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Rereading a Favorite

I read this book, for the first time, in January of 2024. I absolutely fell in love with these characters then; and they’ve lived rent free in my brain since. So when a friend’s book club hosted this book, I took the opportunity to reread, annotate, and share my thoughts on each chapter.

📚Book Review📚

🥃Book name: A Love Letter to Whiskey

🏄‍♀️ Author: Kandi Steiner

🥃 Genre: Romance

🏄‍♀️ Tropes: right person/wrong time, best friends boyfriend, friends to lovers, HEA

🥃 My rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- although the characters did make me a little more angry the second time around.

🏄‍♀️ Spice rating: 🌶️ - not that spicy, but when it happens, it’s descriptive and 🥵

#BookReviews #romancebooks #booksoflemon8 #readreadread

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