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October 17, 2025October 17, 2025

Book Review: A Hexcellent Chance to Fall in Love by Ann Rose

You know how every year, around August, Spirit Halloween seems to just suddenly appear in the most convenient empty store front in your town? Well, what if it was literally magic?

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October 3, 2025October 3, 2025

Book Review: Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti

I’ve long-since established that I don’t like enemies to lovers. But rivals to lovers? Yeah, that’s the stuff.

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September 11, 2025September 11, 2025

Book Review: Bed and Breakup by Susie Dumond

What’s worse — forced proximity to your ex, or realizing that all the beautiful work you’d done has been covered over with a bland remodel by the management company that ran the B&B in your absence?

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August 7, 2025August 7, 2025

Book Review: Someplace Generous edited by Elaina Ellis and Ember Flame

Someplace Generous is subtitled “an inclusive romance anthology” and I think it’s important to consider this a collection of romantic and erotic fiction, rather than expecting it each story to adhere to the capital-R Romance genre.

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May 10, 2025May 10, 2025

Book Review: A Gentleman’s Gentleman by TJ Alexander

This book is a reminder that not only have queer people always been here, but there have always been opportunities for queer joy, even when it wasn’t safe to be out.

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January 8, 2025January 8, 2025

Book Review: The 7-10 Split by Karmen Lee

This book looked so cute. Sure, I’m not in to sport romances, but I could get into the idea of former high school friends turned bowling rivals turned co-coaches of the next generation’s bowling team at their alma mater.

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November 6, 2024November 6, 2024

Book Review: The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava

It’s hard for me to accurately review a romcom, because written humor just so rarely works for me.

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October 30, 2024October 30, 2024

Book Review: Two Romance Novels and SBTB Recap

I have not had the bandwidth to write reviews for the past month and a half, so please enjoy these two short reviews.

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September 9, 2024September 9, 2024

Book Review: Love at 350° by Lisa Peers

I love a good slow burn, but Tori and Kendra spend so little time together on the page, that when their happy ending finally arrived, I wasn’t particularly convinced by or invested in it.

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September 5, 2024September 9, 2024

Book Review: A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall

This novel is pure epistolary; while some books advertised as epistolaries intersperse more narrative chapters between the correspondence, everything in this book happens in a letter or other communication.

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