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Continue reading →: Beautiful Villain Borders on Fan Fiction
Authored by Rebecca Kennedy; Published July 2024; Fantasy, Romance ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I haven’t read a romantasy novel before that came off quite so much as fan fiction as this one—even Twilight. But, the best way I can describe Beautiful Villain is as The Great Gatsby fan fiction. Beautiful Villain…
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Continue reading →: Set On You is Romance with a Side of Body Positivity
Authored by Amy Lea; Published 2022; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ There’s a certain charm to niche romance novels. Farmers falling in love at first sight? I’m sure it’s adorable. Ice skating rivals turned lovers? Swoon. I happened to come upon Set On You, a rom com with strong gym rat…
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Continue reading →: Six Days in Bombay is a Dreamy European Vacation
Authored by Alka Joshi; Published March 2025; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ There is something dreamy about the idea of discovering oneself in a weeks-long journey through the famous old cities of Europe. But, it’s not necessarily something I would expect for an Indian-English nurse in the 1930s—yet this is…
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Continue reading →: This Book Will Bury Me is a Warning for True Crime Buffs
Authored by Ashley Winstead; Published March 2025; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ This Book Will Bury Me came off as a dramatic, even death-bed-level confession. Listening to it as an audio book was the perfect vehicle to ingest the narrator’s vulnerable but passionate explanations of how she had gotten to where…
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Continue reading →: Two Nights in Lisbon Will Make You Feel the Tension
Authored by Chris Pavone; Published 2022; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ I devoured Two Nights in Lisbon in barely more than a day. As the story unfolded, I found my shoulders rising closer and closer to my ears. The heroine’s anxiety became my anxiety, and I couldn’t help but think: what…
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Continue reading →: Crush is More Traditional Than It Seems
Authored by Adele Calhoun; Published February 2025; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ For a novel centered on polyamory, Crush was a little more traditional than I expected. In fact, it defied many of my expectations and managed to deliver a reasonably happy love story. In Crush, the narrator is a successful…
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Continue reading →: Teddy Features a Controversial Heroine
Authored by Emily Dunlay; Published July 2024; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ From start to finish, I was torn about the titular character of Teddy. I have rarely read a novel featuring a woman whom I so often rolled my eyes at and yet with whom I sympathized. Teddy is…
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Continue reading →: The No-Show is Among the Best of Its Genre
Authored by Beth O’Leary; Published 2022; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ Beth O’Leary has ruined me for other romance writers. I don’t know what her secret magical sauce is, but the characters she creates delight me, surprise me into laughter, jerk more than a few tears from my eyes. In each…
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Continue reading →: Breath of the Dragon Whisked Me Away
Authored by Fonda Lee and Shannon Lee; Published January 2025; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Breath of the Dragon may be marketed for young adults, but it certainly didn’t feel childish as it whisked me away to a new kingdom. It was a delight to be immersed in the magic and…
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Continue reading →: The Queens of Crime is for the Agatha Christie Stans
Authored by Marie Benedict; Published February 2025; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I can’t say that The Queens of Crime was the most realistic or emotional mystery that I’ve read this year, but if you are a fan of classic female mystery writers, I’m confident you’ll like this one. The Queens…
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