Narrated by Nick J. Russo Nicky James takes a break from romantic suspense to write a complex and emotional contemporary romance. Promises of Forever is a character driven story about two men who formed an unusual friendship in their youth and are now meeting again thirty years later. Koa Burgard is a traumatized ten-year-old attending…
Up All Night is the first book in Annabeth Albert’s new series featuring first responders, which is set in the small (fictional) Oregon town of Mount Hope. The author is a long-time favourite whose books, even when they’re not stellar, are good, solid reads featuring protagonists who are easy to like and relate to, with…
Steven Salvatore is new-to-me, and I understand that they’ve previously published three successful queer YA novels. The Boyfriend Subscription is their first adult romance, and it’s a queered version of Pretty Woman in which the sex worker (Cole Vivian) is wealthy and the Edward character – in this case, Teddy Hughes – has just lost…
Narrated by Greg Tremblay Houston we have so many problems… Curtis “Launchpad” Larkin’s career as an astronaut has had its share of ups and downs. Alternately lauded as the single-handed savior of NASA and condemned as a reckless, hot-headed bully, Curt has been through the wringer of public opinion and come out on top. When…
The first book in H.L. Day’s new series of paranormal romances, Paranormal Problems: Necromancers, Deader Than Dead is a reworked/extended version of a story that originally appeared in a charity Fated Mates anthology in 2023. (The anthology is no longer available so I imagine the authors involved will eventually be republishing their stories, as well.)…
For this month’s TBR Challenge prompt – “Not in Kansas Anymore” – I decided to get as far away from the world as we know it as I could and picked a science-fiction romance set in deep, deep outer space. Lisa Henry’s Dark Space is book one in a trilogy of the same name and…
Narrated by Will Watt This new recording of Waiting for the Flood is over twice as long as the original mainly due to the addition of a second novella. Taken together the two novellas tell one completely satisfying story. While Waiting for the Flood was originally written to stand alone, Chasing the Light will mean…
The Family Man is a promising start to a new romantic suspense series, The Mind Hacker, from new-to-me author AJ Rose featuring a small team of special agents who work for the FBI’s Behavioural Analysis Unit. There are a few stock-in-trade tropes here and the author sometimes gets bogged down with too much description and…
Narrated by Mark Sanderlin The trend for reality-TV themed romances continues in Timothy Janovsky’s latest standalone novel, The (Fake) Dating Game, in which the PoV character, Holden James, is hoping to compete in a Supermarket Sweep-style gameshow as a kind of homage to his late mother. I enjoyed the story – the love interest is…
Taking a short break from the world of romantic suspense, Nicky James returns to the arena of contemporary romance for her latest novel, Promises of Forever. If you, like me, yearn for angsty romances you can really get your teeth into, then you need look no further because this story delivers on both counts; it’s…
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