This romcom is full of heart. It has a coast guard rescuer who is hot, hot, hot plus a filmmaker who is sent to Key West to film him in action. I enjoyed the laughs and romance–other than a miscommunication midway through the story, this was an entertaining read. Katie works for a company that…
This is one of those instances when I wish I could give out a combo grade, because deciding between a C+ and a B- was pretty difficult. Everything about Rules for Ruin by Mimi Matthews was fine. Not bad. Not great. Just… fine. Euphemia – Effie – Flite has been given a mission. Use her…
This review originally appeared in 2013. Fallen Angel tells the story of Verity Jollife, rather plain, twenty-six and unmarried, and Gabriel, Earl of Sherington. She is almost a generation younger than her older siblings and is regarded by them as a source of unpaid labour and generally treated as the poor relation. Gabriel has a…
Narrated by Nick J. Russo Puck Love, the sixth and final book in Lane Hayes’ Elmwood Stories series (set in fictional, small-town Vermont) is a sexy, fun and relatively low-angst listen that nonetheless manages to pack and emotional punch in the right places. I’ve listened to a couple of the earlier books in the series,…
Annabeth Albert opens her new Second Chance Ranch series with a small-town, second-chance romance between two best friends who reunite after more than twenty years to find that the spark that ignited their youthful love affair has never faded. Want You Back has a lot going for it and I enjoyed reading it, but I’ve…
Overexposed first saw light of day as a short story in 2020’s Working Stiffs anthology. It was one of the stories in the collection that worked well for me and I planned to check out other books by K. Evan Coles and the other authors whose work I’d enjoyed, but… I probably got sidetracked by…
Emma Barry’s co-authored, 1960s-set historical romance series, Fly Me to the Moon, is one of my favourites. But she has also written several contemporary romances with a good balance of heart and heat and Bold Moves follows that trend, giving us an inside look at the world of professional chess in an emotional second chance…
This book should have been a novella. The premise is fine for 150 pages: a San Francisco marketing executive, burnt out and in need of a break, books a solo trip to New Zealand. On her first day, she’s caught in a riptide and rescued by a man who turns out to be the most…
Narrated by James Edward Jones The Home Game is book four in Brigham Vaughn’s Relationship Goals series, although it can be read or listened to as a standalone; there are recurring characters but each story is self-contained and the central couple in each one gets their HEA by the end. All the books in the…
I’ve read many of Jackie Lau’s contemporary romances but this is the first time she’s steered from her usual formula to introduce a time paradox, reminiscent of the movie Groundhog Day. This story also involves a little magic, courtesy of some Chinese dumplings, and it’s an enjoyable and interesting take on finding your special someone…
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