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    Home by Kris Bryant | ARC Review

    9th October 2020
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    Home by Kris Bryant

    Content warnings: gun, off-page animal abuse, loss of father to cancer (prior to story), missing person

    Home is a very sweet second-chance romance that will make you smile. It is an angst-less joy, perfect for a bad day.

    Sheriff Natalie Strand (~35, lesbian) isn’t looking for love, and she tries to pretend she didn’t spend half her life thinking about the girl who kissed her and disappeared. Recently divorced Sarah Eastman (~35, lesbian) moves back to small town Spruce Mountain with her six-year-old daughter Harley to regroup. When the pair runs into each other, they are instantly thrown back to that night seventeen years ago.

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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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    On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

    14th June 2020
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    On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

    “No. No way. You don’t get to decide that. You don’t get to decide what’s important for us. You can choose for yourself, but no one else. When you chose not to respect us, we chose not to respect you. […] Have you ever even considered that something that’s trivial to you could mean … so much more to someone else? You don’t get to take the easy road out and just respect the parts of people you recognize. And, pro-tip: If you find yourself in a similar situation in the future where you’re surrounded by people you don’t understand, try listening. It’ll work a lot better for you than talking.”

    Jules
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    All the Paths to You by Morgan Lee Miller | ARC Review

    9th June 2020
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    All the Paths to You (All the Worlds Between Us #2) by Morgan Lee Miller

    Quinn Hughes and Kennedy Reed had known each other since they were seven. Before heading off to college, they made a pact: if their paths crossed again after college, they would try to date each other again.

    At twenty three, Quinn was heading to Tokyo Olympics for five swimming events. Right before she left San Francisco, East-Coast Kennedy happened to visit the city and sparks flew. That had to be a sign that they should date again, right?

    Post-Olympics Quinn was not a happy Quinn, but she had Kennedy. As everything else in Quinn’s life came crashing down, would Kennedy be her anchor, or would she lose everything she had ever wanted?

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    All the Worlds Between Us by Morgan Lee Miller

    7th June 2020
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    All the Worlds Between Us (All the Worlds Between Us #1) by Morgan Lee Miller

    Quinn Hughes never knew why her best friend Kennedy Reed broke off contact after moving away and refused to acknowledge her after moving back. It had been four years since that goodbye peck on the lips when they were thirteen.

    Since then, Quinn had came out, failed to qualify for the Olympics, and did her best to move on from losing her best friend. When she ran into Kennedy in the restroom at a party, they really faced each other for the first time in four years.

    But Quinn could not allow herself to be side-tracked when the swimming World Championships were coming up. Plus, Kennedy had acted that she did not exist for the past four years. Could they pick up from where they left off and be best friends again? Or whatever it was that they were both feeling? With Quinn’s twin brother Liam also crushing on Kennedy, things were destined to end up in a mess. Right?

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