Book Review: Must Love Books by Shauna Robinson

Shauna Robinson's debut, Must Love Books, tackles the dilemma of balancing personal fulfillment, career stability, and paying your rent. ARC provided free by the publisher in exchange for an honest review Sometimes the dream of working in publishing looks difference once you're on the inside. In Must Love Books, Nora is 5 years into…

ByMichelleJanuary 18, 20220Comments

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5 New Reads to Cozy Up With This Winter

Review copies were provided free by the publishers with the exception of The Wedding Ringer, which I purchased. Winter is a great time to catch up on all those fall releases you meant to get to, especially if this year's Christmas romances aren't sparking joy, or if you don't celebrate it. In that spirit, I'm…

ByMichelleDecember 9, 20210Comments

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5 End-of-Summer Reads To Check Out Before the Season Slips Away

Four Romances & A Contemporary Fiction, But Who's Counting? How is it already the middle of August? It's been a summer of great reads, but we've still got a couple of weeks to go before summer slips away. I've got five end-of-summer reads for you to check out -- three I've read, and two more…

ByMichelleAugust 17, 20210Comments

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Book Review: The Tiger Mom’s Tale by Lyn Liao Butler

Review copy provided free by the publisher While Lyn Liao Butler's debut is called The Tiger Mom's Tale, for me, this is really a book about sisterhood. After more than 20 years estranged from her father and stepfamily in Taiwan, Lexa goes back to grapple with the stepmother who forced her out and separated her…

ByMichelleJuly 27, 20210Comments

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The Rehearsals by Annette Christie | Book Review & Excerpt

Review copy provided free by the author Feels and Reveals, For Reals Where do I even start? I think I was pre-disposed to love Annette Christie's adult debut, The Rehearsals, out today. I live in the Pacific Northwest, I've been to the San Juan Islands and I love a good time loop. (Did you read…

ByMichelleJuly 13, 20210Comments

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Book Review: Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane

Review copy provided by the publisher I got it totally wrong when I thought Just Last Night would be a beach read. Light, it is not. But Mhairi McFarlane's latest novel is absolutely wonderful. Now that I've read it, I get why the synopsis was so (purposely) vague. It made me think the story was…

ByMichelleJune 2, 20210Comments

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8 Books that Got Me Through 2020

Rollercoaster is the only word I can think of to describe my reading life in 2020. You'd think that in a year when you can't go to concerts, sporting events, the movies or really even restaurants, I should have been burning through books. But reading was hard! I had slumps, I read slower than…

ByMichelleDecember 10, 20200Comments

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The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan | Book Review

Review Copy Provided by the Publisher The Heir Affair, the follow up to 2015’s The Royal We, is a dishy reality check on an institution we’ve been led to believe is one long fairytale. But as we’ve seen in real life, "the Firm's" stiff upper lip facade is hiding more intrigue, ego, and deception than…

ByMichelleJuly 9, 20200Comments

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Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis | Book Review

ARC provided by the publisher via NetGalley Break out the tissue box! I ripped through Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis in a day. At turns charming and devastatingly sad, it follows Emmie Blue, a teenager who released a balloon with her email address on a card and found a friend an ocean away.…

ByMichelleJuly 7, 20200Comments

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Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho | 5-Star Book Review

Review copy provided by the publisher How often do you cheer out loud and do a fist pump when reading a book? The other night, I finished Last Tang Standing by debut author Lauren Ho, and on page 395, I actually did a fist pump. I was giddy as I slid into the last…

ByMichelleJune 14, 20200Comments

Book Review: Must Love Books by Shauna Robinson

5 New Reads to Cozy Up With This Winter

5 End-of-Summer Reads To Check Out Before the Season Slips Away

Book Review: The Tiger Mom’s Tale by Lyn Liao Butler

The Rehearsals by Annette Christie | Book Review & Excerpt

Book Review: Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane

8 Books that Got Me Through 2020

The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan | Book Review

Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis | Book Review

Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho | 5-Star Book Review

Book Review: A Ghastly Catastrophe by Deanna Raybourn

The Fourth Princess by Janie Chang

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