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A Spot of Trouble by Teri Wilson | Romance ARC Review

This book did one of the things I hate the most with one of my most problematic tropes. It could have been so cute, but it made me squirm. Sigh. Do with this little ranty bit what you will.

The JFK Book Tag

I was tagged by the lovely Josh from Literary Gladiators to do this tag in this video: https://youtu.be/_IbEKS3WQs4 This tag was originally created by Kari from Very Literary Kari, in this video: https://youtu.be/xEXZByQulIc. I did not tag anyone because I don’t know anyone other than Josh who would be interested in this Presidential history tag. If you want to go for it, consider yourself invited!

Romance ARC Review | Bombshell by Sarah MacLean

My personal QUEEN of historical romance has a new book out, and it is a story I’ve been waiting for since my favorite book of hers EVER. Does that sound like a high bar or what? Let me tell you how it faired!

I caught FEELINGS | The Road Trip by Beth O’Leary Review

This book was SO well-timed and just so amazingly good. I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to read a Beth O’Leary book!

How We Rate the Books We Read | Betwixt the Books Discuss

Wherein we discuss the ways how we rate books has changed over time as well as the influence of The Story Graph’s ability to use partial stars. Here you will hear our opinions on rating in general as well and it might give you some insight into our rating system when we do reviews in general.

I Kissed a Girl by Jennet Alexander | LGBT Romance ARC Review

I wanted this to be so good. I had such high hopes. And one side of the pairing absolute is the cutest cinnamon bun. But there’s an issue when I think the other half … isn’t. Here we go!

Road Trip Book List

Trying out something a little bit different today with a list of books I couldn’t stop talking about on the road trip vacation I took recently with my partner, complete with some trip pictures!

River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey Review

Wherein Michaela and myself talk to you about the romp of a good time hippo rangling diverse novel set in an alternate timeline 1890s. If you like heist plots, diverse characters respecting each other, and … well … hippo wrangling do we have a recommendation for you!

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Star Ratings Tag

I had no content ideas for this week, so a tag it is! In fact, I’m super excited about this tag because I feel like using Storygraph as opposed to Goodreads has changed my entire rating system. Hopefully, Michaela and I will do a discussion sometime soon for more on this because I’m super interested!

Lovers of NPR, Unite! | “Susan, Linda, Nina, and Cokie” Book Review

At this point, my love of NPR and the Politics Podcast is no secret. My feelings about this book, though? Not … so lovely. Please give me book recs to read more!