Narrated by Nick J. Russo Defying Logic is the 5th book in Nicky James’ Valor and Doyle series. This book, and therefore this review, deals with the aftermath of events in the previous book and will contain major spoilers for that book. The series follows one couple throughout and the relationship is developed over the…
Do you know what’s better than the reunion of two long-lost lovers? The reunion of a long-lost mother and son. A Little Ray of Sunshine is the story of an adopted child walking back into his birth mother’s life, and all the joy and pain that come along with that act. Harlow Smith gave up…
Narrated by Nicholas Boulton A.J. Lancaster’s Stariel series is (according to its blurb) a romantic cozy fantasy series about fae, magical estates, and complicated families. The series is set in a Victorian-ish AU in a world where the Mortal and Faerie worlds have recently begun to reconnect after a three-hundred-year separation, and the first four…
Cat Sebastian’s recent Regency historicals were a bit hit and miss for me, but I’ve really enjoyed the twentieth century historical romances she’s written lately, and now, this new standalone, We Could Be So Good, which is, well, just So. Very. Good. It’s set in New York in 1959, and charts the development of the…
Jay Hogan kicks off her new Mackenzie Country series, set amid the spectacular scenery of New Zealand’s Southern Alps, with The Art of Husbandry, a beautiful story in which she skilfully and sensitively balances a storyline involving grief and terrible loss with the development of a deeply emotional romance. After the death of his ten-year-old…
Mrs. Nash’s Ashes is a fun, quick little comedy of romantic error about an ex-child star who heads to the Florida Keys to do her beloved landlady one more favor – only to find true love along the way. Rose McIntyre Nash passed away at the age of ninety-eight, but her full life is about…
Have you ever read a romance that left you with a big, giant, foolish grin on your face? Amy Barry’s westerns do that for me; they’re delightful hoots with lovable characters and this one tops her last. Marrying off Morgan McBride continues Junebug McBride’s quest to get all of her older brothers happily married off,…
In the author’s note of her debut novel, Forever Your Rogue, Erin Langston writes: I had been halfheartedly researching an entirely different plot for Forever Your Rogue when I stumbled upon a piece of legal scholarship that completely ignited my story. The case, De Manneville v. De Manneville (1804), involved a mother seeking custody of…
In Romantic Comedy, Sally Milz is a writer for The Night Owls (TNO) a fictional version of Saturday Night Live (SNL). We get a peek behind the scenes as the cast members put together a show full of comedy sketches. This is a very funny book; I found myself laughing along as Sally and the…
Toward the end of Kate Morton’s magnificent new novel, Homecoming, she writes: Reading shapes a person. The landscape of books is more real, in some ways, than the one outside the window. In this absorbing dual timeline story, the landscape Morton creates is tangible, immersive, and transportive. Much of the novel takes place in the…
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