Reviews by Maria Rose
I've read a couple of Marissa Clarke's contemporary romance series previously (Anderson Brothers and Animal Attraction) but it's been a while since I've seen anything from her (2018 was her last under this pen name that I read; she does write YA as Mary Lindsey so maybe that's where her time has bee ...
Annabeth Albert has entertained me in the past with several of her m/m romances, and in Sink or Swim, the second book in her navy-themed Shore Leave series, she's upped the ante with a charming, single dad meets playboy romance.Felix Sigurd, newly divorced doctor, parent to his two nieces Madeli ...
There used to be a feature on Goodreads (which I use to track all my reading) where you could see a list of your most read authors. While they sadly discontinued that option a few years ago, I know from having looked at it that Noelle Adams is at the top of my list. She's a prolific romance author, ...
Make It Sweet by Kristen Callihan was my favorite romance read of 2021. (You can view the rest of that list HERE). The first time I read it, I was swept away by the characters, the story, and the feelings it evoked in me. Now that I've read it a second time, I can articulate why it ended up at ...
Susannah Nix is a new-to-me author but I've heard good things about her writing so I decided to give her King Family series a try. I'm not a stickler for reading a series in order unless there are continuity/world building concerns, which usually isn't the case in contemporary romances with multiple ...
I'm a sucker for hero-in-pursuit stories and I've been a fan of Samanthe Beck since she wrote for the Entangled Brazen line (which were some of the first steamier romances I read back in the mid 2010s). I read and enjoyed the first in the Captivity Alaska series so I'd been waiting for another book ...
B+
I'm a fan of author Megan Crane whether she writes under this pen name or as Caitlin Crews. While the recent Crane books I've read have been Western style romances, I saw that she has a new series The Fortunes of Lost Lake (with a slight variation on a pen name as the author of Bold Fortune is liste ...
I've read and enjoyed a few of Kelly Hunter's romances in the past (in fact, her Harlequin Presents duet Claimed by a King was so good that I bought physical copies to go with my e-copies) so I was fairly confident that I'd find a lot to like in her latest, Must Love Christmas, part of her Montana B ...
B+
I read and very much enjoyed Strange Love by Ann Aguirre (which is a highly amusing science fiction romance that made me believe insectoid-like aliens and humans could end up together - no really, you should check it out!) and that's what made me pick up this book. It was a very good decision.Co ...
Anyone with a cable TV subscription has at least one channel that involves watching attractive and skilled characters do some kind of home renovation. That's the theme behind Rosanna Leo's Handymen series with a trio of brothers, Michael, Eli and Nick Zorn who have successfully parlayed their skills ...