I absolutely adored the Sweet Evil trilogy, so I tried this one too--curious to know how Higgins would pull off a romance between a human girl and a leprechaun! But it gets better: the human girl and the leprechaun are betrothed from childhood, even though they've never met before. How in the world ...
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Redeeming Love
I read this once before in college, and at the time I thought it was heavy-handed in its overtly Christian message, cheesy, and unrealistic. I reread it now, though, because so many other people regarded it as the standard for romantic fiction. One thing I've noticed about a lot of romance stories ...
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Sweet Temptation
LOVED this one! Which is a strong endorsement for the series, since it's literally the entire Sweet Trilogy over again, only from Kaidan's perspective instead of from Anna's. As an author, this was a fabulous character study, getting into the mind of a bad boy through his character arc. Most of the ...
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Sweet Peril and Sweet Reckoning
This book was every bit as good as the first!
***Spoiler alert*** if you haven't read Sweet Evil...
Like every paranormal adventure, Anna finds that she is a "Chosen One" of sorts, prophesied to bring redemption. In this case, she is the Creator's chosen instrument to offer heaven to the ...
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Review of The Widow’s Redeemer
Any fans of Jane Austen will love this book! Keyworth almost seemed to channel Austen in the language she uses, and the book is also set in 18th century Britain, and her description of society is almost exactly the same. More than once I thought it was an intentional retelling of Pride and ...
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Review of Hidden Deep
I'm not generally a romance reader unless it's historical, because modern day stories that are primarily romances tend to be cheesy in my opinion. I have a hard time with all the ogling of rippling muscles and bodies aflame and what-not... just makes me roll my eyes. This story had an awful lot of ...
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Her Royal Spyness
I’m so glad I listened to this after I’d already listened to The Matriarch, because it gave me the context to appreciate the historical aspects of the story. While technically the book is a cozy mystery set in 1930s Britain, the main character, Lady Georgiana (“Georgie”) is a fictional member of the ...
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Review of A Court of Thorns and Roses
I had tried Sarah J Maas’s Throne of Glass series a few years ago and couldn’t get into it. But this series is everywhere, and everyone gushes about how great it is, so finally I decided to give it a try. Let me preface the rest of what I have to say with the fact that I stop reading books that ...
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Review of Renegades
I’ve been a big Marissa Meyer fan ever since The Lunar Chronicles (which I only read recently—I was late to the party on that). Although I didn’t enjoy Heartless quite as much as The Lunar Chronicles, I chalk that up mostly to the fact that it was the origin story of a villain (the Queen of Hearts ...
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Review of Outlander
I never would have thought to listen to this book, had Audible not suggested it to me, as I’m not a big romance novel fan. But I do love an adventure story with an interwoven love story, especially when there’s a fantasy twist, so I thought I’d give it a try.
The quick summary: Clare is happily ...
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