Lucy Eden’s The Love Audit is a fun play on the workplace romance trope, also featuring childhood friends who’ve been estranged and a fake relationship. While I’ve only read one of this author’s books in the past, there’s plenty to choose from in her backlist. Jasmine Morgan is a PR expert whose world becomes a…
I met my husband, a surgeon, in the last year of his final residency, and for the next fifteen years watched him train residents of his own. I have never, until Love Sick, read a romance that captures that world with such accuracy. As anyone who’s gone through it—or lived with someone who has—knows, residency…
Ah, romance novels. When they’re brilliant, they offer a sublime respite from the world. When they’re predictable, they’re… fine. The Invitation is fine. It’s the sort of romance where hot leads engage in sexy shenanigans and fate conspires to make us believe in love at first sight (or at least first mishap). Its strongest moments…
I was looking for something light and fun to read and The Fake Mate was just what I needed. It’s about Mackenzie (Mack) Carter and Noah Taylor, who are both doctors and wolf shapeshifters. This is a steamy romcom with fake dating and grumpy/sunshine MCs. Mack has been working in the ER for the past…
I picked up Elizabeth O’Roark’s A Deal With the Devil after I saw a reader comment about it on a blog here at AAR and I’m so glad I did. My first impression was great! I immediately got pleasantly sucked into the smart, witty banter between leads Natalia (Tali) and Hayes and I didn’t want…
Jasmine Guillory has been called, “The Queen of the Modern Day Romance” (Vogue) and I would agree that she’s more than earned that title. Drunk on Love, her latest novel, takes us to Napa Valley, where a winery owner and her tech-savvy employee find amor amid the vines. Margot Noble and her brother Elliot always…
I was really excited by the premise of Loathe at First Sight. It’s easy to root for a heroine who is in a hostile environment, and enemies-to-lovers is a well-established trope, especially in the workplace. I liked a lot about the book, but the end was unsatisfying. Melody Joo is a young woman in her…
Kaya Satozuka becomes the secretary for Kyouhei Tohma, a director at Tohma Corp and a secret vampire. Kaya’s competence wins her the secretary gig, but it’s her strangely delicious blood that makes Kyouhei fixate on her. Since blood becomes more delicious when a woman is aroused (convenient!), she’s soon his lover as well as his…
I’ve had a string of bad reading luck lately. Three of the five books I last reviewed were Ds, with more mediocre stories in between. However, my luck turned when I picked Secret Diaries of a Gentleman, the third in Laura Lee Guhrke’s popular Girl Bachelors series. Like many other readers, I loved the first…
It is obvious that Rachel Bailey loves her work as a civil engineer in Victorian England. She is ostracized by most social circles and must struggle in obscurity in Ireland with her work turned in under the name of a male engineer in her firm. Even so, Rachel, a shareholder in her father’s firm of…
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