Love of My Lives has lovely, sensual prose and a lot of good things going for it, including its wonderful heroine and a romance that sings. Just one thing kept this from being a flat-out A, otherwise it’s a wonderful little slice of magical realism. Madi Ramírez has been waiting for her perfect man, as…
Ranya Radwan, heroine of Heba Helmy’s The Earl’s Egyptian Heiress, is the daughter of a cotton pasha whose family honor is at stake: her brother was sent to buy out the Earl of Warrington’s shares in the cotton production business, but he has disappeared with all of the town’s money. It’s now up to Ranya…
The Neighbor Favor is a meet-cute story that beautifully captures how we often find love in the least expected of places. It’s one of the hottest days of the year, the subway is crowded, and its many passengers are cranky. Just another summer evening in New York but definitely a difficult one for Lily Greene,…
Kaje Harper’s entry in the multi-author Carnival of Mysteries series is a small-town romance between a lonely elementary school teacher – who happens to be a sorcerer – and a sexy firefighter, featuring a snarky, fast-talking Conure and more than a touch of magic. The series is eventually going to boast sixteen titles and they…
I love a story that takes me into a setting in detail, but the people who inhabit this setting have to be developed as well. So while I loved the big no-expense-spared New Jersey desi wedding in Nisha Sharma’s Tastes Like Shakkar, I couldn’t enjoy the incompetent wedding planner heroine or intermittent kinkster hero who…
Chloe Gong’s adult fantasy debut, Immortal Longings, is inspired by Shakespeare just as much as her YA novels are. But in this case, it’s the real-life tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra which shapes this science-fiction twist on the Bard. Unfortunately, Gong imports a little too much of The Hunger Games into her brew, causing the…
Publisher’s note: This book, an AAR top 100 romance from our last poll, has been re-released with extra bonus content. This review was originally published on August 12, 2018. One of my favorite things about the Top 100 Romances reader poll is all of the suggestions that come in. When I first started reading romance…
Have you ever read a romance that leaves you feeling glad all over? Can’t Let Her Go is warm, tenderhearted and cheerful; a great story about friends who figure out how to fall in love without losing the spark of their friendship. Barber shop owner Patricia – Peaches – Monroe and nail tech and chemistry…
Kismat Connection is such a sweet, confidently-told, well-paced book, and you could be forgiven for not realising it is Anaya Devarajan’s début novel. It’s a fun fake-dating romance in which two teenagers try to escape the karma that threatens to haunt their futures for all eternity. Madhuri Iyer is doubly-doomed. Her mother informs her that…
Reviewing Crazy Bao You is like disciplining a puppy. This book is trying SO HARD to be a good book. It wants SO BADLY for me to like it. Having to look it in the face and say ‘I get that you’re trying, but you still pooped on the rug’ makes me feel like a…
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