The start of hockey season in North America also means the start of the holiday season and Merry Pucking Christmas by Kelly Jamieson combines these themes into a fun, sexy, vacation romance. Harley Reid is tired of the sympathetic words from well-meaning townspeople as Christmas approaches. Having lost her parents a year earlier in a…
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…
I’m always excited when I find an author writing romances with older characters (and by older, I mean over forty) and Adele Buck’s The Wedding Bait hit the spot for me, garnering a place on my Best of 2022 list. Tove Nilsen is getting ready to attend her daughter Emily’s wedding at a lakeside resort…
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…
Cat Sebastian’s Tommy Cabot Was Here is a short and sweet second-chance romance set in 1959 about two men who were best friends (and more) at boarding school, went their separate ways after college and who unexpectedly find each other again fifteen years later. On “Visting Sunday” – a month after the start of the new school…
After three books and two novellas, Caroline Linden offers up an epilogue to her Desperately Seeking Duke series which ties up tons of loose ends, giving us a look at the futures of Max and Bianca and the series’ other couples a year on, resolving the the cliffhanger (sort of) for William and Phillipa at…
I used to say I was a sucker for Christmas romances. However, I’ve realized that I just love holiday romances in general. I simply love getting a window into the joy of people’s celebrations. I was looking for a happy read this month, and A Match Made for Thanksgiving delivered. This was a very fun read indeed….
A surprise Christmas present, K.J. Charles’ Masters in This Hall is a lively tale of mummery and mayhem, of family strife, adultery, blackmail and attempted defenestration – in short, just your regular round of seasonal festivities ;) Mr. John Garland worked for nine years as a detective at a presigious London hotel, until he was…
It’s that time of year. Snow’s falling, Christmas decorations have been up for months, and Cleis Press has released its annual compendium of erotica written by female-identified authors. This year’s umbrella theme is ‘play,’ which encompasses everything from playing an instrument to playing a game to watching some theatre. As always, the book encapsulates a…
E.E. Ottoman’s The Companion is the most ‘no plot, just vibes’ book I’ve read lately. I loved the vibes, but the lack of plot really holds the book back. Madeline Slaughter has given up on being accepted by the New York literary establishment. Burned out, she travels upstate, where the bestselling novelist Victor Hallowell has…
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