The wonderful emmalita offered to share this one with me, but when kindle wouldn’t let her, she gifted it instead! Isn’t she the best!? I finally dipped my toe into Penny Reid’s library, and this one was a great place to start. Grin and Beard It is the story of Sienna, America’s Sweetheart and Oscar winning actress (think JLaw but Latina), and Jethro, National Park Ranger and a guy trying to turn his life around. They meet cute, and from that instant attraction the story […]
With Thesaurus Assistance on Synonyms for Trite
Is this what is known as a beach read in that it is something disposable you can follow easily whilst also making sure your toddler doesn’t drown? Bella Andre’s contemporary romance The Way You Look Tonight is easily one of the most obvious, pedestrian, and stereotypically bad novels I have ever read. Book one of a series, The Seattle Sullivans, that I will not only not be reading, it is one I would gladly use volumes of for a campfire. Rafe Sullivan is a physically attractive private detective whose […]
A Historical Romance Set in the Recognizable 1840s! Thank Godtopus!
I don’t know if this was the best Kleypas to start off with, my other Romance readers will have to let me know, but I was not overly enraptured with it, even though its set in my favorite historical decade. There was plenty in this book which had the potential to hook me in, but it felt very by the numbers, even for a book that supposes its turning the tropes on themselves. (I unfortunately have a high bar for that.) Mrs. Julien is going […]
Catch My Disease
This was plugged by @SmartBitches on Twitter as a dystopian romance. Well, I’m working on finding my niche in romance and dystopian is my bag, baby! This seemed like a good match for me with only $1.99 at stake. Lynne Harmony is a CDC scientist and the most prominent survivor of the Scorpius bacterium, a plague that has turned most of the population into corpses or “Rippers”, who turn into primal killers or tactical psychopaths with the change in their brain chemistry. Lynne got away […]
A classic romance re-read
This will be my first time reviewing a re-read here on the CBR, but with this re-read I realized, I did not remember this book at all. 2013 was a heady time for me. I was following the CBR for the first time and discovering all sorts of new authors, especially in my favorite genre of romance. The ladies on here kept mentioning Lisa Kleypas so I finally went to the library and got one out. Fast forward to a month later… and I’ve read […]
Ranger will always be my book boyfriend
I sort of gave up on Stephanie Plum a few books ago. I think I was in the middle of something else when the latest book came out and Mom had to get her copy back to the library before I could read it, and besides, Mom said it was kind of “meh”, so I just never really pursued it. But recently Mom read the latest installment and said Janet’s got her groove back, so while I’m waiting for the digital copy to become available, […]
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