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Top Ten Tuesday – My Fall (*ahem* Spring) TBR

I’m back to Top Ten Tuesday after a two-week hiatus! And this week’s topic from the girls at The Broke and the Bookish is one of those topics that I don’t even pretend to limit myself to a mere ten books! However, I have managed to be somewhat restrained. Limiting this list to books that are actually releasing between September and November went a long way towards that restraint! And obviously, this is actually my Spring TBR, because here in the antipodes, spring is in the air! September    Read my reviews for Crown of Souls, A New Shade of Summer,

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19 September 2017

The Captivating Lady Charlotte (Carolyn Miller) – Review

~ About the Book ~ Her heart is her own–but her hand in marriage is another matter Lady Charlotte Featherington is destined for great things on the marriage market. After all, as the beautiful daughter of a marquess, she should have her pick of the eligible nobility when she debuts. She, however, has love at the top of her list of marriageable attributes. And her romantic heart falls hard for one particularly dashing, attentive suitor. Sadly for Charlotte, her noble father intends her betrothed to be someone far more dull.

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21 July 2017

Love Triangles – When Do They Get a Thumbs Up?

Welcome book lovers! We’ve been talking about love triangles around here the last few weeks, and after discussing what love triangles are, and what turns people off them, I thought we’d have a look at the positive side: When do readers give love triangles a thumbs up?

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18 July 2017

Romance Tropes – The Love Triangle

Top Ten Tuesday is on a six-week hiatus at the moment, and while I may still come up with some top ten posts for you during that time, I’m taking the opportunity today to do something a little different. If you’ve read some of my recent posts, you’ll know that the final book in the Serena Jones Mystery Series releases today (YAY!), and you’ll also know that it has been much anticipated by me (and countless other readers) because it will give us the answer to the big question: Which man will win Serena’s affection? Nate Butler or Tanner Calhoun?

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4 July 2017

Interview + Australian Giveaway with Carolyn Miller

If you love Regency novels then you are going to love my guest today! You might remember that a couple of weeks ago I shared that I met up with author Carolyn Miller in her home town of Moss Vale in New South Wales, Australia. (Click here to read the post.) Well today, I’m going to share some of that time we spent together with you! And let me tell you, it was so nice for these two Aussie gals (who live a whole ocean away from most of our fiction writing and reading friends) to meet up in person!

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28 June 2017

Weekend Book Buzz – 24/25 June 2017

Well, I said things would be back to normal around here this week, and boy have I hit the ground running! There are so many wonderful bookish things to be buzzing about, and some fabulous bookish things I’m getting ready for you it’s a wonder I haven’t grown my own set of wings. Actually, that might be handy, come to think of it…

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25 June 2017

The Elusive Miss Ellison (Carolyn Miller) – Review

~ About the Book ~ Handsome appearance counts for naught unless matched by good character and actions. That’s the firm opinion of not-so-meek minister’s daughter Lavinia Ellison. So even though all the other villagers of St. Hampton Heath are swooning over the newly returned seventh Earl of Hawkesbury, she is not impressed. If a man won’t take his responsibilities seriously and help those who are supposed to be able to depend on him, he deserves no respect from her. In Lavinia’s pretty, gray eyes, Nicholas Stamford is just as arrogant and reckless as his brother–who stole the most important person

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2 March 2017