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“Oops, we got married in Vegas” – a thoughtfully explored friends-to-lovers romance

Waking Up Married by Reese Ryan

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Reese Ryan is slowly becoming one of my new favorite authors. I love her characters, their banter, and their amazing chemistry. And this best-friends-to-lovers and fake-marriage book is no different! While I’ve previously read the second book in this series, I haven’t read most of the others, and found it relatively easy to read this as a standalone. “How did you two meet?” Brigitta asked, smiling at them the way people often smiled at newlyweds. Zora felt guilty for evoking such genuine emotions when their […]

Friends-to-lovers and found family goodness!

Acting Up by Adele Buck

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I’ll say right off the bat that I honestly don’t know anything about what goes on behind the scenes of a theatrical production. But I’ve been a big fan of Lucy Parker’s work, and when I saw that this was a friends-to-lovers workplace romance, I couldn’t request it fast enough. Paul and Cath, theater director and stage manager respectively have known each other for ten years – 14 if you count college – and have worked together for most of the time. They’re best friends […]

A sheep in rake’s clothing

My Fake Rake by Eva Leigh

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This is the first book in the Union of the Rakes series, and it starts off with a scene reminiscent of The Breakfast Club.  Five schoolboys are in detention, though for what is not clearly defined.  It’s really just a device to have the boys form a friendship, and provide a backstory to join them together for the series.  This one focuses on Sebastian Holloway – his adult self is scholarly, bespectacled, unfashionably dressed, impoverished and socially awkward.  He loves his research and spending time […]

Actions v Words

Press Play by Ash Dylan

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Ash Dylan’s novella, Press Play is one of the most interesting and frustrating romances I’ve read in a long time. Paul and Riley are roommates. Paul is a professional soccer player who suffered a serious injury and has spent the last year coaching for Portland’s team while they see how much he recovers. Riley has been in a professional and creative rut since her ex-boyfriend chose his career over their relationship. They are each in a stuck place. As a reader you also know that they […]

After a month away I have come back to be contrary

When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn

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I know this book is the unpopular one in the Bridgerton series around these parts and I am here to vehemently disagree.  This is book 5 in the Bridgerton series, and was one of my two favorites the first time I read the series.  That was pre-Cannonball for me, so I was very surprised when I came here and found it disparaged.  I thought that maybe I wasn’t remembering it fully, so decided on a re-read.  I stand by my earlier assessment – I am […]



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