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The final TBR Challenge prompt of the year usually has a holiday-related theme, and this year’s is Celebration! – but I confess I went with a book that, while set mostly during December, is probably more Christmas adjacent than Christmas-themed. But that’s fine – so many Christmas romances end up being a bit trite and…
Well, this was disappointing. The Devil She Knows should have been sexy and spooky, a fun romp between a human and the demon who’s dedicated to fulfilling her wishes. Instead, the vast majority of the book focuses on one female main character trying to win back her ex-girlfriend. Reader, If I make it to the…
Delayed Penalty, the fourth book in Brigham Vaughn’s Scoring Chances series, continues a storyline begun two books ago in Body Check, namely that of the fractured relationship between Boston Harriers General Manager Gavin Racine and his twin brother, Thad, an ex con who now works for the Harriers on their social media team. Running alongside…
Downpour is the second in the Griffith Brothers series from author Maggie Gates and while I’ve enjoyed other books by her and wish I could have loved this one it wasn’t a winner for me. Ray Griffiths is a champion bull rider. The prologue is told from Ray’s perspective as he recovers after a competition…
Competing authors become dueling lovers in Ladies in Hating. Plagiarism and passion meet, cultures clash, and the reader goes home amused and satisfied. It’s an easy-to-adore one-two punch, and if you like enemies to lovers stories it’s a combination that can’t be beat. But the book is saddled with an unenthralling mystery and late-book family…
Colliding Hearts, the third book in Jax Calder’s Rainbow Redemption series set in and around Auckland, New Zealand, is a tender, heartfelt and heartrending romance that runs the gamut of emotions and had just enough angst to keep me eagerly turning the pages. It’s shorter than the first two books in the series, coming in…
Hunk for the Holidays knows exactly what it is: a light Christmas love story that exists just to entertain. Lane leans into the charm of a slightly ridiculous premise and, woo hoo, makes it work. The book is warm, funny, and unembarrassed about its own cheer, which is all a holiday romance needs to be….
This is one weird concept, and it’s not going to appeal to everyone. But I’ll be darned if I wasn’t rather charmed by it. A Mannequin for Christmas is the story of a man who – well – falls in love with a mannequin (bought by his beloved great aunt at a mall rummage sale)…
Narrated by Kirt Graves Resisting You, the second book in E.M. Lindsey’s Things We Never Said series about a group of single dads, is a welcome return to form after the slightly disappointing series opener, Knowing You. Resisting You is an enemies-to-lovers romance between a haughty surgeon and a nurse in which the ‘enemies’ part…
Having read and enjoyed several of Amy Andrews’s contemporary romances, I was in the mood for a Christmas novel and dug into my pile of unread books to find The Trouble with Christmas. It’s the middle story in the author’s Credence Colorado series, and a good choice for some holiday cheer in a spicy Hallmark…
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