Musings on Romance
I’m over at Dear Author with my top reads for 2020. It was a big re-reading/comfort read year and so I did not read as many new books and in the latter quarter of the year my reading tanked almost completely. Still, there were some standouts new releases. I’d love to hear yours too – in the hope that I will one day be able to read again I always value recs!
I’m over at AudioGals with my top listens of 2020. Come see what I picked and tell us what your favourites for the year were.
I’m over at Dear Author with some thoughts on Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden and gleanings.
When She Was Naughty by Tessa Dare – A Tessa Dare sent a Christmas gift to her newsletter subscribers so I got this one for free but it’s only 99c from etailers. It’s about 50 pages and it’s such fun. It’s a Christmas bon bon of delight, a frothy funny confection which had me laughing out loud. Chloe Garland believes the Earl of Deverell, Justin Montague, does not like her and disapproves of her frivolity and enjoyment of life. She thinks he’s a stuffed shirt but he’s around her family all the time since his only relative, a beloved cousin married into the Garland clan. She convinces him the annual Garland Christmas Eve ball is one where all the men of the family wear “ugly Christmas waistcoats” in a nod to ugly Christmas sweaters.
Only Chloe is wrong about how the earl feels toward her and a frank discussion in the moonlight inspires her to rethink their past acquaintance. Continue reading
I’m over at AudioGals with a review of Eyes Turned Skyward by Rebecca Yarros, narrated by Carly Robins & Teddy Hamilton. The secret-keeping went on just a little too long for me but I overall, a successful listen, assisted by having Teddy Hamilton in my earholes.
I’m over at Dear Author with a review of Party Favors by Erin McLellan. FF erotic romance set around New Year’s Eve.
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