Maybe some fans shipped the couple who star in Beast Business, but I missed the boat. Fortunately, the author wasn’t waiting for my go-ahead to bring these two together. This novella is volume 6.5 in the Hidden Legacy series, and readers who are not familiar with it should not start here because you’ll miss out…
The first prompt for 2026’s TBR Challenge is “still here”, so I went for a book in a series I started reading a while ago and haven’t yet finished. Delivered Fast (from 2015) is the third book in Annabeth Albert’s Portland Heat series – where, according to the series blurb, the only thing hotter than…
Only December by Noelle Adams is a Christmas-themed novella featuring an age-gap romance between a widowed philosopher and a freelance housekeeper. It’s a sweet, low angst read with some spicy scenes but isn’t particularly memorable. Mona is a housekeeper who takes on a variety of jobs at will. Most of them are short term, many…
AAR has reviewed several books by Jackie Lau and they’ve all garnered a grade of B or above, a good sign for anyone thinking about picking up one of her romances. And if you’re in the mood for a Christmas novella, look no further than Magically Generated, a self-described ‘cozy Christmas’ story that includes a…
Isabelle Taylor’s Christmas with a Chimera is the second book, a novella, in her Claw Haven series, a small town full of humans and monsters who live side by side as friends, neighbours and romantic partners. I haven’t read book one, so I’ll reserve judgement on that, but this second one has some flaws that…
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…
Acclaimed author Annalee Newitz has a swing and a miss with Automatic Noodle. A short story with multiple heavy themes, the work’s failure to adequately explore many (if any) of the points it makes has it falling far short of first base. The war has ended with California being independent of America. Staybehind, a former…
I have to say that I approached Mr. Collins in Love with some degree of trepidation, because I’m not a fan of retellings, reimaginings or ‘variations’ (the market is awash with P&P ‘variations’ – Darcy is a pirate and Elizabeth his captive! (or vice versa), Elizabeth never went to Pemberley and is now a downtrodden…
Novellas are generally a bit hit and miss for me – they can feel rushed or too insubstantial – so I’m very selective about which ones I read. I enjoy Kaje Harper’s work, and she writes fabulous short stories which she posts on her Facebook page every Sunday, so I was pretty sure her new…
August’s Thief may be small, but it’s big-hearted and packs a lot of story into its sixty-two pages. It’s a heartwarming opposites-attract story about finding love while remaining true to who you are featuring a ray of sunshine who pushes through all the clouds surrounding him and a not-too grumpy man with a lot of…
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