KD Casey’s Breakout Year is a charming and heartfelt opposites attract / fake-dating story featuring a professional baseball player and a former player who now ekes out a living as a writer and occasional model. The slow-burn romance between these two is swoony, sweet, and beautifully done, and the story is a bit different to…
Narrated by Darcy Stark I enjoyed this slow-burn, veteran/rookie romance even though I know nothing about baseball! Most of that detail went over my head, but the leads have strong chemistry and I liked the fact that this wasn’t one of those stories that basically goes “we can’t do this” – they do it anyway…
I won’t call this book Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce fanfic. It’s much better than that. But if you’ve ever imagined what life might be like for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, then Katie Cotugno’s Heavy Hitter might give you some idea. Lacey Logan is a world-phenomenon-level pop star. (Yes, think Taylor Swift.) She can’t leave the…
Set in the same world as We Could Be So Good, Cat Sebastian’s You Should Be So Lucky is another gorgeously romantic and tender story that, while dealing with some heavy topics, manages to be warm, funny, honest and uplifting – and reminds us that although life might suck at times, it can also be…
I read Unwritten Rules, KD Casey’s début for Carina Press, back in October 2021, and I’m afraid I wasn’t very impressed – I gave it a C-. I found the romance lacklustre, the chemistry lukewarm (at best) and the characters ill-defined – although it was very clear that the author has a great deal of…
I’ve read several books by Stefanie London (I particularly liked the ones she wrote for the now defunct Harlequin DARE line), including Kissing Lessons, the introduction to her Kissing Creek small town romance series. Kissing Games, the second entry, has a fairly typical plot – an injured baseball star who is nursing himself back to…
I’m not a sports fan, but I do like a good sports romance, and having read the synopsis of début author KD Casey’s Unwritten Rules, I had high hopes of finding one within its pages. But while the book gets off to a good start, I’m afraid those hopes were dashed before I got to…
Looking for a fun, quick holiday read to get you in the mood for the upcoming winter months? Priscilla Oliveras comes through with a sweet novella filled with charm and spirit, Holiday Home Run. Party planner Julia Fernández (Julia is a cousin to the three Fern ández sisters from Oliveras’ Matched to Perfection series, who…
My best read of 2020 thus far comes off like a highlights list of AAR’s recent reviews and tags. Sports romance? Got it. Diverse couple? That too. Feminist heroine desperate to succeed at something bigger than herself? All right here. Plus, Stef Ann Holm’s Honey isn’t just any sports romance, but an historical baseball romance…
I’ve been a fan of Lauren Layne ever since I read Only With You back in 2014. (According to Goodreads, I’ve read seventeen of the author’s books which is a good indication that she a) writes a lot and b) is one of the authors whose new releases will generally catch my attention). But I…
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