Book Review: Society Of Lies By Lauren Ling Brown

11-01-2024

Promising Debut. This is one of those debut books where it absolutely shows flashes of brilliance... yet also doesn't fully come together. But not in any objective-

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Book Review: We Three Kings By Kristen Bailey

11-01-2024

If Charles Dickens Wrote A Hallmarkie Christmas RomCom. Seriously, this is one of those Christmas Hallmarkie type tales that in its basic set up brings to

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Book Review: Wish I Were Here By Melissa Wiesner

11-01-2024

RomCom In A Nightmare Setting. Seriously, the title of the review here is pretty much exactly what you're getting. I don't know how common i

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Blog Tour: Sleeping With The Frenemy By Natalie Cana

10-28-2024

For this blog tour, we're looking at a tale that is necessarily different from its predecessors in its series. For this blog tour, we're looking at Sleeping With The Frenemy by Natalie Cana.

First, the review I posted to the book sites (BookHype.com / BookBub.com / TheStoryGraph.com / Goodreads.com):

Very Different From Previous Books. Still Solid In Its Own Right. The first two books in this series dealt with vastly different types of relationships than our MCs here have. In the first book, it was a friends to lovers situation, while in the second book it was a S L O W burn second chance situation. Here, its more of a situation situation. As in, this is a couple that has been fucking for *years* behind the backs of the siblings of one of them - one of those siblings being the best friend of the other. More on a situational level though - both were available and attracted to each other and had an opportunity, so mutual itch scratching was had. Fair enough, and that back story alone makes this *wildly* different than the other books here.

And because of that back story, this is perhaps the spic

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Blog Tour: Two Good Men By S E Redfearn

10-24-2024

Superbly Written Thriller Will Make You Reconsider Your Ideas Of 'Justice'. On the one hand, a man has identified a way to identify serial sexual predators - and is committed to stopping them before they can strike

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Book Review: Proximity Politics By Jeronimo Cortina

10-22-2024

Obvious "Research" Yet Still Manages To Be Hyper Political. The basic premise of this book is that people are more about those things that are physically, emotionally, or ideologically close to them. Ok, and the sky is blue. Next. Oh, but now there's numbers showing this! And? There are num

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Book Review: The Christmas Countdown By Holly Cassidy

10-22-2024

Solid Hallmarkie Christmas Romance That "Officially" Has The Weirdest Personal Story Ever For Me. This is one of those damn near prototypical Hallmark Christmas movie type romances, and that alone will tell most people whether they're going to like this or not. Obviously, with how much success Hallmark has with these types of movies every year (and with so many of the romance authors I've worked with over the years now getting chances to write some of these actual movies), there is quite a considerable market for exactly this type of story, so kudos to Cassidy (and the actual person b

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Book Review: The Not So Perfect Second Chance By Maggie Dallen

10-22-2024

Short. Quick. Hallmarkie. Perfect For Holiday Season Or Any Time You Need A Quick Break From Reality. Let's face it

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Book Review: When We Chased The Light By Emily Bleeker

10-22-2024

Compelling Companion. This book is more "companion" novel to Bleeker's 2023 novel When We Were Enemies than "sequel", in that only the prologue and epilogue feature the more modern timeline

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Book Review: Drenna Steel Series By John Sneeden

10-17-2024

Review Of Retribution, Originally Written February 11, 2021: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ With Remorse. This is a book that has a lot of similarities to Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (soon to be in bastardized form on your screens), but a lot of key differences. As with the Clancy text, here we get to see a bit of a retired super spy/ assassin falling in love... before we see that ripped away in b

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