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JR Maxwell is 31% done with Hook, Line, and Sinker (Bellinger Sisters, #2)
Note to self: Straight women readers need to be reminded that they're kissing men by phrases like 'masculine lips' and 'his mouth looking fresh & male,' otherwise, apparently, according to this book, they... forget? Hate it? Idfk.
May 09, 2024 03:41AM Add a comment
Hook, Line, and Sinker (Bellinger Sisters, #2)

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JR Maxwell is 2% done with Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US
Oh heck I literally just teared up from the ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, this is going to be a wild ride
May 02, 2023 06:24PM Add a comment
Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US

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JR Maxwell is 27% done with Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
Jeepers, this is the most fictional non-fiction I've read in a while.
Aug 20, 2022 08:23PM Add a comment
Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

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JR Maxwell is 70% done with Bound By Nature (Forces of Nature #1)
*TRIGGER WARNING FOR RAPE*

Why do authors still think it's okay to not warn for this? It's really not okay.
Dec 27, 2020 06:28PM Add a comment
Bound By Nature (Forces of Nature #1)

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JR Maxwell is 26% done with Fix (Brewed #1)
**trigger Warning for eating disorders**
Dec 14, 2020 04:06PM Add a comment
Fix (Brewed #1)

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JR Maxwell is 3% done with Cakewalk (Runnymede, #5)
Hmm, 'technology is ruining the world' kvetching in the forward and a typo on the first page of the story. Not what I expected. But this was one of the recs from my mother, so in the interest of familial harmony I will press on.
Nov 11, 2020 08:18AM Add a comment
Cakewalk (Runnymede, #5)

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JR Maxwell is 33% done with Eddie (The Brothers Grime, #2)
Pro-tip: Exchanging meaningful looks while holding someone down is not consent.

This is usually a deal-breaker, but I love the two MCs so much! And I'm honestly wanting to know what happens with their individual situations.

So I'm going to put the book in a drawer for a while and see how I feel later.
Oct 31, 2020 07:54AM Add a comment
Eddie (The Brothers Grime, #2)

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JR Maxwell is 25% done with The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane
Ah, that special feeling when a male writer thinks he's being feminist by writing abusive male characters, when really he's just making all the female characters look like idiots for putting up with it. Sigh.
Oct 21, 2020 02:36PM Add a comment
The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane

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JR Maxwell is 63% done with Driftwood
I'm going to try and finish, but we've reached the point where I'm laughing at basically everything. Also, CONTENT WARNING for abuse barely disguised as BDSM, and unprotected unlubricated unprepared anal sex. Ow.
Oct 20, 2020 07:54PM Add a comment
Driftwood

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JR Maxwell is 19% done with The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
These Hobbits have about as much of a sense of self-preservation as teenagers in a horror flick.
Oct 14, 2020 09:16PM Add a comment
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

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JR Maxwell is 3% done with The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
Trying this again... For about the fifteenth time... But this time I found an online character glossary for when I inevitably forget who everyone is.
Oct 12, 2020 08:03AM Add a comment
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

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JR Maxwell is 16% done with Guardians of the Haunted Moor (Tyack & Frayne #5)
The problem with becoming involved in a series with characters you love is that you become INVOLVED with characters you LOVE.

I'm not a parent, so the 'shocking family loss' spoken of in the blurb actually to me is 100% an reprehensible betrayal of my two fave lads, so it literally made me burst into tears while driving to the grocery store at 7 this morning.

Putting this in a drawer for a while.
Sep 27, 2020 06:33PM Add a comment
Guardians of the Haunted Moor (Tyack & Frayne #5)

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JR Maxwell is starting Meet Cute
Okay yikes. I'm guessing I'm not supposed to loathe the lady lead from page one, so I'm putting this one in a drawer for now.
Sep 23, 2020 08:13AM Add a comment
Meet Cute

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JR Maxwell is 5% done with The Parfit Knight (Rockliffe, #1)
The author introduces seven white male upper class characters in the first five minutes of chapter one. I guess from the reviews that this doesn't flummox anyone else? But I literally listened to it three times, and was still so confused I had to actually open a document and write everyone's name and scant descriptions down. That's...not great storytelling, tbh.
Apr 21, 2020 06:23AM Add a comment
The Parfit Knight (Rockliffe, #1)

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JR Maxwell is 23% done with What Happens at Con (Fandom Hearts, #4)
This book is going on time-out while I decide if possible come-uppance is worth sitting through this asinine, predictable and literally offensive leading man. Dude thinks a lady should say thank you after sex? Ahahahahaha hahaha no.
Apr 11, 2020 08:24AM Add a comment
What Happens at Con (Fandom Hearts, #4)

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JR Maxwell is starting Through The Lens (Creative Hearts #1)
Okay listen, the book cover on Kindle is a gorgeous LADY, and vastly superior to this one. Harrumph.
Apr 08, 2020 08:03PM Add a comment
Through The Lens (Creative Hearts #1)

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JR Maxwell is 4% done with Dirty English (English, #1)
TRIGGER WARNING FOR RAPE, good God.
Feb 24, 2020 02:31AM Add a comment
Dirty English (English, #1)

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JR Maxwell is 57% done with Portrait of a Stranger
I texted one of the authors this morning to tell her I had stayed up waaay too late reading her book. It was delightful to be able to compliment a good friend in that way. I'm trying not to read the whole thing in three days buuuuut I can't promise anything.
Jan 07, 2020 06:00PM Add a comment
Portrait of a Stranger

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JR Maxwell is 21% done with Test Drive (Crossroads #3)
TRIGGER WARNING for diet, 'health', weight, excercise.
Aug 08, 2019 06:11AM Add a comment
Test Drive (Crossroads #3)

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JR Maxwell is 82% done with Shifting Gears (Crossroads, #2)
I'm on chapter 32 out of 39, and the secondary characters just made me so fucking ill I don't think I can finish it. It's definitely going into time out for a while.
Aug 06, 2019 08:24AM Add a comment
Shifting Gears (Crossroads, #2)

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JR Maxwell is 45% done with Openly Straight (Openly Straight, #1)
Uh, I might have to take a break from this book. Or there's a large chance I'll end up throwing my phone against the wall at the lead character's outrageous selfishness. I get that he's in high school, but even in high school acting shitty has consequences.
Jun 28, 2019 10:19AM Add a comment
Openly Straight (Openly Straight, #1)

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JR Maxwell is 50% done with The Naked Duke (Naked Nobility, #1)
Uh why is every villain a queer person and vice versa? Was that considered cutting edge for 2005?
Mar 04, 2019 05:04AM Add a comment
The Naked Duke (Naked Nobility, #1)

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JR Maxwell is 5% done with #Selfie (Hashtag, #4)
27 minutes into the audiobook and there's already been one 'Indian' joke and one fat joke. It's like a car crash. I can't look away.
Dec 06, 2018 06:05PM Add a comment
#Selfie (Hashtag, #4)

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JR Maxwell is 40% done with Complicated
That feeling when suddenly none of the characters are at all credible, or pleasant, except for some tertiary deputies, and you realize you're only a third of the way through the book. Gross. No.
Sep 14, 2018 05:41PM Add a comment
Complicated

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JR Maxwell is on page 36 of 350 of Full Disclosure (Nice Guys, #2)
I have to wonder what perceived slights the FBI gave this author, because wow does she hate them a lot.
Apr 27, 2018 06:09AM Add a comment
Full Disclosure (Nice Guys, #2)

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JR Maxwell is on page 72 of The Crusader (Crusader, #1)
Y'all, this book just referred to a vagina as 'sugared walls'. I can't.
Apr 23, 2018 05:49PM Add a comment
The Crusader (Crusader, #1)

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JR Maxwell is on page 23 of The Crusader (Crusader, #1)
if you like the way romance novels were written in the 80s, you'll like this book. If you don't, and/or you like factually accuracy in your historical romance novels, don't read this book.
Apr 14, 2018 10:20AM Add a comment
The Crusader (Crusader, #1)

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JR Maxwell is 17% done with The Zoo Job (Leverage, #2)
This is already far better than the first Leverage novel - There's still exposition for people unfamiliar with the characters, but it's through rotating third person narration, not big blocks of omniscient text.
Apr 08, 2018 11:01AM Add a comment
The Zoo Job (Leverage, #2)

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JR Maxwell is reading The Gambler (The Wedding Pact, #3)
2 leading characters with no self esteem and no ability to regulate their emotions in relation to reality... Yeah, no.
Apr 05, 2018 05:57AM Add a comment
The Gambler (The Wedding Pact, #3)

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