We’re back in the time machine, heading back to December 2012 to see what new books were reviewed in Romantic Times magazine.
We’ve got “multicultural” books, beefy paragraphs, big thorns, Schroedinger’s baby, and “charming vulgar nonsense.” Plus, we ask a very important question: if you were suddenly the heroine of an Inspirational romance, how would you know?
TW/CW for the erotica section at the end. It was a time, y’all.
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