Tag: Contemporary Fiction
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Adrienne Young’s A Sea of Unspoken Things – As Good As Her Others?
I fell in love with Spells for Forgetting, spent my nights kicking my feet over The Unmaking of June Farrow, but it seems that A Sea of Unspoken Things has left me wanting more. This adult contemporary fantasy, set in the beautiful Six Rivers, Northern California, it was hoping for more goodness from an author…
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The Unmaking of June Farrow – Yet Another Fabulous Adrienne Young Novel
There is something addictive about Adrienne Young’s adult fantasy novels that scratches that itch deep in my soul. Spells for Forgetting is a stunning masterpiece, and The Unmaking of June Farrow carries a similar weight, depth, and poignancy. While it is classified as an adult fantasy, the emotions and characters feel real, grounded, and compelling.…
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Alicia Thompson’s The Art of Catching Feelings Delivers Heartfelt Sports Romance Goodness
The Art of Catching Feelings, a standalone sports romance by Alicia Thompson, is just the right balance of baseball, contemporary romance, working through personal trauma, and steamy romance. Romance isn’t set in a vacuum, and this novel encapsulates that idea exactly right with conflicts and interactions that are just as important in the story as…
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Rewind it Back by Liz Tomforde Gives First Love a Second Chance
It has been a long anticipated read given my thorough enjoyment of Liz Tomforde’s Windy City series, and finally I have got my hands on Rio’s book, Rewind it Back! With everything I feel about this series and Rio from Mile High, The Right Move, Caught Up, and Play Along, I knew this one was…
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The Delightful Final Ren Faire Romance in Jen Deluca’s Well Traveled
We have reached the final novel in Jen Deluca’s ren faire romance series, Well Traveled. She saved a good one for last though, having teased out Dex MacLean’s character across the series and adding boss-woman Lulu Malone into the mix. It’s a riveting one, and the fates have something in store for these two. A…