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#NotAllMen, Historical Romance Edition

Once A Spy by Mary Jo Putney

September 15, 2019 by Emmalita 3 Comments

I have to stop doing this to myself. I have got to stop picking up Mary Jo Putney books. When I first started reading romance openly, I loved Mary Jo Putney because her characters had conversations with each other and talked about mental health issues in historical romance. I have changed and grown in the last 20 – 25 years and Mary Jo Putney’s books have not. If you are looking for the comfort of a familiar Putney narrative – Once A Spy delivers. If […]

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The Bad Twin by Avery Scott

September 12, 2019 by J Leave a Comment

A twin romance with mistaken identity and forced proximity. Remember the joke in Jude Devereaux’s earlier books that the hero/heroine should “marry the one who can tell the twins apart”? Our hero here, Hudson Quinn, fails that test. He hires a drunken–but HOT!–Gabby Levesque after she stumbles out of club one night and saves his butt on a phone call by speaking French.* Gabby isn’t exactly the most reliable of employees, however, and when it comes time for her to accompany Hudson to An Important […]

It’s a perfect story, how mommy saved daddy

Lush Money by Angelina M. Lopez

August 31, 2019 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Lush Money is a very promising debut from an author I’m looking forward to seeing more from. Recently, I’ve been drawn to low drama romances with characters whose lives are imaginable. Lush Money is high drama and features a self made billionaire and the heir to a small European Kingdom. I loved it. Roxanne Medina is a self made billionaire. She wants a child, wants the child to have a father, but doesn’t want to put in the effort a romance would require. Mateo Esperanza […]

A Frustrating Enemies to Lovers Romance That Ended With Me Saying “WTF?”

Their Festive Island Escape by Nina Singh

August 24, 2019 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

I received this from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I love the enemies to lovers trope. The best enemies to lovers stories are full of sparks, passion and banter. Sexual tension fuels animosity until love wins out. Their Festive Island Escape has none of that. It’s also not “festive.” I don’t like it when I don’t like a book. I feel bad, like I failed as a reader. I don’t know what Nina Singh was going for, but I don’t think she got it. […]

You Don’t Need a Pasta Machine

American Sfoglino: A Masterclass in Handmade Pasta by Evan Funke, Katie Parla, Eric Wolfanger

August 24, 2019 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Evan Funke and Katie Parla’s American Sfoglino: A Masterclass in Handmade Pasta is a book you will want to have as a hardcopy and maybe also as an ebook. It is an aspirational cookbook, with it’s beautiful photography. If you aspire to make pasta at home without a pasta maker, it is also a very practical cookbook. Through photography and description, Funke shows how to make some of the master doughs and pasta shapes of Bologna. If all you want to do is dream and […]

In Which I Discover Spite Cake.

The Write Escape by Charish Reid

August 19, 2019 by Emmalita 1 Comment

Twitter has been talking about Charish Reid’s forthcoming debut novel, The Write Escape. I was happy to receive it as an arc from NetGalley en exchange for an honest review. Antonia is about to get married, she has a good job in publishing and she is kind of working on her novel. The problem is, her mother doesn’t like her fiance, she doesn’t like her soon to be in laws, and now their are rumors of trouble at her publishing house. In a few short […]

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