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And Now, Back to You is book two in BK Borison’s Heartstrings series of retro-fabulous romances which are reminiscent of Nora Ephron’s romcoms. This one is just as gorgeous as First-Time Caller and continues with more of the Baltimore radio and TV world. Delilah Stewart is televisual gold. She’s effervescent, effusive, smiley and gorgeous, and…
This second book in Fearne Hill’s Mis-Shapes series is a funny, sexy and poignant romance between two reluctant and very different housemates that really ticks those grumpy/sunshine, odd-couple boxes! We met Alaric Alvin in the first book (Maybe). He’s a urologist/surgeon and is good friends with Isaac Fitz-Henry; he’s an upbeat, flirty motormouth for whom…
Somehow I’d never read Willa Cather’s My Ántonia. Fortunately, it was my read and be happy book club’s choice this month. Now I know why the book is so famous: My Ántonia is a masterpiece and deserves its place as a great American novel. The book is framed as a memoir. Jim Burden, now grown,…
Is there one perfect person for all of us, or do we choose who we love and make that work (or not)? This is the question at the heart of Maurene Goo’s highly anticipated first adult romance, One & Only. Cass (Cassia) Park adores her biking club. It combines her BFF, Marcela, being outside enjoying…
The Promise of Together is the third book in Jay Hogan’s Fisher & Church series, and it picks up a few weeks after the end of book two (The Question of Us), when Nick received a letter from the mother he hasn’t seen for forty-seven years. While the previous two books featured a suspense plot…
I went in a slightly different direction for the “Vintage” prompt for this month’s TBR Challenge read. I usually go for an older historical (as in written in the 1960s or 70s), but this time, I decided to read an historical SET in the 1970s; I’ve often seen late-twentieth century historicals labelled as “vintage historicals”,…
Without a Clue is a funny, genre-bending suspenseful romance, if that’s a thing! It’s quite short, so author Melissa Ferguson has been busy creating a heartfelt romance while also building a cozy mystery plot. She writes closed-door romances that are light and breezy, but with enough backstory to give the characters depth, so if you…
Liane Moriarty’s Here One Moment opens with a terrific premise. After an irksome delay on a flight from Hobart to Sydney, a middle-aged woman rises from her seat, walks the aisle, and starts pointing at passengers, calmly announcing the age at which each will die—and the cause. Allegra, a 27-year-old flight attendant, is told she…
Rakes and Radishes is Susanna Ives’ début novel, and it’s one of the most unusual historical romances I’ve read. The author has very successfully turned one of the most commonly-used tropes in the genre upside-down and inside-out. The story of the hardened rake who eventually settles down with the love of his life to become…
What do we inherit from our parents? Is the child of a thief destined to be a thief? Can we break familial patterns? That’s the question at the heart of Our Beautiful Mess. Connie has built the perfect life for herself. She has a gorgeous home, a loving, kind, and gentle husband, a thriving career,…
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