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Book Review: Drawn Together by Juliana Smith

Format: ebookPublished: 27th September, 2025Age: AdultGenre: Contemporary Romance Rating: 5/5 Stars I read two excellent contemporary romances back-to-back, and now feel a little spoiled! I honestly didn’t think this would be as good immediately after reading Conflict of Interest, but it really surprised me. Flora has recently moved to New York, and is about to…

Fantasy with Friends: Prologues

Fantasy with Friends – hosted by Pages Unbound – poses questions each Monday about fantasy, either as a genre as a whole or individual works.  I really enjoy these discussion posts – they often make me consider things I have plenty of thoughts about, but don’t often dig too deep. Prologues is definitely one of…

Book Review: Conflict of Interest by Zarah Detand

Format: ebookPublished: 16th July, 2026Age: AdultGenre: Contemporary Romance Rating: 5/5 Stars You know that feeling when you sink into a book and realise, pretty quickly, that you’ve discovered a new favourite series AND author? Then realise how many books they have and hope you get to read, well, all of them, soon? That’s how I…

Let’s Talk Bookish: Mental Health and Books

Let’s Talk Bookish is a bookish meme created by Rukky @ Eternity Books in 2019 and co-hosted by Book Nook Bits and Dini @ Dinipandareads, where bloggers write about and discuss all sorts of bookish topics. As I was on hiatus last month, I didn’t do the LTB prompt, but it’s such a brilliant prompt and I thought…

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The Tea on Elle:

Writer, reader, gamer, geek.

Can usually be found hunched over a laptop, or curled up with a book. Will read anything.

Has been writing since acquiring the ability to hold a pen, entertaining family members with stories written on post-it notes, then entertaining a teacher with tales of worlds full of Pokemon.

Studied Creative Writing at University of Hull. Hopes to one day fulfil the dream of being able to write full time.

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