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    The Politics of Love by Jen Jensen | ARC Review

    29th June 2020
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    The Politics of Love by Jen Jensen

    Evangelical Republican attorney and writer Shelley Whitmore meets the liberal, transgender rights activist and psychotherapist Rand Thomas for an MSNBC show in Manhattan. The pair connects immediately with philosophical and political debates. But Shelley has yet to come to terms with her own sexuality and Rand is suffering constant harassment from her deceased wife’s parents. With their values clashing and own problems to tend to, will Shelley and Rand be able to reach out to each other and build something more out of their friendship?

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    One Woman’s Treasure by Jean Copeland | ARC Review

    28th June 2020
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    One Woman’s Treasure by Jean Copeland

    Daphne Carsen is not fully over her ex-wife when she tries to crash her wedding. Then she accidentally steals an antique lamp from Nina Colombo’s driveway. Nina, single, divorced, and newly out after her sexual epiphany with Lacey, is just settling down with her son when she finds her lamp missing. Luckily, Daphne quickly returns it to Nina, and the pair bonds over their love of antiques and need of new friends. Soon, their friendship shifts into something more. But Nina gets back with Lacey, and neither Nina nor Daphne wants to risk their friendship for romance. Or should they?

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    Silver Ravens by Jane Fletcher | ARC Review

    27th June 2020
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    Silver Ravens by Jane Fletcher

    Lori has just lost her job as a video game engineer along with her girlfriend. Desperately in need of a new job, she comes across a series of magazine puzzles. The final solution leads her to Dorstanley and supplies her with odd instructions. Maybe it is a recruitment.

    Surprisingly, it is, but not anything close to what she has imagined. In fact, she thinks the recruiters are out of their minds for believing in a mythical world. But as Tamsin, one of the recruiters Lori finds especially attractive, leads her deeper into the world of fays, Lori no longer knows who is right and who is wrong.

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    Still Not Over You by Jenny Frame & Carsen Taite & Ali Vali | ARC Review

    26th June 2020
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    Still Not Over You by Jenny Frame & Carsen Taite & Ali Vali

    I absolutely love the first novella My Forever Girl by Jenny Frame. Its tone is sad from the beginning yet we feel the immense love and caring between Braydon and Faith. Because of unfortunate circumstances, they are divorced and have been avoiding seeing each other for four years. But their friends invite them on a cruise and force them to share adjacent rooms for two weeks. Melancholy flowed relentlessly through the story as Bray and Faith work to forgive each other and, most importantly, themselves. Frame did not disappoint with this emotional butch-femme story and oh what I would give to have a full length novel of them!

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    What Unbreakable Looks Like by Kate McLaughlin | ARC Review

    25th June 2020
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    What Unbreakable Looks Like by Kate McLaughlin

    Lex was trafficked, and in that life, she was Poppy. When Lex’s aunt Krys came to take her home after the police’s rescue, she had the chance to live as Lex again. But soon, her new boyfriend and his friends sexually assaulted her. Would Lex decide to own her past and fight back as an activist?

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