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Charissa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Charissa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Charissa Stastny
Goodreads Author
Born
in Las Vegas, Nevada, The United States
Website
Genre
Influences
Member Since
June 2010
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/charissastastny
More books by Charissa Stastny…
Coming soon! More book makeovers.
My cover artist, Susie Poole, has been working on new covers for my Bending Willow Trilogy. I unpublished these three titles earlier this year and will be re-releasing them in the fall. I'm excited for you to enjoy the new makeovers. These were the first books I wrote about ten years ago. I've learned so much since then, and had to redo them, using the new knowledge I have gained. I've cut a lot o
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Charissa’s Recent Updates
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| This is a great slow-burn romance, where the Duke of Kielder decides to marry just to spite his twit cousin from inheriting someday when he dies. He has his secretary offer a poor family of noble birth enough money to make it enticing for their daugh ...more | |
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| This is a super short novella to set up better for the novel Edenbrooke. It’s well done, makes you excited to get to know the characters in the full-length book. | |
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| Super fun romance about Demi and Roman, both demi-gods in the realm of love. These 2 absolutely hate each other, but then Demi is given a quest from Zeus with dire consequences if she doesn’t accomplish her given goal–find her true love. Demi’s fathe ...more | |
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| Loved this conclusion to this series! It was very rewarding to read all 3 books and have the romance between Lia and Xander bloom into a beautiful relationship. It was a long time coming, but so fulfilling at the end. This romantasy had great charact ...more | |
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| I was torn while reading book 1 about whether I wanted to continue (since series aren't my favorite), but the ending of book 1 drove me to want to know what happens, so I bought books 2-3. I'm so glad I did. Book 2, Vow of Embers, is even better than ...more | |
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| This was a super fun book to read. It's written in the style of personal letters and emails to and from different people. However, Sybil Van Antwerp is the MC of this one, an elderly lady who is one of my favorite characters ever. Her voice in each p ...more | |
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| This romantasy was very well written. I loved the story. It was "clean," but just barely. It has lots of steamy kissing scenes going into almost bedroom scenes. The kissing scenes got redundant. Yes, already, she loves to kiss Jason! Let's move on or ...more | |
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| Life turns upside down for Sydney McKnight, a young physician in a Boston Hospital, when she has a patient come in with flu-like symptoms that go from bad to worse. Within weeks, thousands of people have died worldwide, and a crisis that rivals the 1 ...more | |
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| This book has a modern and historic POV. The modern one is from Bennie’s POV, a brand new teacher in a low-economic area in Louisiana. She wants to get her students engaged, and eventually comes upon an angle letting them research their ancestors to ...more | |
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The Green Jell-O Book Club: A Goodreads Group about Fiction Written by LDS Authors
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This is a club for readers who enjoy fiction written by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and for LDS authors. An interest ...more
Swoony Awards
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— last activity Aug 28, 2021 08:07AM
The Swoony Awards are a reader’s choice award recognizing excellence in clean secular, wholesome romance. We wanted a way to show our appreciation to ...more
