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What. Just. Happened.

Run Posy Run by Cate C. Wells

October 20, 2022 by katie71483 7 Comments

Run Posy Run by Cate C. Wells is perhaps the most unusual romance I’ve ever read. It is a dark Mafia romance available on Kindle Unlimited. I was having a video chat with Emmalita and of course our conversation turned to books for a while. She was recommending this author specifically for her writing, and then mentioned this book with a description that had me intrigued, puzzled and repulsed all at once. In addition, she said it was basically living rent free in her head, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Cate C Wells, Dark Mafia, lovers to enemies to lovers

katie71483's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Cate C Wells, Dark Mafia, lovers to enemies to lovers ·
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Finding Hope in Confronting the Past and the Present

The Secret of You and Me by Melissa Lenhardt

August 28, 2022 by Abi Leave a Comment

A lot of the queer fiction I have been recently has featured characters living in either New York or the Pacific North West, or both. Places with widespread acceptance of queerness, or at least enough that the characters are rarely under threat for it within the text, regardless of the real world. The Secret of You and Me on the other hand, draws much of it’s power from the inverse, from a lack of acceptance in community, of what it feels like when you are […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: best friends, late in life lesbian, Lesbians, LGBTQ, LGBTQ author, lovers to enemies to lovers, Melissa Lenhardt

Abi's CBR14 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: best friends, late in life lesbian, Lesbians, LGBTQ, LGBTQ author, lovers to enemies to lovers, Melissa Lenhardt ·
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