Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. When she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of […]
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Review: Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She’s a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t know…until she does exactly that. This […]
As one of the most popular influencers on social media, Mia Bell has lived her life online for years. With her celebrity dog and gorgeous fiancé, she is planning the ultimate virtual wedding—expensive, elaborate, and entirely paid for by sponsors. But off-camera, her world is far from picture perfect. After being jilted by her fiancé […]
Suddenly single, in her forties, and eager to do what it takes to start over, Elaina Samuels meets three women with similar circumstances at a cash-for-gold event. They quickly become friends and form the No Sweat Pants Allowed – Wine Club. This newly found alliance brings about some humorous escapades, a few tears, and a […]
Overworked and underappreciated, single mom Amy Byler needs a break. So when the guilt-ridden husband who abandoned her shows up and offers to take care of their kids for the summer, she accepts his offer and escapes rural Pennsylvania for New York City. Usually grounded and mild mannered, Amy finally lets her hair down in […]
Alyssa Cole returns with a fun, sexy romance novella in the Reluctant Royals series! While her boss the prince was busy wooing his betrothed, Likotsi had her own love affair after swiping right on a dating app. But her romance had ended in heartbreak, and now, back in NYC again, she’s determined to rediscover her […]
Introduction To start with, I want to say that I am in no way attempting to romanticize the creepy behavior I will be discussing in this post. When You first came out on Netflix I know there were a lot of issues with younger viewers romanticizing Joe’s stalking, and that is not what this post […]
Joe Goldberg is a romantic. He sees himself in the male leads of traditional rom coms, waiting for the right moment to finally get the girl. And one day that girl comes into the bookshop he works at. Her name is Guinevere Beck, she’s a writer, and she likes the same books and rom coms […]
For this discussion, I really want to answer three questions about putting familial drama into a novel. First: is it necessary to do so? This is a bit of a subjective question because it could vary from book to book, but still. Second: is it realistically portrayed? And third: is it cathartic to read about? […]
Elyse has taken shelter in Oregon, a new start and some space in her life, as well as new friends and surroundings. An accident has left her without a voice, and with the uncomfortable life she now leads she finds being in Oregon a good way to get her bearings again. And then Elyse meets […]
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