Reviews by Hollis Jade
In It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, author Kylie Scott tells the story of a May/December romance that begins when the heroine is just sixteen and she gets a crush on one of her father’s co-workers who is fifteen years her senior. Waiting for her father to finish up on a job site, Adele is ...
B+
Elle Kennedy returns to the new adult hockey romance world with The Chase, a spinoff from her Off-Campus series, that is set to launch at least two (please more) books into the much loved setting of Briar University. While there are returning characters and a few events referenced, as well as som ...
If you've been dialed into Romancelandia over the last few months, then I'm sure you've been hearing a lot of buzz around début author Helen Hoang's The Kiss Quotient - and I'm here to tell you the book lives up to the hype.It feels a bit like a gender-swapped take on Pretty Woman, but in ...
If, like me, The Captain of Her Fate intrigued you by way of the synopsis but it was the series name - The Other Bennet Sisters - that inspired you to pick it up, check it out, add it to your TBR, or all of the above, then please take this warning to heart : just go and reread Pride & Preju ...
Of all the plotlines in Lia Riley's Hellions Angels series, Virgin Territory was the one I was looking forward to the most. And yes, it's absolutely because -- as the title suggests -- this book features a virgin hero.Patrick ‘Patch’ Donnelly is the goalie for the Denver Hellions hockey team ...
It wasn't that long ago that I was a raving about newly-discovered-by-me author Laura Lascarso and her book The Bravest Thing. Right on the heels of said discovery came When Everything is Blue, and I was all sorts of grabby hands about reading not only another well-crafted m/m young adult contempor ...
The Woman Left Behind is the best kind of romantic suspense in the sense that the heroine is no damsel in distress requiring rescue but neither is she a beefed up black-ops assassin as are found in so many female-empowered stories of this genre. Instead she’s somewhere in between; she’s basical ...
I don't know who put The Bravest Thing on my radar but whoever it was, please feel free to find me and collect a reward for a job well done.Laura Lascarso is a new-to-me author, one I'm sorry to say I hadn't even heard of before picking up this book, but I knew by the opening chapter (truthfully ...
C-
I don't know about you, but some of my favourite authors are the ones who have a particular genre or style and tend to stick with it. Sure, there's always the risk of one day waking up bored with it all, but often it's easy and delightful to come back to what you love and get exactly what you want o ...
C+
If you're feeling stressed by the approaching holiday season and are looking for a fairly quick read that has heat, humour, and heart but doesn't require too much of a commitment or bog you down with too much unnecessary drama, Lia Riley’s Head Coach might be exactly what you need.This is the ...