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it's been a while since i talked shadowhunters . but that doesn't mean i'm still not slightly obsessed with this ridiculous show. i mean, i'm just going to show you all the things, because you guys know i know this is ridiculous and yes oh so entertaining. the second half of season 2 picks up right where we left off, with simon and clary still together. (barf) alec and magnus in a really good place. izzy still a mess from her yin fen addiction. and jace still pining for clary, even though at least now he knows he's not her brother. he doesn't tell her at first, but valentine always likes to mess with his "children" not that the reveal ends the grossness of simon and clary. that doesn't happen until the epic seelie court moment when it becomes clear to everyone that jace is the person who is truly in clary's heart. she loves simon, but not the way he loves her. and honestly some of the best scenes in the back half of the season wer...

every time former navy seal turned tequila bar owner cade hansen crosses paths with waitress reece kirkwell he can't stop the sparks that fly, usually as they have words. he has no idea what it is about her that raises his hackles. or well, he knows that there is more to her than what appearances would have you believe. and her refusal to share anything about her past disturbs him. also the fear that she only plans to stick around temporarily bothers him. but when they suddenly find themselves spending more time together, it's hard for reece to maintain the walls she's built around her heart. and cade has a way of sharing things about his past with her that help her heal her own past traumas. i really enjoyed cade and reece together. i liked the push-pull of their relationship and how well the complemented each other. long shot is the last book in the last shot series, and i might just have to go back and read the previous two given how ...

in the latest breakaway novel, playmaker  we learn more about lacey's past with maddox ledger. a past we only just got a taste of in blocked . i'll be honest, maddox was not my favorite character and i wasn't sure how it would be possible to redeem his incurable jerkiness from the earlier books. but, actually having his perspective helps. because honestly, dude was dealt a terrible hand. it still doesn't actually make sense why lacey ran away from him in vegas. even having some of the background on lacey from the previous novel, it still doesn't make sense that she is so afraid of maddox hurting her. especially given all the other details of their vegas weekend. so anyway, poor maddox (you see how completely i switched my loyalties there?) has to do sooooo much wooing. and it's a little exhausting. because by the time everything comes out into the open, the bizarre thing is that there is no big blow up. nothing terrible happens. and that's fine. i ac...

Let us know what you think of the cover for Alpha (The Infinity Division, #3) by Jus Accardo, which releases July 3, 2018! This cover reveal is brought to you by Entangled Teen.

when cameron mackinnon comes back into town in   one and only , responsible plain-jane jane denning is on babysitting duty for her bridezilla friend's fiancé's troublemaking little brother. the problem is that cameron's reputation is kind of unearned. all the rumors and stories about him are just rumors and stories. and jane quickly finds that while cameron keeps encouraging her to take risks, spending time with him is fun and exhilarating and way better than any other bridesmaid's duties her friend can come up with. the bond that grows between cameron and jane is sweet, and it's a true case of first impressions not being what they seem. i liked both characters, though a part of me wishes that cameron's first impression of jane hadn't been so dismissively detailed. basically describes her as a chubby woman with hair and eyes the color of wet mud. which isn't so flattering. and less so when you realize as a reader that you're the same clothing siz...

deep in the willamette valley, near the base of mount hood, is oregon's wine country. the sweet spot   is a small, family-owned, biodynamically run winery that also boasts a thriving bed & breakfast-style business. hank friesatt's family has lived here for one hundred and fifty years, but running a winery was never hank's dream. when his parents were killed in a plan crash when he was about to graduate college and go on to flight school, he had to put his piloting dreams aside to ensure the family business continued to run. when philadelphia-based music teacher, jaime martel shows up, the operations at the sweet spot make her feel at home. she grew up on a working farm in lancaster county and there is so much happening at the sweet spot that is familiar but different. soon she is involved with the winery as a summer staff member instead of hotel guest. and as she and hank work together they forge a deepening bond. this bond is threatened by hank's...

it's a total coincidence that the previous review i wrote also had two characters who've known each other since their school days and have loved each other since then, and that the male lead's name also happens to be t.j. hey, at least the female lead has a different name, but deb has similar money and family problems.  anyway, so in want you , t.j. and deb finally stop protecting their hearts and glaring and realize that all that heat was crazy sexual attraction. and it's pretty great once they stop circling each other and just go for it. interspersed with t.j. and deb's deepening relationship is t.j.'s younger brother and deb's on-and-off-again ex, win's story. my guess is that the next book will be about win and darcy, and if you are wondering why i'm focusing on that instead of t.j. and deb, it's that we spend a lot of time hanging out with other characters.  colt garner might have been charming as the lead in his book, but he's ...

jen mackenzie has always had it bad for t.j. laughlin. ever since high school. even when he was a total jerk. she loves him, but still goes out of her way to bait and annoy him. it's her way of protecting herself from hurt. the thing is, she has it all wrong. t.j. has always loved her too. in maybe this time , t.j. and jen finally get their crossed wires uncrossed. and find that all that antagonism was a cover for true blue friendship and love. and because they've known each other for so long, their relationship is built up quick. maybe a bit more quickly than is comfortable, because for all that they are more or less on the same page, they still have no idea how to communicate with each other when it matters. in some ways, their biggest problem has always been assuming that the other person is thinking the worst possible thing of them. so when they hit a stumbling block, they fall a bit harder because they keep failing to tell each other openly how they really feel. lea...

so i'm always a little skeeved out by regency romance novels that start out with the lead hero having a mistress or visiting prostitutes. it's kind of gross. the marquis and i starts out like this too, except the heroine is so opposed to men having mistresses that she basically believes the hero to be an abuser of women and a seriously vile human being. even though constatine, lord kenilworth is actually the guy who came to her help when she was abducted by some thugs out to sell her into sexual slavery. so then, even though i think he's kind of gross, i'm also don't believe he's an abuser of women because he has a mistress. yes there are some power dynamics in play that are horrifically anti-feminist, but i also think that the mistress has some agency. so it's weird. this is a weird issue to base the foundation of a romance novel on. listen on the one hand, con is actually pretty open-minded. and when he's challenged by lady charlotte to ask his m...

lady gone wicked  picks up the story of adelaide and nicholas, the two missing twins from twice as wicked . because they were kind of antagonists in the first novel, it's hard to switch gears and see them as protagonists in this second one. especially given the resentment between nate and nick. if this had been less fraught, perhaps switching gears and perspectives would have been more easily accomplished. nick has every right to hold his grudges. and he's done a lot of terrible things. none, so terrible as abandoning adelaide. especially not realizing how she needed him. and now he's ready to step up and do the right thing. but she doesn't want that from him. or she does, but only as a last resort.  she doesn't want to entrap him. she doesn't want to be with someone who doesn't love her. except he does. this is what she fails to see, he loves her so deeply and so much that every time she says he doesn't need to marry her she cuts away another ...