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3.0
The Professor’s Secret
Claudia Manchester is an erotica romance writer by night and working on tenure by day. She's incredibly nervous that anyone from her university might find out what she writes. But she needs to start making public appearances in order to boost her sales so she goes to a local romance writer's conference. And it's there that she meets a fellow author Bradley who unfortunately also lives in Portland. He is hot and sexy, but she can't reveal her secret.
I really, really enjoyed the first 4/5 of this novella. It made sense that Claudia would be cautious about revealing her writing side to a conservative tenure board. But for Bradley to act the way he did seemed really out of character for how he was set up in the beginning of the book. And for her to forgive him so fast... really took me out of the story.
Three stars
Sadie’s Story
Jordan Blaise's mother is about to die. He just wants her to be happy so, after wandering into Sadie Rose's bookstore, he decides to hire her as a fake fiancee.
I could not see the attraction in this book. Nor could I see why these two seemed to fall in love so fast. As readers, we saw almost none of their interactions other than the meet-cute and the falling into bed.
Two stars
A Late-Blooming Rose
I had read this story before and didn't love it then, still didn't love.
Eva Mitchum is wheelchair-bound and incredibly adept at driving off her caretakers. But her grandfather left her a fabulous book collection that bookseller Beau Landry would love to get his hands on so he's willing to do anything, including helping her out for a month(?) to get his hands on those books.
Claudia Manchester is an erotica romance writer by night and working on tenure by day. She's incredibly nervous that anyone from her university might find out what she writes. But she needs to start making public appearances in order to boost her sales so she goes to a local romance writer's conference. And it's there that she meets a fellow author Bradley who unfortunately also lives in Portland. He is hot and sexy, but she can't reveal her secret.
I really, really enjoyed the first 4/5 of this novella. It made sense that Claudia would be cautious about revealing her writing side to a conservative tenure board. But for Bradley to act the way he did seemed really out of character for how he was set up in the beginning of the book. And for her to forgive him so fast... really took me out of the story.
Three stars
Sadie’s Story
Jordan Blaise's mother is about to die. He just wants her to be happy so, after wandering into Sadie Rose's bookstore, he decides to hire her as a fake fiancee.
I could not see the attraction in this book. Nor could I see why these two seemed to fall in love so fast. As readers, we saw almost none of their interactions other than the meet-cute and the falling into bed.
Two stars
A Late-Blooming Rose
I had read this story before and didn't love it then, still didn't love.
Eva Mitchum is wheelchair-bound and incredibly adept at driving off her caretakers. But her grandfather left her a fabulous book collection that bookseller Beau Landry would love to get his hands on so he's willing to do anything, including helping her out for a month(?) to get his hands on those books.
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