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It's a Dickens of a Cookie!: A Companion Cookie Recipe Book to the Christmas Comes to Dickens Romance Anthology by Nancy Fraser, Maddie James, Kathryn Hills, Caroline Clemmons, Bonnie Edwards, Peggy Jaeger, Lucinda Race, Jan Scarbrough, Kathleen Lawless, Liz Flaherty

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fast-paced

5.0

 I was looking for cookie recipes and accidentally ended up reading the entire book, which contains recipes inspired by or taken from Christmas-themed books. 
I made the Cowboy cookies and they came out delicious. 
Now I want to bake more, and try reading one of the books mentioned in the recipes. 
Mafia boss's surprise baby: an age gap arranged marriage romance by Kira Cole

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dark medium-paced

2.0

 
In the synopsis this book seemed exciting, but that's not what I read, the idea is good, marrying my enemy's daughter to get revenge, that promised delicious ways to tell the romance, but I only found hormonal and sometimes irrational teenagers, the characters are already adults. 
This book is like reading one of those Wattpad books that you know have potential and requires a good editor to polish the story. You enjoy it, but you know it needs revisions.
 
Forbidden by Liliana Rhodes

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emotional slow-paced

3.0

 Last book of 2023, and it doesn't meet the expectations you have with the first chapters. There are moments when you get the impression that the author ran out of space to develop the plot and you feel like things are being thrown in your face and they don't let you process the previous situations. 
Ruthless Salvation by Jill Ramsower

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dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

5.0

The Hooker by Serena Grey

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emotional fast-paced

5.0

All I Wanted Was A Glass Of Vino But An Alien Duke Kidnapped Me Instead by Petra Palerno

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emotional fast-paced

3.0

 I like the other MCs more than this one, the others were more honest, however this one is not, for me, keeping her locked up was what killed the romance of the book.
I like the tenacity of the heroines in this series, they are fun.
Waiting to see what surprises the author will bring us in future books in this series. 
All I Wanted Was Sushi But I Got Abducted By Aliens Instead by Petra Palerno

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dark emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

 Cute, funny and spicy book, and if you don't like it but everything happens a little too fast that sometimes you don't have time to process what is happening, but despite that, I really enjoyed this reading and I will definitely read the rest from the series 
Corrupted Union by Jill Ramsower

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dark emotional tense fast-paced

4.5