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Rites of the Starling
✮✮✮, Fantasy Repy White 4/26/26 ✮✮✮, Fantasy Repy White 4/26/26

Rites of the Starling

WHEW, this book was a whirlwind…

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Coach
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25

Coach

Tropes: second chance, single dad, sports romance

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Indigo Ridge
BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/10/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/10/25

Indigo Ridge

Tropes: cowboy, small town, slow burn

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The Bluff
BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/2/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/2/25

The Bluff

Tropes: small town, fake dating, forced proximity

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The Naughty, The Nice and The Nanny
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/1/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/1/25

The Naughty, The Nice and The Nanny

Tropes: holiday, enemies to lovers, fake relationship

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Shield of Sparrows
✮✮✮✮, Fantasy Repy White 5/14/25 ✮✮✮✮, Fantasy Repy White 5/14/25

Shield of Sparrows

I had so much fun reading this book…

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(5/5, romance)
There’s yearning, and then there’s YEARNING written by Carley Fortune!

The setting is moody, the love is aching, the drama is high, the longing is limitless. This book is so excellent. Romance done really, really
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(4/5, romance) 
I picked this book up while in the hospital after having a baby! I didn’t want anything too heavy, nor did I want a 1000 page slow-burn romance, and I wanted to laugh! This fit the bill perfectly, but I do have to give t
⭐️⭐️⭐️💫(3.5/5, romance)
This book was funny and cute and exactly what the doctor ordered! A non-cheesy rom-com packed with lots of feelings set in the book world!

We meet Ciara Sheridan when she’s stuck with a serious case of writer’s b
⭐️⭐️⭐️💫(3.5/5, romantasy) 
Shield of Sparrows Book #2 (trilogy)
WHEW, this book was a whirlwind! Just as many BR&B readers had cautioned, this is a slow burn romantasy, slow burn not in the romantic sense but in the world-building sense. You hav
⭐️⭐️💫(2.5/5, romance)
I so badly wanted to love this, but it was just not for me!

I can totally do a more heavy and emotional romance (see my review for The Best Worst Thing!).

I am fine with a story that’s less of a big romance and more of

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