Star Shipped is Cat Sebastian’s first contemporary romance, and I’m pleased to report that it’s every bit as good as her modern (1960s) historicals – many of which are on my keeper shelf. It’s warm, funny, engrossing and utterly charming, featuring complex, engaging but flawed characters whose foibles make them so human and relatable, in…
Meredith Duran, whose absence from the world of historical romance feels like a gaping wound in the genre, is one of the finest writers to ever pen a love story. There’s something almost chemical about the way her flawed-but-magnetic characters, lush historical detail, and intricately woven plots come together—they form stories that don’t just entertain;…
This is what joy feels like – Charlotte Stein’s How to Help a Hungry Werewolf is so funny and steamy and adorably cute – a hilarious slow burn paranormal romantic comedy. It’s tongue in cheek, and celebrates all the silliness of everything mystical and magical. I loved it! Cassie Camberwell, is back in town cleaning…
There’s nothing quite like a new Kristen Bailey Christmas novel and I was so excited to pick up We Three Kings. Maggie is the boss of an IT department in London. She has a small team of coworkers – Frank and Jasper and Leo. Maggie is both protective and proud of her team. She shouts…
Narrated by Greg Tremblay Houston we have so many problems… Curtis “Launchpad” Larkin’s career as an astronaut has had its share of ups and downs. Alternately lauded as the single-handed savior of NASA and condemned as a reckless, hot-headed bully, Curt has been through the wringer of public opinion and come out on top. When…
Nicky James takes a short break from her fabulous Valor and Doyle series with this new standalone romantic suspense title, Everything I Didn’t Know. I have to confess to something of a fascination with cults and how they operate, so the premise of this novel – a young man whose eyes have been opened to…
Publisher’s note: This book, an AAR top 100 romance from our last poll, has been re-released with extra bonus content. This review was originally published on August 12, 2018. One of my favorite things about the Top 100 Romances reader poll is all of the suggestions that come in. When I first started reading romance…
Rich and tender in the best of ways, Lunar Love wraps an enemies-to-lovers story around a tale of family devotion and love. An appealing narrative voice and a relatable look into what it means to be biracial add on to an already great book. Matchmaker Olivia Huang-Christenson is stepping into the limelight and taking over…
On Saoirse Island, a rain soaked isle in the Pacific Northwest, a murmuration of starlings portends death and the leaves on the trees may burst into color all at once. Here, magic is as real as greed and first love can bind two souls together forever. Emery Blackwood and August Salt were born on the…
Priscilla Oliveras continues her lovely West Side Love Story series about a family of female mariachis finding love and romance in Kiss Me, Catalina. This is a consistently wonderful book, with an enthusiastically glorious heroine and a sweet hero. Ambitious singer/songwriter Catalina – Cat – Capuleta (adopted sister of West Side Love Story heroine Mariana)…
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