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Review: The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams

By CandidCeillie December 4, 2019November 24, 2019

The Bromance Book Club was simultaneously exactly what was advertised to readers and so much more. It's feminist and romantic and real in a way I wasn't expecting but thoroughly…

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Review: Graham’s Delicacies by Mina Waheed

By CandidCeillie March 4, 2019September 9, 2019

Six people and three love stories all in one bakery. This follow up to Soft on Soft is a perfectly delicious short story collection that ties up nicely. I even…

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Review: A Hidden Hope by Laura Ambrose

By CandidCeillie January 21, 2019January 8, 2019

Natalie and El used to be writing critique partners, sharing their work chapter by chapter. Falling in love off-page was like the next part of the story. But after a…

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Review: The Art of French Kissing by Brianna Shrum

By CandidCeillie June 1, 2018September 9, 2019

With the best culinary school in the country on the line in The Art of French Kissing, Carter Lane needs to get her mind back to beating the competition, not…

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Review: Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault

By CandidCeillie May 25, 2018May 4, 2018

Adèle has only one goal in Baker Thief: catch the purple-haired thief who broke into her home and stole her exocore, thus proving herself to her new police team. Little…

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Review: The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo

By CandidCeillie May 11, 2018April 21, 2018

In The Way You Make Me Feel, Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on…

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Review:: A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert

By CandidCeillie April 6, 2018March 22, 2018

Everyone has secrets. He wants all of hers. Meet the man next door in A Girl Like Her. After years of military service, Evan Miller wants a quiet life. The small town of…

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Review:: Meet Cute Anthology

By CandidCeillie December 26, 2017February 9, 2018

Cover via Goodreads Whether or not you believe in fate, or luck, or love at first sight, every romance has to start somewhere. MEET CUTE is an anthology of original…

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Author Interview: Devin Harnois

By CandidCeillie July 27, 2017March 25, 2018

Today, I'd like to introduce you to Devin Harnois, author of the ownvoices novel, Rainbow Islands, Undaunted, and the Shadow Valley series. I’ve always loved things that go bump in the night…

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Coffee Shop Talk: Romance Novels

By CandidCeillie June 30, 2017March 25, 2018

I'm gonna start this post with a caveat - I do not want this post to be used to attack any romance writers, or their romance novels. This isn't about…

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Review:: Song of the Current by Sarah Tolscer

By CandidCeillie June 2, 2017March 25, 2018

Caroline Oresteia is destined for the river. For generations, her family has been called by the river god, who has guided their wherries on countless voyages throughout the Riverlands. In…

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Review:: The Innkeeper Chronicles by Ilona Andrews

By CandidCeillie May 26, 2017March 25, 2018

Meet Dina Demille, a nice Texas gal who runs a seemingly ordinary, quaint B and B. But Dina's inn is a magic, thinking entity; her fluffy Shih-tzu, Beast really is…

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Review:: Wild by Hannah Moskowitz

By CandidCeillie May 25, 2017March 25, 2018

Zack Ramos is training for two things: being a parent to his twelve-year-old sister once his mother's early-onset Alzheimer's (the same kind he and his sister each have a 50%…

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Review:: Death and Night by Roshani Chokshi

By CandidCeillie May 15, 2017March 25, 2018

Before The Star-Touched Queen there was only Death and Night. He was Lord of Death, cursed never to love. She was Night incarnate, destined to stay alone. After a chance…

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Review:: Duels and Deception by Cindy Anstey

By CandidCeillie April 10, 2017March 31, 2018

Miss Lydia Whitfield, heiress to the family fortune, has her future entirely planned out. She will run the family estate until she marries the man of her late father's choosing,…

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