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“There’s power in finding secrets and blowing them up in a beautiful, bright light.”

Leather & Lark by Brynne Weaver

August 18, 2024 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

The second book in the Ruinous Love Trilogy, Leather & Lark, hinges on a marriage of convenience trope, but that kind of undersells the stakes, this is a marriage of safety and sacrifice. Sure, it’s convenient to keep Lachlan and Rowan alive… but there’s more happening here. This book is way more character driven than its predecessor, but not because the characters are necessarily super strongly developed, but because the plot kind of disappears for a while. Action picks up about two years before the […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Brynne Weaver, cbr16bingo, content warnings necessary, dark romance, Leather & Lark, rings, ruinous love trilogy, serial killer romance

faintingviolet's CBR16 Review No:33 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Brynne Weaver, cbr16bingo, content warnings necessary, dark romance, Leather & Lark, rings, ruinous love trilogy, serial killer romance ·
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“I don’t think I’ll have anywhere left to hide my excuses and these bright, urgent feelings once his gentle light illuminates each of my dark corners.”

Scandalized by Ivy Owens

October 26, 2022 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

Last month I read Dome’Loki’s review of Scandalized and immediately requested it from my library, which meant I joined a several week long queue. As promised in the review, this story pulls you in immediately. When it finally got to me it took me less than 36 hours to read it (I almost finished it in less than 12, but at 75% I just couldn’t keep my eyes open any longer and I was required to go to work on Monday – nonsense I tell […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: a little romance, cbr14bingo, content warnings necessary, high heat, Ivy Owens, Lauren Billings, scandal, Scandalized

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:64 · Genres: Romance · Tags: a little romance, cbr14bingo, content warnings necessary, high heat, Ivy Owens, Lauren Billings, scandal, Scandalized ·
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“The only good thing this broken heart of mine can feel is love for you.”

The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang

September 28, 2021 by faintingviolet 4 Comments

The Heart Principle was delayed a year while its author Helen Hoang dealt with some personal traumas which she goes into in depth in the Author’s Note. Many of those traumas feed directly into the re-worked plot of this book. I’m firmly in the camp that this is a romance, even if the romance plotline finds itself uncentered through sections of the work, but this is certainly not a rom-com style book as its cover would want you to believe – in fact I have […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: autism representation, cbr13bingo, content warnings necessary, end of life care, Fuck Cancer, Helen Hoang, rep, The Heart Principle

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:44 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: autism representation, cbr13bingo, content warnings necessary, end of life care, Fuck Cancer, Helen Hoang, rep, The Heart Principle ·
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