Reviews by Kayne Spooner

B
Miles and Miles of You

Miles and Miles of You opens with endearing heroine Lucy quitting her job, borrowing her Grandma’s old airstream trailer, and readying for her first road trip as @SoSavvyTraveler. She'll take photos of her new adventures and blog about them on Instagram. After two years of working at Triad as an e ...

B
Before I Do

Before I Do opens with a bride stumbling out of a church barefoot and the sound of sirens approaching. It appears that something has gone very wrong.Audrey and Josh have been planning their wedding with the help of family and friends.  But bad omens begin to happen, beginning with a dead bat al ...

B-
Just Like Magic

I loved Sarah Hogle's 2021 release Twice Shy so I was excited to read her new romance, Just Like Magic. JLM is a holiday, fantasy romance that steals from the classic Christmas movie, Elf. It's a fun book although not without its flaws.Bettie is a social media influencer on Instagram who has hit ...

C
Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match

This story is a historical gothic romance and Frankenstein fanfiction. It’s quirky, creative, original, bizarre, morbid, and unlike anything I've read before.The story begins in 1812 in a morgue where twenty four year old Angelika Frankenstein and her older brother Victor are choosing body par ...

B+
Heartbreaker

Heartbreaker is the second book in the Hell’s Belles series. It's a jam packed book - there's a road trip with racing carriages, highwaymen, kissing, stabbings, witty banter, a duke, a thief, and the last room at the Inn, with only one bed, of course. It all adds up to a very good time.The boo ...

A-
Love on the Brain

Love on the Brain is Ali Hazelwood's second full length romcom starring women in STEM and I devoured it. It's an utter winner!The heroine, Bee, is a neuroscientist who just got offered her dream job to work on a project at NASA. There’s just one little problem. She’ll be co-leading the pr ...

A-
Nora Goes off Script

Nora Goes Off Script is Annabel Monaghan’s first adult book and one of my favorite rom-coms this year. The story is fresh with humor and heart.Nora is a screenwriter for a romance channel. Her self-centered husband leaves her and their two children so of course she writes a screenplay about it ...