Is there one perfect person for all of us, or do we choose who we love and make that work (or not)? This is the question at the heart of Maurene Goo’s highly anticipated first adult romance, One & Only. Cass (Cassia) Park adores her biking club. It combines her BFF, Marcela, being outside enjoying…
I adored The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu by Mindy Hung, who has written some charming romances as Ruby Lang (Playing House, Open House, House Rules), and one (Wild Life) as Opal Wei. Leeann Wu is in the middle of the three generations of the Taiwanese-American women in her family. Leeann is a midwife, her…
I chose The Secret of Orange Blossom Cake because it promised an immersive Italian summer – and I’m pleased to report that it delivers on that promise. However, author Rachel Linden focuses more on the connection between family and food than she does on the romance between Jules and Nicolo, hence my overall disappointment with…
When the Tides Held the Moon is a captivating and imaginative historical fantasy with a beautiful romance at its heart, set amid the carnivals and sideshows of 1910s Coney Island. I admit that I first noticed it because of its beautiful cover – and I’m not normally someone who takes notice of covers (I read…
One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia’s mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community—an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the…
Do you believe in the power of cheese? I do, and yet The Hundred Loves of Juliet doesn’t do too bad a job of making its storytelling interesting. Unfortunately it crashes into stale predictability and empty angst. I know author Evelyn Skye was inspired by her own husband’s illness and their beautiful, intense romance. I…
The Enchanted Hacienda is Encanto with more romance and whole lot more spice. The end result is a fun, likable brew that entrances the reader. Unfortunately the romance here really holds up the fun. Harlow Estrada is in pain. A wannabe writer who dreams of writing a novel of some import, she’s just been cut…
Liz Parker’s debut novel In the Shadow Garden has so much going for it. Eye-catching cover, fascinating premise, a decades-old mystery to solve. And there’s tea. Lots of tea. But some issues hold it back from earning a higher grade, and I wanted to like it more than I actually did. The Haywoods and the…
If you know anything about doll collecting or doll house crafting will appreciate The Miniscule Mansion of Myra Malone. But even if you don’t, its lush fantasy climbs will enchant as it weaves its spell over you. Myra Malone lives an isolated life in the attic of her grandfather’s cabin. Ever since she was a…
On Saoirse Island, a rain soaked isle in the Pacific Northwest, a murmuration of starlings portends death and the leaves on the trees may burst into color all at once. Here, magic is as real as greed and first love can bind two souls together forever. Emery Blackwood and August Salt were born on the…
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