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If you’re reading this letter, then I am quite dead, my dear. Dead, but not resting.

Jewel Me Twice by Charish Reid

July 21, 2024 by Emmalita 1 Comment

Jewel Me Twice is like the old Reese’s Peanut Butter cup tag line. “Two great tastes that taste great together.” It combines two of my favorite things, a heist romance written by one of my auto-buy authors, Charish Reid. I liked Charish Reid from the first page of The Write Escape, and have enjoyed all of her books. I love the characters she writes and the relationships she builds with them. As a side note, I got into a conversation about Charish Reid’s heroines, and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: advance reader copy, Charish Reid, heist romance, Jewel Me Twice, NetGalley

Emmalita's CBR16 Review No:47 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: advance reader copy, Charish Reid, heist romance, Jewel Me Twice, NetGalley ·
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Incredible world-building does not make up for a lackluster romance

Before We Disappear by Shaun David Hutchinson

July 4, 2023 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

“I think it must’ve been a person who’d wished for love but had never known it who’d created the first clock. Because time is a reminder of how quickly the present passes and how little of the future remains, and no one in love would want to know that.” ― Shaun David Hutchinson, Before We Disappear After narrowly escaping Paris when his employer/adoptive mother is accused of stealing a rival’s illusion, Jack finds himself in Seattle the month before the 1909 Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition. While there, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: 1900s, abusive relationships, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, con artists, feminist, gaslighting, heist fiction, heist romance, historical fiction, historical fiction plus fantasy, magicians, queer romance, Seattle, Shaun David Hutchinson, Young Adult Romance

carmelpie's CBR15 Review No:18 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: 1900s, abusive relationships, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, con artists, feminist, gaslighting, heist fiction, heist romance, historical fiction, historical fiction plus fantasy, magicians, queer romance, Seattle, Shaun David Hutchinson, Young Adult Romance ·
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This was a fun series, you should read it

To Catch a Thief by Sloane Steele

June 14, 2021 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

I am on record as loving heists and morally grey characters. Sloane Steele has given me three romances, bang, bang, bang, with multiple heists and unapologetically morally grey characters. If you are looking for a fast and fun binge read, I highly recommend this one. This review is spoiler free. To Catch a Thief focuses on Mia, the mastermind. When we first meet her in It Takes a Thief, she’s uptight, cold, and tries to micromanage everything. She doesn’t want to form a team, or get […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: advance reader copy, Counterfeit Capers series, heist romance, NetGalley, Sloane Steele, To Catch a Thief

Emmalita's CBR13 Review No:55 · Genres: Romance · Tags: advance reader copy, Counterfeit Capers series, heist romance, NetGalley, Sloane Steele, To Catch a Thief ·
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I’m Putting Together a Team

It Takes a Thief by Sloane Steele

March 21, 2021 by Emmalita 1 Comment

First of all, this book is a bad decisions book club book. I started it Friday evening intending to read just a couple of chapters and stayed up until 2:30 am finishing it. Cousins Jared and Mia’s lives were hurt when their fathers were exposed as scammers, but their fathers hurt a lot more people financially who couldn’t afford it. Now that they’ve inherited trust funds from their mothers, they plan to commit a series of art heists to raise money to provide compensation to […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: art heist, Counterfeit Capers series, heist romance, It Takes a Thief, Sloane Steele

Emmalita's CBR13 Review No:23 · Genres: Romance · Tags: art heist, Counterfeit Capers series, heist romance, It Takes a Thief, Sloane Steele ·
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