2 stars — First things first, I got lazy and didn’t contact Amazon to force whatever update to whatever latest version I could get (now entitled By Magic Enchanted). So this cover above, this is the version I read, and I truly think it’s a pretty early one. Honestly, I don’t think the blurb on […]
2 stars — Wow. The more I go back and read these old Harlequins, the more I notice just how toxic a lot of them are. Like, this one is chock full of a toxic hero that basically isolates his wife out of fear, and once she realizes it, she’s just like “awww, that changes […]
2 stars — I only read this whole thing because I thought it might be like those Harlequins where there’s a payoff of growth and misunderstanding at the end. As you can see by my rating, that was not the case. The characters were both pretty shitty IMO. I started getting icky feelings right from […]
2 stars — Oh dear. I don’t know why I didn’t DNF this book. I should have. I think I just needed to see how it would all end up. But I am so not the reader I used to be, and I can’t unsee some things. BTW, this review is going to be spoilery…and […]
2 stars — Well…hmmm…so this was not a match for me for a host of reasons. And I probably should have DNF’d it, but after the prologue, I kind of wanted to see where it was going, and if my problems would persist. Some have to do with the writing style, but most have to […]
2 stars — First, the title and cover have changed for this book, but since the one on my Kindle is this one, I used the original title/cover. *sigh* Ellie was NOT a great character. I mean, I assumed she was going to start off in this way and then grow and change, hence why […]
2 stars — This one wasn’t a match for me, and I don’t even know why I continued reading it. There was so much leading me to DNF it, but my curiosity got the better of me and I kept going to try to get some answers…I kept wanting it to be better than it […]
2 stars — So I was trying to find a mystery type book for one of my reading challenges, and this is one of the oldest NetGalley books I haven’t read…from when I first joined NetGalley and requested all sorts of things. Unfortunately this book was just…not engaging. I just had all sorts of problems […]
Christmas with the Marine by Candace Havens, narrated by Alexander Cendese2 stars — Narrator was HORRIFIC. Like so bad that I honestly don’t know how I feel about the story, b/c I can’t think of the story without thinking of the narrator. Which is really unfair. I should have DNF’d it. I honestly don’t know […]
Favorite Quote: My insides swooned. It was stupid and weak, getting all jelly-legged because a man tried, unsuccessfully, to cook me breakfast—then broke my stove. The bar was low, apparently, and swoon I did. Internally. OMG this book was so far beyond the realm of believability. It was a train wreck. But I read it […]