Jill Shalvis’ It’s in His Kiss returns us to Lucky Harbor—a place that, by this point in the long-running series, is as much a character as the people who populate it. This is the first book in the final trio of the series, and it brings the expected blend of romance and small-town quirks. But…
Narrated by Annie Greene I haven’t read all of the books in the author’s Lucky Harbor series but have enjoyed those I have read. But while I completely enjoyed the narration in this latest entry, the story, while cute in parts, has a few too many flaws for me to recommend. I thought I was…
Narrated by Suehyla El-Attar A trend in romance novels: the small town series, where everybody knows everybody’s business, there are a bunch of love-starved singles and another bunch of sometimes lovable, sometimes irascible odd characters. This is Lucky Harbor, a small town on the Washington state coast. Mallory Quinn is a local girl whose family…
Ms. Shalvis’s very brief novella Under the Mistletoe gives fans of her Lucky Harbor series Mia’s story. Mia, the birth daughter of Ford and Tara (the leads in The Sweetest Thing), is now twenty-two, living in New York and in love with a guy named Nick. (This may be a letdown for all those who…
In Forever and a Day, Jill Shalvis brings us back to Lucky Harbor, a small town on Washington’s Pacific coast. It’s a small-town romance of the first order, 21st-century style; as in her previous Lucky Harbor novels, Facebook is the primary spreader of gossip. Grace Brooks is the adopted child of rocket scientists who has…
This is the second in the author’s latest series set in Lucky Harbor, featuring three women who become friends after being trapped at a diner during a sudden snow storm. This is the first book I’ve read by Jill Shalvis, but it definitely won’t be my last. I thoroughly enjoyed this contemporary romance. Amy Michaels…
I always enjoy reading a Jill Shalvis book. She’s a consistently elegant, bold, clever writer. Her latest, Lucky in Love, the fourth in her Lucky Harbor series, is a sweet, sexy read. This book is the first of a series of three Lucky Harbor books all being released this summer. The novels tell the stories…
The author tackles how a prevalent disease affects all the main characters in the third of the series about three adult sisters who inherit an inn in Lucky Harbor, Washington. The youngest sister, free-spirited Chloe, is an asthmatic, which is both the interesting as well as the frustrating part of this story for me. Of…
I really want to love Jill Shalvis’ books. Contemporary romance is my favorite genre, so I am always looking for new authors. In the interest of full disclosure, this is not the first book that I have tried by her that hasn’t quite worked for me. So, why try again? People who like the same…
Some people like small town romances. Others don’t. I’m in the former category, so I was generally predisposed to like Simply Irresistible. Luckily, aside from the archetypal quirky small town type characters, it has great leads and a stand-out romance. Maddie Moore was raised by her father, a set designer for the film industry, and…
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