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“There has never been a moment when I didn’t notice you. I can’t stop noticing you – and I should.”

Shucked by Kate Canterbary

November 12, 2023 by Malin 3 Comments

4.5 stars Sunny DuJardin is just about to open a vegan cafe in her hometown of Friendship, Rhode Island, but keeps butting heads with the man who tormented her in much of her adolescence and early teenage years. Beckett Loew has had to take a leave of absence from his high-powered business job in Singapore to return to Friendship to try to figure out the total mess his flakey parents have made with the family’s oyster restaurant. His father and many of the senior management […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: #food, CBR15, chronic illness, Contemporary Romance, Kate Canterbary, Malin, Shucked, small town life, the Loew Brothers

Malin's CBR15 Review No:68 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: #food, CBR15, chronic illness, Contemporary Romance, Kate Canterbary, Malin, Shucked, small town life, the Loew Brothers ·
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A fun read in the run-up to Halloween

The Ex-Hex by Erin Stirling

November 4, 2023 by Malin Leave a Comment

Heartbroken after discovering that the gorgeous young man she’d spent all summer with may in fact have a “betrothed” back in Wales, Vivienne “Vivi” Jones gets very drunk and weepy and she and her cousin light some candles and throw together a curse, to make Vivi feel better. They think nothing of it, until nine years later, when Rhys Penhallow, Vivi’s ex, and descendant of Graves Glen’s founding father returns to charge the ley lines. Suddenly there are murderous plastic toy skulls, a talking cat, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: CBR15, curse, Erin Stirling, magic, Malin, paranormal romance, small town life, the ex hex, witches

Malin's CBR15 Review No:66 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance · Tags: CBR15, curse, Erin Stirling, magic, Malin, paranormal romance, small town life, the ex hex, witches ·
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A lovely return to Wedgeford

The Marquis Who Mustn't by Courtney Milan

October 18, 2023 by Malin 4 Comments

This is an ARC I received from the author. My opinions are not influenced by my free copy. I have also already pre-ordered the book. Official book description: Miss Naomi Kwan has long wanted to take ambulance classes so that she can save lives. But when she tries to register, she’s told she needs permission from the man in charge of her. It would be incredibly wrong to claim that the tall, taciturn Chinese nobleman she just met is her fiancé, but Naomi is desperate, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: ARC, CBR15, Courtney Milan, fraud, historical romance, Malin, pottery, small town life, The Marquis Who Mustn't, Victorian, Wedgeford Trials

Malin's CBR15 Review No:62 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance · Tags: ARC, CBR15, Courtney Milan, fraud, historical romance, Malin, pottery, small town life, The Marquis Who Mustn't, Victorian, Wedgeford Trials ·
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“Hannah had a playlist consisting of 308 love songs and not one of them could describe this moment accurately. Not even close.”

Hook, Line and Sinker by Tessa Bailey

October 10, 2023 by Malin Leave a Comment

Seven months ago, Hannah Bellinger left the little fishing town of Westport, Washington to go back to her life in Los Angeles. Her former socialite sister, Piper, stayed behind, happily engaged to a gruff crab fishing captain. While her sister at first mainly argued with and then fell like a ton of bricks for the gruff captain, Hannah spent quite a lot of time with his second in command, the very handsome Fox Thornton. Because of his womanizing ways, Hannah very quickly decided that no […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: CBR15, Contemporary Romance, crab fishing, Hook Line and Sinker, Malin, movie sets, self esteem issues, small town life, Tessa Bailey, The Bellinger Sisters

Malin's CBR15 Review No:56 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: CBR15, Contemporary Romance, crab fishing, Hook Line and Sinker, Malin, movie sets, self esteem issues, small town life, Tessa Bailey, The Bellinger Sisters ·
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CBR15 Bingo: Relation”ship”

It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey

September 10, 2023 by Malin 15 Comments

CBR15 Bingo: Relation”ship” (A book about sisterly love, romantic love and featuring large fishing boats) Apparently, our heroine, Piper Bellinger, is strongly inspired by Alexis Rose in Schitt’s Creek, Tessa Bailey wanted her to have her own happy ending. First of all, I’m not really sure I think Alexis was too badly off at the end of the show, just because she wasn’t shacked up with a man. Her ending seemed perfectly happy to me – not all HEAs need to involve a romantic partner. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: CBR15, cbr15bingo, Contemporary Romance, fishing, friendship, It Happened One Summer, Relationship, Sisters, small town life, Tessa Bailey, The Bellinger Sisters

Malin's CBR15 Review No:42 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: CBR15, cbr15bingo, Contemporary Romance, fishing, friendship, It Happened One Summer, Relationship, Sisters, small town life, Tessa Bailey, The Bellinger Sisters ·
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A very lovely romance about two complex people on the search for belonging

Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn

June 2, 2023 by Malin 2 Comments

4.5 stars 15-word review: Trying to get some direction in her life, Georgie turns to a new-found teenage journal Longer review: Georgie is feeling adrift. She’s worked as a personal assistant for a number of industry people in L.A, and was really good at it. Now, however, her former boss decided to retire to the countryside and doesn’t need a P.A. anymore. Georgie is free to go home to her family to realise her own dreams, the only problem is, she has no idea what […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Featured, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: #CannonballBookClub, abuse, CBR15, Contemporary Romance, friendship, Georgie All Along, Kate Clayborn, Malin, small town life

Malin's CBR15 Review No:18 · Genres: Book Club, Featured, Fiction, Romance · Tags: #CannonballBookClub, abuse, CBR15, Contemporary Romance, friendship, Georgie All Along, Kate Clayborn, Malin, small town life ·
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