Author: Jill Shalvis

Average Rating: 3.81


Ex Libris Romance (83)

Ex Libris Romance (83)

I know I am not alone when I say that Jill Shalvis is an auto-buy author for me.  One of the reasons that is the case is because her books are consistently good, no matter how long the series has been going!  Playing for Keeps is the seventh book in The Heartbreaker Bay series and […]

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Ex Libris Romance (72)

Elle and Archer have been background characters since book one, but I knew that their story was going to be emotional and steamy.  Luckily, I was right!  Their shared history is really interesting and they each carried their own guilt and shame, which kept them apart despite their attraction to each other.  Thy both have […]

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Let the Holiday Romance Season begin!  What better way to start than with one of my very favorite contemporary romance authors, Jill Shalvis!  There was a lot lot like about The Trouble with Mistletoe, and I think for me it started with Willa.  I loved that she owned a pet grooming business and I also […]

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Ex Libris Romance (61)

A new Jill Shalvis series!  It’s odd reading a book by one of my favorites that isn’t set in the mountains, but I loved it just the same.  Set in the San Fransisco Bay area, Sweet Little Lies still has everything you’d expect from a Jill Shalvis book: sexy guys, smart heroines, and a sense […]

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Ever since reading My Kind of Wonderful, I have been dying for Jacob’s story.  Both the main characters were kind of a mess, although in different ways, at the beginning of this book.  Jacob struggled with feelings of guilt after his friend’s death in combat and Sophie was struggling with feelings of inadequacy as she […]

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Bailey has lived through a very serious illness so her enjoy life while you can approach is in direct contrast to Hudson’s dedication to all of the commitments in his life.  Their relationship has sparks from the start and Hud’s protectiveness is a great foil to Bailey’s determination to be independent.  Throw in her meddling […]

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Ever since we met Zoe a few books ago, I have been dying for her story, so All I Want was a book that I was highly anticipating!  Beneath Zoe’s drive to keep everything going; the house, her career, her siblings, is her deep need to be loved and appreciated.  She has had to take […]

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I was gifted the first two books in this series by the lovely Kelly and I am so happy to have read them!  Cora Carmack is someone I think of as being what new adult romance should be.  All Lines Up is thoughtful and sexy, with great characters that you really get attached to as […]

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 I loved Bad Romeo so I was very anxious to continue Cassie and Ethan’s story in Broken Juliet.  We get more background in their relationship and the story continues to be told in present day and in flashbacks, which is a technique that I thought worked particularly well in this story.  The tension an the […]

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  There are few things I love more than my Regency romances, but I especially love it when the heroine is not the wide eyed innocent, but a woman with her own thoughts, hopes, dreams, and sexual history.  That is the case with Darling Beast which combines a heroine I loved with the mistaken identity […]

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