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currently reading 💕

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We're reading romance books all summer 📚💜

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in the past week i've dnf'd two romances and started a third one right now, i hope this one sticks 🤞

currently reading: make a scene by mimi grace

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As he entered her home, a clean laundry smell accompanied him.

-Mimi Grace, Make a Scene

Part of the he smelled like series

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Romance Roundup: June Edition

Romance Roundup: June Edition

Welcome to “Romance Roundup” where I share mini-reviews of 3-4 romance novels that I’ve read recently. This month’s edition includes two unlikely dance partners that team up for a project, a fake dating scheme, and a story full of heartbreak and healing. Then There Was You by Mona Shroff (2021) As a helicopter medic, Daniel Bliant saves other people’s lives. He’s cool under pressure, a calm…

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Hmm so Along For the Ride? Let’s review:

I was fully expecting a road trip story from start to finish, but what I got was so. Much. MORE.

I wasn’t sure what to make of Miss. Jolene Baxter in the beginning, what between her abrasive (and yet not off-putting to me) personality and the second-hand embarrassment she just kept throwing my way, but somewhere before the halfway point I grew to really love her. I’ve only read this and Make a Scene by the author, but I love the way Mimi Grace writes her Black female protags and I just want to read anything and everything she puts her hands on! 

Jolene is a little immature, has an attitude, but says what she means and is colorful and vibrant in a way that reminds me of many loved friends and previous classmates. With Jason, our resident love interest and the yin to her yang, their previous and only interaction at Jolene’s sister’s wedding showcased a not so faltering side of her, and Jolene thankfully isn’t the same person she was at 23. Mostly. Still, it doesn’t stop her and Jason from bickering and hurling insults at each other when they get together to help her sister and brother-in-law move. 

What ensues is plenty of hilarity between a broke down moving fan, stolen but recovered furniture, and the simmering of the growing chemistry and attraction between Jason and Jolene reaching a boiling point. “Oh nooooo, there was only one bed!” 

A run down of of things I enjoyed about this book and want to highlight:

Non-white interracial relationship 

Friends-with-benefits done really well

The friggin twists my heart did every time a bomb was dropped on Jolene and she miraculous bounced back no matter how obliterated she was during and afterwards (getting fired ranks VERY high on the list, and wow what a reminded of how vindictive asshole men can be when they don’t get their way and have an sliver of power....)

Jason, with his love for his mom and aunt, and his lists and need to be in control despite knowing life doesn’t work like that, and the. Way. He. Fell. For. Jolene. Oh my God. I love those moments when the guy is spending time with a girl and you can literally pinpoint the moment when he realizes he’s in love.   

Jolene and how even with her flaws and her past mistakes, she still pushes forward, and how confident and how much of a powerhouse she is, and her big dreams even if she’s a bit afraid. I really related her downplaying goals and aspirations/ talking to others about them because of how previous things have fallen through. Like I felt it viscerally. 

Considering I read this book in a sitting, the way the story flowed and the plot naturally bloomed from two people who couldn’t stand each other for good reasons, to taking a chance on each other and getting something beautiful in the end (once of course they got past the different roadblocks)

Speaking of roadblocks, I liked how the conflict and issues that kept our couple apart felt organic and not forced. There wasn’t even a moment were I was like “can they PLEASE get together already??” because I was too busy being...wait for it...along for the ride. 

LOL okay I’m done I swear!