Cat Sebastian has cornered the market in queer twentieth century historical romances, moving from the 1940s-set Page & Sommers mysteries to the Cabot stories of the sixties and seventies and then to late fifties for We Could be So Good and You Should Be So Lucky. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed all of them and am delighted…
Fearne Hill returns to her Regency Rossingley series with book three, To Beguile a Banished Lord, in which Rollo Duchamps-Avery, younger (by three minutes) son of the eleventh earl of Rossingley and very much a chip off the old block, meets his match in the unlikliest of men. Free-spirited, sunny-natured and mischievous, nineteen-year-old Rollo has…
The Dramatic Life of Jonah Penrose is a rivals-to-lovers romance set in the world of London’s West End theatre scene. It’s a very promising début from author Robyn Green, but although I enjoyed it overall, there are pacing and plotting issues that prevent me from giving it a higher grade, and the use of a…
Eli Easton’s standalone novella, The Curse Before Christmas, is a cute bit of undemanding seasonal fluff in which a lonely game designer finds love with an overworked ER doctor in a way that is more naughty than nice! Patrick Bocker moved from California to take a job as lead coder at Myth Monster Games in…
I seem to have picked up quite a few books in multi-author series lately, and here I am with another one, H.L. Day’s King of Lies, which is part of the eight book Mayhem Manuscripts Season One: 1nf3ction series a set of dystopian romances (which can be read in any order) set in a world…
Narrated by Darcy Stark Although Breakaway Goals is a standalone romance, it’s closely linked to Beth Bolden’s Portland Evergreens books as the two leads have featured in secondary roles in that series and the author has been teasing their second-chance romance for quite a while. You could probably read or listen to this one without…
Kaje Harper’s Against the Odds is one of the entries in season two of The Games We Play, a multi-author series of hockey romances. The books in each series run concurrently throughout the same hockey season and each one is designed to be read as a standalone, so readers can jump in anywhere. Against the…
Recipe for Trouble is Dylan Morrison’s second published contemporary romance, and it’s an absolutely delightful read. It’s an opposites-attract slow-burn romance between a grouchy video editor (Ben) and a ray-of-sunshine chef (Pete) who end up working together when Ben is roped in to editing a disastrous cookery video that ends up going viral. Like the…
I confess I didn’t read a book with any actual monsters in it for October’s Here There Be Monsters prompt for the TBR Challenge, but as it’s usually the month to pick up a paranormal, gothic or suspense read, I went with that and opted for The Lighthouse Keeper by Liv Rancourt, a late-19th century…
Briar Prescott’s The Island is an angsty childhood-friends-to-lovers romance featuring Olympic-level pining and an unrequited love that will tug at the heartstrings. I enjoyed it for the most part, although I have to say that it’s overlong (this is becoming a familiar refrain in my reviews of contemporaries lately!) and somewhat repetitive in the final…
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