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Title: The Trouble with Gravity A Standalone Enemies to Lovers Romance Series: Gravity #3 Author: K.K. Allen Genre: Contemporary Romance Release Date: January 2, 2020 Blurb From USA Today bestselling and award-winning author K.K. Allen comes a steamy enemies-to-lovers standalone romance. Kai’s life is a series of choreographed steps, each one shielding her from the tragic memories of her past. Audition, dance, paycheck, repeat. It’s a broken record, but it’s what keeps her world spinning. When a tall, mysterious stranger zooms into her life wielding his Aussie accent like it’s a weapon and effectively shattering her tightly woven cocoon, her safe and secure world quickly begins to unravel. Sebastian’s theater production is a sinking ship. To add insult to injury he’s obligated to give it one final run. The mission is simple—salvage what he can before they all go down with the wreckage. But first he needs to convince the woman who despises him, despite her darkest fears, to...

Tallowwood N.R. Walker Publication date: September 25th 2019 Genres: Adult, LGBTQ+, Mystery, Romance Cold cases, murder, lies, and an unimaginable truth. Sydney detective August Shaw has spent the last decade of work solving cold cases. Since the death of his boyfriend eight years ago, August works alone, lives alone, is alone — and that’s exactly how he likes it. His work is his entire life, and he’s convinced a string of unsolved cold-case suicides are linked to what could be Australia’s worst ever serial killer. Problem is, no one believes him. Senior Constable Jacob Porter loves his life in the small town of Tallowwood in the middle of the rainforests in northern New South Wales. He runs summer camps for the local Indigenous kids, plays rugby with his mates, has a close family, and he’s the local LGBTQIA+ Liaison and the Indigenous Liaison Officer. When human remains are found in the camping grounds at Tallowwood Reserve, Jake’s new case turns out to be linked to Aug...

Review of Liberty Empire (Empire Book 2) by Brooke Ellis LIBERTY EMPIRE Liberty Empire begins with Jacquie's backstory, which is helpful to showcase her character in the present, and how and why she came to be such a crazy, evil mother. Then it segues into Mitch and Addie back together. The question is, can they stay together this time? Resist Jacqueline's manipulations? I found the actual story of Liberty Empire interesting, I just didn't like the execution of it. The third person POV helped create a distance between myself as a reader, and the characters, and further created more disconnect. I just could not, for the life of me, connect with or really engender any great emotion about them other than a kind of indifference, as if they were just cardboard cutouts being put through the paces by the author. The transitions between one scene to the next were abrupt, even furthering the distance I felt between myself and the characters. I guess you could say I read wit...