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Loved the heroine, the hero was a bit inconsistently written

Pride Comes Before a Fall by Virginia Heath

August 14, 2026 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars Thank you to NetGalley and St.Martin’s Press for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book is on sale now. Leopold “Leo” Sloane, the Duke of Debden, has dragged his two younger sisters to Bath in an attempt to keep them out of trouble. The youngest is crazy for any man in uniform, and the eldest snuck out of the house and got injured during a protest march. After saying some less-than-complimentary things to his mother about her ability to keep them […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: ARC, cbr18, historical romance, Malin, marriage of convenience, Miss Prentice's Protegees, NetGalley, Pride Comes Before a Fall, Regency, Virginia Heath, Writers

Malin's CBR18 Review No:48 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: ARC, cbr18, historical romance, Malin, marriage of convenience, Miss Prentice's Protegees, NetGalley, Pride Comes Before a Fall, Regency, Virginia Heath, Writers ·
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Maybe my favourite Jenny Holiday book so far

Book Club Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday

August 7, 2026 by Malin Leave a Comment

4.5 stars CBR18 Bingo: Craft (this book dwells a lot on writing as a craft – both novels and screenplays) Thank you to Forever and NetGalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book is on sale now. Blair Kellermoon (former rom-com star, now powerful producer) has adapted several novels as movies and TV series and runs a book club, and the books she picks usually get huge sales boosts and are again likely to be optioned for adaptation. Suffice it to say, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: actors, Anxiety, ARC, Book Club Boyfriend, cbr18, cbr18bingo, contemporary fiction, Depression, friendship, Jenny Holiday, Malin, Mental Health, NetGalley, OCD, Writers

Malin's CBR18 Review No:47 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: actors, Anxiety, ARC, Book Club Boyfriend, cbr18, cbr18bingo, contemporary fiction, Depression, friendship, Jenny Holiday, Malin, Mental Health, NetGalley, OCD, Writers ·
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“Good God, sometimes it felt like all of society was complicit in trying to make life harder for women.”

The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory

March 23, 2026 by Malin 2 Comments

3.5 stars Nowhere Book Bingo 26: BIPOC rep by a BIPOC author Reading Rainbow – Orange cover Nikole “Nik” Paterson is bored and uncomfortable at a baseball game with her handsome, if rather self-centred, actor boyfriend, and his bros. She is absolutely blindsided when he surprises her with a public proposal, via the scoreboard, and to add insult to injury, he didn’t even spell her name correctly. Nik is mortified, her boyfriend is insulted by her rejection, and things are about to take a nasty […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: BIPOC, cbr18, Contemporary Romance, doctors, family, friendship, jasmine guillory, Malin, Nowhere Book Bingo, Reading Rainbow, The Proposal, the wedding date, Writers

Malin's CBR18 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: BIPOC, cbr18, Contemporary Romance, doctors, family, friendship, jasmine guillory, Malin, Nowhere Book Bingo, Reading Rainbow, The Proposal, the wedding date, Writers ·
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The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

The scream that brought them together

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

December 28, 2025 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

I’m completing my quarter cannonball with The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill. The novel is a book within a book. Hannah is writing a mystery focused on Freddie, an Australian woman on a writing fellowship in Boston. She meets three strangers in the Boston library reading room: Cain, a fellow writer and handsome, Walt, a rich law student with no work ethic, and Marigold, a goth-esque psychology student. They hear a blood-curdling scream like someone being murdered…but no body is found. That is, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: book within a book, Boston, mystery, romantic suspense, Sulari Gentill, suspense/thriller, Writers

teresaelectro's CBR17 Review No:13 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: book within a book, Boston, mystery, romantic suspense, Sulari Gentill, suspense/thriller, Writers ·
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We care too much, or not enough

The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

November 29, 2025 by Zirza Leave a Comment

It feels weird putting these two in the same review, but there you have it. I’ve been struck by the dreaded reading slump.  The Plot (Jean Hanff Korelitz) ** The plot of The Plot: author Jacob is struggling. His first novel made a modest impact, but didn’t sell well despite positive reviews. His second novel went ignored entirely. To make ends meet, Jacob teaches writing to a group of wannabes and one of them tells him the plot of a novel he is planning to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Religion Tagged With: Booker Prize 2024 shortlist, Charlotte Wood, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Stone Yard Devotional, The Plot, Writers

Zirza's CBR17 Review No:63 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Religion · Tags: Booker Prize 2024 shortlist, Charlotte Wood, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Stone Yard Devotional, The Plot, Writers ·
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“For the one you love? Anything. You unmake the world and build a new one. You do anything to give them what they need.”

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

August 7, 2025 by Malin Leave a Comment

4.5 stars CBR17 Bingo: G (A book title starting with G)   After months of online research, Alice Scott has tracked down the reclusive former tabloid darling Margaret Ives and hopes to persuade the woman to let Alice write her biography. Imagine the unpleasant surprise for Alice when it turns out that Margaret might not want to tell her life’s story at all, and she basically wants to ‘audition’ Alice and another writer for the next month, before she makes up her mind. That other […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: audiobook, cbr17, cbr17bingo, celebrity, Contemporary Romance, Emily Henry, family, Great Big Beautiful Life, grief, journalism, julia whelan, Malin, Writers

Malin's CBR17 Review No:50 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery, Romance · Tags: audiobook, cbr17, cbr17bingo, celebrity, Contemporary Romance, Emily Henry, family, Great Big Beautiful Life, grief, journalism, julia whelan, Malin, Writers ·
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