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ARC Review: Just Like Starting Over by Deborah Cooke

In Deborah Cooke’s second entry in The Carpe Diem Café series, Just Like Starting Over brings us back to the small town of Empire where Sylvia Kincaid must deal with the lingering feelings for Mike, her 15 year old daughter’s father. Written in first person in alternating points of view between Sylvia and Mike forContinueContinue reading “ARC Review: Just Like Starting Over by Deborah Cooke”

ARC Review: Here for a Good Time by Pyae Moe Thet War

Here for a Good Time by Pyae Moe Thet War is advertised as a romcom, but I found very little romantic or funny in this book. I really wanted to love Here for a Good Time, the premise sounded interesting, the setting was different, and I was looking forward to reading a romance set inContinueContinue reading “ARC Review: Here for a Good Time by Pyae Moe Thet War”

ARC Review: Give Me a Reason by Jayci Lee

Give Me a Reason by Jayci Lee is a contemporary take on Jane Austen’s Persuasion in which Anne is a Korean drama actress who has returned to Los Angeles after 10 years, and her former love, Frederick, is a captain in the Culver City Fire Department. There are many similarities to the original novel: AnneContinueContinue reading “ARC Review: Give Me a Reason by Jayci Lee”

ARC Review: Look Before You Leap by Virginia Heath

Look Before You Leap is book 2 in Virginia Heath’s regency romance series, Miss Prentice’s Protégées. This was my first book in the series, but like most books in this genre, although it’s part of a series it’s easily read as a standalone, as each book follows a different couple, and couples from other booksContinueContinue reading “ARC Review: Look Before You Leap by Virginia Heath”

ARC Review: The Accidental Debutante by Jane Dunn

The Accidental Debutante is a regency romance by author Jane Dunn, and although it wasn’t terrible, it wasn’t my cup of tea. I found the story of Eliza Gray, a circus performer who is looking for her family to be more than a little bit unbelievable considering the time period in which the story wasContinueContinue reading “ARC Review: The Accidental Debutante by Jane Dunn”