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Review: Fangirl Down by Tessa Bailey

February 28, 2024 by Angela Leave a Comment

Fangirl Down by Tessa BaileyBig Shots #1Contemporary RomanceFebruary 13, 2024- AvonARC Review by Angela Look- I love me some Tessa Bailey dirty talking heroes, AND I'm always up for a sports romance, but even I side eyed the premise that this book featured the bad boy of golf. If I'm being honest, golf and bad boys aren't something that usually go together in my mind. Regardless, I hit that request button as soon as it became available for review. Fangirl Down introduces Wells Continue Reading

Review: Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban

January 12, 2024 by Kate Leave a Comment

Don't Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. AlbanLGBTQ Historical RomancePublished on January 9, 2024 -AvonReviewed by Kate Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend is a delightful sapphic romance novel. It is also a rare romance novel these days that was advertised as something and then delivered on it! Though it touched on some heavy topics at times, it also had lighthearted parts, and it was a quick and fun read.  One of the things that I love about historical romance novels with queer Continue Reading

Review: You’re the Duke That I Want by Lenora Bell

January 10, 2024 by Angela 1 Comment

You're the Duke That I Want by Lenora BellHistorical RomanceDecember 28, 2023- AvonARC Review by Angela I really love Lenora Bell and her historical romances--which is why I skipped right over the blurb and just hit the request now button when the ARC became available. I really wish I had read the blurb and some of the early reviews. This is a historical romance based loosely (not really) on the movie Grease. I had my suspicions with the title, the first several chapters, and the Continue Reading

Retro Review: Hurts to Love You by Alisha Rai

December 14, 2023 by Angela Leave a Comment

Review originally posted at Fiction Vixen in March of 2018 by Angela Hurts to Love You by Alisha RaiForbidden Hearts #3Contemporary RomancePublished March 27, 2018 Hurts to Love You is officially the last book in the Forbidden Hearts series by Alisha Rai, and guys… I am so sad right now. I’m going to miss this family with all their secrets, achingly sexy forbidden relationships and tangled, messy history SO MUCH. The last book features Gabe, Eve and a forced proximity trope that I Continue Reading

Review: Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey

October 12, 2023 by Angela 1 Comment

Wreck the Halls by Tessa BaileyContemporary/Holiday Romance10/03/2023 by BerkleyARC Review by Angela I don't read a lot of holiday romances, but you can bet I snapped this one up as soon as I could. Tessa Bailey's newest romance features the children of infamous band members and rock legends, who split long ago and are now enemies, Melody Gallard and Beat Dawkins. They've always known about each other, but only met in person once, briefly, as teens. But when an entertainment Continue Reading

Review: Codename Charming by Lucy Parker

September 1, 2023 by Kate 1 Comment

Codename Charming by Lucy ParkerPalace Insiders #2Contemporary RomancePublished on August 15, 2023 by Avon Reviewed by Kate Codename Charming is the second in Lucy Parker’s Palace Insiders. I was intrigued by the royal-adjacent romance that didn’t star any royals, even though I skipped the first in the series, Battle Royal. I was excited by the grumpy/sunshine premise and the fake dating and this book did not disappoint.  I am going to mention first off, however, that while Continue Reading

Review: Knockout by Sarah MacLean

August 23, 2023 by Angela 2 Comments

Knockout by Sarah MacLeanHell's Belles #3Historical RomanceAugust 22, 2023- AvonARC Review by Angela Y'all, when I tell you that this book was one of my most anticipated of the year and I was ANXIOUSLY awaiting its arrival on my Kindle, what I really mean is I NEEDED ME SOME IMOGEN AND TOMMY SO, SO BADLY. Imogen Loveless is the explosives expert of the Hell's Belles, you'll have met her in the first two books in the series. She's the sister of an Earl, a genius, and her penchant Continue Reading

Review: Codename Charming by Lucy Parker

August 16, 2023 by Angela 1 Comment

Codename Charming by Lucy ParkerPalace Insiders #2Contemporary RomanceAugust 15, 2023- AvonARC Review by Angela This was one of my most anticipated reads for 2023. I LOVED the first book in the Palace Insiders series and was all in for this beauty and the beast-inspired, fake dating, workplace romance. Codename Charming is Pet and Matthias's story, you'll remember them from Battle Royal as Dominic's sister, and the royal bodyguard who held her hand after the assassination attempt. Continue Reading

Review: How to Tame a Wild Rogue by Julie Anne Long

July 26, 2023 by Angela 1 Comment

How to Tame a Wild Rogue by Julie Anne LongThe Palace of Rogues #6Historical RomanceJuly 25, 2023- AvonARC Review by Angela Ahhhh, I loved this book. So much. Apparently, I'm a sucker for morally grey, charming heroes, and competent yet emotionally bruised heroines in historical romance. How to Tame a Wild Rogue, the latest installment in The Palace of Rogues series introduces Lady Daphne Worth, a woman fast running out of options, and Lorcan St. Leger a man who pulled himself out Continue Reading

Review: The Notorious Lord Knightly by Lorraine Heath

June 27, 2023 by Melanie Leave a Comment

The Notorious Lord Knightly by Lorraine HeathThe Chessmen: Masters of Seduction #2Historical RomanceJune 27, 2023- Avon Review by Melanie I am a sucker for a second chance romance and for a revenge plot done well and Lorraine Heath’s newest achieves one of those very well and the other one to varying degrees of success.  The FMC of the book, Miss Regina Leyland, has forever lived her life on the outskirts of the English nobility. Born as a result of the extramarital love affair Continue Reading

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