Review originally posted on May 31, 2017 by Mandi. Shacking Up by Helena HuntingReleased: May 30, 2017Contemporary RomanceSwerve Two years ago I read Pucked by Helena Hunting and I liked it a lot – it really made me laugh. I think I read the follow-up to that book but have not tried her again until now. While Pucked is very over-the-top silly (I think the heroine puts a cape of the hero’s peen…if I remember correctly) Shacking Up is more sweet and low-key, with Continue Reading
Retro Review: Turn Me Loose by Anne Calhoun
Review originally posted May 29, 2017 by Tori. Turn Me Loose by Anne CalhounSeries: Alpha Ops, #6Romance SuspenseSt. Martin’s PressMay 30, 2017 Favorite Quote: “One of these days you’re going to say my name, and you’re going to say please, and then you’re not going to be able to say anything at all.” Awkward can’t even begin to describe this couple’s relationship. Anne Calhoun brings the heat when she reconnects Riva Henneman with the man she fell in love with seven Continue Reading
Retro Review: All the Lies we tell by Megan Hart
Review originally posted May 8, 2017 by Mandi. All the Lies We Tell by Megan Hart (Quarry Road #1)Released: May 1, 2017Contemporary RomanceMontlake Megan Hart is an author I will always read. Even though All the Lies We Tell isn’t the most emotionally intense book by her, she still has a way of writing her main characters that allows the reader to have an intimate relationship with them. In this book, I’d say there are three main characters (maybe four) and we learn of their Continue Reading
Retro Review: Cheeky Royal by Nana Malone
Review originally posted April 5, 2018 by Mandi. Cheeky Royal by Nana Malone (Royals Undercover #1)Released: April 2, 2018Contemporary RomanceSelf Published I’m all about the royals these days and when I read this blurb, what stood out to me is the heroine is in charge of guarding the royals (aka the hero). This is a really cute, super sexy story and I definitely recommend it. But let me also tell you that it’s part one of a two-book series and it ends in a cliffhanger. The Continue Reading
Review: The Paris Match by Kate Clayborn
The Paris Match by Kate ClaybornContemporary RomanceApril 7, 2026 by Berkley Review by Melanie Sometimes, it takes me longer to finish a book that I’m reading with my eyes, especially if the book is boring and not holding my attention. It took me a week to finish this book but let me be perfectly clear, that was not due to boredom. I parse out a Kate Clayborn book like my 15 yo parses out the pricey macarons from Ladurée, the famed French patisserie with its flagship store in Continue Reading
New Release Spotlight- The Paris Match by Kate Clayborn
The Paris Match by Kate ClaybornContemporary RomanceApril 7, 2026- Berkley About the paris match: Physician Layla Bailey has spent over a year telling herself she's moved on from a painful but amicable divorce from her college sweetheart. Staying friends with her ex seemed like the mature thing to do, but when Layla is invited to her former sister-in-law’s destination wedding in Paris—where Layla once spent her own romantic honeymoon—she knows her commitment to maturity might be Continue Reading
Retro Review: Last Call by TL Watson
Review originally posted March 15, 2018 by Helyce. Last Call by TL WatsonContemporary RomanceMarch 15, 2018Self Published Gwen Cooper has missed her flight home and is attempting to text this information to her teenage son when she literally runs into a man, throwing them both to the floor. He spills his coffee all over her shirt, she drops her phone and loses a shoe. When they finally right themselves, she realizes that she’s bumped into actor Blake Donovan, Hollywood’s Continue Reading
Retro Review: Long Shot by Kennedy Ryan
Review originally posted March 23, 2018 by Sheena. Long Shot by Kennedy RyanA Hoops NovelContemporary RomanceReleased: March 22, 2018 Favorite Quote: He tries to demean me with his words…his words are a dog with no bite. They have no teeth with me. But who needs teeth when you have fangs? There are roughly, 172,000 words in the English language. The average person knows 20,000-30,000 words and uses 3,000 of them commonly. Out of all these words at my Continue Reading
Review: The Book Tour by Emily Ohanjanians
The Book Tour by Emily OhanjaniansContemporary RomancePublished March 3, 2026 by DellReviewed by Kate If you’re been reading my reviews for a while, you know that I am Armenian-American and very much in love with Armenian representation in romance novels. I immediately requested The Book Tour upon seeing the a) Armenian last name of the author and b) Armenian last name of the main female character. Premise? Tropes? Didn’t really play a part in my decision to read this Continue Reading
Retro Review: Pretty Face by Lucy Parker
Review originally posted 2/20/2017 by Mandi. Pretty Face by Lucy Parker (London Celebrities #2)Released: February 20, 2017Contemporary RomanceCarina Press I fell completely in love with Lucy Parker’s first book, Act Like it. Taking us back to the West End and the theater community with a hero who is a curmudgeon (at least to start) and a heroine who is on a popular yet trashy television show, and the tabloids have a field day with her character. Director Luc Savage is ready Continue Reading