Tag: romance
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Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About Review — Isabel Klee
This felt like a modern-day Girls or Sex and the City — but with characters you actually root for. I always wanted to live in NYC in my 20s and never got to. Isabel let me experience that life vicariously, even if a decade late. I started crying on page 91 — the moment Sweet…
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Loved One Book Review — Aisha Muharrar
Book Review — Aisha Muharrar From the rave reviews I’d seen online I expected something that would hit harder. It didn’t, at least not immediately. The first half of this book went over my head — which, lately, seems to be a trend. I’ve been sitting with why, and I think I landed on an…
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Heart the Lover Book Review — Lily King
Book Review — Lily King I went into this book thinking it would be a light romance I could easily blow through. I was wrong. The first 100 pages of Heart the Lover went in one eye and out the other. To be fair, work was consuming my life at the time and the only…
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Madonna in a Fur Coat Review – Sabahattin Ali
Book Review — Sabahattin Ali I discovered this book the way so many others do — BookTok. I knew almost nothing about the plot, which turned out to be the right way in. It’s 1920s Berlin. A young Turkish man named Raif arrives to learn a trade (soap-making, of all things) and falls into a…
Marin Robinson 