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It Takes a Thief by Sloane Steele

Between Two Thieves by Sloane Steele

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In the Counterfeit Capers Series Sloane Steele is going for a feeling like the television show Leverage and as I had just finished binging through the original, I was in just the right mood for what Steele was after. Unfortunately for me these books didn’t quite hit the mark. The basic set-up is Jared and Mia, the children of two notorious conmen and thieves who got away with a Ponzi type scheme decide to use their abilities and access to make as right as they […]

Long Love The King

American Royals by Katharine McPhee

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I read this as part of a library reading challenge: genre I don’t read. I don’t read a lot of romance and, while this won’t change my mind on that, I can appreciate why people like this. Being a mystery fan, I expect that there’s a certain amount of cynicism with the genre. Cynicism towards governance, relationships, general human behavior. I feel like the best mysteries and crime novels tell us about ourselves, as if holding up a cracked but clean mirror. Romance has kind […]

“You durned whippersnapper, ain’t you kids ever heard of casual sex?”

Laws of Attraction by Sarah Title

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Are you looking for a sweet, light summer read that includes a kissing booth staffed by a dog? Title’s got you covered. Plot: Becky was recently dumped, so she’s drinking away her woes in a bar while her best friend encourages her to get over him by getting under someone else. She meets Deke, an attractive guy with a decent sense of humour and it’s on for the night. Becky is a law librarian at a large corporate firm. Deke turns out to be the […]

“Sometimes, being convenient instead of real was exhausting. So maybe from now on, she’d stop.”

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

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Talia Hibbert is a damn treasure. Plot: Eve Brown is a bit of a scatterbrain and has a pathological fear of failure. Only one solution – never try, never fail! Only her parents have had it up to their necks with their adult daughter’s failure to launch, so they hit her with a challenge. Find a job. keep it for a whole year. Then she can have access to her trust fund again. Being on the dramatic side, Eve launches herself out of the house […]

A nice mellow read about decent people getting a happy ending

A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby by Vanessa Riley

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Do you love low stakes diverse regency romances? Then don’t even read this review. You will love this book. Plot: Patience, the daughter of a very powerful plantation owner (black run, no slavery), was swept off her feet by a British aristocrat with a money problem. Arriving in England, she was promptly sequestered in a country home and left to rot while her new husband ran up bills at various gambling establishments and the like. And then he died. Now, his nefarious uncle is trying […]



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