Tag: Magical Realism
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Book: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Spice: 🌶️ by Rebecca Serle (March 19, 2024) – Many thanks to @atriabooks and @netgalley for the opportunity to review this fun book. Below is my honest review. Some of my favorite books of the last few years have been romances with a splash of magical realism, and I think they are becoming…
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Happy Medium
Book: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Spice: 🌶️🌶️ by Sarah Adler Mountains of thanks to @berkleyromance for the gifted advanced copy. Considering Mrs. Nash’s Ashes was one of my top books of 2023, to say I was THRILLED to read Adler’s new book is a massive understatement – and it didn’t disappoint! Gretchen doesn’t believe in ghosts, which is…
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Switched
Book: 🌟🌟🌟💫 Spice: 🌶️ by Sarah Ready: This was a quirky, funny, nerdy rom-com about two physicists who switch bodies due to an incident in the laboratory and how they develop a deeper appreciation for each other by having to (literally) walk in each other’s shoes. Serena is a cooky free-spirited, sci-fi-loving, coffee-drinking vegetarian Californian who…
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Night For Day
Book: 🌟🌟 The star-crossed lovers concept of this novel’s description drew me in – exes find they are both starting new jobs in London simultaneously and rekindle their romance on the eve of their respective first days. But their first days go catastrophically wrong, and they both find themselves trapped in the middle of something…
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The Unmaking of June Farrow
Book: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 💫 Audiobook: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Spice: Cracked Door By Adrienne Young You know those rare books that, after only a few chapters, you know will stick with you long after you finish them? This is one of those books for me. June Farrow has been waiting for her mind to break, when she would start…
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The Lighthouse Witches
Book: 🌟🌟🌟 Audiobook: 🌟🌟🌟 by CJ Cooke This was a bold, ambitious book with multiple narrators and timelines. It is a dramatic story with lots of characters and sub-stories. Two sisters and their mother go missing from a remote Scottish island after their mother is commissioned to paint the island lighthouse. The remaining sister, Luna,…
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