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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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    Spindrift by Anna Burke | ARC Review

    25th August 2020
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    Spindrift (A Seal Cove Romance #1) by Anna Burke

    Content warnings: depression, past suicidal thoughts, off-page death of family member, multiple mentions of animal deaths

    This is the first Burke’s book I have read, and I may have found a new auto-read author.

    Emilia Russo (30, of Italian descent, lesbian, depression) was a shelter vet. When her father passed away, her job of putting down innocent animals suddenly became too much. Now on leave and coping with depression, Emilia goes back to Seal Cove to renovate her father’s house for listing. She only plans to stay for a few months. When she accidentally falls into the ocean, it is her teenage crush Morgan Donovan (31) who happens to save her. Morgan, who is also a vet, is recently dumped by her fiancée and still wary of love. Off to an embarrassing and rocky start, the pair keep running into each other in the small town and gradually grow closer. After befriending Morgan’s supportive friends and falling for Morgan, Emilia finds herself reconsidering selling the house, and maybe staying for good.

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    A Love that Leads to Home by Ronica Black | ARC Review

    31st July 2020
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    A Love that Leads to Home by Ronica Black

    Is it a good thing that I tend to love toaster-oven romance more than most other tropes? A story where at least one party is figuring out their sexuality almost always focuses more on the development of the relationship, and I love an extremely slow-burn book where both characters try to understand what they are feeling for each other. Reading toaster-oven romances is often like experiencing falling in love all over again, and Black’s A Love that Leads to Home is one of those beautiful works.

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    Hopes and Dreams by PJ Trebelhorn | ARC Review

    25th July 2020
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    Hopes and Dreams by PJ Trebelhorn

    I am extremely conflicted about this book. The overall idea of Hopes and Dreams was great, and both Riley and Vic have believable insecurities and are really relatable. I also root for the pair, but I feel like something was missing in the story and that made it hard for me to feel at ease with their relationship.

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    Entangled by Melissa Brayden | ARC Review

    12th June 2020
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    Entangled (A Tangle Valley Romance #1) by Melissa Brayden

    Josephine “Joey” Wilder knew how to manage the tasting room but not the whole Tangle Valley. With this huge responsibility suddenly landed on her, she needed to up her game in business. And that included fighting against the new resort, The Jade, that was bound to ruin every beautiful thing Whisper Wall had.

    When Joey met new local Becca Crawford, they struck up an easy conversation that might involved some flirting. But having suffered from public humiliation at the altar in the past, Joey was not fully ready to hand over her trust. Especially not when Becca turned out to be the general manager of evil empire The Jade.

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