Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson

Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson

I have never read a novella quite like Delilah S. Dawson’s Bloom before. One review describes it as “sapphic cottagecore horror”, which is an accurate three-word summary. It’s an odd chimera of a story where cozy descriptions of gardens and cupcakes mingle with a disquieting mood and tension that eventually grows to a fever pitch….

Curio by C.S. Poe

Curio by C.S. Poe

C.S. Poe’s Curio is a superbly-crafted little gem. The author packs a lot of story and characterisation into a mere sixty pages – it made me smile and sigh and swoon during the less-than-an-hour it took me to read it. Llewellyn – Lew – Cooper helps his wonderfully eccentric aunt Julia (“Remember the summer you…

Second Best Men by Fearne Hill

Second Best Men by Fearne Hill

I chalked up my first Christmassy read of 2023 with this novella-length seasonal(ish) romance from Fearne Hill. Second Best Men is loosely connected to her Rossingley series because its leads are two of the secondary characters we met in those books, but it would work perfectly well as a standalone as there’s enough information given…

The Wedding Bait by Adele Buck

The Wedding Bait by Adele Buck

I grabbed Adele Buck’s The Wedding Bait because it features protagonists who are over forty, and I wasn’t disappointed. Tove Nilsen’s daughter Emily is getting married, and Tove’s dreadful ex-husband Anthony, Emily’s absentee father, has shocked them both by RSVPing yes – both for him and for wife #6, a model just five years older…

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