Category: Rankings
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After a thousand years, they live again! Okay, it’s only been three, but with all the delays because of Diamond Distributers bankruptcy it feels like forever. I had HiM vol 1 in my hand for two years, and refused to read it until I could get my hands on the clan-building that kept getting delayed.…
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Mysteries and Mallards: The second volume of Ducktales provides a nice combination of flashback adventures with Scrooge, Della and Donald, and present-day adventures with Scrooge and the kids exploring the garage of artifacts. 2. Faires and Scares: Stand-alone stories that highlight Launchpad’s underwater adventures, the medieval Beagle Boys and a team-up between Webby and Huey.…
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Vanessa Riley’s Betting Against the Duke trilogy is more than your typical regency romance. Yes, there’s bastard fathers, compromised situations leading to marriage and marriage of conveniences, but Riley’s prose makes it feel like this is more a historical fiction novel than romance. The ensemble characters and their complicated family dynamics are given equal page…
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As I’ve previously stated Courtney Milan’s historical romance novels are a breath of fresh air. The characters act like adults who communicate. The third act breakup is usually not because of miscommunication but more compelling external/internal factors. Time passes. People evolve. It touches on serious issues but remain fun and romantic. Always look forward to…
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For those who want writers to be romanced as well as duchesses and wallflowers, this one’s for you. Temptations of a Wallflower: This was my top book because I related to Lady Sarah so much as a writer. Shy, dreamy, always concocting exciting scenarios in my head, but unable to put them into action. Also…
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Eva Leigh can always be counted on to showcase unique heroines, and in The London Underground trilogy, these women have some brooding secrets. 1. Couting on a Countess: Surprise, surprise, Leigh delivers on morally ambiguous heroines with Tamsyn, a smuggler on the Cornish coast who needs a rich, distant husband in order to keep feeding…
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It’s been awhile since I’ve read a good ol’ historical romance so why not start with one of the greatest romance writers in the good ol’ west. Tempest: From Reagan accidentally shooting her intended to Ben learning to stand up for the women in his life against his father, and dealing with his own discomfort…
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Princess for Hire is a delightful fantasy trilogy. For fans who can’t get enough of the idea of tiaras and enjoy socially-conscious protagonists like Mia from The Princess Diaries, try this. Desi is thrilled to find out that not only she has MP-magical potential, but it makes her eligable to work at the Facade Agency,…
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An expy of Britney Spears, Heather Wells is a teen pop has-been. Her long-time boyfriend infamously cheated on her with the newest sensation, Tania Trace, her label dumped her for wanting to write her own songs, her father’s in jail for tax fraud and her mother ran off with her money and her manager. Now…
