Reviews by Charlotte Elliott
What I want for Christmas - and really any time of the year - is to be able to tell my fellow readers that I just read the best romance, full of good writing and wonderful characters, who are indisputably worth spending money and time on. I must be on the naughty list, because I cannot say any of th ...
There’s no sophomore slump in sight for Kerry Rea in her refreshingly, intelligently funny romantic comedy Lucy on the Wild Side.Lucy Rourke is a junior primate keeper at an Ohio zoo. Known for her devotion to gorillas and her aversion to fundraising (as her friend points out, she’s attended ...
Is romance dead? asks YA author Ashley Poston’s début adult contemporary/paranormal romance. That’s a complicated question, but if The Dead Romantics isn’t quite a nail in the coffin, it’s certainly no help to the genre or the concept of romance as a whole.Florence Day has sworn off lov ...
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Shortly after taking the bar exam, Cassidy – Cass - Walker is involved in a car accident that leaves her with two lingering challenges: she has trouble remembering details - “tasks, appointments, reminders, names”- but she can’t forget one big one - that her boyfriend was Devin Bloom. It’s ...
Julie Anne Long continues to fill the guestbook of The Grand Palace on the Thames with this not-quite-secret identity historical romance.Christian Hawkes has just survived three years’ imprisonment by the French for being Britain’s espionage emperor. Now he’s on the trail of Lady Aurelie C ...
How to Fake It in Hollywood is an age-gap, fake-relationship contemporary romance début that delivers a Real Deal Romance packed into a slightly uneven story. Grey Books (real name Emily) is a child actor-turned-teen TV star (think One Tree Hill) of moderate fame. At twenty-seven, after almo ...
Author Jessica Clare (of the Wyoming Cowboys series, among others) switches subgenres from American West to Witches & Warlocks with Go Hex Yourself, an imperfect but ultimately very enjoyable paranormal romance.Reggie Johnson’s relentless mania for precise order and constant enabling of he ...
It’s been a long time since I’ve read a book so adept at inspiring, sustaining, and rewarding my curiosity as a reader as The Impossible Us.It’s the story of Nicholas – Nick - a Leeds-based (ghost)writer and Rebecca – Bee - a London-based small business owner (of For Frock’s Sake, a ...
I’ve been the happy reader of a number of good books recently, but until Tessa Bailey’s Hook, Line, and Sinker, none of those good books have been ones I’ve read for review. Now I’m pleased to award my first DIK grade of 2022 to this thoroughly enjoyable, sexy and emotionally sweet story.
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Lucy Lambert, who never drinks, walks into a pub (as people who never drink often do. And yes, I know you can get food there, too, but still). Newly unemployed, she consults her horoscope, which informs her that “Today will see you head off on a new career path. If you’re single, this could also ...