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Worth and Expectations

Her Favorite Rebound (Cider Bar Sisters #4) by Jackie Lau

A Very Beery New Year (Cider Bar Sisters #3.5) by Jackie Lau

March 9, 2022 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Her Favorite Rebound Sierra Wu is thirty-four, divorced, does not want children and is a constant disappointment to her family. They are horrified that she quit her engineering job (that she hated) to run a small greeting card store (that she loves) four years ago. Sierra is used to living a pretty small life, so the last thing she expected was being swept off her feet by Colton Sanders, the billionaire (think Jeff Bezos type). They’ve been together for a year, and despite his reputation […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: A Very Beery New Year, ARC, asian representation, boundaries as a love language, Cider Bar Sisters, grumpy sunshine, Her Favorite Rebound, high steam and high emotional stakes, Jackie Lau, low steam high pining, novella

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: A Very Beery New Year, ARC, asian representation, boundaries as a love language, Cider Bar Sisters, grumpy sunshine, Her Favorite Rebound, high steam and high emotional stakes, Jackie Lau, low steam high pining, novella ·
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Continuing My Tradition of Starting the Cannonball Year with a Romance

Ten Things I Hate About the Duke by Loretta Chase

January 1, 2021 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

Ten Things I Hate About the Duke is the second book in Loretta Chase’s Difficult Dukes series. Much like A Duke in Shining Armor, we’re dropped into action already in progress, but this time much of that action is the events at the tail end of the first book in the series. I read A Duke in Shining Armor in February of 2018 and while you don’t need to revisit the first to enjoy the second, part of me wishes I had. The three-year delay […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: Difficult Dukes, faintingviolet, historical romance, historically accurate, Loretta Chase, low steam high pining, Ten Things I Hate About the Duke

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: Difficult Dukes, faintingviolet, historical romance, historically accurate, Loretta Chase, low steam high pining, Ten Things I Hate About the Duke ·
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