Romance Reviews
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Bridget Jones ‘Mad About The Boy’? Let’s Quack About Grief in Romance.
Star: I know it sounds strange, Duck, but I’d love to see more grief in romance. Duck: Star, that does sound rather ducked up, then again, you’re human so it probably makes a duck of lot of sense. Star: Exactly. And when I watched Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, which by the way I… Continue reading
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Why My Fault Is Actually A Duck’s Fault
Star: Friends, I’ve been enjoying the audiobook of My Fault by Mercedes Ron, which is beautifully narrated by Hugo Locke and Hannah Carmona. This Wattpad sensation became a sweeping bestseller, and has sold more than three million copies. But Duck can’t stand My Fault, and I’m determined to find out why. Continue reading
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Why We’re Ducking Obsessed with Jilly Cooper’s Rivals on Disney Plus.
Duck: Star, about twenty years ago, you were super-ducking obsessed with Jilly Cooper’s novels! Star: That’s right, my feathered friend! Back then, I had a really stressful job that was causing me some serious mental-health havoc. A friend of mine said to me, “Honey, you’re so duck-darn stressed! What are you going to do about… Continue reading
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Book Boyfriend by Kris Ripper Will Brighten Up A Duck of a Dark Time
Duck: Star, was that not a duck of a week? All that political pond-slop gave me beak-sag. Star: We urgently need romance right now. Like we need air. Duck: And to add some duck news—because we’ll have NO HUMAN POLITICS HERE, thank you—ducks have apparently been “executively ordered” to no longer enter fast food restaurants.… Continue reading
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Christmas At The Chalet (Lifetime) – A Review By A Duck and a Human
Christmas at the Chalet was a duck of a fun movie! The premise? Lex Riley (Teri Hatcher) went from TV fame to being a full-time parent, and is now returning to the public eye with her duck-worthy Insta reels. When she decides to join her adult son and ex-husband on a skiing vacation at a… Continue reading
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Hit Man (Netflix) – A Review by a Duck and a Human
Duck: Hit Man was a duck of a lot of fun, Star! The plot: A fake hit man (played by Glen Powell) who lures criminals for the police falls for a woman (played by Adria Arjona) who almost “hires” him to take someone out (meaning murder, not a pizza date). She believes he’s a real Continue reading
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A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (BBC, Netflix) — A Duck-Shaped Review by Star and Duck
Duck: Good duck in gravy, Star! A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder was a duck of a riveting show! Star: Word! Our beak-holes were pressed to the screen at every turn! And not just because of the compelling mystery. The growing attraction between main characters Emma Myers (Pippa Fitz-Amobi) and Ravi Singh (Zain Iqbal) was… Continue reading
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Three Gorgeously Voicey Queer Romance Reads Recommended by a Duck
Friends, when a duck like me digs a narrative voice, he quacks about it for days. We love the music of words, and where do they tickle our beak-holes more than in romance novels? So, for those of you who are done with cold-fish narrative voices, here are three SUPER-DUCKING AWESOME romance reads that sound… Continue reading
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Bridgerton Season Three — Super-Ducking Diversity Obsessed. Woohoo!
Once part two of Bridgerton season three had launched, we were so quack-happy about the diversity politics that we accidentally stayed up a WHOLE HOUR AFTER our usual, conservative bedtime. Duck: And rightly so, Star! I mean, the diversity totally pulled my pondweed! Among the central characters, as well as a curvy female lead, played… Continue reading
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About US
Welcome! I’m Star Tavares. I am queer and nonbinary, and I use they/them pronouns. My hubby Jake is LGBTQIA+ too. Our plush duck is called Duck and is super-ducking awesome. He likes to call himself an award-winning duck because we wrote a screenplay about him that won some awards, and who are we to argue?
The thing is, we used to publish in the romance genres, but after we came out, we thought romance didn’t want us anymore. But you know what, toots? We were wrong.
Now we’ve rebuilt our confidence and are back to living our Romancey Pants life, writing, reviewing romance movies, reading romance novels, and doing a whole lot of stretching. (Did I mention we’re getting older?)
Want to know more about Star’s writing credits? Under another name, Star has published romance stories, novels, and novellas with presses like Harper Collins and Cleis, and has won awards for their shorter works from the likes of Glimmer Train, Screencraft, and Narrative, where they also worked as an editor. More recently, Star’s nonfiction about gender identity has appeared in The New York Times and at Huffington Post Personal.
Since Jake, who is also a romance author, is starting to add more reviews here (along with Duck’s best frenemy Sir Mallard Jones) watch this space for more about him and his career.
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Recent Posts
- Why Characters Who Lie in Novels Make My Flippers Sad
- A Bowl of Self-Love Cereal (Quacker Pops Edition)
- Bridget Jones ‘Mad About The Boy’? Let’s Quack About Grief in Romance.
- Why My Fault Is Actually A Duck’s Fault
- Why I Still Haven’t Read Any Novels By Emily Henry (It’s To Do With Diversity. And Ducks.)
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