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Review: Kissing My Soulmate by Evan Grace

August 10, 2023 by Angela Leave a Comment

Kissing My Soulmate by Evan GraceThe Kissing Games #5Contemporary RomanceAugust 10, 2023- Self-PublishedARC Review by Angela I will admit to having a little bit of dread after reading the first chapter of this book. I had really been looking forward to this marriage in trouble, second chance romance which also happened to be the finale of The Kissing Games multi-author series, then I realized what the issue was between the couple and why they were breaking up. I don't think I'm Continue Reading

Review: Isn’t It Bromantic by Lyssa Kay Adams

July 23, 2021 by Angela Leave a Comment

Isn't It Bromantic by Lyssa Kay AdamsBromance Book Club #4Contemporary RomanceJuly 20, 2021, by BerkleyARCReview by Angela I swear, this series gets better and better with each new release. When I picked up the first book in the series I expected a bunch of laughs and hijinks, especially given the title of the series as a whole and the premise that this was a bunch of guys getting together to research romance novels in order to help them with their love interests. And don't get me wrong, Continue Reading

Guest Post: Tropes at Work in ONE LAST CHANCE by Therese Beharrie

February 20, 2020 by Kini 1 Comment

I’ve published fourteen books in my career so far. Of those fourteen, six have been second chance romances. ONE LAST CHANCE, the third book in my ONE DAY TO FOREVER series, will be the seventh. I’m clearly a fan of the trope, partly because there are so many ways of exploring it, and partly because I only need the chance of a romance the first time around not to work out to define it as a second chance romance. But the one thing all of my second chance romances have in common is that Continue Reading

Review: Love Her or Lose Her by Tessa Bailey

January 17, 2020 by Kini 2 Comments

By now y’all may know that I love the marriage in trouble trope. There is something so appealing to me about reading about couples who have to figure out their shit and decide to make their marriage work. I haven’t read Bailey in quite some time, I’ve kind of moved away from reading and enjoying her brand of possessive alpha heroes. But with this trope, I was never not going to read Love Her or Lose Her.  I ended up having incredibly mixed feelings about this book. I will start with the good. Continue Reading

Four Meaningful Words by A.M. Gilliams- Release Day

July 31, 2019 by Kini 1 Comment

BLURB Four words posed in a question started the beginning of our future. Will you marry me? Ten years of love and laughter, triumphs and failures, losses and gains later, and four words threatened to end it all. Everything has a beginning and an end. I just never saw mine coming. Especially when I finally thought we were getting it all. Until my husband and lifeline uttered…. I want a divorce. Only I had four words of my own. Words that should be said out of happiness and Continue Reading

Guest Post: Relationships on the Rocks by Rebecca Grace Allen

May 10, 2019 by Kini 1 Comment

Rebecca was kind enough to do a guest post on one of my absolute favorite tropes, the relationship/marriage in trouble. In my opinion it is easy to fall in love, but staying in love takes some work. That is one of the reasons I love this trope. I'll turn this space over to Rebecca and her thoughts on the topic. I’m not a rom-com kind of gal. When it comes to reading romance, I am here for the heartache and the overcoming of obstacles. I want to see the characters put through the Continue Reading

Mandi’s Mini Reviews

August 7, 2018 by Mandi Leave a Comment

Surprise Baby, Second Chance by Therese Beharrie Released: July 26, 2018 Contemporary Romance Mills & Boon Reviewed by Mandi I love to read marriage in trouble tropes. To explore a couple already committed to one another, yet having emotional issues always sucks me in. But this one was a little too slow for me. Rosa left her husband four months before the book starts, without a single explanation. She has her reason (I don't want to spoil it since it doesn't mention specifics in the Continue Reading

The Marriage in Trouble Trope

August 5, 2013 by Mandi 22 Comments

I love, love, love a marriage in trouble trope in a romance book. It’s different. It’s not hero/heroine meets hero/heroine, flirt, court, say I love you. No. These two are already in love but circumstances have either forced them apart, or lack of communication has driven them to feel alone. And now we get to see how they put it all back together again, which can be even more sexy than new love. In a marriage in trouble trope, the couple knows how to love to each other, but sometimes they have Continue Reading

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