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“Love couldn’t solve everything, but without love, there was nothing to solve.” (Bingo #3!)

40-Love by Olivia Dade

October 19, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I think I laugh the most whenever I read an Olivia Dade romance, her humor hits all the right notes for me. Even when I’m not expecting a laugh, Dade delivers them through her characters who are achingly self-aware, or sometimes not. Following a meet-cute involving a runaway bikini top and the need to keep from flashing nearby children, we get the story of Tess and Lucas. Lucas, 26, a former top-level tennis pro now giving lessons at a Florida resort, fled there after the […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: 40-Love, a little romance, cbr13bingo, faintingviolet, Olivia Dade, read harder, read women, representation matters, sportsball, there's something about marysburg

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:47 · Genres: Romance · Tags: 40-Love, a little romance, cbr13bingo, faintingviolet, Olivia Dade, read harder, read women, representation matters, sportsball, there's something about marysburg ·
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“Brown-eyed sublime being. She of soft, deep cardigan pockets. Bubble-bath taker. Pool jumper. Cheese provider. Sunset glower. Heaven sent.”

Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne

July 1, 2021 by faintingviolet 10 Comments

I can see how Second First Impressions, Sally Thorne’s third book, isn’t going to be a five-star book for many readers – heck it wasn’t for me until quite near the end. But this book hit me in the feelings and had just the right kind of relatively low stakes, emotions are the plot set up for me. I was delighted; I understand if you were not. In this outing Thorne is playing with opposites, both in her protagonists and in the thematic work she […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: a little romance, Anxiety, cbr13bingo, faintingviolet, fauna, sally thorne, Second First Impressions, Turtles

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: a little romance, Anxiety, cbr13bingo, faintingviolet, fauna, sally thorne, Second First Impressions, Turtles ·
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“No. You are divine. You are impossible to get enough of. Perhaps some people would disagree, but those people don’t especially matter, because you’re mine.”

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

June 9, 2021 by faintingviolet 4 Comments

I absolutely adored Act Your Age, Eve Brown. I *think* Take a Hint, Dani Brown is my favorite of the Brown sisters series, but this one certainly gave it a run for its money. In similar fashion to Get a Life, Chloe Brown we are in an enemies to lovers romance (which has grown on me considerably over the past few years) but in Hibbert’s hands it’s really much closer “you annoy me but once I actually get to know you I’m enamored of you” […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: a little romance, Act Your Age Eve Brown, autism spectrum, Brown Sisters, faintingviolet, fat representation, read harder challenge, read women, representation matters, Talia Hibbert, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:24 · Genres: Romance · Tags: a little romance, Act Your Age Eve Brown, autism spectrum, Brown Sisters, faintingviolet, fat representation, read harder challenge, read women, representation matters, Talia Hibbert, we need diverse books ·
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“Then he slid one big, warm hand over the nape of her neck, squeezed, and said, “Don’t look so surprised. You know I love your brain.”

Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

May 29, 2021 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

When I finished Get a Life, Chloe Brown earlier this month I immediately requested Take a Hint, Dani Brown from the library – the reading experience had been that good. When I finished Take a Hint this week, I did the same thing for Act Your Age, Eve Brown and it is currently waiting for me at my local library branch. Talia Hibbert has written some of my favorite reading experiences of the year thus far in this series and I imagine I will be […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: a little romance, faintingviolet, fat representation, read harder challenge, read women, representation matters, Take a Hint Dani Brown, Talia Hibbert, the Brown Sisters, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:22 · Genres: Romance · Tags: a little romance, faintingviolet, fat representation, read harder challenge, read women, representation matters, Take a Hint Dani Brown, Talia Hibbert, the Brown Sisters, we need diverse books ·
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Spiders, Grasshoppers, and Bears, Oh My!

(Trust) Falling for You by Charish Reid

May 12, 2021 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

What an enjoyable snack of a book this was. I was reminded a few days ago that I had bought (Trust) Falling for You as a birthday gift to myself back in February and I snuck it into my weekend reading line up. I was pleasantly surprised to find out it is a novella, I hadn’t realized, but a 120-page story was just the right size for my mood. Charish Reid specializes in writing stories featuring people of color in higher education and their love […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: (Trust) Falling For You, a little romance, Charish Reid, faintingviolet, novella

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:17 · Genres: Romance · Tags: (Trust) Falling For You, a little romance, Charish Reid, faintingviolet, novella ·
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A Steamy Novella that Also Made Me Hungry

Tikka Chance on Me by Suleikha Snyder

October 20, 2020 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

The Pandemic has stolen my ability to focus on long form works, so I went trolling through my digital library to see what I had available in the novella length, thankfully for me at some point I had downloaded Suleikha Snyder’s Tikka Chance on Me. Perfect. I *loved* the first part of this novella. Pinky Grover is a fantastic lead – she’s a feisty, sex-positive Desi heroine that could carry a much larger work on her character’s shoulders. Snyder introduces us via Pinky to Trucker […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: a little romance, cbr12bingo, Desi Romance, novella, pandemic, Suleikha Snyder, Tikka Chance on Me, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR12 Review No:46 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: a little romance, cbr12bingo, Desi Romance, novella, pandemic, Suleikha Snyder, Tikka Chance on Me, we need diverse books ·
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