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Trope Tuesday: Enemies to Lovers vs. Friends to Lovers

I am taking a break from my usual top ten Tuesday to bring you Trope Tuesday.  Every Tuesday this month, in honor of my #RomanceReadsApril Instagram challenge.   I will discuss the merits of two tropes as well as give you some reading recommendations for each of trope.  Today's Trope Tuesday is Enemies to Lovers v. Friends to Lovers.   Enemies to Lovers:  Definition:A trope in fiction where characters start off their relationship as enemies…
April 7, 2020
You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle
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You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle

Synopsis Naomi Westfield has the perfect fiancé: Nicholas Rose holds doors open for her, remembers her restaurant orders, and comes from the kind of upstanding society family any bride would love to be a part of. They never fight. They're preparing for their lavish wedding that's three months away. And she is miserably and utterly sick of him.Naomi wants out, but there's a catch: whoever ends the engagement will have to foot the…
The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa
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The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa

Synopsis A wedding planner left at the altar. Yeah, the irony isn’t lost on Carolina Santos, either. But despite that embarrassing blip from her past, Lina’s managed to make other people’s dreams come true as a top-tier wedding coordinator in DC. After impressing an influential guest, she’s offered an opportunity that could change her life. There’s just one hitch… she has to collaborate with the best (make that worst) man from her own…
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Wallbanger by Alice Clayton

Synopsis The first night after Caroline moves into her fantastic new San Francisco apartment, she realizes she's gaining an intimate knowledge of her new neighbor's nocturnal adventures. Thanks to paper-thin walls and the guy's athletic prowess, she can hear not just his bed banging against the wall but the ecstatic response of what seems (as loud night after loud night goes by) like an endless parade of women. And since Caroline is currently…
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Captain by Lauren Rowe

Synopsis It wasn’t the way this kind of story was supposed to go . . .Insta-love isn’t supposed to turn into insta-hate.But that’s exactly what happened when the hot-as-hell dreamboat I met in a bar turned out to be a lying, cheating scumbag-player-douche looking for nothing but a little side action. Jerk.And he has the nerve to call me a liar and a “sociopath”? Assh*le.And now, three months later, through a mind-blowing series…
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Rom-Com Book Review: Faker by Sarah Smith

Synopsis Emmie Echavarre is a professional faker. She has to be to survive as one of the few female employees at Nuts & Bolts, a power tool company staffed predominantly by gruff, burly men. From nine to five, Monday through Friday, she's tough as nails--the complete opposite of her easy-going real self. One thing she doesn't have to fake? Her disdain for coworker Tate Rasmussen. Tate has been hostile to her since the…
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Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore

  Synopsis England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women's suffrage movement. Her charge: recruit men of influence to champion their cause. Her target: Sebastian Devereux, the cold and calculating Duke of Montgomery who steers Britain's politics at the Queen's…
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Well Met by Jen DeLuca

Synopsis All's faire in love and war for two sworn enemies who indulge in a harmless flirtation in a laugh-out-loud rom-com from debut author, Jen DeLuca. Emily knew there would be strings attached when she relocated to the small town of Willow Creek, Maryland, for the summer to help her sister recover from an accident, but who could anticipate getting roped into volunteering for the local Renaissance Faire alongside her teenaged niece? Or that the…
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Dirty Sexy Player by Laurelin Paige

Synopsis I wasn't supposed to want her.It was a stupid game we were playing. A way for her to get her inheritance and me to get out from under Donovan's thumb.I didn't even like her.I wasn't supposed to daydream about getting her off. Or fantasize about the way she'd look riding me. Or wonder if she kissed as cruelly as she fought.I wasn't supposed to fall for her.I was only supposed to marry…
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The Kiss Thief by L.J. Shen

Synopsis They say your first kiss should be earned.Mine was stolen by a devil in a masquerade mask under the black Chicago sky.They say the vows you take on your wedding day are sacred.Mine were broken before we left church.They say your heart only beats for one man.Mine split and bled for two rivals who fought for it until the bitter end.I was promised to Angelo Bandini, the heir to one of the…