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Blood Choice

11/9/2017

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PARANORMAL  ROMANCE

Title: Blood Choice
Author: LE Wilson  
Publication date: 10/27/17
Kindle Unlimited: No
Cliffhanger: No

Reading paranormal romance has been tough for me lately. Everything I’ve picked up in the past few months has had a “been there, done that” feel to it. (There’s only so many tough, sassy heroines and dark brooding heroes I can take, you know?) But the Deathless Night series is one I’ve stuck with from the beginning, and I wasn’t about to skip the final book, especially when it was about my book boyfriend in the series (Jesse, the warlock). And I have to say a great big thanks to the reading gods (and, you know, the author, of course) for this one, because it helped restore my faith in the paranormal genre as a whole.

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1-Click Wonders: Kristen Ashley

11/8/2017

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Because we all need a little more security in our reading lives, Romance Rehab brings you the 1-click wonders author spotlight series. The authors featured here are totally safe, meaning you can download any of their books and be thoroughly entertained. Seriously, there’s not a stinker in the bunch. You can go ahead and 1-click with total confidence.

Today, we’re spotlighting Kristen Ashley, a New York Times bestseller who is pretty much the queen of writing alpha male heroes who aren’t alphaholes. Her romances (contemporary and paranormal) are funny, sexy, and emotional enough to give you a major case of the feels. She doesn’t scrimp on the page count, either. Her novels are REALLY novels, and give you plenty of time to fall in love with her characters. As we said, you can 1-click any of her books with confidence, but here are 10 of our all-time favorites:


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From This Moment

11/7/2017

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CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Title: From This Moment
Author: Melanie Harlow
Publication date: 10/10/2017
Kindle Unlimited: No
Cliffhanger: No

Y’all know I love Melanie Harlow. I 1-click the crap out of everything she writes. So, it’ll probably shock no one to hear that I LOVED (like, really, really LOVED) From This Moment.

This whole premise could’ve gone horribly awry. I mean, a grieving widow falling for her dead husband’s twin brother? That’s a relationship that’s SURE to be fraught with peril from the get-go. But in this author’s hands, it turned into sweet, emotional, sexy second-chance romance that I ADORED from beginning to end.

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9 Romance tropes we never want to see again. Like, ever.

11/6/2017

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9 Romance tropes we never want to see again. Like, ever.
So, this weekend, I was reading a book that I should have liked. I say “should have” because it had a good cover (super hot guy...who doesn’t love that?), a good blurb, and a ton of good reviews. I went into it with every confidence that it’d be great. Well, I made it to 4% of the story before I gave up on it. Why? It was all about one of my least favorite tropes in romance history: the secret baby.

My biggest problem with the secret baby in this particular romance was that there was absolutely NO REASON for the heroine to have kept this baby from the father. The hero wasn’t an abusive drug addict, he wasn’t some deadbeat loser. He was an upstanding, nice guy who deserved to be a part of his kid’s life. Why did the heroine keep the baby’s existence from the father? Well, she’d had a rough life and didn’t trust people easily. Oh, boo freakin’ hoo, lady! Lots of people have had sad lives and they don’t vow to do everything all by themselves, even when the father has billions of dollars and the heroine is in debt to a loan shark to pay for the baby’s heart surgery. (I’m not even making that up. I wish I was.)

After all this, I thought it might be a good idea to list out some tropes that I never again want to darken my Kindle. (Other than the secret baby baby thing. I think I’ve made myself clear on that one) Maybe authors will take pity on me and stop writing these things once and for all:

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Top 10 fan-freaking-tastic love triangles in romance today

11/3/2017

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Top 10 fan-freaking-tastic love triangles in romance today
I’ll be honest, folks. Love triangles in romance aren’t my thing. Typically, if I catch even a whiff of a love triangle when I’m reading a blurb, I back away from that book slowly. Very, very slowly. As if it might jump up and smack me in the face if I move too quickly. But even I have to admit that there are some authors who can quite simply pull off anything—even making me like a book featuring a trope I hate. So, this week’s best of list is for those authors who can move mountains and work miracles (i.e.: make me read and like something that I don’t want to read or like). Without further ado, here are our picks for the top 10 best love triangles in romance today (and no, Bella and Jacob and Edward DIDN’T make the cut)

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Rewritten

11/2/2017

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CONTEMPORARY  ROMANCE

Title: Rewritten
Author: Bronwyn Green  
Publication date: 09/27/17
Kindle Unlimited: No
Cliffhanger: No

I have crappy luck with romantic erotica, folks. Don’t believe me? Check out this and this. I rest my case. So, when the author described this book as an erotic contemporary romance, my nose automatically wrinkled up like I’d sniffed some sour milk and I prepared to (rather childishly) refuse to read it. But then I read a sample of the book (just a snippet, really) and was blown away by how fun and cute the dialogue was, and I knew I had to put my big girl panties on, put my past bad experiences with aside, and give this book a read.
(I was also a little swayed by the hero, who happens to be a grumpy, hot, Scottish writer. Grumpy, hot AND Scottish? Sounds like my catnip! Yes, please!)  And let me tell you, I’m sooooooo glad I gave this one a chance!

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1-Click Wonders: Penny Reid

11/1/2017

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Because we all need a little more security in our reading lives, Romance Rehab brings you the 1-click wonders author spotlight series. The authors featured here are totally safe, meaning you can download any of their books and be thoroughly entertained. Seriously, there’s not a stinker in the bunch. You can go ahead and 1-click with total confidence.

Today, we’re spotlighting Penny Reid, a USA Today bestseller who writes smart, hilarious contemporary romance. Her books feature unconventional, quirky, super-smart heroines and the brooding, befuddled-by-love alpha heroes who adore them. We recommend you don’t read her books in public, though. You WILL snort-laugh, and no one is cute when they snort laugh. As we said, you can 1-click any of her books with confidence, but here are 6 of our all-time favorites:


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