romance
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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
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The Fake Dating Game by Timothy Janovsky, Reviewed by Duck and Star
Star (a human) and I (their duck) have been completely ducking enamored by The Fake Dating Game by Timothy Janovsky. It’s one of the first two releases from Afterglow Books, a brand-new Harlequin line that launched this month. Afterglow celebrates diversity—because everyone deserves a happily ever after. Duck yes! Continue reading
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Snowed In With The Billionaire by Caroline Anderson, Audiobook Review by Duck T.
Friends, a duck like me always enjoys a good romance audiobook, and Snowed In With The Billionaire by Caroline Anderson did my beak-holes proud. I dived into this Harlequin Romance, hoping for a narrative filled with the passion of a double pondweed burger [ed. which is a good thing] and that’s just what I got. Continue reading
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One Summer (Hallmark) Reviewed by Duck T.
Friends, occasionally a duck sees a movie that makes him quacker-cry so much that he needs to buy a new beak. One Summer is such a film. (New beak works perfectly, thanks.) The movie is about a family that is mourning the sudden loss of a beloved mother and wife, even though it was actually… Continue reading
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Raise A Glass To Love (Hallmark) Reviewed By Duck T.
Friends, sometimes a duck sits in front of a movie and says, “I think this one’s going to get right up my beak-holes.” That’s what I said to myself at the start of Raise A Glass To Love. But alas, how wrong a feathered fellow can be! You see, Jenna (Laura Osnes) longs to be… Continue reading
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Just My Type (Hallmark) Reviewed By Duck T.
Friends, is it just me, or is actor Bethany Joy Lenz super-ducking awesome in EVERYTHING? Bless her beak-holes because she really has screen presence, not to mention flipper-tickling doses of emotional depth as well as a talent for humor. Well, Just My Type, a Hallmark movie about a journalist and famous author falling in love,… Continue reading
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Two Tickets to Paradise reviewed by Duck T.
Friends, flippers up for a movie where the characters actually sort things out! Is it just me, your goldfish-guzzling friend, who finds it irritating when things just “fall into place” between the romantic heroes without any quacking (or other communication) about everyone’s mistakes? Well, welcome to paradise because in Two Tickets to Paradise, the main… Continue reading
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The Convenient Groom (Hallmark) Reviewed By Duck T.
Friends, at the beginning, I didn’t expect to like The Convenient Groom. A social media influencer who teaches people (NOT ducks) to differentiate between a “total beakbrain” and great dating material by examining, for instance, the coffee he orders? What a duck-splat, thought I …. 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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