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Review: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Amy Rae Durreson

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As an orphaned child, Leon owed his survival to his school. Now an adult and a teacher at that same school, he’s determined to repay the debt. When an old boy leaves them a ruined orphanage in the Scottish Borders, he heads north to assess the mysterious old building, Vainguard.

But Vainguard’s history is more terrible than he could imagine. As Leon explores, he discovers that his own tragic past is entwined with Vainguard’s, and with the stories of all the children who have died there over...

REVIEW: Nottingham: The True Story of Robyn Hood by Anna Burke

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Robyn Hood didn’t set out to rob the rich, but in Nottingham, nothing ever seems to go according to plan.

After a fateful hunting accident sends her on the run from the law, Robyn finds herself deep in the heart of Sherwood Forest. All she really wants to do is provide for her family and stay out of trouble, but when the damnable Sheriff of Nottingham levies the largest tax in the history of England, she’s forced to take matters into her own hands. Relying on the help of her merry band of...

REVIEW: The Best Man Problem by Mariah Ankenman

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Lilly Walsh is used to keeping things buttoned-up and aboveboard. After all, the last time she hooked up with someone in a wedding party, it nearly cost her her wedding planning business. Thankfully, those rules don’t apply when she meets a handsome stranger in a hotel bar. One bad pirate joke leads to the best night of her life, but come morning, she’s got a wedding to plan.

Lincoln Reid never imagined he’d see the woman who rocked his world last night and then ran out on him ever again....

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REVIEW: Headliners by Lucy Parker

[image error]NOTE TO READERS: The following review necessarily contains spoilers for the previous book in the London Celebrities series, The Austen Playbook. If you haven’t read it yet, perhaps best to look away now.

Dear Lucy Parker,

I admit I’m not generally a fan of the enemies-to-lovers trope. It’s not that it’s never worked for me but it has been very hit and miss in the past. Still, I have enjoyed the other books in the London Celebrities series and I decided to trust you. I’m glad I did.

**SPOILERS...

REVIEW: The Peculiar Folly of Long Legged Meg by Jayne Fresina

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Persephone “Persey” Foyle, the Dowager Marchioness of Holbrooke, leads a happy, busy existence, tending her garden, overseeing her charitable missions, feuding with her stepson’s wife, and vetting potential suitors for her stepdaughter. As far as this lively widow is concerned, her life lacks nothing.

But when a young, famously-talented designer is hired to “improve” the grounds of Holbrooke estate—a task she has managed for eight years—Persey’s comfortable world is threatened. It doesn’t...

REVIEW: Watch the Wall, My Darling by Jane Aiken Hodge

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Only a deathbed promise to her dying father could force Christina Tretton to travel to Tretteign Grange, the ‘Dark House’, and meet her estranged family for the first time. Having to fast-talk her way out of an encounter with smugglers on the way is only the beginning. Waiting for her is flighty aunt Verity, her two very different cousins – the stoic Ross and fawning Richard – and her formidable grandfather, who changes his Will every few days.

Taking the neglectful servants in hand,...

JOINT REVIEW: The Wolf and the Girl by Aster Glenn Gray

I was impressed by Briarley, Aster Glenn Gray’s debut retelling of Beauty and the Beast, and when I saw that Gray had a new, 120-page f/f retelling of Little Red Riding Hood just out, and that it was set in pre-revolutionary Russia, I thought Sirius, a lover of LGBT romances and fairy-tale retellings and a font of knowledge about Russia, would be the perfect person to review it with. Happily, she agreed. –Janine

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When a wounded wolf collapses on Masha’s...

REVIEW: Blood Heir (Blood Heir Trilogy #1) by Amelie Wen Zhao

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This hot debut is the first book in an epic new series about a princess hiding a dark secret and the con man she must trust to clear her name for her father’s murder.

In the Cyrilian Empire, Affinites are reviled. Their varied gifts to control the world around them are unnatural—dangerous. And Anastacya Mikhailov, the crown princess, has a terrifying secret. Her deadly Affinity to blood is her curse and the reason she has lived her life hidden behind palace walls.

When Ana’s father, the...

REVIEW: Kissing Adrien by Siri Mitchell

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Claire Le Noyer, 29, wants a do-over. She wants the life where she majors in history, not accounting. Where she takes two-hour lunches, not ten minutes in front of her computer. Where her pastor boyfriend treats her like an attractive women he’s deeply in love with, not like a nice pet dog.

But for now she’s a Seattle numbers-cruncher with a wardrobe from REI sent to fashionable Paris to check out an apartment left to her parents by a mysterious cousin. When her childhood crush– handsome,...