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That’s One Way to Wake Up and Smell the Roses

That Scandalous Summer by Meredith Duran

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I picked this one up because after reading Fool Me Twice, since I wanted to read the story of the Duke of Marwick’s brother and Elizabeth Chudderley.  However, I think I may have been in more of a Loretta Chase mood since I also picked up Miss Wonderful around the same time to learn more about Alastair Carsington, the brother whose engagement Rupert refers to mournfully a few times in Mr. Impossible. Basically, it is not that this is a bad romance novel, but I think I was in the mood for a more humorous romance.  Not that this one […]

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6/21/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:116 |

Random Pennyroyal Green Selection

It Happened One Midnight by Julie Anne Long

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I’ve read another book since having finished Julie Anne Long’s It Happened One Midnight, so I have forgotten some of the particulars, but I enjoyed another entry of the Pennyroyal Green series that seems so endless. This particular book, the eighth, is the story of Jonathan Redmond (third son of an aristocrat of unremembered rank) and Thomasina de Bellesteros, a popular, mysterious and attractive women who entertains in an eccentric Countess’ salon every week. Jonathan Redmond is a rake, or so his character description and narrative implies, though we have little evidence in the actual story. He mentions having been […]

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6/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:21 |

Avatar + Arabian Nights

The Hundredth Queen by Emily R. King

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I got this book from my Kindle Unlimited subscription. It is marked as being for grades 8 and up. In The Hundreth Queen, Kalinda is an 18 year old girl growing up in a temple of sisters. She’s had fevers all of her life, which the healer in the temple “cures” them by giving her a daily tonic. The temple is visited by the rajah, the ruler in the community who has 99 wives. He chooses Kalinda to be his 100th. It is necessary for me to include a trigger warning for this book: the rajah is not a nice […]

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6/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:4 |

Just a Couple of Guys Being Bros

Him by Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy

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3.5 stars out of 5! Round 3 of my adventures in hockey romance this year, and Him has definitely been the best one so far! Am I going to read the sequel for it, titled Us? Mmm, I’m not so sure yet. But potentially. Him is a m/m romance between two long-time hockey bros, Jamie and Wes, who became fast friends over the years, spending their summers at hockey camp together, until after an awkward interaction things suddenly went cold between them. A few years later back at camp though, with one of the boys out and gay, and the other questioning, they find […]

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6/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:30 |

Fifty shades of f*cked up

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

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I am facing my fortieth birthday by setting out a number of different goals. One of these is to read 50 Books That Every Woman Should Read Before She Turns 40. I realize this list is pretty arbitrary, and nothing says that more than their inclusion of Fifty Shades of Grey (2011) by E.L. James. However, I am impressed by most of the other choices and I’m definitely a completist. I figured, at the very least, Fifty Shades would be a quick and easy read. I had such low expectations coming into this book that I can honestly say it wasn’t as godawful as I […]

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6/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:26 |

We are all migrants through time

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

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I found Exit West by Mohsin Hamid through two different sources. First, it was on President Obama’s 2017 recommended reading list. This was already more than enough incentive for me to start reading, but it was also on NPR’s Best Books of 2017, which has become one of my favorite sources for finding new books. Before I began reading, I only had the vague notion that this was a story about refugees, which seems especially relevant in today’s world. I was expecting a humanizing story of the danger and struggle refugees have as they run from violence and war–looking for a safe place […]

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6/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:25 |

Could Someone Send This to Chris Hemsworth as a script?

Mr. Impossible by Loretta Chase

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I don’t usually visualize characters that specifically when reading, having vague ideas of “attractive man” in my head.  This novel, however, proved the exception, since I couldn’t help but see Rupert Carsington as Chris Hemsworth.  More specifically, Thor: Ragnarok Chris Hemsworth with a smidge of the huntsman from Winter’s War (because of the smirk).  Rupert is another one of Chase’s hellions, never one to shy away from a fight, someone who will help the weak, surprises other characters with the occasional tidbit of knowledge when he usually plays the “dumb hothead” role, gives others nicknames rather than using their names, […]

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6/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:110 |

Getting Back into the Swing of Things with a Sure Thing

The Lawrence Browne Affair by Cat Sebastian

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I’ve been gone for a bit (no books read or reviewed in all of May), but I found my reading mojo once again. All I needed was a little break, and a kick start with a book very likely to be right up my alley. The Lawrence Browne Affair is the second in a series by Cat Sebastian. Like The Soldier’s Scoundrel, it is a historical m/m romance set in Regency England. This time around we’re following Georgie Turner, brother of Jack from The Soldier’s Scoundrel, as he is on the run from his underworld boss after having double crossed him. Jack sets him up with […]

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6/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:19 |


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