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A Romance Classic

What I Did For a Duke (Pennyroal Green, #5) by Julie Anne Long

July 6, 2021 by narfna 3 Comments

**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 6/30 This was very, very good. There isn’t *really* a plot, but in this case, that’s a good thing. What this is, is a character piece. The movement of the story comes with the evolution of the characters’ feelings for each other. (Much in the way comedies of manners do it.) It’s got a great set-up, though. Alex Moncrieffe, the Duke of Falconbridge, finds his fiancé in bed with Ian Eversea, and chases Eversea out the window, buck-ass nude. […]

“That’s the thing with putting yourself out of your comfort zone: once you get there, you’re like, Now I’m uncomfortable, what am I supposed to be doing?” #CBRBINGO – Libations

Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake (Winner Bakes All, #1) by Alexis Hall

July 6, 2021 by narfna 7 Comments

**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 5/30 I had a really good time with this. But also fuck Alain. So this is a romance set in a famous British reality baking show, very much like The Great British Bake Off. Our heroine is Rosaline, a twenty-seven year old bisexual single mother of an eight year old daughter. Rosaline meant to become a doctor, but an unplanned pregnancy derailed that career choice and now she works in a shop, and bakes in her free time. The […]

Be gay, do crime.

The Hellion's Waltz (Feminine Pursuits, #3) by Olivia Waite

July 6, 2021 by narfna 2 Comments

**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 4/30 Thanks to Netgalley and Avon Impulse for the advance copy. It hasn’t affected the content of my review. I’m mixed on this one! It does happen occasionally that I encounter a romance where the least interesting part is the romance. This is one of those times. And it’s not just because the romance part didn’t really grab me by the emotions; it’s also because the character work and the main plot were very good! But still. I came […]

Minor minor league hockey romance. #CBRBINGO – Sportsball

Breakaway (Scoring Chances, #1) by Avon Gale

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**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 3/30 This was a good time. I was really into it at the beginning, but then the tension sort of fizzled out near the middle. It had a pretty strong ending, though. I’m definitely going to check out later books in the series, because some of the summaries seem like they will be a little more angsty. This was mostly just bantery and fluffy and full of hockey stuff. I almost bumped it up to four stars, but that […]

Some short stories to finish off this series.

Shades in Shadow (Inheritance Trilogy, #3.75) by N.K. Jemisin

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**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 2/30 I pre-ordered this and it downloaded on release day. In July 2015. I did this little collection a disservice by waiting six years to read it. I really had to do some Google-fu to refresh my memory on the events and the characters in the series. In the end, I still think I would have given it three stars, maybe 3.5, but it wouldn’t have been so much frickin’ work. (The Awakened Kingdom, the novella Jemisin released as […]

“Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.”

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, #2) by C.S. Lewis

July 6, 2021 by narfna 2 Comments

**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 1/30 I don’t know why I decided that in June* I would read essentially a book a day, but I decided I wanted to see if I could do it. I have, of course, stacked the deck a little with shorter novels, romances, audiobooks, etc, but I have given myself space to read some chonkers as well. Let’s see if I can do it! *So behind in reviews :(((( My re-visitation of the Chronicles of Narnia opens this challenge. […]

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