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  • ARCs,  Book Reviews,  Fiction

    The Duchess and the Dreamer by Jenny Frame | ARC Review

    20th May 2020
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    The Duchess and the Dreamer (Rosebrook #1) by Jenny Frame

    • Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, 2020
    • Genre: Romance, LGBTQ+
    • Format: Paperback (eARC)
    • Page Count: 233 pages
    • My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ (3/5)

    Duchess of Rosebrook Clementine Fitzroy lost her ability to dream when her grandmother lost her fortune doing just that. When toy company CEO Evan Fox purchased her old home and dreamed to renovate the whole village, Clementine was dead set on not trusting this outsider. That the ever-exuberant Evan was exactly Clementine’s type and also attracted to her did not help at all.


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    Love on the Night Shift by Radclyffe | ARC Review

    17th May 2020
    Cover of Love on the Night Shift (Radclyffe)

    Love on the Night Shift (A Rivers Community Romance #6) by Radclyffe

    • Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, 2020
    • Genre: Romance, LGBTQ+
    • Format: Paperback (eARC)
    • Page Count: 242 pages
    • My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ (3/5)

    Blaise Richelieu has been living a safe and organized life while raising her teenage daughter and working night shifts in the ER. When the younger attending Grady McClure joined the Rivers and made pursuing Blaise a personal mission, Blaise did not plan on opening up to this attractive stranger. But not everything goes as planned.


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    The Road Home by Erin Zak | ARC Review

    10th May 2020
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    The Road Home by Erin Zak

    • Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, 2020
    • Genre: Romance, LGBTQ+
    • Format: Paperback (eARC)
    • Page Count: 263 pages
    • My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)

    Gwendolyn Carter left home seventeen years ago and never looked back. When she went home to celebrate her father’s birthday after failing to get a big acting role, Gwen came to face Lila Machowicz, a woman who basically became the Carters’ second daughter over the last fifteen years. Getting off on the wrong foot yet mutually attracted, Gwen and Lila had to work together and navigate through Carol Carter’s life-threatening cancer as well as other familial issues.


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    Waiting for You by Elle Spencer | ARC Review

    6th May 2020
    Cover of Waiting for You (Elle Spencer)

    Waiting for You by Elle Spencer

    • Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, 2020
    • Genre: Romance, LGBTQ+
    • Format: Paperback (eARC)
    • Page Count: 242 pages
    • My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)

    Ever since Lindsay learned about her past-life lover Roo while hypnotized with her BFF Patty in high school, she couldn’t forget her. Now, in her late thirties, Lindsay was divorced with a teenage daughter Brooke, painting a little boy no one knew and Roo. When Ren dropped by the small town of Salt Creek visiting her BFF Deb before moving to work in Paris, Lindsay promptly fainted at the sight of her.


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    The Last Place You Look by Aurora Rey | ARC Review

    12th April 2020
    Cover of The Last Place You Look (Aurora Rey)

    The Last Place You Look by Aurora Rey

    • Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, 2020
    • Genre: Romance, LGBTQ+
    • Format: Paperback (eARC)
    • Page Count: 314 pages
    • My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ (3/5)

    “Things don’t have to be malicious to do harm.”

    Taylor

    Moving home from New York City after her wife of 8 years left her for another woman, Julia Pierce had no choice but to take on a job at her family’s winery. She had also missed out on dating life since nineteen, so going casual to make up for the lost time sounded like a good idea. When Taylor Winslow, who had an ongoing crush on her for years unbeknownst to Julia, volunteered to friend-zone herself as a wingman, neither knew this friendship would take on a deeper meaning.


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Lí-hó!! I am Hsinju (they/she), a Taiwanese book blogger, writer, and full-time grad student in engineering. Here, I mainly review books featuring authentically represented LGBTQ+ characters and/or written by LGBTQ+ authors. You’d usually find me going about life with my heart stuck in the last book I finished.

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