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Yup, still holds up

April 14, 2018 by Malin Leave a Comment

This is a re-read, and my original review for this book can be found here. As with the other Milans I’ve been revisiting, I wanted to listen to this in audio, but discovered, to my dismay that it wasn’t narrated by Polly Lee, who did the first two books in The Turner series, but Nicole Quinn, whose voice just did NOT work for me. I tried to warm to her throughout the first chapter, but gave up and returned the audio. Unraveled is my favourite book in this trilogy […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: #CBR10, Courtney Milan, historical romance, Malin, re-read, the Turners, unraveled, Victorian

Utterly forgettable. Read Courtney Milan’s Unraveled instead

December 26, 2016 by Malin Leave a Comment

Sophie Darling (sadly nowhere near as awesome as my favourite romance heroine with Darling as a surname) is on her way to a job interview in London and unexpectedly and happily finds herself upgraded to first class. Her joy is somewhat lessened when very handsome, but supremely grouchy Gabriel “Scottie” Scott is seated next to her, outraged that one of the two seats he’s purchased has been allotted to someone. Nonetheless, cheerful and mischievous Sophie decides to try to crack handsome guy’s crabby demeanour (at […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: CBR8, Contemporary Romance, Courtney Milan, emmalita, Kristen Callihan, Malin, Managed, New Adult, rock stars, unraveled, VIP

“Although at the moment, I may be coming a bit unraveled.”

February 26, 2014 by narfna 11 Comments

Okay, guys, so this is a big step for me. I have never reviewed a straight up “bodice-ripper” romance novel* on CBR before, and I’ve only done a couple small reviews of them over on Goodreads. In fact, I usually don’t even mark them as ‘read’ over there because it has been a life-long habit for me to conceal my romance-reading from everyone. But this lovely review from Mrs. Julien finally gave me the excuse I needed. *Better known as historical romance. A large part of […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Courtney Milan, historical romance, narfna, romance, turner series, unraveled

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