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@willaful Now that’s done I’m picking up Chanel Cleeton’s “Fly With Me” which I haven’t read enough of to talk about yet…@romancebooks

@willaful oh, I’ve got that on my “look out for” list. Actual characters of my age is a major selling point. I’m listening to Susan Lee’s “The Name Drop” which started delightfully but is reaching the hard part of the plot now. @romancebooks

@willaful I just finished reading Serena Bell’s “Hott Take”, the second in her “Hott Springs Eternal” series; it’s a good fake engagement/marriage of convenience book, definitely not the expected resolution of the “faking it” part, but really sweet characters. Bell’s Rush Creek setting is a fun place to go back to, as well. @romancebooks

@willaful I'm listening to Rebecca Yarros's "The Things We Leave Unfinished" which has an interesting dual timeline structure, 1940 and present day, but I'm still not sure I care about the present-day characters very much. Reading Tarah DeWitt's "Savor It" in which not much is happening but I could read the characters (especially the FMC) bantering *all day*. I like the style. @romancelandia @romancebooks

@willaful In print I’m reading “The Nanny” by Lana Ferguson, which is a real tangle of a probably-shouldn’t-be-doing-any-of-this story even though both MCs are very likeable. Ironically I picked this up because I was reading Ferguson’s “The Fake Mate” which I just couldn’t get in to - maybe it was the wolf shifters? @romancelandia @romancebooks

@willaful I am within a few minutes of finishing listening to “This Other Eden” by Paul Harding (which, I should be clear, is not a romance). The setting and story is based - loosely - on real events not far from where I grew up, and it’s both poetic and deeply, tragically sad, both fictionally and historically (OK, the history is a lot less poetic). Not a happy ending. @romancebooks @romancelandia

@willaful I agree, not my favorite O’Leary. I finally finished listening to Elle Maxwell’s “Us, Again” and I don’t know why I didn’t DNF it; it really wasn’t what I was after and I didn’t like the MMC much (or understand the relationship, I suppose). Now on to listening to BK Borison’s “Lovelight Farm” which I like more already. @romancelandia @romancebooks

@willaful Now I want to listen to Evvie Drake (even though I read it) to see if Whalen’s Downeast accents are as faithful as Holmes’s setting was. @romancebooks @romancelandia

@pretensesoup @willaful Katherine Center's latest ("Hello Stranger") leans hard on prosopagnosia for the plot, but apparently Center did a good bit of research to back it up. (Also kisses only, which is not usually my preference, but I like Center's books too much to mind.) @romancelandia @romancebooks

@willaful Anyway none of this in any way affects the quality of the story or the relationship between the main characters, and Kennedy is good at a lot of the things that make romances which are fun to read. It's just like those moments in a movie where the background scenery is clearly from a different city, and you're like, wait a minute... @romancelandia @romancebooks

@willaful The hardest thing to swallow in this book is one of the major hurdles; supposedly one of Briar's fictional rivals collapsed financially and was absorbed by Briar, so now their hockey teams need to be combined (and somehow this is a problem for the men's team but not the women?). This isn't a thing that happens often, so I can't say it's not accurately portrayed... but it's not a thing that happens often.
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