Reviews by Liz Donatelli

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Beyond the Limit

*sigh*. This is the second romance novel I’ve read in the past month that mentions ‘hot monkey sex.’ NO. The expression conjures a decidedly unsexy visual.  As per Rom Rule #14 in my personal reviewer’s handbook, a romance that describes high-intensity sexual intercourse as ‘hot monkey se ...

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Fix Her Up

Do NOT judge Tessa Bailey’s superbly steamy rom-com Fix Her Up by its cover image of a cartoon couple demurely kissing. I wouldn’t normally read a novel that gives off a cutesy vibe, but, given Bailey’s reputation as a prolific bestselling romance author, and the sexy series title (Hot and Ham ...

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Untamed

Caitlin Crews’ island romance, Untamed (Hotel Temptation, #3), reads less like a passionate From Here to Eternity waves-crashing kiss, and more like a leisurely beachcombing stroll in search of pocket change.I believe that islands are magical places where love awaits, and dreams come true (tha ...

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Dirty English

As a fervent anglophile and Janeite, I was ALL in to read Ilsa Madden-Mills’s Pride & Prejudice-inspired steamy New Adult romance, Dirty English the first in her British Bad Boys series.I was instantly hooked by the epigraph - “You have bewitched me, body and soul.” Reading Mr. Darcy ...