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  • Book Reviews,  Fiction

    By Design by J.A. Armstrong

    29th May 2020
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    By Design (By Design #1) by J.A. Armstrong

    • Publisher: J.A. Armstrong Books, 2015
    • Genre: Romance, LGBTQ+, Novella
    • Format: Ebook
    • Page Count: 117 pages
    • My Rating: ⭐ (1/5)

    By Design is the kind of book that makes you wonder if you just read the same book as everyone else.

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    Before You Say I Do by Clare Lydon

    27th May 2020
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    Before You Say I Do by Clare Lydon

    • Publisher: Custard Books, 2020
    • Genre: Romance, LGBTQ+
    • Format: Ebook
    • Page Count: 292 pages
    • My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ (3/5)

    Jordan Cohen is nothing but professional. Hired as Abby Porter’s bridesmaid by the groom Marcus Montgomery, Jordan knows she should ignore her attraction toward the gorgeous soon-to-be-married Abby. And it would have been easier if Abby was not also attracted to her and sending her mixed signals. So what about the Porter-Montgomery wedding?


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    Dare to Love by A.L. Brooks

    25th May 2020
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    Dare to Love by A.L. Brooks

    • Publisher: Ylva Publishing, 2020
    • Genre: Romance, LGBTQ+
    • Format: Ebook
    • Page Count: 270 pages
    • My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)

    When Carmen accompanies her best friend to Ash’s tattoo studio, she isn’t looking love. She is straight and in a relationship. But when she visits her friends Tamsyn and Maggie, she finds herself reconsidering what relationships mean. After running into Ash at Alma’s during coffee break, the pair strike up a friendship. With painful past experience of falling for a straight woman, Ash is determined not to make the same mistakes again. Besides, what can their friendship possibly turn into?


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    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
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    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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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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