I confess I didn’t read a book with any actual monsters in it for October’s Here There Be Monsters prompt for the TBR Challenge, but as it’s usually the month to pick up a paranormal, gothic or suspense read, I went with that and opted for The Lighthouse Keeper by Liv Rancourt, a late-19th century…
Briar Prescott’s The Island is an angsty childhood-friends-to-lovers romance featuring Olympic-level pining and an unrequited love that will tug at the heartstrings. I enjoyed it for the most part, although I have to say that it’s overlong (this is becoming a familiar refrain in my reviews of contemporaries lately!) and somewhat repetitive in the final…
Nobody does gritty, angsty and deeply romantic quite like Garrett Leigh. Just This Once is the first book in her new Men of Porth Luck series, which features a chosen family of misfits who are working hard to make ends meet in a small Cornish town. Porth Luck is a spin off from the author’s…
I do love a good redemption story, and E.M. Lindsey’s Absolutely Pucked is a very good one. The Punked as Puck series features three ride-or-die best friends who play hockey in local community leagues for differently abled players, and while I loved the first book and wasn’t wild about the second, I’ve been looking forward…
Slew Foot is the third book in Brigham Vaughn’s Scoring Chances series featuring the lives and loves of the guys of the Boston Harriers hockey team. It’s not essential to have read the previous books in order to understand this one, but like most series of this type (where there’s a large-ish cast of teammates…
Note: A Breath of Life is book four in a same-couple series in which the relationship arc is ongoing. The previous three books should be read before this one. This fourth book in Nicky James’ Shadowy Solutions series picks up a few months after Reading Between the Lines ended, and it finds Tallus and Diem…
This month’s ‘friend squad’ prompt had me picking up Tal Bauer’s You & Me, which is both a gorgeous slow-burn friends-to-lovers romance between two forty-something single dads, and a fantastic story about an estranged father and son finding their way back to each other. I was completely captivated by it, although I will admit that…
KD Casey’s Breakout Year is a charming and heartfelt opposites attract / fake-dating story featuring a professional baseball player and a former player who now ekes out a living as a writer and occasional model. The slow-burn romance between these two is swoony, sweet, and beautifully done, and the story is a bit different to…
The Quarterlands brings Xanthe Walter’s compelling Dark Water series to an exciting and thoroughly satisfying close, trying up all the loose ends and resolving the intricate mysteries at the heart of the series. As this is a story spanning four books, it’s essential to have read the first three before this one, and this review…
The Question of Us is the second book in Jay Hogan’s Fisher & Church romantic suspense series, and it follows our two protagonists – Nick Fisher and Madigan Church – as they process the events that took place at the end of The Meaning of You while figuring out who they are to each other…
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