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“Sexuality is complicated. It’s not static. People change and sexuality can change too.”

Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Bright Falls, #2) by Ashley Herring Blake

December 28, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

Thanks to NetGalley and Berkley for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. This was a teeny bit of a disappointment for me after having loved Delilah Green Doesn’t Care so much, but it was still good! Just not a favorite. We’re following Delilah’s Type-A sister, Astrid, and another character named Jordan as they fall in lurve. Astrid has been hired as the designer for the renovation of the Everwood Inn, a locally famous inn that is supposedly haunted. They are televising the renovation […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: ARCs, Ashley Herring Blake, astrid parker doesn't fail, bright falls, Contemporary Romance, f/f, LGBTQIA, narfna, Romance, sapphic

narfna's CBR14 Review No:234 · Genres: Romance · Tags: ARCs, Ashley Herring Blake, astrid parker doesn't fail, bright falls, Contemporary Romance, f/f, LGBTQIA, narfna, Romance, sapphic ·
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Finishing up The Brown Sisters’ Trilogy

Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

December 27, 2022 by teresaelectro 2 Comments

After reading Get a Life, Chloe Brown, I knew I just had to read the trilogy by Talia Hibbert. I often buy books and forget I own them. So I was delighted when I discovered I already owned the second novel, Take a Hint, Dani Brown, as an e-book. Thanks past me! Chloe’s sister Dani aka Danika is the lead in the second novel. She is a bisexual professor who has given up on relationships. She broke up with her ex-girlfriend because things were getting […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: British Romance, Contemporary Romance, interracial romance, rom com, Romance, Talia Hibbert, the Brown Sisters, trilogy

teresaelectro's CBR14 Review No:14 · Genres: Romance · Tags: British Romance, Contemporary Romance, interracial romance, rom com, Romance, Talia Hibbert, the Brown Sisters, trilogy ·
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No one in their right mind would unironically refer to a sexy grown man as sötnos

Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade

December 11, 2022 by Malin Leave a Comment

Maria and Peter share one unforgettable night of passion together, which leads to some awkwardness after Maria leaves without so much as a note the next morning. They then discover that they’re about to become co-stars on the incredibly popular fantasy show Gods of the Gates. As their characters’ storylines involved being ship-wrecked on a small island by themselves, Maria and Peter, along with a small film crew are basically supposed to stay on location for years, and after they work through the awkwardness of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: actors, cbr14, Contemporary Romance, fat positive, Malin, Olivia Dade, Ship Wrecked, Spoiler Alert, Swedish

Malin's CBR14 Review No:46 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: actors, cbr14, Contemporary Romance, fat positive, Malin, Olivia Dade, Ship Wrecked, Spoiler Alert, Swedish ·
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A sadly mediocre romance for me. The dog is great.

The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez

December 4, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

This one starts off with a woman who is experiencing complex grief over the loss of her fiancé two years before being set on the path of healing by a dog jumping through the window of her car. The dog’s name is Tucker, and though he belongs to someone else, his owner isn’t responding to Sloan’s calls and messages. So she decides to keep the dog. Until his owner Jason, who was out of the country, realizes he isn’t where he left him and now […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Abby Jimenez, Contemporary Romance, m/f, narfna, Romance, the happy ever after playlist

narfna's CBR14 Review No:204 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Abby Jimenez, Contemporary Romance, m/f, narfna, Romance, the happy ever after playlist ·
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“The real villain is love: an unstable isotope, constantly undergoing spontaneous nuclear decay. And it will forever go unpunished.”

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

November 28, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

This book was a really fun time and I liked it a lot, but I did feel there were a couple of things that didn’t fully work, so no five stars on this one. While Ali (we have met so I can call her Ali) is so good at dialogue and at characters, and character interaction, there were a couple of tropes and individual incidents that happened that made me stop reading and think to myself, really? But they didn’t hurt the overall story for […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Ali Hazelwood, Contemporary Romance, ladies in STEM, Love on the Brain, m/f, narfna, nasa, Romance, science

narfna's CBR14 Review No:200 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Ali Hazelwood, Contemporary Romance, ladies in STEM, Love on the Brain, m/f, narfna, nasa, Romance, science ·
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“I’d follow a clown into a storm drain if he had a baby goat in pajamas.”

Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez

November 22, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

Objectively Part of Your World is probably closer to four stars, but I had a really good time with it so I’m giving it five. This book was so uplifting and charming and cozy and swoony. Firstly, before we get to plot, probably good to know that this takes place in a very, very, very light sff atmosphere, so there will have to be some suspension of disbelief, but honestly that’s not hard to do here (the idea, I think, was to try to create an approximation […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Abby Jimenez, Contemporary Romance, light sff, m/f, narfna, part of your world, reimaginings, Romance, speculative

narfna's CBR14 Review No:195 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Abby Jimenez, Contemporary Romance, light sff, m/f, narfna, part of your world, reimaginings, Romance, speculative ·
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