This second book in H.L. Day’s Paranormal Problems series is a fantastic mixture of paranormal mystery, police procedural and angsty second-chance romance that had me glued to it from start to finish. Like the previous book (Deader Than Dead), Dropping Like Flies features a central couple who are fated mates; unlike that book, while the…
Magic Escaping is the sequel to 2023’s Magic Burning, Kaje Harper’s entry in the first set of Carnival of Mysteries stories. In that book we met elementary school teacher Alan Hiranchai – who is also an unregistered sorcerer – and his familiar, a snarky, opinionated and talkative conure named Sunny – and watched Alan fall…
Lonely Shore, book two in Burke and Jensen’s Chaos Station series of Sci-fi romances is a rip-your-heart-out-and-stomp-on-it kinda book in the best possible way. Picking up around a month after the events of Chaos Station, Lonely Shore is a more emotional, relationship-focused story, although there’s also a strong secondary plotline that keeps things moving. Note:…
Jenn Burke and Kelly Jensen’s five-book Chaos Station sci-fi romance series was originally published between 2015 and 2016. The series has been on my TBR ever since Maria Rose gave book one a DIK review back in 2015, and as the authors have now republished the series with some spiffy new covers and new material…
The Carnival of Magic multi-author series of paranormal/fantasy romances is back for a second run with some authors returning with all new stories or sequels, and some authors joining in for the first time. Liv Rancourt’s The Villain Who Wasn’t is actually a sequel to The Accidental Necromancer (her entry in the Subparheroes series), taking…
Off the Clock is the second book in Annabeth Albert’s latest series about a group of first responder friends who live in the fictional Oregon town of Mount Hope. A low-angst, age gap romance, it isn’t going to win any prizes for originality, but it’s an entertaining, character-driven story that underlines the importance of taking…
Narrated by Nick J. Russo Working my way through Nicky James’ backlist brought me to The One That Got Away, a standalone romantic suspense novel from 2021. It’s a tense, compelling story featuring the kind of interesting, complex characters the author writes so well, and the superb narration by Nick J. Russo makes audio a…
Home Ice Advantage is the third book in Ari Baran’s Penalty Box series, and my favourite so far. It’s a rivals-to-lovers romance between two guys in their forties, both former players-turned-coaches working with a struggling hockey team in a rebuilding year. I admit that I struggled with some of the hockey nitty-gritty – which had…
I interpreted this month’s prompt –“What a Wonderful World” – by reading a book set somewhere I absolutely adore, hence my jumping back into the wonderful alt-ancient Mediterranean world created by A.J. Demas. Honey & Pepper (from 2022) is billed as book one in the When in Pheme series (book two has yet to make…
Avery Cockburn’s Cicadas is subtitled “a totally epic ordinary love story” – and while it probably is epic, it’s anything but ordinary. It’s a classic ‘right-person-wrong-time’ romance filled with warmth and joy and heartbreak that is quite unlike anything else I’ve read recently. “Ever since these bugs’ grandparents serenaded us thirty-four years ago today, I’ve…
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