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Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire
5.0
this series is FILLED with heartbreaking shit but this one truly devastated me. love my girl antsy to the moon and to saturn! ps please check content warnings before reading it much heavier than past wayward children books
Cold-Hearted Rake by Lisa Kleypas
4.0
god there's nothing i love more than a patient and insistent all-in man and his stubborn and reluctant lady
First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison
5.0
I AM A PUDDLE OF TEARS! I AM SITTING IN MY CAR BLUBBERING LIKE A LITTLE BABY OVER WORDS ON PAPER!!
there's no way to describe how much i love this book other than that it was WRITTEN for me! just for me! bk borison sat down, peered into my brain, gathered all of my hopes and dreams, and descriptions of my dream man and stirred it into this incredible romance novel. and i thank her for the invasion into my soul!
i am a nora ephron girlie so knowing that this was a "sleepless in seattle" inspired story already had me so so excited, but it was the characters that kept me reading and made me fall in love.
lucie is my mirrorball lover girl and i love her so much! i have never read about an fmc who so perfectly describes the loneliness i feel even when surrounded by the best family in the world. bk borison perfectly captured the longing for intimacy and connection that all of us like lucie are feeling and it felt like a sucker punch to my chest every time i was in her pov.
and aiden..... god, i love him!!!!! my perfectly imperfect man who deserves the world!! there's just something about a broken man who doesn't believe in love/doesn't believe he is capable of love that will do it for me every single time! being in his pov and reading the way he sees lucie and talks about her melted me down to ash! he's so down bad obsessed with her and i want one just like him!!
the side characters were also everything to me! maya is the coolest 12 year old in the world, and jackson clark???? oh i need him!
bk borison is my god and i will read whatever she publishes for the rest of my life! she just gets me and writes the most "me" books and i'm just so happy to have read this book.
thank you Berkley romance and Netgalley for this earc, it's out everywhere on 2/11!
Out of the Woods by Hannah Bonam-Young
4.5
HBY has done it again!! She just has this inexplicable way of telling stories that is so special. I felt Sarah's frustration, happiness, anger and sadness over her life and I cried when she cried and laughed when she laughed. I also think I teared up/cried at almost every chapter, which is a testament to HBY's cadence and innate storytelling.
Caleb and Sarah were previously established characters from her previous book Out on a Limb, but she gave us such a fresh and vulnerable look into their relationship that felt so real! I historically don't like marriage in crisis books because they make me feel so sad because it feels like a third act for a good chunk of the book and i just feel hopeless! but HBY filtered in "then" chapters of Caleb and Sarah meeting and falling in love that kept the seed of hope and love between them alive.
i loved seeing them work out their issues and conflicts while still keeping each other in their hearts and just being so committed to each other! and Caleb???? now that's a man who YEARNS!
thank you Dell Romance and Netgalley for this eARC, it's out 1/28!!
Caleb and Sarah were previously established characters from her previous book Out on a Limb, but she gave us such a fresh and vulnerable look into their relationship that felt so real! I historically don't like marriage in crisis books because they make me feel so sad because it feels like a third act for a good chunk of the book and i just feel hopeless! but HBY filtered in "then" chapters of Caleb and Sarah meeting and falling in love that kept the seed of hope and love between them alive.
i loved seeing them work out their issues and conflicts while still keeping each other in their hearts and just being so committed to each other! and Caleb???? now that's a man who YEARNS!
thank you Dell Romance and Netgalley for this eARC, it's out 1/28!!
The Shadows by J.R. Ward
4.25
ALL I KNOW IS PAIN!!!!!! jr ward was a cruel CRUEL woman for this ending, but wow can she spin a tale and get me obsessed with leather clad vampires like no other
Under Loch and Key by Lana Ferguson
2.5
what a SNOOZE fest, which is surprising bc how can a loch ness monster romance be so boring!!