Contemporary Romance
B-
I’ve picked up a few of Kate Meader’s Chicago Rebels hockey books before. Generally, they’re fine, but not great. This label fits Superstar perfectly.
Pepper (yes, Pepper) Calhoun is the disaster-prone daughter of the Rebels’ hockey coach. She’s got a reputation as a jinx after her ex ...
Jay Hogan kicks off her new Mackenzie Country series, set amid the spectacular scenery of New Zealand’s Southern Alps, with The Art of Husbandry, a beautiful story in which she skilfully and sensitively balances a storyline involving grief and terrible loss with the development of a deeply emotion ...
Livy Hart does a perfectly decent job with Planes, Trains and All the Feels, a good opposites-attract romance about two people who couldn’t have less in common finding love together. It’s all right, but not great, perfectly okay, occasionally fun, and very genre-typical.
Cassidy Bliss is head ...
In Romantic Comedy, Sally Milz is a writer for The Night Owls (TNO) a fictional version of Saturday Night Live (SNL). We get a peek behind the scenes as the cast members put together a show full of comedy sketches. This is a very funny book; I found myself laughing along as Sally and the TNO cast ar ...
With their latest standalone romcom, The True Love Experiment, perennial dynamic duo Christina Lauren prove, once again, they’re soaring among the best business partnerships ever. Batman and Robin. Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. Lennon and McCartney. Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. Starbucks an ...
B-
Sam can’t escape the smash hit “Lost Boy” because, well, he is the lost boy. His pop-singer ex immortalized him in a song about his childish ways, and now his comedy career is on the line.
At least he still has Bree, his best friend and confidante. Bree has always been there for Sam, but ...
I’ve read and enjoyed several of Briar Prescott’s books, but this one, I outright loved. Until You is the first in a new series, and it’s a emotional, touching and heartfelt slow-burn love story about a young man whose life takes an most unexpected turn after a single, momentous decision broug ...
B-
I think it’s time we stopped considering the notion of published books resembling fanfiction a bad thing. Because - I’m not going to lie to y’all - The Comeback is very trope-y, and very fanfiction-y. That is, however, not a bad thing, as I had a great time with a heroine who is both imperfect ...
B+
In Olivia Cunning’s Staged, Steve Aimes, drummer for top metal band Exodus End, is a romantic at heart, but after his ex-wife’s betrayal, he’s been abstaining from emotion (although definitely not from sex). When he sees Roux Williams in the limo that picks up the band, he assumes that she’s ...
Jasmine and Jake Rock the Boat is a story about love, family, and what happens when you take the path less traveled.
Jasmine’s conservative Indian parents have never understood her determination to be all-American. While they love to talk about tradition and immerse themselves in their communit ...