Maybe at a different time in my life, my slightly cynical self might have given Charlie Sunshine the side eye. But this is April 2020, I’m spending entirely too much time cooped-up with my husband and two boys, and Lily Morton’s brand of sunshine is just what the doctor ordered. Charlie Sunshine is a saccharine-sweet…
A bingo hall brought Mari McCray and Hazel Johnson together as young women in 1963. Prejudice and family ultimatums pushed the two apart, but forty years later, a bingo hall brings them back together. In the meantime, however, both Hazel and Mari have married and had families. Is it too late for a second chance?…
Those of you who follow my reviews are probably aware that I don’t frequently assign ‘A’ ratings. (In fact, Tessa Bailey’s Fix Her Up was the last romance that I deemed deserving of DIK status, and that review was published six months ago.) Jaded by past disappointments, my most fervent hope was to quietly end…
When I reviewed Perfect Day, the first in Sally Malcolm’s series of m/m contemporary romances set in the fictional Long Island resort of New Milton, I called it “the sort of book you finish with a heartfelt sigh of satisfaction and a dreamy smile”. Something about the author’s writing just clicks with me; her protagonists…
Clever, fresh, funny and fun, The Flatshare is one of the best romance novels of 2019. I’m not quite sure how I missed it when it came out in May, but if you did, too… well, make time for this absolute gem of a book now. After a traumatic break-up with her on again, off…
Sometimes you finish a book and all you can do is sit collapsed in your chair until your brain and body return from the place where the author transported you. Kora Oliver, Tony-winning actress turned director, and Tariq Evans, NFL star turned financial advisor, have known each other for over two decades. They are each…
I had high hopes for this anthology when I saw two of the names attached to it (Dal Maclean and Josh Lanyon), and Footsteps in the Dark more than met my expectations, although in the end, all but one of my favorite stories were penned by new-to-me authors (yay!). None of the eight stories are…
Ainslie Paton takes the tried and true friends-to-lovers trope and adds her own unique twists in Sold Short, a story of college friends and business partners Dev and Sarina, whose future plans find them at a crossroads. Sarina wants to have a baby. She’s tired of waiting for the right man to come along and…
Continuing with the lucky theme that runs throughout the fantastic Chance of a Lifetime series, Best of Luck proves three’s a charm; good things do come in threes; and it’s a magic number. While all the books are uniformly good, featuring likeable and relatable principal characters, secondary characters that absolutely enhance the story in every…
The writing duo known as Christina Lauren follows up their blockbuster Roomies with Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating, the story of two twentysomethings who vow not to fall in love. Frazzled elementary school teacher and once upon a time wild child Hazel Camille Bradford’s life is a mess of animals and social awkwardness. …
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