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Violet Thistlewaite was once, yes, a villain. OK, technically, she was just the assistant to a dangerous villain, Guy Shadowfade, but still. When she lived at his castle, she was known there as the Thornwitch and she used magic to grow dangerous poisonous plants. However, upon his death, she is ready to turn over a…
Cat Sebastian has cornered the market in queer twentieth century historical romances, moving from the 1940s-set Page & Sommers mysteries to the Cabot stories of the sixties and seventies and then to late fifties for We Could be So Good and You Should Be So Lucky. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed all of them and am delighted…
Secret Nights and Northern Lights is Megan Oliver’s début novel – a mix of Icelandic travelogue, and second chance romance. Mona Miller has been working at Around the Globe for years. She’s keen to travel overseas but until now she’s been reporting on small-town festivals and local places and missing out on the international gigs….
Duet, the first in Julie Kriss’ Road Kings series, has a sweetheart of a smokin’ hot rock star improbably named Denver who spends much of this slight tale trying to convince Callie, a prickly piano teacher, that he’s the guy for her. If you’re looking for a flawless, gorgeous, brilliant hero who keeps laying his…
Fearne Hill returns to her Regency Rossingley series with book three, To Beguile a Banished Lord, in which Rollo Duchamps-Avery, younger (by three minutes) son of the eleventh earl of Rossingley and very much a chip off the old block, meets his match in the unlikliest of men. Free-spirited, sunny-natured and mischievous, nineteen-year-old Rollo has…
I picked up The Best Christmas Choir Ever by Elizabeth Hrib because the premise sounded interesting and second chance romance is a favorite trope of mine. After reading it I have to say that the heavy layers of grief overshadow the romance, but I enjoyed the warm holiday feelings it evokes and the senior characters…
The Dramatic Life of Jonah Penrose is a rivals-to-lovers romance set in the world of London’s West End theatre scene. It’s a very promising début from author Robyn Green, but although I enjoyed it overall, there are pacing and plotting issues that prevent me from giving it a higher grade, and the use of a…
This is my first time reading this author and while many of her books have been romantic suspense, there is only a hint of romance in this one. This is a essentially a mystery novel. The story jumped around a bit in the beginning but got exciting towards the end and I couldn’t put it…
Only You is a somewhat confusing but still enjoyable look at a classic romancelandia trope: the hero and heroine of the book share past lives. Most of the story works, but sometimes it becomes dizzying separating one character from another, making the book a slog. It’s fun but flawed. Danielle “Dani” Richardson is a Howard…
AAR has reviewed several books by Jackie Lau and they’ve all garnered a grade of B or above, a good sign for anyone thinking about picking up one of her romances. And if you’re in the mood for a Christmas novella, look no further than Magically Generated, a self-described ‘cozy Christmas’ story that includes a…
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