Reviews by Maria Rose
At first glance, Let it Snow appears to be a fairly typical holiday romance, using the forced proximity trope to put two people in a position where an attraction between them is likely to lead to some sexual shenanigans. But the book has a surprising depth of emotion to it, making it not quite as li ...
Rebecca Brooks starts off her Men of Gold Mountain romance series with this sexy tale of a retired Olympic skier and a businesswoman intent on convincing him to sell his land for further development of the ski resort where he lives and works. The tricky part comes when she meets him on the ski hill ...
Starting off the first book in a new series with a hot and steamy sex scene is a risk. You’re either going to entice readers to want to read more about the two characters in question, or turn them off with the blatant images presented. Ms. Crane seems to be doing her fair share of risk-taking thes ...
Hard to Fall is the fourth book in Marquita Valentine's Take the Fall series which in itself is a spin-off of her Boys of the South series. I haven't read any of her previous books but this one is well set up as a standalone romance, so I expect the others are, too. Unfortunately, the main male ch ...
B-
Dream Maker is the second story in Erin McCarthy’s country music themed series, Nashville Nights. I first became a fan of this author after reading her Fast Track series, which centered around a group of race car drivers . At that time they were some of the sexiest romances I’d read (and listene ...
Cold Hearted Sniper is the first story in Jackie Ashenden’s new Texas Bounty series, featuring a trio of brothers who run a ‘fugitive recovery’ service. Ms. Ashenden has been particularly prolific this year, releasing books in three different series including the Nine Circles (a group of wealt ...
B+
The Gossip is the second novella in Jenny Holiday’s ‘80s themed New Adult series, the New Wave Newsroom. It focuses on the staff working at a college newspaper and with a modern historical setting of the 1980s, will bring a wave of nostalgia to readers of a certain age (like myself) with its ref ...
Rocky Mountain Devil is book number ten in the Six Pack Ranch series. Luckily, for those who haven’t yet discovered this Canadian Rocky Mountain set series, each book is easily read as a standalone without a broad continuing story arc (other than some weddings and babies for previously profile ...
B+
Romantic comedies that take place in foreign (to me) destinations are among my favorite types of stories to read. When I heard about the collaborative effort between new author Nina Bocci and successful well established author Alice Clayton I was definitely on board. Roman Crazy is the first in the ...
Anything but Minor is the first story in Kate Stewart's Balls in Play series, a cheeky nod to the fact that it's centered on minor league baseball players who are also *ahem* 'players' in another sense of the word. This is my first book by this author, and in her acknowledgments she says that it's n ...