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Longtime personal assistant Georgie Mulcahy has made a career out of putting others before herself. When an unexpected upheaval sends her away from her hectic job in L.A. and back to her hometown, Georgie must confront an uncomfortable truth: her own wants and needs have always been a disconcertingly blank page.

But then Georgie comes across a forgotten artifact鈥攁 鈥渇riendfic鈥� diary she wrote as a teenager, filled with possibilities she once imagined. To an overwhelmed Georgie, the diary鈥檚 simple, small-scale ideas are a lifeline鈥攁 guidebook for getting started on a new path.

Georgie鈥檚 plans hit a snag when she comes face to face with an unexpected roommate鈥擫evi Fanning, onetime town troublemaker and current town hermit. But this quiet, grouchy man is more than just his reputation, and he offers to help Georgie with her quest. As the two make their way through her wishlist, Georgie begins to realize that what she truly wants might not be in the pages of her diary after all, but right by her side鈥攊f only they can both find a way to let go of the pasts that hold them back.

Honest and deeply emotional, Georgie, All Along is a smart, tender must-read for everyone who鈥檚 ever wondered about the life that got away . . .]]> 340 Kate Clayborn 1496737296 katelyn. 3 3.75 2023
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name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.75
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]]> 213015262 A bed-and-breakfast for the brokenhearted might hold the key to another chance at love in this achingly hopeful debut romance.

Louisa Walsh emerged from a tumultuous childhood with a degree in counseling, a wealthy boyfriend, and her sunny outlook on life mostly intact. But that optimism is tested when s丑别鈥檚 dumped and left unable to afford rent on their gorgeous house in the mountains of Colorado. Even with her life in disarray, Lou knows losing the one stable place s丑别鈥檚 ever called home is not an option.

Her plan: ask her reclusive landlord, Henry Rhodes, to let her stay for free in exchange for renting out the house鈥檚 many rooms as a bed-and-breakfast. S丑别鈥檚 shocked when he agrees to her terms, and even more surprised to discover Henry is a handsome thirtysomething veterinarian with silver at his temples and sadness in his eyes. One who does not take it well when Lou starts marketing her B and B as a retreat for the recently heartbroken.

But as the Comeback Inn opens its doors to its weary, hopeful guests, Lou and Henry find themselves dancing around both their undeniable connection and the closely held secrets that threaten to topple this fragile new start. A chance at love, here, could be too close to home鈥r it could be exactly where their hearts finally heal.]]> Ellen O'Clover katelyn. 0 to-read 4.61 2025
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]]> 220140302 Always each other鈥檚 plus-ones, but never each other鈥檚 real dates, two听childhood best friends have one last summer wedding to fall in love in this听dual-narrative debut.

鈥淟eft me feeling desperately romantic. Prepare for a book hangover鈥擨 loved it.鈥澨�鈥擜nnabel Monaghan, bestselling author of Summer Romance

Best friends Joni and Ren have been inseparable since childhood. So when Joni moves across the country for her job, the two devise a creative way to stay in they鈥檒l be each other鈥檚 plus-ones every year for wedding season, no matter what else is happening in their lives.

It鈥檚 a tradition that works, until a line is crossed and the friendship they once thought was forever is ruined.

Now Joni is back at their families鈥� shared summer home for her sister鈥檚 wedding, and s丑别鈥檚 determined to make the week perfect, even if it means faking a friendship with Ren鈥攁nd avoiding the truth of why they have to fake it in the first place. How hard can it be to pretend to be friends with the person who once knew you best?

But as sunny beach days together turn into starry nights, Joni begins to question what her life is without Ren in it. And when the wedding arrives, bringing past heartaches to the surface, she鈥檒l be forced to decide if loving Ren means letting him go, or if theirs is a love story worth fighting for.

鈥淵our heart will explode when you read this book. I听defy you not to fall in love with Joni and Ren.鈥澨�擳essa Bickers, USA Today bestselling author of The Book Swap

Perfect for fans The Summer I Turned Pretty听补苍诲听People We Meet on Vacation Reunion romances Forced Proximity Dual narratives & Single POV]]> Sally Blakely 0369762053 katelyn. 0 to-read 4.08 2025
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average rating: 4.08
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]]> 217182470
Jo De La Cruz should be on top of the world. As one of spin鈥檚 hottest instructors, her workouts stream into thousands of living rooms, her waiting list is harder to access than Area 51, and even her hair has its own social media page. But Jo鈥檚 struggling from a decade in the spotlight鈥攚hich is when she meets the annoyingly handsome journalist who claims her job is just yelling at people from a bike.

Converting a hater is a challenge Jo can鈥檛 resist.

Only nothing about Silas Anders matches her expectations. He throws himself into her classes, 丑别鈥檚 genuinely interested in Jo鈥檚 hobbies, and鈥攎ost surprising of all鈥攈e knows what it鈥檚 like to struggle with mental health. Between all-you-can-eat-diner lunches, thrifting adventures, and sizzling summer nights, Jo might even be catching feelings. But as buzz for the article skyrockets, Jo discovers that the man s丑别鈥檚 been falling for may, in fact, be the one scamming her.

Will trusting him break her heart鈥攐r lead to a love worth riding for?]]> 384 Ana Holguin 1538756889 katelyn. 0 to-read 4.06 2025
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]]> 154462768
Eve Hatch is pretty content with her life. Her apartment in Brooklyn is cozy and close to her childhood best friend Willa, but far from her midwestern, traditional family who never really understood her. While her job is only dream- adjacent , s丑别鈥檚 hoping her passion and hard work will soon help her land a more glamorous role. And sure, her most recent romantic history has consisted of not one but two disappointing men named Derek. At least she always knows what to expect鈥ntil she finds herself expecting after an uncharacteristic one-night stand.

The unplanned pregnancy cracks open all the relationships in her life. Eve's loyal听friendship with Willa is feeling off , right when she needs her most. And it鈥檚 Willa鈥檚 steadfast older brother, Shep, who steps up to help. He has always been friendly, but now 丑别鈥檚 checking in, ordering her surprise lunches, listening to all her complaints, and is鈥� suddenly kinda hot? Then there鈥檚 the baby's father, who is supportive but conflicted. Before long, Eve is rethinking everything she thought she knew about herself and her world.

Over the course of nine months, as Eve struggles to figure out the next right step in her expanding reality, she begins to realize that family and love, in all forms, can sneak up on you when you least expect it.]]> 400 Cara Bastone 0593595718 katelyn. 4 3.96 2024
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average rating: 3.96
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If your twenties are supposed to be the best years of your life, Bennet Taylor is failing miserably . . . with a big emphasis on the miserable. Where鈥檚 that zest she keeps hearing about? S丑别鈥檚 a temp worker in New York City with no direction, no future, and no social life. And at the painful center of this listlessness is grief over the death of her first love.

When Bennet runs into Henry Adams just hours after standing him up for a first date, she makes an alcohol-fueled confession: S丑别鈥檚 not ready to date. In fact, it鈥檚 been years since she felt passion for something. Not even pottery, or organized sports鈥攏ot anything. Rather than leaving her to ruminate, Henry jumps at the opportunity for adventure: Bennet needs to find a passion for life, and Henry will help her find it. Every Saturday, they鈥檒l try something new in New York City. As friends, of course.

As their 鈥減assion project鈥� continues, the pair tackle everything from carpentry to tattooing to rappelling off skyscrapers, and Bennet feels her guarded exterior ebbing away. But as secrets surface, Bennet has to decide what she wants, and if s丑别鈥檚 truly ready to move on. With emotional resonance and sparkling banter, Passion Project is a fun, flirty, thoughtful story of finding a spark鈥攁nd igniting happiness.]]> 368 London Sperry 0143138561 katelyn. 0 to-read 4.05 2025
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average rating: 4.05
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]]> 214269328 Grieving the loss of her best friend, a young woman鈥檚 life is turned upside down when she meets a grumpy stranger who swears he can help her live again, in this heartwarming, slow-burn romance by the author of Ready or Not

Lenny鈥檚 a bit of a mess at the moment. Her best friend, Lou, recently passed away after a battle with cancer, and her death has left Lenny feeling completely lost. S丑别鈥檚 avoiding her concerned parents, the apartment she shared with Lou, and the list of things s丑别鈥檚 supposed to do to help her live again. The only thing she can do is temporary babysitting gigs, and luckily, she just landed a great one, helping overworked, single mom Reese and her precocious daughter, Ainsley. It鈥檚 not perfect: Ainsley鈥檚 uncle, Miles, always seems to be around, and is kind of... a huge jerk. But if Lenny acts like she has it all together, maybe no one will notice s丑别鈥檚 falling apart.

Miles sees right through her though. Turns out, he knows a lot about grief and, surprisingly, he offers her a proposition. He鈥檒l help her complete everything on her 鈥渓ive again鈥� list if she鈥檒l help him connect with Ainsley and overcome his complicated relationship with Reese. Lenny doubts anything can fill the Lou has left behind, but she begins to spend more time with Miles, Lenny is surprised to discover that, sometimes, losing everything is only the first step to finding yourself, and love, again.]]> 416 Cara Bastone 0593595734 katelyn. 4 4.25 2025
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average rating: 4.25
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]]> 214152402 A moving story about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination鈥攆rom the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts About Space.

Sigrid hates working at the Dollar Pal but having always resisted the idea of growing up into the trappings of adulthood, she did not graduate high school, preferring to roam the streets of her small town with her best friend Greta, the only person in the world who ever understood her. Her older sister Margit is baffled and frustrated by Sigrid鈥檚 inability to conform to the expectations of polite society.

But Sigrid鈥檚 detachment veils a deeper turmoil and sensitivity. S丑别鈥檚 haunted by the pains of her past鈥攆rom pretending her parents were swamp monsters when they shook the floorboards with their violent arguments to grappling with losing Greta鈥檚 friendship to the opioid epidemic ravaging their town. As Margit sets out to understand Sigrid and the secrets she has hidden, both sisters, in their own time and way, discover that reigniting their shared childhood imagination is the only way forward.

What unfolds is an unforgettable story of two sisters finding their way back to each other, and a celebration of that transcendent, unshakable bond.]]> 256 Emily R. Austin 1668058146 katelyn. 0 to-read 4.08 2025
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average rating: 4.08
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]]> 54985743 Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.

Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. S丑别鈥檚 a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart鈥攕丑别鈥檚 in New York City, and 丑别鈥檚 in their small hometown鈥攂ut every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.

Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven鈥檛 spoken since.

Poppy has everything she should want, but s丑别鈥檚 stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together鈥攍ay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.

Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?]]> 400 Emily Henry 1984806750 katelyn. 4 3.85 2021
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name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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]]> 213243908 A hopeless romantic meets a jaded radio host in this cozy, Sleepless in Seattle-inspired love story from beloved author B.K. Borison.

Aiden Valentine has a secret: he's fallen out of love with love. And as the host of Baltimore's romance hotline, that's a bit of a problem. But when a young girl calls in to the station asking for dating advice for her mom, the interview goes viral, thrusting Aiden and Heartstrings into the limelight.

Lucie Stone thought she was doing just fine. She has a good job; an incredible family; and a smart, slightly devious kid. But when all of Baltimore is suddenly scrutinizing her love life-or lack thereof鈥攕he begins to question if she's as happy as she thought. Maybe a little more romance wouldn't be such a bad thing.

Everyone wants Lucie to find her happy ending... even the handsome, temperamental man calling the shots. But when sparks start to fly behind the scenes, Lucie must make the final call between the radio-sponsored happily ever after or the man in the headphones next to her.]]> 448 B.K. Borison 0593641191 katelyn. 4 4.07 2025
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average rating: 4.07
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rating: 4
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]]> 212294464 After a case of mistaken identity and an almost one-night stand, two stranded wedding guests have to find their way to their final destination together, in this riotously fun debut romance.

Ada鈥檚 little sister is getting married. Which should be a happy thought, right? But the once close sisters have been in a year long fight, the wedding is all the way in Ireland, and Ada is so broke that she just barely managed to get a ticket on a budget airline. And as if things couldn鈥檛 get worse, said airline just cancelled her connection. Which means Ada is stuck in London with no way to make it to the wedding.

Surely s丑别鈥檚 hit rock bottom?

So, there鈥檚 no reason for her not to spill her heart out about the over-the-top wedding, her sister鈥檚 worryingly quick engagement, and the womanizing best man s丑别鈥檚 dreading meeting to a handsome also-stranded stranger at the bar. Until she realizes the stranger is headed to the same wedding. Oh, and 丑别鈥檚 the infamous best man.

Now, Jack and Ada must put their simmering attraction behind them to make it to Belfast before they miss the nuptials. But between flat tires, missed trains, and suspect hostels, Jack and Ada start to question whether their feelings are worth going the distance, or just a distracting detour along the way.]]> 400 Heather McBreen 0593817621 katelyn. 4 3.91 2025
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name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2025
rating: 4
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]]> 218559595 Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry.

Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they鈥檙e both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years--or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century.

When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she鈥檒l choose the person who鈥檒l tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice鈥檚 head in the game.

One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice鈥攁nd she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over.

Two: S丑别鈥檚 ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication

Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.

But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can鈥檛 swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they鈥檙e in the same room.

And it鈥檚 becoming abundantly clear that their story鈥攋ust like the tale Margaret鈥檚 spinning鈥攃ould be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad鈥epending on who鈥檚 telling it.]]> 384 Emily Henry 059344129X katelyn. 0 to-read 4.21 2025
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]]> 198902277 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781250899576.

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.

It鈥檚 a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but s丑别鈥檚 actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn鈥檛 here for the big event. Phoebe is here because s丑别鈥檚 dreamed of coming for years鈥攕he hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now s丑别鈥檚 here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan鈥攚hich makes it that much more surprising when the two women can鈥檛 stop confiding in each other.

In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach鈥檚 The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined鈥攁nd the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.]]> 384 Alison Espach katelyn. 5 4.11 2024
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average rating: 4.11
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rating: 5
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]]> 65212043 From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I鈥檓 Worthless 鈥� 鈥渁 triumph of transgressive queer horror鈥� (Publishers Weekly) 鈥� comes Brainwyrms, a searing body horror novel of obsession, violence and pleasure.

When a transphobic woman bombs Frankie鈥檚 workplace, she blows up Frankie鈥檚 life with it. As the media descends like vultures, Frankie tries to cope with the carnage: binge-drinking, fucking strangers, pushing away her friends. Then she meets Vanya. Mysterious, beautiful, terrifying Vanya.

The two hit it off immediately, but as their relationship intensifies, so too does Frankie鈥檚 feeling that Vanya is hiding something from her. When Vanya鈥檚 secrets threaten to tear them apart, Frankie starts digging, and unearths a sinister, depraved conspiracy, the roots of which go deeper than she ever imagined. Shocking, grotesque, and downright filthy, Brainwyrms confronts the creeping reality of political terrorism while exploring the depths of love, pain and identity.]]> 304 Alison Rumfitt 1250866251 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.66 2023
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]]> 59694078
By the winner of the YA Book Prize, Heartstopper is about love, friendship, loyalty and mental illness. It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us.

'The queer graphic novel we wished we had at high school.' Gay Times

Contents:
鈥� Introduction
鈥� Profile Pages: Alice, Nick, and Charlie
鈥� Heartstopper Moment: Pride
鈥� The Art of Heartstopper
鈥� Profile Pages: Tara, Darcy, Elle, and Tao
鈥� Heartstopper Moment: Summer
鈥� Quiz: Are You More Nick . . . or More Charlie?
鈥� Mini-comic: The Teachers
鈥� Profile Pages: Harry, Ben, Nellie, Henry, and Aled
鈥� Heartstopper Moment: Halloween
鈥� The World of Heartstopper
鈥� Mini-comic: Moments
鈥� Profile Pages: Tori, Sahar, Mr. Farouk, and Mr. Ajayi
鈥� Heartstopper Moment: Winter
鈥� Family Tree: The Springs
鈥� Family Tree: The Nelsons
鈥� How to Draw Heartstopper
鈥� Mini-comic: Girlfriends
鈥� Heartstopper Moment: Alternate Universes
鈥� Author's Note]]> 154 Alice Oseman 1444968394 katelyn. 5 4.39 2022
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Nick and Charlie are very much in love. They've finally said those three little words, and Charlie has almost persuaded his mum to let him sleep over at Nick's house ... But with Nick going off to university next year, is everything about to change?

By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize, Heartstopper encompasses all the small moments of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us.

Contains discussions around mental health and eating disorders, and sexual references.]]> 336 Alice Oseman 1444957651 katelyn. 5 4.47 2023
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average rating: 4.47
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But then Jess hears about GeneticAlly, a buzzy new DNA-based matchmaking company that鈥檚 predicted to change dating forever. Finding a soulmate through DNA? The reliability of numbers: This Jess understands.

At least she thought she did, until her test shows an unheard-of 98 percent compatibility with another subject in the database: GeneticAlly鈥檚 founder, Dr. River Pe帽a. This is one number she can鈥檛 wrap her head around, because she already knows Dr. Pe帽a. The stuck-up, stubborn man is without a doubt not her soulmate. But GeneticAlly has a proposition: Get to know him and we鈥檒l pay you. Jess鈥攚ho is barely making ends meet鈥攊s in no position to turn it down, despite her skepticism about the project and her dislike for River. As the pair are dragged from one event to the next as the 鈥淒iamond鈥� pairing that could launch GeneticAlly鈥檚 valuation sky-high, Jess begins to realize that there might be more to the scientist鈥攁nd the science behind a soulmate鈥攖han she thought.

The Soulmate Equation proves that the delicate balance between fate and choice can never be calculated.]]> 360 Christina Lauren 1982171111 katelyn. 0 dnf 3.96 2021
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average rating: 3.96
book published: 2021
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]]> 39555142 JORDAN

He took me in when I had nowhere else to go. He doesn鈥檛 use me, hurt me, or forget about me. He listens to me, protects me, and sees me. I can feel his eyes on me over the breakfast table, and my heart pumps so hard when I hear him pull in the driveway after work.

I have to stop this. It can鈥檛 happen.

My sister once told me there are no good men, and if you find one, 丑别鈥檚 probably unavailable. Only Pike Lawson isn鈥檛 the unavailable one.
I am.

PIKE

I took her in, because I thought I was helping. As the days go by, though, it鈥檚 becoming anything but easy. I have to stop my mind from drifting to her and stop holding my breath every time I bump into her in the house. I can鈥檛 touch her, and I shouldn鈥檛 want to.

But we鈥檙e not free to give into this. S丑别鈥檚 nineteen, and I鈥檓 thirty-eight.

And her boyfriend鈥檚 father.

Unfortunately, they both just moved into my house.]]> 349 Penelope Douglas katelyn. 4 3.85 2018
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name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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Reread this 2 years later, and yeah鈥� unfortunately it still slaps. Does it make me feel like a terrible person? Still yes but here we are.
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ASSISTANT WANTED: Notorious, high-ranking villain seeks loyal, levelheaded assistant for unspecified office duties, supporting staff for random mayhem and terror, and other Dark Things In General. Discretion a must. Excellent benefits.

With ailing family to support, Evie Sage's employment status isn't just important, it's vital. So when a mishap with Rennedawn鈥檚 most infamous Villain results in a job offer鈥昻aturally, she says yes. No job is perfect, of course, but even less so when you develop a teeny crush on your terrifying, temperamental, and undeniably hot boss. Don鈥檛 find evil so attractive, Evie.

But just when s丑别鈥檚 getting used to severed heads suspended from the ceiling and the odd squish of an errant eyeball beneath her heel, Evie suspects this dungeon has a huge rat鈥nd not just the literal kind. Because something rotten is growing in the kingdom of Rennedawn, and someone wants to take the Villain鈥昦nd his entire nefarious empire鈥昽ut.

Now Evie must not only resist drooling over her boss but also figure out exactly who is sabotaging his work鈥nd ensure he makes them pay.

After all, a good job is hard to find.]]> 342 Hannah Nicole Maehrer 1649375808 katelyn. 0 dnf 3.88 2023
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average rating: 3.88
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First, Shay has to move home to the small town of Friendship, Rhode Island. Second鈥攁nd most problematic since her fianc茅 just called off the wedding鈥擲hay must be married within one year.

Marriage is the last thing in the world Shay wants but she鈥檒l do anything to save the only real home s丑别鈥檚 ever known.

Noah Barden loved Shay Zucconi back in high school. Not that he ever told her. He was too shy, too awkward, too painfully uncool to ask out the beautiful, popular girl.

A lifetime later, Noah is a single dad to his niece and has his hands full running the family business. That old crush is the farthest thing from his mind.

Until Shay returns to their hometown.

CW/TW: absentee parent(s), brief mention of parent death, brief mention of parent chronic illness, mention of incarceration, mention of temporary foster care placement, reference to teenage teasing/bullying (not detailed, not explicit), brief incidence of fat-shaming, living with a neurodivergent child]]> 480 Kate Canterbary katelyn. 2 3.85 2022
author: Kate Canterbary
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2022
rating: 2
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S丑别鈥檚 waded through all of the fish in the sea, each one more disappointing than the last. Apparently owning the bakery at Inglewild鈥檚 most romantic destination does not help one鈥檚 love life鈥攄espite her best efforts. All she wants is a partner who gives her butterflies, not someone who ghosts her at dinner and leaves her with the check.

Good thing Caleb Alvarez has the perfect solution.

After saving Layla from another date gone bad, he has a simple proposition: One month of no-strings dating. He鈥檒l do his best to renew her faith in men while she rates his dating game. It鈥檚 a win-win situation. All the benefits of dating, without the added pressure of feelings and unmet expectations.

But there鈥檚 one ingredient they haven鈥檛 considered. The chemistry between them is red hot and the urge to take things to the next level is more tempting than Layla鈥檚 double fudge mocha brownies.

Will the heat between them boil over? Or will it be another case of mixed signals?

Mixed Signals is a sweet and steamy small-town romance. Our story features a bashful man who can rock a Hawaiian shirt, a hopeful and dreamy bakery owner, enough sweets to give you a cavity, and your favorite Inglewild residents. Mixed Signals is a standalone romance and the third book in the Lovelight series, a collection of interconnected novels.]]> 335 B.K. Borison 0593641167 katelyn. 4 3.90 2022
author: B.K. Borison
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2022
rating: 4
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She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic and aid in her deception. New York to Spain is no short flight and her raucous family won鈥檛 be easy to fool.

Enter Aaron Blackford鈥攈er tall, handsome, condescending colleague鈥攚ho surprisingly offers to step in. She鈥檇 rather refuse; never has there been a more aggravating, blood-boiling, and insufferable man.

But Catalina is desperate, and as the wedding draws nearer, Aaron looks like her best option. And she begins to realize he might not be as terrible in the real world as he is at the office.]]> 487 Elena Armas 1668002531 katelyn. 3 3.80 2021
author: Elena Armas
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2022/01/22
date added: 2024/08/05
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Emma hadn't planned that her next assignment as a traveling nurse would be in Minnesota, but she and her best friend agree that dating Justin is too good of an opportunity to pass up, especially when they get to rent an adorable cottage on a private island on Lake Minnetonka.

It's supposed to be a quick fling, just for the summer. But when Emma's toxic mother shows up and Justin has to assume guardianship of his three siblings, they're suddenly navigating a lot more than they expected--including catching real feelings for each other. What if this time Fate has actually brought the perfect pair together?]]> 432 Abby Jimenez 1538704439 katelyn. 4 4.35 2024
author: Abby Jimenez
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/08/04
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]]> 45023611 House Rules:
Do your own dishes.
Knock before entering the bathroom.
Never look up your roommate online.

The Wheatons are infamous among the east coast elite for their lack of impulse control, except for their daughter Clara. S丑别鈥檚 the consummate socialite: over-achieving, well-mannered, predictable. But every Wheaton has their weakness. When Clara鈥檚 childhood crush invites her to move cross-country, the offer is too much to resist. Unfortunately, it鈥檚 also too good to be true.

After a bait-and-switch, Clara finds herself sharing a lease with a charming stranger. Josh might be a bit too perceptive鈥攏ot to mention handsome鈥攆or comfort, but there鈥檚 a good chance he and Clara could have survived sharing a summer sublet if she hadn鈥檛 looked him up on the Internet...

Once she learns how Josh has made a name for himself, Clara realizes living with him might make her the Wheaton鈥檚 most scandalous story yet. His professional prowess inspires her to take tackling the stigma against female desire into her own hands. They may not agree on much, but Josh and Clara both believe women deserve better sex. What they decide to do about it will change both of their lives, and if they鈥檙e lucky, they鈥檒l help everyone else get lucky too.]]> 325 Rosie Danan 059310160X katelyn. 3 3.53 2020
author: Rosie Danan
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2020
rating: 3
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Dealing with a pirate ship full of demons that just moved into town was hard enough. Now on top of it, I have to convince a werewolf that I'm not his fated mate, he's just drugged. Easier said than done.

Though I have to say, having a gorgeous man show up and do all of your chores while telling you you're beautiful isn't the worst thing to happen to a girl.]]> 204 Kimberly Lemming katelyn. 0 to-read 4.05 2022
author: Kimberly Lemming
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 194802722 A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

Daphne always loved the way her fianc茅, Peter, told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it... right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.

Which is how Daphne begins her new story: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children鈥檚 librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra鈥檚 ex, Miles Nowak.

Scruffy and chaotic鈥攚ith a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads鈥擬iles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned-up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that s丑别鈥檚 either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?

But it鈥檚 all just for show, of course, because there鈥檚 no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fianc茅鈥檚 new fianc茅e鈥檚 ex... right?]]> 400 Emily Henry katelyn. 5 4.21 2024
author: Emily Henry
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2024/05/18
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]]> 57693262 For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage.

Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank's life is full of all the excesses Cleo's lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a Green Card. But their impulsive marriage irreversibly changes both their lives, and the lives of those close to them, in ways they never could've predicted.

Each compulsively readable chapter explores the lives of Cleo, Frank, and an unforgettable cast of their closest friends and family as they grow up and grow older. Whether it's Cleo's best friend struggling to embrace his gender queerness in the wake of Cleo's marriage, or Frank's financially dependent sister arranging sugar daddy dates to support herself after being cut off, or Cleo and Frank themselves as they discover the trials of marriage and mental illness, each character is as absorbing, and painfully relatable, as the last.

As hilarious as it is heartbreaking, entertaining as it is deeply moving, Cleopatra and Frankenstein marks the entry of a brilliant and bold new talent.]]> 384 Coco Mellors 1635576814 katelyn. 3 dnf 3.70 2022
author: Coco Mellors
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2022
rating: 3
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But hockey heartthrob Jasper Gervais isn鈥檛 looking at me like a friend anymore. And he isn鈥檛 touching me like one either.

To his fans, 丑别鈥檚 the handsome, talented athlete on TV. But to me 丑别鈥檚 still the lost boy with sad eyes and a heart of gold.

The man I鈥檝e loved in secret for years.

So when my life falls apart on my wedding day, it only makes sense that 丑别鈥檚 the one to swoop in and save me. And when his world comes crashing down around him, I鈥檓 there to return the favor.

But the more time we spend alone, the more Jasper doesn鈥檛 feel like a friend at all. He feels like everything I鈥檝e ever wanted and thought I could never have.

Our feelings aren鈥檛 straight forward though. They twist and turn around the pain of his past and the reality of my present.

Jasper Gervais acts like he wants me.

But after years of turning me away, 丑别鈥檚 going to need to prove it.]]> 504 Elsie Silver katelyn. 3 dnf 4.08 2023
author: Elsie Silver
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2024/01/04
date added: 2024/01/18
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this just didn鈥檛 do it for me, the beginning had me interested but it fell flat鈥� by the middle of the book i was more so reading to get it over with, not because i cared about the story- which i just couldn鈥檛 force myself to do. I got to page 322, and then skipped to the epilogue.
]]> 58536037 A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst humans with her incessant hunger in this stunning debut novel from a writer-to-watch.

Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try Japanese food. Sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside - the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and iced-coffee, ice cream and cake, and foraged herbs and plants, and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But, Lydia can't eat any of these things. Her body doesn't work like those of other people. The only thing she can digest is blood, and it turns out that sourcing fresh pigs' blood in London--where she is living away from her vampire mother for the first time - is much more difficult than she'd anticipated.

Then there are the humans--the other artists at the studio space, the people at the gallery she interns at, the strange men that follow her after dark, and Ben, a boyish, goofy-grinned artist she is developing feelings for. Lydia knows that they are her natural prey, but she can't bring herself to feed on them. In her windowless studio, where she paints and studies the work of other artists, binge-watches Buffy the Vampire Slayer and videos of people eating food on YouTube and Instagram, Lydia considers her place in the world. She has many of the things humans wish for--perpetual youth, near-invulnerability, immortality--but, she is miserable; she is lonely; and she is hungry--always hungry.

As Lydia develops as a woman and an artist, she will learn that she must reconcile the conflicts within her--between her demon and human sides, her mixed ethnic heritage, and her relationship with food, and, in turn, humans if she is to find a way to exist in the world. Before any of this, however, she must eat.]]> 240 Claire Kohda 0063140888 katelyn. 0 currently-reading 3.46 2022
author: Claire Kohda
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.46
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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When the successful British mystery writer Judith meets Gavin, a handsome and charming baron, at a birthday party on the Cornish coast, his love transforms her from a bitter, lonely young woman into a romance heroine overnight. After a whirlwind honeymoon in Paris, he whisks her away to a secluded Gothic castle. But soon she finds herself trapped in a nightmare, as her husband鈥檚 mysterious nature, and his alternation between charm and violence, become increasingly frightening.

As Judith battles both internal and external demons, including sexual ambivalence, psychological self-torture, gaslighting, family neglect, alcoholism, and domestic abuse, she becomes increasingly addicted to her wild beast of a husband. Why do women stay in abusive relationships? The answer can be found in the tortured mind of the protagonist, whose richly layered fantasy life parallels that of the female gothic romance reader. Filled with dark humor and evocative imagery, Bluebeard鈥檚 Castle is a subversive take on modern romance and gothic erotica.]]> 371 Anna Biller 1804291854 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.18 2023
author: Anna Biller
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.18
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> 10956 250 Jeffrey Eugenides 0747560595 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.81 1993
author: Jeffrey Eugenides
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1993
rating: 0
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]]> 59234975
An abused, grief-stricken, and impoverished Sonny has all but given up on life. That is, until he meets death, by way of the Grim Reaper. The Reaper, a junk food loving, poetry reading, cigarette-addicted entity, has no time to waste as he searches for a suitable successor who would become "Death" for the next millennium. By training the boy in the ways of death and dying, Reaper grooms his young apprentice and through suspenseful and horror-laced events, he unknowingly gives Sonny something he never intended: A reason to live.]]> 260 C.S. Fritz katelyn. 0 to-read 3.89 2021
author: C.S. Fritz
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> 58079463 A haunting, compelling debut novel of complex female friendship and obsession, following one young woman's decision to abandon her normal life and join the otherworldly, nocturnal existence of London's nightshift workers.

When twenty-three-year-old Meggie meets her distant and enigmatic new coworker Sabine, she recognizes in her the person she would like to be. Meggie is immediately drawn to worldly, beautiful, and uninhibited Sabine; and when Sabine announces she's switching to the nightshift, Meggie impulsively decides to follow her. Giving up her daytime existence, her reliable boyfriend, and the trappings of a normal life, Meggie finds a liberating sense of freedom as she indulges her growing preoccupation with Sabine and plunges into another existence, immersing herself in the transient and uncertain world of the nightshift worker.

While the city sleeps, she passes the hours at work clipping crime stories from the next day's newspapers. The liminal hours between night and day are spent haunting deserted bars and nightclubs with her eclectic coworkers and going on increasingly wild adventures with Sabine. Yet the closer she gets to Sabine, the more Sabine seems to push her away, leaving Meggie desperately trying to hold on to their intense friendship while doubting if she truly knows her friend at all.

A fresh twist on the coming of age story and a dark love letter to city life, Nightshift explores the thin line between self-invention and self-destruction, as Meggie's sleep deprivation, drinking, and fixation with Sabine gain a momentum all their own. Vividly set in late-nineties London and framed by Meggie's present-day reflections, Nightshift is a captivating and moving debut that asks profound questions about who we are and if we can truly escape ourselves.]]> 256 Kiare Ladner 0063138247 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.20 2021
author: Kiare Ladner
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.20
book published: 2021
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]]> 78627220 A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella from the New York Times bestselling author.

Rosemary meets Ash at the farmers鈥� market. Ash鈥攑recise, pretty, and practically perfect鈥攕ells bars of soap in delicate pastel colors, sprinkle-spackled cupcakes stacked on scalloped stands, beeswax candles, jelly jars of honey, and glossy green plants. Ro has never felt this way about another woman; with Ash, she wants to be her and have her in equal measure. But as her obsession with Ash consumes her, she may find s丑别鈥檚 not the one doing the devouring鈥]> 203 Delilah S. Dawson katelyn. 0 to-read 3.82 2023
author: Delilah S. Dawson
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> 15320 the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his "art" to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed his "art" to limits even Compton hadn't previously imagined. Together, Compton and Byrne set their sights on an exquisite young Vietnamese-American runaway, Tran, whom they deem to be the perfect victim.

Swiftly moving from the grimy streets of London's Piccadilly Circus to the decadence of the New Orleans French Quarter, and punctuated by rants from radio talk show host Lush Rimbaud, a.k.a. Luke Ransom, Tran's ex-lover, who is dying of AIDS and who intends to wreak ultimate havoc before leaving this world, Exquisite Corpse unfolds into a labyrinth of murder and love. Ultimately all four characters converge on a singular bloody night after which their lives will be irrevocably changed 鈥� or terminated.

Poppy Z. Brite dissects the landscape of torture and invites us into the mind of a killer. Exquisite Corpse confirms Brite as a writer who defies categorization. It is a novel for those who dare trespass where the sacred and profane become one.]]> 240 Poppy Z. Brite 0684836270 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.81 1996
author: Poppy Z. Brite
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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]]> 24322147 430 Virginie Despentes 224671351X katelyn. 0 to-read 3.92 2015
author: Virginie Despentes
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> 58690308 One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming....

Nora Stephens鈥� life is books鈥攕丑别鈥檚 read them all鈥攁nd she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.

Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters鈥� trip away鈥攚ith visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who s丑别鈥檚 convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they鈥檝e met many times and it鈥檚 never been cute.

If Nora knows s丑别鈥檚 not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows 丑别鈥檚 nobody鈥檚 hero, but as they are thrown together again and again鈥攊n a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow鈥攚hat they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they鈥檝e written about themselves.]]> 377 Emily Henry 0593334833 katelyn. 5 4.09 2022
author: Emily Henry
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2024/01/13
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]]> 60041932 True love is at stake in this charming, debut romantic comedy.

Cassie Greenberg loves being an artist, but it鈥檚 a tough way to make a living. On the brink of eviction, s丑别鈥檚 desperate when she finds a too-good-to-be-true apartment in a beautiful Chicago neighborhood. Cassie knows there has to be a catch鈥攐nly someone with a secret to hide would rent out a room for that price.

Of course, her new roommate Frederick J. Fitzwilliam is far from normal. He sleeps all day, is out at night on business, and talks like he walked out of a regency romance novel. He also leaves Cassie heart-melting notes around the apartment, cares about her art, and asks about her day. And he doesn鈥檛 look half bad shirtless, on the rare occasions they鈥檙e both home and awake. But when Cassie finds bags of blood in the fridge that definitely weren鈥檛 there earlier, Frederick has to come clean...

Cassie鈥檚 sexy new roommate is a vampire. And he has a proposition for her.]]> 341 Jenna Levine 0593548914 katelyn. 4 3.46 2023
author: Jenna Levine
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.46
book published: 2023
rating: 4
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]]> 62197594
Enter Logan, the gorgeous, foul-mouthed stranger she meets at a hotel bar. Audacious and filterless, Logan is Alexis's opposite-and boy, do opposites attract! Just as she's about to fulfill her hookup wish, the hotel catches fire in a freak lightning storm. In their rush to escape, Logan is discovered carrying her into the street, where people are waiting with cameras. Cameras Logan promptly-and shockingly-flees.

Alexis is bewildered until suddenly pictures of her and Logan escaping the fire are all over the internet. Turns out Logan is none other than Logan Arthur, the hotshot candidate challenging the Texas governor's seat. The salacious scandal is poised to sink his career-and jeopardize Alexis's job-until a solution is he and Alexis could pretend to be in a relationship until election day鈥n two months. What could possibly go wrong?]]> 384 Ashley Winstead 1525804960 katelyn. 4 3.75 2023
author: Ashley Winstead
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2023/06/20
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Then in a meet-disaster involving a corpse and a salty cockatoo, she stumbles across Mick O鈥橲ullivan at his family's funeral home. Their immediate chemistry warns Kat to keep things platonic; after all, following her heart never worked out in the past, and this time s丑别鈥檚 determined to listen to her head. But can Kat and Mick be just friends? As she gets to know him better, the lines blur, and Kat starts to wonder if s丑别鈥檚 gotten it wrong and Mick is exactly who s丑别鈥檚 been looking for...]]> 368 Melonie Johnson 1250768829 katelyn. 3 3.36 2023
author: Melonie Johnson
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.36
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2023/06/03
date added: 2023/06/03
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honestly it was just fine? I didn鈥檛 like the main character (s丑别鈥檚 selfISH, and not self-aware. it鈥檚 giving greedy) , and that made it hard to like the story. the writing is cute, the love interest was funny and quirky鈥� but it just didn鈥檛 do much for me.
]]> 35838277 354 Andrea Lawlor 0986086991 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.88 2017
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name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.88
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One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss鈥檚 voice in town and they quickly become enmeshed. While Big Swiss is unaware Greta has eavesdropped on her most intimate exchanges, Greta has never been more herself with anyone. Her attraction to Big Swiss overrides her guilt, and she鈥檒l do anything to sustain the relationship鈥]> 336 Jen Beagin 1982153083 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.69 2023
author: Jen Beagin
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.69
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]]> 58065212 A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to be at home in your own body in this clever, humorous, and heartfelt novel.

When archivist Sol meets Elsie, the larger than life widow of a moderately famous television writer who's come to donate her wife's papers, there's an instant spark. But Sol has a secret: he suffers from an illness called vampirism, and hides from the sun by living in his basement office. On their way to falling in love, the two traverse grief, delve into the Internet fandom they once unknowingly shared, and navigate the realities of transphobia and the stigmas of carrying the "vampire disease."

Then, when strange things start happening at the collection, Sol must embrace even more of the unknown to save himself and his job. DEAD COLLECTIONS is a wry novel full of heart and empathy, that celebrates the journey, the difficulties and joys, in finding love and comfort within our own bodies.]]> 256 Isaac Fellman 0525508406 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.59 2022
author: Isaac Fellman
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.59
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If sex is a truth-teller, Eve--a young, queer woman in Brooklyn--is looking for answers. On an evening when she is feeling particularly impulsive, she posts some nude photos of herself online. This is how Eve meets Olivia, and through Olivia, the charismatic Nathan--and soon the three begin a relationship that disturbs Eve as much as it delights her. As each act of the affair unfolds, Eve is left to ask: to whom is she responsible? And to what extent do our desires determine who we are?

In the way that only great fiction can, Acts of Service takes between its teeth the contradictions written all over our ideas of sex and sexuality. As incisive as it is exhilarating, this novel asks us to face our ideas about desire and power: what sex means to us, the forces that shape it, and how we find--or lose--ourselves in intimacy. At once juicy and intellectually challenging, sacred and profane, it might be the most thought-provoking book you read all year.]]> 240 Lillian Fishman 0593243765 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.08 2022
author: Lillian Fishman
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.08
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rating: 0
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]]> 54173267 With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the whip-smart, wisecracking sensibility of a golden-age Hollywood heroine, Marlowe Granados鈥檚 stunning d茅but brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York City.

Refreshing and wry in equal measure, Happy Hour is an intoxicating novel of youth well spent. Isa Epley is all of twenty-one years old, and already wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. After a sojourn across the pond, she arrives in New York City for a summer of adventure with her best friend, one newly blond Gala Novak. They have little money, but that鈥檚 hardly going to stop them from having a good time.

In her diary, Isa describes a sweltering summer in the glittering city. By day, the girls sell clothes in a market stall, pinching pennies for their Bed-Stuy sublet and bodega lunches. By night, they weave from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side to the Hamptons among a rotating cast of celebrities, artists, Internet entrepreneurs, stuffy intellectuals, and bad-mannered grifters. Money runs ever tighter and the strain tests their friendship as they try to convert their social capital into something more lasting than their precarious gigs as au pairs, nightclub hostesses, paid audience members, and aspiring foot fetish models. Through it all, Isa鈥檚 bold, beguiling voice captures the precise thrill of cultivating a life of glamour and intrigue as she juggles paying her dues with skipping out on the bill.

Happy Hour announces a dazzling new talent in Marlowe Granados, whose exquisite wit recalls Anita Loos鈥檚 1925 classic, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, updated to evoke a recent, golden period of hope and transformation鈥攖he summer of 2013. A cri de c艙ur for party girls and anyone who has ever felt entitled to an adventure of their own, Happy Hour is an effervescent tonic for the ails of contemporary life.]]> 280 Marlowe Granados 1989919006 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.46 2020
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Moving through something that only resembles normal life, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had before might be gone. Though Leah is still there, Miri can feel the woman she loves slipping from her grasp.

Our Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel from Julia Armfield, the critically acclaimed author of Salt Slow. It鈥檚 a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep deep sea.]]> 240 Julia Armfield 152901722X katelyn. 0 to-read 3.75 2022
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name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.75
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]]> 58988426 Nora's life is about to get a rewrite...

Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. As a romance channel screenwriter, it's her job. But when her too-good-to work husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns her marriage's collapse into cash and writes the best script of her life. No one is more surprised than her when it's picked up for the big screen and set to film on location at her 100-year-old-home. When former Sexiest Man Alive, Leo Vance, is cast as her ne'er-do-well husband Nora's life will never be the same.

The morning after shooting wraps and the crew leaves, Nora finds Leo on her porch with a half-empty bottle of tequila and a proposition. He'll pay a thousand dollars a day to stay for a week. The extra seven grand would give Nora breathing room, but it's the need in his eyes that makes her say yes. Seven days: it's the blink of an eye or an eternity depending on how you look at it. Enough time to fall in love. Enough time to break your heart.

Filled with warmth, wit, and wisdom, Nora Goes Off Script is the best kind of love story--the real kind where love is complicated by work, kids, and the emotional baggage that comes with life. For Nora and Leo, this kind of love is bigger than the big screen.]]> 272 Annabel Monaghan 0593420039 katelyn. 4 4.03 2022
author: Annabel Monaghan
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2023/02/28
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Luna Allen has done some things she would rather no one ever know about. She also knows that, if she could go back in time, she wouldn鈥檛 change a single thing.

With three sisters she loves, a job she (mostly) adores, and a family built up of friends s丑别鈥檚 made over the years, Luna figures everything has worked out the way it was supposed to.

But when one of those secrets involves the man who signs her paycheck, she can鈥檛 find it in her to regret it. Despite the fact that 丑别鈥檚 not the friendliest man in the world. Or the most patient.

Sometimes there are things you鈥檙e better off keeping to yourself.]]> 580 Mariana Zapata katelyn. 3 4.01 2018
author: Mariana Zapata
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2023/02/05
date added: 2023/02/05
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That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor--and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive's career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding... six-pack abs.

Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.]]> 356 Ali Hazelwood 0593336828 katelyn. 5 favorites 4.11 2021
author: Ali Hazelwood
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2022/01/20
date added: 2023/02/02
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this is genuinely the most fun i鈥檝e had reading a book in such a long time. easily became one of my most favorite reads. i LOVE everything about this story.
]]> 24920901 An alternative cover edition can be found here.

She's about to make a deal with the college bad boy...

Hannah Wells has finally found someone who turns her on. But while she might be confident in every other area of her life, she's carting around a full set of baggage when it comes to sex and seduction. If she wants to get her crush's attention, she'll have to step out of her comfort zone and make him take notice... even if it means tutoring the annoying, childish, cocky captain of the hockey team in exchange for a pretend date.

...and it's going to be oh so good.

All Garrett Graham has ever wanted is to play professional hockey after graduation, but his plummeting GPA is threatening everything he's worked so hard for. If helping a sarcastic brunette make another guy jealous will help him secure his position on the team, he's all for it. But when one unexpected kiss leads to the wildest sex of both their lives, it doesn't take long for Garrett to realize that pretend isn't going to cut it. Now he just has to convince Hannah that the man she wants looks a lot like him.]]> 342 Elle Kennedy katelyn. 3 4.26 2015
author: Elle Kennedy
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2015
rating: 3
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鈥淚 can鈥檛 help but compare our worth as writers, as lovers, as women. Is anything solely mine, or will I always dwell in someone else鈥檚 shadow?鈥�

Twenty-four-year-old bookseller and New Yorker Naomi Ackerman, desperate to write a novel, struggles to find the right story to tell. When, after years of disastrous Tinder dates, she meets Caleb鈥攁 perfectly nice guy with a Welsh accent and a unique patience for all of her quirks鈥攕he feels she's finally stumbled onto a time-honored subject: love. But then Caleb's ex-girlfriend, Rosemary, enters the scene.

When Naomi learns that Rosemary is not safely tucked away overseas as she'd assumed but in fact lives in New York and works in the literary world, she is fundamentally threatened and intrigued in equal measure. On paper, Rosemary sounds like a better version of Naomi鈥攂ut if they both fell for the same man, they must have something more essential in common.

Determined to figure out how their stories intertwine, Naomi's casual Instagram stalking morphs into a full-blown friendship under false pretenses. She can't seem to get herself to quit Rosemary, in whom she discovers an unexpected confidant鈥攁nd she can't stop writing about her either, having now found a more interesting subject for her nascent novel. As her lies and half-truths spiral out of her control, and fact and fiction become increasingly difficult to separate, Naomi manipulates the most important people in her life鈥攈er family, her friends, Caleb, Rosemary, and, perhaps most devastatingly, herself鈥攊n pursuit of her craft. Ultimately, s丑别鈥檚 forced to decide who and what she's willing to sacrifice to write them all the perfect ending.]]> 336 Caitlin Barasch 0593185595 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.47 2022
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name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.47
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]]> 59571699 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis鈥攚ith explosive results.

Bee K枚nigswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project - a literal dream come true - Marie would accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward.

Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school - archenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away.

But when her equipment starts to go missing and the staff ignore her, Bee could swear she sees Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas... devouring her with those eyes. The possibilities have all her neurons firing.

But when it comes time to actually make a move and put her heart on the line, there's only one question that matters: What will Bee K枚nigswasser do?]]> 368 Ali Hazelwood 1408725789 katelyn. 3 dnf, might come back to it 3.88 2022
author: Ali Hazelwood
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2022
rating: 3
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dnf, might come back to it
]]> 60114057 From the author of the 欧宝娱乐 Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Mart铆n, who are forced to share a New York apartment.

Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn鈥檛 told her family and now has terrible writer鈥檚 block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina鈥檚 spare key while s丑别鈥檚 out of town. But Rosie doesn鈥檛 know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking鈥攆or lack of a better word鈥攐n Instagram for the last few months. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armor. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and an irresistible accent. Oh, and he cooks.

Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing. And then he proposes an outrageous experiment to bring back her literary muse and meet her deadline: He鈥檒l take her on a series of experimental dates meant to jump-start her romantic inspiration. Rosie has nothing to lose. Her silly, online crush is totally under control鈥攂ut Lucas鈥檚 time in New York has an expiration date, and six weeks may not be enough, for either her or her deadline.]]> 400 Elena Armas 1668002779 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.78 2022
author: Elena Armas
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.78
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]]> 60760105 196 Zoe Thorogood 1534323864 katelyn. 0 to-read 4.19 2022
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name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.19
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They broke up six months ago. And still haven鈥檛 told their best friends.

Which is how they find themselves sharing the largest bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group鈥檚 yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blue week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most.

Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they鈥檒l all have together in this place. They can鈥檛 stand to break their friends鈥� hearts, and so they鈥檒l play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. It鈥檚 a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week鈥� in front of those who know you best?

A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.]]> 400 Emily Henry 0593441273 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.95 2023
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name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.95
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After getting passed over for an overdue鈥攁nd much needed鈥攑romotion, Sadie Green is in desperate need of three things: a stiff drink, a new place to live, and a one-night-stand. When one drink turns into one too many, Sadie mixes up a long-ignored dating app for a roommate-finding app and finds herself on the doorstep of Jack Thomas鈥檚 gorgeous Brooklyn brownstone. Too bad s丑别鈥檚 more attracted to his impressive real estate than she is to the man himself.

Jack, still grieving the unexpected death of his parents, has learned to find comfort in video games and movie marathons instead of friends. So while he doesn鈥檛 know just what to make of the vivaciously verbose Sadie, 丑别鈥檚 willing to offer her his spare bedroom while she gets back on her feet. And with the rent unbeatably low, Sadie can finally pursue her floristry side hustle full-time. The two are polar opposites, but as Sadie鈥檚 presence begins to turn the brownstone into a home, they both start to realize they may have just made the deal of a lifetime.]]> 332 Falon Ballard 059341991X katelyn. 3 BUT this left SOOOOO much to be desired. Like- the love interests barely had any contact or conversations before they were confessing their feelings? It felt like there was so much missing, and then every conflict was resolved so suddenly and unrealistically that it just completely took me out of the story.
it was cute, if a little immature at times; just not my favorite.

(also the main character literally complains constantly and she has the easiest fucking life I was so over it鈥攊t鈥檚 like the author was trying to constantly reassure us that Sadie was a good person and we鈥檙e all like 鈥渨e never said she wasn鈥檛鈥︹�� why do you keep bringing it up lol) ]]> 3.71 2022
author: Falon Ballard
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2022/08/17
date added: 2022/08/17
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okay listen- the idea of this book had me drooling. this is my thing, forced proximity and opposites attract? absolutely yes 100%
BUT this left SOOOOO much to be desired. Like- the love interests barely had any contact or conversations before they were confessing their feelings? It felt like there was so much missing, and then every conflict was resolved so suddenly and unrealistically that it just completely took me out of the story.
it was cute, if a little immature at times; just not my favorite.

(also the main character literally complains constantly and she has the easiest fucking life I was so over it鈥攊t鈥檚 like the author was trying to constantly reassure us that Sadie was a good person and we鈥檙e all like 鈥渨e never said she wasn鈥檛鈥︹�� why do you keep bringing it up lol)
]]> 58719208 From the bestselling author of I Wish You All the Best, comes a new kind of love story, about the bad decisions we sometimes make... and the people who help get us back on the right path.

Perfect for fans of Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston and What If It's Us by Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli.

Just days before spring break, Neil Kearney is set to fly across the country with his childhood friend (and current friend-with-benefits) Josh, to attend his brother's wedding鈥攗ntil Josh tells Neil that he's in love with him and Neil doesn't return the sentiment.

With Josh still attending the wedding, Neil needs to find a new date to bring along. And, almost against his will, roommate Wyatt is drafted.

At first, Wyatt (correctly) thinks Neil is acting like a jerk. But when they get to LA, Wyatt sees a little more of where it's coming from. Slowly, Neil and Wyatt begin to understand one another鈥� and maybe, just maybe, fall in love for the first time鈥]> 343 Mason Deaver 1338777661 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.77 2022
author: Mason Deaver
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.77
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]]> 60321485 The author of The Charm Offensive returns with a festive romantic comedy about a woman who fakes an engagement with her landlord鈥nly to fall for his sister.

One year ago, recent Portland transplant Ellie Oliver had her dream job in animation and a Christmas Eve meet-cute with a woman at a bookstore that led her to fall in love over the course of a single night. But after a betrayal the next morning and the loss of her job soon after, she finds herself adrift, alone, and desperate for money.

Finding work at a local coffee shop, s丑别鈥檚 just getting through the days鈥攗ntil Andrew, the shop鈥檚 landlord, proposes a shocking, drunken plan: a marriage of convenience that will give him his recent inheritance and alleviate Ellie鈥檚 financial woes and isolation. They make a plan to spend the holidays together at his family cabin to keep up the ruse. But when Andrew introduces his new fianc茅e to his sister, Ellie is shocked to discover it鈥檚 Jack鈥攖he mysterious woman she fell for over the course of one magical Christmas Eve the year before. Now, Ellie must choose between the safety of a fake relationship and the risk of something real.

Perfect for fans of Written in the Stars and One Day in December, Kiss Her Once for Me is the queer holiday rom-com that you鈥檒l want to cozy up with next to the fire.]]> 368 Alison Cochrun 1982191139 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.83 2022
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name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.83
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Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. So when an acquaintance informs him that he would make a 鈥渨onderful鈥� husband, his first reaction is shock. Yet he must concede to the statistical probability that there is someone for everyone, and he embarks upon The Wife Project. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which he approaches all things, Don sets out to find the perfect partner. She will be punctual and logical鈥攎ost definitely not a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver.

Yet Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also beguiling, fiery, intelligent鈥攁nd on a quest of her own. She is looking for her biological father, a search that a certain DNA expert might be able to help her with. Don's Wife Project takes a back burner to the Father Project and an unlikely relationship blooms, forcing the scientifically minded geneticist to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie鈥攁nd the realization that love is not always what looks good on paper.

The Rosie Project is a moving and hilarious novel for anyone who has ever tenaciously gone after life or love in the face of overwhelming challenges.]]> 292 Graeme Simsion 1476729085 katelyn. 0 to-read 4.00 2013
author: Graeme Simsion
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2013
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After thirty-four years of marriage, Julie and Michael's grand romance has . . . fizzled. More like housemates than husband and wife, Julie wonders whether it's time to give up on their love story, once and for all.

A lockdown - just the two of them - seems like it might be the final straw.

But, when stripped of all distraction and forced to meet eyes across the dinner table every night, unexpected sparks begin to fly . . .

Can Julie and Michael ever find a way back to who they used to be?

Or could this be the start of a whole new love story?

*

A joyful and uplifting romance about second chances and rediscovering love when you least expect it. The perfect feel-good read that will make you laugh, make you cry and lift your spirits.]]> 257 Jo Wilde 0349427739 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.46 2020
author: Jo Wilde
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.46
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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When it comes to her career, Cade Elgin has it all figured out. Only 鈥減rofessional talk鈥� has become her default mode, relationships are nonexistent, and don't even mention the word 鈥渙rgasm.鈥� All work and no play makes Cade a dull human. But when she inherits a sex toy store, Cade is caught between business and a store filled with every imaginable kind of pleasure鈥攊ncluding her infuriatingly irresponsible and deliciously sexy new co-owner.

Selena Mathis learned the hard way that she can have too much of a good thing. Which is precisely why she's taken an oath of celibacy and is focusing on how to make Satisfaction Guaranteed a success. She won't mess this up. Not this time. But once again, Selena's emotions are getting in the way, and tempting her with a serious attraction to buttoned-up Cade.

But the shop isn't exactly vibe-ing, and Cade and Selena are on the verge of losing both their income and the possibility of love. Can they find a way to work together . . . before Satisfaction Guaranteed runs out of batteries?]]> 336 Karelia Stetz-Waters 1538735520 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.80 2021
author: Karelia Stetz-Waters
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2021
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]]> 56597885 356 Sally Rooney 0374602603 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.53 2021
author: Sally Rooney
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.53
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A new relationship couldn't have come at a better time - her thirties have not been the liberating, uncomplicated experience she was sold. Everywhere she turns, she is reminded of time passing and opportunities dwindling. Friendships are fading, ex-boyfriends are moving on and, worse, everyone's moving to the suburbs. There's no solace to be found in her family, with a mum who's caught in a baffling mid-life makeover and a beloved dad who is vanishing in slow-motion into dementia.

Dolly Alderton's debut novel is funny and tender, filled with whip-smart observations about relationships, family, memory, and how we live now.]]> 352 Dolly Alderton 0241434548 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.86 2020
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name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.86
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But when Ava鈥檚 new boss鈥攖he young and magnetic Mat Putnam鈥攐ffers Ava a ride home one afternoon, an unlikely relationship blossoms. Ava remembers how rewarding it can be to open up鈥攁nd, despite her instincts, she becomes enamored. But Mat isn鈥檛 who he claims to be, and the romance takes a sharp turn.

The Very Nice Box is a wryly funny, suspenseful debut鈥攚ith a shocking twist. It鈥檚 at once a send-up of male entitlement and a big-hearted account of grief, friendship, and trust.]]> 320 Laura Blackett katelyn. 0 to-read 3.76 2021
author: Laura Blackett
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2021
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]]> 26890698 One of America鈥檚 most original comedic voices delivers a darkly funny, wryly observed, and emotionally raw account of her year of death, cancer, and epiphany.

In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C.Diff, her mother unexpectedly died, she went through a breakup, and was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer. Hit with this devastating barrage, Tig took her grief onstage. Days after receiving her cancer diagnosis, she broke new comedic ground, opening an unvarnished set with the words, 鈥淕ood evening. Hello. I have cancer. How are you? Hi, how are you? Is everybody having a good time? I have cancer.鈥� Word of the set went viral instantly. This set was ultimately released as Tig鈥檚 sophomore album, Live, which sold 100,000 units in just six weeks and was nominated for a Grammy.

Now, the wildly popular star takes stock of that no good, very bad year鈥攁 difficult yet astonishing period in which tragedy turned into absurdity and despair into joy. An inspired combination of the deadpan silliness of her comedy and the open-hearted vulnerability that has emerged in the wake of that dire time, Untitled is a moving and often hilarious look at this very brave, very funny woman鈥檚 journey through the darkness and her thrilling return.]]> 240 Tig Notaro 0062266632 katelyn. 5 3.94 2016
author: Tig Notaro
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2022/06/09
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]]> 58800142 An interior designer learns to rebuild her love life from the ground up with zero blueprints in this new romantic comedy by Ashley Herring Blake, author of Delilah Green Doesn't Care.

For Astrid Parker, failure is unacceptable. Ever since she broke up with her fianc茅 a year ago, s丑别鈥檚 been focused on her career鈥攈er friends might say s丑别鈥檚 obsessed, but s丑别鈥檚 just driven. When Pru Everwood asks her to be the designer for the Everwood Inn鈥檚 renovation that will be broadcasted on a popular home improvement show, Innside America, Astrid knows this is the answer to everything that is wrong with her life. It鈥檒l be the perfect distraction from her failed love life, and her perpetually displeased mother might finally give her nod of approval.

However, Astrid never planned on Jordan Everwood, Pru鈥檚 granddaughter and lead carpenter for the inn鈥檚 renovation, who despises every modern design decision Astrid makes. Jordan is determined to preserve the history of her family鈥檚 inn, particularly as the rest of her life is in shambles. When that determination turns into a little light sabotage, ruffling Astrid鈥檚 perfect little feathers, the showrunners ask them to play up the tension. But somewhere along the way, their dislike for each other turns into something quite different, and Astrid must decide what success truly means. Is she going to pursue the life that s丑别鈥檚 expected to lead, or the one she wants?]]> 400 Ashley Herring Blake katelyn. 0 to-read 4.04 2022
author: Ashley Herring Blake
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2022
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Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls鈥攏othing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. Her life is in New York, with her photography career finally gaining steam and her bed never empty. Sure, it鈥檚 a different woman every night, but that鈥檚 just fine with her.
听
When Delilah鈥檚 estranged stepsister, Astrid, pressures her into photographing her wedding with a guilt trip and a five-figure check, Delilah finds herself back in the godforsaken town that she used to call home. She plans to breeze in and out, but then she sees Claire Sutherland, one of Astrid鈥檚 stuck-up besties, and decides that maybe there鈥檚 some fun (and a little retribution) to be had in Bright Falls, after all.
听
Having raised her eleven-year-old daughter mostly on her own while dealing with her unreliable ex and running a bookstore, Claire Sutherland depends upon a life without surprises. And Delilah Green is an unwelcome surprise鈥t first. Though they鈥檝e known each other for years, they don鈥檛 really know each other鈥攕o Claire is unsettled when Delilah figures out exactly what buttons to push. When they鈥檙e forced together during a gauntlet of wedding preparations鈥攊ncluding a plot to save Astrid from her horrible fianc茅鈥擟laire isn鈥檛 sure she has the strength to resist Delilah鈥檚 charms. Even worse, s丑别鈥檚 starting to think she doesn鈥檛 want to...]]> 375 Ashley Herring Blake 0593336402 katelyn. 0 to-read 4.06 2022
author: Ashley Herring Blake
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.06
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]]> 41662515 Summer Hayes is devastated when her co-star shuns her for accidentally sparking rumors they鈥檙e lovers. Now the so-called British Bitch has the audacity to ask Summer to pretend to be her girlfriend to get her a role? Elizabeth doesn鈥檛 even like Summer! Oh, how she鈥檇 love to tell her no. And Summer definitely would if it wasn鈥檛 for the fact s丑别鈥檚 maybe a tiny bit in love with the impossible woman.
A lesbian celebrity romance about gaining love, losing masks, and trying to stick to the script.

106,000 words]]> 334 Lee Winter 3963241136 katelyn. 0 to-read 4.34 2018
author: Lee Winter
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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After the death of his wife, Tanner Rowe takes a step toward making her dying wish come true and buys the house with the dilapidated barn she鈥檇 been inexplicably drawn to in the picturesque Upper Peninsula. But after a year, he still can鈥檛 get past his grief long enough to make the repairs he鈥檇 promised.

Recently out of prison, Cole Lachlan has little to his name. Homeless, broke, and without many options as a felon, Cole heads to Red Bluff with hopes of a second chance. There he meets Tanner, whose loneliness mirrors his own, and soon Cole is trading room and board for rebuilding the burned-out barn on Tanner鈥檚 property that hasn鈥檛 been touched in seventy years.

Turns out, the barn holds more secrets than either of them could have imagined. After unearthing a hidden journal from 1948, Cole and Tanner spend their evenings poring over the pages, reading about a young man pining after his best friend. The deeper they delve into this forbidden affair from the past, the more Cole and Tanner鈥檚 own relationship shifts鈥攆rom acquaintances to friends鈥o undeniable attraction.

But as they begin to deal with the newness of falling in love in the wake of Tanner鈥檚 loss and Cole鈥檚 past, they also become more determined to unravel the mystery of the young lovers who鈥檝e captured their hearts, the rumors about the fire, and what really happened that fateful night.

TW: Homophobia]]> 264 Riley Hart katelyn. 4 4.24 2018
author: Riley Hart
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2022/06/03
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]]> 45280797 Bestselling authors Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy return with their first Male / Male romance in 3 years.

LobsterShorts, 21
Jock. Secretly a science geek. Hot AF.

LobsterShorts: So. Here goes. For her birthday, my girlfriend wants鈥 threesome.

SinnerThree: Then you鈥檝e come to the right hookup app.

LobsterShorts: Have you done this sort of thing before? With another guy?

SinnerThree: All the time. I'm an equal opportunity player. You?

LobsterShorts: [crickets!]


SinnerThree, 21
Finance major. Secretly a male dancer. Hot AF.

SinnerThree: Well, I鈥檓 down if you are. My life is kind of a mess right now. School, work, family stress. Oh, and I live next door to the most annoying dude in the world. I need the distraction. Are you sure you want this?

LobsterShorts: I might want it a little more than I鈥檓 willing to admit.

SinnerThree: Hey, nothing wrong with pushing your boundaries...

LobsterShorts: Tell that to my control-freak father. Anyway. What if this threesome is awkward?

SinnerThree: Then it鈥檚 awkward. It鈥檚 not like we鈥檒l ever have to see each other again. Right? Just promise you won鈥檛 fall in love with me.

LobsterShorts: Now wouldn鈥檛 that be life-changing...

Q&A about Top Secret:

Q: Have we met these characters before in another book?
A: No! These guys are brand new, and we can鈥檛 wait for you to meet them.

Q: Is this story MM? Or is it a MMF / MFM / menage?
A: This book is MM.

Q: Is this a love triangle story?
A: Not really. You鈥檒l see.]]> 318 Sarina Bowen 1942444796 katelyn. 5 4.05 2019
author: Sarina Bowen
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2022/05/25
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]]> 56060300 Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fourth volume of HEARTSTOPPER, for fans of The Art of Being Normal, Holly Bourne and Love, Simon.

Charlie didn't think Nick could ever like him back, but now they're officially boyfriends. Charlie's beginning to feel ready to say those three little words: I love you.

Nick's been feeling the same, but he's got a lot on his mind - not least coming out to his dad, and the fact that Charlie might have an eating disorder.

As summer turns to autumn and a new school year begins, Charlie and Nick are about to learn a lot about what love means.

Heartstopper is about love, friendship, loyalty and mental illness. It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us.

This is the fourth volume of Heartstopper, which has now been optioned for television by See-Saw Films.]]> 384 Alice Oseman 1338617567 katelyn. 5 4.57 2021
author: Alice Oseman
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.57
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2022/05/18
date added: 2022/05/18
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]]> 43449920
Meanwhile Tao and Elle will face their feelings for each other, Tara and Darcy share more about their relationship origin story, and the teachers supervising the trip seem鈥� rather close鈥�?]]> 384 Alice Oseman katelyn. 5 4.55 2020
author: Alice Oseman
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.55
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2022/05/17
date added: 2022/05/17
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]]> 50225678 425 Alexis Hall 1728206146 katelyn. 3 3.98 2020
author: Alexis Hall
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2022/05/13
date added: 2022/05/13
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]]> 41150487
As President Claremont kicks off her reelection bid, Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret relationship with Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations. What is worth the sacrifice? How do you do all the good you can do? And, most importantly, how will history remember you?]]> 448 Casey McQuiston 1250316774 katelyn. 4 4.06 2019
author: Casey McQuiston
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2022/05/06
date added: 2022/05/06
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]]> 58648055
Thom knows all about damage control鈥攈e practically invented it. Ever the professional, he鈥檒l grin and bear this challenge as he does all others. But as the loyal staffers push the boundaries of 鈥済iving the people what they want,鈥� the animosity between them blooms into something deeper and far more dangerous: desire. Soon their fake relationship is hurtling toward something very real, which could derail the campaign and cost them both their jobs鈥nd their hearts.

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B093DM9Q8W]]> 336 Liz Bowery katelyn. 4 3.61 2022
author: Liz Bowery
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2022/05/02
date added: 2022/05/02
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she was a cute, quick read. it was slow in the beginning, but the last half of the book was *chefs kiss* wonderful. i really enjoyed it, read it in one day.
]]> 43307358
But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is discovering all kinds of things about his friends, his family ... and himself.]]> 320 Alice Oseman 1444951408 katelyn. 5 4.52 2019
author: Alice Oseman
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.52
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2022/05/02
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]]> 40495957
Charlie Spring is in Year 10 at Truham Grammar School for Boys. The past year hasn't been too great, but at least he's not being bullied anymore. Nick Nelson is in Year 11 and on the school rugby team. He's heard a little about Charlie - the kid who was outed last year and bullied for a few months - but he's never had the opportunity to talk to him.

They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance. But love works in surprising ways, and sometimes good things are waiting just around the corner...]]> 288 Alice Oseman 152722533X katelyn. 5 4.43 2018
author: Alice Oseman
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at: 2022/05/02
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]]> 53369734
In the aftermath of a disastrous holiday party, Ari and Russell decide to team up to solve their bosses鈥� relationship issues. Between secret gifts and double dates, they start nudging their bosses back together. But their well-meaning meddling backfires when the real chemistry builds between Ari and Russell.

Working closely with Russell means allowing him to get to know parts of herself that Ari keeps hidden from everyone. Will he be able to embrace her dark clouds as well as her clear skies?

A TV meteorologist and a sports reporter scheme to reunite their divorced bosses with unforecasted results in this charming romantic comedy from the author of The Ex Talk.]]> 336 Rachel Lynn Solomon 0593200144 katelyn. 0 dnf 3.60 2022
author: Rachel Lynn Solomon
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at: 2022/04/26
date added: 2022/04/26
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]]> 59568622
As a successful book publicist, Imani Lewis works night and day to promote her authors. 听It鈥檚 her dream job, but s丑别鈥檚 become a total workaholic. So when her grandmother invites her to stay for the summer as she recovers from surgery, Imani happily agrees. But being back in the same small town as her one-night stand may not be quite the relaxing break she envisioned鈥μ�

Zander Matthews wakes up every day determined to enjoy the present because he knows from his time in the Marines that tomorrow isn鈥檛 guaranteed. But 丑别鈥檚 never gotten over the beautiful woman who blew through town a year ago, then disappeared. And he doesn鈥檛 want to be hurt again. So they agree to a he鈥檒l help Imani fix up her grandmother鈥檚 house as long as they stay firmly in the friend zone.

Whether it鈥檚 repairing tiles in his ceramics studio, dodging nosy neighbors, or soothing the most obnoxious parrot ever, Zander never fails to make Imani laugh. And soon their friendly banter is turning ever flirtier. But since Imani鈥檚 stay is temporary and Zander can鈥檛 be tied to anything beyond the most tenuous plans, will she be able to handle it when things get all fired up?

" All Fired Up听 is a delightful second chance, opposites attract, small-town romantic comedy [that] 听 would be perfect for fans of the听 Bergman Brothers听 series by Chloe Liese, the听 Brown Sisters听 trilogy by Talia Hibbert, the听 Hot and Hammered听 trilogy by Tessa Bailey, and the听 Written in the Stars听 trilogy by Alexandria Bellefleur." --The Nerd Daily]]> 368 Dylan Newton 1538754428 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.73 2022
author: Dylan Newton
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 45694898 520 Ella Maise katelyn. 3 3.86 2022
author: Ella Maise
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2022/03/23
date added: 2022/03/23
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i feel like i鈥檓 not supposed to like this book, but i kindaaaa did
]]> 57693870
Franny Doyle is having the worst day. S丑别鈥檚 been laid off from her (admittedly mediocre) job, the subway doors ripped her favorite silk dress to ruins, and now s丑别鈥檚 flashed her unmentionables to half of lower Manhattan. On the plus side, a dashing stranger came to her rescue with his (Gucci!) suit jacket. On the not-so-plus side, he can鈥檛 get away from her fast enough.

Worse yet? Someone posted their (entirely not) meet-cute online. Suddenly Franny and her knight-in-couture, Hayes Montgomery III, are the newest social media sensation, and all of New York is shipping #SubwayQTs.

Only Franny and Hayes couldn鈥檛 be a more disastrous match. S丑别鈥檚 fanciful, talkative, and creative. He鈥檚 serious, shy, and all about numbers. Luckily, in a city of eight million people, they never have to meet again. Yet somehow, Hayes and Franny keep running into each other鈥攁nd much to their surprise, they enjoy each other鈥檚 company. A lot. But when Franny鈥檚 whole world is turned upside down (again!), can she find the courage to trust in herself and finally have the life鈥攁nd love鈥攕丑别鈥檚 always wanted?]]> 304 Kate Spencer katelyn. 4 i loved this book. i mean, i must have- i just woke up at 5 am to finish it. and yes, it is totally worth the tiredness i鈥檓 going to feel later on today.
this book was just so fucking sweet. it had me giddy, and annoyed but in the best ways. i loved the characters, even though i wanted to reach into the book and just shake them, push them together and say 鈥渘ow kiss, idiots- you LOVE EACH OTHER.鈥�
it was a fun time, and it made me nostalgic for a city i鈥檝e never even been in.
anyways, brb gonna go watch moonstruck starring cher.]]> 3.65 2022
author: Kate Spencer
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2022/03/19
date added: 2022/03/19
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4.5
i loved this book. i mean, i must have- i just woke up at 5 am to finish it. and yes, it is totally worth the tiredness i鈥檓 going to feel later on today.
this book was just so fucking sweet. it had me giddy, and annoyed but in the best ways. i loved the characters, even though i wanted to reach into the book and just shake them, push them together and say 鈥渘ow kiss, idiots- you LOVE EACH OTHER.鈥�
it was a fun time, and it made me nostalgic for a city i鈥檝e never even been in.
anyways, brb gonna go watch moonstruck starring cher.
]]> 58429255 The Claire Donovan, editor-in-chief of the most successful romance imprint in the country, has requested to see the manuscript Savannah's been secretly writing while working as an editor herself鈥攅xcept at her publishing house, the philosophy is only highbrow works are worth printing and commercial fiction, particularly romance, should be reserved for the lowest level of Dante's inferno. But when Savannah drops her manuscript during a staff meeting and nearly exposes herself to the whole company鈥攊ncluding William Pennington, new publisher and son of the romance-despising CEO herself鈥攕he races to hide her manuscript in the secret turret room of the old Victorian office.

When she returns, she's dismayed to discover that someone has not only been in her hidden nook but has written notes in the margins鈥攓uite critical ones. But when Claire's own reaction turns out to be nearly identical to the scribbled remarks, and worse, Claire announces that Savannah has six weeks to resubmit before she retires, Savannah finds herself forced to seek the help of the shadowy editor after all.

As their notes back and forth start to fill up the pages, however, Savannah finds him not just becoming pivotal to her work but her life. There's no doubt about it. She's falling for her mystery editor. If she only knew who he was.]]> 309 Melissa Ferguson 0785231072 katelyn. 2 I love the idea of this book, but it鈥檚 definitely not a romance鈥nd I liked the main character, but it just didn鈥檛 do it for me. It was painfully slow, and described everything with so much detail that you鈥檇 forget what the author was originally talking about- I had to re-listen to several different passages.
]]> 3.59 2022
author: Melissa Ferguson
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2022
rating: 2
read at: 2022/03/16
date added: 2022/03/16
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I listened to the audiobook while I was working, and I鈥檓 so sorry to say that if I actually had to physically read it, I wouldn鈥檛 have finished it. I didn鈥檛 get interested in the story until 5 whole hours had passed.(over 2 days) I mainly listened just to fill the silence.
I love the idea of this book, but it鈥檚 definitely not a romance鈥nd I liked the main character, but it just didn鈥檛 do it for me. It was painfully slow, and described everything with so much detail that you鈥檇 forget what the author was originally talking about- I had to re-listen to several different passages.

]]> 57007401 Dating Dr. Dil features a love-phobic TV doctor who must convince a love-obsessed homebody they are destined to be together.听

Kareena Mann dreams of having a love story like her parents, but she prefers restoring her classic car to swiping right on dating apps. When her father announces 丑别鈥檚 selling her mother鈥檚 home, Kareena makes a deal with him: he鈥檒l gift her the house if she can get engaged in four months. Her search for her soulmate becomes impossible when her argument with Dr. Prem Verma, host of The Dr. Dil Show, goes viral. Now the only man in her life is the one she doesn鈥檛 want.

Dr. Prem Verma is dedicated to building a local community health center, but he needs to get donors with deep pockets. The Dr. Dil Show was doing just that, until his argument with Kareena went viral, and 丑别鈥檚 left short changed. That鈥檚 when Kareena鈥檚 meddling aunties presented him with a solution: convince Kareena 丑别鈥檚 her soulmate and they鈥檒l fund his clinic.听听

Even though they have conflicting views on love-matches and arranged-matches, the more time Prem spends with Kareena, the more he begins to believe s丑别鈥檚 the woman he wants to spend the rest of his life with. But for Prem and Kareena to find their happily ever after, they must admit that hate has turned into fate.听]]> 364 Nisha Sharma 0063001101 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.58 2022
author: Nisha Sharma
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 53439441
When aspiring actor Jasper Deares finds out the shy woman who orders coffee every day is actually Miz Poppy, he realizes he has a golden opportunity to get the media attention his acting career needs. All he has to do is help Hollyn come out of her shell鈥� and through their growing connection, finally find her voice.

A beautifully emotional new contemporary romance from New York Times and USA Today bestseller Roni Loren.]]> 384 Roni Loren 1728229618 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.92 2021
author: Roni Loren
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> 45553600 Distraction (n): an extreme agitation of the mind or emotions.

Ruthie Midona has worked the front desk at the Providence Luxury Retirement Villa for six years, dedicating her entire adult life to caring for the Villa鈥檚 residents, maintaining the property (with an assist from DIY YouTube tutorials), and guarding the endangered tortoises that live in the Villa鈥檚 gardens. Somewhere along the way, s丑别鈥檚 forgotten that s丑别鈥檚 young and beautiful, and that there鈥檚 a world outside of work鈥攗ntil she meets the son of the property developer who just acquired the retirement center.

Teddy Prescott has spent the last few years partying, sleeping in late, tattooing himself when bored, and generally not taking life too seriously鈥攕omething his father, who dreams of grooming Teddy into his successor, can鈥檛 understand. When Teddy needs a place to crash, his father seizes the chance to get him to grow up. He鈥檒l let Teddy stay in one of the on-site cottages at the retirement home, but only if he works to earn his keep. Teddy agrees鈥攈e can change a few lightbulbs and clip some hedges, no sweat. But Ruthie has plans for Teddy too.

Her two wealthiest and most eccentric residents have just placed an ad (yet another!) seeking a new personal assistant to torment. The women are ninety-year-old, four-foot-tall menaces, and not one of their assistants has lasted a full week. Offering up Teddy seems like a surefire way to get rid of the tall, handsome, unnerving man who won鈥檛 stop getting under her skin.

Ruthie doesn鈥檛 count on the fact that in Teddy Prescott, the Biddies may have finally met their match. He鈥檒l pick up Chanel gowns from the dry cleaner and cut Big Macs into bite-sized bits. He鈥檒l do repairs around the property, make the residents laugh, and charm the entire villa. He might even remind Ruthie what it鈥檚 like to be young and fun again. But when she finds out Teddy鈥檚 father鈥檚 only fixing up the retirement home to sell it, putting everything she cares about in jeopardy, s丑别鈥檚 left wondering if Teddy鈥檚 magic was all just a fa莽ade.

From the USA Today听 bestselling author of The Hating Game and 99 Percent Mine comes the clever, funny, and unforgettable story of a muscular, tattooed man hired as an assistant to two old women鈥攗nder the watchful eye of a beautiful retirement home manager.]]> 343 Sally Thorne 0063007134 katelyn. 3 3.49 2021
author: Sally Thorne
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.49
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2022/03/10
date added: 2022/03/10
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This book was good, it just wasn鈥檛 great? I really liked all of the characters, but felt annoyed at the dialogue- which is such a shame, because I absolutely adored The Hating Game.
]]> 59722215
PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh has always been obsessed with true crime. S丑别鈥檚 even analyzing the genre in her dissertation鈥攊f she can manage to finish writing it. It鈥檚 hard to find the time while she spends the summer in Florida, cleaning out her childhood home, dealing with her obnoxiously good-natured younger brother, and grappling with the complicated feelings of mourning a father she hadn鈥檛 had a relationship with for years.

It doesn鈥檛 help that s丑别鈥檚 low-key convinced that her new neighbor, Sam Dennings, is a serial killer (he may dress business casual by day, but at night 丑别鈥檚 clearly up to something). It鈥檚 not long before Phoebe realizes that Sam might be something much scarier鈥攁 genuinely nice guy who can pierce her armor to reach her vulnerable heart.]]> 336 Alicia Thompson 0593438663 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.27 2022
author: Alicia Thompson
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.27
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 55898107
Event planner Kate Sweet is famous for creating the perfect happily-ever-after moment for her clients鈥� dream weddings. So how is it that her best friend has roped her into planning a bestselling horror writer鈥檚 book launch extravaganza? But the second Kate meets鈥攐r rather, accidentally maims 鈥攖he drop-dead-hot Drake Matthews, her well-ordered life quickly transforms into an absolute nightmare.

Drake Matthews is tired of the spotlight and tired of his reputation as the Knight听of Nightmares. He's really a nice guy! But 丑别鈥檚 not prepared for Kate, a fearless agent of chaos in steel-tipped stilettos, or for that sweet sting of attraction he feels for her. S丑别鈥檚 inspiring him to take his writing in a whole new direction鈥攐ne that no one expects. Because now Kate and Drake are changing up the rules, and this plot twist might just surprise everyone . . . including themselves.

"Fans of听 The Hating Game听 by Sally Thorne,听 Red, White and Royal Blue听 by Casey McQuiston,听 Get a Life, Chloe Brown听 by Talia Hibbert, and听 Written in the Stars 听by Alexandria Bellefleur will adore听 How Sweet It Is !" --The Nerd Daily

As featured
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author: Dylan Newton
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2022/02/23
date added: 2022/03/04
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I鈥檝e been thinking about book every single day since I finished it. It鈥檚 so fun. I listened to the audiobook for about the first half, and I was actually giggling out loud. I haven鈥檛 seen many people talking about this one, and it鈥檚 genuinely just the cutest story ever. I loved Drake, 丑别鈥檚 *chefs kiss*
It鈥檚 one of those books you wish you could forget, just so you can experience it for the first time over and over.
]]> 57876868
What have you done today to deserve your eyes?]]> 120 Eric LaRocca 1951658132 katelyn. 0 to-read 2.93 2021
author: Eric LaRocca
name: katelyn.
average rating: 2.93
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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Bad luck has always followed Olivia Marshall鈥r maybe s丑别鈥檚 just the screw-up her family thinks she is. But when a 鈥淲hat are you wearing?鈥� text from a random wrong number turns into the hottest, most entertaining鈥攁lbeit anonymous鈥攔elationship of her life, she thinks things might be on the upswing鈥�.

Colin Beck has always considered Olivia his best friend鈥檚 annoying little sister, but when she moves in with them after one of her worst runs of luck, he realizes s丑别鈥檚 turned into an altogether different and sexier distraction. He鈥檚 sure he can keep his distance, until the moment he discovers s丑别鈥檚 the irresistible Miss Misdial 丑别鈥檚 been sort of sexting for weeks鈥攁nd now he has to decide whether to turn the heat up or ghost her before things get messy.]]> 350 Lynn Painter katelyn. 1 sorry :(]]> 3.67 2022
author: Lynn Painter
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2022
rating: 1
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okay, genuinely tried to like it- i really did. i wanted to like it so bad鈥� but the main character is an absolute disaster in a NOT charming way. s丑别鈥檚 immediately unlikable, and the story just fell totally flat for me. i didn鈥檛 really find it funny, it was more cringe-y, than cute. i couldn鈥檛 force myself to finish it.
sorry :(
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But as soon as she steps foot on the Amalfi Coast, Katy begins to feel her mother鈥檚 spirit. Buoyed by the stunning waters, beautiful cliffsides, delightful residents, and, of course, delectable food, Katy feels herself coming back to life.

And then Carol appears鈥攊n the flesh, healthy, sun-tanned, and thirty years old. Katy doesn鈥檛 understand what is happening, or how鈥攁ll she can focus on is that she has somehow, impossibly, gotten her mother back. Over the course of one Italian summer, Katy gets to know Carol, not as her mother, but as the young woman before her. She is not exactly who Katy imagined she might be, however, and soon Katy must reconcile the mother who knew everything with the young woman who does not yet have a clue.]]> 255 Rebecca Serle 1982166797 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.56 2022
author: Rebecca Serle
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 54860357 Jayci Lee, author of A Sweet Mess, returns with The Dating Dare鈥攈er next witty, chemistry-filled romantic comedy.

Tara Park doesn鈥檛 do serious relationships. Neither does she hop into bed with virtual strangers. Especially when that particular stranger is her best friend鈥檚 new brother-in-law. It isn鈥檛 an easy decision, though. Seth Kim is temptation personified. His unreasonably handsome looks and charming personality makes him easy on the eyes and good for her ego.

When a friendly game of Truth or Dare leads to an uncomplicated four-date arrangement with Seth, Tara can鈥檛 say she minds. But their dates, while sweet and sexy, have a tendency to hit roadblocks. Thankfully, their non-dates and chance meetings get frequent and heated.

Seth is leaving for a new job in Paris in a month and a no-strings attached fling seemed like a nice little distraction for both鈥� But soon Seth realizes that Tara Park doesn鈥檛 come in a 鈥渘ice & little鈥� package--s丑别鈥檚 funny and bold, sweet and sexy, and everything he ever wanted and never expected to find. Neither of them are ready for something serious and both have past relationship baggage they鈥檝e been ignoring, but with a shot at forever on the line will they follow their hearts and take a chance on happily-ever-after?]]> 307 Jayci Lee 1250621127 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.32 2021
author: Jayci Lee
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.32
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> 50056075 A woman struggling with burnout learns to embrace the unexpected鈥攁nd the man she enlists to help her鈥攊n this new New York Times bestselling romance by Helen Hoang.

When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success with a viral YouTube video, she finds herself incapacitated and burned out from her attempts to replicate that moment. And when her longtime boyfriend announces he wants an open relationship before making a final commitment, a hurt and angry Anna decides that if he wants an open relationship, then she does, too. Translation: S丑别鈥檚 going to embark on a string of one-night stands. The more unacceptable the men, the better.

That鈥檚 where tattooed, motorcycle-riding Quan Diep comes in. Their first attempt at a one-night stand fails, as does their second, and their third, because being with Quan is more than sex鈥攈e accepts Anna on an unconditional level that she herself has just started to understand. However, when tragedy strikes Anna鈥檚 family she takes on a role that she is ill-suited for, until the burden of expectations threatens to destroy her. Anna and Quan have to fight for their chance at love, but to do that, they also have to fight for themselves.]]> 339 Helen Hoang 0451490843 katelyn. 0 to-read 3.91 2021
author: Helen Hoang
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> 36199084 A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick.

Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases鈥攁 job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old.

It doesn't help that Stella has Asperger's and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice鈥攚ith a professional. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can't afford to turn down Stella's offer, and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan鈥攆rom foreplay to more-than-missionary position...

Before long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but to crave all the other things he's making her feel. Soon, their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic...]]> 323 Helen Hoang 0451490819 katelyn. 4 3.88 2018
author: Helen Hoang
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2022/02/08
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this book was super sweet. just a cute story that makes you love LOVE. i only wish that her autism was spoken about more between the love interests??? it almost feels like it was avoided where it should鈥檝e been most talked about? maybe it鈥檚 just me. i still really loved it, and it was a super quick read.
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Piper hasn鈥檛 even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won鈥檛 last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So what if Piper can鈥檛 do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. How bad could it really be? S丑别鈥檚 determined to show her stepfather鈥攁nd the hot, grumpy local鈥攖hat s丑别鈥檚 more than a pretty face.

Except it鈥檚 a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there鈥檚 an undeniable attraction simmering between them. Piper doesn鈥檛 want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. Yet as she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in Westport, Piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. LA is calling her name, but Brendan鈥攁nd this town full of memories鈥攎ay have already caught her heart.听

Tessa Bailey is back with a Schitt鈥檚 Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood 鈥淚t Girl鈥� who is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn鈥檛 belong.听]]> 397 Tessa Bailey 0063045656 katelyn. 3 3.91 2021
author: Tessa Bailey
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2022/01/30
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Diana Casillas can admit it: she doesn't know what the hell she's doing half the time. How she's made it through the last two years of her life without killing anyone is nothing short of a miracle. Being a grown-up wasn鈥檛 supposed to be so hard.

With a new house, two little boys she inherited the most painful possible way, a giant dog, a job she usually loves, more than enough family, and friends, she has almost everything she could ever ask for.

Except for a boyfriend.

Or a husband.

But who needs either one of those?]]> 418 Mariana Zapata katelyn. 4 4.29 2016
author: Mariana Zapata
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2022/01/19
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]]> 57605091 572 Mariana Zapata katelyn. 0 to-read 4.24 2021
author: Mariana Zapata
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2021
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]]> 29367958
But when Aiden Graves shows up at her door wanting her to come back, she's beyond shocked.

For two years, the man known as The Wall of Winnipeg couldn't find it in him to tell her good morning or congratulate her on her birthday. Now? He's asking for the unthinkable.

What do you say to the man who is used to getting everything he wants?]]> 475 Mariana Zapata katelyn. 5 4.18 2016
author: Mariana Zapata
name: katelyn.
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2022/01/16
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On a hot July night on Cape Cod when Adrienne was fourteen, her mother, Malabar, woke her at midnight with five simple words that would set the course of both of their lives for years to come: Ben Souther just kissed me.听
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Adrienne instantly became her mother鈥檚 confidante and helpmate, blossoming in the sudden light of her attention, and from then on, Malabar came to rely on her daughter to help orchestrate what would become an epic affair with her husband鈥檚 closest friend. The affair would have calamitous consequences for everyone involved, impacting Adrienne鈥檚 life in profound ways, driving her into a precarious marriage of her own, and then into a deep depression. Only years later will she find the strength to embrace her life鈥攁nd her mother鈥攐n her own terms. 听

Wild Game听is a brilliant, timeless memoir about how the people close to us can break our hearts simply because they have access to them, and听the lies we tell in order to justify the choices we make.听It鈥檚 a remarkable story of resilience, a reminder that we need not be the parents our parents were to us.]]> 256 Adrienne Brodeur 1328519031 katelyn. 0 3.93 2019
author: Adrienne Brodeur
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2019
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]]> 15745753 "So did Jerry Lee Lewis," Eleanor answers.
"I'm not kidding," he says.
"You should be," she says, "we're 16."
"What about Romeo and Juliet?"
"Shallow, confused, then dead."
"I love you," Park says.
"Wherefore art thou," Eleanor answers.
"I'm not kidding," he says.
"You should be."

Set over one school year in 1986, Eleanor & Park is the story of two star-crossed misfits鈥攕mart enough to know first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.]]> 328 Rainbow Rowell 1250012570 katelyn. 3 3.92 2012
author: Rainbow Rowell
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2012
rating: 3
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]]> 42155 Something Borrowed comes story of betrayal, redemption, and forgiveness
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Darcy Rhone has always been able to rely on a few things: Her beauty and charm.听Her fiance, Dex. Her lifelong best friend, Rachel.听She never needed anything else.听Or so she thinks until Dex calls off their dream wedding and she uncovers the ultimate betrayal. Blaming everyone but herself, Darcy flees to London and attempts to re-create her glamorous life on a new continent. But to her dismay, she discovers that her tried-and-true tricks no longer apply鈥攁nd that her luck has finally expired. It is only then that she can begin her journey toward redemption, forgiveness, and true love.]]> 338 Emily Giffin 0312323867 katelyn. 4 3.94 2005
author: Emily Giffin
name: katelyn.
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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