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Fandom Got Its Cooties All Over Your Profic

Let me begin by saying that I highly recommend both of the books I’m going to talk about in this post, Olivia Dade’s contemporary romance novel All the Feels and Freya Marske’s fantasy romance A Marvellous Light with two Ls because she’s Australian. That’s a little tl;dr for anyone who might just want to know “but should I read these books” rather than receiving a disquisition on what I feel is good about fanfic. Can’t imagine anyone feels that way, but it takes all kinds to make a world. Both of these books are out now, and you should buy…

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Fixing the Great British Bake-Off: A Links Round-Up

Are you snappy with your loved ones? Incapable of focusing on a task, even by the unfocused standards of 2020? Well, don’t worry, because everyone else is in the exact same boat! It’s a horrible, leaky boat, and we all hate it here! Remember when there were nice things and we liked those things? How nostalgic I feel for the time of nice things, such as “seeing friends in different cities” and “going to the grocery store” and “not feeling miffed when I saw a stranger’s nose while standing in a building.” Hopefully by the time I do my next…

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Review: Spoiler Alert, Olivia Dade

tl;dr: TEN THOUSAND STARS Are you salty as fuck about how Game of Thrones ended? Have you spent time surfing the “Pegging” tag on AO3? (sorry Mom that I am talking about pegging on the internet again) Do you yearn for more fat romance heroines? Cease your peregrinations, your search is at an end! Olivia Dade is here for her you with her latest novel Spoiler Alert, which is all about a fat fanfiction-writing geologist who goes on a date with the star of the biggest fantasy show of our time (who secretly also writes fanfiction). It’s not Game of…

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People with Jobs: A Romance Round-Up

What what? What’s that you say? I READ SOME BOOKS? Yes, wow, we are all correctly very impressed by this news. I read some books! In this economy! As two hurricanes barrel down on me at one and the same time! Wow! (I also read Not the Girl You Marry and definitely want to read more by Andie Christopher, but I did not immediately write down my thoughts on it and now I remember nothing about it.) Bringing Down the Duke, Evie Dunmore Annabelle Archer can stay at Oxford under a few, conflicting conditions. To be permitted to study outside…

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Review: He’s Come Undone, Emma Barry, Olivia Dade, Adriana Herrera, Ruby Lang, and Cat Sebastian

Every romance reader has a handful of gateway drug romance novels. When a non-romance reader asks me for recs, I’ve got a few in my back pocket that I think are pretty friendly to newbies. Very high on that list is Cecilia Grant’s novella A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong, which is about a very buttoned-up gentleman that just wants to buy a falcon, and a woman who wants to go to a house party. It has many good things about it — if you haven’t read it, I recommend buying it and reading it immediately! — but one of my…

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