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An Error in Judgment (Susan Schreyer)

Title: An Error in Judgment Author: Susan Schreyer Available from: Amazon I received this book as an author giveaway to read and review. Happily, I liked it! I did not realize this is the third Thea Campbell story. It is delightful. The story is told in the first-person point of view and it absolutely works [...]

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Treading Water (Marie Force)

Title: Treading Water Author: Marie Force Available at: Amazon This book was included as part of a Kindle giveaway I won from the USA Today Happily Ever After (HEA) romance bloggers. I kept going back to the reviews at Goodreads to make sure the readers and I were actually reading the same book. I read [...]

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Authors and reviewers

I ran into  a conversation about this brouhaha while browsing Twitter (I should’ve been reading a book for review, which should give you a clue about how that review is going to go). It gets involved, but if you want the lowdown with all the relevant links, go to The Bookpushers: Authors in the Red Corner, [...]

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The Prize (Julie Garwood)

Title: The Prize Author: Julie Garwood Available from: Amazon I wasn’t going to review this one because I don’t usually write reviews when I read a well-known and traditionally published author. However, I felt it deserved a review to explain the low rating. I hated the heroine, Nicholaa. There was no happy medium for this [...]

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Kabul Gold (Darren Rodell)

Title: Kabul Gold Author: Darren Rodell Available from: Amazon Even though this book is priced higher ($2.99)  than what I would usually be willing to pay for a new author/first book, I took a chance because the author claims inspiration from some of my favorite authors: Lee Child, Wilbur Smith and Clive Cussler. I desperately wanted [...]

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The perilous paint project

My husband and I own a house that we rent out. I recently had a tenant move out suddenly (that’s a different and long story, highlighting the joys of being a landlord). Although I had a pretty sizable deposit, they didn’t give notice and so I didn’t get last month’s rent and I’m not too [...]

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