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Such Promise, So Disappointing

Modern Sourdough: Sweet and Savoury Recipes from Margot Bakery by Michelle Eshkeri, Patricia Niven

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I spent many years yearning to bake bread and feeling intimidated by yeast. I went to work at a bakery, I thought to make cake, but no, I made bread. Trial by fire. I am no longer intimidated by yeast and have now been baking bread professionally and at home for 15 years. Sourdough, though, remains intimidating. I have never successfully kept a starter going long enough to actually bake a loaf of bread. When I saw Michelle Eshkeri’s Modern Sourdough on NetGalley, I knew it was time to try again.  This is an honest review. I completely fell in […]

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9/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:67 |

#NotAllMen, Historical Romance Edition

Once A Spy by Mary Jo Putney

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I have to stop doing this to myself. I have got to stop picking up Mary Jo Putney books. When I first started reading romance openly, I loved Mary Jo Putney because her characters had conversations with each other and talked about mental health issues in historical romance. I have changed and grown in the last 20 – 25 years and Mary Jo Putney’s books have not. If you are looking for the comfort of a familiar Putney narrative – Once A Spy delivers. If you are looking for anything else, you should probably not read this. I received this […]

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9/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:65 |

More like The Meh Twin

The Bad Twin by Avery Scott

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A twin romance with mistaken identity and forced proximity. Remember the joke in Jude Devereaux’s earlier books that the hero/heroine should “marry the one who can tell the twins apart”? Our hero here, Hudson Quinn, fails that test. He hires a drunken–but HOT!–Gabby Levesque after she stumbles out of club one night and saves his butt on a phone call by speaking French.* Gabby isn’t exactly the most reliable of employees, however, and when it comes time for her to accompany Hudson to An Important Meeting in Paris, he has to drag her out of her home for the flight. […]

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9/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:21 |

It’s a perfect story, how mommy saved daddy

Lush Money by Angelina M. Lopez

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Lush Money is a very promising debut from an author I’m looking forward to seeing more from. Recently, I’ve been drawn to low drama romances with characters whose lives are imaginable. Lush Money is high drama and features a self made billionaire and the heir to a small European Kingdom. I loved it. Roxanne Medina is a self made billionaire. She wants a child, wants the child to have a father, but doesn’t want to put in the effort a romance would require. Mateo Esperanza is the heir to the throne of a small Kingdom next to, or possibly surrounded […]

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8/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:62 |

A Frustrating Enemies to Lovers Romance That Ended With Me Saying “WTF?”

Their Festive Island Escape by Nina Singh

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I received this from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I love the enemies to lovers trope. The best enemies to lovers stories are full of sparks, passion and banter. Sexual tension fuels animosity until love wins out. Their Festive Island Escape has none of that. It’s also not “festive.” I don’t like it when I don’t like a book. I feel bad, like I failed as a reader. I don’t know what Nina Singh was going for, but I don’t think she got it. Celeste Fajadi has been very successful in marketing, but comes from an impoverished background. On […]

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8/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:61 |

You Don’t Need a Pasta Machine

American Sfoglino: A Masterclass in Handmade Pasta by Evan Funke, Katie Parla, Eric Wolfanger

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Evan Funke and Katie Parla’s American Sfoglino: A Masterclass in Handmade Pasta is a book you will want to have as a hardcopy and maybe also as an ebook. It is an aspirational cookbook, with it’s beautiful photography. If you aspire to make pasta at home without a pasta maker, it is also a very practical cookbook. Through photography and description, Funke shows how to make some of the master doughs and pasta shapes of Bologna. If all you want to do is dream and look at beautiful pictures of food, this book has you covered too. Funke is a […]

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8/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:60 |

In Which I Discover Spite Cake.

The Write Escape by Charish Reid

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Twitter has been talking about Charish Reid’s forthcoming debut novel, The Write Escape. I was happy to receive it as an arc from NetGalley en exchange for an honest review. Antonia is about to get married, she has a good job in publishing and she is kind of working on her novel. The problem is, her mother doesn’t like her fiance, she doesn’t like her soon to be in laws, and now their are rumors of trouble at her publishing house. In a few short hours, she loses her fiance and her job. Dr. Aiden Byrnes has had a bad […]

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8/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:58 |

Great Characters, Messy Plot

Reunited by the Badge by Deborah Fletcher Mello

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I received this from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. When he discovers his patients’ lives are threatened, Dr. Paul Reilly can turn to only one person: Simone Black. She will have his back, even if they don’t agree on much else. But as the former lovers work together to track down the evildoers who are tampering with medications, they rediscover unexpected feelings for one another…even as an enemy wants to silence them permanently. I wanted to like this book so much – a romantic suspense with no guns on the cover, no SEALs, no former military of any […]

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8/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:55 |


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