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In Defense of Dane, the Boyfriend Who Wouldn’t “Man Up”

Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas

February 8, 2022 by Emmalita 6 Comments

A conversation elsewhere got me thinking about one of my original autobuy romance authors, Lisa Kleypas. The Fated Mates podcast celebrates Derek Craven Day every February, and it’s been so long since I read Dreaming of You that I don’t remember why he was so great. And I’m not going to refresh my memory anytime soon, because it takes a lot to get me to read a historical romance these days. This year, the Kleypas conversation got into her contemporaries and I was reminded that […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: lisa kleypas, Smooth Talking Stranger

Emmalita's CBR14 Review No:15 · Genres: Romance · Tags: lisa kleypas, Smooth Talking Stranger ·
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I Think Lisa Kleypas was working through some issues

March 3, 2016 by Emmalita 11 Comments

Lisa Kleypas’ Blue-Eyed Devil and Smooth Talking Stranger are two of my inexplicable comfort reads. They have their good parts and bad parts, but they are not stellar books. I didn’t particularly like either of them when I got them, but I got them both as ebooks, so I have read each of them multiple times, because there they are.  I’m scrolling through my kindle and instead of the many long languishing books I haven’t read, I read these two.  It probably says things about […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Blue-Eyed Devil, Contemporary Romance, lisa kleypas, mental health issues, Smooth Talking Stranger, wish fulfilment fantasy

Emmalita's CBR8 Review No:11 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Blue-Eyed Devil, Contemporary Romance, lisa kleypas, mental health issues, Smooth Talking Stranger, wish fulfilment fantasy ·
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