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Review: #fashionvictim by Amina Akhtar

Fashion editor Anya St. Clair is on the verge of greatness. Her wardrobe is to die for. Her social media is killer. And her career path is littered with the bodies of anyone who got in her way. She’s worked hard to get where she is, but she doesn’t have everything. Not like Sarah Taft. Anya’s obsession sits one desk away. Beautiful, stylish, and rich, she was born to be a fashion world…
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Review: The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

Stella loved math, algorithms, and economics.  What she doesn't love french kissing, loud noises and sex in general.  Her parents are pressuring her to get a boyfriend and give them grandbabies.  Stella thinks that she needs to get better at sex, and so she hires an escort to teach her.  When Michael Phan shows Stella that not all kisses feel like hark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. This book has a lot…
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The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

Synopsis Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases—a 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…
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Review: Sadie by Courtney Summers

When her sister is found dead and no one is held responsible, Sadie goes out on her own to find her sister's killer.  Upon hearing Sadie's story, West McCray starts a podcast that tracks Sadie's journey, hoping to find her. This is not an easy book to read, but it is worth it. This is probably the first book I have read that I think would have been better as an audiobook. I…
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Review: Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

After serving a year of her hard labor sentence,  Celaena Sardothien id offered the chance at freedom, as long as she agrees to be the Champion of the Crown Prince in a competition in a competition to find a new royal assassin. She must beat out thieves, assassins, and warriors from across the empire.  With the help of Captain Westfall, she trains to beat out her competition. When one of the contestants turns…
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Review: Beartown by Fredrik Backman

In a tiny town where hockey is the only thing that matters.  The junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national finals, and for the first time in years, they could actually win.   But a violent act ripples through the town making the residents decide if hockey really is the most important thing of all. The book was so different from A Man Called Ove, which, I loved,  but I am…
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Review: The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

Lucy and Joshua hate each other!  Which makes the fact that they works across from each other everyday even more difficult.  But when Lucy realizes Josh isn't the cold person she thought he was, she realizes maybe there is a thin line between love and hate. I am obsessed with this book!  To say I loved it would be a gross understatement.  I want to read it, again and again, like right now!…
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
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The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

Synopsis Nemesis (n.) 1) An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome.2) A person’s undoing3) Joshua Templeman Lucy Hutton has always been certain that the nice girl can get the corner office. She’s charming and accommodating and prides herself on being loved by everyone at Bexley & Gamin. Everyone except for coldly efficient, impeccably attired, physically intimidating Joshua Templeman. And the feeling is mutual. Trapped in a shared office together…
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Review: Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid

When Hannah Miller moves back to Southern California she has no idea what to do with her life.  She and her best friend Gabby go out to a bar one night to meet some old friends.  At the end of the night as Hannah is ready to leave, Ethan, Hannah's ex, asks her to stay.  It turns out that that one decision affects her life in ways she never imagined.  We learn in…
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Review: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Creekwood #1)

Simon is sixteen years old and gay.  He knows it, but no one else does.  That is until Martin sees the email has been writing to a boy Simon knows as Blue.  Martin asks Simon to help be his wingman so that he can get to know Simon's friend Abby a little better, and Simon thinks that if he doesn't play along with Martin, then his secret will be out. So I'd seen…