Review: Faking with Benefits by Lily Gold

Don’t let the cover fool you; super spicy RH with actual believable characters and backstories. My TBR pile can’t take books like this. Added every one of her other books.

TW: Previous Bullying; Grief; Death of a Parent; Previous Death of a Partner; Gaslighting; Body Shaming; Panic Attacks; Sexual Assault; Online harassment; Slut-shaming and misogynistic language
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Lily Gold

Review: By Any Other Name by Lauren Kate

I adore well done publishing/writing settings. I loved this from the first to last page.
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Tropes: Secret Identity, Office Romance, Enemies to Lovers

TW/CW: Parent with Alzheimer’s; Death of parent from cancer

Lauren Kate

Review: Run Posy Run by Cate C. Wells

Loved Wells’ Wall books, not as thrilled with her Dark Romance, not enough groveling in this one.
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Series: Underboss Insurrection #1

Tropes: Mafia, Forced Proximity, Hate to Love

TW/CW: Slut shaming, Threats of sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Revenge porn, Cheating, Intimate partner abuse recounted, Voluntary euthanasia mentioned, Anti-Social Personality Disorder, Alcohol consumption, Death of a parent from cancer recounted, Death of a daughter in a car accident mentioned, Murder, Kidnapping

Cate C. Wells

Review: Make Me by Tessa Bailey


After reading the Clarkson series, I thought I would try this older Tessa Bailey book; it was no Clarkson.

Series: Broke and Beautiful

TW: Drug use, Mental Illness, Death of a Parent, Suicide
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Review: Never Seduce a Scot by Maya Banks

I used only to read HR, but have moved to Contemporary mostly. This book might have brought back an HR kick. Added a demi-sexual (my take on him, at least) hero, and I was all in.

Series: The Montgomerys and Amrstrongs

TW: Threats of rape & sexual harassment; Forced marriage; Blood depiction; Loss of hearing in an accident recounted; Death of a parent; Kidnapping


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Maya Banks

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2023 Reading Challenge

2023 Reading Challenge
Carrie has read 16 books toward her goal of 365 books.
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Current Reads

Carrie's 2023 book montage

A Court of Mist and Fury
The Death of Jane Lawrence
Dream On
By Any Other Name
For Butter or Worse
Bohemian
Fake It Till You Bake It
Ship Wrecked
Loathe to Love You
Final Offer
The Proposal
The Heir Apparent's Rejected Mate
It Starts with Us
Funny You Should Ask
A Cosmic Kind of Love
Guilty Minds
Sexy Jerk
Lovelight Farms
Too Hard to Forget
Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind


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