Wedding Dashers by Heather McBreenContemporary RomanceJanuary 28, 2025, by Berkley Review by Melanie There’s an ongoing conversation happening in Romancelandia these days about tropes and the over usage of them to write and sell a book. In reality, tropes can be quite gimmicky and an easy way to market a book. Put up a cute little Instagram ready graphic, surround it with a half dozen tropes contained within the book and there you have it, easy-peasy lemon squeezy! It’s quick and fun Continue Reading
New Release Spotlight- Remember When by Mary Balogh
Remember When by May BaloghRavenswood #4Historical RomanceJanuary 7, 2025- Berkely About the Book Discover the beauty of second chances at love and life in this heartfelt new novel from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh.The Dowager Countess of Stratton, Clarissa Ware, née Greenfield, has just presented her younger daughter to the ton, and the rest of her life belongs only to herself. She returns to Ravenswood, intending to spend the summer Continue Reading
Retro Review: Lord’s Fall by Thea Harrison
Originally posted in November of 2012 on Fiction Vixen by Angela. Lord's Fall by Thea HarrisonElder Races #5PNRPublished November 6, 2012 by Berkley Lord’s Fall is the fifth book in the Elder Races series by Thea Harrison and brings us back to the couple that started it all, Dragos and Pia. I am one of those readers who has loved each book in this series. I haven’t been disappointed with any of these stories. With the return of this couple we get to see how the events of the last Continue Reading
Review: Bull Moon Rising by Ruby Dixon
Bull Moon Rising by Ruby DixonRoyal Artifactual Guild #1Romantic FantasyOctober 15, 2024- BerkleyARC Review by Angela When Lady Aspeth Honori, the bookish daughter of a Holder, discovers her father has gambled away all of the family's artifacts she makes the decision to travel to Royal Artifactual Guild and enroll to become an artificer. The only problem is that the Guild doesn't accept women into the program without a chaperone and Aspeth only has her maid as company. Hawk, a Continue Reading
Review: So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison
So Thirsty by Rachel HarrisonParanormal/HorrorSeptember 10, 2024- Berkley Review by Angela Rachel Harrison is a new to me author and I've circled around her books for a while now. I will admit that a story about best friends turned bloodthirsty vampires appealed to me, which is why I finally hit that request button when it came up for review. This is the story of two best friends, complete opposites in every way, who get caught up in a terrifying situation. Sloane Parker is a Continue Reading
Retro Review: Courting Carolina by Janet Chapman
Review originally posted in August of 2012 by Angela at Fiction Vixen Courting Carolina by Janet ChapmanSpellbound Falls #3Magic/Fantasy RomanceFirst published August 28, 2012 by Berkley For those of you who aren’t familiar with Janet Chapman, she writes contemporary romances with a time travel/paranormal twist. I actually picked up her first release at a grocery store about 10 years ago and was so charmed that I’ve continued with every single new release she has put out since Continue Reading
Review: Love and Other Conspiracies by Mallory Marlowe
Love and Other Conspiracies by Mallory MarloweContemporary RomanceAugust 20, 2024 by Berkley Review by Angela I'm always up for something new and fresh, and a contemporary romance featuring a web series producer and a paranormal conspiracy theorist who fall in love while investigating Area 51 and looking for bigfoot seemed to fit that bill perfectly. Hallie Barrett is a producer at a company that produces Buzzfeed like content and is kind of in a funk. After breaking it off with Continue Reading
Blog Tour and Excerpt- Rise and Divine by Lana Harper
Rise and Divine by Lana HarperThe Witches of Thistle Grove #5Paranormal RomanceAugust 20, 2024- Berkley Praise for the Witches of Thistle Grove novels by Lana Harper: “I am happily and completely under the spell of The Witches of Thistle Grove series.” —Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of People We Meet on Vacation “Harper knows how to summon a wickedly charming read with Practical Magic vibes.” —Entertainment Weekly “These books are intensely Continue Reading
Spotlight- Love and Other Conspiracies by Mallory Marlowe
Love and Other Conspiracies by Mallory MarlowePNR RomanceAugust 20, 2024 by Berkley Summary: The hardest thing for a paranormal conspiracy theorist and a web series producer to believe in is finding love in this swoony debut romantic comedy. Hallie Barrett's life has imploded after she's dumped by her hotshot ex, who also happens to be her coworker and the star of the online series she was producing. Without a new show to present for the company competition, she’ll be out of a job. But Continue Reading
Spotlight- Haunted Ever After by Jen DeLuca
Haunted Ever After by Jen DeLucaBoneyard #1Contemporary PNR RomanceAugust 13, 2024- Berkley About HAUNTED EVER AFTER Small Florida coastal towns often find themselves scrambling for the tourism dollars that the Orlando theme parks leave behind. And within the town limits of Boneyard Key, the residents decided long ago to lean into its ghostliness. Nick Royer, owner of the Hallowed Grounds coffee shop, embraces the ghost tourism that keeps the local economy afloat, as well as his spectral Continue Reading