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Book Review: Blind Date Bet by Nicole Flockton

Jan 22, 2019
2 min

Book Review: Blind Date Bet by Nicole Flockton

So K-9 romances are my catnip, which means Ethan, the Air Force hero of this story, and his service dog Sam should be right up my alley. Problem is that Sam appears in exactly one scene in this book, since all the action takes place off base and military service dogs live in kennels rather than with their handlers. Apart from that one scene, it really doesn't matter what Ethan does in the armed forces, only that he's a serviceman, because Isabella, the heroine, has vowed neve

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Book Review: Cinderella At Sea by Ellen Wilder

Aug 5, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Cinderella At Sea by Ellen Wilder

Amanda can't believe her cousin booked her on a singles cruise and then stood her up, leaving her on her own. Considering Amanda has crippling social anxiety and regular panic attacks, I found it incredible that Amanda had about 5 minutes of being annoyed and then forgot about it. Frankly, that sort of stunt qualifies her cousin for Worst Relative Ever status. With Cinderella in the title, I expected some sort of rags to riches romance, but Amanda isn't poor, downtrodden or o

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Book Review: Cotton Field Dreams by S.E. Gilchrist

Jul 3, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Cotton Field Dreams by S.E. Gilchrist

First in a seven-book series by various authors, Cotton Field Dreams introduces the small outback Australian town of Mindalby, where the town’s existence is strongly tied to the local cotton mill. When the mill closes suddenly, the town is thrown into turmoil. The residents must band together to survive, even as tensions drive them apart. Sasha’s a newcomer to town. Working in the mill’s accounts department, she’s the one who fills in the workers’ payslips, which automaticall

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Book Review: Belle's Secret by Victoria Purman

Jun 28, 2018
1 min

Book Review: Belle's Secret by Victoria Purman

Marriage celebrant Isabella has a secret… a secret husband, to be exact. One she married and left in Vegas without so much as a goodbye. Only now Harry's found her, and he's furious, demanding a divorce. Except Isabella’s starting to think marrying Harry wasn't such a mistake after all… The setting of the book in the northern Victoria wineries was charming, and beautifully realistic. There was some lovely, evocative prose which really helped transport the reader into the stor

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Book Review: Fast Burn by Lori Foster

Mar 22, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Fast Burn by Lori Foster

Fast Burn is fourth in Lori Foster’s Body Armor series, but don’t worry if you haven’t read the rest. This one stands perfectly well alone. Sahara Silver is the female CEO of Body Armor, an elite bodyguarding agency. Recruiting highly-skilled MMA fighters, she’s turned her business into the go-to agency for celebrities in the spotlight. Keen to add Brand Berry to her stable of former MMA employees, he’s the one man who seems impervious to her wiles. Or rather, not in the leas

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Book Review: Fully Dressed by Geri Krotow

Mar 14, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Fully Dressed by Geri Krotow

Poppy Kaminski is running away. When your fiancé dumps you for your twenty-one-year-old intern (five months pregnant) and she then tries to claim all your designs for herself, sometimes you can’t quite help a public meltdown. When it goes viral on Twitter and Instagram, though, it’s time to get the hell out of Dodge - or in this case, New York. Her best friend’s wedding in New Orleans provides the perfect excuse to flee the scene of the crime. Poppy certainly isn’t looking fo

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Book Review: Reality Wedding by Laura Heffernan

Mar 10, 2018
1 min

Book Review: Reality Wedding by Laura Heffernan

Reality Wedding is the third in a series about Jen Reid, an everyday girl who joins a reality TV show and ends up winning the guy of her dreams. Now, the producers from The Network want her and Justin to get married on camera… OR ELSE. Thrust back into the limelight, Jen has to navigate former nemeses, monstrous wedding dresses, and a wedding planner who seems convinced she’s his fairytale ending. Though I haven’t read the previous two books in the series, this is great fun.

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Book Review: Fair Game by Amy Andrews

Mar 2, 2018
1 min

Book Review: Fair Game by Amy Andrews

Darcy Clarke’s dreams are coming true. She’s going to play for the Brisbane Banshees in the Women’s Australian Rules competition. The only cloud on the horizon? The new coach is her ex-boyfriend, who dumped her and broke her heart two years ago, and now seems to want back into her life and her bed! Levi is her flatmate, the best friend whose shoulder she cried on when Tony broke her heart… and the guy she’s starting to realize she has feelings for beyond just friendship. Of c

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Book Review: Off Limits by Clare Connelly

Feb 5, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Off Limits by Clare Connelly

As promised, this month I'll be reviewing all four of the titles from Harlequin's new DARE range, starting with Off Limits by Clare Connelly! The first thing you should know about this book is that it is FREE. Yup, that's right, FREE at all major ebook stores. I'm presuming this is a limited-time offer for the launch month of the new DARE range, so do get in and grab it now! It's well worth the read. Gemma Picton has grown up in the lap of luxury, but she's not content to sit

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Book Review: Midwife In Behruz by Judy Meadows

Dec 14, 2017
2 min

Book Review: Midwife In Behruz by Judy Meadows

Midwife in Behruz is the fictional story of Layla, a midwife whose distant relationship to the Sheikh of Behruz, a fictional country on the eastern side of the Gulf of Arabia, sees her visiting Behruz for a month to attend her relative's wedding. Once in the country of her birth, though, she meets a charismatic doctor and discovers that perhaps her true calling lies in helping the women of this conservative country. Judy Meadows has lived and travelled extensively in the Mid

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Book Review: Picture Perfect by Lisa Moreau

Nov 21, 2017
2 min

Book Review: Picture Perfect by Lisa Moreau

I’ve been reminding myself recently that I should be reading and reviewing more LGBT stories, so when I spotted this lesbian romance available on NetGalley I grabbed it up. The only problem is that I think this may have started life out as a regular het romance and been re-written to make both protagonists female. I can’t otherwise account for the behaviour of Gabby, who frankly acts exactly like the worst kind of man when the tables are turned on her and she is the one who h

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Book Review: Bodyguard by CD Reiss

Nov 16, 2017
1 min

Book Review: Bodyguard by CD Reiss

Bodyguard is part of CD Reiss’s Hollywood A-List series… but honestly, I didn’t quite think that Emily, the heroine, quite qualified as A-List. She’s the choreographer for an A-Lister, her pop diva best friend, and she’s got an ex-boyfriend stalker who makes her life dangerous enough that Pop Diva bestie assigns one of her own bodyguards to watch over Emily. Carter Kincaid is said bodyguard, and he promptly breaks the cardinal rule of bodyguarding, which is Don’t Get Involved

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Book Review: The Irredeemable Billionaire by Lexxie Couper

Nov 13, 2017
2 min

Book Review: The Irredeemable Billionaire by Lexxie Couper

I first met Sebastian Hart in Lexxie Couper’s earlier book The Mistaken Billionaire, where he was introduced as the Australian film director who books into hotel rooms as “Mick Dundee” (aka Crocodile Dundee) to maintain anonymity. Which gave me the impression that he was most likely an irrepressible joker with a great sense of the ridiculous. That impression is certainly borne out in this book, where we get to meet Sebastian again, this time through the eyes of Grace, single

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Book Review: Stranded With The Navy SEAL by Susan Cliff

Oct 29, 2017
2 min

Book Review: Stranded With The Navy SEAL by Susan Cliff

This is a fabulous castaways story. Cruise ship chef Cady thought she was just heading for a night of pleasure in the arms of the hot guy she picked up in the bar. The last thing she expected was to be mistaken for the former First Daughter he was supposed to be protecting, and kidnapped on the high seas! Cady isn’t the woman he was sworn to protect, but it’s his fault she’s been taken. He’s got to go after her - and given that his other choice is drowning in the South Pacifi

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Book Review: Snowbound With An Heiress by Jennifer Faye

Oct 27, 2017
1 min

Book Review: Snowbound With An Heiress by Jennifer Faye

The title of this book is a little bit misleading, but possibly Snowbound With A Star was already taken. Serena Winston is a major movie star taking time out at a secret hideaway in the Austrian Alps to deal with the aftermath of a bad break-up. It's just her bad luck that the stranger she rescues after a car crash happens to be Jackson Bennett, host of a major morning television show. Jackson doesn't recognize Serena out of her movie makeup and costumes, but he knows the sh

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Book Review: Sarah And The Secret Sheikh by Michelle Douglas

Oct 9, 2017
2 min

Book Review: Sarah And The Secret Sheikh by Michelle Douglas

Sarah and the Secret Sheikh is a romance that hits a fair few of the tropes - sheikh romance, secret baby romance, etc. It also does a fabulous job of turning some of those tropes upside down. Sarah is your everyday Australian girl, but a one-night-stand with Majed, the enigmatic and sexy man looking after her friend's bar for a while, leaves her pregnant and unsure of what to do next. Admitting the truth to Majed brings a whole new set of issues into play when he confesses

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Book Review: On The Chase by Katie Ruggle

Sep 5, 2017
1 min

Book Review: On The Chase by Katie Ruggle

On The Chase is a book in the Rocky Mountain K9 Unit series, and the very existence of a unit containing three police dogs and their handlers in a town small enough to have only one diner honestly had me questioning the whole premise from the get-go. As did the idea of a girl who'd moved to California because she loves the warmth and sunshine happily settling down in a back-of-beyond Colorado snow town. If you can get past those unlikely issues, though, there's a lot to enjoy

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Book Review: Tougher In Texas by Kari Lynn Dell

Aug 18, 2017
2 min

Book Review: Tougher In Texas by Kari Lynn Dell

I read this book a couple of weeks ago and I've been struggling ever since to find the words to express just how UTTERLY FANTASTIC it is. I'll start off by saying that I know absolutely nothing about rodeo. Fortunately, Kari Lynn Dell knows LOTS about rodeo (her bio says she is 'a third generation ranch-raised cowgirl, horse trainer, and rodeo competitor-as well as the 2013 Canadian Senior Pro Rodeo Association Breakaway Roping Champion') and she breaks everything down gently

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Book Review: Fat Girl Begone! by D.E. Haggerty

Jul 22, 2017
2 min

Book Review: Fat Girl Begone! by D.E. Haggerty

Everly, the heroine of Fat Girl Begone! is the most relatable heroine I’ve read in ages. She yo-yo diets and she totally does not have her s*** together. She’s smart and hard-working, though, and she deserves so much better than the a-hole who dumps her at the beginning of the book for dieting too much - not for being fat, but basically for inconveniencing him with her lifestyle. Let’s face it, we’ve all had one of those days when drowning in a bottle of tequila sounds like a

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Book Review: Her Secret Service Agent by Stephanie Doyle

Jul 9, 2017
2 min

Book Review: Her Secret Service Agent by Stephanie Doyle

It's a pretty tough gig being First Daughter. The eyes of a nation are on you at all times; as plenty of other president's children have discovered, messing up carries serious consequences. Vivian Bennett's youthful mistake cost her the man she loved and very nearly her life when she ran straight into the claws of a kidnapper. Ten years later, turning to Joe, the man who saved her back then and the only person who ever made her feel truly safe, is the most natural thing in th

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