theboricuabookworm's reviews
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This was such a ride I loved it so much 

I don’t know if I could love my women any more or I might burst 

This was a gut wrenching story about one woman's experience as a slave during the mid-1800s in Puerto Rico, an often forgetting part of the history of slavery.  Resilience and magic because of the women she has around her shine through some of the worst atrocities man have ever committed.  Our ancestors provide strength and guidance like no other and Pola survived because of that. It is an incredibly tough book to read as Llanos-Figueroa did not write over what Pola and some of the other women went through with flowery, metaphorical language. There is not necessarily a happy ending but rather a hopeful one that made the realities of the story all the more stark. 

A raw and necessary story of an often forgotten part of history. 

I loved them so much. A few out of date mentions that I need contemporary romance authors to leave alone but otherwise such a solid addition to Chloe's ever growing repertoire. A thoughtful and sweet romance that had me giggling and kicking my feet. If there's one thing - okay two - it is write disabled main characters getting their happy endings without needing to be "healed" and dialogue and interactions that aren't always banter but are always both somehow so real and so there's no way a white man said there (non-derogatory). I will miss the WIlmots but I think Juliet and Will were the perfect couple to end this trilogy. 

Thank you Berkley and NetGalley for my advanced e-copy!

I was enjoying this for a while but then by ~65% it just started to drag and get repetitive. I found myself skipping over lines and still didn't miss any of the points. Good if you want to get away from bland, white hockey romances, bleh if you wanted something *more*

A delightful sapphic romp in a small town! Jessica and Vinny had irresitable chemistry from the very beginning it jumped off the page everytime they were together. A situationship turned oh-sh*tuationship is so fun and this one was scorching. I do wish we had a bit more relationship development prior to their third act conflict because once Jessica had her "oh sh*t" moment and recalled all these times when she was treating Vinny like they were in a relationship, I would've loved to see some of that bleed through when they were still sneaking around, etc. However I will never complain about avoiding conversations when you can be kissing.

Karmen Lee needs to be a romance staple on peoples shelves!!

Thank you Harlequin for my advanced copy!

Ugh I love my leonas so much and on audio? adriana cannot write a bad book and it works across all formats