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Review: Flirting with Disaster – Victoria Dahl

Review: Flirting with Disaster – Victoria Dahl

Sexy and hot, Flirting with Disaster has some great characters, mystery and a lot of romance. My Flirting with Disaster review: Flirting with Disaster incorporated everything I love in a contemporary romance novel! Dahl truly outdid herself with this story. The characters are mature, Isabelle is thirty-six years old, and Tom is a little older than her. Isabelle’s best friend Jill is lesbian, and it’s only mentioned because Jill and her girlfriend had recently broken up. Safe sex is very sexy in Flirting with Disaster, and that always makes me so very happy, condoms, are important and it is sexy to take good care of yourself and your partner! There is also mystery, Isabelle is living under an assumed name, […]

Posted 26 January, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 15 Comments
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Review: Hard Knocks – Lori Foster

Review: Hard Knocks – Lori Foster

Hard Knocks features Gage and Harper, as well as several other characters that are part of Foster’s Ultimate universe. Short and very hot, it hit the right spot! My Hard Knocks review: Capturing the tension between Gage and Harper from the first line, Hard Knocks is a sweet introduction to the Ultimate series. If you’re wondering what series that is, you can check out my review of No Limits. The universe is that of MMA fighting, and the characters are very well done, some of them I already knew from the  Love Undercover series, which is also truly excellent! Hard Knocks is short, but still manages to bring out the main characteristics of Gage and Harper, both through the way […]

Posted 20 January, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 4 Comments
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Review: The Shape of My Heart – Ann Aguirre

Review: The Shape of My Heart – Ann Aguirre

The Shape of My Heart is raw, real, sweet, sad, hard, tough, romantic, very sexy and beautiful! My The Shape of My Heart review: Beautifully written, with amazing characters, The Shape of My Heart sure tugged at my heart-strings, and I felt like my heart was expanding when things were good for Max and Courtney. Likewise, when things were difficult, my heart was a shriveled, dry thing in my chest that weighed a ton and a half at least! The way their relationship started was the best, because Max and Courtney were friends first, then Courtney first realized she wouldn’t mind to have more with Max, but at the same time she didn’t want to do anything that could possibly […]

Posted 20 November, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 10 Comments
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Review: The Heart of Christmas – Brenda Novak

Review: The Heart of Christmas – Brenda Novak

  The Heart of Christmas is a lovely story about Eve, who is one of my few friends in Whiskey Creek still in need of some serious TLC! My The Heart of Christmas review: Eve Harmon is the character who is the main focus in The Heart of Christmas. For a long time, she’s been all alone, and her last relationship didn’t last, and now, Ted is engaged to someone else – with Eve’s blessings. For her birthday, she decides to go all out, even if her friends or parents aren’t in town, and when she wakes up the next day, there’s a strange man sleeping next to her in bed. Completely out of character for her, Eve is trying […]

Posted 27 October, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 11 Comments
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Review: In Your Dreams – Kristan Higgins

Review: In Your Dreams – Kristan Higgins

  Beautiful love story, tender and a little tentative, In Your Dreams brought out a lot of feels. My In Your Dreams review: Both funny and very tender, In Your Dreams is a very nicely done contemporary romance that made me feel things all over the place regarding Emmaline. Her childhood was really weird, especially because her parents adopted a ten-year-old girl when Emmaline moved to her grand-ma at fourteen. Both her parents were child-psychologists so they really should have known better, too. In Blue Heron, she found a sense of belonging she had never had in Malibu, and when her fiancé broke off their engagement only two months before their wedding, she went back there to live in the […]

Posted 2 October, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 6 Comments
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Review: As Long as You Love Me – Ann Aguirre

Review: As Long as You Love Me – Ann Aguirre

  Beautiful slow-moving romance, so enticing I was aching while reading about Rob and Lauren. My As Long as You Love Me review: As Long as You Love Me managed to snag my heartstring even quicker than I Want it That Way did. Maybe because I had already met Rob and Lauren, or maybe because their interactions were so achingly sweet and tender. The story also includes another trope I absolutely adore, and that is the friends-to-lovers trope. Rob had always seen Lauren as his little sister Nadia’s best friend, and Lauren had been in love with him since she was thirteen. Now that Lauren was finally back home in Sharon, Rob was dating another girl, and there was no […]

Posted 24 September, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 9 Comments
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Review: Looking for Trouble – Victoria Dahl

Review: Looking for Trouble – Victoria Dahl

*I received a free ARC of Looking for Trouble from Harlequin HQN via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* Hot, different and a little kinky, Looking for Trouble was definitely a fun ride! My Looking for Trouble review: Sophie and Alex both really surprised me as characters! They were nothing at all like they seemed, and that made Looking for Trouble an amazing read! Alex sports a shaved head, a huge motorcycle and lots of tattoos, but he really is a sweet and stand-up guy. Sophie on the other hand looks very demure in her long skirts and buttoned-up cardigans, but what she hides underneath her librarian clothing is utterly sexy and a little  kinky! Looking for Trouble is […]

Posted 9 September, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 6 Comments
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Review: Fanning the Flames – Victoria Dahl

Review: Fanning the Flames – Victoria Dahl

*I received a free ARC of Fanning the Flames from Harlequin HQN via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* Short, hot and well written, Fanning the Flames appealed to me on all levels, from the mature couple to their playful ways. My Fanning the Flames review: It is actually really refreshing to read a hot romance in which the couple is more mature! Fanning the Flames features Lauren, the forty-three year-old librarian who has the hots for the firemen chief Jake who is forty-six. Their chemistry and attraction is evident from the beginning, and I really loved how self-confident Lauren was, even if she did kind of think Jake was out of her league. Happy in her own skin, […]

Posted 26 August, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 8 Comments
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Review: No Limits – Lori Foster

Review: No Limits – Lori Foster

*I received a free ARC of No Limits form Harlequin HQN via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* No Limits is fast-paced, includes a great dose of suspense, and some sweet longing. My No Limits review: No Limits is the start of a new series, but it features characters from Foster’s Love Undercover series as well. Both Cannon and Yvette are really great characters, and since I’m a sucker for friends-to-lovers stories their relationship really did it for me. Yvette was in love with Cannon years ago, but he always pushed her away, now that they are both back in town, and kind of forced to live together thanks to Yvette’s grandfather’s will, Yvette wants to show him she’s […]

Posted 8 August, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 14 Comments
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Review: I Want it That Way – Ann Aguirre

Review: I Want it That Way – Ann Aguirre

*I received a free ARC of I Want It That Way from Harlequin via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* I Want It That Way is the most beautifully heartbreaking story I have read so far in 2014. I laughed, cried big, fat tears, cheered, and rooted for Nadia, all the way! My I Want it That Way review: I Want it That Way is so different from all the other New Adult stories I have read lately! Yes, both Nadia and Ty struggled with their lives, doubts and how to deal with the real stuff. However, at the same time, they both came from loving families, where their parents were still married and supported them emotionally and  financially […]

Posted 7 August, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 8 Comments
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