Around the holidays, I sometimes just can’t resist a Christmas romance. Cowboy, It’s Cold Outside appeared on my doorstep and filled a reading void. It’s pretty Christmassy as holiday romances go, but not really anything groundbreaking or fabulous as far as contemporary romances go. Paige MacGregor is struggling financially, balancing three part-time jobs to make…
Even though this claims to be the conclusion of a four book series, I read Winter Solstice as a standalone and had no trouble falling into the web of family relations depicted in the story. The Quinn Family of Nantucket has faced challenges aplenty over the past few years, including jail time for one, a…
Christmas romances are not always my favorite thing – they tend to be sappily sweet, with a bit of a contrived plot or antagonist – but as sweet as this story is, I enjoyed every sugary page. It’s a story featuring a baby, an ex-fiancé, and a nasty dowager, that manages to be both fairly…
Scandal at the Christmas Ball is a connected duology set at the Duke of Brockmore’s Christmas house party. He and his wife are known for matchmaking, so all four of our leads enter their stories with wary eyes. They will never marry (shall we all grin cheekily at them together, readers?) and they will be…
I know holiday romances tend to be a love-it-or-hate-it phenomenon with lots of readers. Personally, I love to sink myself in Christmas and other holiday romances. This year just hasn’t felt as festive, so I have to admit that I haven’t read as many as usual. However, the TBR Challengewas the perfect excuse to dust off…
Elizabeth Hoyt celebrates the holidays with the final entry in her delightful Maiden Lane series, this time in a novella about the curmudgeonly Adam and the somewhat stiff-necked Sarah. Adam Rutledge, Viscount d’Arque, hates Christmas, which often serves to remind him of his dysfunctional childhood and cheating parents. The only reason he’s out and on…
I enjoy westerns and I enjoy Julia Justiss’ work, so I was eager to pick this up, but sadly, it ended up disappointing me. Whereas her Regency historical voice is assured and nuanced, the writing here felt flat and as though she was trying too hard. I’m not sure if it is the novella-length of…
Winter “Winnie” Snow is alone for the Christmas holiday. With her lively roommate out of the country for two weeks, she’s feeling less than enthusiastic about this holiday and as always, she’s volunteered to work, going to her job cleaning up a mall after hours. Will Holliday is a fireman whose crew has stopped by…
The Wallflower’s Mistletoe Wedding is a pleasant, light-hearted story set in an English country home at Christmastime in which two lonely people find love amid the hustle and bustle of a family house party. It’s an easy read to which the word ‘nice’ can be frequently applied; the hero and heroine are nice people, their…
I love the Christmas season. I start putting up red and green decorations the second the Thanksgiving table is cleared. Reviewing Christmastime Cowboy allowed me to indulge in the holiday spirit extra-early this year. Although I was jumping into the middle of a series, the standalone setup and familiar feel of small town Christmas romances…
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