A Match Made for Thanksgiving

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A Match Made for Thanksgiving by Jackie Lau

January 18, 2020 by Jen K Leave a Comment

I saw faintingviolet’s review for the third novella in this series, and she mentioned that in the first novella, the parents had ambushed all four of their adult children with Thanksgiving set ups which were based on romance novellas tropes – the set ups were a disaster but I was curious to see what tropes their parents had tried to force, and picked the Thanksgiving novella as a result. Nick is the middle brother in his family, and lives in Toronto. He loves the city […]

Short reads to finish off my reading year (and help me to finally complete my double Cannonball)

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A Match Made for Thanksgiving by Jackie Lau

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December 29, 2019 by Malin 6 Comments

Night of the Scoundrel by Kelly Bowen Rating: 4 stars In this novella which concludes Kelly Bowen’s The Devils of Dover series, we finally find out more about the mysterious King, who has been popping up in Bowen’s books for a long time. A shadowy London crime lord with connections to smuggling, art forgery, theft and all sorts of other untoward business, he is not a man to cross. He discovers that a man he believed to be dead, a man who ruined his childhood and set him […]

A Romance for Canadian Thanksgiving

A Match Made for Thanksgiving by Jackie Lau

October 12, 2019 by Emmalita 1 Comment

One of my favorite Canadian romance authors, Jackie Lau, has seen a lot of holiday romances featuring white characters, but very few with biracial or Asian characters. She decided to correct that with a series of four novellas, one for each of the Wong siblings. The Wongs grew up in the small Ontario town of Mosquito Bay. The first novella centers around Canadian Thanksgiving, which is this weekend. This is a sweet, fluffy novella with low conflict, some steamy sex, baking, and a playboy who […]

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