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Book Review – Crossed Lines by Lana Sky

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Crossed Lines
<— That cover, title and blurb had my attention from the start (it looked SO promising and intriguing) and then a few in our crew jumped in and came back to me with raving reviews, and I’m so glad I jumped in too. 😀 This kind of story (and incredible writing!!!) is right up my forbiddeny alley and I one-clicked it SO hard!!!

Laura: I think you missed a newly released book by Lana Sky called Crossed Lines. Forbidden love/slow burn/ hate to love / age gap romance. It’s the first book I’ve read from the author and I finished it in one sitting.  You’ve helped me so much with your blog, I really hope you like it. read more

Reader Recommendations – Our Favorite Cozy Mysteries

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READER RECOMMENDATIONS REQUEST!! Tasha LOVES “Cozy Mysteries” and is looking for more:

Tasha: …Anyone have any good cozy mysteries to rec. to put on my list? …I’ve been itching to read this genre again.

Maryse: I don’t know any cozy mysteries at all!! Maybe the Teagarden series by Charlaine Harris? I don’t know how cozy that one is… but I’m all ears. I’ll turn it into a list. 😀 P.S. Okay I just checked and yep! It’s a cozy mystery series too.

Tasha: … I enjoy books like read more

Book Review – An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

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An Anonymous Girl: A Novel

<— Ahhhhhh TOTALLY MY THING!!! I just can’t get enough of these authors and I squeeeeeed and one-clicked it so hard when it went on sale. 😀 !!!! And while I still loved another one of their books more (The Wife Between Us – not related to this book at all), this one entertained my wicked psycho-stalker needs the whole way through.

Er…. I mean… wait!!! 😮 That came out wrong. 😉 I mean… not ME —>”wicked-stalker“. I just love a book where I get to be in an obsessed character’s head (and also, even more, when I get to also be in the victim’s head too). Sometimes there’s a surprise switch! read more

Reader Recommendations – Our Favorite Bodyguard Romance Books

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I don’t have many bodyguards under my belt… er… GASP!! *snort* I mean in books… always and only in books. 😉

I tended to go for the “bad boy” and “bad guy” books mostly, and not so much the hero types (although that is changing for me, now – I LOVE true heroes and men in uniform and police hero romance big time!!). So I am ALL ears, too!!

Priscilla is also looking for these:

How about bodyguards? The typical young spoiled rich girl and her grouchy hot bodyguard who won’t fall for her? read more

Reader Recommendations for Forbidden Age Gap Romance featuring both main characters under 30…

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So far… we’ve had specific requests for Age Gap romance (forbidden or otherwise), and then even more specifically, older women with younger men… and of course, older men with younger women. And that soon spurred the of course… romance books featuring older main characters altogether. We are ROCKING these lists.

And then I received this very detailed request that is even MORE narrowed down. So, let’s make another list, shall we? I’m sure there will be repeats on here from some of our other lists above, but this list is especially for those who are adamantly in the mood for ONLY this age group, in this “Age Gap” trope. read more