Hatch Kershaw, NFL hockey star (of the fictional Chicago Rebels) and son of one of the sport’s greats, doesn’t want to be at the wedding of his asshat teammate Dash and Summer, his violet eyed bride. (Dash is a trust fund bro who cheats on his fiancée and bullies his teammates.) Summer, Hatch assumes, is…
Well-known author of historical romance Julia London has also penned several contemporaries, and While it Was Snowing is her latest. It’s a mid-life, forced proximity romance that nails the push and pull that women experience between motherhood, family, work, and the challenges of finding new love in your fifties. Amy Casey has escaped her family…
I seem to have picked up quite a few books in multi-author series lately, and here I am with another one, H.L. Day’s King of Lies, which is part of the eight book Mayhem Manuscripts Season One: 1nf3ction series a set of dystopian romances (which can be read in any order) set in a world…
Higher Magic exemplifies the problem of desperately wanting to make a point and forgetting that you are writing a novel. The end product is less a cohesive story and more a jumbled lecture. Ever since Bartleby’s parents took her to have her fortune read in a cupcake shop, she’s suffered from anxiety waiting for the…
Tower by Claire Kent (who also writes as Noelle Adams) is the first romance in her Post-Apocalyptic Fairy Tales series. It’s loosely linked to the Kindled series, which is set in the same dystopian future where a meteor strike destroyed earthly civilization as it was known, with pockets of survivors eking out an existence. This…
If you like sweet Regencies, you will find much to enjoy in Sense and Suitability. Emme (Emmeline) Lockhart’s first season was both a success and a failure. A success in that she had fallen in love with a handsome, dashing suitor who offered marriage, but a failure in that he’d broken her heart on the…
Kaje Harper’s Against the Odds is one of the entries in season two of The Games We Play, a multi-author series of hockey romances. The books in each series run concurrently throughout the same hockey season and each one is designed to be read as a standalone, so readers can jump in anywhere. Against the…
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…
It’s 1934, and the normally idyllic village of Buncome-upon-Woolly has been the site of four homicides in the past year—an unprecedented crime wave. As a result, the village is overrun with Murder Tourists hoping to emulate the plots of their favorite detective novels and do a bit of amateur sleuthing. This irritates Georgiana Radcliffe, the…
I love a good gothic, and I also go through phases where I’m fond of paranormals and ghost stories, so this month’s TBR theme – Here There Be Monsters – appealed to me. As I combed through my TBR, I stumbled across the Mercy Hollings trilogy of paranormals, so I decided to give Beg for…
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