I’ve read many of Jackie Lau’s contemporary romances but this is the first time she’s steered from her usual formula to introduce a time paradox, reminiscent of the movie Groundhog Day. This story also involves a little magic, courtesy of some Chinese dumplings, and it’s an enjoyable and interesting take on finding your special someone…
When the Tides Held the Moon is a captivating and imaginative historical fantasy with a beautiful romance at its heart, set amid the carnivals and sideshows of 1910s Coney Island. I admit that I first noticed it because of its beautiful cover – and I’m not normally someone who takes notice of covers (I read…
You can’t change the past. You can, however, forget it. Or bury it so that it is barely spoken of. The Filling Station speaks of a critical ‘lost’ moment in American history with courage, integrity, and grace. Greenwood, 1921: Just outside Tulsa is Greenwood, a thriving community known as Black Wall Street, where folks not…
Just Our Luck is a light romantic comedy by Denise Williams set in small-town USA with fake dating, neurodiversity and donuts! Sybil is about to get sacked from her job. Again. She drifts through work and different living situations, she hyperfocuses and struggles with commitment and money and. Essentially, with keeping it all together. To…
Amy Lea’s Something Like Fate considers the role of fate in our lives – do we choose our destiny, or is it pre-decided? Lo Zhao-Jensen is part of an extended Chinese-American family where she is strongly influenced by her mother’s sisters and all the family lore. All the women have a gift of psychic ability…
The Love Lyric is the third book in Kristina Forest’s Greene Sisters series. We met our two leads in the previous novels but the author does a great job of setting the story up so that this volume can easily be read as a standalone. They met at her younger sister’s breakup party, where Iris…
I’ve been deeply enjoying Adriana Herrera’s Las Leonas series of books, and this one, the last, wraps things up with a fiery doctor and a brand-new member of the aristocracy. Doctora Aurora Montalban Wright has rebelled against the social caste by becoming a physician. Going unrecognized for her medical talents, she runs an above-board general…
THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MIRA – and it’s absolutely wonderful! Mira is a pain therapist and fully immersed in the Indian expatriate community in Chicago. She’s nearly thirty, still lives at home and has recently become engaged to Druv, an orthopaedic surgeon. He’s apparently the perfect guy and she’s lucky to be with him (or so…
Having experienced two hurricanes myself, I was initially somewhat skeptical of a romance story about rescuing a failed marriage while trapped in a hurricane. Is it even possible to have sane conversations about marriage and divorce amidst imploding windows, broken tree limbs, fire ants and cottonmouth and a city that has turned into a giant…
A fun and charming little romance that sometimes trips over its own premise, Stuck in the Country With You is a cute second chance romance laden with sexual tension and a spited center. Zuri Day’s talent shines and makes the tropes ring new and fresh, but it’s not an entirely perfect book. Genesis Washington made…
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