This is my first book by Tessa Bailey and now I’m wondering what took me so long! It’s a very fun lighthearted marriage of convenience story with excellent spice. The timeline went back and forth enough that I was ready for it to stay in the present but, overall, I enjoyed the romance and camaraderie…
A Killer Kind of Romance is an insubstantial yet satisfying piece of romantic suspense – good for easy reading! Scarlett runs a podcast reviewing mysteries and thrillers. She works for her old friend, Celeste, but the business is struggling. When her job is in jeopardy (due to possible downsizing) Scarlett is given the chance to…
Looking for a romantic paranormal suspense novel filled with grudges, dangers, and a conspiracy? Jayne Ann Krentz’ new book is for you! The Shop on Hidden Lane also has a really cool dog and light art (which sounded cool and very similar to the holiday light shows many see at their Botanical Gardens). I enjoyed…
At the start of Lily King’s Heart the Lover, a novel of three parts, our narrator is in her final year of college. While the school she attends is never named, for those of us who went to either UNC (the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) or Duke in the early 80s, her…
As a romance writer Kristen Callihan knows her stuff so I was confident this football-adjacent, low-angst romance would be both charming and amusing. Only on Gameday really is great fun and for the most part, has enough momentum to keep the reader entertained. [As an aside, sometimes I finish a romance and have no idea…
If you were to ask me what the greatest fantasy series ever is, I’d not hesitate to say: His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. I read the trilogy when it was first published and can still feel the heartbreak that, over twenty-five years ago, left me sobbing in the grocery store parking lot as I…
Kaje Harper’s Winter Cowboy is a thoughtful and satisfying age-gap romance that acts as companion piece to the novella Cowboy Dreams (also highly recommended if you haven’t already read it). It picks up the story of one of the secondary characters in that book, Frankie Morse, a kid of seventeen, terrified that his abusive father…
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…
The Plight Before Christmas needs an editor, has leads in their late thirties who behave at least ten years younger, and manufactures so much angst in its final few chapters that I felt cheated the book didn’t come with its own tissues. Our leads, Whitney and Eli, were in love seventeen years ago and–shocker–it ended…
Christmas People begins by gently mocking Hallmark movie conventions and then embracing them. That’s a bit of a disappointing twist, but if you’re in the right mood -mushy, feeling like you’d rather read something soft and sweet than hard and bitter – this might be the right book to read this holiday season. Jill Jacobs…
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