Sarah Mallory’s A Kiss to Stop a Wedding is a charming, character-driven Regency romance featuring likeable, sensible leads in a slow-burn love story filled with longing and denial as they try to fight the impossible attraction growing between them. It’s well-written, engaging and very readable, with strongly characterised principals and secondary cast, and some lovely…
K-pop has hit hard in the music scene of the 21st century, but we have only recently had that reflected in the (English-language) romance book market. XOXO captures the sparkly, sugary energy of the genre and translates it into a charming YA love story. The letter from the judges is burning a hole in Jenny…
(this review was originally published at Romantic Historical Reviews in 2014) I have thoroughly enjoyed each of the books in Ms MacLean’s Rules of Scoundrels series, but I think Never Judge a Lady By Her Cover is quite possibly the best of the lot! The author has very cleverly kept her readers on tenterhooks regarding…
Next in Harper St. George’s Doves of New York series, Eliza and the Duke, features Eliza Dove, the youngest of the infamous American heiress sisters trying to find titled husbands, and Simon Cavell, a former prizefighter hired to watch over Eliza, her mother, and her sister. Eliza sneaks into the Montague Club where Simon works…
Don’t Let Him In is a story that makes you wonder just who might be watching you from the shadows – and why. Our story begins with an end. Flowers are delivered to the home of successful entrepreneur Paddy Swain. They are unwelcome. His wife, Nina, and daughter, Ash, have all the posies they can…
Every reader has encountered books that require a leap of faith. Could Claire really have bounced through the centuries? Wouldn’t shifters face endless wardrobe malfunctions? And surely someone would have noticed all those carts disappearing into Platform 9¾. When fiction is done well, those leaps are effortless. You know it’s improbable, but in the hands…
The Codebreaker’s Daughter tells the story of two generations of women who faced similar wars in very different ways. When we first meet Dinah Kendall she’s a volunteer for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). She arranges to casually encounter the spies they train away from their campus, masquerading as exactly what she is –…
To Defend a Damaged Duke, Fearne Hill’s second foray into historical romance, is a cross-class, second-chance love story featuring a rather serious, introverted duke and the prickly owner of a gentleman’s club, who were lovers as young men – but were cruelly separated and have not seen each other for a decade. Rather like the…
Whisky Business is a cozy, spicy romance that takes place on the beautiful Isle of Skye in Scotland. It’s a slow burn romance with very appealing leads and I really enjoyed it! April Sinclair is an actress, who has come back to the Isle of Skye after being gone for twelve years. She has hopes…
I Think I’m in Love with an Alien is silly and fun. It’s a book for nerds, and it could have come from the AO3 fan fiction universe (maybe it did?). The premise is delightful – and potentially hilarious but somehow not all the jokes landed for me. It’s a tender romance set in the…
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