I finished Faking It by Jennifer Crusie and it was everything I needed it to be. Fast paced dialogue, zany characters, an excellent cast of characters, and just enough poor babys. I love the bad sex, or rather I should call it uncompleted sex. Crusie does this often in her books and I am always here for it. There are a few things in the story that are a bit dated, but overall holds up well. Grade: AGoodreads l Amazon Several of the Smexy ladies have read Intercepted by Alexa Martin and Continue Reading
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Fool Me Forever by Ainslie PatonContemporary RomanceSeptember 24, 2018 Paton has pubbed two books earlier this year that I really enjoyed, including the first book in this series One Night Wife. I really enjoyed ONW but Fool Me Forever didn’t work well for me. It felt slow and I never fully connected with the characters. The hero, Halsey, is the younger brother of the hero in the previous book. Halsey is everything I like in a hero including awkward and a someone straddling the line of right Continue Reading
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I was able to get a fair amount of reading done lately and it has been kind of glorious! Her Perfect Affair by Priscilla Oliveras- I actually started this a couple of weeks ago and failed to report on it. I LOVED book one in this series and this book has long time friends and an accidental pregnancy, so basically it was written for me. But with that being said, once Rosa discovered her pregnancy the guilt and shame started to set in. A twenty-something woman who had consensual sex and Continue Reading
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This week was filled with heavily emotional reads for me. I got the ARC of Best of Luck by Kate Clayborn (Nov 27) and although I rarely read ARCs that far in advance, I had to make an exception for this one. It was wonderful and beautiful. I’ll probably be insufferable from now to release date. I will have a full review in November. Goodreads I also read All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover. This was my first CoHo read and I was really into the book for about 90%. It’s a marriage in Continue Reading
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I am back on land and still recovering from the cruise I went on. 7 days away is fantastic and I need to do it more often. I hope to go through my pictures and post some this weekend. But I can tell you that Bermuda is absolutely beautiful. My reading goal for my vacation was 4 books. I sort of made that goal when I combined in the extra day off I took from work to recover. Here are the books I read: Butterface by Avery Flynn- I was worried bout the premise of this book and felt it had Continue Reading
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Another good week of reads and kisses! Dr. Strange Beard by Penny Reid. This was my favorite by Reid in the Winston Brothers series. I really enjoyed the pairing of Simone and Roscoe. The book had a bit of a suspenseful element but it didn't take over the story. This is a second chance at love story and y'all may know that's one of my favorites. Roscoe's love for Simone is sweet and tortured. Simone's journey to discovering Roscoe is her person was excellent. I love Reid's voice, but some Continue Reading
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It's been a much better reading week for me this week. And lots more kisses were read. I started One Wedding Two Brides by Heidi Betts, it had a cute blurb and I'm a sucker for a fake marriage. It quickly fell apart for me when the heroine was super drunk but the hero still thought it was okay to get married to her. The heroine also referred to another woman as a bitch and floozy. Hard pass. DNF A Duke by Default by Alyssa Cole. I really did not care for this heroine when she was Continue Reading
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It has been a slow reading week for me with a DNF and I am halfway through A Duke by Default by Alyssa Cole. I am enjoying Portia and her plan of being a better person. I had every intention of finishing that book tonight (Thursday) but got sidetracked when I realized that the RITA’s would be streaming online. I have been awards show obsessed since I was a young gal. So naturally I would feel compelled to watch the one that celebrates our community. Of the over 80 books nominated, I’ve read Continue Reading
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It’s Friday, aka my favorite day of the work week. I’m heading up to Philly later today to see Lauryn Hill in concert for the 20th anniversary of the MisEducation of Lauryn Hill. Please send all the positive thoughts you can that she isn’t too late. Thirsty by Mia Hopkins has been sitting in my Kindle for months. I finally picked it up. I had some hesitation due to the fact that we don’t see many Latinx heroes in romance and I didn’t know if this would be a harmful depiction of an ex-con gang Continue Reading
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Happy Friday y’all! Having a holiday mid-week is equal parts awesome and not. I somehow managed to pick up a summer cold, but it has given me some time to catch up on some reads. The First Time at Firelight Falls by Julie Anne Long I am trying to work through my backlogged TBR and get through some review books. I picked up a while ago and finally started it. It had a super cute premise, single mom heroine, principal hero. I made it to 29% and finally DNF’ed. It wasn’t bad, but it felt like Continue Reading