Category: READ
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NEXT YEAR IN HAVANA – CHANEL CLEETON
I love Cuba; it is the most memorable holiday I’ve taken, most impressionable, most special and for all the writing that there is about Cuba there isn’t nearly enough about the people and the sacrifices and feelings, whichever side of the revolutions they fall upon. Next Year In Havana manages to intertwine history and romance…
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THIS COULD BE US – Kennedy Ryan
Flap summary: Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She’s a domestic goddess who’s never met a party she couldn’t host or a charge she couldn’t lead. The one with all the answers and the perfect vinaigrette for that summer…
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THE ART OF SCANDAL – REGINA BLACK
I read quite a bit in 2023 but hardly ever got round to blogging about it, because life as they say, be lifing, but I could not let the year fade to black without talking about the best book I read all year. My top five of all time. Art of Scandal by Regina Black.…
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MILE HIGH-LIZ TOMFORDE
There’s a lot of noise being made about Hockey Romance, a sub-sect of the romance community, and not the good kind of noise, because some people got carried away. There always has to be that group that ruins it for everyone, innit, and now look; we are all being tarred with the same dirt. Not…
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BEFORE I LET GO- KENNEDY RYAN
Do you want an author take you apart and put you back together again? Soothe you and make you curl up in a ball in the corner… Kennedy Ryan is that author and Before I Let Go is such a book. This book, this book. Josiah, Si and Yasmen, Yas, are a divorced couple who…
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THE DEVIL OF DOWNTOWN- JOANNA SHUPE
Talk to me nasty like Jack Mulligan or not at all… My favourite ever trope is bad boy // good girl. When the bad boy has to redeem his ways a little to get the good girl, he did not know he needed. When he discovers he loves her, has feelings, feels feelings and cannot…
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SUMMER READING LIST
As previously mentioned, we are reclaiming the summer of romance; beach reads, chick lit, rom coms, historical, contemporary… all kinds of romance we are reading but not only that; literary and all other kinds of fiction too. We are going with words of comfort and good times, secrets and scandals, family rivals and showbiz dazzle……
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NEVER SEDUCE A SCOT – Maya Banks
I’ve long been a fan of historical romance novels because the sexy quotient is off the chains HOT. Yes, there’s issues with it, but I am here only for the fantasy and romance sometimes we just need a vice to keep us going and historical romances are a vice to a degree. You come without…
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VINTAGE POSTCARDS FROM THE AFRICAN WORLD- JESSICA B. HARRIS
A coffee table book for the ages, one you will read and gift to friends who come to your home. One that will be a talking point at the dinner table because this book is simply divine. It shows Africa in her delight, through the work and play of her people. Of us. It shows…