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Good at Being Alive
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 4/19/26 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 4/19/26

Good at Being Alive

Tropes: fake marriage, armchair travel, hot guy named Theo

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My Favorite Lost Cause
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25

My Favorite Lost Cause

Tropes: forbidden love, lots of pining, slow burn, forced proximity

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My Favorite Bad Decision
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25

My Favorite Bad Decision

Tropes: enemies to lovers, slow burn, forced proximity romance

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The Summer I First Saw You
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

The Summer I First Saw You

Tropes: age gap, forced proximity(ish), leading woman being so good looking it actually makes life hard

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The Summer I Destroyed You
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

The Summer I Destroyed You

Tropes: grumpy x sunshine, forced proximity, workplace

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The Summer I Saved You
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/11/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/11/25

The Summer I Saved You

Tropes: second chance, slow burn, forced proximity

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The Summer We Fell
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/10/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/10/25

The Summer We Fell

Tropes: second chance + slow Burn

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The Devil Gets His Due
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/8/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/8/25

The Devil Gets His Due

Tropes: accidental marriage, pregnancy, enemies to lovers, forced proximity

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Waking Olivia
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/8/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/8/25

Waking Olivia

Tropes: slow burn + sports romance

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The Devil You Know
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/8/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/8/25

The Devil You Know

Tropes: enemies to lovers, forced proximity, workplace romance

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The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/8/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/8/25

The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea

Tropes: celebrity/normal person, forced proximity, slow burn

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A Deal With The Devil
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/8/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/8/25

A Deal With The Devil

Tropes: workplace, enemies to lovers, slow burn, grumpy x sunshine

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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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