It’s November – and that means it’s time for Christmas reads, and so far this one is the best of the season. Finding My Elf is an incredibly speedy, properly holiday-perfumed little read – and even better, it’s a very charming tale with loads of personality that makes the reader sit up and take notice….
A Power Unbound is the third and final book in Freya Marske’s imaginative fantasy trilogy, The Last Binding, set in an alternative Edwardian England in which the existence of magic is carefully concealed from those who do not have it. Each book has followed a different couple to their HEA/HFN, but the plot is overarching,…
Middle books in trilogies can often be disappointing, seeming to tread water between the set up in book one, and the finale in book three, but thankfully, Twisted Tome (Devastating Magic book two) is not one of those books! Vanora Lawless has followed up their fantastic début, Imperfect Illusions, with another fast-paced, compelling and high-stakes…
Secret Heir for Christmas is the fourth book in the Devereaux Inc. series, and although there are a number of siblings/cousins/friends from previous books making cameos, I don’t think it’s necessary to have read their books in order to jump into this one. It’s a quick read featuring a couple in their late thirties who…
This second book in Jay Hogan’s Mackenzie Country series features a sexy and emotional romance between two men who are grieving the loss of family and the life they’d envisaged for themselves while trying to find a new path forward into a different future. They also happen to be the exes of the principal characters…
A World Away is one of those books that hooked me from the very first page and kept me eagerly turning the pages and getting ever closer to the edge of my seat as the plot unfolded and the stakes kept getting higher. It’s a creative and imaginitive mix of fantasy, sci-fi and romance, a riff…
Alexis Hall begins a new series – Material World – with 10 Things That Never Happened, an opposites-attract romance between two very lonely people who come together through some rather unlikely circumstances. All the things I enjoy about Mr. Hall’s books are here – the characters are flawed and very real, it’s often laugh-out-loud funny,…
All I knew about Kacen Callender’s Stars in Your Eyes when I picked it up for review was that it’s a celebrity fake-dating romance between a troubled bad-boy actor and his more likeable, sunny-natured co-star. Having enjoyed Ava Wilder’s How to Fake it in Hollywood – a deeply emotional, character-driven romance featuring complex, flawed but…
Our final visit to the small (fictional) Oregon town of Safe Harbor brings with it the story of the couple who have been in the background of the previous books – Sam Bookman, who is, in many ways, the heart of the Safe Harbor community, and Worth Stapleton, who hasn’t been back in decades, and…
Sebastian Nothwell’s Fiorenzo is a standalone tale of love and triumph over adversity set in a world inspired by the Venetian Republic in what feels like the late seventeenth/early eighteenth century. The author calls it a “fantasy of manners” – which brings to mind the comedies of manners of that period, with their secret identities,…
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