After reading the blurb for Kris Ripper’s Book Boyfriend, I was looking forward to reading a slow-burn friends-to-lovers romance about a somewhat hapless writer who has been in love with his best friend forever, who ends up pouring out his feelings on paper because he’s too scared to say them out loud. Well, that last…
Note: As this book is both a sequel and the finale to a long-running series, there will be spoilers for earlier books in this review. Rachel Reid’s The Long Game is the final book in her Game Changers series of romances set in the world of professional hockey – and, most importantly, the long and…
Tall, Dark and Off-Limits suffers from Harlequin Syndrome. You have your big, burly alpha man who avoids feelings and yells at Our Heroine until he wants to kiss her. You have your stubbornly feisty heroine who gets herself into deeper trouble because she wants to take care of her own problems or doesn’t trust him…
Jay Hogan marks the beginning of her new Style series with Flare, a story set in the world of high fashion featuring talented up-and-coming designer Rhys Hellier and Beckett Northcott, an English professor who wouldn’t recognise haute couture if it asked him out for a drink and then got up and danced on the bar. …
N.R. Walker’s Galaxies and Oceans is a gently moving May/December romance between two damaged, lonely people who have good reason to be wary of falling in love. It’s one of those books where, honestly, not very much happens apart from a couple of emotionally bruised people finding and falling for each other, but it’s so beautifully done,…
I’ve eagerly been snapping up the books in Rachel Ember’s Wild Ones series, so when I saw she had a new standalone novel coming out, I was eager to read it. Night & Day is an opposites attract romance between a recently separated lawyer and the guy he employs as the nanny for his infant…
Kate Meader’s books have been on my radar since her Hot in the Kitchen series debuted in 2013. That was followed by her Hot in Chicago series (Playing with Fire, a scorching enemies to lovers romance remains a favourite and made my top ten list in 2015). Since then she’s delved into some hockey romances…
I’ve read several books by Stefanie London (I particularly liked the ones she wrote for the now defunct Harlequin DARE line), including Kissing Lessons, the introduction to her Kissing Creek small town romance series. Kissing Games, the second entry, has a fairly typical plot – an injured baseball star who is nursing himself back to…
Business Not As Usual is a story for the every-person. You, slugging away at your coffee, stuck in a dead end job, living in a bad neighborhood, dealing with crappy relatives. This is your book, and if you wanna escape into a fluffy Cinderella fantasy, you’re going to enjoy it. The wonderfully-named Dreamy Daniels has…
Caitlin Crews takes us back to her Kittredge Ranch series with Summer Nights with a Cowboy. It’s the oft-told story of your average goofy, flusterbudget virgin meeting a steely eyed, overly-suspicious hero. The heroine’s drippiness and the hero’s self-righteousness both left me cold, and drags this one down to a C. After travelling the globe,…