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“I appreciated it and resented it at the same time.”

The Shaadi Set-Up by Lillie Vale

August 31, 2021 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Lillie Vale’s The Shaadi Set-Up might be in my top ten second chance at love trope romances. The book is frustratingly uneven, but what it does well, it does very well. Rita and Milan started dating very young. They dated through high school and into college until Milan abruptly broke up with Rita in a voicemail right as they were supposed to go to Paris together. Six years later, Milan’s abrupt abandonment is still painful for Rita, but she has moved on with her life. […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: advance reader copy, Lillie Vale, NetGalley, second chance romance, The Shaadi Set-Up

Emmalita's CBR13 Review No:82 · Genres: Romance · Tags: advance reader copy, Lillie Vale, NetGalley, second chance romance, The Shaadi Set-Up ·
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“Maybe things can always get better between people who want to do a good job loving each other. Maybe that’s all it takes.”

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

June 16, 2021 by faintingviolet 7 Comments

One of the reading groups I am part of chose People We Meet on Vacation for our August read. I quickly poked around my library catalog and saw that it had a stunning number of holds and put in my request immediately, expecting it to take a month or so for a copy to make its way to me. Surprise, surprise, I somehow got a copy in a week (I think I managed to get lucky with my local branch). I grabbed it as I […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Emily Henry, faintingviolet, friends to lovers, mortifying ordeal of being known, opposites attract, People We Meet on Vacation, second chance romance

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Emily Henry, faintingviolet, friends to lovers, mortifying ordeal of being known, opposites attract, People We Meet on Vacation, second chance romance ·
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You Make Me Wanna Zzzzzzzzzzzz

You Make Me by Erin McCarthy

February 12, 2019 by noodlestein's danger tits 2 Comments

This supposed love story from Erin McCarthy was a slog. I normally love her writing, or at least, I did back when I was reading it on the reg, but this book didn’t land for me. It’s a second chance romance that revolves around Cat and Heath, who hail from a remote island in Maine, and have issues surrounding that start in life. Cat likes to pretend she doesn’t come from a hard scrabble existence, and has built a new college persona that has netted […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: college, panned, second chance romance

noodlestein's danger tits's CBR11 Review No:2 · Genres: Romance · Tags: college, panned, second chance romance ·
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Another Guilty Pleasure Book

April 5, 2017 by Mikki Blu Leave a Comment

I caved and got this second novella in the Fallen series – it sounded like it would be better than the first one!  And it was in a lot of ways, so it’s really one of those guilty ‘pleasure’ reads!  As opposed to the first book, Grayson “Devil” Devereaux and Eliza are already married, but have been estranged for some time.  Their marriage started off happily, but after Eliza listened to her mother’s advice and tried to be the proper, obedient wife, Grayson began to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: cbr9, Erotic Regency, Nicola Davidson, novella, second chance romance

Mikki Blu's CBR9 Review No:32 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: cbr9, Erotic Regency, Nicola Davidson, novella, second chance romance ·
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