Cannonball Read 18

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“Love couldn’t solve everything, but without love, there was nothing to solve.” (Bingo #3!)

40-Love by Olivia Dade

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I think I laugh the most whenever I read an Olivia Dade romance, her humor hits all the right notes for me. Even when I’m not expecting a laugh, Dade delivers them through her characters who are achingly self-aware, or sometimes not. Following a meet-cute involving a runaway bikini top and the need to keep from flashing nearby children, we get the story of Tess and Lucas. Lucas, 26, a former top-level tennis pro now giving lessons at a Florida resort, fled there after the […]

I finally get around to actually reading Olivia Dade

Teach Me by Olivia Dade

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4.5 stars CBR13 Bingo: Rec’d (by Emmalita, Narfna and FaintingViolet) Official book description: Their lesson plans didn’t include love. But that’s about to change… When Martin Krause arrives at Rose Owens’s high school, she’s determined to remain chilly with her new colleague. Unfriendly? Maybe. Understandable? Yes, since a loathsome administrator gave Rose’s beloved world history classes to Martin, knowing it would hurt her. But keeping her distance from a man as warm and kind as Martin will prove challenging, even for a stubborn, guarded ice queen. Especially when she begins […]

I Aspire to Big Harpy Energy

All the Feels by Olivia Dade

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I was truly not expecting to get hold of this before publication. But I did, and I am so happy. If you haven’t read the first book in the series, Spoiler Alert, now is the time to go correct that. Going into All the Feels, we know why Lauren and Alex are thrown together, and we know that things are going disastrously for them at the end of Spoiler Alert. We also know that Alex has feelings for Lauren, but not why or whether they […]

A sweet romance anthology involving middle-aged characters. #CBRBINGO – Rec’d

Sweetest in the Gale (There's Something About Marysburg, #3) by Olivia Dade

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Olivia Dade seems to be one of those authors who is just really consistent. I have enjoyed everything I’ve read from her, and some of it (Teach Me in particular!) I’ve outright loved. I am absolutely salivating for the release of All the Feels in October. I just have such a good feeling I’m going to love it so much. This was a fun collection of novellas that range from the silly and sweet to the more serious side of the spectrum. Because the characters […]

I Loved This One Unabashedly and Hope You Do Too

All the Feels by Olivia Dade

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I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All the Feels publishes November 16th, 2021 (originally scheduled for October 26th, 2021.) Last year I read and loved Spoiler Alert and was excited to see that there would be another book in the universe. All the Feels takes everything I loved about the first book and deepens it, makes it stronger and better. All the Feels is very likely going to make it into my top three books of […]

No real reason for this three star review, just not my cuppa, I guess.

40-Love (There's Something About Marysburg, #2) by Olivia Dade

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Sometimes you just meet a book you don’t really click with and there’s not a reason for it, it just is. I think this is one of those times! I had a perfectly fine time reading this book, but I was never compelled by it. The stakes, for me, felt too low. This was especially sad because my fellow reviewers who have read this have loved it nearly universally, and also because I loved loved loved the first book in Dade’s Marysburg series when I […]



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