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Octoberwoman
The Runaway Princess | Christina Dodd
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I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it.

#ABookADay2025

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kspenmoll
Dark Fires | Rosemary Rogers
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dabbe Wowza! You are awesome! 🤩 2d
Librarybelle Incredible! Congratulations on a great reading month! 2d
Bookwormjillk Looks like a good reading month! 2d
TheBookHippie 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 2d
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LibrarianRyan
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4⭐This is a pretty typical romance novel. I did listen to this as an audiobook and will say that I did not care for the reader. They grew on me, but if it wasn‘t for the topic of book banning in the very beginning I might not have finished this book. In it, we have Artemis Jones who is a school teacher. She‘s also a spinster and firmly on the shelf at 29. She doesn‘t want to get married. She instead wants to start a college and educate young women

LibrarianRyan She‘s also an author of gothic romance novels. She quite literally run into Dominic Winters, the Duke of Dartmore in the rain and they share a moment. The story progresses from there. Much of the story is predictable. Not 100% predictable but still predictable. And while overall, the story was exactly what one wants when they pick up a book like this there were some annoyances that give romance novels a bad name. First off, the euphemisms. 4d
LibrarianRyan . I never again want to hear about a love truncheon. The author spends so much time on cliché language and euphemisms that this book is too long. This audiobook was 12 hours long and could have easily been nine or 10. A lot of that time was taken up with these clichés and euphemisms that didn‘t need to be there. The author could also do with a little less description. One or two ways to describe things are fine. We don‘t need a giant list. This is 4d
LibrarianRyan the first book in a series, and it feels like a first book. Overall, the book was decent and good, but the author needs a bit more help. I do want to read, whichever book is next in the series, but I am happy to be taking a break. 4d
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mariaku21
It Happened One Season | Mary Balogh, Stephanie Laurens, Candice Hern, Jacquie D'Alessandro
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It's been some time since I read an anthology and this was on my TBR.
The premise to use a single trope, in this case of the older brother and heir in a pickle because their wives can no longer have kids and they're left with daughters so they turn to their younger brothers to force them to marry and beget children ASAP, was interesting because same basic trope and each author had a different way of making it happen and I was here for that!

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Julsmarshall
Baron | Joanna Shupe
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Pickpick

Solid historical, I love the setting in NYC during the gilded age. Strong characters, witty banter, and political machinations make this a fun ride!

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behudd
Earl Crush: A Novel | Alexandra Vasti
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Pickpick

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Who wouldn‘t travel over 500 miles to propose to a penpal they‘ve never met?
The two main characters here are in turn so open and so lovely and so dense it gets a little bogged down - both in plot and in the continual am-I-good-enoughs, but they kept winning me over regardless.
Not as good as the first in this series, but that being said, I still really enjoyed this fun, spicy Regency romance/spy caper, and would recommend it!

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Lauranahe
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Pickpick

This was cute. Though my least favorite of the trilogy, the ending to the wives‘ story was very satisfying. Overall a delightful journey.

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TheSpineView
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Eggs Sounds good 📚 2w
TheSpineView @Eggs 👍📖 2w
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MaGoose
Midnight | Beverly Jenkins
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 stars
This is a page turner right to the end. The characters are very well rounded, even the secondary ones. The plot moves forward at a steady pace without dragging.

This is an historical romance about a small community of free African Americans just north of Boston. It's set in the 18th century right before the start of the Revolutionary War.

Great reading. And I'm usually not a romance reader.

#romance #historicalfiction

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CaramelLunacy
Dukes Prefer Blondes | Loretta Chase
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An intelligent girl who read more than she ought to...

I cannot relate...I did *not* have biweekly proposals. But that was no doubt due to the fashion.