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: Harlequin
May 23, 2012 | Wednesday | 1 Comments
This review was written by Lindlee. This story was nominated in the Best Contemporary Series Romance category. The summary: Clay Gregory's known Megan Briggs her whole life, and he's been plenty worried about her while she's been getting medical treatment. Now she's back home and hiding away on the family ranch. Knowing the stubborn cowgirl won't accept his help willingly, he invites her to a family wedding to help him avoid his aunt's matchmaking! He plans to remind Meg she's still the girl who can beat him in a horse race! But as she steps out in her curve-hugging red…
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May 21, 2012 | Monday | 0 Comments
This review was written by Phyllis. This story was nominated in the Best Romance Novella category.
The summary: In Carly Phillips's Compassion Can't Wait, two high school sweet hearts are reunited years later, as if by fate, and discover that if you believe in yourself and each other, anything is possible.
And here is Phyllis' review:
This is a nice, sexy story of old flames reunited.
As a kindness to a teenage boy whose brother's suffering from advanced leukemia, the heroine, a hospital social worker, contacts her ex-boyfriend, now a star baseball pitcher, to meet the boy.
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May 12, 2012 | Saturday | 7 Comments
Maria is looking for a book she read a very long time ago - and this HaBO may be quite tricky: I have the plot of a book I read ages ago stuck in my head, but I cannot remember either author or title. It is set in Australia (possibly New Zealand, but I am pretty sure it's Australia). The heroine's fiance elopes with her best friend shortly before the wedding. The best friend was also about to marry someone else, the hero. Hero and heroine decide to get married for practical reasons: he is about to land a big…
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May 11, 2012 | Friday | 3 Comments
Thanks Sveta for the nudge that reminded me I'd written all this out and not posted it. MY BAD. Sorry!
The winners of a digital copy of The Long Shot are:
Sally
Nadia
Alex
AKD
riwally
Amy
Gabriel
ReadingPenguin
Carrie Gwaltney
SarahA_B
Fiona Morrigan
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April 14, 2012 | Saturday | 18 Comments
Joanna writes in with this HaBO request for the first romance she ever read: I'm looking for my first romance novel, the one that got me hooked on the genre. I was a good girl in a parochial school when I discovered at a library book sale a mesmerizing Harlequin with a green cover. Inside, salacious descriptions of bedroom shenanigans had me hooked. Obviously, this was passed along from girl to girl in my 7th grade class, until one of the nuns confiscated it and we all got into boatloads of trouble. I read this book in 1986 or…
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April 11, 2012 | Wednesday | 51 Comments
I admit, I have a low tolerance for amnesia stories. I don't often enjoy them, I can't suspend my disbelief when the person with amnesia conveniently remembers some things, like the names of her household servants, but doesn't remember other things, like who she is. And I always wonder where the other physical symptoms are, like questionable bladder control or possible drooling. So when this book was recommended to me, I read it with some trepidation. Ultimately, I finished it because I wanted to know what happened, not because I cared about the characters or their plight. It fed my…
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April 05, 2012 | Thursday | 75 Comments
By popular demand, here's more of Pig reading Killer Temptation [Goodreads | Amazon | BN | Sony | Kobo | HQN | All Romance eBooks], from chapter two, all the way through… chapter four! Pig: OH HAI. It's me again. This book keeps blowing my mind hole. ----- Kindle Loc 337: When she'd first gotten this assignment she'd been more than a little nervous because her boss had told her the owner, Sean Guthrie, was a personal friend of his. He'd also said Guthrie never, ever did anything halfway, so he expected the place to be knock-your-socks-off fabulous. Zoe had interpreted…
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April 04, 2012 | Wednesday | 70 Comments
Every now and again, I receive exceptionally irate and often hilarious email messages from readers who are in the middle of a romance that is so WTFCRAZY they cannot keep it to themselves. And then my inbox is splodey with the awesome, and I love it. The book rants are epic. When we romance fans pick up a book that drives us bonkers with the WAT?, it can get ferociously funny. So I have a new feature for those of us who love the WTF books so very much - and there's absolutely an audience for crazysauce books. I know…
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March 21, 2012 | Wednesday | 1 Comments
Last day to sign up for the Second Chance Tournament - voting on the Sweet Sixteen begins tomorrow!
The voting schedule for the Sweet Sixteen is up on the DABWAHA site.
The competition is fierce, hilarious, and friendly. And the audiovisuals continue: Sarah Morgan's son whipped up this bit of adorable for A Night of Scandal ( A | BN | K | S ).
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February 28, 2012 | Tuesday | 16 Comments
This pair of requests is from Jo, who remembers a good bit, except the title (and that's why it's a HaBO, of course): I have two HaBO request which have been driving me insane for slightly separate reasons. 1- This one was some sort of Harlequin Romance. I would have read it in 1986 so it may have been published then or earlier. Main things that stick in my memory- the heroine runs a (cafe? restaurant?) called the Salt Cellar. She has a hobby of collecting salt cellars and displays them in her business, but I didn't actually know what…
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February 10, 2012 | Friday | 16 Comments
First, if you have a Kindle with Special Offers, there's a special offer to redeem that gets you a coupon code. The code allows you to pick one book from a selection of 100 romances and buy it for $1. WOO! If you have a Kindle and would like to enable special offers to try to grab this coupon code, you can change the settings on your Kindle account and subscribe to special offers. Here's the list of 100 romances to choose from once you have a coupon code. And now: ebooks on sale! Only Love by Elizabeth Lowell *…
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January 31, 2012 | Tuesday | 22 Comments
This Help a Bitch Out request comes from Megan, who describes a book I would swear was erotica, but she says is not: Hero had long hair. He may have been sent from an alternative dimension. Turns up on the heroine’s doorstep searching for some sort of artefact. He loved the taste of coffee. There was a fight in a car park when he kicked the pants of some bikers who were giving him rubbish about his hair. He wore an anklet with bells. They (the hero and heroine) ended up travelling to search for some holy grail type artefact.…
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January 31, 2012 | Tuesday | 12 Comments
Lillie is looking for this book, which she has been trying to find for awhile. I need your help! I've been searching for a book for a few months and I'm coming up empty. It's an older Harlequin or Silhouette, and I believe it was published in the 90s. It's a Christmas reunion story. The hero is a cop (last name may be Knight?), very ba-humbug and a neat freak. The heroine loves Christmas, is a free-spirit and her name has something to do with the holiday. I think it might actually be Christmas, nicknamed Chrissy. Heroine saw her boss…
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January 12, 2012 | Thursday | 83 Comments
This book has it all, and by "all" I mean All The Cliches That Will Drive Me Nuts. Some of my recent ranting about cliches? Largely inspired by this book, I am sad to say. The story starts out so cool, and I was anticipating something truly different and amazing. In the heroine, I got some of that. In the hero and the plot, I got All Of The Cliches. All of them. I am NOT KIDDING. So please be aware, This Review Is Most Spoilery. I couldn't present the depth of amazing cliche without explaining them, so there is…
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January 05, 2012 | Thursday | 15 Comments
Jessica writes in looking for two books she lost: I'm looking for two books, both Harlequins. A bit of backstory: I grew up in a duplex my parents owned, and they rented out an apartment behind our house. We had the tenants from hell in 1995 (to give you an idea, they played dance music at all hours of the night and tried to sell the appliances to pay the back rent), and when my mom was finally able to evict them they left behind stacks and stacks of 1980s Harlequin romances. They were everywhere: Small piles in every corner…
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