What a delightful story! I was afraid when I first
started it that it would be a NA trope fest, but was
delighted to discover that the characters were
multidimensional and realized. It takes quite a talented
author to be able to handle all the potential pitfalls
that could come Read more...
Eva faces a serious problem. Her father has bartered her
off in marriage to a dude in a rival clan without her
consent. Not only does she have no interest in being a
part of that clan, but she has no interest in marriage.
Taking the only path she feels Read more...
What's that old adage? There's only so many actual plots
and everything else is just a retelling? This is one of
those books that proves it true. So the question in those
books becomes, I think, if you enjoy the characters
enough to follow their iteration of a Read more...
I was absolutely desperate for a distraction when I
picked up KEY CHANGE. Stuck in a foreign country while a
family member underwent emergency surgery, I couldn't
take reality anymore. The cover to this book looked like
the exact book I needed and dove right in.
The premise is Read more...
Are you familiar with the term "bonkbuster"? If not, if
you've read Jilly Cooper (which, if you have not, stop
immediately and do so), then you've read a bonkbuster.
It's the term for a novel version of a soap opera,
usually set in the U.K. with Read more...
About three months ago, I got a text from one of my best
friends who happens to live in England. She is a reader
as well, but we usually gravitate towards different
genres. She's more of a crime/suspense buff, while I tend
to stick to romance and stories Read more...
This one has so much going for it, y'all, for me to love
it right off the bat. Baseball player, check. Baseball
player whose hubris is getting him in trouble, check
check. Sassy lady who ain't taking none of his shit,
check. Sassy lady who is super good Read more...
I read literally hundreds of books a year. Most of them
are romance, but many are from other genres. Romance is
far and away my favorite and what I read the most. Thus,
I've read nearly every trope out there dozens upon dozens
of times. I can spot them Read more...
Before I get into any personal feelings about this book,
allow me to say the following: this book is lovely and
sweet and fine. It would be a great read for anyone who
has loved Robyn Carr's other books, with their kindness
and their gentle storytelling. Villains in Carr Read more...
I've never read Julia London's contemporary works
before, but I'm a huge fan of the historic series about
the Cabot sisters. I'll be honest, SUDDENLY IN LOVE didn't
work for
me as much as her historical ones do. I never really
connected with Mia and Read more...
THE RELUCTANT DUCHESS is an odd book. It's kind of an
inspirational, kind of a suspense, and definitely a
historical. If you're someone who likes Edwardian era
United Kingdom (this one primarily takes place in
England), then you may like it. Edwardian era is
Downton AbbeyRead more...
Swing and a miss for me on this one, folks. I believe in
being up front and honest in my reviews, so let me say
this: if you enjoy disgraced virgin reforms a
unscrupulous rake trope books, you may enjoy THE ART OF
TAMING A RAKE. If
you've read Read more...
Shannon Stacey is one of my favorite authors for a lot of
reasons. I love her characters, I love reading about a
world I know nothing of in the firefighting books, and I
love her Twitter feed. All these things combine to make
her one of my go-to authors Read more...
Minerva Bellingham has all sorts of problems on her
hands, mostly centered around the fact that her younger
brother is an idiot who was given too much power
at far too early of an age. She, as so many strong women
have been throughout history, has been charged with
cleaning Read more...
FULL CONTACT DECORATING is one of those books that plops
you down into the middle of a world and expects you to
know your way around. It doesn't really offer an intro or
a road map to the world. As a novella, it may be that
Robin Weaver expects Read more...
My mother might be Candace Camp's biggest fan. After
picking up one of her books at the library early last
year, she then proceeded to read the entire back
catalog in 2015. (And people wonder where I get my
love of reading from!) I hadn't encountered Read more...
Ohmygoodnessgraciousgeezlouise THIS BOOK. GIVING IT UP is
sweet and
surprising and insanely sexy and super hot and
loving—
it is, in my opinion, a triumph. Checks a ton of my
boxes—secret crushes, people finding their own power,
people
learning to be vulnerable, people learning to claim what Read more...
THE GROOM WORE PLAID is a marriage of convenience story
set, as you may be able to surmise by the cover and
title, in the Scottish Highlands. It concerns Maggie and
Owen who are from rival tribes, and their marriage is a
peace agreement of sorts. However anyone who knows Read more...
Let's be clear right now, I'm in the bag for baseball
romances. I'm in the bag, in general, for sports
romances, but baseball is my personal favorite sport and
so those tick tons of boxes. Beyond the bodies of the
athletes (because whoah, am I right?), I Read more...
POWER PLAY is New Adult at its New-Adultyist and so if
you're
100% in the bag for NA, then I'd say this is a great
version of the genre and to pick it up. POWER PLAY
delightfully
avoids
the creepier portions of that subgenre (at least to Read more...
Their profession is based on discipline and focus, which usually, shall we say, flows over into other areas, haha! Plus, all the reasons you listed above for sure.
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