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Police Stops, Brises, and Other Rites of Passage: A Romance Round-Up

Published 28 Oct 2019 by Gin Jenny

Did I have the purest of intentions to read spooky books in honor of spooky season? YOU BETCHA. Did I end up just reading a shit-ton of romance novels in the month of October instead? INDEED I DID. I can always read spooky stuff in November, right? Here are the romances I’ve been putting in my brain, friends. How to Catch a Wicked Viscount, Amy Rose Bennett After an indiscretion at school that leaves Sophie and her three best friends with a reputation for scandal, she never expects to be accepted back into polite society. But when Charlotte discovers Sophie…

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Review: Playing House, Ruby Lang

Published 14 Aug 2019 by Gin Jenny

Apparently when you dream of a house, the house is you. (The other people in your dream are also all supposedly you? I don’t know. I love interpreting other people’s dreams but I do think it’s a lot of the time nonsense.) When you dream of finding new rooms in your house, for instance, it’s meant to represent exploring new sides of yourself. Whether that’s true of dreams or not, I don’t know, but I like the alignment of house with self. One of the reasons (I suspect) house-hunting and house-renovation shows are so popular is that it’s fun to…

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Spies, Football, and Food Trucks: A Romance Round-Up

Published 17 Jun 2019 by Gin Jenny

Cat Sebastian has become one of my go-to romance authors for just consistently tender romance content. (My favorite and most tenderest is The Ruin of a Rake, but they’re all terrific.) Her latest, Hither Page, is set between the wars in England and features a shell-shocked doctor who has retreated to a small English town to escape his memories of the war. Meanwhile the titular Leo Page has been sent to the small English town to investigate a suspicious murder and discover whether there’s any Spy Stuff afoot. Although I don’t tend to like romances that follow a single couple…

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Romance round-up

Published 3 Oct 2018 by Gin Jenny

All right, friends, I’ve been sadly remiss in reading and reviewing romance novels in this space, and we’re going to take a moment and correct that. I’ve got two novels and two novellas for you today, mostly from old faves but with one new author discovery. (The new author discovery is embarrassing because omg Shana Galen has been around forever and it’s weird that I haven’t read any of her books before. Don’t judge me, just recommend me which Shana Galen books I need to read next.) Trust Me, Laura Florand The angst scale has clarified a lot of things…

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My Lady’s Choosing, Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris

Published 23 Apr 2018 by Gin Jenny

You are the plucky but penniless heroine in the center of eighteenth-century society, courtship season has begun, and your future is at hand. Will you flip forward fetchingly to find love with the bantering baronet Sir Benedict Granville? Or turn the page to true love with the hardworking, horse-loving highlander Captain Angus McTaggart? Or perhaps race through the chapters chasing a good (and arousing) man gone mad, bad, and scandalous to know, Lord Garraway Craven? Or read on recklessly and take to the Continent as the “traveling companion” of the spirited and adventuresome Lady Evangeline? Or yet some other intriguing…

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Review: Hamilton’s Battalion

Published 24 Oct 2017 by Gin Jenny

If you follow me on Twitter, you may already have seen me shrieking about Hamilton’s Battalion, a collection of novellas by three of my favorite romance authors. But I’d like now to review it in a more measured fashion, after some days with the text and a mature1 consideration of its merits. Ha! You thought I was going to put an all-capsy shrieky paragraph down here after the cover, didn’t you? You thought all that maTOOR business was setting up a joke, but it wasn’t. That’s just how I say mature, which shows that I am a sophisticate. The first…

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Hockey, House Parties, and Taxidermy: A Romance Novels Round-Up

Published 13 Feb 2017 by Gin Jenny

The time has come, the walrus said, for another romance novels round-up! I know you’ve been yearning for it. This election season was difficult, the results were worse, and these last few months more than ever I’ve needed cuddly tropey fluff to get me through. Ruby Lang is a new-to-me author I discovered through the wonderful Romance Novels for Feminists (which has never yet steered me wrong), and I received Hard Knocks for review consideration from the publisher. Hard Knocks is about a hockey player nearing the end of his career (Adam) and a neurologist (Helen) who thinks he’s cute…

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Roller Derby, World of Warcraft, and (ugh) Scots

Published 5 Oct 2016 by Gin Jenny

It’s time for another romance novels round-up! I recently did an awesome interview with a grad student who’s studying romance novels and feminism, and it reminded me that while I still read romance novels, I haven’t talked about them in quite some time. But in fact, I have been reading some incredibly adorable romance novels that you should know about, so let’s get into it. First up: Roller Girl, by Vanessa North. Tina Durham is a recently divorced former sportsing champion1 who gets a crush on her new plumber, Joe (short for Joanne). Through Joe, she gets involved in a…

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