With a TBR Challenge theme like “Back in My Day,” I’m certainly going to go back to my roots. I read romance, almost entirely historical and romantic suspense, back in high school. I got away from it in college, but came back as an avid and curious reader in law school. Given the number of…
I just love Church Girl by Naima Simone! Aaliyah has run away on her wedding day and persuades her cousin to help escape from her domineering family. When she arrives in Chicago she applies for a nanny job and meets Von, who needs someone to look after his seven year old daughter Gia. He rejects…
If, like me, you were introduced to Penny Reid’s romantic comedies through her Knitting in the City series, then you’ll be delighted to know that Bananapants, which features the next generation of the couples in those stories, hits all the same high notes. But it’s not all laughs, as there are some serious mental health…
It’s Flashback Friday! One of my favorite audiobooks of all time, which I originally reviewed 10 years ago, for your Friday Flashbacking pleasure! Narrated by Karen White Originally reviewed and posted in 2014 It Happened One Wedding is the epitome of everything I love about romance audiobooks. It’s a stellar story by Julie James rendered with…
I’m a fan of the vacation fling trope in romances, ones where the characters meet up again later and develop an actual relationship. So when I heard that Kelly Jamieson’s most recent release, Good Hands would feature this within her current hockey series (Bears Hockey II) I was quite excited to get my hands on…
Lauri Robinson’s Marriage or Ruin for the Heiress is the first in her new miniseries The Osterlund Saga. This book is set in Chicago during the Great Depression and features a hero and heroine who are both determined never to fall in love. This is a delightful and easy read, with the tiniest bit of…
Fans of historical fiction are in for a treat with Wild Women and the Blues, a dual timeline novel about Jazz Age Chicago with its beautiful, fun but dark and dangerous world of juice joints, dance girls and racketeering, and a young man searching for redemption in twenty-first century America. Sawyer Hayes’ life changed in…
Kate Clayborn’s Love at First is one of those books that you immediately feel has wrapped you up in a warm hug, and in which the characters and their story creep gradually and unobtrusively under your skin and wind around your heartstrings. Ms. Clayborn is one of my few go-to contemporary romance authors, and this…
Mia Wallace had her professional hockey dreams dashed several years back, but she’s ready to get back on the ice. With a spot on the Olympic team in her grasp, she just needs some extra oomf in her training. Enter Cal Foreman, the newest member of the Chicago Rebels, and Mia’s brother’s old friend. The…
How to Fail at Flirting is a début novel about an uptight professor who decides to let loose for a night and the sexy, witty stranger who she winds up spending more than just an evening with. The characters are charming and well-written and the romance is both sweet and sensuous. Readers who are looking…
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