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Category: Romance

Love and romance feature heavily in the titles reviewed by Beyond The Spine. Discover a book to make your heart beat faster here.

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Industrial Magic – Book Review

Mel – Another 5* read from the Women of the Otherworld series!

18+ Books, 18+ fiction, 18+ read, 18+ reader, Benicio Cortez, Book Blog, Book Review, book-reviews, Books, Fantasy, Gothic, Kelley Armstrong, Lucas Cortez, Magic, Murder Mystery, Paige Winterbourne, reading, Romance, Savannah Levine, Spicy book, Spicy read, Urban fantasy, Vampire, Vampires, Wholesome romance, Witch book, Witches and Wizards
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Dime Store Magic – Book Review

Mel – My favourite entry in the series so far! Check out my review now.

Adult fiction, Book Blog, Book Review, book-reviews, Books, Fantasy, Lucas Cortez, Magic, Paige Winterbourne, reading, Romance book, Savannah Levine, Spicy book, Supernatural, The coven, Witch book, Witches and Wizards
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The Things We Leave Unfinished – Book Review

Mel – This is a book that I will leave unfinished. There are other girly romances I would sooner recommend!

18+ Books, Bad Romance, Book Blog, Book Review, Books, Fantasy, fiction, fourth-wing, Georgia Stanton, Noah Harrison, reading, Rebecca Yarros, Romance, writing, young adult fiction
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Assassin’s Quest – Book Review

Mel – A wondrous finale to a truly magical trilogy.

Book Blog, Book Review, book-reviews, Books, Fantasy, Farseer Trilogy, Fitz, FitzChivalry, Jhaampe, Kettricken, Nighteyes, reading, Romance, Shifter, The Fool, warg, wolf, Wolf book
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Stolen – Book Review

Mel – Stolen was an exceptional sequel to Bitten.

Alpha, Book Blog, Book Review, Books, Clay Danvers, Elena Michaels, Fantasy, fiction, Jeremy Danvers, Pack, Pack Alpha, Paige Winterbourne, reading, Romance, Shifter, Shifter Book, Werewolf, Werewolves, wolf, Wolf book, writing
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Royal Assassin – Book Review

Mel – A bit long, but another 5* from me!

Assassin's Apprentice, Assassin's Quest, Book Blog, Book Review, book-reviews, Books, Chade Fallstar, Fantasy, Farseer Trilogy, FitzChivalry, House Farseer, Ketterin, Prince Verity, reading, Realm of the Eldrlings, Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin, Shifter, shifter-book, The Fool, warg
Book covers for Kelley Armstrong's first novel, Bitten

Bitten – Book Review

Mel – It’s the first book in the Women of the Otherworld series!

Alpha, Bitten, Book Blog, Book Review, book-reviews, Books, Canadian, Elena Michaels, fiction, Jeremy Danvers, Kelley Armstrong, Pack, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Shifter, Shifters, Stonehaven, Werewolf, Werewolf book, Werewolves, Wolf pack, wolves, Women of the Otherworld, WotO
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The Reckoning – Book Review

Mel – An exciting ending to a fun YA trilogy, but were all my questions answered?

Book Blog, Book Review, book-reviews, Books, Chloe Saunders, Derek Souza, Fantasy, Kelley Armstrong, Kit Bae, Lyle House, Romance, shifter romance, Shifters, Simon Bae, The Darkest Powers, Victoria Enright, Werewolf, Werewolf book, Werewolf romance, YA shifter
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Circe – Book Review

Mel – Published 7 years following ‘The Song of Achilles’, Miller published another Greek retelling… Was it better than TSOA?

Book Blog, Book Review, Circe, Goddess, Greek Goddesses, Greek Myth, Greek retellings, Helios, Madeline Miller, Scylla, Telegonus, Telemachus

A Curse for True Love – Book Review

Mel – It’s the finale of Garber’s fairytale trilogy! How did it go?

Book Blog, Book Review, Books, Evangeline Fox, Fantasy Books, Once Upon a Broken Heart, OUaBH, Prince of Hearts, Stephanie Garber

The Ballad of Never After — Book Review

Mel – The sequel to Once Upon a Broken Heart was a lot of fun!

Book Blog, Book Review, Books, Fantasy, Romance, Stephanie Garber

Once Upon a Broken Heart – Book Review

Mel – I read one of the ‘TikTok sensations’. I mostly enjoyed it a lot!

Book Blog, Book Review, Books, Evangeline Fox, Fantasy, Jacks, Once Upon a Broken Heart, Prince of Hearts, Romance, Stephanie Garber, Valory Arch

Once — Book Review

Mel – One for the 18+ readers…?

18+ Books, book, Book Blog, Book Review, fairies, fantasy book review, Horror novel, James Herbert, Thom Kindred

Noughts and Crosses — Book Review

Mel – This is a long, very serious review. I was not happy with this book.

Book Blog, Book Review, Callum McGregor, Noughts and Crosses, sephy hadley, teen fiction, ya

Dune—Book Review

Mel – I promise, this review won’t be as dry as Arrakis!

Arrakis, Baron Harkonnen, Book Blog, Book Review, Chani, Dune, dune-part-two, Frank Herbert, Jessica Atreides, Paul Atreides
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The Song of Achilles – Book Review

Mel – I loved this book. I will read it again one day.

Achilles, Book Review, LGBT book review, LGBT Fantasy, LGBT Fiction, Madeline Miller, Patroclus, The Song of Achilles, The Song Of Achilles Review, TSOA

Is Warbreaker a Standalone – Book Review

Mel – Warbreaker was steamier than I was expecting!

Book Blog, Book Review, Brandon Sanderson, Cosmere, Nalthis, Warbreaker

Meet Me in Another Life – Review

Argo – I might have enjoyed this in another life.

Book Blog, Book Review, Reincarnation, Time Shenanigans

The House in the Cerulean Sea – Review

Argo – A story about orphans and bureaucracy, and that sometimes kids are just that, kids.

Antichrist, Book Blog, Book Review, Fantasy, Orphanage, TJ Klune

Great Fantasy Reads for Pride Month

Mel – I’ve been reading a few LGBTQ+ positive books this year!

Cosmere, Kyoshi, LGBT books, pride month, skulduggery pleasant, Wolfsong

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