I am a sucker for a royalty romance. Give me a fictional European principality with a single ruler/heir and I am grabbing my comfiest blanket and warmest cup of cocoa and just snuggling on up. Add when it’s written by one of my absolute favorite authors? I waited for this one from the library and…
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…
Anyone who loves Adriana Herrera’s Dreamers series will have fun taking in this brief holiday visit with Ari and Yin, a secondary couple who appear as background characters in multiple volumes of the series. Warm, fuzzy, heartwarming and sweet down to the bone, it’s a perfectly fluffy holiday feast. Denpo Myint (Yin)Thuta and Aristide (Ari)…
It’s beginning to look a lot like… well, Halloween, but on bookstore shelves and in supermarket checkout lines, it’s time for Christmas! Kensington’s The Cowboy Who Saved Christmas is an anthology of historical western romances set during the winter months. Though one is a bit dicey, the other two authors manage to hit the spot….
I’m honestly not a huge fan of books about royalty, but A Princess for Christmas was just the lighthearted romp I needed this month. It’s a book full of sweet characters who don’t take themselves too seriously, even joking that their lives are like something out of a Hallmark movie. Princess Marie of Eldovia is…
Someone had drawn a giant penis in the snow. (Opening sentence, Mistletoe and Mr. Right.) If the kind of humor contained in the above sentence escapes or repulses you, then you’re not going to enjoy Mistletoe and Mr. Right, a forthrightly goofy story about a rich girl trying to hunt down her town’s equivalent of…
I know – it feels a little bit early to be talking about Christmas, especially after the year we’ve all suffered through. A charity collection of romantic comedy novellas sold to benefit The Testicular Cancer Awareness Foundation, Jingle Balls combines a number of fun novellas from a bunch of talented authors into one hefty (800…
The first thing I do to kick off the Christmas season (besides, of course, cranking up the season début of Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You) is get out my old anthologies and read a Carla Kelly Christmas short story. The last thing I do on Christmas Eve before I turn out…
Normally, I find a wide range of quality in an anthology. Tudor Christmas Tidings, however, is consistent from start to finish. That’s great for the strengths – every novella in this anthology has a wonderful sense of setting, with well-integrated historical figures. However, the main weakness of inadequately-developed romances is present in every story as…
Christina Lauren’s holiday romance In a Holidaze is like a carousel: the tale goes smoothly around and around, up and down, at a nice speed until it drops the reader off an efficiently short time later. Maelyn Jones and her “chosen family” of her brother, parents, their college friends, and their kids are in their…
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