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Accidentally Engaged

Delicious food, family shenanigans, and drunk cooking show audition videos

Accidentally Engaged by Farah Heron

April 17, 2021 by llamareadsbooks Leave a Comment

Ok, this book is absolutely adorable. Delicious food, family shenanigans, drunk cooking show audition videos, fake engagement, sourdough-related antics – it’s got it all. One of my favorite things about the fake-relationship trope is when authors use it to explore how and why the characters keep secrets, and it was done masterfully. When I started this book, I hadn’t realized that Reena’s best friend is the main character from The Chai Factor, which I haven’t read, but this worked fine for me as a standalone. Reena […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Farah heron, Romance

llamareadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:28 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Farah heron, Romance ·
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Waking Up Married

“Oops, we got married in Vegas” – a thoughtfully explored friends-to-lovers romance

Waking Up Married by Reese Ryan

April 14, 2021 by llamareadsbooks 2 Comments

Reese Ryan is slowly becoming one of my new favorite authors. I love her characters, their banter, and their amazing chemistry. And this best-friends-to-lovers and fake-marriage book is no different! While I’ve previously read the second book in this series, I haven’t read most of the others, and found it relatively easy to read this as a standalone. “How did you two meet?” Brigitta asked, smiling at them the way people often smiled at newlyweds. Zora felt guilty for evoking such genuine emotions when their […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: friends to lovers, Reese Ryan, Romance

llamareadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:26 · Genres: Romance · Tags: friends to lovers, Reese Ryan, Romance ·
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Love at First

A gorgeous exploration of family, grief and love

Love at First by Kate Clayborn

April 11, 2021 by llamareadsbooks 3 Comments

Kate Clayborn’s spectacular Love Lettering was the first book I read in 2020. Now, while the rest of the year didn’t work out so well, I can’t deny that it was an amazing reading year for me, and now Love at First looks like it’s continuing that tradition. I am an absolute sucker for a found family story, and this is an expert exploration of that trope and its power. It’s also got a bit of a Romeo & Juliet feel, and since that’s literally […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: contemporary, Kate Clayborn, Romance

llamareadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:23 · Genres: Romance · Tags: contemporary, Kate Clayborn, Romance ·
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I really liked this one. It’s silly, but fun!

Never Fall For Your Fiancée by Virginia Heath

April 11, 2021 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

Hugh Standish, the Earl of Fareham, has a bit of a problem.  His mother is coming to visit, all the way from America, to meet his fiancée.  His fiancée who Hugh has entirely made up to stop his mother from matchmaking.  Hugh has created an entirely fictional fiancée named Minerva, and he’s about to get caught.  Or is he?   Hugh happens to come to the rescue of a young lady trying to claim her earnings from an advertisement she created illustrations for.  And just […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: CBR13, comedy of errors, only one real asshole in the whole bunch, Romance, Virginia Heath, well there's another one but he's a very minor character so he doesn't really count

crystalclear's CBR13 Review No:15 · Genres: Romance · Tags: CBR13, comedy of errors, only one real asshole in the whole bunch, Romance, Virginia Heath, well there's another one but he's a very minor character so he doesn't really count ·
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Best Laid Plans

Lower animal content, higher angst for this sequel

Best Laid Plans by Roan Parrish

April 10, 2021 by llamareadsbooks Leave a Comment

I was intensely curious about Jack’s brother Charlie after reading Better Than People, so I was very pleased to see that this book would be about him. Alas, the animal content of this book isn’t quite as high as the previous one in the series – only two cats. But gosh, Jane and Marmot are pretty amazing cats. When Rye inherits a house from a grandfather he never met, it seems too good to be true. But given he’s been couchsurfing in Seattle, he makes […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: contemporary, Roan Parrish, Romance

llamareadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:22 · Genres: Romance · Tags: contemporary, Roan Parrish, Romance ·
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Break on Through to the Other Side

Now You See Her by Linda Howard

April 10, 2021 by katie71483 Leave a Comment

Linda Howard was one of my top go-to romance authors for a long time, but somewhere along my reading journey she fell to the wayside. I was going through my Kindle library and came across Now You See Her which was originally published in 1998. I decided to do a re-read to see if it held up better than some of Howard’s other books like Mr. Perfect, which I used to love but have since come to realize is very problematic. The answer is maybe? Now You See Her […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Suspense Tagged With: katie71483, Linda Howard, mystery, Now You See Her, Romance, Suspense

katie71483's CBR13 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Suspense · Tags: katie71483, Linda Howard, mystery, Now You See Her, Romance, Suspense ·
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