a poetic love note attached? Why, you feel all sorts of things! And when Hedgehog, Bunny and Squirrel find such a letter, some mix-ups might occur, but in the end, they all learn what The Love Letter is really about. Anika Aldamuy Denise’s story about friendship is sweet and cozy. While a bit predictable to the adult reader, a child might be surprised about who wrote (and why they wrote) the special letter that sets off a chain of lovely (and sometimes even a little […]

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11/29/2019 | BlackRaven's CBR11 Review No:502 |
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| Tags: Anika Aldamuy Denise, Lucy Ruth Cummins | Category: Children's, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Mystery, Romance | 0 Comments

Prince Harry in disguise?

A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole

November 26, 2019 by Sophia 2 Comments

I’ve seen Alyssa Cole books around for a little while, and they looked interesting. I was going to read Duke by Default but a scene in the beginning turned me off. I didn’t ever get into it. So, instead, I eventually picked up A Prince on Paper (2019). I think I was intrigued because the character of Johan reminded me of Prince Harry and I wondered if that was done on purpose. Now I realize I probably should have started with the first book in the series. After some events in A Princess in Theory that I did not read, Nya is coming home to Thesolo […]

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11/26/2019 | Sophia's CBR11 Review No:37 |
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| Tags: Alyssa Cole, Sophia | Category: Fiction, Romance | 2 Comments

Mysterious as the dark side of the Moon

The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan by Sherry Thomas

November 24, 2019 by Malin 1 Comment

Official book description: CHINA, 484 A.D. A Warrior in Disguise: All her life, Mulan has trained for one purpose: to win the duel that every generation in her family must fight. If she prevails, she can reunite a pair of priceless heirloom swords separated decades earlier, and avenge her father, who was paralyzed in his own duel. Then a messenger from the Emperor arrives, demanding that all families send one soldier to fight the Rouran invaders in the north. Mulan’s father cannot go. Her brother is just a child. So she ties up her hair, takes up her sword, and […]

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11/24/2019 | Malin's CBR11 Review No:81 |
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| Tags: 5th Century China, cbr11, family feud, historical fiction, Malin, Mulan, retelling, Sherry Thomas, The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan, war, Young Adult | Category: Fiction, History, Romance, Young Adult | 1 Comment
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