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Now this is how I like my sports romance

In a Rush by Kate Canterbary

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I love sports, and I love romance. On paper, the boom in sports romances in recent years seems to have been tailor made for me, but they have not really worked as a whole. Other than Liz Tomforde’s Windy City books, none of the sports romances I’ve picked up in the past few years have worked for me. I generally find them to be painfully predictable and boring, and as someone tragically familiar with transfer sagas, the whole team-as-found-family thing reads really exhausting to me. […]

“There’s no world where I exist without you and I don’t want there to be one.”

In a Rush by Kate Canterbary

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This was an ARC sent to me by the author. My opinions are my own, and I loved the book so much that I pre-ordered a copy as soon as I’d finished reading it. Emmeline “Emme” Ahlborg catches her boyfriend, the man she was hoping was going to propose to her, in the act, sleeping with another woman (when Emme shows up on his doorstep with home-cooked food). She’s devastated, and what’s worse, he’s a groomsman in the wedding of her best friend (to whom […]

“Leave it to you?” “Yeah. I’ll take care of it for you.” A small smile broke across his face. “Wife.”

In a Rush by Kate Canterbary

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Sometimes I get really in my head about a book and lose the ability to string words together that convey my thoughts and feelings. Everything I’ve tried to write about In a Rush sounds overthought and boring, so I decided to go with the vibes the book brings to the function. The function being your reading place of choice. In a Rush leads with big marriage of convenience vibes that mask a strong “it’s always been you” core. Ryan has no subtlety when it comes […]

ALL the Kate Canterbary

Shucked by Kate Canterbary

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Owing to a significant gap writing CBR reviews, I had discovered and embraced many new authors by the time I  started participating again, including Kate Canterbary. As is my way, I discovered her from an Emmalita review of The Worst Guy which is, so far, Canterbary’s best book. I have since consumed most of her output with consistently good to sometimes excellent results. Canterbary is great at steam and even greater at clever. Despite plowing through her back catalogue, Shucked (The Loew Brothers) is the […]

There’s no predicting when a heart will open up

Change of Heart by Kate Canterbary

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In Change of Heart, Drs Whitney Aldritch and Meri Mercer hold themselves to the highest standards of behavior except for the two weeks a year when they dress up, crash weddings, and shed their very adult, important responsibilities. They make up names, never crash a small wedding, always bring a gift, and never sleep with someone in the wedding party. Whit breaks that rule at the last crashed wedding of the summer when she locks eyes with the Best Man at a very large, fancy […]

“There has never been a moment when I didn’t notice you. I can’t stop noticing you – and I should.”

Shucked by Kate Canterbary

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4.5 stars Sunny DuJardin is just about to open a vegan cafe in her hometown of Friendship, Rhode Island, but keeps butting heads with the man who tormented her in much of her adolescence and early teenage years. Beckett Loew has had to take a leave of absence from his high-powered business job in Singapore to return to Friendship to try to figure out the total mess his flakey parents have made with the family’s oyster restaurant. His father and many of the senior management […]



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