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A Taste Of Love (Hallmark) Reviewed by Duck and Star
Friends, if I was presenting a cooking show that clashed with my integrity, having to smile harder on camera would give yours truly a pain in the beak. No wonder protagonist Taylor, the cooking show’s presenter, is unsure of whether to renew her contract. Ducking lost, off she goes to her hometown to visit her… Continue reading
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Walking The Dog (Hallmark) Reviewed by Duck and Star
Seeing as they sometimes eat ducks, I’m not always a big fan of movies about dogs. (I mean, what the duck?! Really!) But I just had to make an exception for Walking The Dog, a super-ducking awesome Hallmark movie starring Jennifer Finnigan as Kristie and Sam Page as Keith. Also, I don’t think Gidget would… Continue reading
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Just Add Romance (Hallmark) Reviewed by Duck and Star
Friends, sometimes a duck starts watching a Hallmark movie just to give it a five-minute “try,” fully expecting he’ll end up giving it the Flipper, but then he watches the whole ducking thing as easily as pondweed pie. That’s how it was with Just Add Romance. My beak-holes were firmly glued to the screen all… Continue reading
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Paging Mr. Darcy (Loveuary by Hallmark) Reviewed by Duck and Star
Friends, as a humble duck, I have to admit, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice rocks my feathers. But what did I think about Paging Mr. Darcy, in which a serious literary scholar attends a Jane Austen conference as a keynote speaker and finds the whole event is filled with costumes, period dances, and a liaison… Continue reading
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Betty’s Bad Luck In Love (Hallmark) Reviewed by Duck and Star T.
Duck: Friends, Star and I recently watched Betty’s Bad Luck In Love and found it more satisfying than a goldfish sandwich. Star: True! As a kid, Betty was cursed to always have terrible luck in love, and that’s exactly the story she’s living. Devastating things happen to her boyfriends! The kind of stuff that could… Continue reading
About US
Welcome! I’m Star Tavares. I’m queer, nonbinary, and intersex, and I use they/them pronouns. My hubby Jake is LGBTQIA+ too, as is our duck, name of Duck—he’s 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?
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.
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.
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