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An Introvert’s Guide to Life and Love offers a truly fun narrative voice. This contemporary romance is an eminently readable slice of fiction that will make you smile your way through the winter months. It does, however, feel much more like a piece of women’s fiction than a straight-up romance novel but if you go…
Olivia Dade returns to Harlot’s Bay for Second Chance Romance, the second book in the series which, for my money, is just as wonderful as the first, At First Spite. The prologue covers the history between Karl Dean and Molly Dearborn over twenty years earlier. They weren’t a couple in high school but life and…
I enjoy romances that have a good mystery and The Marriage Method has both. It also has a male lead who rescues cats which ends up causing a forced marriage! Other than a rare slow spot, I was intrigued by the story. Nell is a teacher at a girl’s academy who comes to London to…
I got a real holiday treat this year in the form of Kristen Bailey’s Big Nick Energy. This new-to-me author absolutely delighted me with a warm, sweet, funny love-triangle Christmas romance that explores a second chance with an old flame and a sweet discovery with someone new. Kay is a librarian and children’s book author…
I freely admit that the transition from Stuart to Hanoverian monarchy is a period of history I don’t know much about, for all that I regard myself as a bit of an amateur historian. But I didn’t need to keep one eye on Wikipedia as I was reading, because Ms Duran does a splendid job…
Only December by Noelle Adams is a Christmas-themed novella featuring an age-gap romance between a widowed philosopher and a freelance housekeeper. It’s a sweet, low angst read with some spicy scenes but isn’t particularly memorable. Mona is a housekeeper who takes on a variety of jobs at will. Most of them are short term, many…
And Then There Was You is not your typical contemporary romance and is unlike anything Cousens has written before. I’ve loved Cousens’ romcoms and, initially, wasn’t sure what to make of this quirky, unique science fiction romance. I’m so glad I read it! The story explores how the rise of AI is changing our world…
I adored The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu by Mindy Hung, who has written some charming romances as Ruby Lang (Playing House, Open House, House Rules), and one (Wild Life) as Opal Wei. Leeann Wu is in the middle of the three generations of the Taiwanese-American women in her family. Leeann is a midwife, her…
This month’s Change of Plans TBR Challenge prompt led me to Allison Temple’s Honeymoon Sweet, a cute fake relationship contemporary romance in which two guys, both abandoned by their partners while on a week-long Caribbean cruise, end up spending the time together and falling in love. This makes for something of a whirlwind romance, it’s…
Going to a different country for business and deciding to stay indefinitely certainly qualifies as a change of plans, so Mr. Churchill’s Secretary, first in the Maggie Hope series, made a perfect choice for this month’s TBR Challenge. After all, not only does the heroine stay on in England instead of returning to the United States to…
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