Rachel Greenlaw’s Shadow and Tide, the second book in her Compass and Blade trilogy, doesn’t lose its way, but it does drift. It expands the world, raises the stakes, and complicates its characters, yet in its effort to do more, it sometimes loses the tight, gripping focus that made Compass and Blade so compelling. The…
Author Brigham Vaughn only pinged my radar at the end of last year when I randomly picked up one of her hockey romances – Head Game (book two in the Relationship Goals series) – and was very pleasantly surprised to find a fresh take on an old chestnut (the fake relationship trope) featuring characters who…
Amy Lea’s Something Like Fate considers the role of fate in our lives – do we choose our destiny, or is it pre-decided? Lo Zhao-Jensen is part of an extended Chinese-American family where she is strongly influenced by her mother’s sisters and all the family lore. All the women have a gift of psychic ability…
Have you ever had a whole lot of fun reading a book while also being completely mentally exhausted by it? While the Duke Was Sleeping is fast-paced, fun, and spirited, but it’s also such a dizzying merry-go-round you’ll want to sit down and take a breath after a few chapters. Still, it’s a great time….
Yours, Eventually is a second chance love story set in a wealthy Pakistani-American community in Bay Area. A debut novel by author Nura Maznavi, it is modeled on Austen’s Persuasion. Austen is a fiction magnet for south-Asian writers (mainly because most south-Asians would have experienced a version of Austen’s fictional world in their personal life),…
A cross between Ghosts and The Haunting of Hill House, with a melancholy gothic spirit that’s all its own, The Spirit Collection of Throne Hall is a romantic and engrossing tale of a girl sentenced to forever soothe the spirits, and the contractor’s son who becomes her one ticket to freedom. The novel blends emotion…
This is another just-plain fun mystery romp with a big personality. Big Name Fan clearly has its roots in a real-life detective dramedy that went off the air with its strongly sapphic-leaning fans upset that its leads never kissed (Rizzoli and Isles). It doesn’t matter if you’ve never seen the show – this fun read…
JL Merrow’s Fool Me Twice (book two of the Glastonbury Tales) is an enjoyable second-chance romance set in and around (you guessed it!) Glastonbury in Somerset which, despite its famous music festival is, for most of the year, a fairly sleepy, small town that is steeped in history and is known in some circles as…
Narrated by Kale Williams Follows With Intent is a single-title romantic suspense novel that first saw light of day as a weekly serial for members of Gregory Ashe’s patronage platform. It’s part of the Hazardverse: Sidetracks series, which consists (so far) of a couple of sets of short stories and flash fiction (Tangents) and two…
Readers kept telling me Julie Kriss was worth it. After reading the Riggs Brothers series, I wasn’t convinced. The books were fun, but they skated on charm more than substance. Still, there was enough promise to make me try her latest, You Give Me That Feeling. Now, I get it. Katie Armstrong is an actress…
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