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A contemporary romance with matchmaking

August 11, 2014 by Malin 2 Comments

Annabelle has taken over her dead grandmother’s matchmaking service, and is determined that this is the business she will actually manage to make successful. Her mother wants her to become an accountant (her successful older brother could get her a job in his firm), but Annabelle is having none of it. Of course, making a living as a successful matchmaker is difficult when most of her current clients are her grandmother’s old clients, mainly pensioners, who insist on getting the same prices as they did […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: #CBR6, Chicago Stars, Contemporary Romance, Malin, Match Me If You Can, matchmaking, Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Malin's CBR6 Review No:86 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: #CBR6, Chicago Stars, Contemporary Romance, Malin, Match Me If You Can, matchmaking, Susan Elizabeth Phillips ·
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Pretty sure this is the worst book I’ll read all year

August 10, 2014 by Malin 8 Comments

Warning! This review will contain spoilers for the book, because it’s impossible for me to convey all my vitriol without going into plot specifics.  Molly Sommerville (who we first met as a frankly horrid teenager in It Had to Be You) is now all grown up and making a living as a children’s book author, writing illustrated books about Daphne the Bunny, a rabbit who appears to wear designer clothes and going on adventures based on events in Molly’s own life. While Molly inherited a multi-million […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: #CBR6, Chicago Stars, Contemporary Romance, Malin, Mrs. Julien, Rape, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, This Heart of Mine

Malin's CBR6 Review No:85 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: #CBR6, Chicago Stars, Contemporary Romance, Malin, Mrs. Julien, Rape, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, This Heart of Mine ·
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A contemporary romance dealing with dark pasts and grieving people

August 10, 2014 by Malin 4 Comments

Rachel Stone’s car breaks down on the edges of Salvation, North Carolina, the one place on the planet where the most people hate her. Rachel’s former husband, the Reverend Snopes was a hugely popular tele-evangelist who conned people all over the country out of their life savings, making Rachel his scape goat when he got caught. He died in a plane crash fleeing the country, but Rachel knows there are five million still left unaccounted for, and as she currently has about eleven dollars to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: #CBR6, Chicago Stars, conteporary romance, Dream a Little Dream, Malin, Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Malin's CBR6 Review No:84 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: #CBR6, Chicago Stars, conteporary romance, Dream a Little Dream, Malin, Susan Elizabeth Phillips ·
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Prof. Jane Darlington might have a genius level IQ, but she goes about getting a baby in a truly dumb way

August 8, 2014 by Malin 4 Comments

Professor Jane Darlington has a genius level IQ, is a master physicist and desperately wants a baby. However, Jane’s super smarts made her feel like a freak growing up, and she doesn’t want any child of hers to experience the same thing. Plus she’s currently single, and not really looking for a relationship. She does need to find herself a baby daddy, though, and preferably one who’s a bit stupid, in the hopes that this will produce her a child with a thoroughly average intelligence. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: #CBR6, Chicago Stars, Contemporary Romance, Malin, Nobody’s Baby But Mine, Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Malin's CBR6 Review No:83 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: #CBR6, Chicago Stars, Contemporary Romance, Malin, Nobody’s Baby But Mine, Susan Elizabeth Phillips ·
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A book about friendship, motherhood and pies

August 8, 2014 by Malin Leave a Comment

Veronica Russo lives in Boothbay Harbour in Maine. She’s a waitress at the local diner and also makes insanely delicious pies, that are very popular among the people in town. She even has pie-making classes. When she was sixteen, she got pregnant and had to give her baby up for adoption. She still feels as if some of the people she grew up with judge her for this, but is trying to get on with her life. She can’t help but think about the baby […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR6, Colin Firth, contemporary fiction, family, Finding Colin Firth, Malin, Mia March, Motherhood, pies

Malin's CBR6 Review No:82 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR6, Colin Firth, contemporary fiction, family, Finding Colin Firth, Malin, Mia March, Motherhood, pies ·
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Harper Blaine died and came back and all she got were these crummy nebulous powers

July 31, 2014 by Malin Leave a Comment

After private investigator Harper Blaine wakes up in the hospital after apparently being legally dead for two minutes, she thinks she must be having hallucinations. Her world seems to get blurry, with grey mist, strange creatures and scary monsters more and more frequently. She is told to consult a university professor and his wife, who tell her that she’s a Greywalker now. There is a nebulous dimension close to ours, between the human world and the after life, and those like Harper, who have been […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: #CBR6, ghosts, Greywalker, Kat Richardson, Malin, mystery, paranormal fantasy, private investigator, vampires, witches

Malin's CBR6 Review No:81 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: #CBR6, ghosts, Greywalker, Kat Richardson, Malin, mystery, paranormal fantasy, private investigator, vampires, witches ·
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