Narrated by Nick J. Russo Working my way through Nicky James’ backlist brought me to The One That Got Away, a standalone romantic suspense novel from 2021. It’s a tense, compelling story featuring the kind of interesting, complex characters the author writes so well, and the superb narration by Nick J. Russo makes audio a…
Home Ice Advantage is the third book in Ari Baran’s Penalty Box series, and my favourite so far. It’s a rivals-to-lovers romance between two guys in their forties, both former players-turned-coaches working with a struggling hockey team in a rebuilding year. I admit that I struggled with some of the hockey nitty-gritty – which had…
The Duke at Hazard is a fun, fast-paced and thoroughly enjoyable historical romance that is, at its heart, a story about growing up, self-discovery and finding that one person who brings out the best in you and helps you to realise your full potential. Being a KJ Charles story there is, of course, plenty of…
I interpreted this month’s prompt –“What a Wonderful World” – by reading a book set somewhere I absolutely adore, hence my jumping back into the wonderful alt-ancient Mediterranean world created by A.J. Demas. Honey & Pepper (from 2022) is billed as book one in the When in Pheme series (book two has yet to make…
This third instalment of Gregory Ashe’s The Last Picks series is so full of delicious Dash-and-Bobby goodness that I almost forgot there’s a mystery to be solved! Which is not a complaint because I am HERE for all the dumb-boys-in-love angstiness the author does so well. The bombshell dropped at the end of the previous…
Avery Cockburn’s Cicadas is subtitled “a totally epic ordinary love story” – and while it probably is epic, it’s anything but ordinary. It’s a classic ‘right-person-wrong-time’ romance filled with warmth and joy and heartbreak that is quite unlike anything else I’ve read recently. “Ever since these bugs’ grandparents serenaded us thirty-four years ago today, I’ve…
The reason I picked up K. J. Charles’s Jackdaw, despite not having read any of the books in her Charm of Magpies series, is simple. On her blog, Ms. Charles said that when a reader found out who one of the heroes is, they couldn’t believe that someone they hated was going to get a…
Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare (whose former pen name was Mary Ann Rivers) have partnered up to write under the pen name Mae Marvel. And under that name they’ve released their first contemporary sapphic romance, Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous. It’s a lovely second chance romance for high school best friends who separated…
As Fearne Hill is known primarily for writing m/m romance, I’m opening this review by making potential readers aware that Oyster, the second book in her Island Love series, is a queer m/f romance featuring a transwoman protagonist. As I’ve come to expect from this author, we’re treated to a beautifully written and emotionally satisfying…
N.R. Walker used to be one of my go-to authors, but very few of her recent titles have worked for me. I think the last book of hers that wowed me was 2019’s Tallowwood, but I pick up her books occasionally, hoping to find the emotional depth and complex characters that used to characterise her…
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