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Review at Dear Author

February 7, 2025 / / 0 Comments

I’m over at Dear Author with a review of The Bad Bridesmaid by Rachael Johns. Enjoyable but not quite as successful for me as last year’s The Other Bridget.

Illustrated cover with a pale blue background and pink titles. In the left background is a bride in a big white ballgown wedding dress surrounded on each side by bridesmaids in mid blue dresses. In the right foreground is a woman with short black hair wearing sunglasses and a one-shoulder hot pink tight dress, with one hand in her hip.

US/Worldwide cover

Illustrated cover on a white background with gold author name in large font at the top and pink titles with the word "bad" in italics and in black at the bottom. In the middle and lower third is an illustration of an older white groom in a tux on the top and boardshorts and thongs on the bottom waiting for a bride who is also older and is wearing a pink ballgown, walking toward him on a red carpet with confetti. In between the couple walks a young white woman with short black hair in a knee length red dress and wearing devil horns and a devil tail.

Australian cover

Review at Dear Author

September 27, 2024 /

I’m over at Dear Author with a review of The Other Bridget by Rachael Johns. I’m so happy this one has been released worldwide – it deserves a larger audience.

Pink cover with titles at the top, a long thin line of colour books in the background around a third of the way up the cover. In the foreground stands a red-haired woman, hip-cocked, in jeans and a black tank top, on either side of her and back from her, each facing slightly away from her, stand two men, one is wearing a black suit, the other is in jeans and a green top, they both have their arms folded.

US/Worldwide Cover

Mostly white cover with author's name in large gold letters at the top, at the bottom of the cover is a bench with a row of colourful books lined up behind it, a guy sits at either end of the bench, one is drinking a coffee and the other is reading and a woman with bunny ears on and her face buried in a book, with a coffee next to her, is in the middle.

Australia/New Zealand cover

January Round Up

February 3, 2013 /

on Paper/eBook

Stand In Star by Rachael Johns – C  (arc via NetGalley) This book suffered for being my first read after 2 A reads in a row.  It’s a hard act to follow – I don’t give out A’s very often.  I also had something of an ick factor over Nate having been Daisy’s lover before he and Holly got together – and his discussion with Holly about their (his and Daisy’s) relationship was immediately before their (his and Holly’s) first kiss.   I also questioned whether Holly would really bare her  (and her family’s) soul about Daisy on international television. Many of Holly’s decisions seemed a lot more than merely naive and I didn’t buy the set up that she would stay with Nate, a complete (and surly) stranger, in the first place.
Still, I had a bad book hangover (from the joy of the previous 2 books) and I think I wasn’t in the best mood for this one. I can’t say that I saw in Nate what Holly did – apart from that he was gorgeous, he ran hot and cold and was grumpy and rude more often than not.   I’m afraid this one didn’t work that well for me.  But I’ve left the grade at a C because I feel like I brought unreasonably high expectations to the read and I’m sure that affected me.
Risque Business by HelenKay Dimon – C-  An erotic short which tried to be too much in too little time IMO.  Possibly my book hangover continued.  The sex was hot but the conflict was manufactured and the resolution too swift considering what an asshole the hero had been.  I like this author’s contemporary stories much better.

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