#Kate Clayborn

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Seven is heaven! Today, we are celebrating seven seasons of Fated Mates and this genre that we just can't get enough of with two people we just can't get enough of--Kate Clayborn and Adriana Herrera!

We're talking about books, about the tropes we love, about the little bits of romance that make it the very very best. We're also thanking you for listening for seven seasons--and also being the very very best.

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15 Soft and Tender Romance Books

There are times when I’m in the mood for a tension-filled, unpredictable reading experience, and then there are times when I’m in the mood for something warm and cozy, feel good and uplifting. That doesn’t mean these soft and tender romances don’t tackle tough subjects, it just means they navigate them in ways that bring a flutter to your heart. A soft and tender love story wraps the reader up in…

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There’s a new Kate Clayborn next week?????? I was just rereading Georgie, All Along and luxuriating in that world.

So pumped there’s a new book to look forward to!

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Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn

Georgie, All Along by: Kate Clayborn Longtime personal assistant��Georgie Mulcahy has made a career out of putting others before herself. When an unexpected upheaval sends her away from her hectic job in L.A. and back to her hometown, Georgie must confront an uncomfortable truth: her own wants and needs have always been a disconcertingly blank page.  But then Georgie comes across a forgotten…

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Why did this tug on my heartstrings like that? 🥹🥹

Levi + Georgie 🫶🏻🫶🏻

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2024: Book 32 - The Other Side of Disappearing

The Other Side of Disappearing by Kate Clayborn My rating: 4 of 5 stars Kate Clayborn has some kind of magic in her mind that allows her to write stories about people who feel so real that it almost seems like you could pick the phone and text one of them and they'd respond. This book was deeply emotional, touching on themes of abandonment for both Jess the FMC and Adam the MMC as well as Jess's little sister Tegan. A road trip with a podcast crew kicks off the journey of emotions and revelations as Jess, Tegan and Adam, along with the host of the podcast that Adam works on, follow the clues left behind in five postcards sent to Jess by her mother. Everyone involved has a different end goal and they're all diametrically opposed…but somehow it stops mattering as the revelations star coming and the group connects in a deep and meaningful way, all five realizing they'd also been duped in different ways by the conman they were chasing. I'm not usually the type to compare authors because every author's voice is different to me and I love so many of them…but Kate Clayborn and Emily Henry feel very similar to me. Both explore more than just the romantic connections between their MCs and both usually come up with interesting premises to drive the story. All I know is that a new Kate Clayborn will always result in a pre-order and a day spent with new friends who I'm always sad to say goodbye to when the last chapter ends. I use the CAWPILE Review method for my reviews (see explanation here), just to keep me honest and help me understand what exactly I liked/didn't like. My ratings are below. Characters: 8/10 Atmosphere/Setting: 8/10 Writing: 10/10 Plot: 9/10 Intrigue: 10/10 Logic/Relationships: 9/10 Enjoyment: 10/10 Total rating 62/70 divided by 7 = 8.8 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 🌶️ 🌶️ View all my reviews

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The Other Side of Disappearing by Kate Clayborn Published by Piatkus on March 26, 2024 Genres: Romance, Contemporary Pages: 320 – paperback, 420 – Kindle Edition Format Read: physical ARC Rating: 4 stars Source: Publisher Previous Books in Series: – PURCHASE LINKS Note: As an Amazon associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases! Blurb: Hairstylist Jess Greene has spent…

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Jess Greene has spent the last decade raising her sister Tegan, after her mother took off with her boyfriend. It was only when a popular podcast drew her attention that she realized the man who her mother left with was the subject of The Last Con of Lynton Baltimore. Keeping that secret to herself, Jess is one day surprised when the host of that podcast and her producer Adam Hawkins, show up on her doorstep. Tegan had found some correspondence Jess had hidden and contacted them. They were going on the road, using the postage dates of those post cards, to track down their mother and Lynton Baltimore. Kate Clayborn has a style of writing that holds a readers attention. From the opening page, I knew that it would be a hard story to turn away from. Our heroine Jess was so strong and yet also very delicate. Adam saw that from the very start and the way that he quietly admired and protected her was very compelling. The dynamic between Jess and Tegan was also very complicated. Jess had hidden things from her sister, in part because of Tegan’s age, but also because she herself was so young when she took charge of raising Tegan. She was embarrassed by her mother, as well as insecure over why their mother would leave her children. This story made me feel so many different emotions, not all of them happy and good. Yet they felt true and believable, which kept me turning the pages. The dynamic between Jess and Adam was truly spellbinding. Adam felt so much, right from the moment he met Jess. I found that really interesting because in this situation, Jess was not at her best. On the surface she was holding it together, but she was boiling with tension and feelings underneath. Despite all of that tension and turmoil, they were drawn to each other and gave strength to each other. The romance portion of this book was very well done and did not disappoint. So, why did I only give it a four rating? I’m not exactly sure, but maybe because Jess and Tegan’s story was so sad and frail? I’m still mulling over my response but I do know that I liked this book quite a bit. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I received a copy of this book through NetGalley for an honest review and it was honest! Click this link to purchase this book!* The Other Side of Disappearing Copyright 2024 The Reading Chick All Rights Reserved *Amazon Associate- if you purchased this book through the above link I’ll receive a small stipend.

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Review : The Other Side of Disappearing by Kate Clayborn

4.5 Stars

How does Clayborn create such heart and feeling in every book? She has the best contemporary M/F romance I’ve read and is firmly on my auto-buy author list. The way she weaves together real life situations, lovable characters, palpable chemistry and a bit of angst and steam is so good. This is also dual POV which most of her books are so you can read what the MCs are thinking, a device I’ve always loved.

This takes place around a true crime podcast investigating a famous grifter con man who tricks women into falling for him in order to do heists and steal money. Jess & Teegan’s mom was one of these women. Adam & Salem, the journalists investigating the crime, show up at their doorstep looking for interviews and the four of them end up on a road trip to find their Mom who abandoned them 10 years before. Adam & Jess develop feelings for each other and there's a wonderful detour to Adam's family farm. Part romance, part mystery, it’s really an interesting premise and a lot about loss and finding love and the responsibilities of being a Mother. And, of course, there are ALL THE FEELS™ you've come to love in a Clayborn book –I really enjoyed this one.

If you're a fan of her other books, you will love this one too.

••Thanks so much to NetGalley & Kensington Books for the ARC••

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REVIEW: Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn

A wise and witty new novel that echoes with timely questions about love, career, reconciling with the past, and finding your path while knowing your true worth.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. PUBLISHER: Kensington PUBLICATION DATE: January 24, 2033. GENRE: Romance / Contemporary Romance A big thank you to Kensington for providing me with a review copy in exchange of an honest review. I have been reading and hearing about this book for months. How fantastic it was, how it became a new favorite for a lot of readers, and so on, so when asked my Twitter…

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Fated Mates Live is happening March 23, 2024 at the William Vale Hotel in Brooklyn, and we'll be joined by Kate Clayborn, Nikki Payne, and Lauren of Christina Lauren!

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BEST OF THE YEAR (SO FAR): The Other Side of Disappearing by Kate Clayborn

We’re already halfway through 2024, so I’m taking the time to reflect back on my 15 favorite books of the year so far. You’ll find my original review and some quotes from the book below! Seamlessly blending a soft, tender romance with a family-focused mystery, this felt like something new from Clayborn while still maintaining the immersive, bingeable quality of her writing. It took me a few…

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Books I Read in 2023

#18 - Beginner's Luck, by Kate Clayborn

Rating: 3/5 stars

An extremely solid 3/5, with points given for an unapologetically intelligent heroine, and points subtracted for one of the major conflicts in the romance involving a high degree of miscommunication, which I generally dislike.

Oddly, for me what I liked best about this wasn't either of the leads (they're fine, but I didn't fall in love with either) but the nesting factor. A large part of their interactions involve fixing up Kit's house, or shopping at Ben's dad's salvage yard in order to fix up the house. I am one of the many people who, confined to home by the pandemic, got the urge to improve my living space, aided by a planned-but-delayed full apartment renovation in 2021. While I'm not out there scrounging for vintage chandelier parts and hinge plates for the historic home I don't have, I was completely in sympathy with the thrill of the hunt for the perfect item and the joy of small changes, the patience of respecting the process competing with the desire to make your space as perfect as possible.

I realize that's not going to speak to everyone, and it's sort of damning with faint praise that I enjoyed and remembered that aspect of the story more than the actual characters. I also think it's a little weird, and could have been addressed better or more thoroughly, the conflict between Kit's father's gambling problem and her lingering issues with it, and the fact that the entire premise of this series is that she and her friends went in together on what turned out to be a winning lottery ticket. What little page time was devoted to it seemed more like lampshading, "let's acknowledge this but move past it as quickly as possible." And in terms of series progression, would it have been better to start with a friend who didn't feel conflicted about her winnings, and save the one who felt conflicted about the money for the end? I think it might have been.

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Book Notes: Georgie, All Along

To end February, Becca and I wanted to read and chat about Georgie, All Along, a new romance from Kate Clayborn, one of my favorite authors in the genre!

When Georgie Mulcahy finds herself unexpectedly unemployed from her PA job in L.A., she retreats to her hometown of Darentville, Virginia. Her immediate plan is house-sitting for her parents and helping her pregnant best friend baby-proof her house. But really Georgie is trying to figure out what direction her life should take next. Not an easy task when she has no clue what she wants, only how to organize the lives of others. Or when her parents double-book house sitters and Georgie ends up with handsomely taciturn Levi Fanning as her reluctant roommate, along with his adorable rescue dog, Hank. When she finds an old journal from her middle school days, filled with fictional musings of perfect high school days and dates with dreamy boyfriends, Georgie decides to use it to go on some adventures and maybe find herself along the way. Levi surprisingly offers to help and in the process Georgie gets to know the sweet (and quite sexy) side to a guy the whole town has written off.

Lori: Becca, so fun to read this with you! What were your first thoughts?

Becca: First, I loved that Kate (the author) didn't lean too heavily into the miscommunication trope. I appreciate it so much. Having a misunderstanding be the central conflict, where the girl sees the guy with another girl and just assumes things and they never talk about it drives me insane. Georgie and Levi, on the other hand, act like adults. They take a few steps back, breathe and regroup, and then they communicate. I love it.

Lori: In every Kate Clayborn romance I’ve read, she is so good about giving her characters a depth that goes beyond the tropes. They are flawed human beings doing their best with where they are, usually with some emotional scars in their backstory. She never takes the easy way out with her plot lines. This is just one of the reasons I love her novels. Her characters are always three-dimensional. And she puts them in some interesting situations too.

Becca: Like how Georgie heads back to her hometown and immediately runs into all of the opinions that people had of her when she was in high school? How well do you think she handled that? What would you have done in her place?

Lori: I think in the beginning it’s really hard for Georgie to separate out what other people think of her and what she thinks of herself. To make a conscious choice to not let their opinions influence her. In a way, Levi has to go on a similar journey. He’s let other people, namely his dad, define him based on who he was in his younger years. Now he’s so conscious of not giving anyone a reason to think he’s like he’d been in the past. Speaking as a person who does work in the same town where I went to high school, and regularly runs into old classmates, what comes up most for me is the reminder that I’m not that person anymore. Which is kind of where both Georgie and Levi land in the end. But it’s also interesting that Georgie goes back to something from high school to help her figure out her next steps.

Becca: I personally love the way she kick-starts figuring out what she wants from life. I think it's such a fun idea, to go back and do things from her high school "fic", or bucket list. Do you think that was what allowed her to get to the point where she's okay with who she is?

Lori: I do. I think since she feels so lost and blank in the beginning, it was helpful for her to revisit some of the things she thought could happen in high school, even as she recognizes they are over the top. I liked her attitude going into it, not necessarily expecting firm answers, just wanting to get back to a place where she had some imagination for her future. And it turns out to be what reconnects her to who she is at her core.

Becca: Yes, Georgie's flightiness and inability to plan for the future, which everyone sees as a quirky bad habit, ends up being her saving grace. I love that she turned that “flaw” on its head and comes to accept it as a special part of who she is. So much of life is people asking you what you're going to do next.

Lori: So true.

Becca: It's nice to see a character who doesn't have it all planned out, and to have that shown as being okay. You don't always need to know what your next step is.

Lori: Such an unexpected conclusion for Georgie to reach, and one I love for her as well! As much as romance is about the happy ending, it was so refreshing that Georgie didn’t have her life tied up in a bow at the end.

Any romance readers should be sure to add Georgie, All Along to their TBR’s!

— Lori & Becca

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25 Books for 2025!

Thank you, @myheartalivewrites, for the tag! I'm very excited to read lots this year.

If you follow me on Bluesky, you might have seen the massive and incredible reading rec list I got from my friends on there. There are 60 books on it so far, so I can't list them all here. Also, I only read 20 books in 2024, lol, so I think 25 is probably a more manageable number.

Without further ado:

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian

When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson

The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune

Circe by Madeline Miller

Revolting Prostitutes by Molly Smith and Juno Mac

This is Why They Hate Us by Aaron H. Aceves

When the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley

The Pairing by Casey McQuiston (I KNOW OK)

Loveless by Alice Oseman

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw

Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall

Crush by Richard Siken

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun

When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal

Love at First by Kate Clayborn

The Thief of Always by Clive Barker

On Earth, We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly

The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer (but I'm scared)

Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories by Cho Nam-joo

Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Ok, honestly, that felt like a LOT. Hahaha. I'm tagging @hgejfmw-hgejhsf, @firenati0n, @kiwiana-writes, @holygnocchi, @roseharpermaxwell, @caterpills, @anincompletelist, @cha-melodius, and anyone else who wants to share what they're hoping to read this year!