2021: #72 – The Bride Test (Helen Hoang)

I didn’t like this as much as I liked The Kiss Quotient, but I still thought it was very enjoyable. I like the strong families that Hoang writes around her characters. The miscommunication parts of this story are quite frustrating, but also understandable due to Khai’s neurodiversity. The one thing that made me slightly uncomfortable was the treatment of Esme’s relationship with her daughter. It

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2021: #70 – It Happened One Summer (Tessa Bailey)

Piper is a spoiled rich girl whose response to getting unceremoniously dumped by her boyfriend of a few weeks at a party is to break into a hotel’s rooftop pool deck and throw an even bigger party. When she gets busted and affects one of her stepfather’s entertainment deals, he gives her an ultimatum. She must go to the Pacific Northwest and spend 3 months

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2021: #66 – Sweet Revenge (Nora Roberts)

I enjoyed this simply because it’s Nora Roberts and it involves a heist or two. It’s a book that doesn’t age well. The main character, Adrianne, grows up the child of a Middle-Eastern king and his American actress wife in a fictional, very religiously-strict Middle Eastern country. The attitudes put forward about Islam are very outdated and over-the-top. But Adrianne is an interesting character. She

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